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I can't have the croissants if I go visit a company for work

I’ll stop bothering Michael with quote posting in a bit but he’s really hit the nail on the head with this - gavin here is more upset about the mere investigation of allegations of MASS EXECUTIONS by UK troops than the potential that these crimes occurred

Its really striking how much of our politics is driven by people who claim not to be Republicans but whose sole consistent principle is that every single problem in society is Democrats’/liberals’ fault

Many Countries, especially those who are affected by Iran’s attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait, will be sending War Ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the Strait open and safe. We have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability, but it’s easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are. Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated. In the meantime, the United States will be bombing the hell out of the shoreline, and continually shooting Iranian Boats and Ships out of the water. One way or the other, we will soon get the Hormuz Strait OPEN, SAFE, and FREE! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Days after declaring total victory and boasting that no other military could match the US, Trump is now begging other countries — including China — to send warships to stop his Iran war from spiraling into catastrophe.

A galactic humiliation.

The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet On Friday a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.

torrents are undefeated:

www.404media.co/the-removed-...

this show is called Amber Alert Radio

This is the f’ing way. Every one of the those wrongly detained should be suing the federal government, as well as individual members of the administration by name. It’s one of the only major avenues of recourse that might affect change in the admin’s behavior.

Let me just say that having been there, the idea of being a Black woman in labor in America and having to go before a judge is terrorism.

This isn't about one elected official. The Republican party is increasingly, openly violently Islamophobic and eliminationist in its rhetoric and it's incredibly dangerous.

Just another grift...

Oh boy here we go…

This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating.

Must-read reporting by ProPublica.

The cynicism from the AIPAC-backed SuperPACs is jaw dropping, but I don’t think “tricking voters” is a viable long term strategy.

Troubling development--Core PCE inflation was hot in Jan at 0.36% m/m & 3.1% y/y BUT it would have been even hotter had BEA not shifted its source data in an ad hoc fashion to avoid showing an 11.9% m/m rise in legal fees shown in the CPI. The BEA acknowledged they made this choice...not a good look

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...

NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.

Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care.

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A friend who grew up in the punk scene confirmed to me that Nazis can’t help outing themselves and you gotta turf them out right away or they bring friends next time and it really feels like we gotta learn to do that with every aspect of society.

The Colorado River will deliver less than a third of normal water flow this summer. And, Rocky Mountain ski season has been disastrously bad this year.

This is a good question to address, actually.

There's often an intuitive assumption that when a country runs out of money, its war effort will grind to a halt. That's how households and (sometimes) companies work.

But those assumptions are really frequently frustrated - countries can push on.

The “past” meaning “something recognizably connected to the teachings of some fusty old first century Jew” and “future” meaning “right-wing identity politics with crucifix branding.”

I can’t get over how Cultural Revolution the DOGE story is, these young people doing crimes they didn’t understand on behalf of a political leader

It is hard to overstate, for non-lawyers, just how milquetoast the ABA is in normal times. It’s supposed to be boring insurance lawyers leading workshops with boring tax lawyers, trying to drum up business.

A pissed off ABA is like dentists manning the barricades and singing Le Marseillaise.

I remain very annoyed at the "actually everything is a war crime and every US government official is a war criminal" crowd because now that we have the actual pro-war crimes administration it's very hard to get people to understand that this is actually quite a bit different

Inside the Department of War are two wolves:

"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."

"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

The rise of app-based sports gambling was the result of a Supreme Court opinion written by Sam Alito applying a doctrine invented by Antonin Scalia. Also sports gambling is not legal in Minnesota

I don't see any reason why government officials should be protected from reputational damage for their actions while working in an official capacity.

They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage

I'm telling you, boring old lawyers are now going to ABA panels to applaud hostile retorts to MAGA panelists and yell "you're a clown" at them.

A whole lot of people who merely furrowed their brows at Trump I are now seething with rage, and the Dem consultant class needs to wake up to that.

Grandma jailed after AI error linked her to crime in state she never visited: lawyer The charges were later dismissed after bank records showed she was in Tennessee at the time

If only a college professor could condescendingly yell at her that AI is useful, I bet she’d feel so much better about all this

This is the exact thing that the "Twitter Files" crowd were pretending to care about. Direct government intervention to silence information being released on social media that could damage their reputation.

Yet Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald are dead silent

DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed, and ordered their immediate removal.

Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...