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Knowing that they have the full support of the federal government, the Proud Boys are going to try invading Portland again.

Since Portland residents won’t passively accept it, this attack will only serve to reinforce the fascist narrative that the city is a war zone.

Another bonkers 'made in USA' story

The most radical Labour plan you haven’t heard about Collective bargaining in social care could save an ailing sector — but only if it’s done properly

Great column from @sarahoconnorft.ft.com where she casts her forensic eye over the introduction of collective bargaining in the social care sector. TL:DR it could work given adult care is a weird market largely paid for by local authorities; but as usual will there be enough cash? on.ft.com/4mSfeVm

Yeah, I hope good people are encourage to come forward and help other campaigns.

This should be a campaign that gets studied & taught. So many 'innovations' and things done right.
Lots of people blinded to how good campaign is because they don't agree with Mamdani on this or that. More fool them

But there's plenty that are not young. They are certainly more diverse.
And I don't even think it's just that Mamdani is progressive. I think himself and/or whoever is running his campaign is good at recognising talent and deploying it.
And I still think 'consultants' screwed other campaigns

It's not just about MAGA crowd (about which obvs you're correct). Trump wouldn't have won or been close to winning if only MAGA voted for him.
All the efforts about for the non-MAGA who voted for him or GOP or those who just absteined or still do

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

Men Becoming Less Manly, Says Speaker "One of the symptoms of our age is that men are becoming less manly and that women are becoming less womanly," asserted Rev. Gerard J. Murphy SJ, during the third in a series of nine lectures on marriage at the Catholic Youth Center. --The Jersey Journal, 14 Feb 1949

1949

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

So much this! I've never skipped as much in writing as I seem to do around here

Thales Anti-Drone Rockets Now Being Used In Ukraine Thales' new rocket system combines a 70mm laser-guided rocket with a purpose-built anti-drone airburst warhead and proximity fuse. Combining a 70-milimeter laser-guided rocket with a shotgun-style ai...

This will be useful for Ukraine & Europe

Laser guided, proximity fuze (so don't need to hit the Shaded dead-on to kill), steel bullets in warhead that disperse in ~25m radius, can use at night.

Thales plans 10k units/year by 2026

Cost around 15-20k USD or lower

www.twz.com/air/thales-a...

New 'Bulged' Neptune Cruise Missile Variant Emerges In Ukraine The new Neptune variant looks intended to slot in range-wise between older versions and the super-sized Long Neptune derivative.

'this variant has a range of at least 225 miles (360 kilometers)'

www.twz.com/news-feature...

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

She's obvs never going to be in a position to do this. But as a side note, there's not one original idea in her head. Just regurgitated US things she marinates in on X

Trump and Vought just re-invented ship money from first principles

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Forbes doing some great reporting recently.

Obvs US admin with its vas intelligence apparatus knows all this

I reckon that the racists hate exactly that: ehtnic minorities integrating. But they can't say that so then they go on about ehtnic minorities not integrating.

The old motte and bailey trick

oooh, I like this 'bishop official speak' for 'you're such a dishonest prick'. Just like judges, masters of polite rebuttals

Dennis M. Hogan @dennismhogan X.com Disagree. Platner and Zohran are not simply unheard of generational political talents who happened to emerge at the same time. Our country is full of people like them: smart, decent, normal, likable. Most of politics is structured around keeping them out. Peter Twinklage & @PeterTwinklage X.com he's one of the best communicators l've seen in years. I'm genuinely gobsmacked. Graham Platner for Senate & @grahamf….3h People are being robbed. The answer to that is not shame or anger. The answer is empathy and compassion. SFi|Aaron Her Verson Octo 201 SFC Dece

Can I ask related question: all the people powering Zohran's great campaign for example, they didn't just appear, were there in the system, so can it be inferred that they didn't get anywhere in other campaigns because they were suppressed?
Or is Zohran the magic ingredient needed?

More great work from @gelliottmorris.com and the @verasight.bsky.social team on synthetic samples. The area where it is probably most enthusiastically embraced is market research ... turns out it doesn't work well for simulating consumer behavior either www.verasight.io/reports/coff...

There has been continued sabotage against telecoms infrastructure along roads of southeast Sweden. These are the roads, ports and railways necessary for moving troops to Gotland

Yesterday it was revealed that a fiber optic cable undergoing maintenance has been cut on several spots along highway E22

2/ This thread continues a look into the responses submitted by over 4,000 Telegram users to Russian warblogger Alex Kartavykh's question of why "you're ... still fixing a stove in civilian life ... and you're still not storming Pokrovsk".
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File under 'Europe can do stuff'

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

For 2nd phase another 6 of these: 2 to increase coverage over NE border, 2 for Transylvania industrial base + 2 for mobile reserve
That's about 142 million euros

For 3rd phase another 4 for mountains & NATO expeditionary rotation so that's ~100 million euros

1st phase could be about 8 of these to cover the Black Sea coast (Cernavoda nuclear plant, Constanta port, energy terminals for Neptun Deep) + 2 for Danube Delta and river corridors + 2 for Bucharest and Ploiesti energy belt.

That's about 250 million euros

So apparently one thing that Romania wants to do with SAFE money is to buy Thales Ground Master 200 MMA radars.

This would be great given RO's geography & budget constraints. It'll fit in that middle layer between v short range SK Chiron, short range Raphael's Spyder and upper/long range Patriot

A bit like what Russia is doing with the drones