Yossarian's Roost Resuscitated

And Sudan is under sanctions, unlike Israel that actually gets military aid.



https://globalsanctions.com/region/sudan/

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ProudSocialist
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When the top 3 choices for the 2028 Democratic primary are all corrupt corporatist politicians it is clear that liberal voters don’t actually want change because they are content with the failed status quo.
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🔵 Newsom: 24% (+17)
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Despite these steps, the war outpaces diplomacy: The RSF's El Fasher victory (October 2025) and SAF drone attacks on Khartoum highlight ongoing hostilities. External powers (e.g., UAE backing RSF, Egypt/Iran/Turkey aiding SAF) prolong the conflict by enabling arms flows. UN briefings emphasize that without unified pressure and enforcement, risks of further atrocities and regional spillover (e.g., to South Sudan) remain high.

Anybody see this?
Rubia Garcia II
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IMHO.. just a feeling of where we stand at the moment.
Begin Rant:
The banks are literally running out of money; tapping the Fed Repo facility, and NO ONE is talking about it.
And it doesn't matter that the Fed just lowered interest rates bc banks literally don't have money to lend anyways; hence, tapping the Fed Repo.
See, they're tightening their books, cutting credit, and that's why you're seeing all these layoffs everywhere.
It's not just bc of AI.
It's bc companies can't get loans anymore; the banks are in a liquidity crisis at the moment.
And that's what happens right before a depression.
AT MINIMUM, and you take this for what it is...IMHO... we're heading for a recession.
IF NOT... a full-blown depression at this rate.
Mark my words.
And here's the kicker.
Banks have less cash bc people are quite honestly broke.
Job cuts surpassed 1M; and hiring has slowed to the lowest in 14 years. Deposits, in general, have been falling for years.
Families are draining their savings just to buy groceries; and they only HOPE a medical financial doesn't come their way.
Meanwhile, corporations are holding their cash out to buy back their own stock or move it into higher yield funds.
So even if interest rates drop, which yeah - they have a little, there's still literally nothing left to lend.
And honestly, if anyone’s wondering what decade we’re speed-running, just look at the vibes: the 1920s called and said, “Hey, if you’re going to copy us, at least commit.”
You’ve got the nativism — “immigrants are the problem!” — straight out of the 1920s immigration acts
Oh, and the domestic extremists?
Yep, they were around too, except now we pretend they’re just “concerned citizens.”
Then you’ve got the GOP controlling everything back then, deregulating like it’s a competitive sport; destroying the economy with tariff after tariff then entire decade.
So sure, DJT cosplaying as the 2nd Gilded Age Great Gatsby for Halloween — a guy who throws parties while everything rots underneath — absolutely tracks.
The whole country is giving ‘flapper dress, Wall Street bubble, prohibition hangover, and zero lessons learned.'
The only thing missing atp, is the Stock Market Crash of '29 it appears we are racing full-throttle towards.
DJT is making it worse.
Just like the 1920s he mimics; HE blew up inflation with tariffs.
Now, he's collapsing health care so millions are choosing between food, rent, and medicine.
And he's driven out millions of immigrants who, I mean, whether you like it or not, were customers.
They bought food, clothes, cars, vacationed, and kept money moving.
And now that velocity is just — gone.
Along with the millions of jobs lost where that money no longer flows through the banks; people begin to default, and the vicious cycle downward continues.
Meanwhile, the stock market looks great, but it's all fake. Bc how can one POSSIBLY judge the social health of the economy while ONLY considering how the FEW are making BANK, while the rest of us - THE MANY - crash out, one way or another.
Big companies have been buying back their own stock, shrinking supply so that it makes their prices higher.
AI companies are built on hype and not results, and investors are just parking money there bc there's nowhere else to go. But even that is just a handful of companies seemingly passing money amongst each other.
So, all signs point to that bubble about to burst too.
In 2008, though, we had tools and the serious people to stop this kind of crash.
We could cut rates, print money, and rebuild, but now those tools are being uses to exacerbate the crisis of the many, for the pocketbooks of the few.
