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STUPID! If you want to know why cars cost more, look at tariffs, commodity spikes, electronics, and supply chain changes — not long-established fuel economy rules. Weakening CAFE standards could backfire and lead to HIGHER gas prices if vehicles become less efficient.
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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❗️RETWEET if you stand with President 🇺🇦Zelensky!
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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The great Bryan Ferry turns 80 today. Of “Slave to Love”, he said:

“I’d done more esoteric things in the past, but I wanted something simple and memorable, a song for everyone. A hit! … When we heard the completed song, there was just elation. When I listen to it now, I wouldn’t change a thing.”
September 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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While the rest of the world, especially China, continues to invest in the modernization of their electrical grids with clean, renewable energy technologies, our dipshit dumbass and his moronic cult are taking us back a century to near complete dependence on coal and fossil fuels.
July 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy
Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy
adamkinzinger.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.
May 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident
April 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Vladimir Putin is a war criminal and the Trump administration is making it easier for him to get away with it.
Russia ballistic missile strike kills dozens in Ukraine's Sumy, officials say
A Russian ballistic missile strike on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed at least 32 people on Sunday morning, authorities said.
abcnews.go.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Starmer to Zelenskyy: You are very very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom.
March 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.
March 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Decent people thank Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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My Anger Over Trump's Attack Today Is Boundless
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
My Anger Over Trump's Attack Today Is Boundless
Warning: NSFW
open.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Darkest days in US history as the US Defense Secretary tows the Kremlin propaganda line, refusing to blame Russia for invading Ukraine.
February 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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They fired a top Black general and are replacing him with a much less-qualified white general.

They’re not hiding the racism.
February 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Institute for the Study of War
Russian forces currently occupy around 20 percent of Ukraine, leaving the remaining 80 percent of the country under Ukraine's sovereign control. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian f...
understandingwar.org
February 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM