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  This is what a Houthis attack did to a pipeline pumping station on the Saudi's E/W pipeline. Yeah, that's not coming back into operation anytime soon. It's run the Hormuz gauntlet or nothing.

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  People don't get the significance of the Trump Decoy story. Trump made public announcements of switching from the Qatar-bribe 747 to the older Air Force One because of security concerns. He made a public show of boarding that plane and then was secreted out the back reportedly in a catering container, which was then transported across the airport via a catering vehicle and loaded about a C-32A executive transport plane (usually used as Air Force Two or transporting the Secretary of State).

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  I used to wonder why humanity changed to live underground and became the Morlocks in the HGW's Time Machine. The present war between Ukraine and Russia has supplied a hypothetical answer. Drones represent a "pure" offensive weapon which is very difficult to defend against 100% and thus any target is vulnerable if you want it badly enough.

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  Sounds like several ships have been hit trying to transit Hormuz and are burning/abandoned. One is a brand new 950 foot long tanker - bigger than the old Panamax standard.

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  Spent the day yesterday checking out the frescoe covered churches in Veria. Highlights were the Old Metropolitan and the Church of the Resurrection. The first had some of the best frescoes I've seen since Serbia and the later has both frescoes and a floor made up of spolia. One of the stones featured multiple Nine Men's Morris boards on it. I also visited the local archeology museum. Here is from the Church of the Resurrection.

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  The story on Lindsey Graham now appears to be sudden aortic dissection, which is very different from the "brief and sudden illness" statement released by his office previously.

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  I think it really goes to the heart of just how fucked up things are in the US that it is seriously in doubt that a major figure of the US Senate is still alive and that the possibility exists that a fiction is being advanced for political conveniences. This is some Soviet Union level bullshit, where the world would watch the Moscow Victory Day parades to see who was still alive and in what degree of favor.

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  @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I'd rather a system that allows for popular removal of a sitting President. We could simply hold an annual federal election with a y/n question of whether the current POTUS should remain if office. If they lose the popular mandate, they're out and the VP is in. We should never be in a situation where the holder of the executive office can make a move towards tyranny.

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  @TheNeedling@newsie.social Took me a moment too, but then I remembered. https://youtu.be/Ih_ovjbwQGk?si=BzhHUNzKVfsD6O3a

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  @cstross@wandering.shop Hey, look at what just arrived! /me does a happy dance! Sorry about the library checkout instead of buying it outright. I'm chilling in Belgrade at the moment eating cheap bread and cheese while my coffers marginally refill.

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  @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us That long decline, which I think a lot of Americans must feel in their bones, even while not being able to articulate it, is in large part the appeal of the MAGA "movement" and why it connects with so many. It lets them lay the blame for that decline on others, whether that is China, immigrants, godless liberals, elites, globalists - a barely concealed euphamism for Jews, LGBT. It is inarticulate raging with an inarticulate demagogue as its figurehead.