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[SteveLacksFocus @FocusLacks]

This is so important!!

Remove the Trump Whisperers first!

Leave him isolated and impotent and incapable of causing further damage because those who might follow his orders will be afraid of losing their jobs and their liberty.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Rick Wilson says forget impeaching Trump directly — the Senate math doesn't work. Instead, Dems should go after the STAFFERS first: Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Susie Wiles, Jared Kushner.

WATCH NOW: https://t.co/XAPYuYUVpO

[SteveLacksFocus @FocusLacks]

@mathwithsanni 7+8+13+10 = 38

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Putin acts as if he’s Stalin at the end of WWII when the Soviets played a major role in defeating the Nazis. That gave Stalin leverage.

Putin hasn’t won anything. And he’s fighting democrats, not Nazis.

Losers don’t get to dictate concessions after wars.

His latest gambit about rolling back NATO is so crazy that he’s either become completely delusional, living in his own information bubble, or his American interlocutors have been so accommodating that he thinks he can ask for anything.

[SteveLacksFocus @FocusLacks]

This appears to be old tape, based on the references to Mayorkas & Harris,
BUT this IS how reporting should be done.
Miller plays the shout and repeat card and tries to make emotional points with anecdotal argument b/c he has no solid data.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Good morning and Happy Saturday to everyone who would love to see American reporters take notes from this Venezuelan reporter, José María del Pino, who HUMILIATED Stephen Miller with his calm, steady persistent questions.

Take notes, media.🔥

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

it’s gonna be wild when we hook this up to the air traffic control API

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Howard Lutnick's FIRST political donation since becoming Commerce Secretary was a $5 MILLION donation to House Republicans 1 month before they interviewed him about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Let that sink in.

https://t.co/lYKqUx25FV

[Moral Philosophy @ML_Philosophy]

“The difference between humans and animals is that animals never allow a fool to lead the pack.”

— Winston Churchill

[SteveLacksFocus @FocusLacks]

Nitwit Nutnick shows his value to this administration once again.

Perhaps he got confused about domestic banana production when he was on Epstein Island.

[Leak Wire @LeakWireQ]

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas?

LUTNICK: Generally 10%

DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%

LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff

DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

[SteveLacksFocus @FocusLacks]

@graceauta101_ If one believes this (men are too egotistical & women are too emotional), you will fail as a manager & an employee.
I have worked for both men & women. I have managed both men & women.
The differences between individuals are what one needs to learn & respond to, not their gender.

[New York Energy Alliance @NYEnergyAllies]

Wet snow started falling on the hills of central New York Thursday night. At 8:30 PM, 1,250 NYSEG customers were out. An hour later, 4,300.

It was 30 to 32 degrees. Snow stuck to the trees, and branches came down on the lines. Up to 12.5 inches fell near Hartwick in Otsego County. By 10 AM Friday about 4,800 of NYSEG’s 23,225 customers in Chenango County had no power, one in five.

By early afternoon the snow had mostly stopped. The outages kept climbing, to 13,628 customers statewide at 3:30 PM, 11,396 of them NYSEG’s.

Across the state that evening, gas plants were making 9,980 megawatts, 53% of what New York was using.
Overnight the count fell to about 6,300. Before dawn it rose again, with new outages around Windham in Greene County.

At 9:30 AM Saturday, 8,500 customers were still without power, about 5,300 of them for 12 hours or more. NYSEG’s posted restoration estimates run to 11 PM tonight. About 2,600 customers have no estimate.

The counts cover New York’s seven large utilities. Electric co-ops and municipal utilities are not included.

Sources: utility outage maps, captured by NYEA about every 30 minutes; NOAA GOES-East via NASA; NEXRAD radar via Iowa State; NWS; NYISO; The Evening Sun; WBNG.
#newyork #poweroutage #snow #powergrid #NYSEG #otsegocounty #chenangocounty

[BigTuna331 @JeffSha77838007]

@scarylawyerguy

[SteveLacksFocus @FocusLacks]

#WhereIsDonnie?

