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Perpetual reminder that when they say “worst of the worst” they mean people with no charges or convictions against them.

In basic training they used to get at least two weeks of solid weapons training. To qualify like this they’re only required to take a two-hour class then go shoot a weapon they’ve never touched before. Then unleashed on a civilian population.

He interrupted a meeting with world leaders so he could call his Russian handler for forty minutes, but he did it in another room because he didn’t want to disrespect *Putin*

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

This is a good example of what I’ve started calling “normalsauce democratic comms.”

It sucks. The whole genre should be sent out to sea on a rickety boat.

If your messaging is identical to what you would’ve said in 2017, you are failing and you ought to know better.

thought there could not be anything more fuckin cringe than the gold mantlepiece jars but here we are

Current Wastewater Viral Activity Levels This map shows the current wastewater viral activity level of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) for each state or territory. Tap or hover over a state or territory to see the viral activity level and number of sites reporting data. Time Period: August 03, 2025 - August 09, 2025

It will always be ridiculous how the CDC deliberately chose to color a map that's meant to represent how much COVID is spreading in calming shades of green and blue.

Breaking everything beyond repair is the point. They’re turning over the function of government to a few billionaires with backdoor access.

It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.

Oval Office has been prepared for the meeting

Honestly, as a pool reporter, I’d show up dressed as Marie Antoinette

Lather/rinse/repeat:

-- Trump/MAGA sow fear with manufactured crisis to justify power grab

-- Rational people point out there is no crisis, claims are bullshit, fear is irrational

-- Centrists scold rational people for callously dismissing of "real fears"

-- Trump power grab succeeds

Not only is this fucking embarrassing, I can’t imagine how much counterintelligence work is going to be required after this trip.

Having a hostile head of state in the presidential limo is *insane*

All well and good but this is from three years ago when Biden was president and the agents are not ICE and eliding those facts in the post is a form of lying typical for a bullshit resist lib

She's at the top of her game...thanks, @anntelnaes.bsky.social!

Neptune Spear the operation that killed bin Laden, sent 23 Seals, 2 pilots, an interpreter, and a dog on-site to capture and/or kill the most wanted dangerous terrorist in the world amid his armed guards in hostile territory.

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This fits pretty squarely in the classic definition of assault in that it a) is unlawfully directed at constitutionally protected activity and (b) causes the victim to reasonably fear imminent physically harmful contact

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Sarah holds up a brightly colored eel calendar with a moray, ribbon eel, splendid garden eels, and American and European eels, in front of some plants on the sidewalk

It’s eely important that we sell enough advent calendars to support Skype a scientist. The moray we sell the more good work we can do in 2026!

Scratch off the boxes to reveal facts about eels!

Get a calendar at EelFacts.Net

A major premise of the right-wing militarized occupation of blue cities has been lenient bail/sentencing “releasing criminals back on street.”

Burchett represents Tennessee. Over the last few years, Nashville, Memphis, and Chattanooga have all had higher crime rates than D.C.

Knoxville, where Burchett was mayor, is lower, but still among the most violent 10 percent of cities in the country.

this is getting almost no coverage from big newspapers. this chilling update is invisible on the homepages of the NYT and WaPo. A clear attack on science, aggravated by an anti-science WH and its officials.

I get that he wasn't rude to a GOP official at a restaurant, but where is the outrage?

Happy birthday!

When we have the US military being used to police US citizens within the US, I think it’s safe to say we are living within an authoritarian and, in this case, fascist state.

No more “approaching.” No more “resembles.”

This is it. It might not be in its fullest form yet, but this is it.

In light of *everything* it’s probably time for another semi-regular roundup of privacy tools I use and recommend.🧵

There’s such a constant stream of bad that it almost gets normalized, but there are still things that stop you dead in your tracks.

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

So cute!

no one has ever been more tacky than this

These people are not leaders in any sense of the word. They are reprehensible cowards who have the power and position to stand up for others, yet consistently choose not to.

They should be referred to as such for purposes of reporting accuracy.

This is an absolute betrayal to people who faithfully served their country. There is not a single Republican on earth who gets to utter the lie that they “care about our troops” now