Why not both?

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If you can't figure out how to get around a paywall in 2025 why are you even on the internet?

Turkey's Erdogan: Netanyahu 'trying to drag our region and the entire world into disaster'

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned Israel's overnight attacks on Iran as a "clear provocation" which "disregards international law" and risks "setting our entire region on fire."

In a furious post on social media, Erdogan conveyed the condolences of Turkey to the "friendly and brotherly people of Iran" and issued a strong rebuke to Israel.

"Israel has taken its strategy of drowning our region, especially Gaza, in blood, tears and instability to a very dangerous stage," he wrote.

"The Netanyahu administration is trying to drag our region and the entire world into disaster with its reckless, aggressive and lawless actions."

Erdogan called on the international community to prevent further conflict, adding: "We do not want to see more blood, destruction and conflict in the Middle East."

Aww poor guy. Good thing they just made an instrument worthy of playing a sad song for him.

Weather will be the excuse they use to shield Trump's ego form the fact that no one outside of the cult wants to be seen at or associated with the dictator's birthday parade.

Netanyahu is willing to start WWIII just to keep himself in power.

Good thing we're going to get rid of FEMA. /s

The trolls would disappear if you all stopped feeding them.

More: "We're not going away," Noem said just before the disruption. "We are going to liberate the city from the burdensome leadership, mayor and governor."

FTA: The report adds that traditionally, when the National Guard is deployed to assist in distressed communities, they are welcomed with open arms. But soldiers are getting the cold shoulder this time.

"One midlevel officer said their unit would receive 'extremely generous' help when deployed to combat wildfires, including water, sports drinks and food, which played a significant role in morale and tightened the Guard-community relationship," the report notes, before adding one officer conceded, "This is a situation [where] we're against the community."

Says it all.

Someone should remind them they are required to refuse unlawful orders.

I guess it's not really a that much of a surprise since rising oil prices help Russia most of all.

"Hey Babbitt!" - Lou Costello, probably

Skin flutist maybe.

Trump self-owns again.

He was the personification of the tortured artist. And a musical genius.

Third amendment enthusiasts might be about to have their moment in the sun.

More: "With fewer active drilling rigs, we forecast US operators will drill and complete fewer wells through 2026," the EIA said in a monthly report published on Tuesday. Active rigs had "decreased by much more" than it expected in a previous report, it said.

The gloomy official forecast comes just months after Trump was re-elected following a presidential campaign in which he vowed to "unleash" American drilling, promote more oil production, and drive down energy prices.

Page 555 of project 2025.

"In addition to finalizing the southwestern land border wall, the next Administration should take a creative and aggressive approach to tackling these dangerous criminal organizations at the border. This could include use of active-duty military personnel and National Guardsmen to assist in arrest operations along the border"something that has not yet been done."

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conservative-promise/#document/p555

More: For readers able to handle uncomfortable racial truths: Donald Trump chose Hegseth to take this country back 50 years. He's not qualified to be defense secretary in any other way, and has already proven so. Y'all, the dude accidentally shared real-time information about an impending U.S. bombing run and was not relieved of duty " because his job isn't about making us safer.

Hegseth has been paying dividends for Trump, beginning with his recommittal to honoring white supremacist traitor Confederate general Braxton Bragg's name in February by taking Fort Liberty's name back to Fort Bragg while saying it was for Army Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, a soldier who fought in the Battle of the Bulge.

Under Hegseth, the armed services also refused to recruit from a program that identifies and cultivates highly-coveted Black engineers. He banned nearly 400 books of mostly African-American authors, including one by me, and even removed Department of Defense web pages on the legendary Jackie Robinson and Native American World War II heroes before being forced to reverse course.

Now he's renaming Naval ships, starting with Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist and former Navy lieutenant, whose name is emblazoned on an oiler ship. An unnamed defense official told Military.com that Hegseth purposefully made the announcement during Pride Month.

In a statement, the Pentagon said Hegseth is "committed to ensuring that the names attached to all DOD installations and assets are reflective of the Commander-in-Chief's priorities, our nation's history, and the warrior ethos" and added that "any potential renaming(s) will be announced after internal reviews are complete."

He better change his tune, he's already broke and those lumpy pillows don't sell like they used to.

J6 just let them know they could actually get away with it. They aren't done.

More: "Let me be clear: There is no invasion. There is no rebellion. The President is trying to manufacture chaos and crisis on the ground for his own political ends," Bonta said in a statement released about the lawsuit. "Federalizing the California National Guard is an abuse of the President's authority under the law " and not one we take lightly."

For a president to invoke this provision of the Armed Services Code, one of three conditions must be met. There must be an "Actual or threatened foreign invasion," an "Actual or threatened rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States,'" or "the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States."

In addition, the law in question requires that "[o]rders" to National Guard members when this law is invoked "shall be issued through the governors of the States." Trump has not coordinated with or communicated any such orders to the governor's office at all, Newsom, a Democrat, said on Sunday.

"There's a protocol. There's a process. He didn't care about that," Newsom said on MSNBC.

"I voted for lawless, anonymous, masked, and unchecked police" is one ---- of a jump from "eggs cost too much." - Rick Wilson

This comment section is all the proof you'll ever need to understand that MAGAts do not and have never actually cared about state's rights.

More: The United States is both a nation and a coalition of 50 states. This is something that's easy to forget when looking at the USA from overseas, but it is fundamental: city and state governments matter, and so do the choices they make. States' rights " the freedom of each State to make its own choices, except where the Constitution says something is a federal matter " are usually a fundamental rallying call for Republicans. And those states' rights usually mean that the federal government doesn't send troops into a state unless they have been requested.

And yet Trump has ordered at least 2,000 National Guardsmen into the California city after three days of protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. ICE had deployed tear gas and non-lethal munitions against the protests, but in a statement late on Saturday evening, the Los Angeles Police Department issued a statement confirming the protests "remained peaceful" and "concluded without incident". While some turbulence on the streets escalated in the evening, LA's police also stressed they were in a "heightened readiness posture" and "ready to ensure the continued safety of communities".

LA's police, in short, are saying the protests are largely peaceful and they are able to handle them.

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But the blazing hypocrisy of Trump and his top officials should stand out, too. One of Trump's first actions on regaining the presidency in January was pardoning thousands of insurrectionists who participated in a violent invasion of Congress, including those who assaulted police. Now, mere months later, Trump claims to be so outraged by peaceful protests, which are protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, that he is deploying troops against them.

This risks a full-scale collapse of the USA's already crumbling political norms. Trump has pardoned his own supporters for violent insurrection, even as he deploys armed soldiers against his political opponents. This is the behaviour of dictators, not democratic leaders. It is a sign of a society reaching its breaking point.

It is hoped that cooler heads prevail and manage to pull this particular crisis back from the brink. The people who actually make up the National Guard are not fanatics: they signed up to help their nation during crises, not to be a private army for a dictatorial president. California's government and senior law enforcement officials will be trying to find ways to deploy troops that don't risk escalating the situation. As always happens when Donald Trump is president, people will be working quietly to try to save America from the man leading it.

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The citizens of Los Angeles were protesting against Trump's unlawful use of the federal agency ICE to deport their friends and neighbours. For that, they are being called rebels against the state and facing its military force. America surely cannot withstand three and a half more years of this.