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Miranda Devine: The FBI's repeated non-answers on US terrorism attacks raise alarming red flags Added: Mar 29, 2026
Miranda Devine: The FBIâs repeated non-answers on US terrorism attacks raise alarming red flags
Site: New York Post
The FBI insists itâs not their job to monitor released terrorists.
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2 great ideas on how to deal with the Iran war consequences that Trump should consider
Site: New York Post
As we enter the fourth week of the Iran war (or âexcursionâ), here are two great ideas about how to deal with some of the consequences â both from outside the Beltway.
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Miranda Devine: Weâre still learning the full rot of the Russiagate scandal
Site: New York Post
Robert Mueller is dead, but his toxic legacy lives on in the destroyed lives of the innocent victims targeted by the Russia collusion probe that bears his name.
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Miranda Devine: The Demsâ propaganda of constant lies is getting Americans killed
Site: New York Post
The false narratives the left peddles through their media handmaidens end up distorting reality and poisoning peopleâs minds.
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Opinion | Trump Is Putting His Stamp on the World - The New York Times Added: Mar 29, 2026
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Opinion | Men of the Trump Administration, 2026 - The New York Times Added: Mar 29, 2026
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We pretty much have evidence for life in other solar systems. - YouTube Added: Mar 29, 2026
We pretty much have evidence for life in other solar systems.
Site: YouTube
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Bill Ackman Urges Buying Cheap Stocks Amid U.S.-Iran War Selloff / X Added: Mar 29, 2026
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Mistral Voxtral TTS Beats ElevenLabs?
Site: YouTube
Mistral AI just launched Voxtral TTS, and honestly, this one is kind of wild.In this video, I test Voxtralâs text-to-speech quality, voice cloning, multiling...
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I tried YouTube's latest feature, and it was so surreal I thought I imagined it
Added: Mar 29, 2026I tried YouTube's auto-dubbing feature, and it was so surreal I thought I imagined it
Site: Android Police
Voices from beyond are a distracting, dystopian liberty
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Adam Carolla says Rosie O'Donnell, Kathy Griffin quit comedy to fight Trump | Fox News Added: Mar 29, 2026
Adam Carolla says Rosie O'Donnell, Kathy Griffin quit comedy to fight Trump | Fox News
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Study shows raccoons love solving puzzles "just for fun" - Earth.com Added: Mar 29, 2026
Study shows raccoons love solving puzzles 'just for fun,' one reason they thrive in cities
Site: Earth.com
Raccoons love solving puzzles, even after finding food. Curiosity drives learning and may explain why raccoons adapt so well to city life.
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I didn't know Google made an app for hearing in noisy places â it's been on my phone the whole time
Added: Mar 29, 2026
I didn't know Google made an app for hearing in noisy places â it's been on my phone the whole time
Site: MakeUseOf
Google's hidden hearing app works better than you'd expect in noisy restaurants, and it's completely free.
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Donald Trump claims Iran 'agreeing' with US on 15-point peace plan | The Jerusalem Post
Added: Mar 29, 2026Donald Trump claims Iran 'agreeing' with US on 15-point peace plan | The Jerusalem Post
Site: The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
When asked about Iranâs response to the plan, which was sent to Iran via Pakistan, US President Donald Trump said, "They gave us most of the points," and asked, "Why wouldn't they?â
United States President Donald Trump claimed that Iran is "agreeing" with a US-proposed 15-point plan for ending the ongoing war in the Middle East during a press conference held on Air Force One on Sunday.When asked about Iran's response to the plan, which was sent to Iran via Pakistan, Trump said, "They gave us most of the points," and asked, "Why wouldn't they?â He added that Iran is âagreeingâ with the US on the plan and that, in addition to the original 15 points, the US will be "asking for a couple of other things."âWe are negotiating with them directly and indirectly. We have emissaries, but we are also dealing directly,â he said of talks with Iran, adding that the US is âextremely well in that negotiation.âTrump also noted some uncertainty regarding negotiations, stating, âYou never know with Iran, because we negotiate with them and then we always have to blow them up.âWhen asked if he foresees a deal being made this upcoming week, Trump affirmed that he is âpretty sureâ the US and Iran will make a deal and that a deal âcould be soon,â but added that âit's possible [they] won't.âTrump reaffirms regime-change claimsReporters also asked Trump whether he believed Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's newly appointed supreme leader, was alive.