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šŸ’„/1. Ukrainian Armed Forces Report Destruction of Russian Iskander Missile System According to a statement from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a Russian Iskander missile launcher was destroyed in a coordinated strike involving Ukraine’s military, the SBU, and other defense units.

ā€œA Busy, Busy Day at the Airportā€ By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

Can someone explain to me the national security threat that the Republic of Congo, Togo, and Burundi pose. Because honestly I’m not seeing it.

The US Institute of Peace Digs Out of Under DOGE’s Weed Stash and Tries to Rebuild talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-u...

This is an insane perversion of the powers entrusted to a president. What law did those students break? How exactly do they threaten national security? If a president allowed to lawlessly destroy any private institution he hates, United States democracy has ended. Take action to save it.

The cold face of indifference. MAGA thinks only some children deserve the rights and protections of children.

some good news at last

I was not unaware how much "silent majority" thinking informed healthcare policy strategy, but the replies really clicked into place for me how much animosity towards the Dems is people thinking that they are in office with underhanded tricks rather than, you know, representing their constituents

Egret coming in to land on the lake. #egret #bird #wildlife #nature

Kingfisher taken recently at Blashford Lakes. #kingfisher #bird #wildlife #nature

Awesome picture

Is me:

People often say that Trump is unpredictable, but that's not entirely accurate. Trump is generally uninformed, but he does have quite a few fixed beliefs: Tariffs are good, the United States should move closer to Russia. Trump tends to like dictators and thinks Europe should defend itself

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

Insanity

Columbia has horribly damaged its reputation no matter how this all comes out. Harvard has enhanced it.

Putin engages in unabashed projections: ā€œThe Ukrainian authorities represent a completely rotten and corrupt regime that relies on terror and is not interested in either peace or people’s livesā€.

Once again, the US casts the only vote against ceasefire. news.un.org//en/story/20...

On rigole mais ce type - est un négationniste du génocide rwandais, - a enseigné à Lyon 3, - a été membre du "conseil scientifique" du FN, - a conseillé la campagne de Zemmour sur l'Afrique, - serait influent auprès d'une partie des militaires français, - anime une émission sur Radio Courtoisie ...

La BAC assume d'ĆŖtre le fascisme ?

I watched large portions of this segment and at one point @mattyglesias.bsky.social threw up this slide, said Dems are "making bad press on this issue" and moved on. But the polling is wildly on Dem's side on this one! Opponents of what the Trump admin is doing with him outnumber supporters 2-1!

These consultants are literally just calling minorities and gay people "bad groups" now. If you don't understand this comes down to "let's crank up the racism dial" I simply don't know what to tell you.

The correct way to politically exploit the tensions arising from Hispanic and Asian Americans’ desire to enter the white mainstream is to point out that Republicans are a) rounding up US citizens for having Latin American accents and being around too many Spanish Speakers…

You don’t have stories like this in countries with national healthcare systems

ā€œI would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.ā€ Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

The Polish Foreign Ministry is angry that an Israeli newspaper described Poland's new president-elect as a Holocaust revisionist - even though he is a historian who has devoted his career to propagating the lie that no Poles took part in murdering Polish Jews. notesfrompoland.com/2025/06/04/p...

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A Puget-sur-Argens, la ville où vivait Hichem Miraoui, coiffeur tunisien tuĆ© samedi, proches et riverains bouleversĆ©s se souviennent d’un homme sociable, serviable et avenant. Une marche blanche est prĆ©vue dimanche.

Imagine immigration

Running a successful business with warehouses and hub distribution and HR and lawyers and salespeople and staff and happy customers... MAGA: "is this communism?"

"We've polled the public, and the top priority is the public wants the president to be able to take bribes via cryptocurrency and you to be able to take more money from the cyrpto industry." --- 'popularism' pollsters

Lol

"Economics, how does it work?"

Curtis Yarvin just wrote a thread on X about a neo-Nazi conspiracy theory that claims the United States purposefully killed one million German POWs at the end of WWII. In case you were wondering how things are going.

The gutting of US biomedical research with loss of ~2,500 grants affecting research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, infectious disease, global health and much more www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

MAHA!