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The weak will drag you down if you give party to their insufficiencies and weakness. This is no time to side with them Pity them. The insufferable. Those that seek comfort in their inadequacies. They are not made for this. The weak remain so. Be bold.
Ego + arrogance. Trump wields both. That is what is needed. Do you think a squishy feeble untethered elected politician would ever bring you that? Brass knuckles. Truth. Everything is not going to suit you. Big picture. All pieces don’t fall into place according to your vision. Accept that one crucial fact. Relax. Have faith. Trust. Who is willing to stand up in the face of all aligned against him? One last question. Who else has been willing? Go ahead…
The Supreme Court on June 27 handed down a decision restricting federal judges’ ability to impose nationwide injunctions against executive policies, a ruling that was immediately hailed by President Donald Trump as a win for his administration.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Israel codenamed its initial attack on Iran that killed senior military leaders "Red Wedding," referring to a gruesome massacre from the book series "Game of Thrones," which was adapted into a TV series on HBO.
😡😡😡 🇺🇸💰🇮🇱 While Americans argue over rent hikes, groceries, and student loans, Israel has extracted $124 M per day from the U.S. Treasury for an entire year, much of it hidden behind opaque appropriations and congressional loopholes.
According to Brown University’s Costs of War project, Washington has shouldered 70% of Israel’s military costs since Oct 7, 2023. That includes $17.9 B in direct aid, $4.86 B in Pentagon regional ops, $20.3 B in deferred arms deals, and billions more in shipping losses, stockpile transfers, and corporate handouts.
Since 1948 the United States has pumped $317 B into Israel, including $251.2 B in military aid since 1959; that torrent began with the first Pentagon loan in 1959, switched to grants in 1974, became 100% grants in 1985, and now flows automatically as a $3.8 B lump-sum every Oct 1 plus a $500 M missile-defense kicker under the 2019-2028 MOU, money on which Israel pockets the interest because Washington lets it sit in a Fed account. Even so, FY-2024 set a new single-year record: $17.9 B, dwarfing the 1973 and 1978 surges and landing entirely on U.S. taxpayers.
That FY-2024 fire-hose breaks down as $6.8 B Foreign Military Financing, $4.5 B for Iron Dome and David’s Sling reloads, $1.2 B for the Iron Beam laser, $1 B to crank out more 155 mm shells in U.S. factories, and $4.4 B to refill Pentagon stockpiles stripped for Israeli use, again, $17.9 B in 11 months. The administration also slid at least 100 separate weapons deals under congressional reporting thresholds to keep the true cost opaque.
On 8-13-2024 Washington promised another $20.3 B: 50 F-15EX fighters priced at $18.8 B for delivery in 2029, 32 000 120 mm tank rounds at $774 M, $583 M in tactical vehicles, 30 AMRAAMs at $102 M, and 50 000 mortar bombs at $61 M, all deferred to future U.S. budgets via Israel’s “cash-flow” privilege.
Meanwhile the money flows back to the usual corporate feeders. 60 % of the $14 B April supplemental, $8.4 B, went straight to U.S. arms firms. Boeing’s defense arm booked $8 B in Q4-2023 orders, 36 % of its annual revenue. The Financial Times projects $52 B in free cash flow for the top-15 defense contractors in 2026, $26 B pocketed by the U.S. “big five,” cash they historically plow into buybacks and dividends. Israel still may divert 25 % of each yearly grant, $950 M this cycle, to its own industry before that carve-out expires in 2028.
Add it up and the past 12 months have drained $17.9 B in direct aid, $20.3 B in new contractual obligations, $4.86 B (and climbing) in Pentagon regional costs, and $2.1 B in trade losses, a $45.16 B extraction. That works out to $124 M every day, $1.5 M every hour, funneled from American households to a foreign military and a handful of weapons conglomerates that treat the U.S. Treasury like an open vein.
Some Americans are so poor they have to work two jobs to get by. For example, this man is working as a perfume salesman and also works part time as the President of the USA.
Head of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU), Shaher Saad, welcomes a powerful joint statement from more than 52 Arab & international trade union federations, calling for an immediate end to Israel’s assault on #Gaza.
When then US Senate passes the budget bill which defunds Medicaid, raises energy costs to protect a dying and toxic fossil fuel industry by crippling renewables, and give a huge handout to the domestic criminal cartel known as "Department of Homeland Security", it will result in more carnage than if a foreign adversary aerially bombed the whole country for a couple years.
But the oligarchs who own our politicians have their interests protected, which is the point of all of this.
thinking about how refusing to burn oil or buy plastic looks a lot like a general strike. Smash the oligarchs and save the earth for our descendants at the same time
@h2onolan unfortunately it doesn't really work like that for this, as energy generation for electricity is where much of the emissions come from, and it's impossible to just not use electricity. Additionally things like air travel (including private jets) and our food system also use a lot of fossil fuels and boycotting would actually just make it cheaper for, say, those who fly in private jets to fly more, since the demand would go down
So, the question on everyone's mind is "Why isn't anyone stopping him?" And unfortunately, the answer to that question is "Because fundamentally the Constitution is not designed to stop someone like him".
