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@curtmilam

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Writer, strategic communications, some strategy. Former USAF colonel. 16 years in Europe. Atlanticist.

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This Smirnov indictment is not getting enough attention from Americans. It's a bomb that's about to go off and some big fish are in the blast radius 🧵
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1. It's going to come out that the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian intelligence operation that will be tied to Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani.
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@EdwardGLuce @MaxBoot Also, Russian state TV has been hacked and now it's playing Ukrainian folk songs 🤣🇺🇦
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7. Should have added...this will happen b/c Smirnov--to save himself--is going to sing like a bird. To avoid jail time...he's going to throw a lot of people under the bus. That's also why he needs to be in custody. A lot of people with good reasons to shut him up. Mostly Russian
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4. It's going to come out that several sitting Republican legislators were involved in creating and promoting the Russian operation. 5. Abbe Lowell (Hunter Biden's lawyer) has DoJ by the short hairs and he knows it.
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2. It's going to come out that the Special Prosecutor David Weiss was played by Smirnoff...perhaps willingly and Weiss indicted Smirnoff to, in part, cover his own ass. 3. AG Garland will be forced to relieve Weiss...and possible investigate him.
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6. The combined actions of 3 right-wing special prosecutors--Durham, Hur and Weiss--will cost AG Garland his job, either through resignation or dismissal.
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@panyiszabolcs What's being done to Kyiv was done to Budapest. By the same people and not so long ago. The irony is so thick...
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It's going to be a very long night for the the JCS, CIA, NSA, NSC...lots of pizza being ordered in DC tonight.
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Military police stopping traffic in the north of Rostov on Don
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@axios I will never understand why the Democratic party allows him to run as a Democrat. He’s not.
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75 years ago today. This is how you do a "mission accomplished" moment. A single sentence.
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@BFriedmanDC @ericmwebb1 Musk is...ahem...an immigrant.
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@Intellect_Vids @TimothyDSnyder Listen to this truth. Western Europe is peaceful and lovely today not b/c the Allies won WWII, but b/c those same Western European countries lost their empires. Russia must also lose its war of empire to move beyond it to a more peaceful future.
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@rhuester49 I’m not a sir anymore Hunter’s indicated some of the digital content is him. Nothing about the “laptop” being his. Big difference.
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@travisakers @Seacretsoc1 There is no such thing as an 8 month enlistment. So this guy was sent packing by the marines. Also, I think the Stolen Valor Act makes lying about military service or awards a federal crime. FBI may want to check this guy.
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@dkearnsjr Could not agree more. Garland was a symbolic appointment by Biden and a huge mistake. Yates had already shown she had the steel for this task.
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VP Pence, the fundamentalist, ultra-moralist just used as his RNC walk-off music YMCA. Arguably the gayest song ever recorded. SNL can't write skits like this, they'd be rejected.
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@WarintheFuture @IAPonomarenko Two issues with this assessment. 1. If RUS opts for "attrition from a distance" UKR will be forced to the offense. Disagree. UKR can continue raiding, it's working 2. RF can fix their logistics with a pause. They can't. The problem is not temporal, it's geographic and systemic.
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@JamieMcCall @MalcolmNance Why? AMI is dead. Bezos will get the keys to the vault through discovery once he sues them. I prefer to see Bezos buy Fox and shut it down. The price is rounding error in 1-week's worth of earnings for Bezos.
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@LindseyGrahamSC @realDonaldTrump For "breathtaking violation of the Constitution" please walk a few doors down to @senatemajldr McConnell He's the expert.
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@JohnRMoffitt @realDonaldTrump The first time he’s asked about this in front of cameras he will spew the bile he really wanted to say.
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@sentdefender More likely they are preparing to break diplomatic relations with Poland. All diplomats must leave and the embassy turned over. So, they are burning what they don't want the Poles to see.
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@propublica There is also an ongoing issue with this organization infiltrating the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. It is an actively malign entity.
