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Thursday, November 13, 2025
Trying to understand the 43 day govt shutdown.
In a concession to Democrats, the bill reverses Trump's recent layoffs of federal government that he made during the shutdown.
The six Democrats who voted for the bill are:
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Henry Cuellar, D-Texas
https://www.aol.com/articles/6-house-democrats-voted-republicans-023809142.html
I was just wondering how it must have felt for Aung Zeya (later King Alaunghpaya) as a boy growning up in the Kabaw Valley to experience a Manipuri raid and I found this.
It's all there, except the sounds, the mud, the dirt, the screams, the rapes--the fear, the tears, common to war. https://www.youtube.c...
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Directed by Miloš Forman Screenplay by Peter Shaffer Based on Amadeus by Peter Shaffer Mozart and Salieri by Alexander Pus...
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https://www.ecoticias.com/en/traffic-lights-fourth-color/10086/