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🚨BREAKING: Every single Lechia Gdańsk football fan was chanting in support of President Karol Nawrocki this afternoon
He has the FULL BACKING of Poland!
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The Dodgers have six players entering arbitration this offseason.
Who is safe, and who is on the bubble? Dodgers Nation's @nelson__espinal makes his picks 👀
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Some of us started screaming into the abyss about what was coming in 2018, and watching this unfold, slowly and then all at once, has bern one of the most horrifying experiences of my life. I wanted so badly to be wrong.
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You can cancel an election and ban the winner from running (Romania), you can ban your opponents from ever running again (Hungary), you can threaten to ban the main opposition party and subject it to relentless investigations by the secret police (Germany), you can threaten a ban on the leading presidential candidate and make them wear an ankle monitor (France), every member of your circle can be investigated for corruption (Spain), you can try and cancel local elections because you will lose them (Britain), and you can storm the constitutional court with riot police because you want to control it (Poland).
You can just do all these things. The secret is you just have to be on the right side of the European Commission.
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This is a direct admission that the U.K and Europe were not building their own military because they relied upon the USA military to be their defacto standing army.
We already knew this, but it's still quite a public admission.
Starmer tells Dublin crowd Europe can no longer rely on US to 'bankroll' its defence bbc.in/4A2JXFY
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With Putin's post election mobilization kicking into high gear - capturing alcoholics and and like off Russian streets - the noticeably lower quality of meat arriving at the front now has commanders aghast.
As expected Putin's quiet mobilization is now rapidly spreading to all regions of Russia, with headhunters grabbing guys randomly off the streets to then be brutalized into signing military contracts.
In Primorsky Krai, a mother's investigation discovered her missing 35-year-old year old son, Sergei Kopylash had been abucted off the street on October 1st and already in Rostov in a military unit by October 4th.
He had initially been picked up off the street, managed to escape, but later tracked back to his apartment building.
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In American aviation history, twenty-eight teams of professional airline pilots were put inside a flight simulator and given the exact failure that hit United Airlines Flight 232 over Iowa on July 19, 1989.
All twenty-eight simulator crews crashed before ever reaching a runway.
Yet in the real sky, former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Captain Al Haynes and off-duty training captain Denny Fitch kept that crippled airplane in the air for forty-one minutes and saved 184 human beings.
At 37,000 feet, the tail-mounted engine of their DC-10 airliner exploded, spraying titanium shrapnel that severed all three hydraulic lines at once.
Why did the pilots not simply glide the plane down and lower the flaps? Because without hydraulic fluid, the control columns and pedals were completely dead. The rudder, elevators, ailerons, and wing flaps were frozen solid while the 150-ton jet began rolling into a deadly spiral.
Sitting back in the passenger cabin was off-duty Captain Denny Fitch. He walked up to the cockpit and asked how he could help.
Kneeling on the floor between the two pilot seats, Fitch grabbed the left wing engine throttle in his left hand and the right wing engine throttle in his right hand.
For forty-one grueling minutes, while Captain Haynes and First Officer William Records fought the dead yoke, Fitch steered a 150-ton airliner at 245 miles per hour purely by shoving the left and right engine throttles forward and back by hand to lift the wings and line up with Sioux City Airport.
Even as the plane slewed onto the concrete runway at four times normal descent speed, the grace of God and American readiness met them on the ground: the crash happened right at 4:00 PM hospital shift change, and the entire 185th Fighter Group of the Iowa Air National Guard was already sprinting onto the tarmac to pull 184 survivors from the wreckage.
When the machines break and the textbooks say you are dead, never bet against American airmen on their knees refusing to let go of the throttles.
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Stanford University student Elsa Johnson became a target of the Chinese Communist Party in 2024.
Elsa attended a private school as a child with a heavy focus on foreign languages and became fluent in Mandarin Chinese while still in elementary school. Years later after she was accepted to Stanford, she studied international relations and researched Chinese industry and military tactics while working at the Hoover Institution on campus.
She soon came to the attention of members of the Chinese Communist Party, which has a heavy presence at Stanford and throughout Southern California. There are currently more than 1,000 Chinese students attending Stanford each year, and the university has received more than $64,000,000 in private donations from Chinese individuals and organizations since 2010.
In June 2024, a man claiming to be a fellow Stanford student named Charles Chen contacted her online. She was not initially suspicious as they had many mutual associates, and his photos and posts appeared to be centered on campus. But his questions and requests quickly put her on edge as he invited her on a paid trip to China. And he seemingly knew details about her that she had never shared with him.