âWe think he may be,â Trump responded, adding âbut he's obviously in serious trouble and seriously woundedâ after the strike that killed his father, the previous supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.He additionally reaffirmed previous claims that regime change in Iran has already taken place.'âWe've had regime change if you look⌠because the one regime was decimated, destroyed - they're all dead,â he said, adding that the US is âdealing with different people than anybody's dealt with before.âTrump asserted that the current Iranian leadership âseems to be much more reasonable.âWhen asked if Trump was still considering deploying ground troops to Iran, Trump stated that the US is looking at âlots of alternatives.âHe then asserted that the US is âweeks ahead of schedule in Iran,â indicating that a ground operation may not be necessary. âWe knocked out their entire air force, we knocked out most of their missiles⌠they're sputtering,â he said, adding that the US has also knocked out Iran's navy. âWe're having very good meetings, both directly and indirectly, and I think we're getting a lot of very important points.â
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Trump says he'd like to 'take the oil in Iran,' adds US may seize Kharg Island | The Times of Israel Added: Mar 29, 2026
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Dude Gets ROASTED After Embarrassing Post EXPOSING Wifeâs Promiscuous Past
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President Donald J. Trump Announces the Official White House App
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đ˛ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-white-house/id6759938088đ˛ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.whitehouse.app&pli=1
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President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Joint Base Andrews, Mar. 29, 2026
Site: YouTube
Air Force One
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100 million years ago, an 'evolutionary fuse' was lit in the deep ocean, sparking squid diversification Added: Mar 30, 2026
100 million years ago, an 'evolutionary fuse' was lit in the deep ocean, sparking squid diversification
From color-changing skin to jet-propelled motion, squid and cuttlefish have long fascinated scientists. To understand the origins of their unique characteristics, many attempts have been made to define their evolutionary history. However, the limited fossil record and incomplete genomic information have made it impossible to confidently order the evolution of these enigmatic creatures, until now.
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Lab Gloves May Cause Microplastic False Positives | Technology Networks
Added: Mar 30, 2026Scientistsâ Lab Gloves May Be Causing an Overestimation of Microplastics
Site: Technology Networks
A study finds glove-derived particles can contaminate samples, leading to overestimation of microplastics, and emphasizing cleaner techniques, and better detection methods.
Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny pollutants, according to a University of Michigan study.The study found that gloves may unintentionally contaminate lab equipment scientists use to measure microplastics in air, water and other samples with nonplastic particles called stearates. U-M researchers Madeline Clough and Anne McNeil suggest cleanroom gloves, which release fewer particulates, be worn instead.Stearates are salts, or soap-like particles. Manufacturers coat disposable gloves with stearates to make them easier to peel from the molds used to form them. But stearates are also chemically very similar to some microplastics, according to the researchers, and can lead to false positives when researchers are looking for microplastic pollution.Thatâs not to say that there is no microplastics pollution, the U-M researchers are quick to say.âWe may be overestimating microplastics, but there should be none. Thereâs still a lot out there, and thatâs the problem,â said McNeil, senior author of the study and U-M professor of chemistry, macromolecular science and engineering, and the Program in the Environment.As microplastic researchers looking for microplastics in the environment, âweâre searching for the needle in the haystack, but there really shouldnât be a needle to begin with,â said Clough, a recent U-M doctoral graduate.The work, led by Clough, is published in the journal RSC Analytical Methods. The study was supported by a grant from the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Artsâ Meet the Moment Research Initiative.A wild microplastics goose chaseThe study began when Clough was working on a collaborative project that included graduate students and faculty in the U-M departments of Chemistry, Statistics and Climate and Space Sciences Engineering to examine microplastics in Michiganâs atmosphere. To do this, Clough and McNeil turned to study collaborators U-M professor of chemistry Andy Ault and graduate students Rebecca Parham and Abbygail Ayala to assist with air sampling.The researchers used air samplers which are fitted with a metal substrate. Air passes through the sampler, and particles from the atmosphere deposit onto the substrate. Then, using light-based spectroscopy, the researchers are able to determine what kind of particles are found on the substrate.Clough prepared the substrates while wearing nitrile gloves, which is recommended by the guidance of literature in the microplastics field. But when she examined the substrates to estimate how many microplastics she captured, the results were many thousands of times greater than what she expected to find.