Dannagal Goldthwaite Young

How odd that so many military veterans who saw their friends get killed in the last stupid in the Middle East feel compelled to speak out against this stupid war in the Middle East.

Imagine serving as a Marine and then being injured at home, on purpose, by a sitting Senator while exercising your constitutionally-protected rights.

mom’s dad: school principal who championed education for all his offspring
Dad’s dad: farmer 1920s-1960s when severe draught in MA forced him to sell part of the land. He went to work at a paper mill where he lost his pinky finger but was always chipper, faithful, and creative.

Trump 2016: The Iraq War was stupid
Trump 2026: And we’re going to do it even bigger

OTOH: I have always said Dunkin coffee must be laced with crack cause there’s nothing else that does what Dunkin does. Signed, a native New Englander

“Report the reality:” The reality is that this admin has given no coherent evidence-based reason for this war in the first place

I hear you! I am biased bc I met him last June at a small event where I talked about the need for leaders to tap into moral values and intuition, instead of just data. He approached me afterwards to say he agreed &discuss what it means to be in seminary school and a 3rd generation (i think) pastor.

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Me: “And very recent studies tell us that when AI images are included in content, we’re more likely to fall for misinformation.”

true! Leaders like Mamdani illustrate this every day. I think that that requires a really thoughtful person with full confidence in their moral values, and willingness to pursue a vision without always poll testing every message. Talarico’s moral clarity happens to come from his Christian Faith.

Don’t worry Phil they’re only being used to determine if we should drop a nuke or not

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

Lots of talk about Talarico Representing a “bigger tent” approach to the Dems. This is true. And he also represents a leader with a moral vision driven by his faith… He speaks with a moral clarity that many Dems don’t (or can’t) because they are either too cautious, too cynical, or to factional.

I feel like we typically see these sorts of completely outraged opinions from federal judges a couple times a year across the whole country, maybe a little more often in last few years. Now, in cases stemming from Trump's immigration crackdown, judges are ringing the alarm bell several times a week.

Trump's Unauthorized Strikes on Iran Take America's Imperial Presidency to New Heights Khamenei's departure is nothing to mourn but regime change might require more than air strikes

“In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive...[T]he trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man."
-- James Madison
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[adding to list if things I must do to understand the world around me] 😂

Trump fires the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Trump announced the dismissal of Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. and said he would nominate Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, a retired three-star general, to succeed him as the top U.S. military officer.

I think this guy had the plan:

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😂 is “Babette” a term of art? Or like slang for Barbara Streisand? Help me, Colin!!!

I’m just wondering why the OP used “Babette“ instead of “kitchenette” or perhaps “dinette”

The New American Dream

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

Ban Polymarket.
It’s immoral and will corrupt our foreign policy decisions and likely has already.

This seems like it will end well.

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WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.

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Probably Because you already know how to think because you are an adult who has had to solve problems cognitively your whole life. For students under 30 years old? Not great:
www.media.mit.edu/publications...

People that argue otherwise do not understand what a) learning or b) thinking actually are.

Anyone who reads this as closing rather than widening the achievement gap is quite simply… a moron. Reliance on LLM renders students less (not more) motivated and able to learn.