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former DoD civilian; language geek; blogger (pajheil.blogspot.com) about: Urban legends about Jews; Mendel Beilis blood libel trial; knitting; Biblical Hebrew and Classical Greek don't work the way you think. Card-carrying troublemaker and bitch.

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IKR I was watching some show about lawyers with my nieces (this was after I got my legal studies degrees) and it was obvious that the defense lawyer failed Discovery 101 when she was caught flat-footed by the plaintiff's line of questioning.

07.03.2026 13:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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1/ Civilian donations to the Russian army are said to have collapsed ahead of the imminent ban on Telegram. It's a consequence, predicted by warbloggers, of the Russian government's apparent decision to ban the app. The impact on the front line is likely to be severe. ⬇️

07.03.2026 09:23 πŸ‘ 270 πŸ” 72 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 12
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❗️ATACMS and SCALP missiles hit a Russian Shahed drone storage, preparation, and launch site near the Donetsk airport today.

Beautiful kabooms resulted.

Glory!

πŸ“Ή: General Staff of the AFU

07.03.2026 10:29 πŸ‘ 308 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1

MS NOW confirms Corey Lewandowski is also out at DHS.

06.03.2026 13:46 πŸ‘ 11287 πŸ” 1830 πŸ’¬ 877 πŸ“Œ 416
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Trump administration's embattled FDA vaccine chief is leaving for the second time The Food and Drug Administration’s controversial vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, is once again leaving the agency.

The Food and Drug Administration’s embattled vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, is once again leaving the agency β€” the second time in less than a year that he’s departed after controversial decisions involving the review of vaccinations and specialty drugs for rare diseases.

07.03.2026 02:30 πŸ‘ 128 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

07.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 959 πŸ” 561 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 49
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Crimean Tatar political prisoner with a malignant brain tumour forced to sign a fake β€˜clean bill of health’ Under pressure from the FSB, Russian 'doctors' have proven willing to betray their oath and effectively ensure that Tofik Abdulgaziev dies a very painful death in a Russian prison colony

Crimean Tatar political prisoner with a malignant brain tumour forced to sign a fake β€˜clean bill of health’
khpg.org/en/1608815581

07.03.2026 01:38 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@kylegriffin1.bsky.social "considering" a move which will change crude prices 2% before the summer increases kick in. Thanks for nothing

07.03.2026 01:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🧡 OPM comment period on making it easier to fire federal employees - go make some good trouble!

Federal employees do essential work and the massive layoffs have already made things worse. We can't let them make it even easier to lay more federal workers off!

06.03.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Comment submitted. If we don’t speak out no one else will do it for us. Stand up for our federal workers they need us.

06.03.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Well, energy prices may explode again, but my solar panels got Permission to Operate today & we already got our tax credit back.

06.03.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 99 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump prosecutor running for appeals court judge
Fulton County Deputy DA Will Wooten qualified Thursday to run against Judge E. Trenton Brown III for a seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Fulton Deputy DA Will Wooten (left) and and special prosecutor Nathan Wade were part of the prosecutorial team in the case against Donald Trump. (Jason Getz/AJC 2023)
By Anna Bower - For the AJC

POLITICS Trump prosecutor running for appeals court judge Fulton County Deputy DA Will Wooten qualified Thursday to run against Judge E. Trenton Brown III for a seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals. Fulton Deputy DA Will Wooten (left) and and special prosecutor Nathan Wade were part of the prosecutorial team in the case against Donald Trump. (Jason Getz/AJC 2023) By Anna Bower - For the AJC

SCOOP: A prosecutor who helped build the Georgia election interference case against Trump is running to unseat the appeals court judge whose ruling helped bring the case to an end.

Will Wooten will challenge Trent Brown, who wrote the opinion disqualifying Fani Willis.

Me for @ajc.com (link in πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡)

05.03.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 1018 πŸ” 305 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 16
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Thank you, Sir, for speaking plain truth.

