@drpatois

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I'd be more likely to "grow up" if I saw that it had worked for anyone else.

"By Donald Trump’s own admission, he was caught completely by surprise that Iran struck back against other Gulf nations."

He didn't think that US military bases would face retaliation? Or that he would be putting Americans at risk?

"Within the first two weeks of the war, Iran’s attacks on U.S. military bases caused an estimated $800 million in damage, according to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a BBC analysis."

https://newrepublic.com/post/208211/us-troops-abandon-military-bases-persian-gulf-kuwait-iran-strikes

U.S. Troops Abandon Military Bases Amid Iran Strikes

Service members have been forced to work remotely.

The New Republic

Trump says we're winning in Iran. The NY Times reports that Iran’s retaliatory strikes have rendered many of the United State’s 13 military bases in the Gulf region “all but uninhabitable,” forcing American military servicemembers to work remotely from hotels and office spaces.

Maybe my definition of winning is different than Trump's.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/u-troops-abandon-military-bases-151423263.html

U.S. Troops Abandon Military Bases Amid Iran Strikes

Service members have been forced to work remotely.

Yahoo News

After ICE came to Minneapolis, ProPublica journalist Peter DiCampo saw his community step up to patrol the streets, drive strangers to work and provide aid to families in hiding.

These are his neighbors, in their city, in their own words.
https://projects.propublica.org/why-minneapolis-neighbors-protest-ice/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #Minneapolis #MutualAid #Community #Minnesota #Photography

“This Is What It Means to Be Minnesotan”: Why My Neighbors Continue to Stand Up Against ICE

After ICE came to Minneapolis, ProPublica journalist Peter DiCampo saw his community step up to patrol the streets, drive strangers to work and provide aid to families in hiding. These are his neighbors, in their city, in their own words.

ProPublica
TIL that the NRA campaigned to avoid the TV series *MacGyver* and to boycott its sponsors because MacGyver didn’t use guns.

26 March 1905 | An Austrian Jew, Viktor Frankl, was born in Vienna. A neurologist & psychiatrist. One of the founders of psychological humanism.

He passed through Theresienstadt and the camps of Auschwitz, Kaufering & Türkheim. He survived. Author of 'Man in Search of Meaning'.

Genetic record for domestic dogs pushed back by 5,000 years

“Researchers have identified the earliest known dog genomes, which push the genetic record for #dogs back by more than 5,000 years.

They recovered these genomes from remains of between 14,000 and 16,000 years old found at #archaeology sites that span Europe and the Middle East.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00900-6

Who let the wolves in? Genetic record for domestic dogs pushed back by 5,000 years

The oldest ancient dog genomes on record all come from a population that lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across Europe and the Middle East.

The mark of a great photographer, is being able to bring out the natural charm and magnetic personality of their subject…

#catsOfMastodon

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