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@JRubinBlogger @camanpour @ArtAcevedo Epic head-shake and eye-roll combo. Not to mention the content: 1. Trump: Lead or shut up 2. Young people: Don't destroy, vote
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We all need to understand the gravity of the situation. If war is politics by other means, this is war by other means.
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"Russia’s objective—to install pro-Putin govts—is no different than if Moscow ordered 1st GTA to march westward."
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@tribelaw Bernie has pulled the same fraud Trump did. Both don’t really belong to the parties they are using. Both are narcissists. Both love Russia.
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@RexChapman His state ranks 50th in public health and 50th in education. There is a reason for that.
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@kylegriffin1 @RAKlotsky What...one might ask...does Kyrsten Sinema know about flying commercial passenger jets? Absolutely nothing I'm quite sure. But a review of her list of donors might reveal a motive?
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@TheRickWilson I will never believe he understood that reference.
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@MattGertz @mehdirhasan Actually I don't think Musk is that powerful. His car business is going down the tubes, his social media business...same. And his rocket business is about 80% dependent on USG contracts. Like Trump...he's a bit of a fraud.
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@ChrisLu44 @NormOrnstein Really. And the blanket ignoring of subpoenas for thousands of documents and multiple acts of witness intimidation just go poof? Obstruction of Congress is much more than a few witnesses agreeing to testify.
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@Bonnie88 @wideawake1808 @BillKristol His base is a mix of: anger, vindictiveness, poor education, learned bigotry, addiction, violence, and fear. Quite a toxic cocktail indeed.
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@TeaPainUSA I’m a volunteer election worker in Montgomery Co, PA…and this is not how it works.
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@existentialcoms The USSR remained (and remains) a backwards economy while a small group using stolen resources put a basketball in low-earth orbit.
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A NATO with Finland and Sweden in and Turkey and Hungary out is a deal we should take. Plus we won't have to pay for new flagpoles everywhere.
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NC my first assignment was flying the mighty C-130 Hercules above your mountains, sandhills and beaches. Met and married my wife there. Honeymooned at OBX. I love your state and you deserve better than the leadership you have. Send Moe to DC.
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Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired)
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My #NC11 opponent is a Trump loyalist who sports a Molon Labe logo, named his company SPQR, uses a Betsy Ross flag as background and believes women need men to tell them what to do. I’m running to move WNC forward, he’s running to set it back.
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Hey NC. As a fellow USAF colonel with some NC ties (my first flying assignment was Pope AFB in Fayetteville met my wife and married her in Pinehurst and honeymooned on the OBX) Please put Moe Davis in office to serve you. NC needs him.
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@AdamParkhomenko I’m hearing good things about this guy in #NC11 .
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@timecaptales @AfricanArchives Despite??? They served that long on the front lines because they were black and considered expendable. I don't think you understand the history and context here.
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@wartranslated If Prigozhin knows the tail numbers of the launched aircraft then he has allies in the RuAF that he can tap for real-time intelligence. Prigozhin will keep his Wagner forces very close to civilians at all times so if RU forces attack him they will kill Russian civilians.
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Unpacking some old boxes last night. Ran across this concert poster I had framed from a show I went to in 1985. @neworder
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Trump continues to give access to people he knows are going to skewer him. He's like the serial killer who secretly wants to be caught so he keeps agreeing to talk to the cops. Some serious pathology at work here.
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@PaulDEaton52 Could not agree more. GEN Bradley is more than deserving of this honor.
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@TreasChest @ericmwebb1 When Bradleys, Leopards & Abrams begin to appear on the battlefield...with trained combined arms tactics...this map will dramatically change. RF attack and defend with untrained and unmotivated troops. It's going to get even worse for them. Spring will be their Hell. @AVindman
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@cwebbonline @GerrishLisa Not an area accustomed to tropical moisture on this scale.
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@waltshaub @owillis Walt how long have you been waiting to use that?
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@MiaFarrow @GerrishLisa Well, it is now the citizens of the U.S. v. the SCOTUS. I fear the SCOTUS has overplayed their hand. SCOTUS reform will now be a legitimate issue in national campaigns...as it should be. This SCOTUS has set the stage for a national referendum on the SCOTUS.
