Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.
CNBC@cnbc.com · 2d agoU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
CNBC@cnbc.com · 2d ago
The USA is at the same time a nuclear armed superpower, and one of the most ridiculous states in the history of the world.
The thin line between US President policy making satire and reality ... via Arthur Barnes
Die CDU (Christliche Dorsch-Union) setzte ihre Personalpolitik unbeirrt von jeglicher Kritik fort.
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++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."
Two observations: First, good to see UK participation in the EU's €90bn loan to Ukraine finalised - unlike SAFE, this went smoothly, and enables both UK financial contribution and Ukraine purchases of UK military equipment counting as 'European':
Last night, Russia attacked a European capital with over 40 ballistic missiles. That leads nowhere in European news headlines this morning. Russian terror, murder and destruction are simply taken in stride as a normal story.
Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
On this day in 1922, a German Jewish man was born. A refugee in Czechoslovakia, on the 16 Oct 1941, he was deported to the Łódź Ghetto with his parents. They all perished in the Shoah. His name was Heinz Ehrmann-Thein
To the Trump Administration, George Orwell's "1984" is a training manual rather than a warning. Orwell's described Trump's goal for his erasure of history when he wrote: "The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth."
‘A first step to fascism’: critics denounce Trump administration replacing slavery exhibit at George Washington’s home
Replacement of panels with version that’s sympathetic to enslavers comes amid effort by Trump to dismantle diversity initiatives
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Now that the Reflecting Pool is drained, it is obvious that there is no long cut down the center. Instead, there is significant tire damage from 10,000 pound armored vehicles driving on the fresh coating at Trump's direct order. Time for a 10-year prison sentence?
Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
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On July 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy sat for an official portrait in the Oval Office, captured by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton.
The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people.
Russia has quietly stripped much of the long-range air defence protecting its most important nuclear submarine shipyards, according to satellite imagery analysed by the Barents Observer.
Satellite imagery indicates air-defence systems redeployed from Severodvinsk
Russia has quietly stripped much of the long-range air defence protecting its most important nuclear submarine shipyards, according to satellite imagery analysed by the Barents Observer.
thebarentsobserver.com
TRUMP: Would you go to Moscow? ZELENSKYY: It is difficult. There are lots of Ukrainian drones there. It's dangerous.
"It’s a defensive weapon, which I like better than an offensive weapon,” Trump said. Russian media quickly picked up on the announcement.
Ukraine to get ‘license’ for making Patriot interceptors, Trump pledges
"It’s a defensive weapon, which I like better than an offensive weapon,” Trump said. Russian media quickly picked up on the announcement.
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Once again, I am just a small-town international relations professor, standing here, begging our media & our Congress to take our most important signed, ratified international treaty seriously & threats by the One Special Boy to violate it as the presidency-ending scandal that it should have been.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoTrump on Greenland: "That's what hurt my relationship with NATO...it's an important part for the United States. It's surrounded by China ships & Russian ships. Greenland should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark. We could remove all our soldiers out of Europe. They better be careful"
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Ukrainian company Varta unveiled the Ataman active protection system against FPV drones. It uses 2 cameras to detect drones at 50-80 m and 8 shotgun barrels to intercept them at 5-30 m. The system can be mounted on UGVs and tactical vehicles. #Ukraine
On this day in 1896, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 7 May 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt with her husband and on the 9 May 1942 to Sobibór where they perished. Her sons where saved by Winton's kindertransport. Her name was Olga Eibuschitzová @sobibor.org
