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  1. Who was Ona Judge?
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ona_Judge
    'Ona Judge Staines (c. 1773 โ€“ February 25, 1848), also known as Oney Judge, was a slave owned by [George] Washington's family.

    She was born and held at the family's plantation at Mount Vernon, Virginia [...]

    Judge was in her 20s when she escaped from the Philadelphia household in May 1796, to get to freedom farther north. She was classified as a fugitive slave and Washington advertised for her return. She had learned that Martha Washington intended to transfer her enslavement to her granddaughter, which meant Judge would be returned to Virginia with little chance of freedom.

    Judge reached Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, a free state. There she married, had children, and converted to Christianity. Though Judge was never formally freed, after Washington's death, his survivors ultimately stopped pressing her to return to enslavement in Virginia...'

    #USHistory #History #Slavery #Racism #GeorgeWashington

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  2. Pregnant migrant girls are being sent to a Texas shelter flagged as medically risky
    opb.org/article/2026/03/04/pre
    โ€“ '...The US Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) officials said they were never told why the girls are being concentrated in a single location, let alone in this particular shelter in Texas. But they โ€” along with more than a dozen former government officials, health care professionals, migrant advocates and civil rights attorneys โ€” worry the Trump administration is knowingly putting the children at risk to advance an ideological goal: denying them access to abortion by placing them in a state where itโ€™s virtually banned.

    โ€œThis is 100% and exclusively about abortion,โ€ said Jonathan White, a longtime federal health official who ran ORRโ€™s unaccompanied children program for part of President Trumpโ€™s first term. White, who recently retired from the government, said the administration tried and failed to restrict abortion access for unaccompanied minors in 2017. โ€œNow they casually roll out what they brutally fought to accomplish last time and didnโ€™t.โ€...'

    #Abortion #Refugees #Women #Feminism #Trump #USPol #Fascism #Texas #Children

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  3. US tech 'kill switch' risks undermining majority of EU defence systems
    brusselstimes.com/eu-affairs/2
    โ€“ 'Over half of European countries are critically reliant on US cloud services for their national defence โ€“ exposing them to a high risk of a potential US-sanctioned "kill switch [...]

    Of the 28 analysed countries, 23 are at a medium to high risk of exposure, of which 16 are especially vulnerable, including Germany, Poland, Denmark and the UK, the institute found. Only one country โ€“ Austria โ€“ was said to be fully sovereign in its cloud solution for defence and security systems, while the Netherlands might follow their example...'

    #Europe #EUpol #EU #USA

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  4. CUBA Has Collapsed
    youtu.be/NQ9-3jiUprE
    โ€“ 'Cuba is facing one of the worst crises in its modern history.

    In this video, we take a deep dive into what is really happening on the ground in Cuba as the country struggles with severe fuel shortages, collapsing infrastructure, and an economy that is spiralling out of control.

    Itโ€™s been reported that power cuts are now lasting up to 20โ€“22 hours per day in some areas, leaving millions without electricity, water, and basic services. With petrol stations empty, transport grinding to a halt, and food supplies under pressure, daily life for ordinary Cubans is becoming increasingly difficult.

    We also explore how the US oil blockade has intensified the situation, cutting off vital fuel supplies and pushing the country closer to a full-scale humanitarian crisis. As tourism collapses and foreign currency dries up, the economic model that once sustained Cuba is now breaking down.

    From empty streets in Havana to growing food shortages and rising poverty, this is a story about more than just economics โ€” itโ€™s about a country running out of options.'

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    #Cuba #USImperialism #USpol #EUPol #AntiWar #Video #News

  5. Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?
    theguardian.com/world/2026/apr
    โ€“ 'Sixteen bets made $100,000 each accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February. Later, a single user would make over $550,000 after betting that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would topple, just moments before his assassination by Israeli forces. On 7 April, right before Donald Trump announced a temporary ceasefire with Iran, traders bet $950m that oil prices would come down. They did.

    These bets and other well-timed wagers accurately predicted the precise timing of major developments in the US-Israel war with Iran...'

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    #Trump #USpol #USA #Capitalism

  6. youtu.be/kO6VIVAtGFI

    Donald Trump has pledged to escalate the economic pressure on Iran by blocking the Strait of Hormuz.

    Plus: Victor Orban has been trounced in Hungaryโ€™s general election, and Tucker Carlson clashes with the BBCโ€™s Victoria Derbyshire.

    00:00 Intro
    00:43 Trump Threatening Hormuz Strait
    39:45 Victor Orban Finally Ousted
    52:42 Tucker Carlson VS The BBC

    With Steven Methven and Barry Malone.

