The drug cartels are now specifically recruiting drone-savvy veterans from the Ukraine war; it's likely that terrorists or Iran are thinking the same thing: A large scale or strategic drone attack from the south seems almost inevitable, given the reckless foreign policy of Trump. wapo.st/4cYXQw0

Drug cartels are making alarming drone advances, U.S. assessment warns

The technological shift in Latin America, fueled by fighters returning from the Russia-Ukraine war, complicates President Donald Trump’s war on drugs, officials say.

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Want to Congress to regulate AI? Teach it to perform abortions.

This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

A striking number of TV’s remaining topical political satire shows are about to live under the same corporate roof—one that’s likely to be discomfiting for at least some of the teams behind them.

Paramount-Warner Merger Will Consolidate Much of Political Late Night

A striking number of TV’s remaining topical political satire shows are about to live under the same corporate roof—one that’s likely to be discomfiting for at least some of the teams behind them.

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I guess we just have to accept getting stung by the hornets. We poked them and prodded them, it’s why we are getting stung. No one could have predicted this, we can’t figure out how to stop it, but we will continue to poke them with strength.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

JD Vance: "I think we all have to accept that so long as the Iranians are trying to terrorize international shipping -- we of course are gonna try to push back against that -- but that is why gas prices are so high"

Yes I bought AMD. Holy cow…

Thanks @caroleeena.bsky.social . Nobody cares who you love, but it does matter when you’re using your job or office to drive your relationships. It also matters when you’ve been bashing the LGTBQ community publicly as a member of Congress. This behavior isn’t welcome regardless of party affiliation

Caroleeena@caroleeena.bsky.social · 24h ago

🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”

Same energy…

So weird to find out via Trump how many US citizens simply have no idea what it meant to be free, or have a democracy, or what a great society actually values.

Single dad, I had this moment many times. Then I had a person freak out and run out screaming. My daughter had public restroom issues for a decade.

Capt'n Amy, the Girl with the Sun in her Eyes@captnamy.bsky.social · 3d ago

I was in the restroom of a sandwich shop. Just finishing up and I hear the door open, a man's voice and a girl's voice. He saw me as was very apologetic. I said it was ok and told him to go help his daughter. He seemed relieved. I let the next woman know what was happening. All perfectly normal

THIS. This is how it’s done.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d ago

How can anybody vote for her? I mean, seriously. What a liar and a fraud. This is brutal.

Me: Ok we’re doing a charity deal, I’ve found 3 F150 trucks that they need to move food and help people resettle into homes. Easy peasy we’re just gonna do drivetrain swaps, brakes, nothing that hard let’s go! Me after starting at 5am with 6 volunteers and we’re only halfway there…

Oh Monty Python

ALT: Oh Monty Python

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Honestly, this seems indicative of a societal mental health crisis.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 4d ago

Toy sales among adult-only households have now outpaced households with children for toy sales, growing 16% through June, according to a market research group.

Generally I like Meidas but I’m also intellectually honest: This is a silly headline give Congress adjourned hours ago to avoid these votes. Hey also folks your tracking “opt out” Is the type that fails the honesty test. Just give folks an opt out, not a multi-click that is misleading.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 5d ago

🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna say they have now secured commitments for all 218 signatures needed to force a House vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II.

I look at Sunday Church as the original Cosplay.

Now it’s “Where’s the beef from?”

Wheres The Beef Commercial

ALT: Wheres The Beef Commercial

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We really are “Idiocracy: The Documentary”.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

RFK Jr: "We are also looking at chemtrails"

Here’s the issue: Kraft’s stadium isn’t really his: Like EVERY NFL STADIUM they’ve colluded with straight-up idiotic public officials to get ALL OF US to pay for “his stadium”. You take public money, you live by public rules, starting with the First Amendment.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 6d ago

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Colin Kaepernick accuses NFL owners of “openly colluding” against Macklemore after the rapper was removed from Ed Sheeran’s U.S. tour: “They want to protect their interests. They want to protect their power. They want to protect their money.”

Growing up our family had a farm in very rural WV; my family had many hunters. My grandfather, an amazing shot, somehow always missed the “trophy shot.” I’ve spent many more awake hours in the deep woods than inside. I could never understand the drive for many men to hunt animals for sport.

Menestune@menestune.bsky.social · 6d ago

Saw the elk with the monstrous antlers again this morn... and here's his magnificence. #nature #elk #mammals #pnw #Seattle #nokings #photography

It is time to move the UN General Assembly from New York to Ottawa. Safer, better, prettier.

Tobacco can self regulate! Big polluters will never cause massive cleanup disasters, they can self regulate! Nuclear power companies? Hey they can self-regulate!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Mike Johnson on OpenAI and Anthropic: "They can self-police. They can self-regulate."

I’m REALLY FUCKING ANGRY that the DNC doesn’t have a massive fact-based response on EVERY DAMN TOPIC when literally every GOP rep blames Biden. It’s nearly, almost laughably 99% false and yet Speaker Johnson said again today they inherited an America “close to total collapse”: Zero response.

She will run at some point, and when that point arrives I’ll set everything else aside and donate my time, a significant portion of my money, my technical expertise and/or my companies. I’m not a hero worshipper but she is our future.

Dawna and RealMonkeyCat@dawna9.bsky.social · 7d ago

As some pasty frumpy alpha wannabes blather on about one day making their marks on the moon &/or mars, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already made her mark in the universe. She’s so much more than a pretty face with brains and determined advocate for NY & the American people. #Pinks #Voices4Victory

The difference between Dems and Republicans is Dems have to split their donations between helping the less fortunate and political contributions; Republicans don’t face that quandary.

“During this meeting, the participants…discussed fabricating a false whistleblower submission to offer as evidence about the Missouri Centralized Voter Registration system, to be routed through an ‘IP scrambler’ and a ‘burner’ phone so the source could not be traced, to be offered as evidence,”

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.

A former top elections official is accusing Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins — a Republican — of changing local election results, trying to deceive a federal judge in a voting administration case, and illegally using state funds to influence a St. Louis County election.

When an industry cries out for regulation citing the extinction of the human race as a non-trivial chance, it’s insane for Republicans to simply follow Trump and say no. This isn’t even political, this is absolute pure insanity. NO they CAN’T self govern, that’s literally what “Government” is for.

I have zero doubts Trump will simply break every law and rule to hold onto power at the midterms. He knows that even if he orders the USPS to destroy known Dem ballots, if he orders federal troops into Dem polling places all anyone can do is sue, and that won’t reverse the election

Likely the most frighteningly accurate depiction of the next 2 years you’ll ever read. deanblundell.substack.com/p/the-smarte...

The Smartest Money on Earth Just Quit Trump’s America. Here's What Happens to Everyone Who Can't And The Economic Collapse That’s Coming.

Trump destroyed the US economy, fired the people who'd fix it, and built the whole thing so it survives your ballot. The projection, the human cost, and why the US economy WILL collapse.

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Growing up, the big Government message about “drug dealers” was they’d give you the first taste free to get you hooked. I never actually saw that, but today EVERY GAMBLING SITE gives you the first bet free and guarantees a win. That’s a dopamine hit, grabs addictive personalities, now legal.

It’s admittedly fun to come home from a few weeks’ travels and do some things with my daughters and once again realize they are actually really well-formed humans.