âIt led to a wild goose chase of trying to figure out where this contamination could possibly have come from, because we just knew this number was far too high to be correct,â Clough said. âThroughout the process of figuring it out-was it a plastic squirt bottle, was it particles in the atmosphere of the lab where I was preparing the substrates-we finally traced it down to gloves.âThe researchers designed an experiment to figure out how widespread the problem is. They tested seven different kinds of gloves, including nitrile, latex and cleanroom gloves, as well as the most common techniques that microplastic researchers are using to identify microplastics.The experiment mimicked the type of contact that would occur in a research environment between a researcherâs gloved hand and a point of contact. This would include a filter or a microscope slide-any piece of technology that a researcher might use over the course of investigating microplastics.They found that on average, the gloves imparted about 2,000 false positives per millimeter squared area.âThe type of contact we tried to mimic touches upon all varieties of microplastics research,â Clough said. âIf you are contacting a sample with a gloved hand, youâre likely imparting these stearates that could overestimate your results.âThe researchers also found that cleanroom gloves imparted the fewest particles-likely because cleanroom gloves are manufactured without the stearate coating, allowing them to be used in âultrapureâ applications.Weeding out false positivesThe researchers designed another experiment to determine whether they were able to distinguish what a true microplastic looked like versus one of the stearate salts from the gloves. Using scanning electron microscopy as well as light-based microscopy, they found that the stearate was visually impossible to distinguish from polyethylene, the plastic it resembles.But Clough and McNeil were also able to find methods, in collaboration with graduate student Eduardo Ochoa Rivera and U-M professor of statistics Ambuj Tewari, that can differentiate between the false positives coming from the glove and microplastics in the environment. This can help researchers revisit potentially contaminated datasets.âFor microplastics researchers who have these impacted datasets, thereâs still hope to recover them and find a true quantity of microplastics,â Clough said.The researchers say their study highlights the importance of chemistry researchers in the field of microplastics who might be able to recognize the difference in chemical structure of plastics versus other contaminants.âThis field is very challenging to work in because thereâs plastic everywhere,â McNeil said. âBut thatâs why we need chemists and people who understand chemical structure to be working in this field.âReference: Clough ME, Ochoa Rivera E, Ayala AM, et al. Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact. Anal Methods. 2026. doi: 10.1039/D5AY01801CThis article has been republished from the following materials. Note: material may have been edited for length and content. For further information, please contact the cited source. 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Poll: The battle for MAHA that could sway the midterms - POLITICO Added: Mar 30, 2026
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Dawkinsâs paradox: dissecting the bodyâs battle to keep selfish genes in check Added: Mar 30, 2026
Dawkinsâs paradox: dissecting the bodyâs battle to keep selfish genes in check
An essay series by specialists in evolutionary biology, philosophy and more examines the âparadox of the organismâ.
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Next pandemic threat may already be emerging - just not where weâre looking
Site: Earth.com
A study warns that new pathogens could cause pandemics more likely than known viruses, shifting the focus of scientific research
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The Playbook That Elon Musk Relies On to Make His Wild Ideas Work - WSJ Added: Mar 30, 2026
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The Truth About Trump's New Mission to Use Troops to Extract Iran's Uranium, with Professor Pape
Site: YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by Robert Pape, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, to discuss the truth about this new mission being discusse...
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Study shows some dogs have true musical ability, perceiving pitch and adjusting their vocals
Site: Earth.com
Some dogs may actually have musical ability, listening along and trying to match the pitch in their own way.
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Magic mushrooms sprout on Silicon Valley tech campuses. A hidden community harvests them
Added: Mar 30, 2026Magic mushrooms sprout on Silicon Valley tech campuses. A hidden community harvests them
Genentech, Google, and 23andMe have psychedelics growing just outside their cubicle banks.
