In a war, in any war, there will be propaganda from “both sides” - there’s no way around it.
But if it’s a war of occupation and you choose to believe and propagate the propaganda of the occupier and not the occupied, you might be an asshole.
@TheTNHoller A lesser propaganda network would’ve photoshopped crowds in there.
But not @FoxNews.
They prefer the “who ya gonna believe, me or your own damn eyes” school of psychology
Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:
• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.
@HeartlandSignal@RepCasar The question is not “do you like birthright citizenship?”
The question is “is it constitutional?” and the answer to that is so painstakingly clear.
@HeartlandSignal@RepCasar Thank you. Yes, if the job of the justices is to determine the constitutionality of something (in this case birthright citizenship), how is it that they look at the 14th amendment and conclude it says the opposite of what it says?
Depression is real and I’m glad my “congressman” is getting the help he has voted to take away from the American people.
But, the fact that no one on his team or in his orbit was communicating any of this to his constituents while he was still taking a paycheck, trading stocks and approving travel is unacceptable.
He needs to resign.
Donald’ın daha beş fırın ekmek yemesi lazım. Böyle vestvircinyadan, corcyadan otobüslerle insan getireceksin, ellerine kumanya, ceplerine birer yüzlük. Yoksa kim niye gelsin senin 250. Yıl pikniğine 95 derece sıcakta.
I’m still waiting for journalists to question American players about Trump’s actions and foreign policy. You know, bombing schools and stuff like that.
Seems like political questions are only reserved for Asian, African and Arab players.
🚨BREAKING: In the Chicago suburbs, an ICE agent assaults a teenager for filming his vehicle, and pointing out that it illegally has no license plate.
In the video, a U.S. citizen is peacefully filming an ICE vehicle, that is sitting in a parking lot. He walks to the back of the SUV to document that it has no license plate.
That’s when the ICE agent jumps out, screaming, “Get away from my vehicle!” while aggressively charging toward the teenager.
The teenager immediately backs away, but the ICE agent keeps walking at him, tries to trip the teenager , and continues yelling… even though neither of them are anywhere near the vehicle anymore.
Filming government officials performing their duties, in public, is protected by the First Amendment. That protection doesn’t disappear just because the official doesn’t like being recorded.
An officer also can’t lawfully use physical force simply because someone is filming them. Using force, to stop someone from recording, is a violation of that person’s constitutional rights.
And let’s not ignore the reason the ICE agent got out of his car in the first place...
Illinois law requires vehicles, driven on public roads, to display valid registration plates. This ICE vehicle is not following that law.
So, if your first instinct, when someone records your conduct, is to assault them… you’re proving exactly why the public is recording in the first place.
🚨BREAKING: Another ICE agent has been caught on video illegally pointing a firearm at a U.S. citizen, in Lemonwood, California.
In the video, an unmarked ICE vehicle is stopped in the middle of the road… no vehicles are in front of it, and nothing is preventing them from driving forward.
Instead of continuing to drive down the road, the ICE agent is blocking a pickup truck from turning, while pointing a gun, out their window, directly at the driver of that truck.
The truck backs up, but the agent still keeps the firearm pointed at the driver.
Only AFTER people begin honking their horns does the agent lower their weapon, and drive away.
The law states that pointing a firearm at someone is considered a serious threat of deadly force. It is only justified when an officer has an objectively reasonable belief that they are facing an immediate threat of death, or serious bodily harm.
It is not legally allowed to be used to control traffic, and it is not legally allowed to be used as intimidation.
And that’s exactly why this video should be alarming to you.
The agent is not boxed in… nothing is preventing them from driving down the street.
Meanwhile, the agent is the one preventing the truck from continuing its turn. And they are doing so while pointing a gun at the driver.
So, the question becomes…
What immediate threat justified the ICE agent to stop their car, and point a firearm at a U.S. citizen?
Because we are seeing a growing pattern, of publicly documented incidents, where ICE agents point firearms at legal observers, journalists, and bystanders during enforcement encounters… when they are not facing an immediate threat of death.
That is not how public safety works.
Pointing a firearm at someone is one of the most serious things an officer can do, because it instantly escalates an encounter into a potential deadly force situation.
And that is exactly why the law is supposed to restrict it.
Every unnecessary drawn gun increases the risk of a wrong judgment, and a fatal mistake.
And when there is no accountability, for when that line gets crossed, drawing a gun because the normal for every situation.
And when it becomes normal, more people’s lives are put in danger.
Futbol Milli Takımı ve başarısız sonuç sadede TD inadı değil, Amerika’da yaşayan bir Türk olarak insanların bunu bilmesi lazım. Bir çok milli takım Amerika Futbol Federasyonu tarafından cüzi bir ücret karşılığı önerilen kamp yerlerini kabul etmedi. Lojistik, saha, konaklama ve hava sıcaklığının etkisiyle büyük çoğunluk kendilerince uygun olacak şartlarda yer tuttular. Eskiden TFF bize danışır biz de çalışıp olabilecek en makul lokasyon tercihlerini bildirirdik. Bu ölçüsüz, kifayetsiz, liyakatsız, yalaka başkan ve ekibi hava sıcaklığının 52 dereceyi gördüğü Arizona eyaletinin çölünde kamp kurdu. Olağanüstü sıcaklığın yanısıra antrenman sahası futbolcuları sakat bırakabilecek kadar rezildi. Bu kamp sahasından ilk maç için tam 3400 km uçarak iklimin çok farklı olduğu Vancouver, Kanada’ya gittiler. Sonra bu kadar yolu geri gelip henüz saat ve iklim farkına alışamadan 1350 km daha uçarak San Fransisco’ya geldiler. San Fransisco ile New York arası saat farkı tam 4 saat. Vücut daha uyum sağlamadan tekrar aynı yolu geri dönüp 1500 km daha yol giderek Amerika ile oynadılar. Bu basiretsiz beceriksiz yönetim son yılların en iyi kadrolarından birini hem politikaya alet ederek hem de süründürerek bu duruma gelmesine öncülük etti. Başkan olacak yavşak kendisini eleştirenleri henüz kendi mal varlığını bile açıklayamayan gayrimenkul zengini adalet bakanına şikayet edebilecek kadar da densiz biri. Bu rezilliği sizlerle paylaşmak istedim. Sesimiz çıkmadıkça daha çok ensemize şaplak yer lokmamızı teslim ederiz.
It’s remarkable how certainty often increases as subject-matter expertise decreases.
The comments do a pretty good job of decimating this opinion-sans-knowledge though.
I don't really get the "it's so hard to travel right after you play" argument. NBA teams travel after games all the time, and they don't get six days off between games.