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Retired Elder Geek, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador 🇨🇦 🍁. Reposts may be result of shock or awe but ≠ endorsements.

[Murf 🫐 @MurfAD]

'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'----George Santayana From his work; Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense 1905. William L. Shirer included the quote as an epigraph in his literary work The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in 1959.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Sean Duffy gets mad when a reporter asks him why the administration and Republicans haven’t taken control of the air traffic control issue at some point over the two years they’ve had total control of the government

[Rose Benson @RoseBensonDC]

@SecDuffy @MrTAchilles @FAANews So the career professionals who got us back on line and the pilots who shepherded hundreds of souls to safety, succeeded in SPITE of your leadership and failure to maintain the system with sufficient oversight led to this in the first place.

[Rita 🇺🇸🦅🌻🖤💛 @Ritam513]

@juliettekayyem He is blaming the GOP Congress after giving very little details about what really happened. Then NBC asks a hard question & he uses the “who are you with” BS to buy time to berate her & to avoid answering the fact that the Republican Party controls both houses of Congress.

[Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem]

This press conference is not assuring the public that the system is safe. Duffy has lost his plot line. He seems to be holding the public hostage to his money ask. The White House got plenty for ICE. This isn’t Congress fault.

[Komatsu @DarkWebWarrior]

@LePapillonBlu2 Trumps succeeded in officially ending the GOP Party as a Political Party even with its Cheating and Dirty Tricks... nothing is helping them stay alive.. Atleast they found out what would happen allowing the Tea Party to run our Government!

[Rock Photography @Photomusicrock]

Quebec rock band "Angine de Poitrine" is scheduled to perform at Coachella 2027.

Not so long ago they performed to barely 30 people, now they're on the same bill, same day as Madonna.

This is probably the greatest rise a rock band has ever had recently.

[‏ً @heisdenji]

Trump calls Obama overrated and divisive. Stephen A. Smith turns the question back on him.

Stephen A. Smith: “If you could run for president again, so could Barack Obama. What would Donald Trump do if he had to square off against Barack Obama for the presidency of the United States?”

Donald Trump: “I got many more votes than he got, and I got many more votes in the states. I have all the state records of the big states. If you take a look at Texas, I have the all-time record. Florida, I have the all-time record.”

Stephen A. Smith: “Are you saying you would beat Obama?”

Donald Trump: “Yeah, I think I’d beat him easily, yeah.”

Stephen A. Smith: “Easily?”

Donald Trump: “I think he’s highly overrated, yeah.”

Stephen A. Smith: “Oh my Lord. How is Barack Obama overrated?”

Donald Trump: “I didn’t think he was a good president. I thought he was a divider.”

Stephen A. Smith: “A divider? And what would you classify yourself as being?”

Donald Trump: “As a person that brings people together.”

Stephen A. Smith: “And you bring people together, how is that?”

Donald Trump: “Through success, because our country is so successful and you’re going to see the results, pretty much starting now because of the trillions of dollars. We have 22.2 trillion dollars being invested in the United States…”

Stephen A. Smith: “Billion or trillion?”

Donald Trump: “Trillion, trillion. It’s the biggest number ever in history by many times, not just by a little bit, by many times.”

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

New Orleans local NBC affiliate WDSU has obtained video showing the initial impact between the tanker Atlantic Asphalt and riverboat American Heritage earlier today. The riverboat had 129 people on board who were in the process of disembarking when it was hit.

The video shows the tanker hit the riverboat broadside. Witnesses report that the ship dropped its anchors before impact, in an effort to arrest its travels. No audible warnings are heard from the start of the video through the impact.

[by Gravity @WingsSoon]

New Orleans Port right now

This was filmed potentially by Port employee in NO. I do not have a name. Feel free to let me know so I can credit your work. Thank you. ☺️

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[NAV CANADA @navcanada]

Due to the @FAANews ground stop, NAV CANADA is implementing traffic management measures at Toronto Pearson, Montréal-Trudeau, Calgary and Vancouver to safely manage traffic volumes. Travellers should expect delays and check with their airline. Our systems are operating normally.

[Devin Heroux @Devin_Heroux]

Just landed at Pearson Airport in Toronto from Winnipeg.

Have been following the FAA nationwide ground stop for all flights across the United States

Here’s a look at the departure board at Pearson. Every flight to the US within the next couple of hours has been delayed/canceled

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: A tanker has slammed into a river cruise ship carrying 129 passengers on the Mississippi River in New Orleans, causing the vessel to sink. Rescue operations are underway.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Footage shows the cruise ship capsizing with passengers on board. At least 14 people have been rescued so far, according to CBS News

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

A reporter asked Trump why he says that Iran can’t have nuclear weapons,but North Korea can & he says nobody stopped their President & that Kim Jong Un is a friend of mine & he likes Trump like a lot of other people. He said I’m about the only person he likes and I like him.

[Mike Parsons @mikep_lbi]

Tis' a nice one for Friday the 13th!

[Emily A. @emzorbit]

CNN notes today was the day the FAA was implementing a new AI system to help manage in/out traffic. There is no confirmation that this is the problem just that the timing is suspect. And we’ve seen issues before with new systems having trouble integrating with the old.

[Laura Rozen @lrozen]

The Nvidia board “didn't realize that 20% of chip sales were going to the little island of Singapore. And meanwhile, who was this company? [It] was a $4 million company one year that the next year is buying $5 billion worth of chips. In the drug trafficking world, it'd be called a strawman — a front for the redirection of illicit goods. So it was sanctioned circumvention of trade-restricted goods that this company, run by Chinese, anchored in Singapore, was sending back to the Chinese government, military and companies like Alibaba.”

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

These two clowns proud of their Russian Olympic jackets while Russia bombs civilians every day. What a disgrace.