Would you buy a car from the grand wizard of the KKK? On the upside, at least the grand wizard doesn't own Twitter, influencing millions of ignorant people.
Greg Aden
Greg Aden
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I'm sorry but the key priority for the next US SecDef has to be extracting Elon Musk from every single thing related to US military contracting. No Musk company should receive any government contract of any kind from any Dem executive.
New speed limits on Starlink terminals, operated by billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX, disrupted drone attacks over Russian-occupied Ukraine, Ukrainian officials and military units said.
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Always so tough on China.
Trump's Nazi arch will allow for easy assassination of democracy advocates.
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We need more people like this.
Dolly Parton... -Gifted millions of free books to kids -Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits -Helped fund medical research, including the COVID vaccine -Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters -Quietly funded high school band programs We lost an incredible person.
The GOP, pre-fascism.
Ronald Reagan has a message for MAGA as Trump escalates the trade war with Canada: “We should beware of the demagogues who are willing to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world, all while cynically waving the American flag.”
Trump acts swiftly increase already overwhelming incompetence within administration.
Saved for those who claim Trump isn't racist.
A few years ago, after reading the entire Agenda47 & all 922 pages of Project 2025, I compiled a list of their 10 worst policies for Black Americans Less than 2 years into his presidency, Trump has accomplished every single goal on his anti-Black MAGA checklist
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"Including Thursday’s announcement, the government has so far spent roughly $3.9 billion to get companies to terminate 12 offshore wind leases." Good jobs lost as well.
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The outright disregard for human life disgusts me. The fact remains that Iran doesn't have nukes. We assume they'll have nukes and they'll blow up Israel, but there is the deterrent of Mutually-Assured Destruction. BTW, North Korea has nukes. No war. Maybe M.A.D. works?
Trump drives away Nobel-Winning immigrant chemist to China with anti-immigrant, anti-science polices.
Highly recommend this story as we approach our 250th anniversary. Nice job bringing this to this light, @nytimes.com
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Thus far, this is the best, most simplistic summation of Trump's Iran deal.
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Iran holds all the cards, and our government doesn't respect diplomacy.
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The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”
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"...14 million people will possibly die because Elon Musk ended U.S.A.I.D. It took the Nazis maybe five or six years to accomplish that.” -Ishmael Reed via the @nytimes.com
Hoping this is true and up into use
WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."
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