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Airspace closure followed spat over drone-related tests and party balloon shoot-down, sources say Pentagon officials had undertaken planning to use military technology near Fort Bliss, in El Paso, to practice downing drones.

Seems the Pentagon is testing anti-drone high-energy lasers near Fort Bliss in El Paso, and didn't feel this was dangerous enough to close airspace over.

The FAA administrator disagreed.

Last week, these lasers successfully protected the American people from a sinister children's party balloon.

I've seen a lot of cases, and I have to confess this one is very very bad from what I have seen. Marimar Martinez, from what. can tell, really was almost executed by CBP agents who tried to cover it up and showed that they did not care about her life at all.

LIEU: These two photos staring you in the face are evidence of a crime and more than enough evidence to predicate an investigation into former Prince Andrew. So why did you shut down this investigation?

BONDI: I don't believe you asked Merrick Garland these questions


LIEU: You are in charge

Nena answer your phone, your booking agent is calling

oh my GOD

Yes I enjoyed watching her panic as she tried to come up with a response

She knows how bad all of this is

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Cohen to Bondi: "You tried to investigate Ms. Good's widow and you tried to investigate Mr. Pretti. They were executed like Kristi Noem executed her dog."

"We award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

Kai, is the stock market the Rule of Law?

@kairyssdal.bsky.social pardon meeeee Mister Rysdal I have a question about the Dowwwww

in fact you do not have to show your ID when you board a train in the united states, you only need to show your ticket (which can be purchased without an ID)

Personally, I like my doctors to have finished residency and passed their boards.

I would also guess that the increasing awareness of autism in women and girls is also a key factor to this. More people are aware of how autism presents in women and girls compared to when I was misdiagnosed as neurotypical as a child. It used to be so stigmatised and that was just for boys.

Funny story: my career in drones exists because I have a arithmetic learning disability, tested awfully in math and couldn’t study STEM in college, and became so angered by how normal it was to look down upon non-tech people in the 2010s that I decided to master a hard tech field out of pure spite.

Least worst white people

British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump' Lucy Harrison, 23, was alone in a bedroom at her father's home in Texas when she was shot dead.

A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump.

A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges.

Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.

everyone with an IQ above paste could have predicted this would happen: anyway; these Meta glasses are ontologically evil and anyone who wears them is a creeping blood-worm who should be chased from society with stones and sharp sticks

If you don’t understand the difference between abortion being an individual decision that affects only oneself & vaccine refusal being a public health choice that affects herd immunity & thus the health of your community, you have zero fucking business working in, let alone overseeing public health.

it's probably a good sign for our democracy that every member of congress who has been in the secret epstein document room walks out saying stuff like "every powerful person in the country knew, they're all rapists and pedophiles, they should be tossed into a pit and crushed under boulders"

Today in immediate presidency-ending scandals for anyone but the One Special Boy.

The Ones Who Take You Through The Drive-Thru Of Omelas

Yikes that’s fuckin dark

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

There are several throughlines in the Epstein saga. One is the community of elite child rapists and sex pests. Another is the weak narcissistic thirst for proximity to power and influence and celebrity. But another is official hubris: how offended Top People are that we question how they Do Things.

I think of you as the Jason Mantzoukas of audiobook narrators, so don't rule it out

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

No, no. It's fine that residuals are dying. I've got a new constant stream of small checks: class action settlements from companies that failed to keep my personal data safe.

Next year it's *my* turn to program the Superbowl halftime show

Punish the villains

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