And here’s another view on what’s happening in the Gaza war.
“When Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, led the country to a military victory over Iran in June, both his allies and rivals portrayed it as his finest achievement. Flush with newfound confidence and authority, Mr. Netanyahu seemed finally to have gained the political capital he needed to override opposition from his far-right government allies to reach a truce in Gaza.
Six weeks later, the prime minister has squandered that moment. The talks between Hamas and Israel are, yet again, stuck. Israel is now pushing for a deal to end the war in one go, instead of in phases. The move brings negotiations to where they were 19 months ago, when mediators last tried to reach a comprehensive deal, and it is just as likely to fail as it did then.
Now as then, both Hamas and Mr. Netanyahu are refusing to make the compromises needed for such a comprehensive deal to work.
“As long as this is the government — and assuming it doesn’t fundamentally change its course — there will be no comprehensive agreement, and the hostages will not return,” wrote Oren Setter, a former member of Israel’s negotiation team, in a column on Monday in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot. “The opposition needs to understand this, the public needs to understand this, and the media needs to understand this,” Mr. Setter added.
In short, the credit that Mr. Netanyahu accrued following the war with Iran in June has evaporated, both domestically and overseas….”
Women should be outraged that the federal govt and FDA allow drug companies to use fear to push women into getting vaccines that are as dangerous as what they’re supposed to protect against, if not more dangerous.
“RFK Jr. Reveals: Gardasil Vaccine 37x More Lethal Than Cervical Cancer It Prevents
“Gardasil is probably the single worst mass vaccine that we’ve ever seen. Vaccine targets millions of pre-teens and teens, for whom the risk of dying from cervical cancer is zero. Nobody in their right mind would ever take this vaccine if they actually read the clinical literature.”
“Death rates in the Gardasil trial were 37 times the death rates for cervical cancer. Children who take that vaccine, the Gardasil vaccine, are 37 times more likely to die from the vaccine than they are to die from cervical cancer.”
“So the problem with Gardasil, like most vaccines, is it was never tested against a true placebo, an inert placebo. And the CDC and HHS say… If you don’t test it against a true placebo, it’s not science. You have no way of gauging whether the injuries you’re seeing from the product are being caused by that product or whether they’re just bad, sad coincidences.”
“The entity that is actually performing the study is, and paying for the study, is Merck. Merck got to decide which injuries were being caused by Gardasil and which were just bad coincidences and because it had that power it just wrote them all off as bad coincidences.”
“You can do that when there’s no placebo because the injuries they were seeing in the control group which where the girls were getting aluminum neurotoxins were identical to the injuries they were getting in the Gardasil group so they said well we don’t have to report any of these as vaccine injuries. So they were able to license something that is insanely dangerous.”
I think we’re busy deporting en masse many of those people who would be proud to be American. We no longer distinguish felonies from misdemeanors in our rapacity to keep our deportation numbers up. We are tearing apart law abiding families.
Perhaps the BLS does need to be reformed. But although I support much of Trump’s agenda, I don’t know that I would trust his people to reform this department. It needs to be nonpartisan and I don’t think Trump knows how to do that.
“A chief White House economic adviser said Sunday that President Trump wants his allies placed in the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the agency published a surprisingly dismal jobs report Friday and the president later fired its commissioner.
Kevin Hassett, Trump’s National Economic Council director, said on NBC that the firing of BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer is part of Trump’s plan to make further changes to the agency.
“The president wants his own people there, so that when we see the jobs numbers, they are more transparent and more reliable,” Hassett said….,.
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The data that BLS collects is based on a voluntary, monthly survey of 121,000 businesses and government agencies. In a typical month, BLS hears back from about 60% of the establishments in its sample in time for that month’s jobs report. Most of the rest normally respond in the next month or two, leading to routine revisions.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan suggested Sunday on CBS that those methods “just aren’t as effective anymore.”……
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“This baseless, damaging claim undermines the valuable work and dedication of BLS staff who produce the reports each month,” said Bill Beach, a BLS commissioner during Trump’s first term. “This escalates the president’s unprecedented attacks on the independence and integrity of the federal statistical system.”
“President Trump believes businesses, households, and policymakers deserve accurate data when making major policy decisions and he will restore America’s trust in this key data,” said White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers.”
“The Founding Fathers wrote explicitly that any immigrant must “absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty.””
“Dennis Prager STUNS the Muslim crowd at Oxford Union.
