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No—the reporter knows and we know it’s perfectly clear why they want to sabotage these missions.

Al Jazeera said four of its journalists were killed in an Israeli strike on their tent in Gaza City, citing the head of a local hospital.

Israel's military said it had targeted the journalists, calling one of them, prominent on-air talent Anas al-Sharif, a "terrorist." 💔🕊️

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US military preparing for National Guard activation in Washington D.C., officials say The U.S. military is preparing for the activation of hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday.

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Again, I ask, sincerely & without trying to be overly alarmist, what anyone has seen to make them believe that the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, democratic, & constitutional by any meaningful definitions of those words or standards of modern 🇺🇸 history.

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BREAKING via Reuters

The U.S. military is preparing for the activation of hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C.

Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best
Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!

It’s almost as though a neo-Confederacy has taken control of the government.

Trump wins prestigious 'Donkey of the Day' award Charlamagne Tha God, co-host of the popular radio show “The Breakfast Club,” awarded President Donald Trump the show’s honor of "Donkey of the Day" on Monday. The decision followed Trump’s ...

Racking up the wins.

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Missouri Officials Seize Control of St. Louis Police, in Latest Bid to Shutter Local Reforms The takeover returns St. Louis to a Civil War-era arrangement of state control. A local official calls the move "a clear gesture of white men wanting to control urban areas."

Missouri adopted a law that ends St. Louis’ ability to run its own police, transferring control to the GOP-run state government. The law also requires St. Louis to commit 25% of its budget to policing.

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Israel released Hamas documents purporting to show that he was a Hamas fighter.
If the documents are authentic, they show he joined Hamas in 2013, and was wounded in 2017.
There's no evidence (that I've seen) he served as active fighter in the last two years. Which means he is not a fighter.

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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Candidates must have extensive experience dealing with quadruple-digit percentages of things.

Life will be so boring after Trump solves all the wars he has not gotten around to solving yet.

The various screen shots from X are a good reminder that we’re not missing out on anything over there.

Photo of Gladstone’s Library

I didn’t know what I needed until I was there. My safe space. The gorgeous Gladstone’s Library.

I think we might have been left behind.

Society remains deeply divided over whether evil is a good thing or an evil thing.

A black and white photograph of President Harry Truman seated at his desk aboard the U.S.S. Augusta while sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States from the Potsdam Conference in Germany, August 6, 1945.

80 years ago today, President Harry Truman made his first actual decision about using the atomic bomb, ordering an end to the bombings and creating the policy of presidential sole authority (Truman was aware of the general plans but did not officially authorize the attacks on Hiroshima or Nagasaki).

We used to know better than that. (Or did we?)

So his line is that there are slime people on both sides?

Except that the Confederacy currently controls all three branches of government.

Are we convinced Vance would be an improvement?

Republican Party’s policy positions can hardly be described as pro-life The test of a society’s character is how it treats those with the least power. By that measure, the Trump administration and its Republican allies are failing spectacularly.

Searing from the Las Vegas Sun:

"For decades, the Republican Party has insisted that it is the defender of innocent life. Yet after those lives draw their first breath, that supposed moral clarity collapses. In the womb, they are props in a morality play. Once born, they are costs to be contained."

This is how I thought making change worked when I was around five: if you paid more than the price, you’d get the difference back, but also if you paid less than the price you’d get paid the difference. Based on my experience since then, though, that is in fact not how it works.

For a long parenthesis, the expression “paying tribute to someone” was a metaphor.

That still doesn’t justify it.

A strong case here. “…it is a rational and principled choice to not use GenAI products unless and until we have determined that their benefits outweigh their costs. Radically revising and restructuring our discipline around GenAI is premature at this time…” Yes and amen 1/

According to the city, this seemingly innocuous sink hole at the corner of Bank/Nepean that developed soon after a water main repair last winter is actually a tear in the space time continuum. We currently don’t possess the tools or knowledge to fix it. Better put some cones around it. #PutAConeOnIt

The Hellfire Preacher Who Promoted Inoculation - JSTOR Daily Three hundred years ago, Cotton Mather starred in a debate about treating smallpox that tore Boston apart.

When I say that antivax terrorism isn't new, I mean it. In 1721, Massachusetts preacher and civic leader Cotton Mather got a bomb thrown through his window for his support of smallpox inoculation.

Republicans remain divided over whether it’s the heinous policies or the toxic personality that they love most about Trump. Fortunately for them, there’s no real need to choose.