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There are 100k students in med school each year. Room and board is about 100k per year. For 10b a year, med school could be free. We would see a wholesale change in the profession, career paths and the cost of care. It would change the economics for every financial decision doctors

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Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

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That’s because there are words on it.

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He looks scared. I would be too if I were president and had no idea what I was doing.

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Viewer tips: If you're looking for Iran news on mainstream TV, BBC right now is SO much better than any of the US outlets. Dramatic, and should be studied in journalism world.

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What am I worried about? -Safety of 30k US troops in the Middle East -cybersecurity (since CISA was recently gutted) & homeland security (as HLS focused on immigration) -Economic strength (oil prices and tariffs) -Allied assistance (we’ll need that now) -Domestic intell (leadership at FBI/DNI)

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Tariffs. Stock market down. Medicaid slashed Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans. National guard and marines deployed in LA. No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine Bombing Iran This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.

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There is no “one and done” in any conflict. The opponent always gets a vote, and unless we’ve prepped for all the things Iran may do we’re gonna have some surprises.

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He’d make the two Corinthians proud.

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💯. There is no strategy, only impulses to quench an unquenchable narcissistic thirst.

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On Hannity tonight, Fox News’ National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports that it’s not clear whether the U.S. was able to destroy Iran’s nuclear site at Isfahan—despite Trump’s claim that all three sites have been “completely and totally obliterated.”

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turns out not having nuclear weapons can be a serious vulnerability. iraq, libya, ukraine, iran…

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The US strikes on nuclear sites in Iran are an extraordinary turn for a military that was supposed to be moving on from two decades of forever wars in the Middle East, write Helene Cooper Eric Schmitt and @julianbarnes.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

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AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

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We just bombed Iran according to trump. I don’t recall him getting congressional approval.

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We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

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“Bombing for peace is like fucking for chastity.” - a bumper sticker I had in high school

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Remember all that “genocide Joe” and “Kamala is a war hawk” shit? Yeah…psyops. It worked.

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So… People seem to think that we’re just done now? We bombed the shit out of three nuclear sites in a country we weren’t at war with, and that’s just… it? Oh, my sweet summer children.

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ABC’s Jay O’Brien is reporting that republicans in Congress were briefed ahead of the strikes, but that democrats were not briefed until after the attack was underway.

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and some now-prominent pundits legitimated this nonsense

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I was thinking that maybe, more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, media coverage would be more skeptical and less sycophantic No such luck

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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

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Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

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Chuck Schumer: "No president should be allowed to unilaterally march this nation into something as consequential as war with erratic threats and no strategy." (via Punchbowl)

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Our country needs to be stopped

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The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.

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How did this work out?

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BREAKING: Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization says it will not halt its nuclear program following the U.S. attack, calling the strikes a “blatant violation of international law.”

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Steve Bannon’s live stream chat during Trump’s speech:

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Trump at 10: We hit them. And we hit them harder than anyone has ever been hit. Nobody has ever seen a hit like this. Many are saying you couldn’t have a better hit. I said I would need two weeks but I busted early.

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What was that about World War III?

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The social network started experiencing global outages within minutes of Donald Trump posting details of a US military strike on Iran. www.wired.com/story/truth-...

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And just like that, the ‘No New Wars’ people are all-in on a new war. Proving yet again that they really believe in nothing other than what one man tells them to believe today. Which could be different tomorrow. The very definition of a cult.

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Time will tell, as it usually does.

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We’re in another Middle East war. I’m reflecting on the fact that it’s easy to start a war, difficult to end it. There’s often war optimism, so it’s unlikely to end with bomb strikes today. Lastly, I’m troubled that Trump’s national security team is who we have running this war.

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