“Gaza starts a war to kill as many Israelis as possible, and all you see on the BBC and Sky News are dead Gazans. It takes a frail mind to believe that you determine right and wrong by the number of dead”
“BREAKING: Gov. Greg Abbott has ORDERED the Texas Rangers to launch investigations into the absconded Democrats for felony BRIBERY
This extends to those who aided and abetted their escape.“
Reports indicate that many absentee Texas House Democrats have solicited or received funds to evade conducting legislative business and casting votes.
Under the Texas Penal Code, any of those Democrats who solicit, accept, or agree to accept such funds to assist in the violation of legislative duties or for purposes of skipping a vote may have violated bribery laws.”
There are many detractors in this country who believe our President is the problem but they are wrong…perhaps those thinking Netanyahu is the problem in their country are just as mistaken…
Perhaps. The midterms will tell a lot about what people think of the President’s performance here. Netanyahu survived an opposition bid to dissolve the government, probably because of the war. He’s also currently on trial for corruption but the proceedings are suspended because of the war. This has led to speculation that he has an incentive to prolong the war. At any rate, their elections are in 2026. So we should know more about how people in both countries actually view the performance of their leaders then.
“Remember when the stock market lost 500 points last Friday based on a poor jobs report but then it turned out the jobs lost were actually government employees who got fired for doing nothing and then the stock market went up 600 points today and added $1.1 trillion?
“Which Sanctuary Jurisdictions Have Released the Most Criminals?
Newly obtained ICE records reveal the sanctuary jurisdictions that have most frequently failed to allow ICE to take custody of deportable aliens who were jailed in those locations.”
“More than half of the declined detainers (52 percent) were refused by jails and prisons in California. The total number declined in California was 13,025.
Illinois, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut also had especially large numbers of declined detainers.
Detainers were declined by jails in 46 states and three U.S. territories (the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Marianas). Many of these states have state laws prohibiting sanctuary policies.
The jail with the highest number of declined detainers or insufficient notice to ICE was the main jail in Santa Clara County, Calif., which released nearly 3,000 criminal aliens during the period.
Cook County Jail in Illinois and Fairfax County Adult Detention Center in Virginia each also released more than 1,000 criminal aliens during the period.
A total of 72 criminal aliens with homicide convictions or charges were released during the period. The Illinois River Corrections Center and the Santa Clara County jails each released six convicted killers, and Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois released five.”
“Hamas films its own war crimes— booby-trapping tunnel shafts in residential homes, fighting in civilian clothes, firing rockets at Israeli towns. Then people like @piersmorgan wonder why many areas of Gaza are destroyed. Hamas shows us why. Journalists ignore it. Examples:”
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“Hamas openly films its fighters ALWAYS in civilian clothes burying IEDs across Gaza—like here in Jabaliya. This is their central war strategy. Then people act shocked that areas of Gaza are in ruins, shocked the IDF is not going into these areas without removing threat first.”
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“Here are more war crimes filmed by Hamas themselves. Here seen burying rocket launchers, admittedly aimed at civilian locations in the Gaza Envelope. It’s all there for the media to report, but somehow they can’t “find” these videos. “
Bibi blew it — he decided to “solve” the problem forever, and went for a genocide. He used and then abused all the initial empathy after the Hamas attack and the traditional support Israel receives. The truce demonstrated that there was a piecemeal solution but he wanted more. In the end, his methods grew so bad that even western nations usually pro-Israeli, have had enough and will soon recognise Palestine.
The death toll does not determine right or wrong but unnecessary deaths do indicate criminal behaviour.
I find it ironic that people refusing to recognise Palestine as a state and support Israel’s policy of blockade yet demand Palestine act as an independent state.
Hamas or the PLO in the west bank do not have sufficient authority or independence to be held responsible for food delivery — hence the UN normally does it. Hamas does not wear uniforms because its not a state actor. This is not a war between two countries — its an occupation and a genocide. Civilians do and can fight back when the occupying army is indiscriminate.
Its impossible to blame Hamas or other groups for the massive destruction of Gaza. IEDs etc are not sufficient. If you see the photos taken from the air, you see how systemic the destruction is, something only possible by a sustained organised force.
Hamas does have tunnels and booby traps — that’s the norm for any irregular group resisting an occupation — the Viet Cong and the resistance movement during WW2.