When she tried to disengage with him, she began receiving threatening phone calls by Chinese speakers. Elsa contacted Stanford administrators and the FBI, who told her Charles was likely affiliated with the Ministry of State Security, had been posing as a Stanford student for years, and had targeted at least ten other female students since 2020 in a similar manner. They also told her she was under physical surveillance on campus by the Chinese Communist Party.
Elsa wrote articles in the Stanford Review and The Free Press about Chinese influence on campus, and in March 2026 testified about espionage threats on college campuses before the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
For episode 270 of the Spycraft 101 podcast I spoke with Elsa about being targeted by a foreign government right in the middle of a US college campus. The episode is available now.
#stanford #college #student #china #hooverinstitute
open.spotify.com/episode/6KO…
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You should’ve told them yes. Slutty Sliwa is objectively a hilarious costume idea.
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> advertisers can’t make $ from ads b/c reddit users are commies who think all businesses are evil
> realize only way to profit is to license content to AI labs for training
> AI labs already scraped all the content
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RE: The Turmoil in Poland
I have been reading as much as I can on what is happening in Poland right now, and...
It's complicated.
At a high level, it's pro-EU/globalist forces pitted against pro-Polish nationalist forces.
At the risk of grossly oversimplifying things, imagine an America where Donald Trump is President, Hakeem Jeffries is Speaker of the House, Chuck Schumer is the Majority Leader of the Senate, and Jeffries/Schumer just declared the US Supreme Court illegitimate, they sent the Capitol Police to surround the Supreme Court building, and the police are preventing the Chief Justice from entering the building.
That’s sort of what is going on in Poland as we speak.
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My uncle did a mission trip to Africa to teach a village how to raise pigs for food.
They flew in with a bunch of pigs, built pens for them, Food and water troughs, and taught them how to breed them so they could always have meat. Two weeks of work and teaching.
They went back a year later to check on the village. They had thrown a giant party the night after my uncle left, slaughtered and ate all the pigs, sold the feeders and fencing, and were really pissed off that the mission didn't bring them more pigs.
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Here’s what going down in Poland.
Basically a judge never having been swarm in has removed the President and Vice President from office.
The President was on a plane to Africa and has since turned the plane around to deal wth Tusks attempt to overthrow the government.
Poland is about to get weird.
HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED IN WARSAW IN THE LAST FEW HOURS — IN ORDER:
→ Riot police in helmets and shields move onto the grounds of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal, the court that checks laws against the Constitution
→ The court's website says its president and vice-president are suspended for one month — not by parliament, by one judge President Nawrocki refused to swear in, who now takes over
→ Nawrocki, over Spain on his way to Senegal, turns his plane AROUND and heads back to Warsaw
→ The court's own X account answers — the website was unlawfully taken over, that judge "is not a judge" and everyone involved is committing a COUP
→ The justice minister asks to lift both men's immunity — and sends 50 volumes of case files to that same judge
Nawrocki's reason, in his own words: "At such a moment, the President must be in Poland."
Not a scheduled return. Not a technical stop.
Nawrocki heard what was happening at one court — and the whole Senegal trip waited.
That's the sequence.
And the list of people in that fight tells you everything about what this night is actually about:
→ A suspended vice-president shut outside a gate locked from inside, saying "a coup is happening"
→ An opposition that says police stormed the building and closed every entrance on Prime Minister Tusk's orders — "from today Poland becomes a police state"
→ A prime minister who calls it restoring the rule of law: "There is no other way"
Police answer: no officer is inside the building, only on the outer grounds.
They say that same judge warned of "threats" to judges and staff, objects were thrown at officers and 3 people were detained for jumping the fence.
The fight underneath: parliament elected new judges, Nawrocki refused to swear in some of them and the court's president kept them off the bench.
The government says it is securing the site during that fight. Its justice minister: "the state must protect the judges."
This isn't just a court dispute.
It's a constitutional crisis on wings — and it turned a presidential plane around over Spain because Nawrocki wasn't done fighting.
One court. Two people claiming to run it. One month on the suspension order.
Tag the friend who swears a court fight like this could never happen inside the EU.
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So, basically, 500 million Europeans expect 300 million Americans to protect them from 120 million Russians who can’t even defeat 40 million Ukrainians while those 500 million Europeans don’t even realize they are being conquered by 2 billion Muslims who claim they are being persecuted by 8 million Israelis. Is that about right?
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