@hartdp2000
Upstate, SC. Reformed engineer, hiker, photographer, volunteer. Go outside. Always learning. Advocate for others. “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” -H. L. Mencken
Chart showing that 6 in 10 Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
Nearly four years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a majority of Americans continue to say abortion should be legal in all or most cases (60%).
Read our full report on abortion here: www.pewresearch.org/...
Need to replace Mike Johnson as Speaker ASAP. Line of succession is a veritable shit-show.
> @reuters.com
A Carrier Air Wing 8 F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft lands on the flight deck of the world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), while operating in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, in support of Operation Epic Fury, March 2, 2026. (U.S. Navy photo)
🚢USS Gearld R. Ford
Current Location: Middle East in support of Operation Epic Fury. It was previously involved in the operation to seize Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Status: Deployed for attack on Iran. The Ford has no date for its eventual return to its homeport.
After Cornyn and Paxton were forced into a runoff, I said we should watch just how far Senator Cornyn is willing to put his head up trump's ass for his endorsement. Now he's flipping on the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act and disenfranchise millions of voters. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
North Carolina's Forest Service is having a hard time retaining firefighters, even as incidents of wildfires climb across the state. Helene damaged more than 800,000 acres of forest.
www.wunc.org/politics/202...
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NEW: Right-wing activists are circulating a draft executive order that purports to give Trump sweeping power over federal elections.
@mollyroberts.bsky.social and I got new details on the activists, lawyers, and conspiracy theorists behind the proposed order:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/in-c...
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.
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.
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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
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.
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...
"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 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 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."