I do think Hamas is as responsible for their own murders and war crimes as any other actor in this conflict. But your point that this is not a fight between 2 countries is well taken. And when you consider the concept of just war, the response is overwhelmingly lopsided and therefore, unjust. I find it shocking to see how readily Christians forget that there are thousands of innocents in Gaza, including Christians, who are caught in the middle. And they harden their hearts and cheer the fighting on. It seems that Zionism trumps Christianity in some ‘christian’ minds and hearts. And that’s a shame.
I googled Guardsill controversy — and it went straight to a legal firm. Some ambulance chasing. Maybe that’s why drugs cost too much in the US (no its not).
Grade seven students receive the HPV vaccines in Ontario – both male and female. Other than the usual dizzines or sore arms that one out of 30 complains about each year, I can’t recall any problems in the dozen or so years it’s been done. That would be about 750 students in total. Like most vaccines, it’s not recommended if you’re over 25.
As I’ve said before, drugs are too expensive in the US because gov’t purchase groups (VA, Medicaid, Medicare etc) refuse to use their bulk buying power to negotiate discounts. Pass the bill that Bernie has been advocating for decades and the cost will drop — but sure Trump will lower it by 1500%.
However, I will agree the amount of advertising on US television for prescription drugs is weird. Why?? Just ban it like any other country. From what I understand, they blanket cable news with ads, and cable news audiences are literally dying — ie the demographic for all news channels including FOX is over 65.
I found the blood pressure levels interesting. About three years ago my pressure was 160 over 90 — with the lowest dose prescription I’m around 140 over 80. My doctor says that’s fine. I imagine it varies according to individuals so when the American Heart Association changed it to 120 over 80 it was out of caution and probably a fear of litigation. But if your bottom number is close to 90 I’d be cautious.
Debra — never trust a politician who wants to be his own people in charge of the numbers. Soon nobody will trust the numbers coming from the gov’t. But we can rely on the fact Ford has announced losses mainly due to declining sales and increased cost to raw materials due to tariffs.
I’m sure as tariffs begin to affect the inflation more, some more heads will roll and soon bureaucrats will produce bogus numbers to protect their job.
I’m still confused why there’s a 10% tariff on bananas — there’s no banana industry to protect or even start up
So the House Oversight Cmttee has issued a subpoena for Bill Clinton…… can’t wait for a representative to ask about the Epstein files.
Meanwhile Maxwell has been given limited immunity and a transfer to a minimum security prison even though sex offenders aren’t eligible for minimum security. The DOJ using Trump’s former criminal lawyer to conduct the interview is just slightly suspicious.
Gerrymandering is anti-democratic and wrong. And with AI and computer models, it will only get worse.
But let’s not get distracted, Texas is already gerrymandered. And now in the mid census cycle, Texas wants to gerrymander even more. And yes so is California.
However, its impossible to gerrymander Vermont as suggest by the tweet shared. That’s also true for Delaware, Wyoming, North and South Dakota and Alaska. And then there’s the states with only two or three seats, again almost impossible to gerrymander. And that includes New Hampshire, Maine, and Rhode Island along with Nebraska, Idaho, Montana etc
Claiming that New Hampshire is gerrymandered is weird considering there are only two seats and the map has barely changed since it was represented by Republicans in the Bush era.
The gerrymandering occurs mostly in the Old South states; for example Louisiana is currently in the courts over its districts while North Carolina has also spent alot of time there. Illinois’s map looks like fun too. It looks like they tried to put all the rural areas in the three districts not quite gerrymandering but definitely some packing going on there. With the right AI and computer models, Illinois could probably crack those three districts and shut out the Republicans. New York’s map actually looks reasonable – the results favored the Democrats but the districts aren’t unreasonable — followed county/metro lines and some are even competitive.
The easy solution is to pass rules stating that independent commissions must use lower political boundaries (counties, etc) and natural boundaries (rivers, etc) prior to any other considerations – rural/urban, social-economic. I’m sure the right wing will advocate this.
Texas and Trump should’ve started this nonsense. Its bad enough to do once a decade but this makes democracy look like a farce. All of course to not face the voters. If Illinois and California follow Texas’s lead, the Republicans will lose and if New York joins in the fun, its game over.
“…Palestinians kidnapped 8-month-old Kfir and 4-year-old Ariel Bibas — and strangled them to death.”
Not that accuracy seems to matter here, but Hamas, a terrorist organization, kidnapped and killed these people. You are advocating for the destruction of innocents—men, women, children–some of them Christians. How do you justify that?
