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Nancy Mace Curses, Berates Confused Cops in Airport Meltdown: Police Report At an airport in South Carolina on Thursday, representative Nancy Mace called police officers “fucking incompetent” and berated them repeatedly, according to an incident report.

Nancy Mace continues to be Nancy Mace

"This is no way to treat a fucking US Representative,"

@jakelahut.writes.news with another scoop

www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

Inside Trump’s Golden Dome: High-stakes debate over missile-defense shield President Donald Trump’s missile defense system aims to protect the U.S. from nuclear attack, but it may destabilize global security and cost over $1 trillion.

AEI's Todd Harrison estimated the ratio of space-based interceptors to ICBM threats is 950:1.

So, to defeat China's *current* arsenal of ICBMs the US would need 380,000 interceptors. That's not going to happen.

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YouTube video by Business Insider What It Takes To Be A Sentinel At The Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier | Boot Camp

I did not know how much went into becoming a sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and earning one of the Army's rarest badges, via @businessinsider.com : www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vn6...

Is that hand-shower low-flow? 😉

As of today, the following U.S. Navy warships are in the Caribbean:

USS Iwo Jima
USS San Antonio
USS Stockdale
USS Jason Dunham
USS Gravely
USS Lake Erie
USS Wichita
USS Gettysburg

There's also the MV Ocean Trader, a special operations vessel, and the USS Newport News, a submarine.

Pentagon Orders National Guard to Establish Quick-Reaction Forces for Civil Unrest, Riots The riot control units are a major shift, underscoring the Trump administration’s push to directly involve the military in responding to demonstrations and other domestic missions.

These National Guard memos sound a lot like the GWOT coming home with mentions of “Crowd Control/Detainee Ops” and “Hasty Checkpoint Ops." per @verambergen.bsky.social www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Travel nightmare across the northeast as severe weather causes hundreds of flight cancellations and delays A Delta flight from LaGuardia to Detroit turned into a quiet cheering match — one group hoping for takeoff, the other hoping to return to the gate.

Weather accounts for roughly 3/4 of US air traffic delays, including this flight to Detroit — half the plane wanted to take off and half to deplane (including passenger @jamiehellerbi.bsky.social) via @trainsonplanes.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/severe-weath...

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR SARASOTA COUNTY, FLORIDA TRUMP MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY CASE NO.: 2023-CA-008180 NC GROUP CORP, Division: Civil Plaintiff, v. GUARDIAN NEWS AND MEDIA, LLC, et al., Defendants. / NOTICE OF VOLUNTARY DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE Plaintiff TRUMP MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORP. (“Plaintiff”), by and through their undersigned counsel and pursuant to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.420(a)(1), files this Notice of Voluntary Dismiss Without Prejudice of all claims against all remaining Defendants1 (“Defendants”)

Nearly two years ago, the company that owns Trump's Truth Social sued the Guardian, Forbes, Reuters and more than a dozen other news orgs for defamation, over supposedly misrepresenting their financials.

Yesterday, Trump's company dropped their case altogether

Trump's post on nuclear weapons testing doesn't make a lot of sense President Trump's Truth Social announcement that the US will pursue new nuclear weapons testing raises more questions than it answers.

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via our nukes watcher, @chrispanella.bsky.social

www.businessinsider.com/what-about-t...

Criticism ≠ treason.

Treason, per the Constitution, requires material aid to an enemy or waging war against the US government:

we're now a hair away from it being "treason" to utter a single critical syllable about Dear Leader on any topic whatsoever

Trump administration makes misleading case in high-stakes asylum hearing Homeland Security asked a judge to deport a man to Afghanistan, where he expects the Taliban to kill him. The case could affect thousands of asylum seekers.

Exclusive: The U.S. government asked a judge to deport a man to Afghanistan, where he expects the Taliban to kill him. Legal experts say the case could have consequences for Afghans the U.S. rescued and promised to support.

