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    Republican Dereliction, Obstruction - Failure To Fulfill Basic Functions Of Their Office

    When Supreme Court attrition created a vacancy during the Obama [D] administration the president chose Merrick Garland. BUT ! Though the Constitution designates the senate's advise & consent role in such presidential appointments, Majority Leader McConnell [R-KY] simply refused to fulfill his...
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    News Media: The Fourth Estate, The Printing Press, The Display Screen ... > "Info. War" ? Centralized Control Of The Messages

    Oct. 15, 2025, 4:00 AM GMT-5 By Dan De Luce, Gordon Lubold and Courtney Kube WASHINGTON — Members of Congress are growing concerned over a lack of information from the Trump administration about the intelligence and strategy underlying its strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats in the...
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    News Media: The Fourth Estate, The Printing Press, The Display Screen ... > "Info. War" ? Centralized Control Of The Messages

    BBC US news outlets push back against Pentagon's reporting restrictions Brajesh Upadhyay Leading US news outlets have rejected a new Pentagon policy that bars journalists from the building unless they only report information that has been officially authorised by the Department of Defense...
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    The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

    National Security Members of Congress growing concerned over lack of information from administration about Venezuela strikes, sources say Republicans and Democrats say the administration is failing to share basic information with Congress about the intelligence, rationale and goals of its war on...
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    Crypto-Currency: more than just "Bit-Coin"

    Cryptocurrency Published October 14, 2025 6:38pm EDT Billions in bitcoin seized by DOJ from massive 'pig butchering' crypto scam in Cambodia Prince Holding Group's Chen Zhi and his associates allegedly generated up to $30M per day at one point through scamming By Emma...
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    What to call this thread?

    SCOTUS case over trans athletes advances after judge makes major ruling https://www.foxnews.com/sports/federal-judge-rules-favor-allowing-scotus-case-over-trans-athletes-proceed-after-attempt-dismiss#&_intcmp=fnhpbt1,hp1bt
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    Just a little humor

    "Tanked", interesting choice of word for poor sales of an automobile that has no liquid fuel tank. - but - The market went up. Tesla went down. Is that all? Just a little humor ☑️
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    The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

    Sickening! Some of the previous video I've seen of similar-sized vessels traveling about 30 knots in open ocean may have been more likely to be narco-traffic. BUT ! Even so, blasting them out of the water is still piracy, an act of War. The 3 images in the #1,602 meme do not suggest a vessel...
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    The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

    Antifa is inorganic? Carbon free? Thus the Republican effort to revitalize the otherwise outmoded coal industry? To provide the Carbon Antifa has left us without? You make a strong point weakly Luigi. We can do better. "Antifa" is a made up name for a largely unaffiliated group of those...
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    Below The Fold ...

    Need ammo in a hurry? No problem. A Los Angeles-based aerospace startup called Inversion Space has unveiled Arc, its first flagship spacecraft designed to deliver supplies from orbit back to Earth in record time. The reusable reentry vehicle can transport up to 500 pounds of mission-critical...
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    Quotable Quotes

    "If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us." Francis Bacon 1561 - 1626 You think Frank Bacon's a funny name? Try this one:
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    The lowdown on the ~$1 $Billion Alex Jones Sandy Hook defamation jury award - where does free speech end, & criminal liability begin?

    This ruling may seem judicially appropriate. But it may be considered a betrayal by Trump / MAGAs.
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    The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

    - fine - B U T !! The MAGA's, the pseudo-cons are waging an assault on the fundamental conservative values Democrats are feebly failing to defend. Trump is on offense. Journalists are on defense. One needn't be a 6 star general to understand, a football game is rarely won by the defense...
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    News Media: The Fourth Estate, The Printing Press, The Display Screen ... > "Info. War" ? Centralized Control Of The Messages

    Members of the fourth estate are held to a higher standard than the public officials they interview. Stephanopoulos not only has that burden of journalistic objectivity, but in addition the partisan stigma of having helped Governor Clinton [D] be elected president. I don't know what VP Vance...
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    News Media: The Fourth Estate, The Printing Press, The Display Screen ... > "Info. War" ? Centralized Control Of The Messages

    “I think the American people would benefit much more from [talking about the shutdown] than from you going down some weird left-wing rabbit hole where the facts clearly show that Tom Homan didn’t engage in any criminal wrongdoing,” Vance told Stephanopoulos on This Week. The host shot back that...
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    U.S. Federal Government "Shut Down": 2nd Trump Administration - Shut Down #1 ?

    top stories With no end in sight, House Speaker Johnson [R] makes dire prediction on shutdown Republican Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday that he "won't negotiate" with Democrats until they hit pause on their health care demands and reopen. Read More » The U.S. federal legislature has partially...
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    PHILOSOPHY - The Power Of Ideas: Ideas Have Changed The World. What Useful Ideas Have Changed You ?

    And it spirals out from there, the axiom familiar to many: "'tis better to give than to receive." I've puzzled over why a woman with the responsibilities and burdens of motherhood might find herself happier than her unwed twin sister, never to bear a child. Could it be the nature of the binary...
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    The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

    HAPPENING NOW: President Trump signs historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas https://www.foxnews.com/ https://www.foxnews.com/video/5614615980001 President Trump has proven to be a polarizing figure, and often draws caustic criticism in these fora. Though it's premature to declare this...
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