The USS Abraham Lincoln already set a record with 208 continuous days at sea. Now sailors and family members say the twice-extended deployment now at over nine months is stretching the crew too thin and conditions are deteriorating.

Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln

The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.

ms.now

To alleviate conflict with NASA resources for other crewed launch missions, SpaceX will use Cybertrucks as standby emergency evacuation vehicles instead of the standard military Mine-Resistent Ambush Protected vehicles or MRAPs. But really just seems like they have a glut of trucks lying around.

SpaceX Is Betting on Cybertrucks to Save NASA Astronauts in an Emergency

Tesla's controversial vehicle is replacing a tactical military transport designed to deflect landmine blasts.

gizmodo.com

Universities have utterly given up the pretense of academic rigor.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1h ago

“If it's this embedded in the world, then it needs to be embedded in the learning and in the coursework…”

Exclusive: Senate inquiry suggests Trump administration softened kratom and tobacco policies in quid pro quo. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is at the center of a new investigation launched by Sen. Ron Wyden. www.statnews.com/2026/08/05/s...

Senate inquiry suggests Trump administration softened kratom and tobacco policies in quid pro quo

The Senate investigation includes RFK Jr. as well as the heads of Reynolds American and kratom company Botanic Tonics, asking for written responses and documentation by Aug. 31.

statnews.com

If for no other reason than their whole shtick is a contrarian response to never getting the attention they sought as mediocre normies and that the curve of Gen X/Z ‘90s-coded vice rebirth is bending toward the revival of smoking.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2h ago

I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

And everyone knows they sell weed behind the car wash but I don’t see a cruiser parked outside the tunnel doing spot checks while they vacuum the floorboards.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2h ago

New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

ALSO if you're looking for some suggestions on how to take revenge on someone, we compiled our fave kinds of revenge here for an "Ask The Flytrap" special: www.theflytrapmedia.com/ask-the-flyt...

Ask The Flytrap: Mother, I Crave Violence

How do I...legally and ethically...get revenge?

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"No amount of spin can sugarcoat the utter disaster of layoffs, creative consolidation, and sheer mediocrity that awaits if Richie Rich runs roughshod over the industry he claims to love so much." Get 'im, @mcastimovies.bsky.social!

Not only is David Ellison lying about his film plan, it's not even a good lie

Paramount Skydance CEO and heir apparent David Ellison is very upset that the media landscape can see right through him.

avclub.com

a banner found above the front doors of the police HQ in Madison, Wisconsin this morning stated: “Arrest the killer cop, 608-266-4211.”

There’s no way this doesn’t turn into an extensive extortion and murder racket. The people these stateside contractors will pay to track down targets are the same ones refugees were fleeing in the first place.

Deported Guatemalan couple found dead with 1-year-old daughter alive beside them

Nixon Giovanni Perez and Glendy Marisol Gonzalez were discovered with their hands tied behind their backs in a sugarcane field

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Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · 23h ago

NEW: CBP is shopping for a contractor to track down people the US has deported to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and collect unpaid immigration fines — debts that can top $1.8 million a person.

“The extension of the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. until January 2029 will cost roughly $1.4 billion, according to a Defense Department estimate provided to Congress.“ This is insane. You can’t walk four blocks without running into a group of them standing around and doing nothing.

Guard deployment to Washington into 2029 will cost roughly $1.4B, estimate shows

The extension of the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. until January 2029 will cost roughly $1.4 billion, according to a Defense Department estimate provided to Congress. The figure offers...

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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

I missed this from last week but apparently BMW commandeered car screen to play a Spider-Man ad on startup and people are understandably pissed.

BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat - The Autopian

You know what would be terrible? Terrible in a sort of dystopian, capitalism-run-amok sort of way? Imagine buying a brand-new, fancy, premium-grade car. From an automaker with a respected name. Like, ...

theautopian.com

Police arrested an armed man in the parking lot of trump’s CA golf course, they announced today, saying he was basically casing the joint.

