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On top of widespread pillaging by the undisciplined IDF, Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed ten people, including six paramedics and a Syrian girl, Lebanon's Health Ministry reported. The updated toll in Lebanon since Israel invaded is 3,111 killed and 9,342 wounded.

Israeli media reported that in Syria, IDF troops stole a herd of around 250 goats and smuggled them into the occupied West Bank.

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In 2025, the hardworking American taxpayer sent wealthy, nuclear-armed Israel $12 billion in military funding to murder Arabs; that amount could have instead paid for free or low-cost healthcare for 3.5 million children in the US.

While Israelis enjoy world class universal healthcare, Americans are trapped in an insidious for-profit healthcare system that results in terrible outcomes and tens of thousands of personal bankruptcies every year caused by exorbitant medical bills.

US midterm elections are scheduled for Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.

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The "Billionaire Bunker" Paradox

The ultra-wealthy are investing hundreds of millions into fortified compounds, yet these projects often face logical dead ends:

Worthless Wealth: A major concern for elites is maintaining control over security forces once currency loses its value. Without a functioning economy, there is little incentive for guards to remain loyal rather than simply taking over the resources themselves.

Extreme Features: Some luxury shelters include bizarre defensive measures like flammable moats that turn into rings of fire or water cannons designed to take down helicopters.

High-End Isolation: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a $270 million compound in Hawaii featuring a 5,000-square-foot underground shelter with its own food and energy supplies.

Psychological Strain: To prevent insanity, luxury bunkers use tricks like night-scene paintings visible under black lights to simulate the outside world and windows that aren't actually windows.

Common Design and Social Flaws

Beyond the luxury tier, doomsday prepping often overlooks practical and ethical realities:

Basic Survival Gaps: Many amateur designs fail due to inadequate air filtration, insufficient waste management, or lack of secondary exits.

Social Isolation: Critics argue that focusing on individual survival via bunkers ignores the fact that human survival historically depends on peaceful cooperation and stable climates rather than isolated concrete boxes.

Market Growth: Despite the absurdity, the "panic industry" is booming, with the fallout shelter market expected to exceed $175 million by 2030.

Eight Democrats Help GOP Pass Anti-Transgender Law

'Tis wrong on every level.

Which is exactly why Trump and company utilized this as a potent message in 2024...


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Gosh.

Not a single thing about Hamas, Israel, Jews, or anything else.

I'm afraid that Purists rarely ever win.

And unilateral disarming is usually a bad idea. He took some money a couple of years ago, but isn't taking it now.

"When questioned about the contribution, Talarico's team defended it by arguing that he will not "unilaterally disarm" while Republicans play by different rules.

His team also noted that he has consistently pushed for campaign finance reform legislation to cap state contributions at, which would have prevented massive donations like the one from the Texas Sands PAC."

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"James Talarico does not accept money directly from AIPAC and has explicitly disavowed their support.

While his campaign does not accept corporate PAC money, he has faced criticism for accepting maximum donations from billionaire GOP donors and independent-expenditure PACs."

AIPAC: Talarico has continuously pledged not to accept money from AIPAC or its PACs. Campaign records confirm no such direct contributions, although a very small percentage of his massive grassroots funding has come from individuals who also support pro-Israel organizations.

Corporate PACs: Talarico runs on a grassroots platform and does not accept corporate PAC money.

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Masks Off - Jesse Welles

dropped today - Jesse goes Electric!

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I can't tell you what's worse
The message was terse
Outright white supremacists
Or America First?
I think they both sell merch
The whole place feels a little bit cursed
It's like somebody else
Might have been living here first

Incels in cellars
From a long line of failures
Underneath Rumble umbrellas
Daily Wire'ing with the fellas
Chromag MAGA hate cave dwellers
The tale is oldr than the tellers
Th tale is older than Old Yeller

(chorus)
All the masks are off
And they don't even try
They know that you know that they know
And they don't even mind it
All the masks are off
And they're getting lazy
They think you're so damn stupid
They think you're so damn crazy

Killing people from a distance in an instant
At the insistence of a president
With a blackmail gun to his head
For the fun that he had in the Dark Ages
Pages and pages and pages and pages
They thought they'd get away with it
The minimum wage is outraged with it
They're gonna burn somebody at the stake for it

Full Lyrics

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