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Two National Guard members shot just blocks from the White House FBI Director Kash Patel says two West Virginia National Guard members who were shot just blocks from the White House are still alive and in critical condition.

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WTF? Oops, they’re still alive? These poor soldiers and their poor families.

Army officer sets record for fastest mile run in EOD bomb suit Wearing a 48-pound prototype suit, the former West Point soccer player crossed the finish line with the watch reading 10:19.

"With the time reading 10:19, Faust, a platoon leader with the 55th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, crossed the finish line wearing the Army’s newest suit, a 48-pound prototype developed by Program Executive Officer Soldier, according to a service release."

Jeebus.

Hazing, bullying reports up as Hegseth pushes for rougher training While hazing reports saw an upswing in 2024 after three years of steady decline, bullying complaints have been steadily increasing since 2020.

Neat.

I know the good ones are still out there.

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Airman indicted in scheme to overthrow Haitian island, take sex slaves The two men allegedly conspired to recruit and lead an expeditionary mercenary force — made up of D.C.'s unhoused population — to overthrow the island.

What kind of fu*kery is this?

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I don’t know why I keep forgetting that.

“The organization once endorsed by President Theodore Roosevelt no longer supports the future of American boys," Hegseth wrote in the memo.

OK, Jan.

They made significantly more criminal arrests this year, but the number of people indicted stayed roughly flat. They opened many fewer “significant cases”—like into global crime syndicates like drug cartels—than the previous year. Human trafficking arrests up, but agents helped 20% fewer victims.

One of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre's last survivors, Viola Ford Fletcher, dies age 111 One of the last known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma has died. Viola Ford Fletcher was 111.

Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died.

"An increase in beef imports from Brazil, like President Donald Trump encouraged last week by slashing tariffs on the South American country, may help insulate consumers while ranchers and feedlots struggle with high costs and falling prices."

Abbott Releases—and Blacks Out—1,400 Pages of Emails With Elon Musk Texas Governor Greg Abbott was forced to reveal his emails with Musk. He didn’t totally comply.

After Texas news outlets made a public records request to see emails Gov. Abbott and Musk’s companies, state officials took months fighting and delaying their release.

Then, they released 1,374 pages with all but 200 of those pages entirely blacked out. trib.al/ldzeTdi

I am both a patriotic American and a strident Atlanticist and it is for both those reasons that I firmly believe Europe should ice us out of NATO until we have our head back on our shoulders

There is nothing to gain and everything to lose by showing up for handshake photo-ops with our mad king

So much work these people have done. It's horrifying for all of us, but I hope they're hanging on for the next round.

In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.

In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols.

The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.

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No. Shit.

All the energy. Oil. Electric. Nuclear. All the AI. All the money. All the media. All the freedom. All the control.

Probably not just about the U.S.

There's so much weird timing here.

Trump administration proposes opening waters off California and Florida to oil drilling

By Tara Copp and Michelle Boorstein The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.

This is a good example of how you introduce essential context right at the very top of a story:
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There are days when it's hard for me to remember that, at base, we all want the same things.

Today I'm trying to remember that those things don't include Nazis, pedophiles, and death sentences for disobeying illegal orders.

Right? None of us wants those things, right?

Y'all.

What in the actual fuq?

Oh, my grandfather is about to come up from his grave for yer asses.

Honestly, this makes every org and institution that folded at the merest threat of an attack on trans rights just look as pathetic as they are.

It does the same for everyone that excused them.

JD Vance on the same morning Trump calls for execution of elected Democrats: "He's not a violent person:"

Should be a scandal that the Vice President of the United States is yukking it up in an interview with Breitbart, a racist gutter site that used to have a special tag for "Black Crime"

Judge to proceed with contempt probe after US flew migrants to El Salvador prison in March A federal judge has asked attorneys to identify witnesses and offer plans for how to conduct a contempt probe of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March.

A federal judge has asked attorneys to identify witnesses and offer plans for how to conduct a contempt probe of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March.

What causes Vance on Vance violence? A blame a culture of fatherlessness

Not a good look.

Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations

DHS agents investigating sexual crimes against children have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown.

A probe into the black market for Iranian oil sold to finance terrorism has been slowed down because of the shift.

And efforts to combat human smuggling have languished.