🧊✈️ HERE'S YOUR DAILY DIVERT 😬⛓️ ⚠️ A GlobalX jet (tail: N281GX) transporting a load of chained humans from Jacksonville to Villahermosa 🇲🇽 on Monday afternoon abruptly turns around over the Yucatan Peninsula, setting a new course for Miami (OPF) 👀
Gma Ginger
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Life long Democrat who loves people and their cultures. I understand hardships and the fortitude and attitudes it takes to survive them. No DMs
"Real strength is energy grids that work, laboratories funded, shipyards staffed, and officers promoted because they can think. It is held together by trust that performance is what gets measured." Read Bree Fram's article, "The Veneer of Strength": steadystate1.substack.com/p/the-veneer...
Nearly 36 million Americans live under the poverty line, but at least Donald Trump gave giant corporations massive tax breaks.
Fox: A new survey shows Gen Z-ers are moving back in with their parents after college
To give ICE electric shock gloves after they’ve brutalized and killed people is a deliberate attempt to create more fear and harm. ICE wants more tools for violence, but they can’t even wear functional body cameras. They need to be disbanded.
ICE Wants $20 Million In Gloves That Can Deliver Electric Shocks
From Taser to shock gloves -- ICE's new tool could deliver painful electric shocks on contact. Here's why it's sparking outrage.
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Because this admin is so horrible and Lowly’s human car is sucks a checked out piece of shit CitiBank is getting rich off the US gov. Let me splain you some shit! 🧵🧵 this came up in my comms and I thought it was good to explain to the public. The question was basically, is the hhs processing…
“Trump has now put at risk the lives of the 28,500 US troops stationed in South Korea and the entire balance of power across East Asia.”
Watch The Shadows
Trump moves the US into the Axis of Evil column
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Instead of sending the Ford home, the Navy patched her up and sent her straight back into combat. This is how you know the fleet was stretched thin. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/08/when...
I Could Be Wrong.
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Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 20h agoOn Aug. 14, the Office of Legal Counsel released a memo contending that the Posse Comitatus Act does not prohibit military personnel from effecting arrests near “national defense areas," which includes significant portions of the Mexico-U.S. border. Read the memo, from @pwbeck.bsky.social.
I’ve had MAGA people tell me that we as scientists are not open minded to alternative treatments (that have not been proven). I ask why they aren’t open to the large corpus of evidence that proves the opposite.
My small team of volunteers is working on an OSINT platform that tracks major military and political events in Africa, basically a map with a compact database containing key information. We’re mostly vibecoding it, but we still need people with relevant expertise to help us👇:
1/3 👍🇪🇺 The EU plans to adopt the largest package of sanctions against Russia this fall, according to the head of EU foreign policy, Kaja Kallas. "EU sanctions have already cost Russia dearly, depriving the Russian military machine of over 1 trillion euros, and this fall,
EU plans most far-reaching sanctions package against Russia in autumn, foreign chief says
The EU intends to significantly expand sanctions against Russia in the coming months, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told a German newspaper.
reuters.com
Sailors did not film this for attention. They filmed it because they are desperate. They asked their commanders for help and were told to "just worry about today." They reached out to their families, who took their concerns to Navy leadership. Journalists have told the story. Nothing changed.
Sometimes, what doesn't kill us scars us for life. Sometimes, it just pisses us off. In general, it ruins our credit scores
In Lebanon, the Israeli military are dropping flares to start wildfires and burn forests and crops...especially olive groves. This after destroying villages and churches in southern Lebanon. Firefighters say they cannot keep up with the destruction. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say
First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops
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Date Search Assist Taylor Farms has been using prison labor through a contract with Arizona’s Department of Corrections (via Arizona Correctional Industries) for incarcerated workers. Companies were charged $4.75 an hour while incarcerated workers could earn no more than $1.50 an hour. Yahoo
On this anniversary of Woodstock, right up there with CSNY is Country Joe and the Fish.
Social Security turns 91 today, but thanks to rising inequality it may not live to see many more birthdays. I used to be a Social Security trustee — here's how we can fix it without cutting benefits or raising the retirement age.
How the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security | Robert Reich
Social Security taxes are rigged for the rich — and the program is in danger because of it.A CEO earning $20M/yr pays So
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Sailors are eating half a cup of rice and two tortillas. No soap, no deodorant, no toothpaste. Moldy showers. Broken toilets. Rep. Mike Levin of California said: "The least their country owes them is hot water, a working toilet and a real meal."
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
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I'm not sure that there are any major crimes that Stephen Miller has NOT committed...
ᴀʟᴇx ʀᴜssᴇʟʟ@infrequently.org · 3d agoStephen Miller deserves to spend the rest of his natural life fighting a legal system charging him of crimes he didn't commit in a language he does not speak, alone, and without counsel: publicnotice.co/p/stephen-miller…
Fun Fact: The draft of the EO changing US childhood vaccine schedule mentions "Gold Standard Science" 7 times. #pinks
@gailwaldby.bsky.social Montana Independents civiqs.com/results/appr...
Civiqs | Donald Trump: Job Approval, Second Term
Civiqs poll (National, Montana, Independent): "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president?" Results through August 15, 2026: Approve 33%, Disapprove ...
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Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d agoFox finds Trump's favorability ratings absolutely cratering in states he won: Ohio -14 Texas -9 Iowa -13 NC -19 Folks, in several of these states he’s at least 50 points underwater with independents. I'm not kidding. It's that bad. newrepublic.com/article/2143...
