(Above: Oil Tanker "Front Altair.") Two oil tankers are currently on fire in the Gulf of Oman, to the east of the Straits of Hormuz at the entrance to the Indian Ocean. The incidents are variously described as “attacks” or “explosions” and though...
Harley Davidson started out as a Trump poster child for “building things in America” a “true American icon.” All that has changed since they announced they’re moving some of their production overseas. Now he’s using emotional blackmail to deride...
Ted Lieu, California Democratic Representative since 2015, has called it.  He did not mince his words and then Twitter discussed the topic.  At length. https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1005099708933697538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2F100210709049 https://twitter.com/VirtualBondGirl/status/1005100605956739072 https://twitter.com/TobyasStorm/status/1005101352874172417 https://twitter.com/RepJohnYarmuth/status/1005100002413371394 https://twitter.com/RNicholasBurns/status/1005069794431905794 https://twitter.com/mattoboston/status/1005070877854261248 By the way, here is Ted Lieu's bio from his Twitter homepage: "Husband of Betty, the love of my life. Father...
Dryad Maritime, a  maritime intelligence company, to provide specialist navigation and risk mitigation services for vessels transiting or coming alongside in high risk areas, has assessed the incident in the Gulf of Oman reported this morning and, unlike Pompeo, is not...
Here's a good stat to have handy when you run into people wringing their hands, oh woe is me, Afghanistan is a disaster, quelle disaster. https://twitter.com/MGwin46/status/1429925858928627714 The Afghanistan media narrative is the bodies falling off the planes and jamming into the...
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1140304282501242882 https://twitter.com/JimAdamsGeo/status/1140306111700131840 https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1140305087434317824 https://twitter.com/PeterBrannen1/status/1140306878649397249 https://twitter.com/warren__terra/status/1140304947440836608 https://twitter.com/JonEHecht/status/1140304703076495361 https://twitter.com/dj_ir0ngruve/status/1140304555319746560 https://twitter.com/bdclarke/status/1140305912189472768 https://twitter.com/ChrisALadd/status/1140304828415074304 https://twitter.com/08mms/status/1140304523619176448 https://twitter.com/paslow_cb/status/1140313850597670913 https://twitter.com/durrati/status/1140314524236603398
I don't think you need to study psychiatry in Vienna to see the quandary that Donald Trump Jr. is in. According to his cousin Mary, who has studied Freud, Jung and the like, Junior never became his own person....
Flying in the face of the history of U.S. alliances and the collective foreign policy expertise of the entire government, Donald Trump will wing his way to the NATO summit this week and then on to Vladimir Putin, and...
        They say a picture is worth a thousand words... https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1005479651697922048 Which ones do you think are being used here??
Robin Williams presciently said years ago that Canada was like “the nice apartment over the meth lab.” Sounds about right, in the era of Trump. Canada is not standing still for the slurs irreverently and wrongly hurled at their...

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