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Cancellation of Army exercise fuels speculation about Mideast troop deployments The abrupt cancellation of a training event has put a spotlight on the 82nd Airborne Division, which specializes in ground combat and other fraught missions.

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Mass firings leave national security ranks thinned as war raises threats The U.S. military operation in Iran is testing a depleted Justice Department and FBI. Firings of experienced agents and prosecutors have diminished expertise to counter threats.

Inexcusable. Just one blunder after another, all putting our country at risk.

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Another pertinent column by Max Boot.

@maxboot.bsky.social

This is a gift article link.

Analysis suggests US was responsible for deadly strike on Iranian elementary school | CNN The United States military was likely responsible for the strike on an elementary school in southern Iran that killed scores of children, the deadliest incident of civilian casualties in the US and Is...

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Russia has provided Iran with information that can help Tehran strike US military, AP sources say Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region.

trump's buddy.

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Opinion | Ukraine is holding its own Data from the battlefield show it’s Moscow that may be in trouble.

"Ukrainian forces have not only held Russian advances to a slow crawl, but they have begun to push Russian forces back in localized counterattacks," Frederick W. Kagan and Kimberly Kagan write. https://wapo.st/4sowZyC

On my new iPhone I missed the Home Button. Aha! You can add a virtual home button! In the photo below, it's at the bottom right. To add one, go to Settings, Touch, and turn on Assistive Touch. I have mine set so a single tap works as a Home Button, and a long press toggles the mute/ringer function.

A large immigration detention camp in Texas is closed to visitors amid measles outbreak A lawmaker says a large immigration detention camp in Texas is closed to visitors and attorneys due to a measles outbreak. U.S. Rep.

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Trump’s War Underscores his Massive Betrayal Democrats now have their election message

I copied that graphic from today's column by the always excellent Jen Rubin. @jenrubin.bsky.social

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Anybody remember electing Netanyahu as President of the United States and giving him authority to take our country to war?

Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say | CNN Politics Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring th...

Idiots.

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Douglas Macgregor: A New World Emerges: Iran Will Win & Israel May Not Survive YouTube video by Glenn Diesen

If you have 43 minutes and want a better understanding of the war on Iran and its broader implications, you might want to watch or listen to this interview with Colonel Douglas Macgregor (USA Ret.). He's a really smart man and explains things well, imo.

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Bill to bar Allegheny County cooperation with ICE advances to council vote Allegheny County Council’s public safety committee on Monday voted to move ahead with a bill that would prohibit county employees from cooperating with U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement. Th...

Good. Now let's have the council approve it.

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Federal judge shuts door on DOJ effort to wrest transgender care data from UPMC A federal judge in Pittsburgh on Monday denied a request by the U.S. Department of Justice to force UPMC to turn over anonymized records for minor patients who received gender-affirming care and sharp...

Judge Cathy Bissoon's comments in her ruling are a joy to read.

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Confidential database reveals which items NPS thinks may ‘disparage’ America An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, cl...

Crazy. Among the examples...

"At Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia, staff members have asked federal officials to decide whether a document that describes an abolitionist’s murder by a mob might 'denigrate the murderers.'"

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Opinion | Bernie Sanders’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose A 5 percent annual wealth tax on America’s billionaires aims to halve their wealth.

This is kind of hilarious: an editorial in the Washington Post (owned by Jeff Bezos) arguing against the idea of a wealth tax. 😄

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Opinion | The best education for future success might surprise you Career-focused programs mistakenly assume that what seems useful today will be useful tomorrow.

This is kind of an interesting opinion piece that argues for the continuing, or even increasing, value of a liberal education in the era of AI.

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DHS’s use of secretive legal weapon draws congressional scrutiny After a Washington Post investigation, congressional Democrats are asking tech giants how they handle administrative subpoenas targeting DHS’s critics.

Chilling and infuriating.

This is a gift article.

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Excellent idea.

I'm not sure if this is a gift article link or not.

New CNN poll: Nearly 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of Trump’s Iran strikes | CNN Politics The Inside Politics panel breaks down the latest CNN poll that shows most Americans disapprove of the president’s decision to strike Iran, don’t trust him to make the right decisions on the use of for...

59% of Americans disapprove of trump's war on Iran. 71% of young Americans ages 18-34 disapprove of it.

Those numbers will only increase.

We're led by imbeciles. Maybe this will help Americans wake up to that fact, though at a horrific cost now and for years to come.

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Analysis: The Trump team’s shifting story on war with Iran | CNN Politics “We’re very clear-eyed,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth assured Monday about the Trump administration’s war with Iran. He said it had “clear objectives” and assured that the mission “is very, very cle...

This is Aaron Blake's commentary on the trump/hegseth regime's war on Iran. My takeaway is that our country's leaders don't know what the hell they're doing. There is no clear objective and no expectation for how this ends. It's just horrific international terrorism.

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Shapiro vows to block ICE detention centers, warns of devastating impact on local Pa. communities This story was produced by the Berks County bureau of Spotlight PA, an independent, nonpartisan newsroom. READING — Gov. Josh Shapiro says he will use “every tool at his disposal” to...

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Opinion | Will Trump’s Iran strikes end the regime — or put more time on the clock? Khamenei may be dead — but war with Iran isn’t over.

"What worries me most is that the conflict may put more time on the clock of an Iranian regime that was about to expire," David Ignatius writes.

An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human. At the 184-year-old Cleveland Plain Dealer, a top editor’s push to let AI draft news articles is boosting traffic — and spooking staffers.

Interesting article. The Cleveland Plain-Dealer is using AI to draft some articles, generally based on a reporter's notes.

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A friend who wishes to remain anonymous wrote this yesterday. I think it's very well said and captures what I believe, too.