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Poet, teacher, parent, activist with a podcast addiction. Read my work at tedmillar.medium.com & theleftplace.substack.com.

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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 12h
"We're sending you the money we've spent on illegal campaign vanity ads and an illegal war. Now go spend it on gas and groceries."
l.smartnews.com
Trump to begin sending $500 ACA refund checks to 1 million Americans (USA Today)
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is set on Sept. 30 to start sending $500 checks to nearly 1 million Americans his administration says were overchargedthr...
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Calls to withdraw and sanction the #ICC are admissions of guilt to provide the political and legal cover needed to escape legal repercussions for past and future crimes. Next stop? #Cuba.
theleftplace.substack.com
Felons of a Feather Flock Together
Calls to withdraw and sanction the ICC are admissions of guilt to provide the political and legal cover needed to escape legal repercussions for past and future crimes. Next stop--Cuba.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why all the secrecy around COVID boosters? Oh, right--RFK.
theleftplace.substack.com
When a COVID Booster is an Act of Resistance
It’s been two weeks since I got my booster and publicity hasn’t improved. Has it by you?
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Across the country, voters are facing confusion, intimidation, disinformation and attacks on their freedom to vote. We're not sitting on the sidelines. Join @aft.org's Democracy Defenders here.
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Join the AFT's Democracy Defenders!
Across the country, voters are facing confusion, intimidation, disinformation and attacks on their freedom to vote, and we are not sitting on the sidelines. Sign up to help protect access to the ballo...
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Donald Trump and his Republican congressional allies are even more determined to prosecute the president’s war against American democracy to its catastrophic end than they were on January 6, 2021.” --Judge Michael Luttig
theleftplace.substack.com
Doomsday scenario: January 3 could be the next January 6
“Donald Trump and his Republican congressional allies are even more determined to prosecute the president’s war against American democracy to its catastrophic end than they were on January 6, 2021.”
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My father, who immigrated from Poland in 1968, says our transition to the conditions he fled is nearly complete. With this latest, it's hard to argue.
nytimes.com
How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech
President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Because clean air is "woke".
nytimes.com
E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Enter the Terminator films where machines that humans create become their Frankenstein monsters and declare all-out war on mankind. #AI #Anthropic
theleftplace.substack.com
AI’s Misanthropic Future
Enter the Terminator films where machines that humans create become their Frankenstein monsters and declare all-out war on mankind.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Count on it.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hey, RFK Jr, got my COVID shot yesterday. I still have a single head, both my arms and legs, and I'm not a drooling invalid. I did, however, bite my lip eating an apple. I'll blame that on the vaccine. And Biden.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hmmm...I seem to recall already having one.
theguardian.com
Energy secretary says US might not reach nuclear agreement with Iran
Chris Wright tells ABC there ‘may not’ be an agreement that would prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Catastrophic failure" is the goal.
theleftplace.substack.com
Whistleblower Warns of “Catastrophic Failure” For Mail-in Voting Under Illegal New Plot
“USPS leadership, it appears, has discarded all best practices...raising questions about whether catastrophic failure would be a feature rather than a bug.”
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
How do we spell "deflection"? It's now apparently spelled F-A-U-C-I.
nytimes.com
Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists
As Dr. Anthony Fauci has faced public scrutiny from congressional Republicans, the D.O.J. has pursued a quieter and more expansive effort against a wider circle of researchers.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yeah, and the 6 right wingers will probably rule something like, "Well, the Constitution doesn't say the postal service CAN'T do it." If I'm right, call me Tiresias.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Mail Voting Limits
The justices have been asked to weigh in again on the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict mail voting — this time on whether the plans violate the Constitution.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Here it comes.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Launches Hunt For Noncitizen Voter Fraud Before Midterms
Voter fraud is exceedingly rare, but President Trump has fixated on rooting it out this year, claiming without evidence that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
May your transition be peaceful, Wendell Berry.
nytimes.com
Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
How about a big FUCK YOU to Google for changing the name of Lake Ontario on Google Maps.
maps.app.goo.gl
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
According to the decision, the executive order could still be considered unconstitutional. But by then, the midterm elections might be over, millions of voters disenfranchised.
theleftplace.substack.com
Kicking the Can Down the Road, SCOTUS Sows Chaos (Again)
According to the decision, the executive order could still be considered unconstitutional. But by then, the midterm elections might be over, millions of voters disenfranchised.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I have a feeling that with having to defend himself against evidence of lying to Congress, RFK Jr. isn't going to be quick to approve the new covid vaccine. Wait for his excuse to be, "I was defending myself against a partisan witch hunt."
