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ex-CompUSA, ex-Circuit City ICE must be destroyed
Alternate summary: losing a war is hard, and the US military is even less prepared to handle losing than it is winning www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion
The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.
stripes.com
Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion
The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.
stripes.com
Chase Madar@madar.bsky.social · 3w agoRemarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
Katie Wilson is in Beacon Hill this afternoon announcing a brand new executive order targeting changes dealing with traffic safety across city government. The five-section order is beefy, and I think it represents the biggest reaffirmation of Vision Zero in Seattle since the initial 2015 commitment.
"The Treasury secretary said there was a “very good chance” the deficit had peaked and said new tariff income and vice-president JD Vance’s planned fraud crackdown would help bolster government revenues." - this pitch will not work on the dumbest in the Saudi royal family; no shit 30y yields are up
Technically, I'm being followed by a train 🚆 @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov
Btw if you think the argument against Chinese models is too weak to ban them internally, in the US, you should check the status of Heath Care and costs for American citizens of things that cost 1/10 elsewhere in the world. They can do it, especially with this administration.
Just insane levels of corruption, threats, and intimidation going on right now.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2mo agoBizarre story: Two journalists were removed by police from a corporate-sponsored Freedom 250 event in Brussels after they asked US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White about his threat against an American citizen/Belgian resident who had emailed Zac Brown Band urging them not to perform at the event.
I'm at the Seattle Aurora Commons meeting with Mayor Wilson. Going to try and post updates on this thread.
Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
syracuse.com
The most effective way to deal with most of these things is with really solid engineering-oriented security, making the underlying systems work better as well as more safely. Using LLMs can help us investigate potential incidents and pay down technical debt and build security features but...
Holy crow does the security field need people who are willing to say "I don't know, let's figure it out" and understand the systems in enough depth to figure it out. We don't know how to handle security sustainably yet in this shifted threat landscape... let's figure it out.
Seattle Mayor Apologizes to Starbucks, Thought It Knew Everyone Here Hated Them Already: tinyurl.com/yt2k2d3t
Anybody who thinks Bennie Thompson is running a reign of terror could use an educational vertical ride on a barge in the Potomac river.
Damn it, too much going on to be in Minneapolis for May Day this year. Next year though....
I invite anyone who thinks Passkeys are going well to help me train an intro security session for activists. You can join me in Seattle, or I can share some materials. You could also help me onboard a new non technical user with Yubikeys for Okta on a Mac.
According to the Lebanese National News Agency, these panels supply the town with electricity, which is needed for its water supply, and Israel destroyed homes, roads and olive trees as well.
How do people think gun stocks will trade next week? Are there any with good entry points?
the palantir thing is extra stupid when you understand they just make shitty enterprise database software they are successful not because they're actually innovative, they just have a right-wing edgelord brand and take on projects other orgs wouldn't touch for ethical reasons
Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.
Seems like T-Mobile or a short code aggregator got popped.
Massive C++ codebase with radio interfaces. Someone will find interesting bugs, especially with LLMs driving fuzzers.
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 5mo agoTired: Anthropic accidentally leaking their own source code for Claude Wired: Iranian hackers deliberately leaking the source code for the F-35
www.ft.com/content/4f09... Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait.
CENTCOM told me Iran keeps hitting their high-value assets so I asked how many they have and they said they just go to the Pentagon and get new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding high-value assets to the Iranians and then INDOPACOM started crying
The Aviationist@theaviationist.com · 6mo agoIranian Attack on Prince Sultan Air Base Reportedly Struck U.S. KC-135s - Reports Satellite images show signs of an attack at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, with WSJ now reporting that an Iranian missile damaged “several U.S. refueling aircraft.” Story: theaviationist.com/2026/03/27/i...
Prediction: Iran will collect $10 / bbl shipped via Hormuz when this is all done.
HEALTH INSURANCE: we were hacked! but don't worry, they only stole everything ME: is there any way to punish you for this HEALTH INSURANCE: no 👍 ME: great
virgin HDPE [read: all of it, plastic recycling is a myth] is like, 50c a pound, this is a 60% increase in the price of plastic
Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 6mo agoShit is getting real
![By Kate Sullivan, Courtney Subramanian and Arsalan Shahla 07/22/2026 23:59:41 [BN]
(Bloomberg) -- The Houthis, a militant group in Yemen who have been threatening to open another front in the Iran war, said they had targeted two oil tankers in the Red Sea.
Minutes before the Houthi statement on Wednesday, the UK Maritime Trade Operations Center said the master of a tanker reported that the ship had been struck southwest of Al Shuqaiq on the Saudi Red Sea coast. Saudi Arabia didn't immediately comment on the attack.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pnx2fjuannbdpy3337ggthpp/bafkreiattiqd4ck67wymm5zaragrnzkytk4ylxfscq7mojhpafxfku3i24)