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@GavinNewsom Trafficking people is a federal crime. Trafficking them using public funds is both a federal and state crime. CA, TX and the US DoJ should all be indicting DeSantis and his goons that executed this plan.
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@lawofruby @emptywheel when are the courts going to start sanctioning Trump and his legal team for frivolous filings? the courts are making a mistake by treating Trump differently...it will come back to haunt them.
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@michaeldweiss A business decision. U.S. wants European allies to upgrade to the F-35. Prediction: announcements of F-16 transfers from European allies will be followed by an announcement of F-35 sales from US. Self-licking ice cream cone but also a win-win-win for UKR, US and NATO
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@jonkarl Mark Meadows is a criminal and should not get immunity and just walk away from nearly destroying our country. Nobody elected Merrick Garland.
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@RadioFreeTom No. If the individual is a hazard to the other passengers you can absolutely restrain him. With the means available. 5000 flight hours as crew. So don’t drop your expertise bit on me.
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@mehdirhasan Fair Mehdi. But address his points. Which were pretty good. TBF.
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@SuzanneKelleher @peterdaou You can help. By not calling them “socialist” programs. They are social programs.
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Tillerson explicitly fingers RUS for the UK nerve agent attack. 20 hrs later Trump summarily fires him. Nothing to see here.
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@mdubowitz I'm a retired full colonel. Shameful that a 4-star general would make a political "I don't like the democrats" comment in the context of national security. In the last few years I've lost a lot of respect and confidence in my old agency DoD.
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@Kasparov63 @3PennyMovies It's unfair to say NATO is simply "standing aside" NATO and NATO member-states are providing massive materiel and humanitarian support as well as tactical intelligence directly to UKR forces. They are helping immensely.
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The madness of the past week has overshadowed what happened in GA. A poor black child, who inherited the seat of MLK's pulpit will now be a US senator. That is worth rejoicing. Raphael Warnock and the Legacy of Racial Tyranny
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@SheriAWilkinson With all the vax hesitancy out there, why would you post something like this? Just why?
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😟 The bad news: My son had an operation on his birthday! 🙂 The good news: He loved his birthday present! He will see you at the pitch! ⚽️⚽️⚽️ @PhilaUnion @SonsofBen
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this is childish and wrong.
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Happy #StarTrekDay — in honour of this occasion and with apologies to the Great Bird of the Galaxy for my transgressions, I have replaced every instance of the word “brain” in Spock’s Brain with the word “dick”. I’m so very sorry. #SpocksDick
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@ClintEhrlich Actually no, it doesn't. Fanboy much?
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@panyiszabolcs @Telexhu Drug-fueled Gangbang is a great band name. You’re welcome.
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@StazJohnson @ManMadeMoon Peter Falk's great grandfather, Miksa Falk was a famous Hungarian politician and journalist. There is a street in Budapest named for him and on the sidewalk there is this bronze. 🇭🇺
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@kalmantibs @panyiszabolcs Agreed. Stop the kink-shaming and pass the meth and lube.
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@AWeissmann_ @mimiloves2 Murdoch is not American by birth. He’s a naturalized immigrant from Australia…as are his kids who run Fox. That citizenship can be revoked for crimes committed in the US. Like…for example…campaign finance fraud.
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@ivanastradner @NATO The Balkans have been unstable for 5,000 years. Persia, Greece, Rome, Ottomans, Germans, Russians. The region remains a powder keg. Putin understands this. Does the West?
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this is awkward
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@nytimes Note that, as a senator, Mr. McConnell did not pay a cent for this healthcare--a week in hospital and coming weeks of inpatient therapy. All while the party he leads is actively trying to deny far less generous healthcare to average Americans. Wake up. Republicans hate you
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@nytdavidbrooks Progress. Breaking free from the cult.
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@TheRickWilson Which is why GA is not irrelevant.
