Dave Calder

Deutsche Bank profits off sale of warehouse to DHS for use as an ICE detention center in Salt Lake City. 😡

Washington Post: “Trump is counting on his 'favorite Mormon' to deliver health care wins” Chris Klomp, a political unknown a year ago, is now steering the $2.6 trillion health department. Several controversial appointees have since left. Yesterday at 5:00 a.m. EDT

Yep

cyndiwren 18h At this point, these dumb videos are just trolling us, because unless you have a completely incompetent social media team, you have gotten the message about how insulting we find these when you are ignoring the things we're telling you we care about most. I've never regretted my vote more. We expected you to remain a human if we put you in the senate.

What is John Curtis trying to achieve with his weekly cluelessness schtick?

Weird. “DeBiase” doesn’t sound like a Somalian name.

Sorry to get political again on the silly Nintendo fangirl account but hey gang: when do we start really worrying about this shit. Are we there yet? Feels like we are there.

Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

HOLY SHIT.

A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.

Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors or surrender accepted; (2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted; (3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable ability to accept surrender would exist; (4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and (5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.

Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:

Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.

And recognized as such by the US Government.

From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

"Iranian tankers have come through so we know they have not mined the straits" 🙄

Desperate attempt to paint universal and justified disdain for his company as some kind of party politics. I can't understand how any gov that feels at least some obligation to fundamental and human rights would want to cooperate with this guy

GOP lawmaker says rural jobs bill was killed, and he was mocked, for questioning $10M Pioneer Trail In the final days of Utah's legislative session, Rep. Abbott voiced concerns about $10 million for The Pioneer Trail. He says it cost him his rural jobs bills.

"My party is full of corrupt bullies"

www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Cork Stryker plants hit by suspected global Iranian-linked cyberattack Stryker operations worldwide jammed by hackers

Medical device maker Stryker reportedly hit with cyberattack from Iranian hacktivist group. So far only Irish news reporting, not here in US. "many employees have had their device data wiped and cannot access their accounts" Stryker makes surgical equipment, defibrillators, imaging equipment

ICE is trafficking people who aren’t from there to a tiny landlocked absolute monarchy on the borders of South Africa and Mozambique.

"Instead, they said, it likely reflected a common — but sometimes devastating — human error in wartime."

When you start the war with a targeting error in the initial strikes, you do not get to credibly claim "fog of war" for the error.

US Representative Ted Lieu (L), Democrat from California, speaks to a reporter as he departs a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)

Ted Lieu: “A foreign hacker likely has the Epstein Files — the best way to prevent blackmail of government officials, such as Trump & Howard Lutnick, would be for AG Pam Bondi to stop the cover up & release all the Epstein Files as required by law”

“An official website of the United States Government”

www.war.gov/News/News-St...

Fortunately my MIL isn’t a hoarder so we’ve helped her get over the hesitation to toss out or give away things she no longer uses.

“Don’t worry, that association was intentional”

My parents had this!

My MIL to my to my wife on a a few boxes of stuff: “I’m leaving this to you kids so you can decide what you want”

Wife: “Don’t keep it on our account because we are going to throw it out.”

MIL: “OK”

We threw it out then.

Moving many times with the USAF has made it easier for us to dump stuff.

Not my fault. It’s Pete’s, Jared’s, and Marco’s.

Miracle Max

“These missiles don't always make it to their intended target.”

Spam text: +63 908 675 0933 FINAL NOTICE: Driver's License Suspension Pending...

Dang it.

My campaign is certified billionaire free.

Now I’m more confused.

Jackson, WY is Home to The Country's Biggest Wealth Inequality Gap. Here's Why Skiers Should Care The New York Times published an article on the wealth inequality gap in ski mecca Jackson, Wyoming earlier this week. Here's how it pertains to skiers.

Where's the biggest wealth inequality gap in the United States? Not in a big city. It's in a resort town.

WaPo lumping a lot of KNOWN “Epstein class” depravity into “conspiracy theories”