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Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

An Israeli court has temporarily blocked a plan, cooked up by far right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, to construct a moat full of crocodiles around a notoriously abusive prison that holds Palestinians, over concerns that the crocodiles would be harmed or mistreated.

Only Animal Welfare Raised in Israeli Debate on Crocodile Moat for Palestinian Prisoners

A judge temporarily blocked the plan over concerns about “the expected harm to the crocodiles.”…

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gotta say it’s pretty weird how the official Trump insta page has become devoted to this weird trolling of musicians who hate his guts

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It is kinda weird that the American public response to the Iraq war being kinda a disaster was "oh stove is hot! let's not do that again" but the blob's reaction was "oh stove is hot! this makes me very angry at the neighboring, larger, stove providing some of the heat, I will touch that one now"

www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol... Why would the New Yorker do a soft focus "Platner holds uneasy mirror up to America's veteran problem" while ignoring his PMC time? Seems like an important piece of his puzzle not shared by the vast, vast majority of the combat veteran community.

The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity

How much of Graham Platner’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war?

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I wonder how much of this comes from Sheridan listening vetbro shit where guys who were in Afghanistan and Iraq complained endlessly about the Ukrainians not Operating hard enough to M A N E U V E R and break the stalemate (because the Ukrainian combat environment augurs poorly for their way of war)

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 2d ago

Also he portrays the Ukrainians as tactically incompetent, why are helping these annoying Ukrainians, and is setting up the plot line that the FISU betrays our glorious operators to the Russians! Subtle!

As we point out in this, we don’t rate this as the likeliest scenario for how trump and his party try to rig or steal elections in the near future. A reason for laying this out and reporting out Dems and aligned groups are indeed wargaming it and preparing is to underscore how insane a time we…

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Democrats and their allies say this nightmare scenario is unlikely – but they’re taking it seriously. President Trump knows about the Jan. 3 scenario, though his level of interest in it is unclear, sources say.”

He's losing words. Anyone with a parent or loved one suffering from dementia will recognize this pattern. Wen he says "moving cameras," it's because he can't recall the word "videos" and so he's stating the component parts as best he can. E.g., a "camera" is involved and the images are "moving"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."