So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.
That's $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
Thousands of lives lost.
People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
"Jews don't belong in American society."
Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America.
But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.
It’s fine for Russia to use drones to freeze out your population — by the way, can you give us your drone defenses? This is the actual US position.
Expansion of for-profit surgeries will unfortunately overshadow some of the better aspects of this plan re: new training, recruitment and retention. patientsfirst.saskatchewan.ca
find the coroner, find the answers...
U.S. Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs William Kirkland, a member of the Navajo Nation, said it is impossible to celebrate 250 years of American history without acknowledging the contributions of Native American tribes such as the Mississippi Choctaw.
What books did Alberta schools *actually* pull off the shelves in response to a provincial order? It took a lot of work to find out. We still don't have a complete picture. And some schools are still pulling material.
Free speech advocates say it's ban unmatched in Canadian history. #AbLeg By me.
Adam Zyglis nailed this cartoon!
Bravo!
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For Russia, the surge in oil prices after U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran amounts to an economic windfall at a crucial moment.
It's leaving the Kremlin well placed to emerge as one of the main beneficiaries of the conflict in the Middle East.
🇨🇦DOUG FORD did the same thing in Ontario! Strange, eh?
Memo to Pierre: nobody serious is going to propose an LNG facility on the east coast right now because they know Europe will be reducing its medium and long-term dependence on gas consumption even more aggressively than it was before.
So yes, investment decisions *are* driven by math.
Everyone digging the new CPC ads?
John Cornyn Houston Office Protest Week 474, tomorrow, Tuesday, 3/10, 11;30-1, 5300 Memorial Dr. More cooperation between HPD & ICE has been revealed. Opposition to ICE in Minnesota shows we can & must form our own networks. We must show up for ourselves. Join us. #Houston
Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Ky., died from injuries sustained during an enemy attack on March 1. Pennington was assigned to 1st Space Battalion, 1st Space Brigade, Fort Carson, Colo. www.stripes.com/branches/arm...
it is genuinely very funny how many big name/shop analysts have gone on tv in the last 24-48hr and been like "man we didn't think this administration would be so stupid" like, come on
NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”
We see that the Russians are now trying to manipulate the situation in the Middle East and the Gulf region to benefit their aggression, as well as to turn the Iranian regime’s strikes on neighbors and American bases into a de facto second front in Russia’s war against Ukraine and West.
No one in Europe should back the US war with Iran. It is an illegal war that is setting dangerous precedents.
"UK should not back a war that boosts Vladimir Putin
Rising energy prices inadvertently strengthen Russia and weaken incumbent European governments"
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
We should THANK the states that have refused to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized “SAVE” voter purge program, which the GOP knows has reported error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that the GOP knows was compromised by DOGE. Harmeet Dhillon is suing them instead. 1/
I sure do hope that 🇨🇦is also investigating ... @mark-carney.bsky.social
On this National Flag Day, the Maple Leaf flies at half-mast.
Today our flag carries a message for the community of Tumbler Ridge: Canada is with you.
Prime Minister Carney video calls with Mikaël Kingsbury, a Team Canada gold medalist.
Congratulated moguls legend, Mikael Kingsbury on his gold medal win today for Team Canada 🇨🇦🥇
Happy Flag Day, Canada 🇨🇦
Question: Has there ever been a man in American history that has fallen as far and as hard as Marco Rubio?
When you think of Robert Duvall, you think of any number of roles that he played in his long, prolific career as one of Hollywood's iconic actors.
But this one, this one right here, has to be right there at the top of your list.
Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/
Photo of Prime Minister Carney with President von der Leyen of the European Commission and President Costa of the European Council.
Canada is now the first non-European country to be granted a membership in SAFE. This is a gamechanger program that means Canada can rearm our Canadian Armed Forces members more effectively and scale up our defence industries with more contracts overseas.
UPDATE: “FBI formally notified Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) on it will not provide the BCA with access to any information or evidence that it has collected in the 1/24 shooting death of Alex Pretti.”
🤔A lawless regime. Abolish ICE.
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