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@KobeissiLetter

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The last 12 hours have been absolutely insane: 1. 10:30 PM ET: Chinese officials arrive in Venezuela to meet with President Maduro 2. 1:15 AM ET: Unexpected airstrikes in Venezuela begin 3. 2:40 AM ET: President Trump confirms he has ordered strikes 4. 4:20 AM ET: President Trump says the US has...

@sfliberty

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Frédéric Bastiat had 6 years to change economics forever. Most economists spend decades writing papers five people read. Bastiat was an unknown farmer with tuberculosis. By the time he died, he'd built a movement that's still winning arguments 175 years later. You have four years of college. 🧵...

@BenFreemanDC

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"At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before." Here's the story: 🧵 ...

@NewsFromGoogle

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Today, we filed a lawsuit to permanently dismantle a group of organized cybercriminals accused of using AI tools — including Gemini — to scam Americans via fake text campaigns. Here’s what to know: ◾Our suit targets core software developers in a cybercrime operation known as the “Outside Enterprise...

@Haqiqatjou

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THREAD: Why do Saudis wear the red-and-white Ghutrah, whereas Muslim historically have always worn an ‘Imamah/turban, everywhere from Morocco to Indonesia? The Ghutrah was popularized by the British, very likely with the purpose of giving Arabs a distinct look from the Ottomans. ...

@DataRepublican

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🧵 THREAD: Meet the Organizers Behind No Kings protest: Indivisible’s Leah Greenberg & Ezra Levin 🇺🇸 Taking a break from book writing for this... This week, the movement that started with a Google Doc... Indivisible... is back in the streets. ✊ Founded by former congressional staffers Leah Greenbe...

@stevemagness

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Friends called him “a sad, gloomy man.” His cousin said he was “a very lazy man.” He described himself as “the most miserable man living.” The President of Harvard called him "a person of very inferior cast of character, wholly unequal to the crisis." Doctors said he came “within an inch of be...

@PastorSteve

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Is President @realDonaldTrump or @DOGE aware of how biased YouTube remains? YouTube is RAMPING up censorship by adding a NEW violation for content relating to the war in Ukraine. “Due to the war in Ukraine, we will pause monetization of content that exploits, dismisses, or condones the war.” YT w...