Wandering Views 
And here’s another view on what’s happening in the Gaza war.
“When Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, led the country to a military victory over Iran in June, both his allies and rivals portrayed it as his finest achievement. Flush with newfound confidence and authority, Mr. Netanyahu seemed finally to have gained the political capital he needed to override opposition from his far-right government allies to reach a truce in Gaza.
Six weeks later, the prime minister has squandered that moment. The talks between Hamas and Israel are, yet again, stuck. Israel is now pushing for a deal to end the war in one go, instead of in phases. The move brings negotiations to where they were 19 months ago, when mediators last tried to reach a comprehensive deal, and it is just as likely to fail as it did then.
Now as then, both Hamas and Mr. Netanyahu are refusing to make the compromises needed for such a comprehensive deal to work.
“As long as this is the government — and assuming it doesn’t fundamentally change its course — there will be no comprehensive agreement, and the hostages will not return,” wrote Oren Setter, a former member of Israel’s negotiation team, in a column on Monday in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot. “The opposition needs to understand this, the public needs to understand this, and the media needs to understand this,” Mr. Setter added.
In short, the credit that Mr. Netanyahu accrued following the war with Iran in June has evaporated, both domestically and overseas….”
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Women should be outraged that the federal govt and FDA allow drug companies to use fear to push women into getting vaccines that are as dangerous as what they’re supposed to protect against, if not more dangerous.
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1952478620590416181?t=KnQe-0UXNhHqPDCDdqAD2Q&s=19
“RFK Jr. Reveals: Gardasil Vaccine 37x More Lethal Than Cervical Cancer It Prevents
“Gardasil is probably the single worst mass vaccine that we’ve ever seen. Vaccine targets millions of pre-teens and teens, for whom the risk of dying from cervical cancer is zero. Nobody in their right mind would ever take this vaccine if they actually read the clinical literature.”
“Death rates in the Gardasil trial were 37 times the death rates for cervical cancer. Children who take that vaccine, the Gardasil vaccine, are 37 times more likely to die from the vaccine than they are to die from cervical cancer.”
“So the problem with Gardasil, like most vaccines, is it was never tested against a true placebo, an inert placebo. And the CDC and HHS say… If you don’t test it against a true placebo, it’s not science. You have no way of gauging whether the injuries you’re seeing from the product are being caused by that product or whether they’re just bad, sad coincidences.”
“The entity that is actually performing the study is, and paying for the study, is Merck. Merck got to decide which injuries were being caused by Gardasil and which were just bad coincidences and because it had that power it just wrote them all off as bad coincidences.”
“You can do that when there’s no placebo because the injuries they were seeing in the control group which where the girls were getting aluminum neurotoxins were identical to the injuries they were getting in the Gardasil group so they said well we don’t have to report any of these as vaccine injuries. So they were able to license something that is insanely dangerous.”
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But don’t look for the media to do a story about it, those not bought by Obamagate scammers or USAID are bought by BigPharma.
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1952481422825943324?t=8KgEcV_IWC1X1Uq1HPEqLw&s=19
“Wow this graph from @BustBigPharma is disturbing
Big Pharma has basically been buying off legacy media for years to make sure they don’t call out their dangerous drugs
This is also why families struggle to afford good healthcare & prescriptions
Big Pharma spends over $10 billion per year on tv ads that could instead be used to lower costs for working Americans
And boy do some of the names on this list look familiar…”
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Now as then, both Hamas and Mr. Netanyahu are refusing to make the compromises needed for such a comprehensive deal to work.
But sure let’s target Israel as the bad guy wanting an immediate end. What the heck??!
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There are many in Israel who think Benjamin Netanyahu is a big part of the problem. Perhaps they’re right.
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So in their desperation, they make deals with the devil…..
https://x.com/profstonge/status/1952331180889763999?t=MvGRrVwdgqIF0gIyXnjaww&s=19
“Mainstream media — including Hollywood — is in free fall.
Hollywood revenue is down nearly half since Covid. Three out of four newspaper journalists are gone.
CNN and MSNBC combined audience dropped 40% year-on-year.”
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Ta-Da!
Magic!
https://x.com/TheWarEnglish/status/1952340088802656260?t=SBZxMI1KS5tW1HQKtiVSWA&s=19
“They created a disease overnight to sell you pills.
In 2017, medical authorities lowered “normal” blood pressure from 140/90 to 130/80.
Suddenly, 31 million healthy Americans became “patients.”
Here’s the blood pressure scam they don’t want you knowing:🧵”
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“1. For decades, blood pressure over 140/90 meant hypertension.
Then in 2017, the American Heart Association changed the rules.
They redefined “normal” as under 120/80.
Overnight, 103 million Americans had high blood pressure instead of 72 million.”
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“2. Where it gets suspicious:
6 of the 15 panel members who wrote these guidelines had financial ties to Big Pharma companies like:
• Merck
• Pfizer
• AstraZeneca.
The American Heart Association received $30 million from pharmaceutical companies that same year.”
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But trust the experts, right?
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Go back to your country then!!
Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL): “I am a proud Guatemalan before I am American.” E E
She said it in Spanish – but the message was loud and clear:
“Soy una orgullosa guatemalteca antes de ser estadounidense.”
(“I am a proud Guatemalan before I am American.”)
A sitting U.S. Congresswoman openly putting
another country before the United States?
We need leaders who put America FIRST – not foreign flags, not foreign identities, not divided loyalties.
• Great — go home.
Let’s make room for patriots who are proud to be American first, last, and always.
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I think we’re busy deporting en masse many of those people who would be proud to be American. We no longer distinguish felonies from misdemeanors in our rapacity to keep our deportation numbers up. We are tearing apart law abiding families.
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Perhaps the BLS does need to be reformed. But although I support much of Trump’s agenda, I don’t know that I would trust his people to reform this department. It needs to be nonpartisan and I don’t think Trump knows how to do that.
“A chief White House economic adviser said Sunday that President Trump wants his allies placed in the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the agency published a surprisingly dismal jobs report Friday and the president later fired its commissioner.
Kevin Hassett, Trump’s National Economic Council director, said on NBC that the firing of BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer is part of Trump’s plan to make further changes to the agency.
“The president wants his own people there, so that when we see the jobs numbers, they are more transparent and more reliable,” Hassett said….,.
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The data that BLS collects is based on a voluntary, monthly survey of 121,000 businesses and government agencies. In a typical month, BLS hears back from about 60% of the establishments in its sample in time for that month’s jobs report. Most of the rest normally respond in the next month or two, leading to routine revisions.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan suggested Sunday on CBS that those methods “just aren’t as effective anymore.”……
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“This baseless, damaging claim undermines the valuable work and dedication of BLS staff who produce the reports each month,” said Bill Beach, a BLS commissioner during Trump’s first term. “This escalates the president’s unprecedented attacks on the independence and integrity of the federal statistical system.”
“President Trump believes businesses, households, and policymakers deserve accurate data when making major policy decisions and he will restore America’s trust in this key data,” said White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers.”
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/trump-seeks-bigger-overhaul-at-labor-statistics-bureau-adviser-says-dc109bac?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqDwgAKgcICjDW3MkBMOfLFTDS9LME&utm_content=rundown&gaa_at=g&gaa_n=ASWzDAhD2lv4qqsf27F0D4UkVw59Gt9p-W2nrE2YlEKuBBLeGIvC6L89qQ9167v4fnM5oii3O8z293mwKJ0EKxVBYWLCt2ebGotOn8Y3sDCy&gaa_ts=6890ed64&gaa_sig=zxbZJdK-CHhCmuhXFKo9f5aT-enZbnrznxUFMB0MmhxRipF4DdrHfyq1LMF91Hmlbbil0uj9ckBbWZmY8x5rLA%3D%3D
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I see the WSJ is once again shilling for the status quo, corrupt as it is.
Must be a day ending in y…..
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“The Founding Fathers wrote explicitly that any immigrant must “absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty.””
https://x.com/Geiger_Capital/status/1952493581718945879?t=vUNp951FHRtYHsC1suNEFQ&s=19
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“Rep. Ramirez (D-IL) says in Spanish: “I am a proud Guatemalan before I am American”
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1952489938013827485?t=MlUi120-HIu-AZMhi22iew&s=19
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Oh my…. 😀
https://x.com/RepJamesComer/status/1952729381983408550?t=49VhsQBJY0x8wPfUtDpeXg&s=19
“BREAKING🚨
The House Oversight Committee is compelling the following individuals to appear for depositions through issued subpoenas:
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: October 9
Former President Bill Clinton: October 14
Former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland: October 2
Former FBI Director James Comey: October 7
Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr: August 18
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: August 26
Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions: August 28
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller: September 2
Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch: September 9
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder: September 30″
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“Dennis Prager STUNS the Muslim crowd at Oxford Union.
