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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
Money can’t buy a living planet. When the last tree falls, the last fish vanishes, and rivers run poison, wealth becomes worthless. Act now: plant trees, demand clean energy, protect our oceans. #ClimateChange #EcoActivism
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
Yeah, this shit doesn't work anymore.
DUFFY: How many times does this have to happen before congress gives the money to fix it? R: You’ve been in office almost two years now, Republicans controlled both chambers of congress and still do. DUFFY: What your network are you from?
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
Remember - the wildfires, the droughts, floods, heatwaves happening across the world are within "safe" climate change (1.2°C warming). We are on course to double that. No time to waste. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
Christopher Helali flew from the US to Moscow and joined the Russian military to murder Ukrainians. Helali is an Iranian-American former US Army officer & *current* elected High Bailiff of Orange County, Vermont. Guess his political party.
⚡️ An elected US official from Vermont has joined Russia’s Akhmat special forces while still holding public office. 🧵 1/5 ⬇️
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"The friction comes just eight months after Peraton, a Herndon, Virginia-based contractor with little prior experience working with the FAA, won a $1.5 billion contract to oversee the work."
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s FAA picked an unlikely contractor to lead its air traffic control overhaul. The agency is unhappy and having second thoughts. politico.com/news/2026/08/19…
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
Turns out the problem was never the “DEI hires”, it was the unqualified white supremacists.
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
Historian Sarah Paine: Vlad the Bad [Putin] is really toast. He has committed a pivotal political error, and the outcome is horrendous. This might be the moment China tells Russia the land it took in the 19th century is on the table. Siberia has resources, and Taiwan has none.
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
As only new posts show up in lost people's timeliness, thought I'd be vain for once and quote tweet my own!
Day 1725 of the war in Europe is upon us. Welcome to another daily thread covering everything interesting in Ukraine where a battle for survival continues, both for the country, and for every man, woman and child. Let's get today's show on the road..
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
Sean Duffy is begging for $$$ from Congress to fix this system. Who’s had control of Congress the last two years ?
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
Duffy is not fit for the job if he can’t anticipate problems, adapt and be flexible. All he wants to do is blame the Republican Congress because he doesn’t have enough money. Then STOP THE BALLROOM 💸 & all vanity projects and use that 💰for the safety of the Citizens
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
"I didn't anticipate we'd have an outage like this," replies Secretary Duffy to a reporter asking why the FAA didn't have an emergency backup plan. ift.tt/yE4kusC
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
Remember folks, candidates like Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris were dismissed in the media as annoying Tracy Flick or Lisa Simpson types for having detailed policy proposals but Trump would be like "prices come down on day one" and they just nodded along.
"I didn't anticipate we'd have an outage like this," replies Secretary Duffy to a reporter asking why the FAA didn't have an emergency backup plan. ift.tt/yE4kusC
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
US politicians are lining up to smack down Musk. I count 5 committees just for DOGE alone. 2027 should be fire! $SPCX $TSLA
BREAKING!! Sens. Shaheen and Coons are demanding Elon Musk and SpaceX preserve all records on Starlink/Starshield disruptions in Ukraine In a letter to Musk, they warn outages disrupted critical air defenses, endangered Ukrainian civilians, put U.S. personnel at risk 1/3
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
The US has lost its measles-free status for the first time since 2000, following more than a year of continuous transmission. The CDC has recorded 5,182 cases across 45 states this year, according to Reuters.
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
In August, I interviewed the head of the FAA. After the interview came out, I had hundreds of air traffic controllers contact me privately to talk about their concerns of how he is managing the national airspace and handling workforce concerns (high rate of suicide, as an example). Some of the controller DMs are below.
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
Ukrainian warriors hold positions in Kostiantynivka 🇺🇦 Despite constant attacks, destruction, and persistent pressure, Ukrainian defenders continue to put up resistance. You can't defeat this nation🙌!🫡🇺🇦❤️ Fingers crossed, heroes 🫡
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
In other words, they aren't going to send incompetent unqualified self-dealing morons like the Trump Admin. teapawt.net/BohuslavskaKate/status…
Kallas on Witkoff/Kushner: "We have institutions in place, so we can't just send any person who has no institutional role, like the Americans are sending. Clearly, we should not copy the same patterns." The ability of this woman to grill people in the sweetest voice 🤌
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
The Nvidia gift that keeps on giving. Just revealed, all the Chinese domestic systems are nefariously running on the latest Nvidia chips. They're all up to date! How they got them, is going to be the biggest scandal ever.
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NAFO BONKER for the LIGHT SIDE retweeted
hey can you get the airplanes to work
English is the official language of the United States.
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