| second: Ex-mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani publicly told Zohran Mamdani that it is “inappropriate” for Zohran to go to the 9/11 memorial. On the next day, Mamdani released 170,000+ pages of documents exposing that Giuliani’s administration lied to the public, because they knew about the toxic air after 9/11, all to get people back to work. A total of 2,974 people died in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, while the number of deaths from subsequent 9/11-related illnesses, toxic air, and dust exposure has risen into the thousands and continues to grow. As of September 2026, 453 FDNY members have died from World Trade Center-related illnesses, officially surpassing the 343 firefighters who died on the day of the attacks. [go to link] |
| second: How Could Iran Happen? An Autopsy.
The president’s war on the “deep state” led directly to his debacle in the Middle East.
None of this was inevitable. It is what happens when a government fires its air traffic controllers and expects the planes to land themselves.
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Indeed, this failure was secured in Washington, the inevitable outcome of Trump’s 19-month campaign against the city’s own institutions and workforce. Trump gutted the National Security Council (NSC), purged the Defense Department’s military leadership, and politicized intelligence, all while Congress failed to assert its authority. In place of qualified staff, Trump relied on outside advisors, relatives, and self-appointed internet activists whose lists of “enemies within” reached his desk, while intelligence assessments did not. |
| 6ixStringJack: Ted was always a stupid name for you. You're always going to be a regular Ted Bundy, but that's just a basic bitch nickname. I think you've leveled up, Ubu... |
6ixStringJack: "Nice find SECOND!!! Arf! Arf!!!!"  |
| THG: Nice find SECOND |
| second: “I’ve been connected with Pete Hegseth for ten years. I hold a graduate degree in mental health counseling. It didn’t take me long to diagnose him as an arrogant, inebriated, misogynistic, cruel, sadistic, adolescent psychopath. And now he’s controlling the strongest military in world history like he’s playing a video game.”
Russ Clark U.S. Marine Corps Ret. Chaplain to veterans [go to link]
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| 6ixStringJack: That's what I thought. Who's the TACO now, screen bitch? |
| THG:
OMG: First look at Trump's convention… attendance is BRUTAL
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6ixStringJack: How's that, screen bitch? Be specific, so I can take those words and shove them so far up your well-laid asshole that you're choking on them.  |
| THG: Yup, Gilligan taccos out again. |
| 6ixStringJack: Shut up, Shit Golem. Get a life. |
| second: On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said energy prices that have been elevated due to the Iran war will not come down until after the midterm elections.
Trump also insisted that the war against Iran, now in its seventh month with no obvious resolution in sight, will end “immediately after the election.” [go to link] Sorry, Trumptards, but Iran will not end the war until after Trump invades and controls the capital Tehran. For example, the Iraq War did not end until after Bush invaded and controlled the capital Baghdad. In the Iran War, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will get to show the lessons he learned as an officer in Iraq and Afghanistan. That must be why Trump picked Pete to be in charge of the Pentagon. |
| 6ixStringJack: As for Executive Orders? Bill Clinton had 364 of them in 8 years. GWB had 305 of them in 8 years. Barack Obama had 276 of them in 8 years. Joe Biden had 162 of them in 4 years. Trump may have had more than any of them with 559 so far in less than 6 years, but if you're going to pretend this is a Trump only phenomenon, you're either an idiot and/or a liar. |
| 6ixStringJack: We are not a Democracy, and we're certainly not a "Liberal" Democracy. You fail your civics test outright. |
| second: 2) The second Trump administration has broken from these traditions, both at home and abroad. Domestically, Trump has ruled through a cascade of executive orders, bypassing Congress and issuing diktats that appeared on their face unconstitutional, illegal, or reflective of extremely bad judgment. Internationally, he has sided with the world’s dictatorships, such as Russia, at the expense of fellow liberal democracies. And he has at a stroke dismantled the liberal economic order by imposing arbitrary tariffs on friendly countries under the claim that America was being exploited by the open economic world it itself had created.
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| second: 1) The United States is the world’s oldest and best-established liberal democracy. While the country has had a checkered past of deviations from the ideal set forth in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal,” it has over 250 years created a remarkable space for liberty and prosperity in North America. More than that, since 1945 it has labored to create a liberal world order, where other liberal democracies could flourish and interact.
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| second: Last year, President Donald Trump took the unprecedented step of ousting Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after alleging economic data was being “rigged” without evidence. Now, research suggests Trump’s move packed a punch against the U.S. economy.
A new analysis published in the Center for Economic and Policy Research from four economists indicates that the U.S. economy took a $20 billion hit in lost economic activity due to Trump’s firing of McEntarfer last August. The analysis attributed the figure to a “sharp increase” in policy uncertainty that depressed economic activity since businesses operating in a cloudy landscape tend to pause investment decisions. “Protecting the credibility, independence, and technical capacity of federal statistical agencies is therefore not merely an administrative concern,” they wrote. “It is a consequential economic one.” [go to link] |
| second: 2) For all of their nonlinear thinking and idiosyncratic views, voters have told me a couple of things over and over again: They think the system is broken, and they feel that they’ve been lied to in ways that make their life tangibly worse. Fewer of them now believe that if you work hard and play by the rules, you can get ahead in this country. Instead, they think that “establishment” politicians are benefiting from this system while everyone else loses out. Because of that, they want to place their trust in leaders who come across as “real people” who are genuinely interested in improving voters’ day-to-day life—not just winning and holding political office. [go to link] |
| second: 1) I’ve conducted more than 400 focus groups with thousands of voters across the political spectrum. Here’s what I’ve learned: People are wild. They are full of contradictions. They lament our deep political divisions while raging about their political enemies. They believe in grace but cut their Trumpy brother out of their life forever. They’re married to an immigrant but voted for the guy who wants to deport millions of people who have the same immigration status as their wife. They hate the government and want to lower the national debt, but they also want the government to spend more to help them and their communities. They call themselves pro-life but believe in a woman’s right to choose. I could go on. [go to link] |
| second: One of the reasons the discussion of whether the US is “winning” the war against Iran seems so surreal is that it is looking more and more likely that the result of the war will be a historic withdrawal from the Persian Gulf area and maybe even much of the Middle East: [go to link] |