“Gaza starts a war to kill as many Israelis as possible, and all you see on the BBC and Sky News are dead Gazans. It takes a frail mind to believe that you determine right and wrong by the number of dead”
He’s 100% correct.”
https://x.com/VividProwess/status/1952551380557656084?t=ys6HO4QRJEtSYAUvOtYj5A&s=19
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Do. It.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1952497192780070996?t=Cz6L-k0bVU-7HKLlVs0Hhw&s=19
“BREAKING: Gov. Greg Abbott has ORDERED the Texas Rangers to launch investigations into the absconded Democrats for felony BRIBERY
This extends to those who aided and abetted their escape.“
Reports indicate that many absentee Texas House Democrats have solicited or received funds to evade conducting legislative business and casting votes.
Under the Texas Penal Code, any of those Democrats who solicit, accept, or agree to accept such funds to assist in the violation of legislative duties or for purposes of skipping a vote may have violated bribery laws.”
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Huh, well that’s odd…..
Seems like Israel isn’t the reason Gazans are allegedly starving..
https://x.com/guypbenson/status/1952596702420213871?t=6QYegUwN5LYDhydNR0DYtg&s=19
“Didn’t the NYT just pretend this wasn’t happening? A claim echoed by Chris Van Hollen et al?”
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https://x.com/KassyAkiva/status/1952438310670041175?t=6CwfYU6twQJhsr4d_V2Ugg&s=19
“According to the United Nations, 1,043 of its aid trucks were looted in Gaza in June.
Only 47 trucks successfully reached their destination.”
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“This is why we must abolish birthright citizenship
Delia Ramirez is an anchor baby born to 2 illegal aliens
She says she is Guatemalan before she is American
She must be stripped of her citizenship and deported along with her entire illegal alien family”
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1952538179174862890?t=wAWu97ENksJWRevcqIsq4g&s=19
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Ha. Y’all are happy to abolish our amendments to get what you want, why not abolish the rest of our constitution as well. Silly rabbits.
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There are many detractors in this country who believe our President is the problem but they are wrong…perhaps those thinking Netanyahu is the problem in their country are just as mistaken…
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Perhaps. The midterms will tell a lot about what people think of the President’s performance here. Netanyahu survived an opposition bid to dissolve the government, probably because of the war. He’s also currently on trial for corruption but the proceedings are suspended because of the war. This has led to speculation that he has an incentive to prolong the war. At any rate, their elections are in 2026. So we should know more about how people in both countries actually view the performance of their leaders then.
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“Remember when the stock market lost 500 points last Friday based on a poor jobs report but then it turned out the jobs lost were actually government employees who got fired for doing nothing and then the stock market went up 600 points today and added $1.1 trillion?
Hilarious.”
https://x.com/NotKennyRogers/status/1952560522261680466?t=xcHx5V45mX_u6ujJIsUXgA&s=19
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Gee whiz, and the President said those numbers were all rigged. Guess people did lose their jobs. He might be wrong about a few other things as well.
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Sheep are easily led…. astray….
https://x.com/JeremyKamali/status/1952380200576266525?t=Q5W_pmwV3OTa07ptqUNqcA&s=19
“It seems the world has already forgotten that Palestinians kidnapped 8-month-old Kfir and 4-year-old Ariel Bibas — and strangled them to death.
100,000 marched in Australia yesterday.
Not for them.
Not for the babies.
For their killers.”
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“Which Sanctuary Jurisdictions Have Released the Most Criminals?
Newly obtained ICE records reveal the sanctuary jurisdictions that have most frequently failed to allow ICE to take custody of deportable aliens who were jailed in those locations.”
https://x.com/CIS_org/status/1913307071979917551?t=TC2AU207fRHzX-aJ7LhZlg&s=19
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https://cis.org/Vaughan/Which-Sanctuary-Jurisdictions-Have-Released-Most-Criminals?twclid=2-22990l7xt6efkix0aq6azvrmr
“More than half of the declined detainers (52 percent) were refused by jails and prisons in California. The total number declined in California was 13,025.
Illinois, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut also had especially large numbers of declined detainers.
Detainers were declined by jails in 46 states and three U.S. territories (the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Marianas). Many of these states have state laws prohibiting sanctuary policies.