Greg has been fascinated by psychedelic mushrooms for decades. As a teenager, the budding scientist found himself inspired by their mysterious biology â and the colorful effects that psilocybin, a naturally occurring compound found in more than 200 mushroom species, can produce on the human brain. Where he grew up on the East Coast, however, there were few natural sources. So in high school, he began cultivating âmagicâ mushrooms in his closet. âI always wanted to live somewhere they grew,â says Greg, who asked to go by his first name due to legal concerns. He got his wish when he moved to the Bay Area to work in biotech 15 years ago. As an early-career tech worker, he was more interested in getting ahead than in getting high. But years of cultivation had trained his eye to recognize psychedelic mushroomsâ signature dark-brown and blue caps. He just never expected to stumble upon a patch sprouting from under damp woodchips at his expansive Menlo Park office park in 2018. ââHoly crap, I found âem,â he remembers thinking. ââI finally found âem.ââ A hidden harvest With that discovery, Greg had become the latest entrant to a hidden world in plain sight: a community of techies, trippers, and psychonauts who trade tips on where to find and harvest naturally occurring psychedelic mushrooms at the offices of blue-chip companies, including Apple, Google, and Genentech. Most people know that fungi flourish in fog, mulch, and old trees. However, spotting those of the âmagicâ variety takes a trained eye. Once you know what to look for, youâll find these fruiting bodies all over the campuses of billion-dollar Bay Area tech companies. The Standard has seen colonies of Psilocybe cyanescens â a powerful hallucinogen known colloquially as âwavy capâ â on the campuses of 23andMe, Genentech, and Google. Because mushrooms flourish in wood chips, semi-cultivated areas such as office parks, apartment complexes, tech campuses, and university grounds are boomtowns. The Federal Building in San Francisco, for example, has a well-known patch for foragers seeking Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata, better known as âovoid.â Golden Gate Park is âprime turf,â says Greg, but itâs highly competitive. Many amateur mycologists are science enthusiasts, and foragers report online instances of tech employees packing spores in spray bottles and inoculating woodchip beds. For his part, Greg took spore prints from the mushrooms he found at his office and looked at them under his microscope to confirm the species. Other lay mycologists have reported sightings at Apple and Facebook and created Shroomery and other websites to document the exploits of those who sneak onto these grounds to harvest mushrooms in large quantities. Some locals pick pounds of them daily during the peak season from late October to January. After his first experience, Greg began scouting at office campuses and city parks from San Francisco to Mountain View. He kept careful watch for caps underfoot while taking strolls. Taking his dogs for a walk, heâd make a beeline for mulch. âItâs not weird when youâre walking dogs to be looking at the ground and picking things up,â he said. âThese days, when someone sees mushrooms, theyâre going to take a closer look. If I lived in Mountain View, I would definitely be hunting the tech campuses.â He typically foraged alone, though he did occasionally tell amused colleagues about his discoveries. Gregâs most memorable haul occurred during an otherwise ordinary lunch break. A small patch led him around the loop of a business park â and into three to four pounds of wet mushrooms. âIt was massive in size,â he remembers. âI mostly dried them out and gave them to friends. I did a small amount of microdosing, but not that much.â The Bay Areaâs mushroom men Berkeley resident Damon Tighe said thereâs nothing scandalous about these urban and suburban hunting expeditions. One of the top-ranked users on the plant ID app iNaturalist, Tighe is a premier mushroom DNA sequencer, a term for those who collect wild samples and break down their compounds to the molecular level in labs. His fascination with mushrooms began when he ran out of food during a 211-mile thru-hike of the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevadas. He was starving but didnât have the confidence to eat any of the abundant mushrooms littering the landscape. The experience inspired decades of study bolstered by training and work in genetics. For three years, he has been working on the California Fungal Diversity Survey, which he describes as âa pipeline for describing new species.â With that rĂŠsumĂŠ, he functions as a kind of living encyclopedia for tech workers who want to identify mushrooms for harvest on their campuses. He routinely identifies which varieties are psychoactive and which are the similar-looking but highly poisonous death caps. The legality of harvesting and consuming mushrooms is more murky than finding those that are safe to eat. Though San Franciscoâs Board of Supervisors effectively decriminalized psilocybin in 2022, the drug remains prohibited at the state and federal levels. Tighe said he doesnât think the companies that own the campuses should be concerned about mushroom harvesters. âThe number of people that are probably identifying them is relatively low,â he said. âIf they just step off the campus and walk a block away, theyâre gonna find the same thing in the county, in the city park.