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wait, so you're saying members of a convicted felon's administration may be corrupt. No! Say it ain't so!
theguardian.com
Trump official faces inquiry over claims he diverted wildfire resources to his own property
Exclusive: Michael Boren, a senior official overseeing the US Forest Service, is accused by Democratic senators of ‘inappropriate interference’
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I wonder if the response from the WH will be urging people to shit less. In another time, under another administration, that would be a joke.
theguardian.com
Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And what's the response from our illustrious "HHS Secretary" @rfk-junior.bsky.social? Maybe he's too busy feasting on his next roadkill, finding another raccoon to castrate, or cutting off another whale's head.
theguardian.com
Two unvaccinated people die of measles in Pennsylvania
Deaths from disease are first in state in 35 years and just one day after Maryland declared outbreak in three counties
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@stephaniemiller.bsky.social Just saw this in the ACLU magazine.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A simple syllogism: "Mail-in voting is cheating. I voted my mail. I cheated."
theguardian.com
US supreme court rules Trump can proceed with crackdown on mail-in voting
Justices’ ruling comes after lower courts had blocked president’s election order ahead of November midterms
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The most incompetent president in history is using each of us an ATM, and if that alone doesn’t get people out to the polls this November, what will?
theleftplace.substack.com
The Grift Than Keeps On Grifting
The most incompetent president in history is using each of us an ATM, and if that alone doesn’t get people out to the polls this November, what will?
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My fear is not so much whether he will do it, but that our family, neighbors, coworkers, & friends will normalize it and fall for the con.
theguardian.com
Trump laying groundwork to impose national emergency by sowing election distrust
President’s speech, declassification of documents and heightened claims of noncitizen voting have experts concerned
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Thank you, Reagan, both Bushes, & Epstein's BFF!
nytimes.com
U.S. Debt Hits $40 Trillion as America’s Borrowing Binge Continues
President Trump’s promises to restore fiscal order and reduce the amount of America’s debt burden have been hampered by spending on the Iran war, tax cuts and tariff refunds.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
You think it might have been inappropriate to add the ironic aside his name was Beard and he was the only band member not to have one?
nytimes.com
Frank Beard, Beardless Drummer for ZZ Top, Dies at 77
The only member of the Texas power trio without a beard, he propelled the band’s blend of boogie, Southern rock and blues for more than a half-century.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Yes, it vandals--HIM!
l.smartnews.com
Trump blames vandals for damaged grass in the same spot where he held his big July 4 celebration (Associated Press)
FILE - Workers dismantle structures from Salute to America, an Independence Day event honoring the nation's 250th anniversary, as seen from the Washington Mo...
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Without America’s armament capability, #NATO partners will have more difficulty acquiring the firepower to sufficiently retaliate. Just what Vladimir Putin wants.
theleftplace.substack.com
US depleted munitions. Russia threatening to attack NATO. Coincidence?
Without America’s armament capability, NATO partners will have more difficulty acquiring the firepower to sufficiently retaliate. Just what Vladimir Putin wants.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"I didn't think the leopard would eat MY face."
nytimes.com
Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport.
The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is one reason I stopped watching #BillMaher.
l.smartnews.com
Bill Maher Issues Scathing Takedown of Immigrants Refusing to Adopt ‘Liberal Values’ (TV Insider)
Bill Maher just issued a scathing takedown of immigrants refusing to adopt "liberal values." On the Friday, August 14 episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, t...