The jail with the highest number of declined detainers or insufficient notice to ICE was the main jail in Santa Clara County, Calif., which released nearly 3,000 criminal aliens during the period.
Cook County Jail in Illinois and Fairfax County Adult Detention Center in Virginia each also released more than 1,000 criminal aliens during the period.
A total of 72 criminal aliens with homicide convictions or charges were released during the period. The Illinois River Corrections Center and the Santa Clara County jails each released six convicted killers, and Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois released five.”
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“56% of Democrats are following the Russiagate investigation. 32% say serious crimes were committed. 59% want accountability.
@mirandadevine:
“That gives Democrat leadership sleepless nights… they were lied to for years. Trump’s back—and doing a good job.”
https://x.com/WillCainShow_/status/1952478849633337382?t=ODZfgMEeMz89lRQzSDgoeQ&s=19
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A damning thread. HAMAS is not the victim here, they’re the monsters.
https://x.com/Aizenberg55/status/1952738089689915436?t=wucTEZgGrBwuVgiMdLtAWQ&s=19
“Hamas films its own war crimes— booby-trapping tunnel shafts in residential homes, fighting in civilian clothes, firing rockets at Israeli towns. Then people like @piersmorgan wonder why many areas of Gaza are destroyed. Hamas shows us why. Journalists ignore it. Examples:”
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“Hamas openly films its fighters ALWAYS in civilian clothes burying IEDs across Gaza—like here in Jabaliya. This is their central war strategy. Then people act shocked that areas of Gaza are in ruins, shocked the IDF is not going into these areas without removing threat first.”
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“Here are more war crimes filmed by Hamas themselves. Here seen burying rocket launchers, admittedly aimed at civilian locations in the Gaza Envelope. It’s all there for the media to report, but somehow they can’t “find” these videos. “
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Hamas is a terrorist organization that does the disgusting things terrorists do. The people of Gaza are NOT Hamas.
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It’s occupied territories.
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1952765340951191936?t=kAlbYKdAyJEFKyE4T4_14g&s=19
“Blue states with ZERO Republican House seats:
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
VermontNew HampshireHawaii
NewMexico
Connecticut
Delaware
Blue states with ONE Republican House seat:
Maryland
Oregon
Maine
Blue states with 2-5 Republican House seats:
Colorado
Minnesota
Illinois
Virginia
New Jersey
After that, you only have California & New York
The reason Democrats are screaming for Texas to stop redistricting is because Democrats have almost nothing left to gerrymander
They already rigged the map years ago and hate to see Republicans actually fighting back”
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Bibi blew it — he decided to “solve” the problem forever, and went for a genocide. He used and then abused all the initial empathy after the Hamas attack and the traditional support Israel receives. The truce demonstrated that there was a piecemeal solution but he wanted more. In the end, his methods grew so bad that even western nations usually pro-Israeli, have had enough and will soon recognise Palestine.
The death toll does not determine right or wrong but unnecessary deaths do indicate criminal behaviour.
I find it ironic that people refusing to recognise Palestine as a state and support Israel’s policy of blockade yet demand Palestine act as an independent state.
Hamas or the PLO in the west bank do not have sufficient authority or independence to be held responsible for food delivery — hence the UN normally does it. Hamas does not wear uniforms because its not a state actor. This is not a war between two countries — its an occupation and a genocide. Civilians do and can fight back when the occupying army is indiscriminate.
Its impossible to blame Hamas or other groups for the massive destruction of Gaza. IEDs etc are not sufficient. If you see the photos taken from the air, you see how systemic the destruction is, something only possible by a sustained organised force.
Hamas does have tunnels and booby traps — that’s the norm for any irregular group resisting an occupation — the Viet Cong and the resistance movement during WW2.
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I do think Hamas is as responsible for their own murders and war crimes as any other actor in this conflict. But your point that this is not a fight between 2 countries is well taken. And when you consider the concept of just war, the response is overwhelmingly lopsided and therefore, unjust. I find it shocking to see how readily Christians forget that there are thousands of innocents in Gaza, including Christians, who are caught in the middle. And they harden their hearts and cheer the fighting on. It seems that Zionism trumps Christianity in some ‘christian’ minds and hearts. And that’s a shame.
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I googled Guardsill controversy — and it went straight to a legal firm. Some ambulance chasing. Maybe that’s why drugs cost too much in the US (no its not).
