I don't know how much this is rising to the surface, but the sailor who jumped overboard and had to be rescued is only 19 years old. Anyone would crack under these conditions, but let's remember that a lot of enlisted people are basically kids. www.ms.now/news/uss-abr...
'The boat is finally getting to me': Wife of USS Lincoln sailor who jumped overboard shares texts
The wife of a sailor who jumped off the USS Lincoln told MS NOW her husband expressed his mental health concerns to leadership during his long deployment on the aircraft carrier in the Iran war, but w...
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the idea that "she pretends to be goebbels but when the cameras are off she's super nice to us"...
Holy shit this is like some serious Church Committee level shit. gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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This is just the one step before what happened with Japanese concentration camps in the US
Ryan Enos@ryanenos.bsky.social · yesterdayThese are people who legally entered this country and now, because of ancestry and a conspiracy theory pushed by an aspiring politician, are being pursued by the government and fitted with special monitoring devices. This should remind of the darkest events in history.
The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.Is this just business as usual in politics? No. Approval rates of federal disaster aid requests were about the same regardless of the state and did not vary much with the party of the President. This graph powerfully conveys the scale of the partisan discrimination now.
What kind of catering container? How big was the catering container? And also: um, he had to do this because he accepted a Bribe Plane from Quatar…and then took it to a summit…in the middle of War…with Iran.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d agoOh jeez. NYT changed their original headline (left) to the less interesting one (right)
Seems relevant: Canada is creating jobs at a rate that is roughly 4x that in the United States.
If you are a lawyer barred in Minnesota, I will personally sponsor your admission to the District Minnesota (you need one other person as well) and teach you how to do habeas cases. It's going to be all hands on deck.
Mara Abolish I.C.E.@mauratwit.bsky.social · last wk.A concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnesota next week. A concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnesota next week. A concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnesota next week. A concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnes
I’m sorry, you simply can’t lead your newscast with that Miller tape on the birthright citizenship “order” without pointing out that that’s not the damn way it works. It’s just not journalism.
Translation: "Having screwed over the country by voting to confirm RFKJr., I will now demonstrate that I learned nothing from that experience by voting to confirm Blanche. Please remember that I am the real victim here."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Cassidy: "I will vote for Mr Blanche. I will be criticized for this vote. What's new?"
Perhaps an irony that an article about questions someone’s (possible lack of) qualifications for academia is so poorly written and edited that all I can think about is standards (or lack thereof) at the BBC.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · last wk.Serious questions for Cambridge after professor at centre of plagiarism row resigns
Bigotry and persecution against people serving honorably. “It’s in a lot of ways a public humiliation ritual,” Ms. Rashid said in an interview. “Going in, I had hoped I was paranoid, and boards’ outcomes were not predetermined. It turned out to be much worse than I thought.”
Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding Trans Troops’ Fate (Gift Article)
The Pentagon is relying on closed-door hearings to kick out transgender service members. An Army Reserve lawyer is one of the few who have seen how they really work.
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Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
I’m just going to say that I have long suspected this was happening. Now there’s proof.
Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · last wk.An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found Facebook's parent company, Meta, is directly paying several controversial content creators including a white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links and a prominent anti-vaxxer.
6 August 1900 | An Italian Jewish woman, Anna Ventura, was born in Rome. She was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds.
Hello, is this Susie Q? Leonard Leo here. Here are your orders. Oppose Blanche. We can get our Reichsmarshall installed without your vote. Focus on defeating Troy Jackson - and, never, never, never mention my name to anyone. Media has no idea Im up here. HaHa! thehill.com/homenews/sen...
Collins will oppose Blanche, narrowing nominee’s path to confirmation
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who is facing a tough reelection in a state carried by Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024, announced on Tuesday that she will vote “no” on Todd Blanche’s nomination to ser…
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">900 people in Washtenaw County, MI, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called >100 of them. Almost everyone has said the same thing: It’s excruciating, and one of the worst illnesses they’ve experienced." kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
Nurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the Messy Details - KFF Health News
Yes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to p...
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So now the next step is to find out what Capital One's months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience discovered about Trump's 300+ accounts...
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w agoPhang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
"TikTok’s algorithm pushed him thousands of videos about suicide, sadness, hopelessness and loneliness, right up until he killed himself."
TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide
A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.
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Third long-range private jet ICE flight in one day. This one is headed for Africa, possible third-country nationals onboard.
26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
None of the Burke Law Group’s lawyers list immigration law as an area of expertise, per the firm’s website.
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The same old Susan Collins charade. As soon as a controversial nominee or a bill has enough votes to pass, she announces she will vote no when it doesn’t matter. She never casts a deciding vote against Trump. Now she will claim this shows how she is so “independent.”
So under this Supreme Court's treatment of U.S. law and presidential power, Joe Biden couldn't forgove my student loans, but perhaps Donald Trump can forgive his own tax debt. Wild.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
New investigation from @bellingcat.com shows that Russian-made Shahed drones are being used on villages in Mali
Shahed-Type Drones Filmed During Mali Village Attacks - bellingcat
Bellingcat has geolocated footage showing Shahed-136 type kamikaze drones in operation in Mali.
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