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Drop Site @DropSiteNews "Even the literal Nazis, during WW2, rescued the survivors of ships their U-boats sank. It was considered a matter of basic honor." Arnaud Bertrand @Rnaud Bertrand 10h Pete Hegseth said this was "the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since WWII" (which is false, but that's beside the point), so I decided to look at what happened in WW2 and... this might surprise no-one: turns out the Nazis were more humane than the Americans. x.com/WhiteHouse/sta... 1:10 AM Mar 5, 2026 126.4K Views
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According to BBC Sport, the Russian Paralympic Committee stated that at least 70 para-athletes who took part in the war against Ukraine are members of the national team across various sports.
Andrew Parsons noted that Russian athletes injured in combat will be treated the same as athletes from other national Paralympic committees. "When the general assembly took the decision to lift the suspensions of Russia and Belarus, the decision was to treat them like any other National Paralympic Committee. There are many countries that recruit athletes from the armed forces, so if Russia does that, they won't be the only one. We have to remember where we come from. Our movement started after World War Two, specifically with injured military personnel. It doesn't matter to us what they have done in the past in the combat field. Of course crimes of war are something different, but what we offer with the movement is a second chance," Parsons said. Source: BBC Sport
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Every time I think about how Mike Judge could create a new version of the amazing Silicon Valley series just based on the last 5 or so years of tech happenings, I ponder just how truly dark that series would be.
The American Astronomical Society has a page with more info and how you can submit comments to the FCC to stop this travesty. Hurry though; submissions end today.
aas.org/action-alert...
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...
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"Coincidentally, Wednesday was also 'Spread the Word to End the Word' national awareness day, an annual campaign started by the Special Olympics to discourage the use of the slur Christian used."
“To be clear, it was not a slip of the tongue, it was a very intentional choice,” Frame said. “And then he went on to mock the fact that apparently he needs a list of words that he’s not allowed to say.”
The lack of evangelical Christians? Let's take a little count of some of the evangelical Christians in power:
Speaker of the House
Secretary of Defense
The departing Secretary of DHS
Trump's nominee to replace her
US Ambassador to Israel
OMB Director
Director of White House Faith Office
The Washington Post Democracy Dies in Darkness Opinion Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That's a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America's most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust. Today at 6:15 a.m. EST
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26. CBP has never been ordered to, nor has it attempted to, process a volume of refunds anywhere near the volume of total entries and Entry Summary lines on which IEEPA duties have been deposited. However, where CBP’s predecessor, the U.S. Customs Service, was previously ordered to refund to exporters the Harbor Maintenance Fee (HMF) that was held to have been unconstitutionally imposed as applied to exports by the Supreme Court in United States Shoe Corporation v. United States (1998), the process took several years to complete and required an updated regulatory procedure.
There is an interesting historical note saying that the last time a major duty was struck down as unconstitutional, it took the Customs Service "several years" to issue all the refunds. So if CBP's new plan to have a system up and running in 45 days is actually feasible, that would be a lot faster.
Just because we’re law enforcement doesn’t mean we have to be into the whole following the laws thing
CBP puts the blame on legacy IT systems. To be blunt, while these problems may be completely valid, this is entirely the fault of the government.
Thank you for not being on Substack 😀
No worries if it's covered in the article. Better to try going forward if you can. ☺️ I appreciate your work and just want everyone to be able to do the same. (You can flip a setting so you can't post without it as a reminder)
“One of the highest-demand jobs requires little education but pays about as much as fast food work: home health aides. Medicaid and Medicare pay most of their salaries, but rates are low, and could get lower after President Trump signed legislation last year that restricted federal health spending”
“Their absence could be felt quickly: A 25 percent increase in immigration flows would save 5,000 lives every year in the United States, a paper published recently by the National Bureau of Economic Research found.”
“The industry, and related professions in the social assistance category, added 693,000 positions last year. Without it, the economy would have lost 512,000 jobs, as business and professional services, retail, the federal government and manufacturing all contracted.”
Over 120 people have been hospitalized due to measles in Utah alone. "It is, at this time a real threat in our state and something we can do to stop it," said Dr. Leisha Nolen, state epidemiologist… pleading for people to get themselves and their children vaccinated.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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Dana Bash • @DanaBashCNN X.com 1/7 I just got off the phone with President Trump where he rated the war with Iran at a 12 or 15 out of 10. He told me, "We're doing very well militarily - better than anybody could have even dreamed."
Sometimes the level of stupidity is too much. It’s like listening to the permanently drunk guy at the end of the bar.
"It's important to pause and appreciate just how utterly diseased this kind of thinking is: the idea that you can mandate that corporations broadly pretend that systemic racism and sexism do not exist. And that this madness can enjoy any kind of meaningful compliance or permanence"
SEC settles case against Justin Sun, an investor in the Trumps' crypto coins
The decision to settle is striking because the defendant was accused of a serious violation of securities laws. He denied the charges.
Sun's company to pay $10 million penalty.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”
Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
I really encourage everyone to spend some time with the DHS Flickr page, which in one year posted thousands and thousands of glamour shot propaganda photos of Kristi Noem and little else. Our tax dollars! www.flickr.com/photos/dhsgov/
The actual Trump doctrine is having no plan whatsoever for the predictable consequences of their own choices. And then flailing around in a panic. It's no way to run a country.
Join my new predictive market platform Douchero to place a wager on which one of these guys gets caught with CSAM first.
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
They fund it in Gaza. They're doing it to Venezuelan fisherman. They're doing it in Iran. They're doing it in the streets and in concentration camps to immigrants in the US. They've done it to US citizen protestors on the streets in Minnesota.
There are no limits to what they are capable of.