Grade seven students receive the HPV vaccines in Ontario – both male and female. Other than the usual dizzines or sore arms that one out of 30 complains about each year, I can’t recall any problems in the dozen or so years it’s been done. That would be about 750 students in total. Like most vaccines, it’s not recommended if you’re over 25.
As I’ve said before, drugs are too expensive in the US because gov’t purchase groups (VA, Medicaid, Medicare etc) refuse to use their bulk buying power to negotiate discounts. Pass the bill that Bernie has been advocating for decades and the cost will drop — but sure Trump will lower it by 1500%.
However, I will agree the amount of advertising on US television for prescription drugs is weird. Why?? Just ban it like any other country. From what I understand, they blanket cable news with ads, and cable news audiences are literally dying — ie the demographic for all news channels including FOX is over 65.
I found the blood pressure levels interesting. About three years ago my pressure was 160 over 90 — with the lowest dose prescription I’m around 140 over 80. My doctor says that’s fine. I imagine it varies according to individuals so when the American Heart Association changed it to 120 over 80 it was out of caution and probably a fear of litigation. But if your bottom number is close to 90 I’d be cautious.
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Debra — never trust a politician who wants to be his own people in charge of the numbers. Soon nobody will trust the numbers coming from the gov’t. But we can rely on the fact Ford has announced losses mainly due to declining sales and increased cost to raw materials due to tariffs.
I’m sure as tariffs begin to affect the inflation more, some more heads will roll and soon bureaucrats will produce bogus numbers to protect their job.
I’m still confused why there’s a 10% tariff on bananas — there’s no banana industry to protect or even start up
hrw
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So the House Oversight Cmttee has issued a subpoena for Bill Clinton…… can’t wait for a representative to ask about the Epstein files.
Meanwhile Maxwell has been given limited immunity and a transfer to a minimum security prison even though sex offenders aren’t eligible for minimum security. The DOJ using Trump’s former criminal lawyer to conduct the interview is just slightly suspicious.
hrw
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Gerrymandering is anti-democratic and wrong. And with AI and computer models, it will only get worse.
But let’s not get distracted, Texas is already gerrymandered. And now in the mid census cycle, Texas wants to gerrymander even more. And yes so is California.
However, its impossible to gerrymander Vermont as suggest by the tweet shared. That’s also true for Delaware, Wyoming, North and South Dakota and Alaska. And then there’s the states with only two or three seats, again almost impossible to gerrymander. And that includes New Hampshire, Maine, and Rhode Island along with Nebraska, Idaho, Montana etc
Claiming that New Hampshire is gerrymandered is weird considering there are only two seats and the map has barely changed since it was represented by Republicans in the Bush era.
The gerrymandering occurs mostly in the Old South states; for example Louisiana is currently in the courts over its districts while North Carolina has also spent alot of time there. Illinois’s map looks like fun too. It looks like they tried to put all the rural areas in the three districts not quite gerrymandering but definitely some packing going on there. With the right AI and computer models, Illinois could probably crack those three districts and shut out the Republicans. New York’s map actually looks reasonable – the results favored the Democrats but the districts aren’t unreasonable — followed county/metro lines and some are even competitive.
The easy solution is to pass rules stating that independent commissions must use lower political boundaries (counties, etc) and natural boundaries (rivers, etc) prior to any other considerations – rural/urban, social-economic. I’m sure the right wing will advocate this.
Texas and Trump should’ve started this nonsense. Its bad enough to do once a decade but this makes democracy look like a farce. All of course to not face the voters. If Illinois and California follow Texas’s lead, the Republicans will lose and if New York joins in the fun, its game over.
hrw
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https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1952844594359529940?t=-vOibOAAEdltvjFMgOJ6QA&s=19
“Secret Service In Awe As Trump Walks On Moderately Sloped Roof”
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Well then let’s say it again for those defending Palestine….
“It seems the world has already forgotten that Palestinians kidnapped 8-month-old Kfir and 4-year-old Ariel Bibas — and strangled them to death.
100,000 marched in Australia yesterday.
Not for them.
Not for the babies.
For their killers.”
If parents want to subject their children to the Gardasil vaccine I suppose that is their choice. Never should it be compulsory.
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“…Palestinians kidnapped 8-month-old Kfir and 4-year-old Ariel Bibas — and strangled them to death.”
Not that accuracy seems to matter here, but Hamas, a terrorist organization, kidnapped and killed these people. You are advocating for the destruction of innocents—men, women, children–some of them Christians. How do you justify that?
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