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Sam 🇺🇸 retweeted
🚨 #BREAKING: PEORIA MAYOR RITA ALI HAS CONFIRMED THAT A BOMB HAS BEEN FOUND AT BIOURJA RENEWABLES IN PEORIA, ILLINOIS.
THE THREAT IS VERY REAL. AGAIN THE BOMB IS REAL.
Authorities have been responding to a bomb threat at the ethanol and industrial alcohol production facility at 1 Edmund Street. The discovery comes after a mandatory 1-mile evacuation was ordered, affecting portions of Peoria and neighboring East Peoria.
The FBI, ATF explosives specialists from the Chicago Field Division, bomb squad and local law enforcement are involved in the response.
ATF has confirmed its Certified Explosives Specialists are on scene.
IF YOU ARE STILL IN THE EVACUATION ZONE, LEAVE IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT WAIT. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
Please SHARE this post so others in the affected area are aware.
Stay away from the area and follow instructions from emergency personnel.
#UPDATE: ATF confirms it has responded to the bomb threat in Peoria, Illinois.
ATF special agents and Certified Explosives Specialists from the Chicago Field Division are now on scene assisting with the investigation.
ATF is working alongside the FBI and local law enforcement as authorities investigate the threat involving BioUrja Renewables.
Officials are urging everyone to avoid the area while the investigation continues.
The mandatory 1-mile evacuation remains in effect.
Sam 🇺🇸 retweeted
Tanker collides with river cruise ship on Mississippi River
A major rescue operation is underway in New Orleans after the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker Atlantic Asphalt collided with the US-flagged river cruise ship American Heritage on 13 November. The passenger vessel was reportedly taking on water and was seen lying on her side, with around 129 passengers, in addition to crew members, aboard at the time of the collision.
According to #MarineTraffic data, the 81-metre American Heritage had arrived from Natchez and docked in New Orleans at 16:53 UTC. At 18:29 UTC (12:29pm local time), MarineTraffic recorded a proximity event between the cruise ship and the 160-metre Atlantic Asphalt, coinciding with the reported time of the collision.
Sam 🇺🇸 retweeted
Watch the moment a tanker struck a cruise ship in New Orleans. Rescues are underway.
📷: Kern Studios
wdsu.com/article/mississippi…
Sam 🇺🇸 retweeted
Abdul, you lecture the country about guaranteeing healthcare from cradle to grave while your own wife, psychiatrist Sarah Jukaku, runs a cash only private practice in Ann Arbor that accepts no insurance at all. Not Medicare. Not Medicaid. Not private plans. She formally opted out of Medicare so patients on the program must pay her out of pocket. Her practice website previously stated outright that she does not accept insurance. That is the opposite of the system you demand for everyone else.
You brand yourself a physician, yet you never completed a residency, never held a medical license in Michigan or New York, and never practiced clinical medicine independently. Your only real patient experience was a short medical school rotation you once described as cosplaying a doctor. Meanwhile your household reported nearly seven hundred thousand dollars in income while living by rules you refuse to impose on yourself.
Medicare for All sounds righteous until the people preaching it quietly opt out of the existing version and charge cash for care only the wealthy can afford. Americans notice the difference between rhetoric and reality.
You are hot garbage and I’ll continue to call you out on it.
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This is a message for @realDonaldTrump.
Donald, this is on the table. Guarantee healthcare for every American, from cradle to grave.
Sam 🇺🇸 retweeted
It is crazy that people think the government gives us our rights. Take away Civics and cursive writing and the citizens become slaves.
Sam 🇺🇸 retweeted
CCTV shows Brian Cole Jr. was somewhere else when the pipe bombs were planted.
Rep. Tim Burchett just called the case “ridiculous.”
“It stunk from day one.”
He says it’s “a cover up of many cover ups” and that “somebody else had to be involved.”
An autistic man is still facing terrorism charges.
@gatewaypundit
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Hasan Piker hits a wall when he tries to tell a man born in the Soviet Union that Americans are just as controlled as people under communism.
Konstantin Kisin shuts down the comparison and lays out the difference.
When he’s done, even Piker admits he’s right.
HASAN PIKER: “A lot of people think, well, as long as I can eat a Big Mac, you know, as long as I can watch TV, as long as I can consume porn [...] then, you know, things are probably fine.”
“It’s a different mechanism of control that makes you think that you are actually an active participant in this.”
Kisin isn’t buying it.
KONSTANTIN KISIN: “The difference between those countries is not that they can’t eat a Big Mac.”
“The difference is that if they criticize the government, in Russia today even, but of course in the Soviet Union previously, you’re going to get killed, right? In America, that’s not what happens, right? In America, you don’t get put in jail.”
HASAN PIKER: “We don’t know yet.”
That’s his whole defense: what MIGHT happen in America.
So Kisin makes it personal.
KONSTANTIN KISIN: “You in China or in the Soviet Union would be killed if you were critical of that regime.”
HASAN PIKER: “I would definitely be jailed, for sure.”
And there it is. Piker makes Kisin’s argument for him.
KONSTANTIN KISIN: “So that’s the difference between these countries and America. It’s not a Big Mac, it’s freedom.”
Only in a free country can you build a career telling people they aren’t free.
CONTEXT: Communist regimes don’t just jail their critics.
Under Stalin, the Soviet secret police executed 681,692 people in two years, by the regime’s own records. That’s more than 900 a day.
Under Mao, the Great Leap Forward killed at least 45 million people in four years, per historian Frank Dikötter.
Under Pol Pot, nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population was dead within four years.