Rates are already low, the debt is OUT OF CONTROL, and banks have less cash than they did before COVID.
That's stagflation, my luvs.
Prices rising, jobs vanishing, money drying up.
And when stagflation hits a broke middle class, it doesn't end in a soft landing.
It ends in a full-scale, lights-out, “how did we get here?” depression — the kind they swear “can’t happen again,” right until it does.
The kind where every warning was flashing red and every expert was too busy shrugging on cable news to notice the floor disappearing under them.
Bc this isn’t a cycle.
This isn’t “economic cooling.”
This isn’t “market correction.”
This is what it looks like when the bottom 90% gets hollowed out so thoroughly that the economy has no real engine left — just fumes, stock buybacks, and the hope that the illusion holds one more quarter.
This is what it looks like when deposits shrink, when consumers are tapped out, when companies slash jobs not just bc robots replaced workers but bc the credit lines keeping their payrolls afloat evaporated overnight.
This is what it looks like when inflation hits the poor, deflation hits the rich, and neither group is healthy enough to keep the machine running. It bursts.
This is what it looks like when policymakers prioritize asset prices over human beings — when the markets get life support and the middle class gets eviction notices.
This is what it looks like when the govt pretends the economy is “strong” bc 5 mega-companies are doing trust-fall exercises with each other’s stock, while everyone else is praying their debit card doesn’t decline.
This is what it looks like when you recreate the 1920s in HD, skip the jazz, skip the optimism, skip the industrial boom — and fast-forward straight to the part where everything collapses amidst the deregulation, corruption, and nepotism.
And they KNOW.
They know exactly what they’re doing.
They see the data.
They see the repo taps.
They see the defaults creeping up.
They see the death of small businesses and farms and ranches.
They see the credit crunch.
They see the savings rate hovering at the floor.
They see wages going backward.
They see the bubble they’ve blown too big to know it won’t pop eventually.
And instead of pulling the brakes, they’re flooring the gas — bc the crash doesn’t land on them.
It lands on us.
So no, this isn’t normal.
No, this isn’t natural.
No, this isn’t unavoidable.
This is deliberate.
Engineered.
Scripted.
And the terrifying truth?
They’ve already packed their parachutes.
They’ve already moved their money.
They’ve already hedged their bets.
They’ve already made sure that when the economy hits the ground, they’ll walk away without a bruise.
But the rest of us?
We’re in the cabin with no exits and no oxygen masks, being told to “stay calm,” “trust the system,” and “look at the stock market” while the alarms are blaring.
Well, excuse my French for refusing to be Ray Charles to the BS, bc history doesn’t repeat — it rhymes — and babe, if we’re rhyming, then we’re rhyming with the 1920s, just without the fun parts.
Bc if all else tracks, and the Dems don’t get a veto-proof majority in the midterms, the next few years will be like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic to a '29.
In short, the People must grab the lifeboat for themselves — once again.
NO ONE is coming to save us.
Ty for coming to my #TedTalk
End Rant.

Everything they said would happen under socialism is happening under capitalism.

Two NASA Probes Hit Wall Of Fire—America’s Oldest Probes Punch Through And Survive
In the vast, silent reaches beyond Pluto, two aging spacecraft have rewritten humanity's understanding of the solar system's frontier. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched in 1977, have crossed into interstellar space, revealing a turbulent, superheated boundary where the Sun's influence ends and the galaxy begins. Their discoveries have upended decades of scientific assumptions and offered a rare glimpse into the invisible shield that protects Earth from cosmic radiation.
For years, scientists pictured the edge of the heliosphere—the Sun's magnetic bubble—as a gentle, cooling transition into the interstellar medium. But when Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 in 2018, both spacecraft encountered a "wall of fire": a region of plasma heated to between 30,000 and 50,000 Kelvin, far hotter than the Sun's visible surface. "The plasma gets compressed as it hits the heliosphere," researchers reported, noting that models had predicted much cooler temperatures. Instead, Voyager's instruments measured nearly double the expected heat, forcing a fundamental rethink of how the Sun's magnetic field interacts with the galaxy.

