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  • The Ukraine war thread

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    RenaudaR
    @taiwan_girl The spring on that clock was wound then immediately seized up last May when Trump’s Special Dummkopf arrived at the Kremlin without a US vetted interpreter to meet with Putin.
  • Most turbulent Flight Routes

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  • 14.6 inches

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    Maybe you guys should get this https://www.freep.com/story/tech/2026/01/27/homeowner-clears-snowy-driveway-with-robot-viral-video/88381454007/ https://x.com/tommolog/status/2015422666849529957?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^2015422666849529957|twgr^11ac9e35d8f48b48765e4d0f8282f3d480d2735a|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Ftech%2F2026%2F01%2F27%2Fhomeowner-clears-snowy-driveway-with-robot-viral-video%2F88381454007%2F
  • History of Ice Skates

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  • The Never-ending Grift

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    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/28/melania-trump-documentary-amazon-release Re: Melania documentary But no one paid $40m to acquire Am I Racist? – or an additional $35m to market it. That’s how much Amazon has poured into Melania – remarkably, the most the deep-pocketed company has ever paid to secure distribution of a single film. This is seemingly the result of a post-election bidding war when corporate panic over matching a seeming rightward turn in the populace was at its peak. Technically, paying the president-elect’s wife this much money – Melania reportedly pocketed nearly $30m of Amazon’s initial $40m outlay – was legal, because the first lady isn’t part of the government. She’s just a private citizen who happens to be married to the president and happened to receive a multimillion-dollar check from a company with many government contracts through its web services and other divisions.
  • Playing in the Snow..................

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    https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/a-secret-fbi-bust-nabbed-an-alleged-drug-lordand-rocked-relations-with-mexico-a19d4dd6 Mexican security forces were closing in on the 44-year-old Canadian—a snowboarder who once competed for Canada in the Olympics but has since landed on America’s most-wanted list for allegedly running a vast cocaine-trafficking network—said Mexican and U.S. officials familiar with the operation. Long protected by Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, Wedding suddenly had no options. By the time security forces caught up with him in Mexico last week, the officials said, members of the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team were also involved. Weeks earlier, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s elite, combat-trained unit participated in the capture of Venezuelan autocrat Nicolás Maduro in his heavily fortified Caracas compound. Law-enforcement officials made contact with Wedding—presumed to be armed and dangerous—and, in an intense negotiation, reminded him that his associates had been captured and millions of dollars of his assets had been seized, some of the officials said. Eventually, said his lawyer, Anthony Colombo, FBI agents handcuffed Wedding, who was then transported to California and pleaded not guilty in federal court to 17 felony charges, including murder. The FBI’s involvement in the Jan. 22 operation was intended to be a closely guarded secret, a U.S. official said. Mexico’s laws ban foreign agents from being physically present in law-enforcement operations on its soil and taking part in detentions or raids. The nationalist ruling party in Mexico is particularly sensitive to foreign interference. But on Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a bombshell on X. “Our FBI HRT teams executed with precision, discipline, and total professionalism alongside our Mexican partners to bring Ryan James Wedding back to face justice,” he said, using his elite squad’s initials.
  • the-origin-story-of-syphilis-goes-back-far-longer-than-we-thought

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  • Powell: "I won't quit"

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    https://qz.com/federal-reserve-fomc-january-2026-interest-rate-decision-powell-trump The Federal Reserve decided Wednesday to keep interest rates steady. The decision followed three consecutive rate cuts in 2025, with the Fed cutting rates by 25 basis points at its September meeting, again at its October meeting, and one more time at its December meeting. Inflation has held relatively steady in recent weeks, even appearing to trend down, while labor market numbers have also come in within targets that officials widely regard as acceptable. Prediction markets, as well as traders and analysts, widely expected Wednesday’s pause. Yet it came even as White House pressure on the Fed has reached into unprecedented territory that, Fed Chair Jerome Powell himself has said, “should be seen in the broader context of the administration's threats and ongoing pressure.”
  • Finally. A way to protect your home during a zombie apocalypse

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    Leaving the backside undefended!! LOL
  • Funny Pics

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    @jon-nyc LOL. So true!!
  • The Truth Seekers have entered Fulton County

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  • ICE kills a US citizen in Minneapolis

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    RenaudaR
    @Doctor-Phibes But they govern as conservatives.
  • ICE to surge in Ohio

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    RenaudaR
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  • The Womanosphere Movement

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    @jon-nyc said in The Womanosphere Movement: @Axtremus said in The Womanosphere Movement: “Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin... And yet... [image: 20161105_USP508.jpg] To be fair, they are pretty thin when compared to their lord and saviour.
  • PM Carney - I meant what I said in Davos

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    Seems that Bessent finds Carney’s superior competence as statesman and candid remarks at Davos need to be checked by employing an extortionist response: "I would just encourage Prime Minister Carney to do what he thinks is best for the Canadian people, not his own virtue signalling, because we do have a USMCA negotiation coming up," Bessent said, using the American acronym for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/us-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-mark-carney-9.7064976 Everyday the Trump Adminstration marvellously confirms the essential truth behind Carney’s remarks at Davos. No wonder it garnered a standing ovation. Bessent again makes an ass of himself.
  • Pell grants expanding to cover shorter training and retraining programs

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    Trade schools were already covered by Pell. This is covering very short term training programs (8 weeks instead of 15 week). I’ve been advocating for this for years, and if you truly want the Pell Grant to have an impact on poverty, remove 4 year colleges eligibility for Freshmen. MAKE the recipients have a vocational training degree in hand before exploring 4 year colleges eligibility degrees.
  • Mistakes may be made

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    LuFins DadL
    Cutie!
  • 40 years ago today

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    They filmed Kristy McCauliff’s class watching IIRC.
  • Stupid is as stupid does.

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    taiwan_girlT
    @Mik LOL