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Former ESL, reading teacher, and retired elementary principal Love art, oil painting, word puzzles, Lake Michigan, and the Cubs Lived in Turkey, MO, MI, MN, KS, DC, and now Chicago I used to be nice Ally πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

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Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem His use of the Iran war dead to attack the media was disgraceful.

Pete Hegseth, if he does not resign, should at least get out of the way and let better men than him talk to the nation and to the press.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com
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The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me.
12:20 PM β€’ 3/4/26 β€’ 44K Views

Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com @nancyayoussef The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me. 12:20 PM β€’ 3/4/26 β€’ 44K Views

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

04.03.2026 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1247    πŸ” 563    πŸ’¬ 104    πŸ“Œ 274
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Photo shows graves of Iranian girls killed in Minab school attack Contrary to claims from Grok and others, the image does not show grave sites in Jakarta or Brazil.

This photo shows the graves of schoolchildren killed by airstrikes in Minab, Iran β€” not grave sites in Indonesia or Brazil, contrary to claims from Grok and others online. Here's how we verified its authenticity. πŸ‘‡
www.snopes.com/fact-check/i...

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GOP senator joins police in ejecting anti-war protester from Capitol Hill hearing A Senate Republican assisted several police officers in ejecting a man who interrupted a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday to object to the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran.

this is literally right wing propaganda. cbs news cannot be trusted.

05.03.2026 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3653    πŸ” 705    πŸ’¬ 101    πŸ“Œ 49
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Find Your Representative Find your representatives. Learn how to find and connect with them. Stay informed about their bills, committees, and contributions.

I just called my US senators and told them to publicly call for Tim Sheehy to be expelled from the Senate for assaulting and apparently breaking the hand of a Marine today.

You can call your Senators, too.

Find them here: reps.fyi

04.03.2026 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 541    πŸ” 260    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

Is a Senator who interferes with Capitol Police to break the bones of a Marine Corps veteran who's staging a protest subject to arrest for battery, or does that somehow fall under the Senator's constitutional privilege?

04.03.2026 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3514    πŸ” 937    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 40

It takes a special kind of stupid to impose a 15% global tariff on your own citizenry while the Straight of Hormuz is closed and oil prices and inflation are spiking. Good luck in the midterms, GOP! bsky.app/profile/cram...

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Scott Bessent says 15% global tariff β€˜likely’ to be imposed this week US Treasury secretary says duty is set to increase from 10% rate introduced after last month’s Supreme Court defeat

Scott Bessent says 15% global tariff β€˜likely’ to be imposed this week www.ft.com/content/8f1b...

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Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem His use of the Iran war dead to attack the media was disgraceful.

Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

05.03.2026 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 313    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 7
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China no longer buys US exports: Drawing the right lessons for the next Trump-Xi deal China essentially stopped buying US exports in April 2025. President Donald Trump had started his second term by launching a new trade war that he headlined with steep new tariffs on China. When China...

Without Trump’s trade wars since 2017, US exports to China would have been nearly 60 percent higher in 2025, or roughly $90 billion annually.

www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

05.03.2026 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 798    πŸ” 307    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 17

I've been trying to get the Treasury's hidden Epstein files turned over since 2023. Last night I tried again to get them disclosed and Republicans blocked my bill to do so.

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This is horrific and heartbreaking.

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No comment

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Iraq plunged into nationwide blackout as US tells citizens to leave immediately - TΓΌrkiye Today Iraq's entire national power grid has collapsed in a total blackout as the country reels from the widening US-Israeli military campaign against Iran

Iraq plunged into nationwide blackout as US tells citizens to leave immediately
www.turkiyetoday.com/region/iraq-...

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Republican Senator Tim Sheehy lied, claiming he jumped in to help β€œdeescalate the situation”

In reality, he ran in and grabbed the man’s legs-forcibly trying to drag him out

It looks like Sheehy helped break this Marine’s arm

Just because-like most MAGA-he wanted to silence an opponent’s voice

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Religious lunatics, you say? Hmmm...πŸ€”

05.03.2026 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 432    πŸ” 178    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 10

Read the headline closely, folks

This blackout is not in Iran-but Iraq

The consequences of Trump’s war against Iran are spreading throughout the entire Middle East

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BREAKING: VoteVets is reminding the American people by highlighting Trump’s own quotes on the RNC tonight. Spread this everywhere so all Americans see it.

05.03.2026 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 799    πŸ” 351    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 7

No, it’s his clothing. I’ve seen the picture at the Art Institute. But I must say you have a vivid imagination

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Justice Dept. employee charged in child pornography case Timothy Parsons, a legal staffer at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., is facing federal criminal charges in Maryland, where he lives, three sources said.

ALERT: Justice Dept. employee charged in child pornography case

www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

04.03.2026 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 728    πŸ” 383    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 34
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Man arrested in Virginia is latest in series of Jan. 6 riot defendants to face new charges Jonathan Munafo is among the Jan. 6 riot defendants who have been arrested on charges in new cases in the months after their pardons.

NEW: Another pardoned Jan 6 defendant is arrested

The list grows …

Just filed =====>

www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-d...

05.03.2026 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1158    πŸ” 485    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 21

A rigid, stern, and stoic Midwestern German grocer who kept the small town alive during the depression by extending everyone credit. He also donated massively to the small Catholic Church and all the statues had plaques with his name on them.

05.03.2026 04:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Let's continue to exercise our First Amendment freedoms & bear witness to the unprecedented abuses by Trump's goons. When they say we're going into β€œa nice little database” and are now considered domestic terrorists, let's record that too. And donate to @aclu.org. Let's take our country back.

05.03.2026 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Plans floating around elite circles to turn Gaza into a tax-free β€œbillionaire haven” say everything about the mindset driving this conflict. When devastation becomes an investment opportunity and displacement becomes β€œdevelopment,” the line between reconstruction and exploitation disappears.

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I feel sick. Some of these people were praying that Trump would come and free them, and instead they get this.

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A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future β€œThis is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.

β€œIt’s dystopian. It’s like Black Mirror stuff.”

This is Mobile Fortify, an app used by DHS that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query databases for matches against passport records, visa files, and border entry photos.

Our latest with @france24.com:

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Gaza to become a tax-free 'billionaire haven' according to Jared Kushner and Zionist billionaires Jared Kushner sees Trump's plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza taking shape as Zionist billionaires pledge vast amounts into the project

Gaza to become a tax-free β€˜billionaire haven’ according to Jared Kushner and Zionist billionaires. We knew this was coming. This was pre-planed by trump to own Gaza. The genocide continues.
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

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