The Constitution is designed to handle the occasional weak, ineffectual, or even ignorant President. But the founders never in their wildest dreams imagined they would need to protect against widespread, coordinated attacks by multiple partisan bad faith actors abusing the power given to them by the document to dismantle the Republic the document is supposed to safeguard.
So let's call this what it is. Not a Presidency. Not a regime. A coup.
The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is home to tens of thousands of caribou, migratory birds, and fish. The Trump administration’s new plan could open 82% of this fragile landscape to oil and gas development. Public comment ends on Tuesday.
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One of those cocktail stirring spoons with a long, round handle. Makes stirring a glass full of ice extremely easier compared to normal spoon handles. In contrast, I found mixing glasses and cocktail shakers fairly optional (and those tend to be more expensive than $20 anyway if they're decent quality).
Oh man, there's this German company Beurer that makes simple equipment for medical home application. They make this sort of zapper thing, which is battery oper and it just heats the shit out of a little ceramic plate. Put that on a bug bite, it heats away the irritation. No more itch, no more venom in your body, just gone.
I am no longer careful around biting bugs. Keep in mind it's not supposed to work for stingers.
I figured for 15 euros it'd be too bad if it doesn't work but I now can't imagine not having it.
I've since also bought a TENS/EMS machine of theirs and a laser hair removal tool is underway for my wife.
I completely trust this company based on just two products.
I got a device from a competitor (the original company's devices are >20€ nowadays). Worked great, too, but its longevity sucked - the next year, the ceramic plate didn't get hot enough anymore, even with fresh batteries. Yet another example of "buy cheap, buy twice".
Broke single mom here. My H&M usually offers a buy one get one discount on boys’ cotton boxers, so whenever I buy a pack for my 12 year old son, I grab myself one as well and they serve pretty well as pajama shorts which I pair with a cheap oversized cotton tee.
nigga has become so irrelevant nobody has even bothered to bring it up here, i really wonder what the thought process is behind humiliating yourself like this drewdevault.com/2025/06/09/202…
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.
Mass murderers say what? The friends of genocide are still whining and agitating about Bob Vylan and Kneecap, two performers at Glastonbury last weekend who chanted ‘Death to the IDF’ a…
BBC m I really outraged by a call to kill genocidal soldiers, starving kids or luring people into food distribution so as to use them as human targets than by the deaths of more than 300.000 Palestinian civilians (lattest US surveys).
How beautifully obnoxious.
Imagine Churchill and 1945 BBC outraged by a song on the tune of "Bridge of River Kway" calling to kill all nazi.
No better, Brad Pitt prosecuted for his character in "Obnoxious bastards".
Far from being a threat to the British people, activists fighting for the Palestinian cause are in fact reflective of public opinion and helping to close the gap between international law and Britain’s support for Israeli oppression.
The Venezuelan government has issued a forceful demand for the immediate return of 18 Venezuelan children being held in U.S. custody after being separated from their families.
Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate. It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one. Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is deepening at an alarming rate, a senior United Nations official warned on Monday, as Israeli military operations and attacks on civilians seeking aid continue to exact a devastating toll on lives and infrastructure.
Lawyers for Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice Monday morning, where their application for an urgent hearing was granted by Mr Justice Chamberlain.
In this State of Play livestream, Greg Stoker exposes how Israeli forces are attacking starving Gazans at food drops, spiking flour with opioids, and deploying ISIS-linked gangs to guard convoys—under the guise of humanitarian aid.
A Trump hating app developer has created “ICEBlock,” which he hopes will serve as an “early warning system” by alerting users to nearby sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in their area.
As the British government and the BBC condemn Glastonbury Festival duo Bob Vylan for a controversial set on Saturday, many on social media this week are accusing the institutions of reacting more strongly to their performance than to Israel’s ongoing…
Never made sense to me why handicapped vans put the doors on the side rather than the back where they could use ANY parking space and never have this problem.
So if going 8 feet in a chair is a problem in the van, how is it any easier to go 8 feet on the ground? To clarify my position here, what I am saying is that there are better ways to improving the functionality of people who are crippled than crippling the rest of the population.
The Trump administration has approved a new arms deal for Israel that will provide the country with $510 million worth of Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMS), kits that turn bombs into precision-guided weapons, as the US continues to provide milita…
The Israeli military admitted on Monday that its forces have killed Palestinians in Gaza near aid sites run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), but claimed the death toll from Gaza's Health Ministry was exaggerated.
The Israeli military admitted on Monday that its forces have killed Palestinians in Gaza near aid sites run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), but claimed the death toll from Gaza's Health Ministry was exaggerated.