â Alan Rockefeller has Bay Area harvesting patches mapped in his mind. He cofounded Mycena , a platform where users genetically sequence mushrooms and share findings with partner organizations, in 2023. The growing popularity of mushroom harvesting â on office campuses and elsewhere â is tied to increased interest among tech workers, he said. Bestselling books such as Michael Pollanâs âHow to Change Your Mindâ and the work of Stanford neuroscientist turned podcast star Andrew Huberman have driven an explosion in microdosing among tech circles. Rockefeller used to hit a shall-not-be-named tech campus in Oakland that had a particularly large patch of magic mushrooms. âThese days, when someone sees mushrooms, theyâre going to take a closer look,â Rockefeller said. âIf I lived in Mountain View, I would definitely be hunting the tech campuses.â Though Greg has moved away from the Bay Area, he reflects fondly on his time taking meandering walks during work breaks. He has had to find sources for fungi at his new home and is still an active user of online forums where people show off especially impressive hauls. Not wanting to get himself or anyone else into trouble, Greg declined to give the exact coordinates of his favorite Bay Area harvesting patches. In any case, he said, exploring is half the fun. âYou can spend an hour or two just walking around, and theyâre everywhere,â Greg said of his old haunt. But for those who want a hint: âIt was next to Facebook.â
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Benefits of Extraterrestrial Intelligence Over AI | by Avi Loeb | Mar, 2026 | Medium Added: Mar 30, 2026
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Megyn Kelly Reacts to Lindsey Graham SPOTTED at Disney World Holding a Bubble Wand While Pushing War
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Megyn Kelly reacts to Lindsey Graham spotted at Disney World holding a bubble wand while pushing war.LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday: https://bit.ly...
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Chicago Teachers Host Curriculum Fair to Ensure Lessons Donât âFacilitate Genocideâ | National Review Added: Mar 30, 2026
Chicago Teachers Host Curriculum Fair to Ensure Lessons Donât âFacilitate Genocideâ | National Review
Site: National Review
The Chicago Teachers Union told NR that the actions of the Trump administration make politicized education necessary.
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Watch Emily Jashinsky DESTROY Jimmy Kimmel Over His Rant About âPlumberâ DHS Chief
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Watch Emily Jashinsky DESTROY Jimmy Kimmel over his rant about âPlumberâ DHS Chief. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos every day: https://bit.ly/3FUiyzR Watch...
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Swisher's CNN Threat, & How a Lie About Tucker Went Viral, w/ Malice, PLUS Kimmelâs Elitist Contempt
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Emily is joined by Michael Malice, host of âYour Welcomeâ and author of "The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil." They open the show with a discussion on th...
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Barkley Gets Political, MAHA Revolt, and What the Legacy Media Exodus Exposes, w/ Talcott & Willick
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Emily Jashinsky opens the show with a look at the identity politics that continues to infect our discourse with a peak example coming over the weekend out of...
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Trumpâs âGoing To Obliterate Everything Over There Ifâ Iran âDoesnât Do Somethingâ With Peace Plans
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Full Episode: https://youtube.com/live/n7XkpaGpSFUFollow us: https://twitter.com/2waytvapphttps://www.2Way.TVYou can now listen to this episode on Apple, Spo...
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Iran Has âKilled American Citizens for 47 Years: We Donât Have To Rebuild Crap!â
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Full Episode: https://youtube.com/live/n7XkpaGpSFUFollow us: https://twitter.com/2waytvapphttps://www.2Way.TVYou can now listen to this episode on Apple, Spo...
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Mark Halperin: âThe Cuban Regime Will Change and Be Friendly to the U.S. by the End of the Yearâ
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Polymarket bettors give 24% odds the U.S. invades Cuba in 2026.Full Episode: https://youtube.com/live/fuWZuepIOU8Follow us: https://twitter.com/2waytvapphttp...
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Mark Halperin: âWe May Be on the Precipice.. of Getting the Iranians To Let Some Ships Throughâ
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Woke Chicago Mayor Proposes $1B Reparations Despite MASSIVE Budget Shortfall | Tim Pool
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But do they really care? Democrats promise to steal your stuff to win elections and its going to collapse soon.Become A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/...
