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Remember when Sen. Sheehy accidentally shot himself in a national park and pretended he got the wound in a firefight in Afghanistan?

“I never really wanted to live a public life” - Aaron Rodgers on the Pat McAfee show one week before free agency

Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.

One surprising side effect of the US war in Iran: American farmers are staring down soaring fertilizer prices at the worst possible time.

From @mollytaft.com

Exclusive: Defense executives plan to meet at White House as strikes on Iran diminish stockpiles Companies including Lockheed Martin and Raytheon parent RTX have been invited.

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Thomas Keith @iwasnevrhere_ The Pentagon has burned through so many missiles in the Iran exchange that Trump is dragging Lockheed and Raytheon CEOs into the White House like a failing factory boss demanding overtime. The military admits the Iran strike consumed more long-range munitions than 4 years of Ukraine. Trump is posting fantasies about "unlimited supply" while Raytheon can barely promise to "eventually" reach 1,000 Tomahawks a year and the Pentagon only budgeted 57 for 2026. The industrial base is so hollowed out they're threatening contractors with punishment if they don't ramp up, even though the system physically can't produce at wartime tempo. America just showed the world that one regional confrontation with Iran drained decades of planning assumptions.

shot & chaser because lmfao

Yes, that would be a shame.

Anyway…

* MAERSK: WE ARE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING CARGO BOOKINGS ACCEPTANCE IN AND OUT OF UAE, OMAN, IRAQ, KUWAIT, QATAR, BAHRAIN, SAUDI ARABIA UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

@reuters.com

The one downside of physical media that fans don’t talk about is the scalpers, who suck inventories dry.

Good luck trying to find a 4k of Zootopia 2.

Dang. Might still work.

Sending Gatorades and a whole bunch of questions kids can ask like, “Has a rocket booster ever fallen on a house?”

Kristi Noem Misled Congress About Top Aide’s Role in DHS Contracts Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Noem denied that Corey Lewandowski had any role in approving contracts. But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency staffer...

Asked by Congress whether Corey Lewandowski has “a role in approving contracts” at DHS, Sec. Kristi Noem said: “No.”

Internal DHS records reviewed by @propublica.org show Lewandowski personally approved a multimillion-dollar equipment contract last summer.

www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles.

A little confused by "instead" here.

The saying isn't "fuck around, instead find out"

Minnesotan among six service members killed in airstrike in Kuwait A Minnesotan is among the six U.S. service members who were killed in an airstrike in Kuwait on Sunday, a day after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran.

The Pentagon on Tuesday said that Army Reserve Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake was among those killed during an “unmanned aircraft system attack” in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait. It remains under investigation. Amor had served in the military for more than 20 years.

“They wanted to run against McGovern; look who they’re running against…”

(I honestly have no idea which one is better)

My daughter: in the TLC song “No Scrubs,” what do they mean by “scrub”?

Me: Honey this is the one and only pop song in history that opens up with a dictionary and thesaurus entry.

From the popculturechat community on Reddit: McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski goes viral after seeming reluctant to eat his own burgers—he takes a tiny bite, looks uncomfortable, and calls the food ‘p... Explore this post and more from the popculturechat community

The McDonalds CEO eats his own company's burgers with the same energy with which plant workers in Chernobyl went onto the roof to look into the ruins of reactor building 4

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The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

IRGC Destroys Second US THAAD System in Gulf, Wipes Out UAE Radar and $1.1 Billion Qatar Early Warning Shield — Iran Declares Missile Dominance - Defence Security Asia IRGC precision strikes reportedly destroy a second US THAAD system, its UAE radar, and Qatar’s $1.1 billion early warning system, exposing fractures in America’s Gulf missile defence architecture and ...

so Iran has apparently knocked out and destroyed / disabled to some extent two U.S. THAAD batteries

This is a massive deal. Aside from the expense, this is not a weapon system we just have a ton of lying around. You don't replace these easily.

defencesecurityasia.com/en/irgc-dest...

Meatloaf and biscuits.

Tonight’s dinner: meatloaf and honey biscuits from a can.

Welp I guess there’s no way to earn the votes of young men other than by courting and vocally backing the three fraudulent industries that are absolutely ruining their lives.

Hirono walks Noem through just a few of the many lies she's been caught in

Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say | CNN Politics Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring th...

Look, I'm not saying our nation is being run by foreign operatives actively seeking to destroy American national security, but this is exactly the kind of thing foreign operatives actively seeking to destroy American national security would do. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...

I think it says a lot that these morons think it's not possible to offer young men anything more than crypto, & gambling.

Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog bc you hadn't invested the appropriate training, then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ... Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

Oh. So I guess that did happen. Ars terminates Benj Edwards following AI usage and hallucinated quotes in an article...on AI.

This⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

friend sent this over from the other place and unfortunately I did laugh

Exclusive: U.S. Marines fired on protesters storming consulate in Karachi, officials say U.S. Marines opened fire on demonstrators during the storming of the Karachi consulate over the weekend, two U.S. officials said on Monday—a rare use ​of force at a diplomatic post that could sharply ...

"U.S. Marines opened fire on demonstrators during the storming of the Karachi consulate over the weekend"

"Ten people were killed on Sunday"

"Citing initial information, the two U.S. officials said it was unclear whether rounds fired by Marines struck or killed anyone. "

‘Mass Confusion’: Government Texts Reveal Chaotic Response to Shutdown of El Paso Airspace One El Paso airport executive summed up the situation with the image of a cartoon bunny rabbit holding a walkie-talkie and remarking, “WTF.”

EXCLUSIVE: We obtained dozens of texts, chats & emails detailing in dramatic fashion how local officials in El Paso and New Mexico struggled to obtain even the most basic info from feds about why they shut down their airspace last month.

In @notus.com: www.notus.org/defense/el-p...