Phillips O’Brien explains Ukraine’s “Seven Million Drones” and why they matter--a lot. youtube.com/shorts/kIv7M...

Tennessee Republicans just stripped ALL House Democrats of their committee assignments through November because they protested a gerrymandered map designed to dilute Black voting power in Memphis. Unfuckingbelievable racist, fascist BS. www.newschannel5.com/news/tenness...

🇺🇸🇺🇦 CBS News: The U.S. and Ukraine are drafting a defense deal focused on drone technology and joint manufacturing. Ukraine would export military tech to the U.S. and partner with American firms to build drones, after proving its capabilities during the wars with Russia and Iran.

The proposed deal could help Ukraine expand defense production with American funding while giving the U.S. access to battlefield-tested drone technology.

Now you can help save lives and write history Name your own STING interceptor and get a guaranteed video of it taking out a ruzzian Shahed or other drone Plus, your donation counts for tickets in the Wild Hornets raffle👇 bsky.app/profile/arme...

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green is ready to sign the most groundbreaking campaign finance bill in the country. Hawaii is putting an end to Citizens United within the state! Details: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/hawaii-jus...

"[C]orporations only exist because states allow them to. Which means that every power a corporation has was given to it by the state. Hawaii just took one of those powers off the list—starting next year, corporations in Hawaii can no longer spend money on state + local elections." #ShareGoodNewsToo

🇭🇺 Two new Saab #Gripen C arrive at Kecskemét. Arrival of the first two of four new jets ordered in 2024. Another two to be delivered this summer - taking Hungary's Gripen fleet to 18 C/D. HuNAF's first Gripen fighters arrived 21 March 2006. Photos: Honvédelmi Minisztérium

Ukrainian defenders send greetings to NAFO.

On May 10th, the 2nd day of the 3 day cease-fire, the russia set a new 2026 shelling record. The total, 6380, was so high it is possible it may never be exceeded again. This is why we must differentiate between russian cease-fires and actual ceasefires.

The ISW reports that Russia used the "truce" to regroup rather than to de-escalate. Combat operations did not cease for a single day. understandingwar.org/research/rus...

🇧🇷 22/4 "Fighter Aviation celebrates 81 years of history [..], and continues to evolve, leading #Brazil into a new era with supersonic capability, technology, and deterrent power through the delivery of the first F-39 #Gripen produced on Brazilian soil." www.fab.mil.br/noticias/ope...

🇺🇦 The SBU found a "mole": The Internal Security Service detained an FSB agent in one of the front-line units She was recruited through her father, who lives in occupied Berdyansk and collaborates with the enemy.

Editorial Note: Looking for a person or event to spotlight today, I tried a novel search approach and ran across the historical marker for the 1970 Augusta Riot. It was installed in 2021 we the goal of bringing the events back into public consciousness.

⚡️ Russia's Orenburg — 1,200 kilometers from Ukraine — reportedly hit by drones. The attacks come after the three-day Victory Day ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia ended.

🇸🇪 "Swedish #QRA fighter jets intercepted two Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bombers over the #Baltic Sea today. The bombers were escorted by two Russian fighter jets, and the interception was coordinated with NATO allies." 📸 Swedish Air Force SRC: Flygvapnet / X April 20, 2026.

Postscript: Journalist and instructor Sea Stachura began conducting interviews and reviewing declassified FBI files as early as 2011. This led to the creation of the Shots in the Back podcast for the 50th anniversary of the tragedy. www.gpb.org/podcasts/sho...

#Ukraine hopes to begin #Gripen pilot training this year – Zelensky www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4...

I'm old enough to remember Jim Crow America. And we should never go back to that. Instead we must rise up to prevent it from regaining its evil hold.

"Imperfect as the postwar order may be, the cost of abandoning it would be far greater than the cost of reinforcing it." Alicia Buenrostro Massieu and Ander Laresgoiti on the role Mexico and other multilateral powers must play to save the international system: www.justsecurity.org/138104/multi...

86 As Many Right Wing Nut Jobs On The Supremely Corrupt Court, As Soon As Possible.......

ICE flights. Monday, May 11, 2026.

Separatist leader accused of misusing Alberta electors list refuses to co-operate with investigators www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/3fa2402...

“The feeling inside the program was that Netanyahu had effectively gone around Stahl and the “60 Minutes” team—and that Weiss had assisted him in doing so by finding an interviewer who was, for whatever reason, more agreeable to him.” www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

Here's a graphic explaining how the Big Lie was seeded and mobilized into the events of January 6, 2021 through a kind of "participatory disinformation" process. Trump's "war on drugs" refrain could catalyze a similar kind of participatory propaganda and mobilization cycle.

