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Shocking as this moment is, none of us should pretend we weren’t warned. When Donald Trump installed Pete Hegseth — a television provocateur whose public record is soaked in belligerence, booze, and culture-war performance — as America’s Defense...
by thomhartmann
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From Raw Story, Nov. 29, by Carl Gibson: Trump wrote in a Friday post to his Truth Social platform that he was endorsing Nasry "Tito" Asfura in Sunday's presidential election in Honduras, and that his administration would be "very supportive" of...
by arhpdx
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Washington Post:
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations ...
by Greg Dworkin
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President Donald Trump has a malevolent preference for red states, throwing money at them while ...
by Andrew Mangan
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The Wall Street Journal says the Trump/Putin peace plan is all about money. I’m shocked — SHOCKED! — that they would sell out Ukraine for 40 pieces of silver. 2/ According to the WSJ, talks between Trump's golfing friend Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law...
by quaoar
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There will be stories of the end of the Russo-Ukrainian war that will do justice to its wartime leader. Sadly it has yet to be written as not the biography of Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, but as histories of his presidency dominated by a war,...
by annieli
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Russian dictator Vladimir Putin likes to fancy himself a scholar of both proto and modern Pan-Slavic history. In his twisted historiography, all things Slavic find their genesis in Moskva Rus. To him and his ilk like Alexandr Dugin, Kyvian Rus, the...
by Decimus
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A Russian missile test didn’t exactly go as planned -- but it made a pretty cloud. I have to agree. Probable missile types involved: • UR-100NUTTKh (SS-19 Stiletto) • R-36M2 / RS-20 (SS-18) Both rely on UDMH fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer, which...
by quaoar
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It is probably a safe bet that a gallon of ketchup hit the wall when Trump heard that his billionaire real estate buddy Steve Witkoff was dissing him in his leaked conversation with the Russians (see below). How many scaramuccis before Trump claims he...
by quaoar
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Democrats appear to be inching toward one of the biggest changes to their presidential nominating process since the advent of primaries.� Party leaders are beginning to explore whether ranked ...
by kos
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