@mapocoloco

Ogdensburg-Syracuse-San Antonio-Tucson-Bainbridge-Roswell-Canton-Albuquerque-Schenectady husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, MechEngr, Runner.

Peabody, MA
Joined August 2010
Tom Looby ☘️ retweeted
Ousting @CNN from Air Force 1 was Trump’s foreseeable next step, because a 2-1 panel of the DC Circuit let him to do that to the AP in June, after it refused to use “Gulf of America” in its stylebook. But that was an “unpublished” emergency stay order—not binding precedent. … 1/4 nytimes.com/2026/09/25/busin…
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Tom Looby ☘️ retweeted
Curious to see a SCOTUS mentionee (RIP Safire) join the mostly liberal judicial critics saying high court needs to better explain emergency-docket orders
A US appeals court judge who sat on the panel in a high-profile Missouri redistricting case said the Supreme Court is sometimes placing lower courts in uncertain positions by issuing emergency orders with too little explanation. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law…
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Tom Looby ☘️ retweeted
“I've interviewed President Trump about his relationship with Xi Jinping. President Trump thinks they are friends. He thinks they really like each other. And he thinks that this friendship can get all sorts of things for him and for the United States. He thinks that President Xi is not going to attack Taiwan, because he wouldn't do that to his friend Donald Trump. That's how trump really thinks about it.” “Trump is also not a China hawk. In his first term, he had a lot of China hawks around, Pompeo and Pence and these kinds of guys. Not not so much anymore. And what Trump believes is that the U.S. and China should have sort of an agreement to sort of divvy up the world - spheres of influence - and then just sort of get along as much as possible. That's also what XI jinping believes.” “Now, the problem, of course, is that the on the Chinese side, they're doing a lot of things that threaten our national security, our public health, our prosperity. Then why the praise? Well, because Trump is not a China hawk. He doesn't really care about that kind of stuff. He thinks it's about business. It's about investment. It's about keeping the relationship in check so that he can pursue his other adventures, like in Iran, et cetera.” “And you could say that plays into XI Jinping’s hands. Because if you think about the things that are really threatening us. China's expanding militarily. They're interfering in democracies. They're stealing our intellectual property. They're providing intelligence to the Iranians to kill Americans in the Middle East. It's really hard to address those things when the main goal of your policy is just to keep everything copacetic.”
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Tom Looby ☘️ retweeted
Good night, stay safe! 🇺🇦🙏
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Tom Looby ☘️ retweeted
🔥 AFU is striking the area of ​​the former Luhansk border detachment in occupied Luhansk. More than five explosions have been recorded in the area.
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Tom Looby ☘️ retweeted
"Nonsense and absurd," huh? I've heard this before.
Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov: We have no intention of fighting Europe — this is nonsense and absurd. It is Europe that is preparing for war with us. Every day they confirm that, by 2030 at the latest, we Europeans must be ready for war. This, you know, could become a self-fulfilling prophecy, because they are now investing huge amounts of money in weapons production. Putin said: if they attack us, we won't hold back. And he added — it will be a completely different war, and it will be short.
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Tom Looby ☘️ retweeted
Russia's war in Ukraine definitely must stop! It would also be fair to state that America's war in Iran is spreading to the global economy and must stop.
UN Ambassador Mike Waltz: "More broadly, what we're seeing in the war in Ukraine is that is it spreading to the global economy, and it's all the more reason that the president wants the war to stop"
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Tom Looby ☘️ retweeted
I'd bet they flip a coin between blaming Biden and blaming Ukraine, and then just go with whatever lands.
UN Ambassador Mike Waltz claims "the primary thing" affecting diesel prices is "the war between Russia and Ukraine" (diesel prices only spiked after Trump attacked Iran ... )
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