06.03.2026 01:51 πŸ‘ 6642 πŸ” 2141 πŸ’¬ 211 πŸ“Œ 149

p.s. even more so when I tell you that I watched his father start his career on WRC4 showing videos of wine bottle openers "swimming" -- and his dad panned Pete's reportage some years back

07.03.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These are the states where we are fighting DOJ's voter file lawsuits: AZ, CA, CT, CO, DC, DE, GA, HI, IL, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, PA, OK, OR, RI, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV

07.03.2026 00:00 πŸ‘ 1235 πŸ” 289 πŸ’¬ 70 πŸ“Œ 9

what's really crazy is that this is the first intelligent question I ever heard of Doocy asking in his entire career.

07.03.2026 00:09 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just in: The Government's opening brief in the law firm executive order appeals.

drive.google.com/file/d/13F9m...

06.03.2026 23:53 πŸ‘ 135 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 3

The Department of Justice has sued 30 states and DC for access to their unreacted sensitive voter data. My law firm is fighting them in all 30 cases.

We are dedicating so many resources because these are the most important legal fights and the future of free and fair elections is at stake.

06.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 13631 πŸ” 3488 πŸ’¬ 327 πŸ“Œ 114
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GOP candidate Brandon Herrera stands by his Nazi march song video

06.03.2026 23:38 πŸ‘ 195 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 14
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Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target Did the US military use Anthropic's Claude to select targets in its weekend operations in Iran, with devastating results?

There it is. β€œPentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target” 3/6/26 … 1/

06.03.2026 22:53 πŸ‘ 557 πŸ” 309 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 31
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ICE Detains Tenn. Reporter, a Mom Who 'Works Tirelessly to Inform and Serve Community' by Covering Immigration United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Nashville reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez on Wednesday, March 4. Her attorneys are trying to get the wife and mother released from custody...

Nashville Reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez was detained by ICE without a warrant or just cause and transferred to Louisiana far away from her US citizen husband. With so many egregious violations of the Constitution here, it's obvious she was purposely targeted out of sadistic spite for journalists.

06.03.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

ALERT: Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) files motion asking court to block Trump's closure and demolition of the Kennedy Center

Beatty is ex-officio member of Kennedy Center Board of Trustees

Beatty: "Emergency relief is necessary to prevent irreparable harm"

tinyurl.com/mpzm4d2s

06.03.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 1594 πŸ” 549 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 25
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❗️ Russians tortured Ukrainian Defenders in captivity until the very last moment.

Their eyes&hands were tightly taped, they were not allowed to fall asleep during the journey, which lasted more than a day, Petro Yatsenko, spokesperson for the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of POWs,said.

06.03.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 383 πŸ” 171 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 5

* were *

06.03.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gas hits $4 a gallon for the first time since 2008 | CNN Business The average price for a gallon of regular gas hit $4 Sunday, the highest level since 2008. And with prices surging amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the record high of $4.11 per gallon set that year is...

last time gas prices hit $4 a gallon where during the "too big to fail" bank screwup in -- guess what -- a GOP administration.

www.cnn.com/2022/03/06/e...

06.03.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Val Kilmer * bullshit * cough. They're being measured the same way as since the measurements started, a method that has shown decreases before.

06.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@wtopnews.bsky.social make sure Margaret Brennan sees this.

06.03.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@wtopnews.bsky.social Poor Margaret Brennan, totally clueless that Russia is supplying intelligence to Iran that let them kill US troops in Kuwait.

06.03.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@wtopnews.bsky.social citing CBS polling data is not a flex. Poor Margaret Brennan spouting stuff that nobody else trusts.

06.03.2026 12:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@kylegriffin1.bsky.social a report on @wtopnews.bsky.social just now said this might drop crude prices as much as 2.0%. the oil has to squeeze out through the Black Sea (Novorossiysk which Ukraine has bombed more than once), Murmansk, the Baltic Sea or Kozmino on the Pacific.

06.03.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0