Shashananigans

Connecticut market helps promote veterans who become farmers after their military service

Military vets from around Connecticut gathered this week for the state's second annual Veteran Farmers Market to showcase produce, poultry and other homegrown wares from veteran-owned farms.

Boom. Left bank is burning.

Right now, Ukrainian forces are striking hard at Russian positions in the Kakhovka district, Kherson region.

🔥 Precise hits.
🔥 Chaos among the occupiers.
🔥 Panic and movement in enemy trenches

The left bank is trembling and it’s only the beginning
Hold on, we’re coming

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

"This Is Illegal": NASA Reportedly Ordered To Destroy Important OCO Satellite The satellite is fully functional, providing valuable data, and may soon be burned up in our atmosphere out out of choice.

Imagine being so unconvinced of your own belief that climate change is a hoax that you order the destruction of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of satellites, already paid for, to remove the possibility that the people might lean that you're wrong.

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Hopes wane for global plastic pollution treaty Though negotiations resume today, opposition from the US and other oil-producing states has dimmed hopes for success.

Hopes wane for global plastic pollution treaty

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ICE Is About To Go on a Social Media and TV Ad Recruiting Blitz Contracting records reviewed by 404 Media show that ICE wants to target Gen Z, including with ads on Hulu and HBO Max.

New from 404 Media: ICE is about to go on a social media and TV ad recruiting blitz, according to contracting records. Shows ICE wants to target Gen Z and have ads on Hulu, HBO Max, Amazon Prime. Will also geofence areas to target particular people. Wants to hire 14k www.404media.co/ice-is-about...

🇱🇹 Gerbera drone carrying 2 kg of explosives crashed in Lithuania, the country's Prosecutor General's Office said.

It was a Russian drone that flew in from Belarus and crashed on the territory of a training ground.

Mr. Can’t-Handle-Feedback blocked me haha

You know you’ve got a fragile ego when the argument descends into stalking profiles for weak ad hominem attacks

Weak sauce, my dude. Weak sauce.

Germany has deployed its Eurofighter jets to Poland ahead of the planned Russian-Belarusian “Zapad 2025” exercises, according to Bild. The jets are now based east of Warsaw and will begin missions today. The German Air Force calls this a clear sign of NATO solidarity.

‼️ Russia is considering a limited air truce with Ukraine, halting drone and missile strikes as a gesture to Trump, while continuing the war, - Bloomberg

The move aims to ease pressure from potential US sanctions.

All the bellwethers of the Russian economy are in a state of collapse.

Russia's famed Kamaz Truck company reports a net loss for the 1st half of 2025 that wipes out years of previous earnings.

Environmental report warns of ‘major’ impact from missile defense shield on Guam A proposed $8 billion missile defense system for Guam could have “long-term, significant and major” effects on the island’s housing market and health care system, according to the final Environmental ...

The recently released final Environmental Impact Statement for a proposed $8 billion missile defense system on Guam warns the project could have "long-term, significant and major" effects on the island's housing market and health care system. (from @alexmwilson.bsky.social)

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

Marine veteran Paul Whelan climbs ‘steep hill’ rebuilding life, a year after being freed from Russian prison

Getting back to “normal” after more than five years as a political hostage in Russia has been a sometimes frustrating journey through American bureaucracy, insurers and job applications for Paul Whelan, a veteran of the Marine Corps.

Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

Russian forces attempted to storm the Hoptivka checkpoint on the Kharkiv region border but were repelled, losing over ten soldiers, according to Dergachi administration head Zadorenko.

Ukrainian drones have destroyed an infrastructure building at Archeda railway station in Volgograd. It’s cut power along the rail supply line.

#explodey

🚨 Concord, NH, handled their business yesterday, running white nationalist out of town. 👏🏼 The right side of history, my friends. 👏🏼

Morning Bluesky.

A fire is raging at an oil depot at Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi after a Ukrainian drone attack overnight.

#explodey

Angie (the ICE chaser):

There is a a Black-owned bookstore in Las Vegas. It is called Analog Bookstore. Please support!

#Blacksky

University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

In reversal, Defense Department will continue providing crucial satellite weather data About a month after announcing that it would stop sharing data that hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on, the Navy now says it will continue distributing it.

In reversal, Defense Department will continue providing crucial satellite weather data: www.npr.org/2025/07/31/n...

Russian nuclear submarine base hit by tsunami, satellite images reveal The waves reportedly hit the Rybachiy naval base, which houses the bulk of the nuclear submarines in Russia's Pacific Fleet, according to images taken by the Umbra Space satellite the morning after th...

⚡️Russian nuclear submarine base hit by tsunami, satellite images reveal.

The waves reportedly hit the Rybachiy naval base, which houses the bulk of the nuclear submarines in Russia's Pacific Fleet, according to images published by the Telegraph.

Lukashenko Urges "Military Mobilization" to Shield Belarus Economy From Global Crisis Amid global instability, Lukashenko calls for military mobilization to support Belarus's economy, stressing the need for unconventional methods to ensure resilience.

Dictator of Belarus Lukashenko hints at joining the war with Russia against Ukraine to avoid economic collapse, says "military mobilization" is required "to keep the economy afloat."
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Great news; well overdue.