Mark Blacknell

Has a risky text ever paid off as much at this?

Get it, boys.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brq-...

I was thinking, for whatever reason, about how things were in 2002ish or so. We would have had Threat Level RED and Tyson's Corner would have been shut down.

2026? LOL, carry on, who cares about random wars started?

Take that, Tony Blair! You're not the only lapdog around here!

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These are the same Capitol Police who just let the J6ers run wild.

Virginian kids will be killed because you and your colleagues failed to do your most basic duties.

This is nauseating. None of this has to be this way.

US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone, lawmakers say Members of Congress say the U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone.

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"The U.S. military used a laser Thursday to shoot down a “seemingly threatening” drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border. It turned out the drone belonged to Customs and Border Protection, lawmakers said."

If you're curious to learn more, check out the incredible @immdefenseproject.bsky.social resource on ICE ruses, which they've been updating for more than a decade. I remember being so grateful it existed when the situation above happened to my client, because it validated my "WTF" to the situation.

Can we start with relying on the truth about anything coming from Trump? Kinda hilarious that all this would pop off based on another one of his throwaway lies.

Seriously, it's amazing. Love it exactly as it is.

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This is something we as citizens need to break, and it is not a partisan project.

What is it with PBAs/unions hiring the whiniest softest boys to speak for them?

I've never believed that the US military would turn on the American people. But ICE? Already has.

We really do need to make "NPR and the NYT are doing the same kind of damage that Fox News does" into a plainly understood fact of public life.

okay, fresh from what totally no one was worried about ....

Lol, that's even better than the Nintendo Duck Hunt pistol a friend of mine built.

Read Lord of the Flies. And hit his soft self exactly as expected/worried. Working out much of the rest above.

We'r going to talk about this more directly, but for the benefit of the internet, let's keep this going.

Feels like the transcript of all of these meetings could be incredibly entertaining (maddening).

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Man, what kind of father would hand this book off to his 11 year old in 2025?

[this guy]

About halfway through reading it myself, and boy howdy, did I fall down on my job.

Don't believe it, love to see it.

That's great, Tim, but what we're going to need from you is being more direct on the Senate floor about this president's fuckery. You clearly have a new/more competent social media team in place. Now use them.

Folks, this is how you do it. It's incredibly easy to get on TV (and also in the paper, but that matters less). Just be open and easy. And then speak the truth.

This is some *extremely* basic stuff that @beyer.house.gov (or any of his colleagues) shouldn't have to spend any time on. The number of flights that blow through DC airspace without ADS-B is nuts.

Mine doesn't either, but if I'd realized how much I'd enjoy having a rotary phone in 2026, I absolutely would have spec'd them for the build.

Yeah, I can't begrudge that perk of the office. I'd collect them all.

OTOH, I once stood behind William Cohen, in some sort of SedDef jacket at the grocery store, and the best I could come up with was "You did all that work and all you got was that lousy jacket?"