R. A. Shelton
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Lover of our beautiful planet: daughter & step-daughter of 2 veterans; animal, nature & book lover: Patriot! I’m Rachel from CA & I Dissent.
Lake Tahoe, CA
Joined August 2008
Simply perfect - well said! 😎👍
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NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 https://t.co/tE6pdG0h2l
propublica.org
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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The next time a career politician says Universal Healthcare isn’t a right because it would “bankrupt” America, I hope all of us will remember these past few weeks and the $200 billion @PeteHegseth and @POTUS want for their Iran misadventure
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#DemsUnited #wtpBLUEResists We can’t go one day without Trump creating chaos and we are all so sick of it. Voting for a bankrupt pedo felon was not a good idea. Even some Trump supporters are realizing it. Too late because globally, many people are suffering because of it.
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We need a new amendment that if a sitting president, senator or congress person knowingly lies to the public, they immediately get impeached & removed I’m over living in the land of liars & thieves 🇺🇸
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NEW!! Bipartisan lawmakers challenge easing of sanctions on Russian oil @RepDonBacon, @RepGregoryMeeks, press Bessent, Rubio over risks to Ukraine and U.S. security 👇
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A nuclear power with a historically unstable government about to run out of a critical fuel source. All is well.
Three diplomatic officials tell @ElizLanders and I that Pakistan believes it has a responsibility and opportunity to help the US and Iran negotiate, given Pakistan's relationships with @POTUS, Iran, and the Gulf. One diplomatic official describes Pakistan as a likely venue.
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Just a reminder that DOGE failed at every possible level: * At the micro level, they misread, misled and straight up lied about many of the 'savings'. They'd announce '500m saved!' and it would be some contract where the money was 98% already spent and already wasn't being
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In other words, the only real war aim now is to fix a problem entirely created by the decision to go to war.
US officials tell The Post they no longer believe it is possible to achieve the war's original goals of overthrowing the Iranian regime and putting its nuclear program permanently out of reach
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$1.5 BILLION. Let me say it again - a $1.5 BILLION BET. Bigger than any futures purchases made at the time. 5 minutes before Trump's post. Who was it? Trump? A family member? A White House staffer? This is corruption. Mind blowing corruption.
BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market. In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than
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The article notes further disparities, including that scientists who are Black are seeing the biggest research funding cuts.
This is not surprising: NIH cuts show women losing more funding than men - 57.9% vs 48.2%. And it gets worse: early-career scientists are being hit hardest, with women leading 60% of terminated grants among PhDs and assistant professor. So much hard work lost.
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About 7 months ago, the CDC modified their state-level heat maps to make the default size of the dots look smaller. See example (California, Aug vs Sept). There are some various workarounds, but now I have a good piece of code for undoing it.
The CDC depicts COVID data with a "cool blue" map that violates ethical norms for geospatial analysis. Their longitudinal graph uses a cool blue vertical axis, no numbers. Studies have shown the general public quickly interprets red as risk and blue as cool. #CalmMongering
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@BNONews @MeidasTouch Remember trump is planning false flags. Just like the incorrect and FALSE claim Iran was planning to “bomb California”. This is where we are at. A President so vile we have to question him planting false attacks against American Citizens so he can fulfill his narratives.
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@BNONews Probable reasons for refinery blasts like this: 1. Process upset (overpressure/release of hydrocarbons igniting). 2. Equipment failure (pipe/valve/heater leak). 3. Flammable vapor cloud from maintenance or pump issue. 4. Ignition source near leaked material. No injuries
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A Chinese-owned feeder containership has become the first vessel with confirmed mainland Chinese ownership to pay Iran for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, transiting via a so-called “safe” shipping corridor near Tehran’s Larak Island
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Lloyd’s List Intelligence data shows Newvoyager near Larak Island at 0730 hrs local time on Sunday, March 22. The vessel was then tracked sailing along Iran’s southern coastline while broadcasting the AIS message “DUQM ALL CREW CHINA”. Read more:
lloydslist.com
Iran’s pay-to-pass corridor gains traction as first confirmed Chinese vessel makes transit
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@LloydsList So the first confirmed mainland Chinese vessel just paid Iran $2 million to transit Hormuz. This is the moment Beijing effectively recognized Tehran's de facto control over the strait. Every Chinese ship that follows legitimizes the toll a little more, and that $2 million per
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@barkmeta Suspicious as hell, $1.5B bet 5 minutes before any leak? Not a hunch. But calling it 'most blatant in history' is wild when Congress has been running stock miracles for decades on both sides. Investigate it hard. The game’s rigged until someone actually goes to jail for this
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@barkmeta We can't let this one go. Illegal insider trading on death and destruction to make an illegal fortune is absolutely disgusting. Whoever is involved in this needs to be removed from office and put in prison for 30 years to make sure it never happens again. https://t.co/c7TYHiTNFe
We CANNOT let this one slide. This is graft and corruption of the worst and highest order. Someone who knew that Trump's post was going out played insider information on war, death, destruction to make an illegal fortune. WE CAN'T ALLOW THIS TO STAND. @HarrisonHSmith
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