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@bepryor Oh no!

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@AustinSchulz13 @pomsrule5 @Anonymo33587561 You forgot the money grab at the merch table on the way out.

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@pomsrule5 @ReelPressence There are four. For all of the complaining people do about Catholics not reading the Bible, I am a little surprised.

[Chef Joe Gera 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇹 @redhotnerd]

This is targeted at certain Pittsburgh media who clearly have never been to Paris and doesn’t understand the size of the city: The Stadium is nowhere near where the protests have been happening. Neither is the team hotel or where most fans will be staying. It’s the equivalent of something happening in Swissvale while you’re on the north shore. Would you be worried about something on the other side of the tunnel while you’re dahntahn? Stop it. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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@StartupBros @eLBigGronkowski @ledwards It was much more than a startup that got away from her. She was a con artist, and it she displays signs of being a sociopath.

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@dvesean Happy birthday, Sean!

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@ottosipe @mrAceBones @Delta And why were you in her space? I do not understand your problem?!? And why did you post her photo?

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@MrLowryScottOP @Kenneth77527697 @peterswindal Is there any other kind of Catholic other than a baptized one? Didn't think so. But there are Catholics that don't understand Jesus' teaching to love one another, simplifying for you here: hate the sin, love the sinner.

[Jessica E. Miranda @JessicaEMiranda]

So it’s OK for State Senator Jerry Cirino to be a VICTIM in the so-called “Victors, not Victims” party? 🤔

Meanwhile, DJ Byrnes gets convicted over texts mocking a powerful politician, and the judge REFUSED to include explanations of First Amendment rights in the jury instructions.

Y’all demand thicker skin from everyone else, then call the police when someone gets under yours.

Why was this politically charged case assigned to a RETIRED visiting judge instead of a sitting judge? Could concerns about future political fallout have played a role? The public deserves transparency about that assignment. I wonder how many taxpayer dollars were expended on this entire process. 🤔

Ohio is absolutely WILD and LAWLESS under a Republican supermajority.

[The Space Coast Rocket @CoastRocket]

WE COUNT THE ENEMIES WE KILL. WE RARELY COUNT THE ONES WE CREATE.

Nidal Hasan was a patient on my floor in the surgical trauma ICU at Brooke Army Medical Center.

I wasn't there when he arrived. I had just left for my deployment to Mosul, Iraq. But the nurses and doctors who cared for him were my peers and my friends, and I know exactly what that required of them, because every one of us had done some version of it before. Before anyone tells me what strength looks like, understand what that work demands.

I have cared for a drunk driver who wiped out an entire family and landed in our ICU himself. I have cared for gang members who shot up a block while children were stepping off a school bus, then ended up on our unit with bullets of their own. I have kept alive people who murdered their own families and failed at taking their own lives. And in Iraq, I saved the lives of the very enemy fighters who had just tried to kill us and miraculously survived our response.

Every one of those patients got our best. Not because we felt anything for them, but because of who we were. You set aside anger, grief, prejudice and every personal feeling you have, because a life in front of you is a life in front of you. That's the oath. That's the duty.

So when Hasan came through those doors, my colleagues did what we had always done. They preserved the life of a man who murdered thirteen people and would have killed them too, given the chance. He killed those men and women in one of the very same buildings many Soldier's like myself have been in when I was stationed at Fort Hood.
He is alive today because they did their jobs. That was not sentiment. It was a hard, tangible expression of the values this country claims to stand for. Our principles had to mean something even when the person benefiting from them had violated everything we believed in.

Now the Pentagon plans to livestream his execution by firing squad on Dec. 3, and our leaders apparently believe turning his death into a public spectacle will demonstrate American strength. I think it demonstrates how little they understand the enemy they claim to be fighting. We kept Nidal Hasan alive, now our leaders want to make him a martyr.

Hasan walked into Fort Hood expecting to die. He believed his death would be rewarded. At his trial, he called no witnesses and offered no defense, and his own court-appointed lawyers worried he was seeking execution. He failed at martyrdom once. Now we're about to hand it to him, in high definition, for every extremist with an internet connection to replay, manipulate and celebrate.
We supply the footage. They supply the meaning.
Long after the politicians finish congratulating themselves, that video will still exist. Their moment of bravado becomes somebody else's recruiting material for decades. And this failure to think past the immediate display of power reaches far beyond one execution. We count the enemies we kill. We rarely count the enemies we create.

