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  I recommend everyone read Seth Abramson on this turkey food cart switch. The story is so much deeper and darker than trump being afraid, sneaking off on a cart. He wanted to have an Iranian missile shoot at AF1. He wanted to come out of that unscathed and brag about it. The probing question is why did it even come to this? Trump hates NATO, and Turkey borders Iran. So, why did he even go to this summit? Why did he have the military have 170 bombing campaigns the days before the summit? And, why did he keep talkiing about Iran putting him on notice for a missile attack? Short story is weapons trade with Turkey, showing NATO cannot protect even a summit, and pulling Europe in to the Iran conflict. That is just a snapshot of what this sneaking off the plane on a food cart is all about. Now, imagine everyone, including some of the inner circle being kept in the dark. Yeah, what a fucking mess this is, and hopefully independent journalists like Scott, like Seth, like Carol Leonnig sta...

  Today in Politics, Bulletin 439. 8/13/26 Ron Filipkowski Aug 13 ∙ … Text messages shared with MeidasTouch by a family member of a service member currently deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln paint a bleak picture of daily life on board, more than 8 months into a deployment that was supposed to end in May and instead has no announced return date. … “Why isn’t there milk?!” the family member asked in one exchange. The sailor explained that the ship’s supply runs simply can’t keep perishables fresh long enough to make the trip out to the carrier. “So the supply ship that comes here can’t bring fruits and stuff cause it can’t stay fresh long enough with the time it gets them to get here. So we haven’t had anything fresh but meat cause it’s freezed. Sometimes it gets here rotten.” … In a separate message, the sailor sent a photo of a plastic container of what looks like cereal, writing: “Hey honey I’m eating cereal rn. Wish there was milk tho. Haven’t had milk in 3 months. ” … Th...