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To the surprise of some officials in Kyiv, no one from the U.S. bothered to ask Ukraine to share its expertise in how to defend against drones before starting the offensive in Iran, Simon Shuster and Nancy A. Youssef report. theatln.tc/AFPCstm6
A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”
Screaming
I can’t decide if his behavior is more like a gamer in his mom’s basement talking to his bros or someone who has just been involuntarily committed to facility after going off his meds and self-medicating on meth. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.
Mediaite: Jamie Raskin hammered Kristi Noem for five solid minutes over the killings of unarmed Americans by Trump deportation force agents: "Your ICE agents shot them in the face!"
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans
Vaguely recall that a paroled inmate committing a terrible crime was enough of a scandal to undercut the Dukakis campaign. This is objectively worse in term of Trump's responsibility, but will get a fraction of the attention.
@lauracmorel.bsky.social reports from inside the weekly vigils that refuse to let Florida’s most notorious detention camp and the immigrants detained there be forgotten.
One of my favorite additions in WordPress 7.0 is PHP-only blocks. I put together a quick tutorial to show how they work.
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Click Around and Find Out: WordPress 7.0 on March 5, 2026
Tomorrow after WordPress 7.0 beta 3 ships, I'll start a livestream to test the new features coming. Join me by watching my accounts for the time. I am estimating 10am EST.
Trump not doing much to discredit my "vanity war" thesis here
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Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."
⚠️ The Guardian obtained missing FBI reports from interviews with a woman who alleges Trump abused her as a child:
“She claimed that when they were alone, Trump ‘mentioned something to the effect of: “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,”’ before attempting to sexually assault her.”
I come not to praise Claude or whatever but giving unaccountable robot decisionmaking to thundering dipshits who just shot down their own drone with a laser does seem like wrong side of history business
I regret to inform you that the Secretary of Defense is an idiot
if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying
In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel
Neil Sedaka was so talented, and he inspired me to follow my dream of being a songwriter.
With love and gratitude and condolences to his family.
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Bad enough to kick a reporter out. Worse to lie about it. Worse still to smear the reporter involved by a) accusing her of fabulism — a career-ending accusation — and b) falsely claiming she’s been sued for defamation
Not dramatic enough? There’s audio:
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People keep comparing MAGA/ICE/CBP/MAHA to 1930s Germany.
It's also more and more like late 1960s China, during Cultural Revolution. Or mid 1970s Cambodia, during "Year Zero."
A war against knowledge itself.
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Academics who risk everything by speaking out against the Regime, under the very real threat of being defunded or fired for speaking out against them, are way more patriotic than these corrupt authoritarians who wrap themselves in the flag while robbing our freedom and future.
@raskin.house.gov “The cardinal, original sin of Trump was to decide that he was going to use the presidency as a profit-making enterprise in his first term, and I would say that Congress should have impeached him for receiving millions and millions of dollars from foreign governments.”
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NEW: When anti-ICE protesters disrupted a church service, the Trump administration vowed to stop at nothing to protect religious liberty.
But congregations across the country who welcome immigrants say ICE has been violating their rights on a mass scale.
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By me, on SOTU.
(Most before paywall.)
(This replaces previous, deleted post, where the system freaked out at an illustration from Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.')
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"You now have a list of male suspects from the hundreds of thousands of pages of the Epstein materials. Who do you plan on questioning?"
REPUBLICANS: Easy. Hillary Clinton.
That’s probably gonna be too late. Just saying.
Fascinating new research paper asks: why did Biden receive so little political credit for his enormous investments in manufacturing? Turns out people give all the credit to governors (ironically, in this case, mostly red-state governors who were hostile to the policy!).
"refugee" - the most well off group in my country, who still own most of the private land, who rarely live in poverty think they're oppressed for reasons I know but are too ridiculous to explain.
In an overlooked decision this week, the Supreme Court ruled that the post office can refuse to deliver your mail, which is KIND OF SIGNIFICANT if you choose to mail your ballot.
To do this work, the anti-democracy wing turned to their favorite “black friend,” Clarence Thomas.