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Captainant

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  1. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/24/texas-houston-colony-ridge-immigration-operation/ Feds to target “criminals and illegal immigrants” in Houston-area development, Abbott says Federal immigration authorities on Monday planned to conduct a targeted operation on "criminals & illegal immigrants" in a housing development outside of Houston that’s been under scrutiny from conservative lawmakers and media for selling land to undocumented people, Gov. Greg Abbott said. Abbott said in a social media post that he had worked with President Donald Trump's immigration adviser, Tom Homan, “for months” to target Colony Ridge, a 33,000-acre development some 30 miles outside of the nation’s fourth-largest city. Conservative influencers, outlets, think tanks and Texas lawmakers had dubbed it as a safe haven for undocumented people, often painting it as a cartel-run crime hub. The extent of any enforcement was not immediately clear. Spokespersons for the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Texas Department of Public Safety and Abbott did not respond Monday morning to requests for more information.
  2. I thought he was evoking Milei Ya know, that far right goon that rugpulled his own consituents with a nationalist memecoin?
  3. Ironically, the aging computer systems may actually be their salvation. Like straight outta Battlestar Galactica lol. The invaders don't know how to use the old systems so they overlook them
  4. Ah fuck. I could 100% see Trump and Hegseth ordering our armed forces to occupy russia's holdings as a """peacekeeping""" force - as long as we get some of those sweet sweet precious fluids mineral rights
  5. man, I can't wait till we get designer diseases again! Only poors get polio anyways amirite?
  6. Well in fairness, those poor girls at Pearl were already scuppered. Running aground was actually an improvement in that case
  7. Annie has always been a shithead. He's been doing this schtick for damn near a decade now. The russians can never do anything wrong, and your insurance claim has been denied.
  8. Better reporting on this: https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-wont-sign-a-natural-resource-deal-that-will-be-paid-by-10-generations-of-ukrainians/ “I am not signing something that will be paid by 10 generations of Ukrainians," Zelensky said, adding that he wants a dialogue with Trump. The initial White House proposal sought a 50% interest in Ukraine’s natural resources, including critical minerals, oil and gas, as well as critical infrastructure and ports. Zelensky said Ukraine is not ready to “split 50/50 without knowing what’s ahead.” The Ukrainian leader also pointed out that the U.S. proposed to return future aid with an interest of 1:2. “For every U.S. dollar, Ukraine must return two. In simple terms, this is 100% of the loan,” he said. The exact details of the current proposal have been kept secret but the administration of President Donald Trump has ramped up pressure on Kyiv to sign. Ukraine has had a back and forth with its American counterparts for nearly two weeks and Kyiv will start working to conclude an agreement with the U.S. on Feb. 24, said Ruslan Stefanchuk, speaker of Ukraine's parliament. The value and volume of Ukraine’s critical minerals are unknown with the figure hotly debated among experts as assessments are based on old Soviet-era figures. However, $350 billion worth of natural resources are located in the Russian-occupied territories, First Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said at the forum.
  9. Heyo, looks like bird flu is hitting endemic stages in cattle! Thank goodness we have competent public health officials serving the public interest
  10. https://news.az/news/zelensky-ukraine-will-not-admit-debt-to-the-us-of-either-500-billion-or-100-billion Zelensky rejects subjugating generations of their children to America with the $500,000,000,000 """reparations""" demand
  11. Elmo left his prop behind on the stage, whoopsie poopsie (Re-uploading the video to surly) f8cund07xyke1DASH_480.mp4 Poor kid.
  12. Genuinely if you're interested in the "why" this series is an incredible listen https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-62-Supernova-in-the-East-i/ It's on all the places you'd listen to a podcast But they were doing to China what Russia is doing to Ukraine right now. Rape of Nanjing and all that
  13. Every. Accusation. Is. A. Confession.
  14. I would bet mandatory vaccination scheduled for public education are gonna be out the window by the end of this presidential term. We've got a heroin addict with a history of literal brain worms leading up the charge against vaccination guidelines as the goddamn Secretary of Health and Human Services. The fucker used to sell baby onesies that said "Unvaxxed. Unafraid." for fucks sake.
  15. Thank goodness everyone decided to do their own research on vaccines.
  16. Truly - if Germany had not declared war on America it's a high likelihood the Normandy landings or any sort of united front would not have formed against the fascists in Europe and Africa. They are at their strongest when the powers that be would rather look away and make deals with the bully rather than confront their evil. Once there is no more pretext of ignoring the bully and hoping they'll move on to leave you alone, only then, do they start to lose power.
  17. Your history is pretty different from my reading of history. The US was very much not staying "neutral" while acting as "the arsenal of democracy" prior to the US formally joining the war as a belligerent. The only reason the US was not actively involved in the fighting was the incorrect popular belief that whatever happened in Europe would stay in Europe. German U-boats were sinking merchant marine tonnage starting in the late 1930s. Further, Germany declared war on America on its own. The tripartite pact did not require or demand mutual defense. Your science is way off too. Germany was a LONG way from the Bomb. We know this for a fact. They had a wrong model of the atom and were nowhere close to a self sustaining reaction, much less a prompt supercritical mass required for a nuclear detonation. Ironically, much of their scientific failure was due to rejection of "Jewish" science. I do wonder how many advancements we will lose out on as Americans due to cutting off "Woke" sciences.
  18. Major shift in stance for Ukraine BBC: Zelensky willing to give up presidency in exchange for Ukraine Nato membership That page has a bunch of news updates, but Zelensky is putting the resource deal on the table for real security guarantees. I hope we don't welch on those brave defenders if a deal is struck.
  19. Gotta say, it's real funny how y'all run with criticism of how a company treats it's employees and spin that into me being anti-capitalist. Forcing employee churn just to keep the fear in em is dog shit management. Treat your employees like people, not numbers on a page. Laying them off and publicly proclaiming they're all dog shit is spiking the football and just ghoulish.
  20. Hey @Anastasis this is why it's extremely believable that POTUS is a Kremlin asset. He's straight up violating decades old treaties to the benefit of mother russia and detriment of her former vassal states
  21. This is literally just being a dictator at this point What the fuck
  22. Some water head had their model Y cruising at 65 in a 75 in the left lane on 290 yesterday going Hou->AUS. They do seem to be more inattentive and uncertain drivers, which makes for a less predictable and more dangerous driving environment.
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