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Space Force Reveals Themes for Space Platform Names Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman announced seven themes the service will use to name satellites and ground systems.

Wait so the US is on the verge of war in Latin America, and any potential space weapons might get Norse nicknames? This is just that forgettable Call of Duty Ghosts game. We've somehow headed towards the plot of Call of Duty Ghosts. www.airandspaceforces.com/snakes-shark...

This is written with a child’s (lack of) understanding of workers rights, at-will employment, and human dignity. As someone who has argued forever against at-will employment and for workers’ right to dignity, it is dismaying but not surprising to see the worst version of an important argument here

ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers

It’s so wild that “a random online leftist said something I found annoying once” is legitimately a huge driver of modern politics in a way that “online right-wingers with significant sway over powerful people say literal Nazi things” isn’t and likely never will be

Doubly offensive because the architects are never the ones sitting out on the beam

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Losers are on here saying with their whole chest "why should dems impeach if you don't know for 100% certain that you have 67 votes in the senate!!!!!"

Gee, I don't know it's good politics and you don't know what the future is going to be like so maybe you should just try to take the bastard down

How a U.S. admiral decided to kill two boat strike survivors The controversial order given by Adm. Frank Bradley is under scrutiny from Congress. Inside the most consequential deliberation of his career.

Admiration for all the defense journalists like @ellenwapo.bsky.social and @alexhorton.bsky.social continuing to produce this kind of excellent work despite not having Pentagon access (because they courageously refused DOD’s ludicrous terms).

What liberal media?

Listen. Even if you disagree with their politics, it's NOT okay to celebrate a racist falling to his death while putting up a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in an attempt to make people who aren't white feel intimidated

We should show compassion, and encourage more racists to climb ladders leant precariously against lampposts

here is a list of every thought I have had about the Olivia Nuzzi story: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/regrettabl...

Note that it was the @aaup.org and faculty standing up for themselves, not UCLA as an institution, that successfully went to court to arrest Trump’s overreach here.

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.

I don’t know how else to say it…

Literally one of the main reasons why FBI missed Jan6 is bc Bill Barr had the FBI chasing Antifa.

All the Proud Boys had been turned "informants" on Antifa.

i really recommend using this website to maximize your calls re: tomorrow's markdown meeting in the House energy and commerce committee. it connects you to various relevant legislators and gives you a script as well!

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Miss Josie is 40 today!!! She's brilliant and kind and you should do something for her because she's also hotter than Simonetta Vespucci on a hot griddle in July.

Have a beautiful day 🎂🍰🥳♥️🍾

and i will once again say it is a horror that there is no path to civil liability against the government actors who perpetrated this fraud.

despite all of this, Abrego Garcia has no civil remedy.

Remember Car Talk, where you call two guys with your car problems and get advice to fix it? Me and Max Miller are starting a show that's like a "Car Talk" for the messed up economy.

First? SURVEILLANCE AT WORK. We got the best expert for it. Submit questions by next Thursday!

Remember that Trump and his propagandists tried to gaslight you into believing there was no percentage in taking on this fight, that it was hopeless. And a certain cadre of pundits tried to persuade you that Dems didn't dare discuss this in public.

Still not over yet but a big step forward.

magaziner was like “I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here”

Israel Wants to Destroy My Family's Way of Life. We'll Never Give In. My family's olive trees have stood in Gaza for decades. Despite genocide, drought, pollution, toxic mines, uprooting, bulldozing, and burning, they're still here—and so are we.

Today in @thenation.com: a beautiful piece from Hend Salama Abo Helow about her family's olive trees in Gaza—and how both the trees and their harvesters have refused to surrender to Israeli genocide. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

This is very funny and the only reason it doesn't have a thousand reposts is because bluesky has scared you all into posting anything that could be considered a violent threat against someone from the right. Be honest.

