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You mean to tell me that Trump needs to be targeting the states that were the closest last election? Nonsense.

Well, he can defend the 90% number by claiming that the rest of Haley primary voters were not Republican and even then, the math does not add up.  And frankly in a tight race, even 10% of primary voters is yooge!

I would view that comment more as a signal and as public negotiations with Haley.  He wants to lower her price for coming to him (not sure whether just for endorsement or as a VP).  I doubt that flea market bargaining strategy will work but we shall see.

Oh geez, how many times have we heard this over the last nine years?

“Don’t worry, folks — I know Trump’s statement seems like a complete lie if you just go by the facts, but if you let me dissect it for the next 15 minutes, you’ll see it actually makes a lot of sense and is a brilliant political 3D chess move!”

Not buying it!

Bu bu Trump quoted wrong numbers about a settled primary he won in a landslide. He’s a dumb idiot and mentally unsound.

Unrelatedly it’s totally normal to forget how and in what country your son died, that’s easy to mess up.

I think the important thing that we all need to remember here is that Paul Pelosi isn't a saint guys.

I wonder (seriously) if Rudy may have fled the country.  His life is pretty much in ruins if he stays in the U.S.

Sometimes, I truly wonder if these people would sell their mothers and their children into bondage just for the sake of Israel.

If this was any other country on Earth, like, let's say Bolivia or Kyrgyzstan, I'll bet you a chorus of voices would've already been calling for their impeachment and resignation for prioritizing the needs of a foreign country, consequences be damned, over our own. But funnily enough, this standard is conveniently never applied to the so-called "greatest ally."

[The case of a 9-year-old Nepalese child allegedly attacked by classmates at a school in Amadora]

The mysterious case of a Nepalese child assaulted by classmates in a school, that no one can find out when it happen or to whom it happen:

https://twitter.com/SICNoticias/status/1791097668883910912

Case of the assaulted Nepali child is raising doubts

The case of a 9-year-old Nepalese child allegedly attacked by classmates at a school in Amadora is raising some doubts.

It was during a telephone interview with Rádio Renascença that Ana Mansoa, director of the Centro Padre Alves Correia, revealed attacks on a 9-year-old boy.

In the same interview she said that there were five attackers and a sixth, who filmed everything and shared it on the internet and also said that the child had open wounds, which were treated at home because the mother was afraid of going to the hospital and that even today the child has nightmares about the case.

Two days after the interview was released, the Ministry of Education went public to say that the information it had was contrary.

Only after insistence did the Padre Alves Correia Center agree to collaborate with the ministry and said that the attacks took place in a school in Amadora.

However, the Ministry realized through management that the only Nepali students enrolled in the school are secondary school students, meaning there are no 9-year-old Nepali children enrolled there.

Therefore, the school says it is unaware of the alleged episode of aggression or any similar situation and has not received any information.

Ana Mansoa ended up releasing another statement this Thursday morning to say that the information had been transmitted to the competent authorities.

To SIC, the PSP says that it learned about the case through the media, despite trying to collect information to forward to the Public Ministry.

The Government wants to better understand the case and has asked for an assessment.

Despite the doubts that arose with the statement from the Ministry of Education, the center that publicized the case says it will not say anything more to the media so as not to harm the child's well-being.

This story is so weird...

BTW thank you to President Johnson for (intentionally or not) injecting some much-needed humor into this thread. It kinda makes me think of this Family Guy clip, just replace "Sweden" with "Germany":

Whoever that is is no Tom Petty.

At this point, the US and Israeli military are intertwined in a massive intelligence gathering operation over about 4 to 5 countries.

The point is probably that the US has no soldiers on the ground at the moment in Israel or Ukraine. Hence, it's probably better to fund these other agents or proxies.

As long as the weapons get built in the US, it's a win-win for both parties.

For birds, it's not very clear what species survived, but the overwhelming majority was wiped out. It's suggested that about +-five-six species survived and are responsible for the diversity of today.

Those being:

- the stem animal species of Neoaves
- the stem animal species of Galliformes (landfowl incl. chicken)
- the stem animal species of Anseriformes (waterfowl)
- the stem animal species or 1 species of Palaeognathae (ancient birds, most likely closest related to an ostrich)

Most bird species alive today belong to Neoaves clade.

All having in common with the exception of neoaves that they were flightless at the time or could hide in freshwater environments (which is also how crocodiles made it past the border), them also being more generalist than the more specialized pterosaurs that were less well adapted to change, and most of those also being too sizeful. Also speculated based on skull size that the birds that make it through the border also had a bigger brain size than some that didn't.

Amphibians also had that freshwater advantage, mammals were small generally and could burrow under ground, them being more of nocturnal omnivores/insectivores at the time, reptiles that weren't dinosaur were quite small and were better able to hide/more energy-efficient.

The northern hemisphere was much heavier hit by the immediate aftermath than the southern hemisphere. The T-Rex restricted to Laurentia (the western land mass in North America) being in one of the most heavily hit locations, almost certainly immediately doomed. The tuatara (living fossil) used to be globally spread before the extinction, after the extinction it survived and was able to maintain a colony till this day on New Zealand, the only place they weren't wiped out from (and also one of the largest places mammals didn't make the cut except for the bats which developed flight... and well humans and their pets but thats only recent, because New Zealand already was disconnected from other land masses at the time and mammals weren't around when NZL separated). The best places to be at to survive the extinction likely were Antarctica (Marie Byrd land) and New Zealand, which is for instance how also waterfowl are thought to have made it past the border by surviving there. Only from galliformes its known that they also survived in the northern hemisphere (the family of chicken/landfowl) due to their unique ability to burrow or hide underground as a bird species.

There is also speculation that some non-avian dinosaurs were already on the decline when the asteroid hit due to increased environmental stress, increased competition (usually something going megasized is an indicator of a predatory arms race), and well dinosaurs were megafauna and also climate disruption/ongoing volcanism but those weren't enough on their own to explain the extinction itself.

For mammals also, there were a few around but the ones that were best able to survive or rediversify were placentals (in northern hemisphere) and marsupials (in southern hemisphere), given the world of mammals specifically also saw major changes in biodiversity decline.