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I haven't checked what right-wing hate media is saying about this man, if anything, but I can guarantee the fact he was once in a gang and took a plea for attempted murder decades ago is all the pretext republi-KKKons need to torture him.
nytimes.com
He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of. He May Never Go Free.
As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Take note of how many times the corporate media refers to the progressives winning their primaries as "Democratic Socialists". While some may be, it's label the media wants us to pay attention to, not the policies. This is exactly what right-wing hate media does.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Oh, he is, is he? Well, I'll bet he's really going to stand up and refuse to take it anymore (then sit right back down and shut up).
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
And I guarantee not a single one will express even one iota of indignation over being pushed in front of the bus, or, in this case, left for cannon fodder. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/u...
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Cute Peach Kiss Flying Kiss Bunnies
ALT: Cute Peach Kiss Flying Kiss Bunnies
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
All Democrats want to get back to the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt's administration. Where we differ is the canvas upon which the next New Deal will be created.
theleftplace.substack.com
Democrats: Beware of the Circular Firing Squad--Again
All Democrats want to get back to the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt's administration. Where we differ is the canvas upon which the next New Deal will be created.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
What do you when you're losing an unnecessary war, gotten people sick with preventable food-bourne illness, allowed eradicated diseases to return, break the economy, & your felonious president is an adjudicated rapist who kisses a Russian dictator's ass? Find a pathetic distraction!
theguardian.com
US Senate panel votes to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress over Covid hearing
Anthony Fauci’s lawyer condemned the vote from the Republican-controlled committee as a ‘crude political stunt’
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Totally normal. Climate change is a Chinese hoax, after all, right?
scientificamerican.com
It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now
The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Bob, if you need someone and don't mind a 52-Y-O high school English teacher with a receding hairline, I'm available--& gratis!
l.smartnews.com
Bob Dylan brings Jimmie Vaughan back into the fold as guitarist shake‑ups continue on tour (BANG Premier)
Bob Dylan switched up his live lineup once again, bringing blues veteran Jimmie Vaughan onstage during his US tour closer at Nashville's Ascend Federal Credi...
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
How long until they come for you?
theleftplace.substack.com
Now they've come for the intelligentsia
How long until they come for you?
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
No matter how out of touch this criminal fraud is, the level some will still go to defend him never ceases to baffle me.
theguardian.com
Let them eat SUVs: Trump White House orders fleet of luxury cars as Americans struggle
Americans are facing a deepening affordability crisis but at least Trump and co have ... 250 new Cadillac Escalades
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Since we're totally derelict in doing anything about housing, inflation, groceries, education, healthcare, and climate change, here's some red meat. Have at it, rubes!"
l.smartnews.com
Paul says Senate panel to vote on holding Fauci in contempt (The Hill)
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Wednesday he would push to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci ...
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Don't do a victory dance yet. This has to be a blow-out election, surpassing 2020 turnout.
dailykos.com
Blue wave, tsunami, or trickle? Here’s what the data says.
The midterm elections are now 100 days away. Democrats are favored to retake the House, but how many seats can they reasonably expect to win?
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Our soldiers' lives aren't fungable tokens to be traded according to political whims and expediency.
theleftplace.substack.com
Minus Four: Slain American soldiers erased from the Pentagon's casualty list
Their sacrifices aren’t eliminated just because they have were killed in a war that began as an apparent sop to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
And how many times is this now? #taco
nytimes.com
Trump Holds Off on Major War Escalation Against Iran as Advisers Raise Concerns
Among the worries is that expanded hostilities could dangerously drain the diminished stockpile of air defense munitions in the Middle East.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"Owning the libs!"
nytimes.com
Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane
More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
What happened to all that "fraud and waste" we were supposedly so concerned about? They're right there in the DOD and Oval Office.
ground.news
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tells Congress that the latest estimate of the cost of the Iran war is $37.5 billion
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing questions and protests at a Senate hearing over the U.S. war against Iran
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Ted Millar 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇯🇴 🌍🗽📚 ✍️ @tlp32.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I will laugh my ass off if republi-cons start calling for tighter regulations now because of this.
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Mark Bechtel @markymark757.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Rest in peace, Isabella. 💙🌷
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