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Is it good when the secretary of defense is so fixated on making sure everyone is white and has tv ready abs that he forgets about munitions bsky.app/profile/carl...
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h agoOof. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
As I am always saying, you can have whatever sorts of feelings about Chuck Schumer you want but “current Dems are the most procedurally obstructionist minority in modern history” is just a factually true statement
Bill Scher@billscher.bsky.social · 2d agoDemocratic voters are mad at their party leaders because why? washingtonmonthly.com/2026/08/04/d...
the City of Boise's increasingly aggressive campaign against the state's repeated attempt to ban pride flags flown by cities is extremely funny
rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 6d agoi have never seen a higher density of pride flags than in Boise
with apologies to the young man who left his extremely well-curated spotify account logged in on the hotel tv: if my daughter didn’t hear elmo’s alphabet rap we were all going to die
I'm not proud of it but I watch a lot of dating reality tv shows in the same way people watch monster movies (the monster is always common heterosexual relationship dynamics/rank sexism), but sometimes someone on these does some shit I need to talk to someone about because G O D
I understand that people like computer and want computer to be real, but you cannot convince me that anything computer provides is worth submitting to fascism and a free flow of CSAM.
Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 16h agoNEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days
NEW: DHS wants to hire bounty hunters to find immigrants who already left the US in an ostensible attempt to make them pay fines DHS imposed on people in the US without documentation. @dell.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/dhs-is...
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
wired.com
i'm under the impression that the spacex chunk hitting the moon is accidental which, if true, is a genuinely impressive failure in as in the context of how large space is, statistically, the moon arguably does not exist
this is legitimately a huge problem that i don’t know how they will resolve, either from an executive or legislative standpoint, and it’s going to be the case across a lot more than just defense
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16h agoI fundamentally do not know how to square the politics whereby Democrats will essentially have to tell the American people that because they (the voters) made an extremely stupid decision, they need to lower their expectations substantially for the foreseeable future, but here we are.
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterdayNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
I know Americans are meant to be wealthier than the rest of us but does it really count when you said money gets effectively burnt every electoral cycle in a pagan ritual of spin doctoring
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · yesterday30,000,000 dollars
Voting in your own best interests is easy. Anyone who tries to convince you both candidates are the same is working against your best interests. Anyone agitating for staying home or voting 3rd party is asking you to advance the cause of your adversary.
i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d agoin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
US customs officials have repaid about 60% of the levies that were struck down by the Supreme Court, surprising trade lawyers and analysts. ft.trib.al/kwvHqf5
honestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate
Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · yesterdayToday is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
Things were getting heated at the Dairy Queen but I calmed everyone down with some 20th Century Reggae.
Also like, yes, air travel is less "luxurious" than it was decades ago, but also now you can get to far flung parts of the world often for just a few hundred dollars. Guess what most ppl actually prefer?
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterdayFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Two more GOP amendments go down to crushing defeats, both in MO. #4 would have made future ballot initiatives impossible to pass by requiring winning a majority statewide *and* in each congressional district. #5 would have eliminated the state income tax.
"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."
A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing
Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.
npr.org
