Ed Gaillard

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

According to hacked emails obtained by @dropsitenews.com, 'journalist' Douglas Murray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.

In none of these cases, when the federal government was openly and with good reason using military force, did Eisenhower or JFK or LBJ say "ok, we're sending the Vermont National Guard to Mississippi to handle this." That would have been understood as insane, it wasn't even considered.

For example, Alabama in 1963. George Wallace in the schoolhouse door, that one. JFK federalized the *Alabama* National Guard. The general who ordered Wallace to step aside, he was Alabama ANG. Or Little Rock 1957, that was Eisenhower sending in the 101st, regular Army.

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

You could at least have the decency to endorse Mamdani before you swipe his schtick.

Look I'm not just talking as a Blue Jays fan here, but can we agree that the Jays winning the World Series would be peak right now.

Screw you, MLB, for licensing your games on a case by case basis and not including them in your own streaming package. I had to buy 5 different services to catch all of the playoff games.

But switching the Mariners game to a channel that I don’t have midway through the fourth inning? Unreal.

Fluffy lil potato 🥔

(Northern Saw-whet Owl)

activitypub: fucking exists, cheap, works

atproto: what if we redesign the whole thing from first principles and it's super complicated and costs a bundle and it's been two years and it still doesn't fucking work, but here's our white papers on how it's superior to the solution that fucking exists

Janet Mills is 77, turning 78 at the end of this year. If she won in 2026, her first term in the Senate would end when she's 85 years old.

"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has lobbied Mills to run for months..."

Netanyahu openly says he "supports the idea of a 'Greater Israel,' which is a batshit crazy idea, which some people used to say was a conspiracy theory on the far right."

Me to Piers Morgan on his show today.

Full show: youtube.com/watch?v=Kmdm...

too many people on the left have fallen into the conservative mindset of thinking that someone being good at posting memes and trolling online means a goddamn thing for their principles or their governance.

I don't give a fuck how often he "owns" trump online, he's a amoral worm with no values

It's why I've decided to be relentless in my criticism 3 years in advance. None of this "the election is in 2 weeks! There are only 2 viable candidates!!!" type shaming.

note that almost all user complaints about how mastodon sucks are symptoms of decentralisation. if a user knows about the decentralisation it's cos it's causing problems.

(the other user complaints are local rogue mods and linux bros)

by the way, mastodon's decentralisation actually Just Fucking Works. 75% of mastodon users can and do tell Eugen to go whistle.

decentralisation is inherently a user PITA. but if you are someone who actually wants decentralisation, mastodon has it and it Just Fucking Works.

But of course, Mastodon is terrible for some reason.

so, wait. Is this true? Bluesky uses a proprietary Appview server that is *not* the open source code they released, which turns out to be unusably slow? Is this article correct on this point?

Wow I guess he really is the progressive hero all those dipshits said he was when they tried ramming him down our throats

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

So was training AI the actual reason for alt-text at BlueSky? I have no objection to alt-text as a means to help people with disabilities use online media. But BlueSky's tiny alt-text entry box is not easy for people with vision impairments to use. Helping people never seemed to be the point of it.

The origins and functions of bowers in the Bowerbirds: a review and synthesis | doi.org/10.1080/0158... | Emu | #ornithology 🪶

jake tapper wants you to know that joe biden wasnt just old but he was VERY old

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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I'm sure this will stem the tide of air traffic controllers calling in sick

This is pretty grossly misleading. 90-95% of this footprint is associated w/life cycle emissions of manufacturing - and almost nothing from the use of the inhalers (see the Supp Info linked below). Should manufacturing in general reduce it's emissions? Sure, but that isn't specific to asthmatics.

are they trying to make him look guilty

"Bears Discover Firearms"

A scary incident occurred at the Jay St Metrotech Station when a track fire caused the station to fill with smoke.

The @fdny.bsky.social response was delayed due to illegally parked vehicles on Jay St. They couldn't even access the curb due to @nypdnews.bsky.social vehicles parked at a bus stop.

He's played that song before. Needs some new material.