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@avarakai

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Terror from South was happening. Was discussed extensively with few people. Few old news to put things in perspective. 1/n...

@RichardHanania

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Judge Paula Xinis is no longer playing with the administration on the Albrego Garcia case. She's going to conduct a thorough two-week inquiry, which can involve administration officials being forced to testify. “We’re going to move. There will be no tolerance for gamesmanship or grandstanding. The...

@avarakai

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Azerbaijan - Iran. Road to Kazakhstan is being cleared. <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/BabakTaghvaee1/status/1874527426866495719" color="blue">x.com/BabakTaghvaee1…</a>...

@kadmitriev

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<b>@kadmitriev:</b> Historical clip worth rewatching: President Putin on Russia potentially joining NATO, George W. Bush laughing, and why Moscow views NATO as an anti-Russia bloc—not a “defensive alliance.” This one explains a lot. 👇...

@RichardHanania

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Scott Alexander has an unusually smart audience, so I was taken aback by people still going with the stupid “died with covid versus died of covid” line to minimize the number of deaths in his comments. They don’t come out and announce their politics, but I assume these people get too much of their n...

@KanekoaTheGreat

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USAID-Funded Internews CEO Jeanne Bourgault pushes for global advertising “exclusion list” to censor “disinformation” at the World Economic Forum. Like what they did to 𝕏? "Disinformation makes money. We need to follow that money. We need to work with the global advertising industry because a lot ...

@MarioNawfal

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🚨🇺🇸META MELTDOWN: STAFF REVOLT AFTER TAMPONS REMOVED FROM MEN’S BATHROOMS Zuckerberg’s crackdown on woke policies has Meta employees fuming after tampons were pulled from men’s restrooms. In protest, workers are smuggling in their own tampons and circulating a petition to demand their return. The...

@SlavAesthetics

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Long-Range Bomber Aviation in Afghanistan by: Виктор Марковский (Viktor Markovsky), 2011 The Afghan war and the events in the Middle East led to a serious change in the structure of the Soviet Air Force in this area and, first of all, the aviation of the southern districts - TurkVO and SAVO. Previo...