@aeternalpessimist.bsky.social
Moderate Dem married to a Maga GOP. Go me. I support women's rights, voting rights, equal rights, LGBTQ Rights, Climate change, responsible immigration reform, reproductive rights. Oppose Dictator's-R-Us (GOP) agenda, pushing religious beliefs, book bans
I am the parent of a Vet Navy Seabee. If my only surviving "child" was on that ship, I would be every government official's nightmare.
USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
theguardian.com
This is what authoritarianism looks like. Educate yourself everyone. No one is special to the regime.
The manufacturer warns against using the gloves as punishment or on people merely being verbally defiant, or on children, pregnant women, elderly, or disabled individuals.
ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a Wednesday notice that outlined plans to provide Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers with gloves that will deliver painful elect…
thehill.com
It was a wrenching sight: The young elephant was lodged headfirst inside the hole — a claustrophobic, inescapable trap. His herd was nearby, stressed but helpless.
A Shocking Sight Ends With a Miracle Elephant Rescue
We’re no strangers to unusual sights in the field, but even for us, this was shocking. What unfolded was an extraordinary operation with a very happy ending: Rescuing a young elephant stuck headfirst ...
sheldrickwildlifetrust.org
Elmo is going to do to SpaceX the same he did to the budget. Make it extremely more expensive without bringing any realistic prospect of new revenue. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
DOGE said it saved $1.7 billion by terminating a military health IT contract. GAO found the contract was never terminated.
DOGE reported $1.76 billion in savings from terminating a contract, but GAO found that the contract was never terminated and no funds were deobligated.
militarytimes.com
Blanche’s latest move reflects poorly on all the Republicans who voted to confirm him—but especially Senators Bill Cassidy, John Cornyn, and Tom Tillis, who bought into the AG’s promises to limit the scope of a different immunity for the president. trib.al/Qy3Gxo7
Surprise! Todd Blanche Immediately Breaks His Promises to GOP Senators
Hours after being sworn in as attorney general, Blanche gave Donald Trump even more protections.
trib.al
Get yourself a dashcam, folks. ICE cannot be trusted.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
The Trump administration has pulled federal funding for the Arctic Report Card, an annual scientific assessment that has tracked the rapidly changing Arctic for the past two decades.
Maoist China made ideological conformity an administrative requirement. The parallels are becoming impossible to ignore. The Trump Administration is building a centralized party-state system to enforce ideological conformity
America’s Re-Education System Is Entering Its Most Extreme Phase Yet.
The Endgame Is a Permanently Altered American Reality.
wendy664.substack.com
When the banks needed help, they called it “stabilizing the economy.” When airlines needed help, they called it “protecting jobs.” When corporations got tax breaks, they called it “pro-growth.” When working people need health care? “SOCIALISM.”
That will probably work about as well as anything else he’s done
"It's not typical for the FBI to be calling state election officials and just asking and conducting a fishing expedition to see private voter data," a former senior Justice Department official told Axios. "It's not typical and it's not appropriate."
Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic
The move offers a glimpse into how authorities are now digging into voter rolls and registration practices.
axios.com
"In connection with the above, the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources can establish that the licensee did not have the necessary approvals from the mineral resources authorities in place before they initiated this operation.
Uden tilladelse har amerikansk olieselskab netop sejlet udstyr til Jameson Land
Udstyret skal ifølge Permagreen, som har serviceret Greenland Energy Company, bruges til deres omstridte olieefterforskning i Jameson Land.
danwatch.dk
An American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received permission from the local authorities.
Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
theguardian.com
A must read: I don’t care if you’re a moderate Democrat, an Al Gore centrist, or a Progressive; if you carry most of the party platform, I’m going to vote for you, because this world of Trump having no accountability HAS TO end.
Know Your Enemy
By Matt McNeil
minocquabrewingcompanytimes.substack.com
So the "pro life" people are ok with guns in the mail but not ok with abortion pills?
Trump Jr.'s 'Amazon of guns' could make millions under new proposed firearm rule
GrabAGun, the online retailer where Trump's son is a shareholder and board member, could reap a windfall from a proposed rule change that would make it easier to ship guns directly to people's homes.
reuters.com
One of the Georgian groups the Trump Organization named on the project, Biograpi Living, is co-owned by Paata Gamgoneishvili, 70, a Georgian-born oligarch who made his fortune in Russia, working alongside his business partner of more than 25 years, Russian investor Roland Isaev, 60.
Shady Russian Network Behind Trump's Overseas Vanity Project Exposed
EXCLUSIVE: The president’s sons are trumpeting a new glitzy Trump Tower—but not the Moscow oligarch behind one of the companies they named in the deal.
thepunchup.substack.com
I've seen this here in MN: If anything, the online breadcrumbs suggest a real possibility that Dedrick may be a Republican plant."
MAGA accused of election meddling as 'random internet stranger' gets onto state ballot
The Bulwark investigated a "random internet stranger" fielded as a third-party candidate in a swing House seat in Michigan, and what they found was deeply suspicious.The seat is currently occupied by ...
rawstory.com