Despite the searing temperatures, the density of this plasma is astonishingly low—about 0.039 particles per cubic centimeter, making it billions of times thinner than Earth's atmosphere. As a result, the Voyagers passed through this inferno unscathed, demonstrating that in space, "hot" does not always mean dangerous.

Democrats appear to be caving on the shutdown. Pity. They were ahead on opinion polls.

Power to the People ☭🕊
ProudSocialist
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At first it seems Democrats are always caving to Republicans. But when you watch it happen over & over again you eventually wake up & realize it’s more sinister than caving. Democrats are COLLUDING with Republicans because they serve the same donors & same corrupt system as them.

Rubia Garcia II
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We watched Sanders LIVE walk up to the podium after Susan Collins was there laughing and keekee’ing with GOP about this bill and he said, "If this bill succeeds... for certain groups of people it would be tripled, their premiums... when you throw 15 million people off Healthcare, 50,000 Americans die unnecessarily... — you think that's funny?”
And now I can’t stop thinking of:
1. how had the Dems not f’d over Bernie in 2016 for the sake of the ‘historical’ Hillary nomination, we’d of never been here — bc that election wouldn’t have even been close;
2. How both sides politik — and 2016 was an example of the Dem ‘powers that be’ gate-keeping Progressives off the ticket DESPITE their necessity.
Now, LOOK at us - smh.

At last, the answer:

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ProudSocialist
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This deal to end the shutdown is the same deal that was on the table over 30 days ago. If the Democrats weren’t going to actually fight to get a better deal then why did they drag this out for 30 days and make people needlessly suffer? The election. Yes, they used poor people as political pawns to help them win an election then after winning they didn’t fight at all. If this doesn’t wake you up to how corrupt the Democratic party is then nothing will. A new party and a new system is required.

oh, and btw; not ONLY did Dems cave, but in that bill to end the shutdown - for NO REASON AT ALL - they gave GOP senators the right to sue the govt for $500K each if their phones got seized during the Jan. 6 probe by Jack Smith. Let that simmer.

