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• Post #4015296

  https://www.theborderchronicle.com/floods-expose-dangers-of-trumps-3-billion-rio-grande-buoy-barrier-plan $3billion in one ton buoys running wild in Rio Grand flood.

• Post #3988365

  #julisnktruscottIv Trump is humiliating us

• Post #3937991

  “Our general perceptions are that when your brain is disordered, you lose all function,” Parnia told me. “What we’re finding is that, paradoxically, in disordered states, sometimes that disorder actually opens up pathways to new abilities that were hidden before.” These instances of disinhibition seem to connect people, in Parnia’s view, “to parts of their consciousness that they couldn’t access before.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/magazine/terminal-lucidity.html?smid=url-share

• Post #3763596

  #luciantruscottIV Think about this: Iran can just shut down the entire machinery of western wealth by firing a couple of missiles that cost less than what Kash Patel spends to go see his girlfriend sing the National Anthem at some redneck sporting event.

• Post #3718447

  #heathercoxrichardson Reacting to that nomination, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) recognized the importance of the Fourteenth Amendment to equality: “Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, Blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal co...

• Post #2010766

  https://www.jalopnik.com/2158607/india-striped-road-design-save-wildlife/ via #berniewagenblast

• Post #786775

  Of course they are. Do you think we know every underground cave and bunker that holds a factory making Iran’s missiles and Shahed drones? I very seriously doubt it. Iran is still shooting missiles at Israel and sending drones across the water to attack Gulf states, not as many as when the war first started, but maybe that’s part of their tactics. In fact, maybe that is Iran’s overall strategy. Parcel out its ammo carefully, so they can keep the war going longer.

• Post #786774

  Meanwhile, gas prices are going up, oil prices are still ugly, the Fed kept interest rates where they are and the word is that they have no plans to lower them over the next year because of Trump’s war, and lower interest rates is one of those pesky things that keeps him up at night tossing and turning and messing up his Golden Locks. And the “R” word is making its way into stories about Trump’s war. Yes, there is talk of recession, and that means higher inflation, and that means the Fed will b...

• Post #786773

  Persian rugs have been made in what is now Iran for 2,000 years. They’ve been bought and sold there just as long. Wars have been fought in Persia for twice as long as they’ve been trading rugs. They know every nook and cranny of that country of mountain ranges and deserts and foothills and valleys and waterfront on the Persian Gulf – there’s that word “Persia” again – because it’s been their land for thousands of years. Today, Donald Trump went into the rug shop and this is what he said when he...

• Post #786772

  Even if you think you have the time to wait them out, you’ve already lost, and you may as well go home, because you’re not getting a rug today – not even one of the rugs you can tell are the cheap ones just by looking at them. They just keep those on display to suck you in and give you hope. But there is no hope if you’re so stupid that you’ve burned down the rug shop and all the rugs are gone, just like the oil tankers that aren’t chugging through the Strait of Hormuz. A world without a rug in...

• Post #506261

  #heatherCoxRichardson Scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder noted in Thinking About… that Trump’s personal corruption is another interpretive framework for thinking about his decision to go to war. Trump’s sudden foray into regime change after years of attacking other presidents who tried it raises the question of whether he is acting for other countries in the Middle East he considers his allies. “Given the stupefyingly overt corruption of the Trump administration,” Snyder wrote, “one mus...