Trump’s Test Threat Could Fuel Nuclear Tensions With China

I spoke to the @nytimes.com about Trump's unclear comments about nuclear testing www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

All true ... but the last tests by Russia and China were *also* in the 1990s. (North Korea has tested much more recently.) Nobody seems to know what Trump is talking about.

Your stellar reporting has shown, again and again, how this echo chamber seizes on a soundbite or threatening image. It's used "The Squad" to portray all Democrats or the Christmas tree arson at Fox to broadly characterize safety in American cities.

It's clearly been extremely effective

In the 33 years before the U.S. halted nuclear testing in 1992, countries conducted over 1,000 tests. In the 33 years since? Roughly 20. The global moratorium—and the treaty backing it—has curbed both the spread and sophistication of nuclear weapons worldwide.

The firings and force-outs of top officers are creating vacancies in general housing.

That's only likely to increase with the Trump administration's plan to downsize the number of admirals and generals

Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

And actually astonishing when you think about it: The Trump administration's top officials are choosing to separate themselves from the public—more to the point: separate themselves from any visible protest—and live on military bases.

Gift link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

CNN's reporting suggests SECWAR Hegseth has gone from seeing JAGs as "roadblocks" to seeing a top military commander (COCOM) as one: www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...

Federal Workers Are Barely Making It Through the Government Shutdown The US government shut down 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by.

Today marks 30 days of the government shutdown and federal workers -- 750,000 were furloughed -- are barely making ends meet.

@telliotter.bsky.social + @makenakelly.bsky.social spoke to federal workers struggling to pay bills, working side gigs, and relying on free food programs to get by:

FWIW it's not in US interest to normalize nuclear testing. We have the data we need from many earlier tests, but China doesn't, so China has the potential to gain much more than we do from resumption of testing. But I suspect POTUS was referencing testing *delivery vehicles* anyway-- not warheads.

Step inside the secret lab where America tests its nukes A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a live test could come soon.

Now is a GREAT time to learn about nuclear testing. As it happens, earlier this year I published a story from the very tunnels where America's most top-secret tests are done. First time journalists had been inside since the 1990s.

www.npr.org/2025/01/29/n...

1/n - Trump says something about nuclear weapons tests...It’s hard to know what he means. As usual, he’s unclear, all over the map, and wrong.

1. The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country.

Wrong. Russia has more nuclear weapons than the United States.

"the FBI director used taxpayer funds in a government shutdown to fly his country singer GF to sing at a Hulk Hogan-founded wrestling event aired on Fox Nation" is not the flashiest Trump-era headline but pound for pound it can compete with any contender

Assemblies of God churches shielded accused predators — and allowed them to keep abusing children NBC News uncovered a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence and cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.

We spoke to dozens of survivors, read thousands of pages of court and police records, identified 200 alleged church abusers across decades.

Our investigation reveals a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence, complacency & cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.

Read it here:

Donald Trump Is the First AI Slop President How do AI videos end up on Donald Trump’s social media accounts? WIRED investigates.

Scoop: In digging into the AI slopification of the White House, I’ve learned that the president of the United States is capable, from time to time, of posting generative AI videos on his own, per a senior WH official.

More in this week’s Inner Loop @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/donald...

After Unusual Machines Names Donald Trump Jr. To New Advisory Board, Defense Contracts Follow Donald Trump Jr. once mocked Hunter Biden's "no-show no-experience board seats." Now he's on his second newly activated advisory board—and that company just announced $15 million in contracts.

Donald Trump Jr. in 2021: “Those Hunter no-show no-experience board seats didn’t come without an expected return!”

Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it.

New: me, for @forbes.com

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Austin Tice was fearless. He escaped from a Syrian regime detention with a bar of soap and was missing for 24 hours, per this heartbreaking CNN report: edition.cnn.com/2025/10/28/p...

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

Color me unsurprised that the war on terror tactics we used abroad are now being used by the panopticon state domestically.

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

This NY Post podcast is becoming such a trap, it's insane. Same one Lutnick went on where he riffed about Epstein.

It's supposed to be a MAGA safe space!! But this is what happens when they feel extra comfy