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il Signor Bombolone! retweeted
“Let's just take a moment to pause and think about the complete self-deception and lack of self-awareness needed for Kara Swisher…to look at Hillary Clinton and be like, ‘I like Hillary Clinton. I think she talks a lot of sense. Therefore, she probably appeals to the ordinary voter as well.’”
@ggreenwald and @emilyjashinsky react to Hillary Clinton and Kara Swisher's absurd new midterm podcast.
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Pat Buchanan, 1999:
“By moving NATO onto Russia’s front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first century confrontation. … America will face a hellish dilemma: risk confrontation with a nuclear-armed Russia determined to recreate its old sphere of influence, or renege on solemn commitments and see NATO collapse.”
Therefore, he said, “Offering NATO memberships to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and, as some urge, Ukraine is rashness bordering on madness.” Referring to maps the Clinton team must have ignored, Buchanan warned, “This would put the Russian base at Kaliningrad behind NATO lines and bring into a U.S.-led alliance three nations with huge Russian minorities.” Foreseeing future conflict, he observed that “Latvia is almost half Russian; eastern Ukraine, almost entirely Russian. America could neither defend nor liberate these nations without the risk of nuclear war.”
Pat Buchanan, A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America’s Destiny (New York: Regnery, 1999), 17–18, 22.
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BREAKING: America’s $1.7 trillion auto loan market is headed for a crash, per Reuters.
Auto loans are now one of the biggest sources of household debt, bigger than credit cards.
And the strain is showing: 1 in 5 Americans is behind on at least one loan, the highest since 2010, and the average car on the road is now nearly 13 years old, a record.
*Giggle *
BREAKING: Former gambling helpline director gets 10 years for stealing $1.4M to fund his own gambling
No one can convince me that @realDonaldTrump is not politically captured by Israel
This is political suicide & Trump knows it but still endorses the most unpopular person in America?
The betrayal continues
🇺🇸🇮🇱 Every calculation Trump makes runs through political survival, except this one.
Fmr. Dir. U.S. National Counterterror Joe Kent says endorsing Netanyahu is beyond political suicide, hurting every Republican in competitive seats while handing Democrats a weapon.
"Why is President Trump doing all of these things that are against his base? They're definitely against his political intuitions."
The biggest question of our time just got a lot harder to answer.
@joekent16jan19
il Signor Bombolone! retweeted
Ralph Wilde explains why the israeli occupation, its genocide, and its extermination of the Palestinian people must be ended.. immediately
il Signor Bombolone! retweeted
BREAKING: The number of restaurants in New York dropped ~2,000 YoY in Q1 2026, posting its largest YoY decline in at least 36 years.
This surpasses even the worst contraction recorded in any quarter during the 2020 pandemic.
The number of eating and drinking places in New York State has now declined YoY for 4 consecutive quarters, its longest streak since 2021.
This comes as restaurants are facing surging operating expenses, including insurance premiums, wages, interest rates, utilities, and health coverage, with overall costs rising faster than national averages.
Last year, employee health insurance costs jumped +12.9% for New York-area service firms, business insurance rose +7.0%, while utility costs surged +8.5%, according to the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.
Skyrocketing costs are crushing New York restaurants.
Well done. So proud of 🇮🇹
Rest of Europe should follow suite. @GiorgiaMeloni
🇮🇹🇮🇱 Italy will prosecute Israeli Defense Minister Katz and other Israeli officials for kidnapping and torture.
The Italian Public Prosecutor's Office expands its investigations in Rome to include War Minister Yisrael Katz and a long list of current and former military and security leaders (headed by Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, the Inspector General of Police, and commanders of the Navy and the Prison Service), on charges of "kidnapping and torture" against the backdrop of the events of the Gaza blockade-breaking flotilla and the treatment of Italian citizens.
il Signor Bombolone! retweeted
They are lying to you. The documents that Obama's henchmen took when they raided President Trump's home Mar-a-Lago is the evidence of their own crimes.
Here is the most important document, which Monaco and co secretly and retroactively re-classified few weeks before the Raid. It shows that Brennan's CIA operative masquerading as a "Cambridge University Professor" lied that I am a Russian spy who recruited Donald Trump's National Security Advisor. That kicked off the whole Crossfire Hurricane investigation of the senior Trump campaign advisor, then leading into Mueller etc.
So they stole the documents and charged President Trump under the Espionage Act for exposing Obama, Brennan, Comey and co.
Caught red-handed with sensitive national defense documents he was not legally entitled to possess, Trump obstructed justice by moving them around to evade detection. Now, he has the audacity to blame the investigators. His mentor, Roy Cohn, would be proud. Gift link
nytimes.com/2026/10/11/us/po…
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This is the person Israelis are now accusing of being an "antisemitic superspreader." Even if you give Israel $38 billion of Americans' money on your way out of office, they will still happily smear you as a Jew-hater if you ever utter a peep that displeases them.
Opinion: When Obama speaks, millions of people listen. If he truly believes that it is “undeniable” that Jews “took land off people," then he is an antisemitism superspreader.
jpost.com/opinion/article-91…
Best movie I’ve seen in long time! youtu.be/P00bN5TAOCs
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Journalists should be able to follow the truth, not someone else’s agenda.
Not creepy at all…
This is not even real… Jack Smith's team and the Biden Justice Department sat on spreadsheets covering more than 639,000 Republican donors, supporters and voters, and buried in there were the people who bought red MAGA hats, what they bought, and the shipping address where that hat got delivered to their front door. Somebody please explain to me how a hat order has anything to do with a criminal case against a president.
Names, dates of birth, home addresses, emails, whether you are a registered Republican, your congressional district, your job and where you work… the sample occupations in Senator Grassley's memo are retired, pool tech, driver, logger, janitor, doorman. Credit card information down to the last four digits, donations as low as one dollar, over 148,000 rows of mostly small dollar donors, data going all the way back to 2005, and according to Grassley it was shared with FBI agents. These are not cartel bosses or foreign spies, these are your neighbors who sent twenty bucks and bought a coffee mug and a door mat because they love their country.
Let me put it to you like this. If a Republican administration built a spreadsheet of everyone who bought a Kamala hoodie, with their birth date and home address, and handed it to federal agents, the media would run it wall to wall for six months and call it the end of democracy. When team evil does it, it gets called an investigation and you are supposed to say thank you. How is this even a thing in America? Who approved it, who signed off on it, and which agents had their hands on your home address?
Grassley called it incredibly invasive and said it shows Smith and his partisan team aimed to map out the entire Republican Party apparatus. He is being polite. Make no mistake, you do not pull the shipping address of somebody who ordered a hat on November 16, 2020 because you are worried about one man, you pull it because you want to know where all of you live, who you give to, and who signs your paycheck. It is a target list with a government letterhead on top.
I know what it feels like when this system decides you are the enemy because you spoke up, and most of the people on that list have no idea their name is sitting in a federal file right now. And yet Jack Smith still walks around like he is the injured party.
@realDonaldTrump @ChuckGrassley… release every page, notify every American whose name is on that list, and put Jack Smith under oath. But God.
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A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.
At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."
He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.
Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.
He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.
He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."
The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.