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Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System - Wikipedia

After a bit of research, I now reckon it's an APKWS. $22k in 2018, 70 mm laser-guided rocket. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance...

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Thank you Joe Neguse for shining sunshine on the corruption in our government.

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What hit it?

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🇺🇦👀 Zelensky is ready to help Middle Eastern countries shoot down “shaheeds” if they persuade Russia to agree to a ceasefire on the front

“Middle Eastern leaders have good relations with the Russians. They can ask the Russians to introduce a month-long ceasefire,” Zelensky to Bloomberg News.

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Trump Iran War Address Cold Open - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

SNL confirms Iran attack is distraction from Trump's Epstein Files scandal. youtu.be/cInVSNM4bsU?...

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2 weeks ago
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In Ukraine, Senators See War’s Impact and Press for Stronger U.S. Support

Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska: “Most Americans have moral clarity on who is the invader...” Read free NY times article on the U.S. visit to Kiev and Odessa Ukraine: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

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U.S. Military Moves Into Place for Possible Strikes in Iran

Maybe Trump will bomb the Epstein Files in Iran? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

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Opinion | One Man Stole $660 Million. He’ll Never Pay It Back.

How to fight American kleptocrats: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

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MLK Day concert held annually at the Kennedy Center for 23 years is relocating Georgetown University is moving Let Freedom Ring, its annual event celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr., to the historical Howard Theatre in order to save money, the university said.

Headed to the Denver MLK Day Parade on Monday. Imma listen to Just Like Selma for some inspiration: www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

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2 months ago
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Lenin Said, 'There Are Decades Where Nothing Happens' and 'Weeks Where Decades Happen'? The quote has appeared in social media posts and newspapers — and singer Billy Idol's memoir.

Huh, Lenin did NOT say 'There Are Decades Where Nothing Happens' and 'Weeks Where Decades Happen'? It's likely inspired by a 1990 poem of Homero Aridjis: "Hay siglos en los que no pasa nada / y años en los que pásan siglos"
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Don't get cocky. Don't let up. Resist! Never surrender!

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Opinion | Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger It’s become easier to imagine the moment when Trump’s mystique finally evaporates.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“As 2025 limps toward its end, there are reasons to be hopeful,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. “That’s because of millions of people throughout the country who have refused to surrender to this administration’s bullying.”

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2 months ago

The "unseasonably warm" Christmas Day is kinda weirding me out.

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Immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra can leave ICE custody on bond, judge rules Vizguerra, who was held for nine months, must post a $5,000 bond and is expected to be out within the next couple of days

Jeannette Vizguerra-Ramirez, detained by ICE for nine months, will be freed soon. Read the ColoradoSun article: coloradosun.com/2025/12/21/j...

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Zelenskyy taking a selfie in Kupiansk city after Russia claimed it was surrounded by their soldiers

Zelensky visited Kupiansk ten days after Putin declared it secured by Russia and invited foreign journalists to see for themselves. www.reddit.com/r/pics/comme...

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3 months ago
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E.P.A. Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas

Experts have said reducing methane leaks is one of the fastest and most effective ways to make a dent in global warming. Read for free: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/c...

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3 months ago

I am stepping into a new river today.

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3 months ago
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WATCH: Sen. Kelly holds a news conference on Trump and Hegseth's 'efforts to intimidate him' YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

Mark Kelly reminds us Trump called for his execution. Trump's distractions are getting more outlandish! youtu.be/NcvDcWSXsmI?...

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3 months ago
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In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions

“We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S.,” says Todd Robinson. Read more about Trump's Venezuelan distraction in this NYTimes gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

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To Many Ukrainians, U.S. Peace Plan Looks Like ‘Capitulation’

To Many Ukrainians, U.S. Peace Plan Looks Like ‘Capitulation’ reads the NYTimes headline. Ukrainians reckon it's better to die fighting than die later as a slave. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

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History of taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

I saw an "Eat The Rich" banner at yesterday's "No Trillionaires" protest. So... Wikipedia says US income tax reached 94% in 1944 on income over $200,000, equivalent of $2,868,625 in 2018 dollars. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...

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Opinion | There’s a Reason Trump Fears No Kings

King George III "sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People" accused the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Jamelle Bouie reminds us of the parallels in his Opinion column in this free gift NYTimes article: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

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5 months ago
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Danger and Intrigue Hang Over Power Cut at Russian-Held Nuclear Plant

Russia wants to connect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to their own power grid. Ukraine's grid connection to the plant was dangerously, conveniently, accidentally broken this week. Read the NYTimes article: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...

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5 months ago
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The sleeping giant is awakening After a week of authoritarian excess, the nation is turning on Trump

25th amendment requires 2/3 vote of both the House and Senate... Impeachment requires only a majority of the House, but it didn't work the last two times. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-sleepi...

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5 months ago
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Russia Made Drone Production a Supreme Priority. Now It Swarms the Skies.

[I]n just one night, Russia sent more than 800 exploding drones and decoys swarming across the border. Read about it in this free NYTimes article www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/w...

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6 months ago
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Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change

Revolution Wind was expected to generate electricity for more than 350,000 homes at 9.8 cents per kilowatt-hour, [...]cheaper than the average cost of electricity in New England, according to America’s Clean Power. Read about it in this free NYTimes article: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...

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Does raiding and deporting the South Korean workers building an EV factory in Georgia boost or bust American manufacturing? Read the free (and brief) NYTimes article here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/w...

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Luciano is a 7-year-old budding soccer star and Spanish - English translator. He and his mom were abducted by ICE from Colorado and sent to a recently reopened South Texas detention facility. Read about it in The Colorado Sun.

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Judge Leslie H. Southwick wrote “There is no finding that this mass immigration was an armed, organized force or forces.” Read the NYTimes free article here: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

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