*Sleep safe* from Cornwall. 🎧
Episode 253 - Quiet night sky at Looe (61 mins)
Empty air. No planes. No cars. Just gusts of winds and a hint of sea breezes reflecting their sounds on the slates of the cottage roof.
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Drone video showed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem empty at the start of the third Friday in Ramadan, after Israeli authorities restricted access to holy sites.
“Wartime jazz”? Guess and pretend all you want about #47’s FAFO strategy until this lunatic king uses a tactical nuclear weapon when frustration sets in.
Trump has offered multiple explanations for the Iran strikes. Freedom for the Iranian people. A deal in two or three days. A war lasting four or five weeks.
“It’s wartime jazz,” says WSJ reporter Alexander Ward. “He shoots first…and figures out the political objectives as he watches things unfold.”
“Today, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn) shared his reaction with reporters following the briefing: "I'm more convinced now that this is going to be open-ended and forever."”
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“Jan Arnott, a 71-year-old passenger travelling with Celestyal Cruises, said: ‘We were told not to discuss the situation on board. We saw defence planes and smoke from the attack on the airport but have felt safe throughout. Nobody at home can believe what we are saying.’”
Rev. Jesse Jackson led a delegation to free Staff Sgt. Andrew Ramirez, Staff Sgt. Christopher Stone and Specialist Steven Gonzales from Yugoslav forces in 1999. Numerous national dignitaries, including Ramirez, honored Jackson at an event at the Hyatt Hotels corporate headquarters in the West Loop.
U.S. forces likely bombed an Iranian elementary school on Feb. 28 during an operation targeting a nearby military base, a New York Times analysis suggests. It is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility.
"I've asked God to forgive me, which he has…"
“In explicit text messages…Gonzales asked Santos-Aviles to send him a ‘sexy pic’, according to CBS. The aide, who was his regional district director in Uvalde, reportedly told him twice that he had gone ‘too far’”
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“Today, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn) shared his reaction with reporters following the briefing: "I'm more convinced now that this is going to be open-ended and forever."”
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GOP Sen. Ron Johnson on NPR today:
Q: If you support the war, should Congress affirmatively vote on it?
Johnson: "The primary restraint of any president of the United States is public opinion. What you don't want to do in a terribly divided Congress is hold a vote that shows us divided." 1/2
New Mexico Republican Steve Pearce, a former congressman for the state, is one step closer to leading the federal Bureau of Land Management following a Wednesday party-line vote in a U.S. Senate committee.
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Don’t like listening to the public? Don’t be in public service.
I’m very tired of elected and appointed officials *who work for us* behaving as if having to listen to their constituents is an unacceptable and absurd burden.
China is testing a train that will go 280mph, making it the fastest conventional train in the world.
The US can't get its shit together to build a single new line.
Minnesota is mourning the loss of Sergeant First Class Nicole M. Amor of White Bear Lake who was killed in Kuwait on Sunday.
She answered the call to serve and gave her life in service to our state and nation. Minnesotans are wrapping our arms around her loved ones.
Trump claims he has told US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to cut off "all dealings" with Spain over PM Sanchez's refusal to back the Iran attack. "We're going to cut off all trade with Spain". Flays Starmer. "This is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with".
“….supposed emergency behind the executive order is this: Chinese hackers are ready to corrupt U.S. voting results in November, just like they did in 2020, so a national response is necessary”
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Jackson lay in honor at the South Carolina State Capitol on Monday. His ties to the state and Greenville, his hometown that nurtured him and inspired his activism, always remained strong.