It’s worth studying the slaughter unleashed by ex Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. He killed up to 30,000 poor people in a futile attempt to wipe out drugs & his main communications vector was Facebook. Watch Nobel laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social explain how it was used to silence opposition.

A kindergarten and hi-rises in a Kyiv suburb were among the sites struck by the madman ruzzian dictator's 216-drone mass strike overnight 4 civilians were killed and 27 injured by ruzzian strikes in the past day If you stand with Ukraine, join our raffle—fund anti-Shahed STING interceptors👇

9/ "It's a media circus. I don't understand why the enemy is winning this battle. P.S. By the way, there's no need to warn Musk; that asshole knows exactly what he's doing. He's got blood on his hands." /end Source: t.me/DmitriyStesh...

1/ The arrival of Starlink-enabled Ukrainian Hornet drones far behind the Russian front lines in Ukraine is prompting calls from the Russians to directly target Starlink's satellites. Otherwise, a collapse is forecast for Russia's logistics in Ukraine. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/spec...

Moment of the Hornet kamikaze drone strike on a Russian UAZ-469. As claimed two Russians were killed as a result.

Gift article: “In January, a nationalistic Beijing think tank affiliated with Renmin University published a triumphant report about Mr. Trump [calling him:] an “accelerator of American political decay,” with the US sliding toward… “Latin American-style instability.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

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We don't vote for our enemies anyhow, ergo he wants us dead. fortune.com/2026/05/11/t...

ICYMI: After humiliating themselves at last month's hearing, four judicial nominees — in responses to written questions — conceded that Trump can't be elected president in 2028. Still, they dodged questions related to the 2020 election and January 6. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/four-judic...

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Louis Armstrong performing for his wife at the Great Sphinx of Giza (1961). 📷 Bettmann/Corbis

🔥 As a result of the May attack on the Bryansk Chemical Plant in the village of Seltso, a warehouse of unknown purpose was hit on the territory of the enterprise, - CyberBoroshno

Sometimes knowledge liberates. Sometimes it extracts. Sometimes it surveils. Sometimes it becomes policy. And in the hands of white supremacy, even Black survival can be studied like a target. substack.com/home/post/p-...

ICE's abuses continues. They've been, (& most likely still are) 'disappearing' ppl, like the abusive, corrupt AHs that they are. "information regarding these [ICE] flights is nearly impossible to find" And the GOP wants to give more $ to these out of control AHs. 202-224-3121 democracy.io/#!/

A Tennessee teenager calls her school board a group of “cowards” last week for not firing a member who hugged her and remarked that she was “hot” during a public meeting last month.

1/ A Russian soldier fighting in Ukraine's Donbas region provides a gloomy picture of life on the front lines. A constant flow of doomed stormtroopers go on one-way trips, drones make logistics a game of Russian roulette, and thirsty men drink from muddy, corpse-filled holes. ⬇️

Wishing MAGAts happy breathing if you live near these polluters who were granted exemptions to the #CleanAirAct by environmentalist felonious orangina. Why, because he doesn’t give a shit about you #FDT #MakeAmericaSickAgain #DV1 #ProudBlue www.propublica.org/article/clea...

“He kept me out of jail for years” Trump praises Acting AG Todd Blanche and makes it clear his main role is “acting” as Trump’s personal attorney (While gaslighting that he isn’t weaponizing the DOJ 🤥)

Stevie has cerebellar hypoplasia aka “wobbly pup” but that doesn’t stop him from his favourite pastime….PUDDLES! 💦 IG: stevie_the_wonderdog

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1970: Black residents of August, Ga., riot to protest the brutal jailhouse murder of a Black teenager. Following the protests, white police killed six Black men, all shot in the back. The event was largely ignored for decades by local officials and the media. /1

A new report shows that biggest social media platforms still have a major #disinformation problem. The study looked at Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, #TikTok, X/Twitter and YouTube in France, Poland, Slovakia and Spain. 🧵 1/4 share.google/NtWZYTdAbbuq...

Russia struck the Dnipropetrovsk region with drones, artillery, and aerial bombs. One person is confirmed dead and four others wounded. Five districts across the region came under fire. In Pavlohrad, a nine-story residential building was hit.

Trump administration cancels rule that made conservation a use of public lands apnews.com/article/trum...