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Building sign being replaced with “NACC: No Actual Consequences Commission” Person commenting: “it used to be to be called the National Anti-Corruption Commission, but I guess they wanted to lower our expectations”

The ‘No Actual Consequences Commission’, by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social

Trump during the campaign: “I will end that war in 24 hours. It won’t even take that long. There will be no more bombing of Ukraine and Russia and everyone will be happy. It wouldn’t even be that tough. I know just what to say to each of them. It will be over in one phone call.”

So the inquiry seems to have found that the Girls School in Iran was previously part of the IRGC compound, and US intelligence thought it still was.
Looking at freely available satellite images, you can see that there's been a wall separating the school from the IRGC base since at least 2016.

Duckworth: "If they're gonna retaliate, this is all on Donald Trump. He decided to do this."

Duckworth: "The Trump administration is hiding behind the valor of our men and women in orders. The problem is who is giving those orders. Donald Trump has not done his job."

🚨 Pentagon officials told Congress that the war with Iran has cost the U.S. more than $11 billion in its first week

In South Burlington, Vermont, protesters are being tear-gassed by ICE and local police as they attempt to prevent a kidnapping.

I wish we didn’t have to pick up the tab for his mother’s refusal to hug him as a child.

Google just informed me I now use something called Gemini.

Like fuck I do.

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

REP @aoc.bsky.social: “Vast majority of 🇺🇸 are against war with Iran- We can acknowledge the brutal reality of the Iranian regime + know a forever war won’t resolve that. We have multiple 🇺🇸 service members dead for an illegal action Trump pursued with no plan out.”

H/T @pabloreports.bsky.social

Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis 🚨“Cannon fire on sparrows” — that’s how my sources in the Ukrainian government described the current warfare in the Middle East. Basically, this is what Zelenskyy has been saying over the past few days (not counting the last four years): you cannot intercept Shahed drones with missiles. First, it’s too expensive; second, missile stock is limited; and third, they don’t always work against Shaheds. BREAKING: Trump administration officials acknowledged during a closed-door briefing on Tuesday that Iran’s Shahed attack drones represent a major challenge, and U.S. air defenses will not be able to intercept them all. The drones are posing a bigger problem than anticipated, according to sources from the briefing.

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Haitian man dies in US immigration custody with untreated toothache, brother says A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center for months after the denial of his asylum application has died in the hospital

Emmanuel Damas, another individual killed in ICE custody.

He had a toothache. They ignored it. He died of spesis. Read that again.

Why do we need to fund this murderous agency?

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The word is three consulting firms and two legal firms were invited to tender and in the end none did.

And then Gregarious Greg got the gig as numero uno choice from a list the ASECA and her office drew up.

Greg! The Stop Sign!

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

‘A Culture of Fear’: Adelaide University Under Fire for Cancelling Event with UN Expert Francesca Albanese By Helen Reynolds   The decision by Adelaide University to withdraw a venue booking for an event featuring a leading United Nations human rights expert has ignited a fierce debate about academic freed...

“The decision by Adelaide University to withdraw a venue booking for an event featuring a leading United Nations human rights expert has ignited a fierce debate about academic freedom and censorship in South Australia.”

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Fancy being led into world conflict by such a mob of hateful, reprehensible people. That’s what feels even more devastating this time around. Even in the disaster of the Iraq invasion, while we knew they were lying, they hadn’t been going out of their way to be the most vile, venal criminals.

If Donald asks Zelensky for anti drone systems, he better wear a suit, ask nicely and say thank you.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Spain rejects White House claim it agreed to cooperate with U.S. forces amid Iran war The White House says Spain will now cooperate with the U.S. militarily over the Iran conflict. Madrid swiftly rejected this claim.

Spain rejects White House claim it agreed to cooperate with U.S. forces amid Iran war

#auspol #palantir

South Carolina is not sending us their best. Between Mace, Tim Scott and Lady Lindsey, you have an inordinate level of buffoonery.

Obsessing about other people's genitalia and demonizing people for just trying to live their lives *while running cover for a child SA ring* is some grotesque cognitive dissonance.

I’m increasingly sad that we have the Couch Molester at VP instead of Tim Walz & his common sense.

MAGA likes em looney.

For those of you who need a SCIENTIFIC resource to make bigots heads implode, here you go.

If Nancy Mace is so obsessed with finding out what it means to be a woman, maybe she ought to do that on her private time, and not be disruptive about it during Congress.

I’ve had it with this BS.

And especially on womankind.

Nancy Mace is a wart on the ass of humanity.