I can understand a bunch of J6er/ICE types operating without regard for rules, regulations, and laws that they've never read and probably wouldn't understand, if they did. I don't condone it, but I can understand it. What I don't understand is career military professionals "just following orders".

@apnews.com now propagandist for the AI tech bros? Congratulations on the demotion! The really big company I work for is going all-in in trying to integrate AI into almost everything. What have I learned? The term "AI slop" is accurate if you use it for anything more than an enhanced search engine.

I read and enjoyed this article not because I'm a student of biomechanics, but because it means that there are still people out there working every day to expand human knowledge and they deserve to have people read their work. Subscribed to Science Magazine, too, just because.

Now let's discuss the military members that are passing these orders and pulling the triggers.

Anyone else find it an unlikely coincidence that the day they started demo for the $200-$300 million ballroom that Trump is "going to pay for with his own money" that he demanded between $200-$300 million dollars from the US government?

So, the message here - the lesson here - is that anyone they allege to be a terrorist can and will be executed, at their sole discretion, by the US military. Draw your own conclusion about what Phase 2 of this operation will look like.

Another media failure @theatlantic.com MAGA doesn't have a "Group-Chst Problem" - you make it sound like it's a screentime addiction issue or something. What they have is a "Moral Depravity Problem". Maybe if your group-chat leaking creates a scandal, the problem isn't the group-chat leaking.

Constitutional Amendment to allow recall votes for Representatives, Senators, and Presidents. This "once you're in, you can do anything you want, including flip parties without recourse for the electorate" bullshit has got to end.

How long before these guys get the Institute of Peace treatment?

When this is over, the construction company doing this work should be debarred from government contracts for all eternity.

🤣 This is hysterical wording @cnn.com - "stunned the world"? Pretty sure this is an exaggeration.

Good morning to *almost* everybody. If you get my drift...🚫👑

6am vs 6pm today

At least he's admitting the mission is just about killing people. "...kills another 6 people...", as opposed to "...destroys another drug trafficking boat..."

Not one single mention of the rise of Christian private schools siphoning voucher money from the public school systems or Christian homeschooling. You can't credibly evaluate a thing without addressing effects of the ecosystem within which it exist. I'd give this "paper" a C, at best.

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows. The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets. 🧵⤵️

Hey @bsky.app, how come we can click on a person's avatar picture and see it full size, but we can't with their profile wallpaper pic (or whatever you call it)? There are some people out there with what look like fantastic pictures that deserve to be seen. Seems this would be an easy fix, no?

Any place else, this would be called "inconceivable" or something similar. In Trump's Amerika, it's called "just another Friday".

A beautiful morning to everyone celebrating the Nobel Peace Prize announcement

A dog fell asleep on me. I am now stuck here until she wakes up. That's the house rule.

Irony Alert: Country that's supporting Russia's war against Ukraine wants countries to shun another country that's supporting Russia's war against Ukraine.

I've not seen CNN or MSNBC utter a single syllable about Trump's 4-day disappearance, days after his garbled speech at Quantico, a month after a 6-day disappearance. Strangeness, health questions, incongruities, inconsistencies - nothing. Not even to just say it happened. Normalization on steroids.

Somebody doesn't understand (add it to the list) how flag retirement ceremonies work.

I keep seeing memes/posts about "300 ICE agents rappelling from Blackhawks". The fact that matters here is the number is greater than zero, by any amount. Exaggerating into/beyond absurdity on one point allows people to write off the entire story.

Shocking news, if it wasn't so 100% predictable. "fundamental security problems and vulnerabilities" "very high risk" "likelihood of an adversary gaining persistent undetectable access" In other words, performs precisely as designed. Backdoors and access to the highest bidder.

...as I drink my "coffee"...

More "winning" on the way... Trump visa curbs push US firms to consider shifting more work to India - "...extreme offshoring..."

If Congressional appropriations are irrelevant, then there will be no government shutdown, right? The President will just declare "this is the budget and it's approved."

‍Trump expected to attend meeting with top US military leaders. I wonder how long he'll rant incoherently before getting to the "Raise your right hand and repeat after me..." part. The upside is that at least we'll find out what flag officers place higher value on: their Oath or the next star.

Another POS public "servant" looking for a shot at redemption. Great. Maybe these people should have lived their lives in a way that didn't require deathbed redemption in the first place.

I'd like to see the ROE Card being handed out for this one. Assuming there is one, of course.

The calm after the storm

The brave coward who blocks replies.

Comey is, at least in part, responsible for the chain of events leading to his own persecution. Normally, I'd think "reap what you sow" for about 10 seconds, then forget about it. Not this time, because this a-hole is taking us all down with him. He did us his worst and I wish him the same.

Wonder how long before it dawns on this gang of Originalists that the *original* Constitution didn't have *any* Amendments?

Of course, the irony will be lost on them that by designating anti-fascists as the "bad guys", they are openly declaring fascists to be the "good guys" in their world.

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

Way to go @reuters.com, making me regret my subscription with you yet again.

2024: "Wherever the evidence leads us." 2025: "Wherever us leads the evidence."

Somebody needs to forward this to the Vatican so he can be right proper canonized.

I wonder if Abrego García's need at CECOT is still open.

Hey, Pope Leo, come get your boy.

@reuters.com, really?