⚠ In short, 24 headlines from the last 24 hours…[Take a long… DEEP breath]
1. DJT asks SCOTUS to overturn $5M verdict that held he SA'd & defamed E. Jean Carroll, says decades-old allegations were politically motivated
2. Govt Shitshow, Day 41: 8 Senators join GOP to pass bill to end shutdown; NO ACA SUBSIDIES; HOR vote is (maybe) Wed
3. The spending deal to end the shutdown included giving senators a right to sue for $500K each if phones records seized during J6 probe by Jack Smith
4. Speaker Johnson tells HOR to return to DC “right now,” citing flight chaos and a vote this week to reopen the govt; warns “long days and long nights”
5. FAA: 2nd straight day with over 2,400+ cancellations; 9,100+ delays on Mon; cancellations to increase 4% to 10% by Fri amid shutdown
6. Recently pardoned Harrison Floyd, claims ‘fake elector’ pardon could erase his separate federal charge for allegedly assaulting FBI agent serving him a subpoena for the charge
7. DJT asks SCOTUS — AGAIN — to block RI judge order requiring full Nov SNAP payments; briefs due yesterday; SCOTUS can act on governments request at any time
8. An analysis of federal data shows under CBP’s Bovino leadershp, agents use-of-force incidents outpace assaults on agents by over 2-to-1 ratio
9. US strikes 2 more alleged drug boats in E. Pacific, 6 killed; Total strikes - 18; (11 Caribbean, 7 E. Pacific); Total extrajudicial killings - 76
10. DJT hosts 1st ever WH meeting with Syrian Pres. Ahmed Al-Sharaa just 3 days after US removes him from terrorist list that included $10M bounty
11. Signal Group Chat: “…people are going to have to answer for what we're seeing now, and I don't want to be any part of it;” OH Nat. Guard struggle w/ DJT deployments
12. Jonathan Braun, freed by DJT in his final 2021 hours via Jared Kushner connections, sentenced to 27 months for physical & sexual assaults while on supervised release
13. SCOTUS rejects ex-KY clerk Kim Davis’ bid to reverse 2015 same-sex marriage ruling; remains liable for $360k in damages/legal fees after refusing licenses on religious grounds
14. Sources say CBP Bovino (+other Feds) are heading out of Chicago this week for an operation elsewhere; potentially Charlotte, NC
15. After guards forcibly shaved his Rastafarian dreadlocks, SCOTUS hears case on whether La inmate can seek personal damages under religious-liberty claim; ruling by summer ’26
16. DoD sends ground forces to train for the 1st time in 25+ years in Panama’s “Green Hell” [old Vietnam-era jungle school]; as DJT shifts military focus to Latin America
17. Families of 9 Camp Mystic flooding victims file lawsuits alleging gross negligence after 27 girls and counselors died in July 4th TX floods
18. SCOTUS Justices agrees to hear case on whether federal law requires ballots be received BY Election Day; taking up MS’s 5-day mail-in grace rule used in 30+ states; ruling by summer ’26
19. Canada loses measles elimination status after a year-long outbreak of 5,100+ cases; US could be next — 1,600+ cases now in 41 states and rising
20. Whistleblower alleges Ghislaine Maxwell receives special prison perks (service puppy, hand-delivered meals, seeking computation, etc); Rep Raskin demands answers from DJT
21. Father and daughter, Alexander(53) and Serena Wurm(22), identified as those killed in FL plane crash carrying hurricane relief supplies to Jamaica 🕊️
22. US has sent $7.5M to Equatorial Guinea government — one of the world’s most repressive and corrupt regimes, with a “history of trafficking” — to accept noncitizen deportees
23. DJT's EPA plans to approve Epyrifenacil, a “forever chemical” that doesn't break down and can accumulate in water, soil, and living things; linked to cancer and birth defects
24. Speaker Mike Johnson says he will finally swear-in AZ Dem. Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva, 7 weeks after her Sept election when the HOR meets to vote on new spending bill
R Garcia

Tylenol causes autism,’ they say — meanwhile DJT’s EPA is about to approve Epyrifenacil, a forever chemical tied to cancer and birth defects, to be sprayed on our corn and wheat… all bc his EPA chemical-safety office is run by a former pesticide lobbyist. But sure, tell me more about Tylenol.
Garcia

From a post on another website:
ONE POSITIVE IS THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM ARIZONA WILL BE SEATED AND THE EPSTEIN FILES WILL BE RELEASED.

My thought: A new way of stonewalling will come up. They will not release the file, at least not before Trump leaves office. Probably not then.

