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Nat-sec professional, dog and cat lover, martial artist, external processor, Balloon Juice's emergency back up food goddess (I have a tiara and everything!). You can find me here: https://balloon-juice.com/category/silverman-on-security/
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Trans healthcare saves lives. đź§µ "its findings reaffirmed what many academics, health care providers and trans people already know: gender-affirming care saves and improves lives, but transphobia often dissuades people from pursuing or continuing it when they need it most."

War for Ukraine Day 1,203 update has posted.

One-third of the 3,600 western soldiers who died in Afghanistan were from non-US ISAF contingents. Some countries whose militaries bore especially heavy burdens relative to their size and fought in difficult provinces include the UK, Canada, Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Georgia, and Romania

The cancer that will kill you won’t be treatable because of Trump, Musk, and Kennedy. The GOP: Deatheaters Party

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You folks said you wanted to be part of US culture—kind of thought you knew this is how it’s always worked! By the way everyone in this article thinks you’re fucking weaksauce & is laughing at you. archive.ph/AVXyX

The only reason people think LA is a postapocalyptic nightmare is because of the X algorithm. An unreality machine.

Obligatory self promotion... When RFK Jr., fires all of the US's top vaccine experts, he's surrendering the US to measles et al. My book, So Very Small, on the discovery of germ theory, tells why that's such a terrible idea. A tale that begins in 1676 is, as they say, ripped from the headlines.

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these fucks know they are on the wrong side of history already working on their defense

WOW! Trump and Hegseth ordered the military to screen attendees for his Fort Bragg rally to exclude any soldier who might disagree with Trump's politics, as well as anyone who was overweight — because Hegseth/Trump didn't want them seen in the crowd by the cameras. Outrageous!

The kind of headline you need to read 7X before it can really set in www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Important đź§µ!!! This type of thing goes all the way back to Woodrow Wilson's Committee on Public Information.

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

posters going up in Philly and some other cities

This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.

Florida child welfare officers found a 17-year-old living in a shed with no food or water. They sent him to a foster home... and then reported him to ICE, whereupon he was handcuffed and shackled and marched to detention. Not only is that victimizing him again, it violates Florida's own rules.

"This is what the people who've assigned themselves the duty to run things believe that leadership should look like: a man with a famous name declaring that nothing can really be different." defector.com/andrew-cuomo...

When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.

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I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

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Saturday is Romany and Traveller Heritage Day at @themerl.bsky.social. Music, talks, activities, and family fun celebrating Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month and the heritage of these communities - including the opening of newly-curated gallery, The Long Road whatsonreading.com/venues/museu...

The “big beautiful bill” has $160bn in new anti-immigrant measures including $8bn for ICE personnel, $15bn for deportations and $45bn to build detention facilities. Current total ICE budget is ~$8bn. They want to scale up this terror to an unimaginable level. www.wola.org/analysis/160...

1) VA regs prohibit providing any honors to Confederate war dead. 2) There is a federal court ruling that Confederate war dead aren’t US veterans/don’t get honors/benefits. 3) Lee was NOT a US citizen when they named the base after him. Congress didn’t restore his citizenship till early 1970s.

All the people I still know in LA laugh and laugh when they hear that "Los Angeles is burning." I made a couple of maps to show just how tiny and localized the protests are. GOPers are working really hard to make an excuse for declaring martial law. People should be very wary of that.

Allegedly the units sent this out, that soldiers who disagreed politically could ask to be excused from attending the speech. Army didn't want the optics of having people not applaud the President.

Daily bunny no.2982 is scattered to the winds

Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.

War for Ukraine Day 1,202 update has posted.

Kharkiv after the Russian drone attack‼️ survival means choosing life over belongings. In the chaos, stuff stay behind, but our little friends never do.

🇺🇦🫂 Birthday on the day of release—a Ukrainian soldier is free and celebrates this day with his loved ones, who have been waiting for him for so long. Sincere congratulations to our hero!

The world's stupidest trade war, incompetently executed. Chinese "exports have risen by 6% overall, owing to increased shipments to Europe and South-East Asia. China’s currency, meanwhile, is stronger now against the dollar than it was before April 2nd." www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Note the repeating trend that happens at least twice a year when Russia starts an offensive: there’s talk that Ukraine’s defence lines are about to break and thousands of troops will be trapped. The results are always the same, yet Russians still think next time will be different

These 75 Democrats joined Republicans to "express gratitude" to ICE agents and call for greater local and state collaboration with ICE. jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...