Man arrested, weapons found after ‘suspicious’ behavior at Trump golf course ahead of president’s visit

Multiple notebooks containing “concerning statements” were found alongside weapons, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.

orlandosentinel.com

New incidents have been confirmed in Clayton County, Georgia and the near city of Duchesne, Utah, at an oilfield water treatment facility were the pumps were running dry but looking normal in their dashboards

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 21h ago

Sources: possible cyberattacks targeting water and wastewater utilities have now been reported in at least 12 US states, and Iran is the prime suspect (ABC News) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I once performed as a child cheerleader behind the Star Trek float for Orlando’s Christmas Parade of Soaps so I can tell you with some authority that this is shitty fucking cheerleading.

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 22h ago

Oh my god I think I found the video.

Matt Gaetz sidekick Joel Greenberg, “the disgraced Seminole County tax collector convicted of using taxpayer funds to pay for sex, steal identities, stalk a political rival and traffic a minor in one of Florida’s most stunning cases of political corruption” is asking for a pardon.

Convicted Seminole official Joel Greenberg asks Trump for presidential pardon

“His actions shredded the very fabric of trust that our citizens deserve to have in their elected officials,” Seminole County Commissioner Amy Lockhart said regarding Joel Greenberg.

orlandosentinel.com

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

404media.co

Inbox from House Ethics: The Committee is reviewing allegations Rep Max Miller may have engaged in domestic violence and abuse or illegal drug use... Committee notes that the fact that it is investigating and publicly disclosing its review, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred.

Age verification is surveillance by another name. They won’t stop until they’ve age-gated everything that transmits over the internet. Including your streaming and messages.

404 Media@404media.co · 22h ago

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

It's ChatGPT but just a guy futurism.com/artificial-i...

New AI Chatbot Turns Out to Be One Overworked Guy Answering All the Messages by Hand

ChatTJB is a new "AI" — "average individual" — run by a guy named Tucker, who manually answers user queries.

futurism.com

The context to this whole thing, Miller’s Dropbox doc dump, etc., is he has a habit of misrepresenting “evidence” and providing actually incriminating evidence against himself. Like the time he recorded an argument with his wife in which he admitted to throwing boiling water at her shorturl.at/rjtxO

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · yesterday

over on the other site

The GOP county exec in Tarrant Co (Fort Worth) often kicks people out for speaking up to protest county govt actions at public meetings. Today he shut it down amid outrage over the plan to cut nearly half of election day polling places this year (as he himself faces a heated race for county exec)

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 23h ago

In TX: Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare just CLEARED the meeting room, kicking out public speakers who are opposed to the GOP plan to cut half of the battleground county's Election Day voting locations for November:

I might have just bullied a website into letting me order a pair of allegedly out of stock purple hiking pants. Stay tuned to find out if manifesting can manufacture and ship pants.

Folks, we are now in a boil all your food alert, I guess.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h ago

“Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.”

I once quit a production of Evita I was stage managing bc the director inexplicably commandeered calling the show during like the 2nd or 3rd performance. She’d been cranky they didn’t let her SM the show to start with and she refused to engage me. In hindsight I should’ve faked my own death.

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in 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...

The major airlines stopped selling this bundle of data after 404 Media revealed the scheme, but we’re still just discovering the extent to which the federal government was indiscriminately surveilling individuals across the globe.

The SEC Bought Airline Data to Monitor Flights Worldwide

The SEC bought access to worldwide airline ticketing records. Airlines including Delta, United, and American sold the data.

404media.co

The Army has used “virtually all” of its surface-to-surface weapons, known as Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM) during Iran war so far.

US used ‘virtually all’ long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say

The U.S. Army has reportedly used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during America's five-month war with Iran.

militarytimes.com

This is the dumbest shit.

David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · yesterday

"Commanders [must] maintain a log of personnel requiring facial hair treatment plans... Must forward a Facial Hair Accommodation Accountability Report in Excel monthly...   Those approved for accommodation must carry the signed paperwork on their persons..." www.militarytimes.com/news/your-na...

Lost in the chatter about Todd Blanche and Trump's slush fund is the fact that anti-abortion Senators have demanded Blanche do a whole mess of things for them. The judiciary committee votes Tuesday morning. We're in the danger zone

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · last wk.

In the past month, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee have asked Todd Blanche to: *review DOJ's stance on the Comstock Act, a law antis claim bans all abortions *force FDA to end abortion pills via telehealth to settle a lawsuit *fan flames about abortions later in pregnancy this is all Bad News