At this point, the way people talk about Hamas, it's like they aren't even talking about the real thing. They're talking about their internalized propaganda movie of Hamas.
This is true of both people who see them as a Bush era terror machine and people who see them as heroic freedom fighters who can do no wrong.
Hamas can only be understood from a rational perspective when considering the totality of the Israeli rule over the Gaza strip, the social movements that predated Hamas, the economic context Hamas took power in, the historical ties between Israel and Hamas, and their role in the second intifada.
The truth is that Hamas is a partisan militant organization that is a genuine multi-branched mass movement on the part of an oppressed and colonized population. Its military wing is also guilty of both wartime atrocities and collaboration with Israel at various points in its history. Both can be true at the same time.
This is the first I've heard of Hamas ever collaborating with Israel. Do you have sources that discuss that in more detail? It's surprising to me considering Hamas is well known for killing Palestinians who collaborate with Israel.
@be I'm referring to when the Muslim Brotherhood of Gaza received funding from the state of Israel, with the intention of destabilizing the revolutionary socialist Palestinian Liberation Organization during the 1980s. (I will be clear that I have a more positive view of the pre Oslo PLO than Hamas)
That and on a more abstract level, they arguably collaborated by "playing their part" according to Israel's script, even if "their part" was nominally confrontational, but mainly to prevent Palestinian unity. Not exactly controlled opposition but perhaps "happy to be managed" opposition? They didn't really colour outside the lines until Israel decided perhaps they didn't need them anymore at all.
I am not pro-Hamas, and my criticisms of Hamas also diverge from the Zionist criticism of Hamas (namely that all Palestinians should die, and that they should take to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter, with all resistance being proof that they should kill them harder)
They're very obviously a desperate reaction to Israeli oppression, though, were that oppression to suddenly cease, Hamas would not. I see them as very similar to the IRA of the 80s and 90s and similar strategies could apply such as providing a path to legitimacy through wider recognition. In the IRA's case, this primarily took the form of the Sinn Féin political party that, last I checked, remains strong.
TEHRAN – In an interview with Australasian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), a scholar specializing in Middle East security and nuclear policy says if Israel and the United States intended to destroy Iran’s nuclear program they have failed.
The same day the Trump administration announced it had banned the punk rock group from entering the United States, it was reported that wanted war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be welcomed to Washington next Monday.
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The United Methodist Church in St.Petersburg,Fla just did the gutsiest thing by sending the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department a bill for $10,000 for using their parking lot as a staging area for ICE. They warned them to leave & they didn’t! All $ goes to immigrant legal help!
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„An Israeli airstrike on a popular beachfront coffee shop in Gaza City on Monday afternoon killed more than two dozen Palestinians and injured dozens more, according to local medical workers.“
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'Investigators from the Perryville Police office and the Perry County Coroner were able to identify the victim as 38-year-old Nicolas Lopez Gomez from Guatemala who was working under the alias, “Edward Avila.”'
I wonder if there was a language barrier that contributed to his untimely demise.
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The Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite, which is hosting the instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission, has been placed inside the nose cone of the Falcon 9 launch rocket and is ready for the scheduled liftoff at 23:03 CEST o…
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The Trump administration has giving the order to strip citizens of their citizenship in any cases the Civil Division itself determines to be "important".
They are judging fish lengths with a rubber band here.
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This picture bothers me. Not because it features Vance Boelter the suspect in the shootings of two Minnesota legislators, but take a look at the police officers arresting him. Full blown tactical combat gear, right down to the night-vision and the unit patches velcroed to their shoulders.
There will come a time when it will be impossible to distinguish between soldiers and the police; not a good direction.
I also note the officers faces have been blacked out for this photo.
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"Mr. President, DrFell is having a TOTAL MELTDOWN!" SMART OBSERVERS tell me! This DISGRUNTLED BONEHEAD calls me a "JACKASS" because I told the TRUTH about how INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE works! Dr. FAIL probably thinks ESPIONAGE is something you order at STARBUCKS! I was being HONEST with MARIA BARTIROMO about REAL WORLD POLITICS while Dr. FAIL lives in his FANTASY BASEMENT! This NOT-SMART CRITIC wants AMERICA to be NAIVE about CHINESE OPERATIONS! Dr. FAIL should stick to FAILING at whatever PATHETIC JOB he has instead of CRITICIZING PRESIDENTS who understand GLOBAL STRATEGY! 🤡📡🇺🇸
TOTALLY STUPID CONSPIRACY NONSENSE! BRILLIANT PEOPLE know when to STOP DIGGING when they're in a DEEP HOLE! Dr. FAIL should stick to PRAISING my MAGNIFICENT POLICIES instead of SPREADING FAKE NEWS! Even SLEEPY JOE has more CONSISTENT THOUGHTS than this CONFUSED CITIZEN! MAKE BACKING DOWN GREAT AGAIN! 🤡🕳️🇺🇸
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