Look at the school in Minab, Iran, where multiple investigations attributed the strike that killed more than 100 children and their teachers to us. You cannot bury people's children beneath the rubble of their classrooms and expect a speech about American intentions to decide how they remember you. No denial brings those children home. No claim of good intentions makes their parents forget whose weapons killed them.
If those were our children, we would remember for the rest of our lives. We would demand accountability. Many of us would want vengeance. We would tell their stories to the next generation. We know this because we did exactly that after September 11.

Why do we imagine other people love their children less, grieve less deeply, or remember less clearly?

We have developed a horrifying talent for creating more terrorists than we will ever stop. We inflict suffering, evade responsibility, and then act as though the anger that follows came out of nowhere.

Think back to the first time you saw one of those al Qaeda videos of an American being beheaded. Remember the sickness in your stomach. Remember the rage. Remember thinking that only savages would film a killing and send it out for the world to watch. Now ask yourself what the rest of the world will see when the camera is ours.
Terrorist organizations stage executions for the cameras. Authoritarian regimes make death a public spectacle to feed fear and rage. Watching our own leaders reach for those same tools should force us to confront how much of ourselves we are surrendering in the name of defeating them.

The line separating us from the people we condemn has to live in our conduct. A flag cannot hold it for us. Neither can a uniform, a title, or a declaration that we are the good guys.
On that ICU floor, on a bloody street in Mosul, and in trauma bays across this country, people like my colleagues hold that line every day under circumstances most will never face. They keep monsters alive because their duty and their humanity are bigger than their hatred of what those monsters have done.

Execute him if that's the sentence. But do it the way a confident nation does; quietly, lawfully, and without giving him the stage he always wanted. Let him be forgotten.

I expect our leaders to show at least as much discipline as the nurses who had to care for him.
They keep telling us they are defending what makes America different. Every day, they make that difference harder to see.

Robert W. Burns III is the editor and publisher of The Space Coast Rocket, an Army veteran and a retired trauma nurse. The views expressed in this column are his own.

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@Juicewag @Conley76 Looking forward to vindication and court costs!

[Vic 📠 @VicVijayakumar]

whenever someone starts off a call by saying “this is confidential” I like to ask who else knows so I can gossip with them and legal teams absolutely HATE this

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@horseshowgrad @anish_koka @DrOzCMS You are mad at the wrong entity.

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@smittynumber454 Get it. Worth it. Memories of a dear colleague crying at her desk suffering from an attack meant I got it immediately upon eligibility.

[Josh Yohe @JoshYohe_PGH]

• Your “family members” faking injuries while acting like petulant children
• Captain Cam, who has never won anything, setting standard for prioritizing financial greed over winning
• TJ throwing a bigger fit about not winning individual awards than never winning a playoff game
• TikTok dances while getting asses kicked at home during 4th quarter of playoff game in same week said player publicly mocked the opposition
• A spineless owner
• A directionless GM
• Devin Bush a fan of dead cats
• James Harrison falling asleep in meetings
• Chase Claypool being all about Chase Claypool
• DK Metcalf assaulting other team’s fans and making fun of his own while being one of the biggest busts in team history
• Patrick Queen and his business decisions last week
• An army of players acting like jerks and forcing their way out mid-season
• Incompetent assistant coaching hires based on cheapness or nepotism

That’s just off the top of my head. I’d say a lot has changed in the last few years, none of it good. As far as I can tell, the dignity possessed by people like Jerome Bettis and Troy Polamalu appears to very much be in the rear view mirror. On and off the field, the Steelers have problems. And they are many.

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@danidotjpeg DC!

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@AtlantaPress @johnkrichards @JeffreyBrandes @thomas_augustus @grok I'm waiting on you and John to explain how it would work if it passes.

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@datingbyblaine @GregoryScaduto What would have been cuter? Matching jackets to connect them when separated by thousands of miles.

[Pablo Torre Finds Out @pablofindsout]

The tale of "Operation Desperado" — in which independent journalist D.J. "The Rooster" Byrnes led Ohio State football "fan" Vivek Ramaswamy to the parking lot of a Raising Cane's, as the gubernatorial candidate hoped to meet head coach Ryan Day and the Buckeyes…

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@speedbird_fan @laurogeitabat OMG somebody had to say it because of not, it was going to be meeee