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

If you ever asked yourself ‘what would it look like if a POTUS disappeared in an emergency?’ you now have your answer. Trump hasn’t been seen in public in days and is radio silent since his ATC debacle. We need to impeach & remove him. NOW.

[DIN Intel Network @DININTELNETWORK]

🚨 Rep. Stansbury doesn’t mince words:

“The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex-trafficking and influence-peddling scandal in our history — and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.”

That’s a sitting member of Congress saying it out loud.

[SteveLacksFocus @FocusLacks]

@smerconish The Air Traffic control snafu was a botched system upgrade. Talented IT pros work hard to ensure old systems integrate with new.
This administration has forced out all the talent & we are stuck with the leftovers.

[Grok @grok]

Data from CSIS, Cato, and NIJ show far-right extremists responsible for more deadly political violence over the past ~40 years, with substantially higher fatalities than far-left (e.g., 112 vs 13 in the past decade per CSIS; hundreds more overall). Left incidents rose recently and briefly outnumbered right in 2025, but remain less lethal. Polls on justification vary by question and timing—some find higher rates among Republicans for specific objectives, recent YouGov higher among Democrats. Large majorities of both parties reject political violence.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

In 1944, thousands of Japanese on Saipan hid in caves, sure the Americans would torture them if they came out. Many families chose the cliffs instead.

An 18-year-old American Marine from East Los Angeles walked up to those caves at night, alone, and called to them in Japanese.

His name was Guy Gabaldon. He was a Mexican American kid who had grown up partly in the home of a Japanese American family, the Nakanos. That is where he picked up his Japanese. When the war came, the Nakanos were sent to internment camps. Their twin sons, Lane and Lyle, joined the U.S. Army anyway and served in the 442nd.

Fifty years later, he still said it plainly: "These were Americans."

On Saipan, Gabaldon was a scout with the 2nd Marine Regiment. Right after landing, he slipped off on his own and came back with prisoners. His commanding officer, Capt. John Schwabe, threatened him with a court-martial for leaving his post.

The next night, he came back with about fifty.

After that, they let him go out alone.

He crawled to the cave mouths in the dark and promised the people inside water, medical care, and that nobody would hurt them. Night after night, ten or twenty at a time, they followed him out.

On July 8, by his own account, about 800 came out in a single day. Schwabe remembered that day too. It was the day they tagged him the Pied Piper of Saipan.

Not everyone listened. At the cliffs, he begged a mother not to kill her child. He watched her throw the baby and jump. He was still talking about it fifty years later.

His Navy Cross citation says that on Saipan and Tinian he brought in "well over one thousand enemy civilians and troops."

Schwabe recommended him for the Medal of Honor. He received the Silver Star. Sixteen years later, after Hollywood made a movie about him, the Navy upgraded it to the Navy Cross.

He died in 2006 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

I am Japanese. Those caves were full of my people, frightened, starving, and certain that the Americans were monsters.

An American teenager walked toward them in the dark and offered them water.

On this Veterans Day, Japan should know his name.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

😂

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

🇵🇱 Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski:

- American negotiators are mistaken if they think this war is only about territory. Giving up two cities in Donbas would not end the war. It would merely pause it.
- Russia needs Ukraine to become a global superpower.
- Ukrainians are fighting to remain independent, democratic, and European.
- Russian occupation means filtration camps, abducted children, forced Russification, and repression.
- Ukraine can now produce drones and cruise missiles without American components. It cannot simply be forced into surrender.
- Ukraine appears to have struck Russia’s Finance Ministry data center, potentially disrupting tax collection.
- Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities cause enormous civilian casualties but do not destroy Ukraine’s ability to hold the front.
- Hypersonic missiles are extremely difficult to intercept. It is easier to destroy the aircraft launching them or the factories producing them.

“We can help.”

https://t.co/zkWcx5Grt1

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Every Veterans Day at 11:11 a.m., the sun lines up perfectly with the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem, Arizona.

[SteveLacksFocus @FocusLacks]

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