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Anne Marie Lutz retweeted
Watching all these Republican attempts to explain why they lost the election is painful, because they cannot come out and say one simple truth. They handed the party to a corrupt, criminal, dictator-loving, economic and strategic idiot--who proceeded to be all of these things.
Best thing Vance is good at: changing sides, not due to conviction but only naked ambition.
This is an interesting and actually pretty bold move by Vance. Don’t know any VP (since Henry Wallace?) has tried to do something like this. We’re in uncharted waters in so many ways over the next two years…
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Have you noticed that flu season starts after the vaccines are given out?
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Anne Marie Lutz retweeted
Actually insane.
Who is reading all that bullshit?
The latest Truth Social post from the president of the United States.
ALT Screenshot of a very long Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), shrunk into a thin strip in the center of a gray card. The text reads: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Let’s talk about this COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER, Bill Maher. He’s got a Low Rated Show on equally Low Rated HBO, which was once, long ago, a Network of Quality and Excitement — But that’s all gone. It’s not “HOT” anymore! Maher’s friend and business associate, Chuck LaBella, was also a friend of mine, worked on The Top Hit Show, The Apprentice, as a “gofer” and, because of the success of that show, Number One and Top Rated on many weeks, with the Finale’ being among the Top Shows of the Year, he was automatically and quickly brought up through the Ranks of NBC, along with everyone else associated with that Historic “Happening.” The Success of the Apprentice was so great that everyone partook — It built many careers, and that is a wonderful thing. (continues)
Anne Marie Lutz retweeted
I honestly don't understand why this debate is happening less than a month before the midterm election. I support any and all non-corrupt Democrats on any ballot anywhere, essentially regardless of their positions on any specific policy, foreign or domestic, as long as they understand, and are willing to act to combat, the danger of the current regime here. Whatever reasoned arguments can be made to get particular kinds of voters on board with voting for Democrats, I'm happy to see people make.
Anne Marie Lutz retweeted
I have thought this and stated it since election night and will believe it until the day I die.
Anne Marie Lutz retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Anne Marie Lutz retweeted
This is awful.
Math is a language for understanding the world. As citizens, we should understand why 8% inflation is bad while 2% isn’t a big deal.
These guys want us to be perpetual children, guided in everything by our AI nannies.
You don’t “push” reading. You *read*. You read a lot. It’s fun! Parents read to children, and (importantly) children see their parents reading. Of course children can read, and love to read, at an early age.
"I even think that it’s really wrong for parents to ever try to push reading before 5," says Maryanne Wolf, director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners and Social Justice at UCLA.
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Anne Marie Lutz retweeted
I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app.
At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda.
At worst, it’s spyware.
Anne Marie Lutz retweeted
Some of you may think the job of the SECDEF is to advise POTUS, confer with senior leaders on strategy, acquisitions, R/D, and other boring stuff. It's not.
It's to do PT with kids and bark Old Testament passages at them while losing a war to a third-rank power in the Gulf.
.@SECWAR "This is our first stop on what we are calling the SEND ME TOUR.
If you know your Book of Isaiah, Chapter 6, Verse 8, the Lord said, 'Whom shall I send?' Isaiah says, 'Lord, I AM HERE. SEND ME...'
For 250 years of this country, there have been men and women who RAISED THEIR RIGHT HAND and said, 'SEND ME.'
SEND ME TO GO FIGHT THE REDCOATS.
SEND ME TO GO FIGHT THE COMMUNISTS.
SEND ME TO GO FIGHT THE ISLAMISTS.
AND YOU ARE SAYING, SEND ME TO GO FIGHT WHATEVER THREATS THREATEN OUR NATION.'"
Everything Trump touches dies
BREAKING: The Kennedy Center board votes to close over financial woes and branding dispute with President Trump, AP sources say. apnews.com/live/supreme-cour…
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Anne Marie Lutz retweeted
Donald Trump stood on the fairway of his own golf course in Ireland on Sunday and informed the world that the diesel crisis "isn't done by the Middle East." It is, he says, Zelenskyy's fault for hitting Russian refineries. This will come as news to the tankers idling outside the Strait of Hormuz, which was open for business before February, was briefly reopened in June, and has been effectively shut again since July, with traffic down to a trickle under naval escort.
That is the shortage. A fifth of the world's seaborne oil, a tenth of its diesel and a fifth of its jet fuel used to pass through that strait. American diesel hit a record above six dollars a gallon on Friday, and it did so because a war Trump started ended with Tehran holding the key to the Gulf, not because a Ukrainian drone found a tank farm in Krasnodar.
The whole world watched the United States go into Iran and come out with a ceasefire, a broken memorandum and a closed strait, the most humiliating result in the history of American power. Rather than admit it, the president asks the country being bombed every night to stop fighting back, so that Russia can sell more diesel and he can survive November.
Anne Marie Lutz retweeted
He's one of the most brazen liars we've ever seen.
Trump on 9/11: "I just thank my people. I was building a big building in New York and I took the whole crew down there right after this happened and they had no hesitation. Everybody went down with me. We went down as a big group of people ... we thought it was coming down on top of us ... two fireman lifted me up and started running with me"
Anne Marie Lutz retweeted
It’s bleak how many people have given up on the intellect entirely. They don’t learn, don’t read, don’t watch anything that might challenge them. If you’re not fascinated by something, you’re going to be miserable. “He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”
Anne Marie Lutz retweeted
Tomorrow, Ukraine celebrates 35 years of independence.
Tonight, London shines in blue and yellow.
We stand with Ukraine.
#SlavaUkraini 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇦
Anne Marie Lutz retweeted
In my judgement, the US Armed Forces have probably permanently lost access to 15 Persian Gulf bases. Iran now poised to control access the Gulf States. US will have to negotiate new access in western Saudi Arabia, Israel, southern Europe.
USS Abraham Lincoln’s resupply problems weren’t a mystery. Iran hit NSA Bahrain—the 5th Fleet’s main logistics hub—hard in February. The Navy had to shift to Diego Garcia, 2,200 miles away instead of ~800. Transit times roughly tripled, so replenishment dropped from every ~3 days to ~10. That’s the logistics reality behind the shortages and 200+ days at sea without a port call. The Pentagon fired the editor of Stars and Stripes for telling the truth.