4 "Zappers" out of NAS Whidbey's electronic warfare wing of the Navy were involved in a mid air collision. In 2024, a pilot and weapons system officer out of the same air wing died after crashing into a mountain near Mount Rainer during a low visibility training flight.

A Ukrainian FP-2 drone shooting missiles at Russian targets. Wow!

Brilliant way to trigger their precious egos. Didn’t take long before it was vandalized.

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I’ll be curious to see if he pulls a Thom Thillis and regrows his spine now that he’s going to be out of office www.npr.org/2026/05/16/n...

Calling her an ELECTION DENIER is not helpful. She was CONVICTED of 7 charges - 4 of which were felonies relating to unauthorized access to election machines. She helped to successfully breach voting infrastructure that may have compromised the 2024 elections. www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/p...

Disgusting

250 Pardons for America’s 250th Birthday I shit you not… Notable Speculative Names: * Ghislaine Maxwell * Derek Chauvin * Elizabeth Holmes * Sam Bankman-Fried * Sean “Diddy” Combs * Joe Exotic www.dailymail.com/news/article...

I suspect that the only book in the Trump library (if it’s ever built) will be the ‘The Art of the Steal’… www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

I wonder how many dead Russian bodies still remain on the mountains and in the valleys of Afghanistan… www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Obvious Questions: - What kind of detonation system did the explosive device employ? - Did the explosive fail to detonate or when was it set to explode if not remotely operated? - Is there a coordinated plan to attack our infrastructure? - Is this foreign or domestic terrorism? - Where’s Ka$h?

Splash 1 Bandit 🔱💥

Why not ‘Lil Marco’?

1/ The Russian government's claims that it isn't blocking GitHub are widely disbelieved by Russian commentators, who continue to protest about the severe impact that the apparent restrictions on accessing it will have on military-industrial software development. ⬇️

⚡️ Poland scrambles jets to intercept Russian spy plane in Baltic Sea 'provocation.' Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said the "aggressive action" was intended to test Poland's air defense systems. kyivindependent.com/poland-scram...

What I Told the Baltics about Donald Trump 1/ Back from Finland where I spoke to intelligence officers, diplomats, etc from the Baltics. I told them what what most American outlets still won't say: Donald Trump is an asset of Russian intelligence. open.substack.com/pub/craigung...

2/Cultivating Trump started with money. Remember, Trump had six bankruptcies, $4B in debt, couldn't get loans. Instead, he got the money he needed from Russians. A thousand-plus condos. $1.5B+ laundered through Trump real estate. Mob bosses running enterprises out of Trump Tower.

3/ For the Baltics, the consequences are existential. They are protected by NATO's Article 5 but the US under Trump is completely unreliable. When Trump withheld aid from Ukraine in 2019, the Baltics learned that they can't wait for US to save them.

4/ Finns are far more savvy than American voters because even young schoolchildren are taught how to spot phony images, disinformation, propaganda. Americans can't. That media illiteracy is the soil in which Trumpism thrives.

5/For complete report: craigunger.substack.com/p/what-i-tol.... With thanks to @centrumbalticum.bsky.social and @uniturku.bsky.social for the invite. @atrupar.com @marisakabas.bsky.social , @hcrichardson.bsky.social @wajahatali.bsky.social , @olgalautman.bsky.social[email protected]

49-50, Senate fails to pass a measure to end Trump's war in Iran — but gets closer. 3 Rs vote YES: Paul, Collins, Murkowski. Murkowski is a flip, having voted no previously. 1 Dem votes NO: Fetterman. (For the first time he's the deciding vote here.) Ricketts missed the vote.

There's a backlog of $300m in deferred repairs needed for Olympic National Park ALONE. But the Trump admin is ignoring those projects in order to paint the reflecting pool. This isn't a maintenance issue. It's just another one of Trump's vanity projects.

An excellent conversation about 🇺🇦🇷🇺 with @jjsmart.bsky.social and @chuckpfarrer.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/s06XT-E...

china doesn't talk much about its missile production. so we combed through more than 10 years' worth of company records to put together this report, which shows 2025 was china's biggest missile production year in a long time--maybe ever (free link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Poor fishies… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

“Election Truth Alliance (ETA) has received questions and concerns regarding the recent decision to remove Jim Wertz as the chairman of the Erie County Board of Elections in Pennsylvania. We understand that Mr. Wertz was removed from his position because he met with ETA” youtube.com/post/Ugkx1Io...

That’s a lot of money except when you compare it to the $442 billion in estimated global scam losses in the past 12 months… decrypt.co/366241/north...

EURONEWS - “Iran has executed a 29-year-old aerospace engineer Erfan Shakourzadeh on Monday for alleged spying, despite his claims of torture and coerced confession, according to his note from prison.” www.euronews.com/2026/05/11/i...

I Saddamized Trump

Pakistani car bomb kills 21 including 12 police in targeted terrorist attack. Just what the world needs right now - more carnage… youtu.be/5VRvq49qxjI?...

STUDY: Those microplastics from tires and such don’t just pollute the air and prematurely kill us. They’re also fuelling the climate crisis. #UrbanTruth www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

🚀 Zelensky issued a decree confirming Ukraine will not strike a tiny box measuring 125 meters x 320 meters - the Red Square itself, during the May 9 parade. Less than 10 acres. No part of the Kremlin nor anything else is covered in the legal document concerning the ceasefire. 🍿

Language of the Presidential Decree.

Europe’s remaining dictator flies home to Russia for the victory parade he lied about attending

Ukrainian Ratel H unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) in a drone carrier configuration, capable of transporting and deploying four fiber-optic FPV drones.

Time to do the same in every democratic state in the country.

E-mail Dems running in midterms, your district or state.. "Races with suspicious results (e.g., 2024 campaign, Trump sweeping all swing states, just above the margin of mandatory recount) DEMAND PAPER BALLOT RECOUNTS PRIOR to CONCEDING...." electiontruthalliance.org

“Elon Musk's DOGE "blatantly used" race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.” youtube.com/post/UgkxLFr...

Imagine being arrested in 1985 for stealing enough US military secrets to fill a bathroom and then being released into the world just as Donald Trump took office. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

John Arthur Wilson, the King County Assessor, is so mad that I republished his IG posts that he felt the need to make a sworn statement saying PubliCola is "someone named Erica Barnett's" "personal opinions, unedited and unverified." Glad we're paying him a huge salary to spend his time this way.

I am more than happy to testify under oath about the fact that the county assessor knows very well who I am; I haven't covered him that much recently, except when he ensured Bailey Stober (another accused harasser) maintained employment while he was under investigation by the county Democrats.

I'm just going through this 53-page affidavit where Wilson pretends he isn't familiar with PubliCola and refers to it as my personal little blog of make-believe. I will note that this is a STANDARD sexist move—men have been belittling me in exactly this way for decades.

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Fixed it

Two former CIA officers wanted to understand how foreign money reaches the Trump family without leaving fingerprints. The answer: crypto. I returned to Mission Implausible to discuss World Liberty Financial, Binance, and Iran with @johnsipher.bsky.social and Jerry O'Shea.

Justified fear