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JUST IN: Democrats flip a seat in the New Hampshire state House.
Dem Bobbi Boudman has won todayβs special election, NHJournal reports.
(Boudman was the Dem nominee in 2024 & lost by 14%; Trump won here by 9%.)
This is Demsβ third legislative flip so far this year, after Texas and Arkansas.
Prepping for court, and realized itβs been six years since I became a detective. Nine years since I joined the police. Nine years. Feels like between one year and one hundred years, depending on the day. We shall see.
Pete Hegseth's response to news about the Strait of Hormuz
This is like an entire verse of We Didnβt Start the Fire in a day, except we very clearly started the fire
Trump has now conducted 42 boat strikes, killing nearly 160 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
Heβs unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
We get it, we get it, everyone is twelve, we get it
The Pentagon spent about $5.6 billion on munitions in the first two days of U.S. strikes on Iran, according to officials.
The high cost is raising concerns in Congress that the military is rapidly using up limited stocks of advanced weapons.
what a soulless sociopath!
MeanCat has found my apologies about being late for third brunch insufficient and irritating, and doesnβt accept them.
Between oil prices and the markets, POTUS is getting a major dose of reality todayβpotentially prompting greater urgency in finding an off ramp.
The. Dumbest. Time. In. Human. History.
Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.
I didn't even include the lawyer's best burn!
Lawyer: You say you have an understanding of what DEI means and when I ask you, you say you need to reference the Executive Order [EO].
Do you need to reference EOs to define every word you use in your everyday life?
Opposing Lawyer: Objection.
I got in an online discussion with someone anti-choice once, and he just kept repeating that he was "pro-innocent life." In his mind, helping the parents/family of the baby was different from being "pro-innocent life."
More of the orange clouds
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while the anti-war protestors are vastly outnumbered, it is very important to remember that israel is no more a monolith than iran or the u.s.
MeanCat is The Alpha Orangey
Unironically love my opposing counsel, who called me back after a meet and confer today because he forgot to ask how my family in Israel is doing (which reminded me to ask about his extended family in Iran). He's wrong about EVERYTHING substantive, of course, but just a good human being
MeanCat inspecting my work after I cleaned up his front porch and southern lands. He remains inscrutable and mercurial.
This. There is a shocking desensitization that is increasingly common around war. From the White House, and even from voices in the Horn, as the comment section in the YouTube video shows. Weaponizing nationalism and turning war into a partisan arena of winners or losers is just plain vile.
"Like if you combined the Viet Cong's command and control, the Houthis' conviction, Hezbollah's rockets, and Afghanistan's geography"
Killing people is entertainment to the sociopaths in the White House. Decency demands that we resist this.
It should be a much bigger story that oil prices surged because of Trumpβs illegal war in Iran, forcing the White House to ease sanctions on Russian oilβonly for Russia to take that money and help Iran target American troops.
βOrban threatens to use force on Ukraineβ
By the way, whereβs that tough cocky guy, the big expert on suits and saying βthank youβ? Heβs nowhere to be seen or heard these days.
Same story with the Alawites in Syria. Circassians in Jordan. Hell, even the Jewish European settlers in Israel. While each of these groups also had their own agency and internal disputes, take a traumatized minority and give them guns in exchange for loyalty is a well-worn imperial template.
B&W pic of Lincoln Center w surrounding towers disappearing into the fog.
Heavy rains after heavy snows can produce some cool fog.
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