B. No Order of Removal Exists for Abrego Garcia No such order of removal exists for Abrego Garcia. When Abrego Garcia was first wrongly expelled to El Salvador, the Court struggled to understand the legal authority for even seizing him in the first place. At the first hearing in Abrego I, the Court inquired of Respondents’ counsel: The Court: I want to ask, though, the very specific question, if there is a final order of removal, what . . . document got this process started? There is no warrant for his arrest by an order of removal. There is no statement of probable cause. There’s no charge. There’s no report that says that anyone saw Mr. Abrego Garcia doing anything illegal or criminal. So what is the actual document that gave these officers the authority to start this process? Counsel: That is not in the record, and the government has not put that into the record. And that’s the best I can do. Abrego I, ECF No. 33 at 21:11–22. The Court continued to press counsel about the existence of a removal order and was told plainly that none can be found:

The Court: Okay. So if there’s a Title 8 removal order, there would be an order of removal that’s being executed, and we don’t have one for Mr. Abrego Garcia, right? . . . Do you have that order? . . . Is it in the record? Counsel: I do not have that order. It is not in the record. Id. at 23:7–24:4. Since that time, Respondents have never produced an order of removal despite Abrego Garcia hinging much of his jurisdictional and legal arguments on its non-existence. ECF No. 1 ¶¶ 68–69; ECF No. 32 at 10, 15–17, 27; ECF No. 87 at 11–12. Indeed, Respondents twice sponsored the testimony of ICE officials whose job it is to effectuate removal orders, and who candidly admitted to having never seen one for Abrego Garcia. See ECF No. 107 at 30:16–22 (testimony of Cantú) (“Q: Based upon your many years of experience you described to us, you know what a final order of removal looks like, right, sir? Cantú: I do. Q: And have you seen a final order of removal in regard to Mr. Abrego Garcia? Cantú: I have not.”). See also Abrego I, ECF No. 234 at 46:6–12 (testimony of interim Assistant Director for ICE Removal Operations, Thomas Giles (“Giles”)) (“Q: You have not seen the final order of removal, have you, sir? Giles: What do you mean by that? Q: I mean, you have not seen a piece of paper that represents the final order of removal vis-a-vis Mr. Abrego Garcia, correct? Giles: No, I have not.”).15 Based on this, the Court concludes that no order of removal exists.

🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.

related: remember when the U.S. right wing bullied tech giants into backing off rudimentary content moderation of racist right wing propaganda under the pretense they were just suddenly and uncharacteristically interested in "antitrust reform" and 90% of the U.S. press parroted it unskeptically?

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (“Abrego Garcia”) petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus to release him from the custody of Respondents, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) Kristi Noem, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) Director Todd Lyons, ICE Baltimore Field Office Director Nikita Baker, and Attorney General Pamela Bondi. ECF No. 1. Since Abrego Garcia’s return from wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority. Id. For this reason, the Court will GRANT Abrego Garcia’s Petition for immediate release from ICE custody.

BREAKING

Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be immediately RELEASED from immigration custody, a federal judge rules.

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Shermichael Singleton on Jake Tapper's show, four Israeli news outlets, Stop Antisemitism, and a host of right wing influencers all shared a fake story about two Brazilians plotting to bomb a Chabad in Orlando. The fake story from Project Veritas involved an alleged on-the-lam fraudster and forger/

I've probably photographed Brad Lander more than any other elected in NYC because the dude shows up. He's everywhere, he's incredibly accessible, and he genuinely loves New Yorkers. You can literally go up and talk to him whenever he shows up. Go ahead, try it!

(I have NEVER seen Goldman ANYWHERE.)

Posting this important @mattdinan.bsky.social piece again. I recognized the challenge in the extract 20 years ago because in the courses I taught, students were all conscripts, not volunteers. I had to introduce them to the pleasures and challenges of writing. mattdinan.substack.com/p/the-ai-ske...

I continue to believe there should be at minimum one impeachment article a week that gets voted on but until that happens, Al Green remains the undisputed champion of impeachment.

He is the only one introducing articles directly charging Trump and forcing votes.