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Ladies and gentlemen. Presenting the🍑🤡 of the United State of Delusion.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

.@Timodc on Trump storming out of his interview with Kristen Welker:

"It's unbelievable, honestly, that the American people could put this fucking ass clown in the White House."

[Language @Spookybacon]

@BulwarkOnline @Timodc When the interview stopped, I said aloud, "He's such a piece of shit."

Thanks for backup, Tim.🙃

There really are no other words.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

The Library of Alexandria created the first catalog of all human knowledge 2,300 years ago, and a team of fewer than 20 people just finished the modern version and made it free for the entire planet.

It is called OpenAlex. The name is not an accident.

The ancient library had the Pinakes, a catalog mapping every scroll, every author, every subject. When the library fell, the map of what humanity knew fell with it.

For the last two decades, that map existed again, but it was locked up.

Elsevier owns Scopus. Clarivate owns Web of Science. If your university could not afford the subscription, you could not see the structure of science itself. Entire countries were priced out of knowing what research existed.

OpenAlex indexes 474 million scholarly works. Every author disambiguated. Every citation traced. Every institution and funder connected. It updates with roughly 50,000 new works every day.

The whole thing is CC0. Not just free to search. Free to download, copy, sell, and build on. The API allows 100,000 requests a day without an account.

The ancient library burned and the catalog was lost for two millennia.

The new one cannot burn. Anyone can hold a copy.

https://t.co/peUYYpucnc

[Snowden Bishop🌻💚🤍❤️✌️����🇦🆘🔄🌍 @SnowdenBishop]

I agree. Sadly, WHPC has become spineless. Their failure to defend abused reporters demonstrates pure cowardice. Worse, their refusal to cross dear leader is dereliction of duty. Surrendering their power to hold him accountable undermines the sanctity of the Free Press, without which democracy dies.

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@denvercunning The 505 pages of Chairman's Mark draft. https://t.co/j575eCJZG8

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Asymmetric warfare's a f-'ng bitch.

The British learned that lesson 250 years ago.

America's 250th birthday gift to itself are those lessons learned by the last Western hegemony.

Before fall of empire.
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Yesterday, June 3rd, Kuwait International Airport.

In retaliation for recent US attacks on Iranian military sites, Iran made their neighbors lives a bit more insecure and miserable.

This attack was a message from Iran to the Gulf Nation States,

"America cannot save you."

😑

[Language @Spookybacon]

A coalition of reporters with balls to walk out on the president in the middle of a presser, when he begins treating those same tax paying working American citizens like crap during his authoritarian propaganda rants, would cause such a domestic dust-up and garner so international attention, those journalists could likely launch their own very successful Substack.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A message to all sane Republicans:

He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.

He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.

He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.

He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.

He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.

He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.

He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.

He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.

He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.

His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.

He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.

He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.

It’s time to start talking.

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@MsMalarkey24 These ladies won't be bussing there this time.

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@lizzieshore @MsMalarkey24 @dmp267 I know one guy who won't be sending any busses full of patriots anywhere anytime ever again!

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@MsMalarkey24 Monday Dec. 21st, 2020, two days after Trump's "Be there, will be wild!" post, this promo appeared during an InfoWars commerical break.

Wild.

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@jacob_wiencek The last speaker was making an unfair inference regarding your observations about the nazis. It was clear you did not support nor defend the nazis. Your comparing Trump's buffoonery and ineptitude to the efficiency of the nazis as at least a safety valve from Trump implementing a nazi style regime was clear.

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From what I understand, the "Decentralized Mosaic Defense", the IRGC's command policy that calls for training even lower ranks to take command of their one of thirty-one regional autonomous military hierarchies at times like these is pretty dam robust. It sounds like an expanded role of our US NCO Corps but on steroids.

So we could take out "leaders" time and time again and there will always be a replacement. Less experienced of course but a leadership role filled and a military hierarchy maintained.

https://t.co/H7eGQAlWWM

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@kellsmill @HestonChurchill @allenanalysis 34

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On our nation's 250th birthday, maybe the Trump administration is a blessing in disguise.

As Trump's endless river of quasi-criminal and criminal actions flow through the sieve of our Courts, judges are discovering weaknesses throughout our framework of justice that are exploitable by selfserving bad actors.

Should we escape the Trump regieme, we need a couple of administrations strong enough to not merely patch the walls but tear out and replace outdated and exploitable sections of this county's base legal framework.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: A federal judge is now signaling the Trump administration’s so-called “weaponization fund” may have emerged from collusive litigation and could potentially amount to fraud on the court.

That is nuclear-level language from a judge.

“Fraud on the court” is not normal criticism.
It is reserved for situations where a court believes it may have been manipulated, misled, or used as part of a coordinated scheme.

