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 Maybe...check out what Sabrina Salvati found:

 Should America be going to war at all when their troops have to do this in order to get food for their families? From the Guardian : The pantry’s parking lot is where I found Miguel Pérez on a July morning, lugging a heavy reusable grocery bag to his pickup under the already blazing central Texas sun. Pérez, a 39-year-old army combat engineer, was on leave and asked that I not use his real name. His bag contained sweet potatoes, a box of elbow macaroni, a 5lb bag of frozen chicken breasts, some enormous beets, a dozen eggs and a few other staples – about $100 worth of food by his reckoning. Born in the Dominican Republic, Pérez lived in Colorado and worked in casinos before losing his job during the Covid-19 pandemic. A friend who worked as an army recruiter suggested he look into the military. He was 34 when he enlisted, completing basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and eventually landing at Fort Hood. Combat engineers are responsible for emplacing and destroying obst...

 

 

  Major vulnerability exposed? Iranian Propaganda? Israeli counter-intelligence op? Time will tell. 

 

  Bonus: In the name of "equal time," Hasan Minhaj has a video about the good things Mamdani has done.  In other words: politicians like Mamdani aren't terrible, but they could be way better.