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If you have *real* evidence of election fraud, you file a lawsuit. But if you are a pathetic sore loser who wants desperately to believe any fiction that excuses your actual loss, you go on TV where, unlike in court, you won’t be held accountable for your brazen and ridiculous lies.

Trump was elected while Obama was president Trump was elected when Biden was president Trump lost the election while he was president But the democrats are cheating? How?

Anyone that believes all people should have decent access to healthcare without going bankrupt, and like 19 people shouldn’t own all the wealth and control the government is being labeled a “communist” by the state

Let's not forget the fact that 15 out of the 19 people behind 9/11 were Saudi Arabian citizens. I'm also not sure why we should be working with a country that has journalists murdered outside their country and brutally represses any dissent (probably why trump likes them so much).

China just got a heliostat plant – a concentrated solar power (CSP) station using a large field of computer-controlled mirrors, [heliostats], to reflect the sun on to a tall central tower – to power 170k homes a year and save 130k tons of CO2. The US is getting a ballroom.

So many of the self-appointed leaders of the American Jewish community have obvious disdain for the fact that the community is what it actually is, and not what they want it to be.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach saying “This is either a Purim prank or Jews are the dumbest people on earth” to a headline reading: “NEW POLL: Jewish Americans Favor Zohran Mamdani More Than Bibi Netanyahu - by a Whopping 32 Points”

Commons tributes to Ann Widdecombe are absolutely on the mark bit.ly/4vEcP56 I have interviewed and talked to her, promoted her campaign about older workers when she was employment minister. In many ways I admired her and I was - and am - deeply upset by her awful death

Shabana Mahmood leads poetic tributes to ‘forthright, fearless’ Widdecombe

If the subject of the eulogies was ‘listening in’, it’s doubtful ‘Widders’ would have taken them too seriously

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Just now reading "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis. When a corrupt, lying authoritarian builds a big enough Cult it can batter down dissent. An accelerated version extrapolated from Nazi Germany but some remarkable similarities with Trumpism.

⚡️Update: Ukraine signs drone cooperation deal with Denmark. President Volodymyr Zelensky and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen also discussed strengthening air defenses and building a European anti-ballistic system - an increasingly urgent topic as Kyiv faces shortages of Patriot missiles.

Ukraine signs drone cooperation deals with 3 NATO countries

The agreements are part of Ukraine's broader push to expand drone technology cooperation with partners in Europe and beyond, as it shares its war-tested experience in unmanned systems.

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⚡️'Make them yourself': Trump gives Zelensky green light to produce Patriot missiles. U.S. President Donald Trump said on July 8 that he will grant Ukraine its longstanding request to produce American Patriot missiles, the West's only tool capable of stopping Russian ballistic missile attacks.

'Make them yourself': Trump gives Zelensky green light to produce Patriot missiles

Editor's note: this is a developing story and is being updated. U.S. President Donald Trump said on July 8 that he will grant Ukraine its longstanding request to produce American Patriot missiles, th...

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Very real dangers. As someone who routinely works in 40°C+ I feel compelled to give tips on heatwaves and I always remember the first literary example of heat-stress is Patroclus falling down trying to scale the walls of Troy. Drink lots of cool water, only a little icy water.