Old lady writing about her Ottoman Greek grandmother - taking a break from news. Fight the good fight!

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JD Vance kiss of death continues to be the only effective part of the Trump administration
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Democrats in the United States need to be taking notes
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Hungary has chosen Europe.

Europe has always chosen Hungary.

A country reclaims its European path.

The Union grows stronger.
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Wow — hey @nytimes.com are you gonna explain to your readers why you changed the headline to this @ezraklein.bsky.social piece about Hasan? Who did you capitulate to? 🤔
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Can we get JD Vance to campaign in every state for the midterms?
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A post from that period when the US press STILL only wanted to talk about Joe Biden old.

Trump May Attempt to Disavow Project 2025 -- but He's not Disavowing Viktor Orbán

emptywheel.net/2024/07/12/transitive-transatlantic-authoritarianism-heritage-orban-trump/
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historic rejection of JD Vance
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U.S.-Iran peace talks fail; Trump announces U.S. blockade in Strait of Hormuz; death tolls in Iran, Lebanon reach thousands.
Meanwhile, tankers in Hormuz make last-minute u-turns, and Iran’s internet shutdown breaks global records.
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I can't believe I actually have to say this, but apparently I do: someone who is buying compromised Bluesky accounts from an account reseller marketplace is directly funding identity theft, fraud, and international crime. #BadActorBingo resurrection for an explainer of why:
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A face plant. A very revealing one.

Prominent Republican member of Armed Services Committee.

He betrays absence of Congressional oversight.

Brennan also asked Turner about absence of any public hearings. His answer was aaaawful (that they've held hearings in past decades).
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These are the goons running the Iran war. Apparently there’s a statute of limitations on lying.
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That said, there's a big difference between 'why didn't this person break the story' and 'why did this person *endorse the candidate they had a pretty good idea what an abuser*'. very different things!
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This is former Utah judge Kevin Christensen, charged with 8 counts of child sexual abuse. He's pled to 3 counts, and faces up to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Not an immigrant. Not a drag queen. Not undocumented.

He is, however, an elected Republican official.
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To all those men asking why these women didn’t file police reports, I direct you to the Epstein files as an example. Despite police reports, in some cases depositions under oath and NO justice has been dispensed from a court of law. The women are re-traumatized and the men are free.
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Those of us who remember the late seventies can tell you that it’s always a good sign when they start writing the numbers on the gas pump by hand.
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Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu.

Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran?

Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.
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Not even the most unhinged architects of the Gilded Age could've envisioned something this vulgar.
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April 1945: In the final days of World War II, the Führer obsesses over absurdly large monuments for his reimagined Berlin, focusing on an idealized future rather than the reality of his collapsing Reich.
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Can a plastic mail-order sex doll be a wiling adult participant in a relationship? Normal people say no but we spent 1600 words talking to Wayne, who lives in his mother’s shed outside of Indianapolis, to take the proposition very seriously, because we have grave perceptual and analytic deficits.
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The dildo brigade has come to Los Angeles. Couple dozen people have come to the Metropolitan Detention Center to protest ICE, bringing bags of dildos with them. This is lowkey surreal to see in person
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Welp, LAPD is now using the one loophole that prevents press from passing police lines during a dispersal: making an area an emergency operations area. Gonna loop around to see but I’m sure the caution tape will be up outside the MDC. This is how LAPD coordinates to protect DHS and ICE
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A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.
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There it is: A full year of days spent playing golf in just over five years as president. www.pbump.net/outofoffice
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The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.
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House Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin is demanding the White House physician perform a cognitive test on Trump in light of his recent comments on Iran. tinyurl.com/3xpptf8u
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If we had continued on with Obamas investments in solar ,wind, clean energy and electric cars the straight of Hormuz could have gone and fucked itself by now.
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"Trump's not conservative"

Oh no you don't. No no no no no.

I can tolerate Republicans moving on from Bush and the neocons, 9/11 and all that.

But you fucking own Trump from now until the end of time. He told you exactly who he was from day 1 and you voted for him 3 times. That's on YOU.
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Hopefully we get some sort of “Iran Deal” 🤷🏼

Remind us: who tore up the last one again?
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Wild that Trump has sent his son in law who has billions in business deals in the Middle East to negotiate with Iran and that isn’t a scandal that will end his presidency or even really mentioned by the networks
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Great news! Fossil fuel corruption can’t stop cheaper, cleaner, more reliable renewables, even with Trump’s little orange thumb pressing down on the scales to pay off his big fossil fuel donors. www.newsweek.com/americas-power-supply-just-flipped-in-surprising-direction-11805184
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