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“Oooh. Smoked by the cat.” Come on, dogs. You’re better than this...😂🤣😭💀💀
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@Will_Bunch I’m not a big fan of JJ. But this is cancel culture at its worst. If this was HS then Jerry was 16 or 17? I would not want my life judged by how I thought or acted at that age. He’s now in his 80s. If you must judge him, then do so on the sum of his life.
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@AdamKinzinger Yep. The MA ANG is an F-15C wing with an air superiority mission. And this guy worked in the intel shop. Not a stretch at all to assume he would have a SIPR terminal and the ability to access material like this.
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@eliehonig Im new at this and thought this is how you do it.
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@RexChapman @jonfavs My son was studying abroad---in Seoul!! The school recalled them and the flight connected through Tokyo!! Made it back just in time. 21 days self-quarantine.
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@charliekirk11 I served 26 yrs on active duty. Every time I deployed I was a human pincushion. Nobody ever asked if I wanted the shots. Part of the job.
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Gotta say the logic is solid.
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@Osinttechnical UKR should not be doing this. It’s a Geneva Convention violation. UKR needs to retain the high ground. This does not help.
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@AVindman Tonight RUS attacked UKR with cruise missiles. UKR air defense use surface-to-air missiles (SAM) to intercept incoming RUS missiles. Sometimes those SAMs veer off course or otherwise malfunction. What landed in POL could very well be a UKR SAM. Cool heads need to prevail here.
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@kylegriffin1 The right decision. USMIL space has been Colorado-based since the 1950s. All the infra and human capital is there. It would be madness to move it.
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@joelockhart lying by omission is lying. (not a WPer...but career military officer)
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@Casey @RexChapman @rainnwilson Not an expert. But I lived in AK 5 yrs with some time spent in the bush. The behavior of this bear is that it’s accustomed to humans. It’s curious, not threatening. But kid doing right thing. Never run, it triggers a chase instinct in the bear. Just calmly give the bear room.
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@MarkHertling Amphibious assaults are among the most difficult (if not the most) to execute successfully. If RU attempts this at Odesa, given their performance to date, I expect it to be FUBAR.
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@BGrueskin @gtconway3d I love how they used public transit to go to their “we hate government” rally. I mean…you just can’t make this shit up.
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@MollyJongFast I sense a new political star forming in this guy. In a good way.
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@aliasvaughn Also, Manafort is out of $. He can't access his accounts and can't work. Bobby 3 Sticks knew this...bleed him of cash for 9 months and he'll beg to flip. A pardon will not help him if he's broke.
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@o_thirteen @atrupar Is he currently a soldier in the IDF? If the answer is no he has no business wearing this uniform. I’m sure the IDF would be the first to agree. I served 26 yrs in the USAF. I can’t go on TV in uniform.
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@BeschlossDC Or maybe a verb, like at the end of a sporting event or concert, “Let’s Hawley out of here and beat the traffic”
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@TerryBoutonHist Shame on you for attending. You just add to the crowd count. Find a new hobby.
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More Hungarian irony. HUN won't allow arms to enter UKR from its territory or airspace. HUN literally hosts NATO's only military airlift base (3 x C-17s). When this is all over one might expect NATO to take a very hard look at that basing decision.
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@fahey @davidfrum Darth Fucking Vader.
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@BradfordPearson @MomRovin Uhmmm, these are all expenses resulting from personal choices. Find some better examples. Food and medicine would be better.
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@WalterIsaacson @mel_giancarlo And the mRNA technique was developed by a female Hungarian immigrant in the UK.
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@mschwirtz Oof. As a guardsman he can be brought on to active duty and tried under the UCMJ and also tried as a civilian by DoJ. Life over.
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@greggrosenthal @mikefreemanNFL "Every Teacher Kills Me" is a good band name.
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@RexChapman @SteveKerr It seems he was already handcuffed. What is the possible reason for restraining him like that?
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@nukestrat @Felix_Nuno Smart. A Nordic Air Force. Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg did a version of this decades ago—BENELUX. @klaasm67
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@jennycohn1 Full colonel in the 2nd cavalry regiment. eagle: rank of colonel crossed swords: branch insignia of the U.S. Army cavalry 2: Second regiment
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