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We flew back from Austin and I just drove him home to reunite him with his family, including his baby. Obviously everyone was very emotional, and I felt a bit like an intruder when they invited me inside. They even asked for a picture with me. But it did feel like it was an important thing to do.

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

Middle East crisis live: Trump says he will extend US ceasefire with Iran to allow its leadership to submit ‘a unified proposal’ US president says military blockade on Iranian ports will continue

TACO Tuesday.

Iran's IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news agency is reporting that the Iranian negotiating team has informed the US through Pakistani mediators that it will not be present on Wednesday for talks and that for now there is no outlook for Iranian participation in the negotiations.

It’s going to take up to five years to replenish stockpiles due to slow production timelines.

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Used up:
* 45% of Precision Strike Missiles
* 50% of THAAD interceptors
* 50% of Patriot air defence missiles
* Tomahawks and long-range missiles down by 20–30%

This creates a “near-term risk” for any conflict with a major power like China.

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Trump has created a defence crisis for the US. The military has heavily depleted key missile stockpiles during the Iran War, raising concerns about readiness for another major conflict, CNN reports.

One expert warned it has opened “a window of increased vulnerability”.

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Florida’s attorney general said on Tuesday that an inquiry his office opened this month into ChatGPT and its parent company, OpenAI, has become a criminal investigation, based on a review of messages between the chatbot and the man accused of killing two people at Florida State University last year.

Iranian Foreign Ministry: We have not yet made the final decision on participating or not in the Pakistan negotiations. The naval blockade on Iranian ports is a violation of international law.

Pedo gramps hitting the dementia train full bore

WAR FIGHTERS don't need gay ass logistics in order to focus on LETHALITY!

Shorter Qatar: "please please please I'm begging you to not start shit because we're totally goat fucked if you do!"

the art of war: “you - yes, you, dipshit - need to feed your men and make sure they don’t get sick. no you are not exempt on the basis of being a very special boy. oh my god, why am I surrounded by idiots.”

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

I genuinely love that he told every single dumbass hick place he did a klan really at that he was "never coming back there" if he won (or lost depending on the election)

look, do I think bliowa is super likely? no

but trump has worked overtime on "fuck farmers specifically" this term, so

you get: the astounding power of the supreme court of the united states of america

we get: some vague modicum of ethical behavior

apparently this bargain was a bridge too far, so I propose a new one, which involves impeachment and jail

Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

The corruption is just stunning.

www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

on the one hand, we're apparently big enough to be a valid target now

on the other hand, we're apparently not big enough to actually spend any time on before targeting us because they clearly have not seen this site's takes on the war

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA

This is makes me happy

these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.

the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

let's make a cultural value judgment: palantir are a bunch of execrable fascist shitheads and their ideas go against the basis of every civilized country on earth, from which they should be extirpated like the intellectual cancer they are

last comparable situation is maybe carter '78. hoover '30 is on the horizon though.

i was just saying to a friend a few days ago that trump's public opinion collapse opens up the field of possibilities in ways that are truly unpredictable. it is one thing for a president to be this popular at the *end* of their turn, but not even two years in?

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

Equal On Paper As with "massive resistance" to Brown v. Board, Republicans today argue for a legal landscape where rights exist on paper but cannot be enforced.

“At the beginning of April, the conservative-dominated North Carolina Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin of equitable education funding in the state.” www.liberalcurrents.com/equal-on-pap...