Trump endorsed GOP candidate Brandon Herrera tonight.
Here is Brandon recreating the assassination of MLK and then shooting the target dummy at close range.
He then chuckled and said, “This is so fucking wrong.”
WASHINGTON: Despite republicans’ best efforts, including a 24 hour filibuster-style debate — “the state house approved a levy on incomes over $1 million… pays for free breakfast & lunch for k-12 students…”
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Everything about the Department of Veterans under the Trump administration is geared toward shifting veterans out of the VA healthcare system and into the private sector
War is an extreme action and, thus, triggers extreme reactions. Including extreme stupidity. It’s always disheartening—or ought to be—to see what should be a last resort comes to pass. (cont.)
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Pardon my french, but this forecast is fucking absurd.
Parts of San Francisco could legitimately flirt with 90 degrees Monday and Tuesday, which would shatter the March record (87F). The city's earliest 90-degree reading is April 6, same with Oakland, in 1989 and 2016, respectively.
The problem is, everyone I’ve spoken to in MAGAworld content creation — comms staff, influencers, whomever — knows their identity. In off-the-record conversations, people will simply tell me their name as soon as I ask the question, as they’re familiar with the memelord’s style from interactions in the disappearing MAGA group chats. (I do have to pause for a second and acknowledge that the meme zoomers have better opsec than the senior officials who did Signalgate a year ago.) But the moment I ask if they’d be willing to go on background about it — surely they aren’t Nazis, and shouldn’t they call out behavior in their own ranks? — sources immediately clam up. If I prod, they’ll shrug it off as everyone’s just having fun.
So @tinanguyen.bsky.social has spent weeks trying to identify the person at DHS who posts all the racist memes, and instead uncovered a fascinating code of silence: everyone in Trump's Washington knows who it is, but refuses to say. Gift link! -> www.theverge.com/column/89298...
“The U.S. federal government must keep making payments on the $16 billion New York Hudson Tunnel after an appeals court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration's bid to halt paying for the project.”
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Bunch of sadistic monsters.🤬
Lord Mandelson was appointed as US ambassador despite officials highlighting his financial links to a Russian defence technology company that produces radar and satellite communications for the country’s land-based missile early-warning system, new documents reveal
Looks as if this could be devastating for the Colorado River, even as the states in the basin remain far from any plan for water allocation.
Damn. That is an impressive amount of will.
In addition to oil, the war has bottled up the world’s main supply of sulphuric acid, setting back a lot of heavy industrial supply chains. theoregongroup.com/commodities/...
It actually took several months before it became clear that Iraq would be a shit show.
This is falling apart much more quickly.
Thinking about the six lawmakers who told the military they don’t have to obey unlawful orders.
I do find it interesting that the AIPAC shadow PACs are going after non-front runner candidates here in Chicago.
They went after Kat Abu in #IL09 and that was a sign that she was gaining momentum. Now they’re doing the same to Jason Friedman in #IL07.
Acres may be a small startup of only about 70 people, but it is one of a growing number of niche data companies quietly assembling GPU clusters outside the walls of Big Tech, in a bet that owning their own compute will be a competitive edge. https://bit.ly/4rrC0pg
At this rate Trump might have to release the rest of the Epstein files to distract from gas prices.
This is like watching Trump bankrupt a casino in real time. Except this time we are the casino.
Portugal warns foreign state-backed hackers targeting officials' and military messaging accounts reut.rs/4lpHTC1
every day a new, actual benghazi
Yeah so these things cost $2.5 million each. That's $50 million of your tax dollars just . . . flying away.
Uber and Lyft Fares May Jump After LAX Approves Rideshare Fee Hike-Fox business
Iran fired on commercial ships Wednesday and targeted Dubai International Airport, escalating a campaign of bottling up the oil-rich Persian Gulf as global energy concerns mounted and American and Israeli airstrikes pounded the Islamic Republic. https://to.pbs.org/4brQqzU
so, we’ve gotten this, dead civilians all over the Middle East, pricey gas, and an even worse ayatollah than the previous one for our troubles, then
Netherlands is tinkering with taxing unrealized capital gains, which seem to me the only realistic way to start tackling runaway wealth inequality. Some exemptions for homes and businesses, and stock losses could be used to offset future gains. Curious to see how it turns out.
![Q: You’ve mentioned your support for earth science, but you also tend to avoid mentioning “global warming” and “climate change” in your positioning. How do you see NASA studying climate change?
A: We inhabit one planet. … We should probably do everything we possibly can to understand it.
When there is a market beyond just NASA for a service, you should strongly look in that direction, because every dollar we spend building bespoke Earth observation, or even at this point space weather satellites, is a dollar that comes away from, like, a planetary science mission, your next Dragonfly, which no one else is going to do. There are no mass-produced assembly lines of satellites for Titan right now, but there sure are for Earth observation. I mean, not just SpaceX, right, Planet, Black Sky, and others.
Second, I would just say, you know, earth sciences has strong bipartisan support. … Because it matters to agriculture and floods and wildfires, real humanitarian issues. So we’re not getting out of that business.
For NASA to assemble scientists and put out papers on politically charged issues, whether or not this is an impending climate catastrophe, is not helpful to the broader NASA mission.
You have a previous administration that puts out on NASA letterhead the world is going to end, and then you have the next administration put out on NASA letterhead that this is all a hoax. How is that useful to anyone right now?
What [NASA] should do is fund the data that benefits all humankind, and you put it out there and let people draw their conclusions.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w7jirivxkdpu4gvmdgsito3k/bafkreigyn2vz4awk6blyld65myo3iq3xkohg22hofugnsltt74ynhtmyve)
Q: You’ve mentioned your support for earth science, but you also tend to avoid mentioning “global warming” and “climate change” in your positioning. How do you see NASA studying climate change? A: We inhabit one planet. … We should probably do everything we possibly can to understand it. When there is a market beyond just NASA for a service, you should strongly look in that direction, because every dollar we spend building bespoke Earth observation, or even at this point space weather satellites, is a dollar that comes away from, like, a planetary science mission, your next Dragonfly, which no one else is going to do. There are no mass-produced assembly lines of satellites for Titan right now, but there sure are for Earth observation. I mean, not just SpaceX, right, Planet, Black Sky, and others. Second, I would just say, you know, earth sciences has strong bipartisan support. … Because it matters to agriculture and floods and wildfires, real humanitarian issues. So we’re not getting out of that business. For NASA to assemble scientists and put out papers on politically charged issues, whether or not this is an impending climate catastrophe, is not helpful to the broader NASA mission. You have a previous administration that puts out on NASA letterhead the world is going to end, and then you have the next administration put out on NASA letterhead that this is all a hoax. How is that useful to anyone right now? What [NASA] should do is fund the data that benefits all humankind, and you put it out there and let people draw their conclusions.
Jared Isaacman is an climate-denier Musk-fanboy space billionaire who is overseeing the rapid demolition and privatization of NASA's earth science mission.
He tells @voosen.me that he wants to fire NASA's scientists and leave NASA as a money funnel for privately owned earth-monitoring satellites.
I'm going to share this story one more time, because I think the problem it describes -- being unable to determine what is true online or in the news, and just giving up entirely on trying -- is going to get more and more common. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I don't know if this race will end up being competitive, but mathematically: all it would take would be for white people in Mississippi to vote Republican at the same ~ 70 to 75% as white people in Georgia, instead of their usual ~ 80 to 85%.
