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Almost like Iran knew exactly what it was doing when it targeted US bases in Bahrain and Gulf and wasn’t just wildly lashing out www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
Navy and USS Lincoln’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War (Gift Article)
Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.
nytimes.com
One of the guys who helps me out on the farm said "The one thing nobody tells you about farming is how much of it is texting people" it's nice to know nothing has changed
Museum of Twitter@museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 5d ago
These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 5d agoZero surprise that these are explicitly designed to cause pain without leaving a mark, not to incapacitate. Yes, we're spending $20M to buy ICE agents torture devices.
While Americans struggle to buy groceries, ICE is burning through nearly $14,430,000 per day on the detention of 65,000 people.
you don't have to listen to oafs like this anymore. they have nothing to offer
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2w agoToxic only to the leftists who would have refused to vote for her anyway. You can say that's bad, but most people can't find Gaza on a map.
Turns out Kyle Shanahan’s serious car accident was a Tesla autopilot crash.
Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 2w ago
the argument against Mamdani attending the 9/11 anniversary, as far as I can tell, is literally just that he’s Muslim, and reposting it is just reporting rank racism
Do people know there’s a high school outside Pittsburgh whose mascot is the Fighting Quakers
this is all so fucking instructive if they would take a step back and learn something. you cannot let this happen ever again. when you are weak and crumbling, you cannot revive your prospects by painting everything gold and declaring a victorious golden age. it makes it look even weaker and rotted
theres nothing we can do. we can nuke them, or we can invade. that's it. neither is doable. we cant safely lob munitions at them anymore because were running out of that. i think pretty soon if we even want to bomb them we're going to have to fly planes over them and we don't have the guts for that
the only smart move would be to remove this idiot from office, and go apologize and surrender. that's about all we got now
the reactionaries sort of thought you could just thrust your chest out and slap a bunch of paint and memes on things and recover national pride and a lost era of white male triumph or whatever. how's your national pride now. are you proud yet. are you feeling strong
Just an astounding work of Mayan art from 650-750CE spotted at the Denver Art Museum today
"Sorry to bust anyone’s bubble, but James Talarico is good at this. He is a former public school teacher with a master’s in education policy. He is a Presbyterian seminary graduate who speaks the language of faith fluently (and heretically) which is not something Texas Democrats have been able todo"
It really is amazing that Trump keeps pushing to throw some random guy who didn't seem to commit any crime into prison for a decade and this isn't being treated like a huge scandal.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump: “US Attorney Pirro should re-visit her hastily made decision, especially since it turned out that the ‘gentleman’ involved is a big player in ActBlue, a disgraceful fundraising SCAM, and is represented by a TRUMP DERANGED SLEAZEBAG, Political Hack Lawyer, Norm Eisen”
US university hires world-renowned Israeli genocide expert to lead Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and then fires him when he says that Israel is committing genocide.
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2w agoThe University of Minnesota withdrew an offer from Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring
Trump's border wall is set to bulldoze the site of the 1918 Porvenir Massacre, in which 15 unarmed Mexican-American boys and men were killed by the Texas Rangers. The land is considered sacred by descendants of the victims. @peterjholley.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Trump’s Border-Wall Construction Is Set to Bulldoze the Porvenir Massacre Site
It is considered sacred ground for the descendants of those killed in a mass execution. The border wall threatens to erase it from history.
texasmonthly.com
It turns out the only think Leopold was lacking was situational awareness.
"The idea of society may sound appealing, but it's old men who will take the hit, planting trees under whose shade they might never sit."
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2w agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