And the judge reportedly pointed to two giant red flags:
- the massive $1.8 billion settlement amount
- and concerns the opposing sides may not have actually been acting as true adversaries

Translation?

The court is openly questioning whether this lawsuit was partially engineered to create a taxpayer-funded political compensation machine.

That is an absolutely extraordinary development.

[Language @Spookybacon]

Dr. Steven Hassan is interviewing Dave Troy.

Get in here and learn!
https://t.co/dZDh2XPVrB

[Language @Spookybacon]

Because we bombed them to the point of having zero fcks left to give.

We pulled out of the JCPOA, crushed their econemy, TWICE under a Trump flag of truce, 2025 and this year, we broke those truce agreements to join Israel in unprovoked surprise attacks across Iran, causing massive damage across the country and leaving a death toll in the thousands.

They have the geography to make us suffer. Why wouldn't they?

Afterall, someone's gonna have to pay to rebuild Iran.
we broke it - we lost it - we bought it.

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@HormuzLetter 😑https://t.co/dsSmUNlNlu

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@iCanSpeaker @hicasamadim Grok wasn't necessary. I only include its response as a neutral arbiter on the answer to a puzzle.
https://t.co/a2t8OvJpye

[Language @Spookybacon]

In 2020, I combed through the White House database of Trump speeches from events not prominent enough to be covered by the media.

Back then, Trump's speeches were meandering, meaningless, jumbles of incomprehensible wilted word salad.

What @jimstewartson posted today is far worse than Trump 2020.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

1/3
You may see clips of Trump’s self-evident dementia, but the full effect requires stamina. Here is NINE MINUTES of Trump talking about his fountains in a Cabinet meeting.

Try to read it. I dare you.

“D.C. and D.C. is looking beautiful. The fountains are almost all open. We had 28 of them, and we have one in particular, a very long lake, we call it. They're reflecting lake between the Lincoln Monument. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. You take a look at between Lincoln and Washington. You have the longest, like 2,400 feet long. That's longer than the tallest building in the world, if you set it on your side. And it's almost 200 feet wide. And for-- actually, it was built in 1922. And from 1920 to '21, it really never worked. It always leaked. And it was a problem about things. And hundreds of millions was spent. The Biden administration and the Obama administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get it to work, and they failed. And we'll be spending-- you'll give me a number. But I think it's very low numbers, like in the number that we originally talked about. Where we cleaned it, we fumigated it, that we had 10 major truck dumpsters of garbage taken out. Can you believe it? Friend of mine came in. Very substantial person from Germany. Want to see the Washington Monument. I wanted to see the Lincoln Memorial. He said, I look, but that horrible reflecting pond is disgusting. It's filthy dirty and disgusting. I said, really, I drove down. I said, secret shares was taken dry. And we went down. I said, that's terrible. And for the most part, it didn't work. I mean, they wouldn't even have water in there. But when they did, it was just dirty, filthy water that leaked out. And we got to work on it. And they were supposed to cost almost 400, think of it, 400 million dollars, because it's like putting the skin on a skyscraper. But bigger, much bigger, many skyscrapers, you could almost say, other than for the world. So I think of it, the world's tallest skyscraper is shorter than 2,400 feet. So we went to work. And over the years, I built hundreds of pools. I built them every time I built them. I always like to build the Olympic size swimming pools. And I was very aware of swimming pool, what goes into making a swimming pool. It's not as simple as people think. You never wanted to leak. You want a beautiful surface. I said, you know, I have an idea, Doug. We sat down. I said, let's take that long thing where we're going to fix it with concrete, which leaks, concrete, all sorts of other materials that all leak and don't look good. They're gray. And swimming pool, I have a swimming pool right up the road. I built it 22 years ago. It's perfect. I said, does it ever leak, though? It's good contractors. I actually called it a couple of the contractors, got some ideas from them. And I gave it to Doug and Doug's done an unbelievable job. And so they were going to spend maybe 400 million dollars. I don't know. You never know with cost overruns and everything. But it was going to take years to build three years, four years. And we'll have it done before July 4th substantially, before July 4th. If we didn't have such a bad weather the last four or five days, it could have been almost done. We have to-- you can't do this substance in the rain. And what they did is they cleaned it. They took out, as I said, more than 10 dumpsters of garbage. Shovels, it was disgusting. Well, every corner, every corner, had massive amounts of-- I guess that's the way the tide goes. But at massive amounts of garbage, we then steamed clean it. We then sandblasted it. And then we pebble blasted. That's a bigger version of sand. We made the surface as good as it can be. Now we're now covering it with the most beautiful blue. Very thick, you think of it as a very sophisticated form of rubber. No leaks, no problems. And it's beautiful. It's called American Flag Blue that was the color we chose.”