President Zelenskyy: Lifting sanctions will strengthen Russia’s position.

"Russia spends the money it earns from energy exports on weapons, which are then used to attack us.

…So lifting sanctions only to end up facing even more drones later, in my view, is not the right decision."

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

An image of a Dark Angels legion Space Marine in black power armour.

A black and white photograph of a fallen tree in Burnham, cracked and crumbling on the ground.

Due to popular demand, here's every Space Marine legion from Warhammer 40,000 as a document in our collection.

I: Dark Angels

Obviously, they're this photograph of a tree in Burnham. Why this photograph?

The tree has Fallen.

a cartoon character with a surprised expression on his face ALT: a cartoon character with a surprised expression on his face

My daughter has taken to saluting me to say yes, but not because I was a troop. It's because she likes Team Rocket's wobbuffet

A comic with two panels. Top: ditto wearing a tie and looking at graphs on a computer titled "I'm tired of looking at the bad lightscreen" Bottom: Ditto playing pokopia on a TV and smiling. "I'm want to go home & look at the good screen" Trxyland signature

drawing a black rectangle over the text does not actually meaningfully redact that text, i guess they do not teach this in law school. i wasn't even testing the fences here, i just accidentally clicked on a black rectangle and it opened my computer's email app!

(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors or surrender accepted; (2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted; (3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable ability to accept surrender would exist; (4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and (5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.

Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:

Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.

And recognized as such by the US Government.

From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

Jesus christ. Facebook sees internet regulation coming -- rather than stop it, they create organizations that will hold data for all of these companies to offload responsibility onto them, then lobby their already-bought politicians to pass policy that gives their new business a use.

Open citadel carry case with red foam inserts

I love the idea of black-framed furniture with red cushioning. Must be something from my childhood.

This verdict in particular is an egregious threat to the First Amendment. He was convicted of "corruptly concealing a document or record" for transporting a box of anarchist zines. In other words, transporting printed essays that featured political speech.

"Repost if you like boobs or if you desperately crave for the AI bubble to burst and consequences to happen to certain men in power" captioning a cartoon by Omega Magus depicting a girl with opaque round glasses sitting on a wall.

My husband and | just received 13 traffic violations in the mail 2 of them were from STOP SIGNS. IS THIS A NORMAL OCCURRENCE IN DC?!?? Is there a lot of success in getting these things cancelled?! We just moved here and have been going with the flow of traffic! This is INSANE $1500 worth of infractio

i can't stand nextdoor but i think it's fascinating that out of 137 commenters about 120 are like "yeah it sucks to drive in dc" and the handful remaining are patiently explaining that the one weird trick to not getting tickets is to stop driving like an asshole

tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse

"Fossil fuels should be more expensive but not now" - literally every government for the last 20 years.

Also, not for nothing... but a digitigrade or unguligrade leg *has* a human-like knee. The part that's different is from the ankle down.

This has been pointed out many times (including by Evan!), but it bears repeating that this is the same playbook used to sow suspicion on vaccinations and the existence of climate change.

i only mention this because of a few replies i see written as if the problem is the trump admin being too lazy or incompetent to bother coming up with a good plan: there is no possible good plan. "don't provoke iran into closing the strait" is the plan, if you're past that you're fucked

I tried to explain to my cousins who are addicted to parlays why the math ensures that they cannot win over time even if they are the best parlay players in the entire world. They acknowledged I was correct and then put $100 on a random array of football games anyway. This is also how drugs work.

Comic. [Person with shoulder-length hair talking to a second person. She is gesturing at a dinosaur skeleton with a machine mounted on its back.] PERSON 1: Although Bazookasaurus’s distinctive structure was long assumed to be a weapon, vascularization studies show that it was very fragile and could only have been used for display.

Bazookasaurus

xkcd.com/3216/

A photograph of a painted warhamner minature. The minature is a large ankylosaur like dinosaur, carrying a flower shaped crystal based laser apparatus. The apparatus is crewed by smaller crested lizard people holding javelins.

Not trying to be hyperbolic, I fear we are on the cusp of a 9/11 type catastrophe that this regime is unwilling and unable to protect us from.

I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.

It’s as if 400 people were simply euthanized by the passive voice. Doubleplusgood.

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

Not only fuels, not only plastics including tech, but pharmaceuticals

Autistic people enjoy parallel play? Well, first of all it's called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Drop something yellow! 💛

Then grind its corpse into the dirt!

#nerdlings

do yourself a favor folks, if you're 26 or younger, make a plan to dodge the draft. it's not making the problem about you -- the child you don't go overseas to kill will thank you for it in fact. and if it doesn't come to pass, better to have a plan and not need it than need it and not have it