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Euro-Taiwanese LGBT progressive mostly here to binge on political news. Montgomery Count, Texas Precinct 53 Chair for the Democratic Party. Supporter of democracy in Myanmar, Taiwan, Ukraine, and here at ground zero in the United States.

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“God has a plan for all of us.” That apparently includes pressuring your employees for sex.

Meanwhile, this guy will remain in Congress until his term expires because God’s warriors are running out of votes to cover up Donald Trump’s role in the Epstein files.

06.03.2026 15:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February.
According to our polling, 24% of Americans say Trump has made the economy better since becoming president, vs 53% who say he's made things worse.
Voters say 2:1 Trump isn't focused enough on the things they care about.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/53-of-amer...

06.03.2026 14:52 👍 302 🔁 89 💬 10 📌 8

Same author, last June: “Identity politics is division and it is fatiguing.”

06.03.2026 14:32 👍 61 🔁 13 💬 5 📌 1

”Trump mentioned something to the effect of ‘Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.’ Trump unzipped his pants and put [her] head ‘down to his penis’. [She] ‘bit the shit out of it.’ Trump struck [her] and said words to the effect of ‘get this little bitch the hell out of here.’”

06.03.2026 14:42 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Another episode in The Apprentice: Mad King Edition.

06.03.2026 06:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Well would you look at that

05.03.2026 15:44 👍 28322 🔁 8011 💬 840 📌 340

Never forget Jeff Bezos delivered another stellar endorsement only to see his Amazon-backed endorsee get fired for perjury and sexual infidelity.

06.03.2026 03:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

These stories are amusing. No Democrat is telling themselves “Rahm Emanuel is who I look to for leadership.” Probably no one in the current generation of lefties could even tell you what this guy stands for.

06.03.2026 03:42 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Ukrainians are closely watching operation against Iran. Its 57,000 Shaheds for Russia have formed attitude toward Tehran
“Accomplices must answer.”

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Olena Mukhina
28/02/2026

Ukrainians are closely watching operation against Iran. Its 57,000 Shaheds for Russia have formed attitude toward Tehran “Accomplices must answer.” by Olena Mukhina 28/02/2026

A reminder that Iran sent 57,000 suicide drones into Ukraine, and for the majority of that time, Ukraine didn't have reliable air defences to counteract, leading to thousands of deaths. That's an act of war, and the only country with legitimacy to react to it is, in fact, Ukraine.

06.03.2026 03:34 👍 681 🔁 186 💬 15 📌 4

Pam Bondi next

05.03.2026 20:52 👍 380 🔁 42 💬 25 📌 5

He’s got John Fetterman’s vote.

05.03.2026 21:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Remember when James Comey was fired mid-speech?

05.03.2026 21:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
About 100 million people live in the countries belonging to the Gulf Cooperation Council — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman — all now under Iranian attack. Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE are, for all practical purposes, completely dependent on the desalination plants, particularly for metropolises such as Dubai. Saudi Arabia, and especially its capital, Riyadh, also relies heavily on them.
Water Desalination in the Middle East
Saudi Arabia is home to most of the water desalination plants in the region, where they are key to supply the capital, Riyadh
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9M cubic meters per day
Sources: Bloomberg Opinion and Nature

Under international law, the desalination plants are protected. But I have seen enough Middle Eastern wars to know the weight of the Geneva Conventions when missiles and bombs start flying. And they are: Iran has attacked a power station in Fujairah, UAE that keeps one of the world’s largest desalination plants running. In Kuwait, debris from a drone interception caused a fire in one of the country’s plants.
The risk is enormous. Take the Jubail desalination plant, located on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia. It supplies Riyadh, via a roughly 500-kilometer-long pipeline system, with more than 90% of its drinking water. “Riyadh would have to evacuate within a week if the plant, its pipelines, or associated power infrastructure were seriously damaged or destroyed,” according to a 2008 memo from the US embassy in the kingdom released by Wikileaks. “The current structure of the Saudi government could not exist without the Jubail desalinization plant,” the memo stated.

