David Hart

I’m still surprised there’s a not-insignificant space for this in our local camera shop.

Note: it’s the *only* camera shop left in the region.

Effort to keep homeschoolers out of voucher program stalls in SC committee The bill’s sponsor said he plans to offer a proviso, or one-year law, to address his concerns about home-educated students receiving school vouchers.

www.thestate.com/news/politic...

LINDSEY GRAHAM: “I feel good about the Republican Party. We’re killing all the right people and cutting your taxes. Trump is my favorite president. We’ve run out of bombs. We didn’t even run out of bombs in WWII.”

a complete and total lunatic

Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."

Two people are injured and a gunman is dead after a shooting inside an academic building at Old Dominion University in Virginia, according to the school. https://cnn.it/3MZRa7b

$4.99 yesterday.

We?

WICKER: Sen. Gillibrand, you did not mean to say that we targeted a school?

GILLIBRAND: That missile hit a school

Sodomizing a Palestinian prisoner with a knife on camera is apparently legal in Israel

RFK Jr.’s HHS proposes scrapping protections for LGBTQ+ kids in foster care The policy change was announced in a notice of proposed rulemaking.

This is disgusting, underscores Trump’s homophobic attack on queer kinds.

They’re going place gay, lesbian, bi and trans foster kids in homes that don’t accept them being queer, where religious extremists will harm them.

This is on everyone who voted for Trump.

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

The important part here is that the officials are leaking this information. Trump won’t live forever and these people don’t want to bury their careers with him.

'If I don't work, I go hungry': The migrant workers risking their lives to keep the Gulf running Migrant workers from across the Gulf share the experience of having no choice but to work despite the threat posed by Iranian missile strikes

Western expats and natives shelter in place, relying on guest worker delivery drivers to bring them food.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/if-i-do...

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

“.. Reopening the strait, military analysts say, may require a ground operation to seize the Iranian coastline.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Dire Straits: The Iran War Is Run by Idiots Also: Americans don't care about process. So they will get corruption.

"We have seen industrial-scale government corruption unlike anything in our nation’s history. And here’s the thing: The public has basically accepted it. So why would any future administration act differently?"

And so the American experiment with democracy is transformed from Lincoln's "the last best hope of earth...The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just—a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless..."

...becomes "We are really good at killing people."

Tech brain.

Israeli military drops charges against soldiers charged with abusing Palestinian prisoner The Israeli military says it is dropping charges against five soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee in an encounter partially caught on camera.

Israeli military drops charges against five soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman facility. Officials announce the decision, ending a high-profile case that sparked far-right riots and the resignation of the military’s top legal official.

It’s peak crawfish season, but Louisiana peeling plants are empty: ‘I've lost all hope’ Shortage of H-2B visas threatens Louisiana's $640m crawfish industry, leaving the state's 20 crawfish processors with no option to hire migrant workers.

It's crawfish season and Louisiana's crawfish processing plants are at a standstill because there is no migrant labor www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/new...

They honestly thought this would be over by now. They have no idea what to do next.

and all in the line of succession after… *checks notes*… JDV, Mike Johnson, and Chuck Grassley.

Also, have you seen the line of succession? Idiocracy on steroids.

Gen. Grynkewich: "The price of oil and has has gone up. We know that Putin depends on that. I think how much he benefits from it depends on how long those prices remain elevated. I know the president is watching this very closely."

GOLDMAN: “.. we now assume 21
days (vs. 10 days prior) of low Strait of Hormuz oil flows at 10% of normal
levels before a 30-day gradual recover ..”

WHAT WE'VE BEEN DRAGGED INTO :

Israeli Knesset member Tzvi Succot:

"Destroy their villages. Conquer their territory. Annex it for Israel."

They are not even pretending anymore, openly calling for land grab, ethnic cleansing, expansion, while Trump and his media pretend this is about "security."

Kash Patel Confirms UFC Fighters Will Train FBI Agents This Week, Calling It A “Historic Opportunity” "I’m thrilled to announce this historic seminar between the FBI and the UFC at Quantico," said the FBI director in a statement released by the UFC.

Kash Patel confirms UFC fighters will train FBI agents this week, calling it a "historic opportunity'

Life Hack:

I was on the phone w/ an AI customer service agent that was insisting: (a) it couldn't fix the error the company had made, and (b) no live person could speak w/ me.

I then said I'd file a complaint w/ my state's consumer protection office, and I was connected to a human in <1 minute.

Chris Wright on CNBC claims "we're destroying their ability to threaten energy markets" while B roll plays of a flaming tanker in the Strait of Hormuz

The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money. BUT, of far greater interest and importance to me, as President, is stoping an evil Empire, Iran, from having Nuclear Weapons, and destroying the Middle East and, indeed, the World. I won’t ever let that happen! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump: "The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money."

Trump’s Iran Blunders Suddenly Look Darker after Damning New Leaks Hit As brutal revelations emerge about Trump’s handling of the war, a foreign policy expert explains why he won’t be able to extricate us from this debacle anytime soon—and provides a roadmap to what’s ne...

Trump officials privately pessimistic there's a strategy to end war, but they fear telling this to Trump, NYT reports. On the pod, @profsaunders.bsky.social brilliantly explains how this shows perils of "personalist" rule and the total absence of constraints on him:
newrepublic.com/article/2076...

Everyone knows our offensive capabilities are unrivaled. No surprises there.

One thing that worries me is that we’ve failed to learn the lessons from Ukraine.

Warfare has changed, and we’re behind the eight ball. We should have been pouring money into counter-drone technology.