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This is one of the most catastrophic airframe losses by the US military in my life time and it speaks directly to the foolishness and incompetence that dominates the approach of the US to the illegal Iran War.

You cannot fail at air defense worse than losing this aircraft, in terms of US military aircraft. This is it, this is pretty much the worst thing the US can blunder losing in terms of airplanes.

While this was probably preventable if the US had been humble and taken lessons from Ukraine's air defense approach, it also does speak to the basic reality that the shahed style flying bomb strategy works maximally against large fixed wing aircraft that require huge amounts of vulnerable static infrastructure. The world has gotten it completely wrong that drones make helicopters obsolete vs. making fixed wing aircraft look more dubious in warfare.

The local leaders of the union representing T.S.A. workers characterized the ICE officers in airports as unhelpful and a distraction.

More than 3,000 marches and rallies took place yesterday in cities and towns across America during the third “No Kings” event, where millions protested against the policies and actions of President Trump and his administration.

In at least five cases, customers sought medical attention to remove bristles “from their digestive tract or throat,” a federal agency said.

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He posted on Twitter: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed … and we will deserve it.” He also dismissed Trump as a “jackass”, “a race-baiting bigot” and “the most flawed nominee in the history of the Republican party”. Trump retorted that the South Carolina senator was an “idiot” and a “lightweight”.

But when it became clear that Trump was unstoppable, Graham fell into line. He was flattered to be invited to fly on the Marine One helicopter, regularly played golf with the president, and became a valued interlocutor between the White House and Congress. In 2018 he was an outspoken defender of Trump’s embattled nominee for the supreme court, Brett Kavanaugh.

That same year witnessed the death of John McCain, a close friend of Graham’s and a bitter rival of Trump. Reed Galen, who was deputy campaign manager for McCain’s presidential campaign, believes this moment was pivotal. “He’s always needed a north star and until John McCain died, it was John McCain,” Galen said.

“I’ve always gotten the sense, having worked for Senator McCain, that after Senator McCain died Graham was searching for who the next star was he was going to hitch his wagon to, and it’s been Trump.”

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Jon Hoffman, a research fellow in defence and foreign policy with the Cato Institute, a libertarian-leaning thinktank in Washington, told the Associated Press: “You’re seeing essentially a child on Christmas morning who has gotten everything that he’s ever dreamed of. And that’s not best for the country, obviously, but it’s best for Lindsey Graham’s ideology.”

A nice article about how Lindsey Graham is a slimy cowardly evil person through and through.

While the relationship was once thorny enough that Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cagefight, things seem to have warmed up by the early days of the second Trump administration.

"I think that one of the Devil's great tricks is to convince people he never existed."

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

The judge acknowledged his remarks were ‘ill-considered,’ court documents state

A federal judge just shaved a year off Elizabeth Holmes's sentence. With good-time credits factored in, the woman who defrauded investors of $450 million could walk into a halfway house by Christmas 2028.

If President Donald Trump approves the plans, such an effort would mark a new phase of the war that could be significantly more dangerous to U.S. troops than the first four weeks.

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While Trump’s decision to join Israel in attacking Iran has rallied war hawks and his older supporters, it has alienated many of the young men who swung toward the GOP in 2024.

Matthew Uthoff and his wife, Amber Dena Snow, allegedly gave oxycodone-laced pasta dish to unknowing victim

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As the Western United States limps away from one of the warmest and driest winters on record, wildfires have burned over 127 percent more acreage so far in 2026 than the 10-year average, potentially setting the stage for a long, fiery summer.

“I’m angry that the Canadians don’t want to come here any more. And I don’t blame them. I was thinking yesterday, I wish I didn’t live in this country, because I don’t like it anymore. I don’t like the news that I’m hearing. I don’t like the [Iran] war … It’s too much for me to handle.”

Canadians are SO MEAN

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For real though I get it, I don't want to come here anymore and I live here.