Since the cable became public, the Saudis have reinforced their water network. Other countries have also built up redundancy. Still, all the water plants are equally vulnerable — and all of them are within range of the Iranian missiles. The good news is that water is so strategic — and so human — that any Iranian direct attack on them would be consider…

About 100 million people live in the countries belonging to the Gulf Cooperation Council — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman — all now under Iranian attack. Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE are, for all practical purposes, completely dependent on the desalination plants, particularly for metropolises such as Dubai. Saudi Arabia, and especially its capital, Riyadh, also relies heavily on them. Water Desalination in the Middle East Saudi Arabia is home to most of the water desalination plants in the region, where they are key to supply the capital, Riyadh 3 5 7 9M cubic meters per day Sources: Bloomberg Opinion and Nature Under international law, the desalination plants are protected. But I have seen enough Middle Eastern wars to know the weight of the Geneva Conventions when missiles and bombs start flying. And they are: Iran has attacked a power station in Fujairah, UAE that keeps one of the world’s largest desalination plants running. In Kuwait, debris from a drone interception caused a fire in one of the country’s plants. The risk is enormous. Take the Jubail desalination plant, located on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia. It supplies Riyadh, via a roughly 500-kilometer-long pipeline system, with more than 90% of its drinking water. “Riyadh would have to evacuate within a week if the plant, its pipelines, or associated power infrastructure were seriously damaged or destroyed,” according to a 2008 memo from the US embassy in the kingdom released by Wikileaks. “The current structure of the Saudi government could not exist without the Jubail desalinization plant,” the memo stated. Since the cable became public, the Saudis have reinforced their water network. Other countries have also built up redundancy. Still, all the water plants are equally vulnerable — and all of them are within range of the Iranian missiles. The good news is that water is so strategic — and so human — that any Iranian direct attack on them would be consider…

For those who can't bypass the paywall, the Obama administration, CIA determined that a single strike on a single Saudi water desalination plant would require evacuation of Riyadh and collapse its government.

The Saudis have beefed up their infrastructure since, but I would rather not find out.

05.03.2026 20:55 👍 82 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 4
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Here is Trump's new pick to be Secty of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin getting so rattled in a Senate hearing by union leader Sean O'Brien that he threatens to fight him. Imagine how much Mullin would freak out in a real crisis?!!

05.03.2026 20:40 👍 1266 🔁 405 💬 127 📌 68

Wonder if Donald Trump is going to call Markwayne Mullin “Pocahontas” like he does with Senator Elizabeth Warren.

05.03.2026 20:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The moment at Kristi Noem's senate hearing that likely got her fired as Secretary of Homeland Security Fired Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem sealed her fate as she reportedly angered President Trump when she told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the agency shelling out $220 million in taxpayer funds for an ad campaign featuring her as the star was done with his blessing.

The moment at Kristi Noem's senate hearing that likely got her fired as Secretary of Homeland Security

05.03.2026 20:22 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Gambling on War Is MAGA’s Latest Gold Rush Some lawmakers want to ban the prediction-market manipulations.

NEW: Some lawmakers are considering making it illegal to gamble on government actions—like war. They should move quickly.
www.thebulwark.com/p/gambling-o...

05.03.2026 20:21 👍 28 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
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Dubai now

05.03.2026 20:22 👍 73 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 1

am I crazy or is american media like "here's how trump is going to think about picking pick iran's next leader! next up, why wokeness failed the democrats" and then you look at world leaders who aren't donald trump and they're prepping for historic catastrophe

05.03.2026 20:26 👍 397 🔁 69 💬 18 📌 3

Stand by for an invasion of North Korea, which we’re still technically at war with.

05.03.2026 20:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📍 Houston, TX

03.03.2026 03:55 👍 84 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
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The first home I ever knew was in Tehran, and my heart will always be there.

05.03.2026 01:57 👍 44 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 1

Another Senate pickup opportunity for Democrats? Jon Tester held that Senate seat not too long ago.

05.03.2026 01:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

04.03.2026 20:50 👍 7180 🔁 2608 💬 20 📌 36

We’re traditionally told that the White House has little to do with gas prices, yet here we are watching gas prices skyrocket as a direct result of presidential policy.

05.03.2026 01:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

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Trump: Iran just stated that they are going to hit very hard today, harder than they have ever hit before. THEY BETTER NOT DO THAT, HOWEVER, BECAUSE IF THEY DO, WE WILL HIT THEM WITH A FORCE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE!

01.03.2026 05:57 👍 1191 🔁 325 💬 337 📌 77

If you think empathy is a bad thing, you’re almost certainly a bad person.

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in Israeli and US strikes, Iranian state media confirmed. Follow our live coverage here: reut.rs/3OSg20V

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Operation Epic Distraction

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/operation-...

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