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Taylor, 26, was shot to death by police when they broke down the door of her apartment while serving a no-knock drug warrant looking for a former boyfriend who no longer lived there

U.S. services also preparing to receive tanks with no turrets and trucks with no engines, for the time being. Temporary setbacks!

Damn the rest of the world is so jealous of our F35s!

Congressman Jim Himes claims a sweeping surveillance authority should stay intact because he hasn't seen abuses by Kash Patel's FBI, according to internal messaging obtained by WIRED.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260320205610/https://www.wired.com/story/a-top-democrat-is-urging-colleagues-to-support-trumps-spy-machine/

The US Mint is generally prohibited from producing coins featuring living public figures or presidents.

According to Breaking Defense, the program was launched after the Army halted internal development of the Extended Range Cannon Artillery system and shifted toward evaluating existing self-propelled howitzers in 2024. The report noted that an official list of competitors has not yet been released.

However, several companies are known to be pursuing the program. These include South Korea’s Hanwha, Germany’s Rheinmetall, U.S.-based Elbit America, and a joint offering from Leonardo DRS and European land systems group KNDS.

cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/20972845

Unannounced Deals:

• Patriot PAC-3 Missiles— about $5.6 billion;
• CH-47 Chinook helicopters— about $1.32 billion.

The State Department is not required to announce the sale to the public under the rules governing U.S. arms exports, which use different modalities for different types of sales.

The sales were not announced publicly because they expanded previously agreed arms deals.

Source: Wall Street Journal(WSJ).

"[W]e have included a map marking each of these facilities, in hopes of providing local journalists, organizations, and concerned citizens with information about the hold rooms operating closest to them. We have also included a list of each hold room broken down by state so that readers and researchers in each locale can more easily find the facilities near where they live."

“At a time of extreme and growing inequality," said one critic, "today’s proposals will drain lending away from Main Street families’ needs and priorities and further enrich the already wealthy on Wall Street."

Putin couldn't have picked a better tool to do it.

Prosecutors have struggled to prove in court what the president and his aides have repeatedly said in public: that a network of leftist activists presents a serious threat to national security.

Probably because the protesters are patriots in a way that Republicans and ICE are not.

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Shortly after Trump took office for a second time, his administration made it clear that it felt constitutional rights were merely privileges it would extend only to those who fully supported whatever the hell the administration happened to be doing.

It is that broader Trumpian coalition — rather than the core base of MAGA supporters — that some Trump backers fear has been endangered by Trump’s policy choices. As the conservative activist Mike Cernovich put it this week, “A generational coalition, squandered.”

Here are the key issues that threaten to tear that coalition apart.

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/205715

The Trump administration’s directive to federal immigration agents on the detention and deportation of parents of minor children is clear: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents must accommodate a parent’s “efforts to make alternative care arrangements for their minor child(ren) prior to detention.” But a report released Wednesday by the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) and Physicians…

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Key things to understand:

• Immigration "judge" means an executive branch employee, not a Senate-confirmed judge with a lifetime appointment
• Immigration "judges" get fired if they rule in favor of immigrants

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – The Florida bill to ban marrying a first cousin failed to pass in the Florida Senate.

State lawmakers voted down HB-733, which proposed that “incestuous marriages” would not be recognized for any purpose in the state of Florida after July 1, 2026.

The bill had proposed that a man “may not marry any woman to whom he is related by lineal consanguinity, nor his sister, nor his aunt, nor his niece,” while a woman cannot marry a man “whom she is related by lineal consanguinity, nor her brother, nor her uncle, nor her nephew.”

State Representative Dean Black told Florida’s Action News Jax that he expects another vote on the same issue sometime in the future.

“There are plenty of people here, and there are plenty of people you can find to be your lifelong partner without looking to your first cousin,” Black said.

Florida is one of more than a dozen states where marrying your first cousin is legal, but most of the United States has banned such marriages.