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    #Iran #USA #Israel #EndlessWar #IranWar #WarOnIran
    #UKpol #USpol #EUpol #Palestine all for #Israel

    #Epstein #EpsteinWars

  7. Everything does is a test for the sheep in his #MAGA Cult โ€“ will his evangelical right wing Protestant Christian base object to him posting Demonic imagery about himself?

    of course not.๐Ÿค”

    ๐Ÿ˜† ๐Ÿคฃ ๐Ÿคช

    /jd

    tweet: x.com/mend_alyn/status/2043550

    . . .
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    #Iran #USA #Israel #EndlessWar #IranWar #WarOnIran
    #UKpol #USpol #EUpol #Palestine all for #Israel

    #Epstein #EpsteinWars

  8. youtu.be/CoAup3LFMss - 'Donald Trump has declared America will impose its own naval โ€œblockadeโ€ on the Strait of Hormuz.

    It comes after unprecedented talks between the US and Iran ended in failure, as Vice President JD Vance said Iran refused to rule out its pursuit of a nuclear weapon.

    President Trump says his blockade of the Strait of Hormuz will stop any ship, including those that have paid a toll to Iran from passing in or out, adding that any Iranian that fires on American or other peaceful vessels will be โ€œblown to hellโ€.

    Iran said any military vessels approaching the Strait will be considered violating the ceasefire and will be โ€œdealt with.โ€

    Are we entering a new and dangerous chapter of this six week old war? The world and the markets will soon find out whether Trumpโ€™s leverage has worked or backfired.
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    0:00 - Trump to โ€˜blockadeโ€™ Strait of Hormuz
    3:13 - What do the failed US-Iran talks mean for Israel and Lebanon?
    5:03 - Trump blockading Strait of Hormuz โ€˜not a bonkers ideaโ€™ '

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    #Iran #USA #Israel #EndlessWar #IranWar #WarOnIran
    #UKpol #USpol #EUpol #Palestine all for #Israel

  9. The Washington Post casually publishes proposal to kill more of the Iranian State's leadership during 'peace' negotiation...

    Op/Ed essay:
    'Iran thinks it has leverage. Hereโ€™s how Trump can prove it wrong.'
    by Marc A. Thiessen
    โ€“ washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

    Marc Thiessen is a Washington Post columnist (Jeff Bezos owned) and works at the American Enterprise Institute (Charles Koch Foundation funded) and was a former chief speechwriter for Prez George W. Bush (Israeli/Saudi funded).

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    #UKpol #USpol #EUpol #Palestine all for #Israel

  10. VP JD Vance (the smartest man in the Oval Office) explains how he failed to negotiate a Peace with the Iranians yesterday:

    - '...My wife has the Right to skydive, but she doesn't jump out of an airplane because she and I have an agreement that she's not going to do that because I don't want my wife jumping out of an airplane...'

    . . .
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    #Iran #USA #Israel #EndlessWar #IranWar #WarOnIran
    #UKpol #USpol #EUpol #Palestine all for #Israel #Pakistan #JDVance #Video #News

  11. Why did all those Dubai Insta Influencers go silent? hmmm...๐Ÿค”

    Currently every country in this war is under heavy #censorship. It is amazing that we know anything factual coming out of the region, at all.
    /jd

    โ€“ '...arrest[s] of 35 people and said they would face an expedited trial for โ€œpublishing video clips on social media platforms containing misleading, fabricated content and content that harmed defence measures and glorified acts of military aggression against UAE.โ€ Separately police in Abu Dhabi reported they had arrested just over 100 people on suspicion of filming incidents related to Iranโ€™s attacks on the UAE and sharing misleading information online...'
    bellingcat.com/news/2026/04/02

    thx for the link @br00t4c

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    #UKpol #USpol #EUpol #Palestine all for #Israel
    #UAE #Dubai #SocialMedia

  12. I shit you not: Trump answer to shutting down commerce in the Persian Gulf is....

    wait for it,,,,
    wait for it,,,,

    shutting down commerce in the Persian Gulf! But #Murcia style!

    or something, ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ยฏ\_ (ใƒ„)_/ยฏ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

    x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2043

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    #Iran #USA #Israel #EndlessWar #IranWar #WarOnIran

  13. perhaps this is not sustainable?
    ya think? ๐Ÿค”

    โ€“ 't the height of the Gilded Age (1870-1900) the top 0.00001% of Americans owned 4% of national income.

    Today, in the "Golden Age" the top 0.0001% of Americans own 12% of national income and it's only getting worse.'

    x.com/FinanceLancelot/status/2

    #Capitalism
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  14. C-SPAN callers never disappoint.๐Ÿ˜

    Dave in Las Vegas:
    โ€“ 'This war in Iran, he only went in there because he's probably a pedophile and people don't want to admit it, but he is... He is not a president, he is a dictator...'

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    #Iran #USA #Israel #EndlessWar #IranWar #WarOnIran
    #UKpol #USpol #EUpol #Palestine all for #Israel #Epstein #EpsteinWars .

    video and text source: x.com/BlueGeorgia/status/20419

  15. Absolutely no sympathies for Karoline Leavitt, but it wasn't an easy day for her today โ€“ spinning bullshit cannot work all the time...
    /jd

    youtu.be/TEdKMTomOoI - 'White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slowly succumbed to panic as her desperate effort to spin Donald Trump's Iran war and fragile ceasefire collapsed.'

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