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ā€œSome folks are born made to wave the flag Ooh, they're red, white and blue And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief" Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lordā€ šŸ«”ā˜ ļø

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

WTFWAPO

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I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Definitely need the National Guard to quell this... insurrection of... line dancing?

Insightful statement by @bestese34.bsky.social that obviously hit a nerve. ā€œMiller feeds on hateā€

Healthcare for seniors is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse. Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse. A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse. Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.

Thinking about that time Senators Warren and Blumenthal wrote a letter to Joe Biden asking him for policy to stop Trump from deploying the National Guard against Americans.

ā€œThere is currently no unmet needā€ Which I believe means insurrection act as written cannot be invoked

Washington just took the reasonable step of not allowing the National Guard of other states to operate here without our agreement. It’s not the Guard personnel we are concerned about, it’s other governors in the Trump cult. katu.com/news/local/g...

The White House adviser who fueled the Trump-Musk NASA feud - Axios

šŸ˜‚ "Russian aircraft were not destroyed, but damaged in the attack - they will be restored," - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Ryabkov

This story is wild: Rather than just comply with court orders; the Trump admin has ICE offices and detainees living in a shipping container in Djibouti unde threat of rocket attacks wapo.st/4kPIACX

JFC

A thread of deep impotence

MURRAY: Will you allocate the $220m for literacy programs that Congress appropriated? McMAHON: We're looking at the unallocated dollars to determine which of those programs we can best spend on MURRAY: Those funds were appropriated. It looks to me like the dept is illegally impounding funding

It’s Fustilarian Friday again. This week: NSF all but abolished in the President’s proposed budget.

The best Memorial Day speech is only 271 words and wasn't delivered on Memorial Day, but on November 19, 1863. Read it carefully, it's the most important speech in American military history (and maybe all of American history).

The head of the FEMA rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED learned last week. A new plan has yet to be put into place. Just in time for the start of hurricane season.

Very interesting ā€œWe investigate the financial flows and connections of the international anti-gender movement. In this article, we tell about the support PƤivi RƤsƤnen and Timo Soini received from ADF International.ā€