Rubia Garcia II
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⚠ In short, 24 headlines from ONLY the last 24 hours… […remember to BREATHE]
1. DHS denies it; but video from Chicago shows agent pepper-spray 1yo baby through car window as family tried to avoid an immigration raid at Sam’s Club this weekend
2. FBI Dir. Kash Patel used bureau jet for multiple personal trips; including days at luxury TX Ranch while FBI workforce was working unpaid bc of govt shutdown
3. JFK and Jackie’s only grandson, Jack Schlossberg(D), officially lauches campaign run for NY-12 House seat vacated by retiring Jerry Nadler(D)
4. GOVT SHITSHOW, DAY 42: HOR Rules Committee met to advance Senate-passed shutdown bill; full HOR vote set for today; HOR Dems to oppose
5. GOP says any future ACA funding extension MUST include stricter abortion limits; basically, seeking to stop STATES from allowing abortion coverage through ACA plans
6. DJT lawyers and attorneys for IL/Chicago battle in SCOTUS briefs over the presidents power to deploy NG; a ruling expected any time after Nov. 17th
7. DJT moves the USS Gerald R. Ford and 3 warships to Latin America, fueling fears he’s gearing up for imminent military action in Venezuela
8. Speaker Johnson says he will officially swear in AZ Dem Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva 4p today; this secures the 218th vote for Epstein discharge petition
9. Travelers should consider backup plans for Thanksgiving; FAA expands nationwide flight cut from 4%→6%; 13k+ flights delayed; ~1,600 canceled
10. DOJ says it's investigating protests at UC Berkeley for the late Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA final tour debate event, calling them "violent riots"
11. Venezuela announces ‘massive mobilization’ of military forces as America’s largest warship (USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group) enters SOUTHCOM
12. 1/3 of US museums lost federal funding under DJT; 2/3 report funding has not been replaced by foundations, sponsors or donors
13. In major break, UK stops sharing intel on Caribbean drug vessels w/ US bc it does not want to be complicit in military strikes and believes them illegal
14. UT judge rejects GOP-gerrymandered map drawn to protect all-GOP delegation; approves NEW map adding a SOLID Dem seat in Salt Lake City
15. Jeffries predicts HOR Dems 'will be strongly opposed' to bill to reopen govt after shutdown; will seek an amendment to extend ACA subsidies
16. Fannie Mae ethics office received complaints, so they started inestigating how DJT got access to Letitia James’ mortgage records; then, they were fired or resigned
17. Colombia announces they will suspend intelligence cooperation with the US on alleged boat strikes; after Pres. Petro on Mon. saying, “a clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy”
18. Marion County, KS to pay $3M and apologize for 2023 raid on small-town newspaper, Marion County Record; ex-police chief Gideon Cody also facing criminal charges
19. Linda Sun, ex-aide to 2 NY governors, faces trial today for allegedly selling influence to China and profiting off the state’s bulk COVID19 mask deals
20. DJT → Fox: I have an 'obligation' to sue BBC over documentary edit; claims J6 speech was “butchered;” threatens $1B unless they retract, apologize, and compensate
21. Despite record highs, the US stock market still lags behind global peers; S&P 500 ranks 41st out of 60+ indexes worldwide
22. Millions faced 1st big snow/artic freeze of the season; from the Midwest to the Northeast and even the South, record lows across the country
23. CA police lets woman go after ICE agent in plain clothes points gun at her for following/filming; DHS says agent ‘followed their training…to defend himself’ by drawing weapon
24. 3 paintings from public TV legend, Bob Ross, fetch $600K+ at auction w/ proceeds to public TV stations hit by federal funding cuts, including PBS

Bell rings

Texas: Abbott promises to gut property taxes for public schools, starving them to death

Kelly was interviewing conservative journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon when she made the dubious claim about the disgraced financier, which she attributed to “somebody very, very close to this case who is in a position to know virtually everything. Not everything, but virtually everything.”
Kelly said her source said Epstein “wasn’t into, like, 8-year-olds. But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby.”
"I think there is a difference. There’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old, you know?” she said, before admitting the obvious.
“Whatever. It’s sick."

Boston Smalls
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Now that epstein situation is about to blow wide open. I'd like to revisit other weird situations. Things thats didnt make sense to me if you really look at them. For example, Ivana trump falling down the stairs. Her injuries aren't consistent. Buried at his golf course. Know nothing about trumps assassination attempt. Trump has literally tweeted more about Rosie O'Donnell than the guy who nearly killed him. Epstein didnt commit suicide. Ghislaine moved to cushy pad with special treatment. Still not a single shred of evidence Provided for a stolen election. Erika Kirk is weird as ****. I dont believe the fbi's story.

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