New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.
If the Senate confirms him (& they will) to be the next DHS Secretary, then no, he would have to then resign from the Senate. He cannot be both, though I’m sure the GOP/MAGA would love it if he could. OK governor would just appoint a new GOP member to fill his seat until a special election is held.
Yes, but these are fairly precise weapons, speaking of the Tomahawk cruise missiles off of destroyers/cruisers and/or submarines in the Persian Gulf. The even more hideous thing is that Hegseth & DOD are using AI to select many targets, many being outdated or just wrong. Sadly, they hit were aimed.
Not for ballistic missiles like this; Iron Dome is meant for incoming short range rockets (like Grad-style) and artillery, with a handful of other uses. This is what Arrow 2/3, PAC-3 CRI/MSE, and THAAD are for. Plus, SM-3’s (and to lesser extent, SM-6) from USN DDG’s/CG’s in eastern Med.
I loathe Trump and this admin, & think he absolutely should have gone to Congress for authorization for this war. But I shed absolutely no tears for Khamenei being gone. What replaces him may be worse. And in that prior war, Iran had a fairly new, robust Air Force it used to great effect: F-14/F-4’s
Sounds like they’re just trying to take operational names from 80’s actions and, well, “brah it up.” They took Operation Urgent Fury - invasion of Grenada - and thought Epic Fury sounded cooler. Twatwaffles, all of them.
Especially because his fighter call-sign was literally "Raisin."
It’s sheer hell.
Many of us within the US are looking aghast in horror at everything he and his white nationalist, MAGA cadre does on a minute-by-minute basis. Like the others here, I never voted for him or the GOP, and never, ever would. It’s a terrifying time here in more ways than one, to say the least…
Photo of a big new moon on the top-left of frame, shot at 500mm, with a red dot in the center of frame (Mercury) and the Griffith Observatory on the bottom-right corner.
Moon and Mercury setting next to the Griffith Observatory just moments ago. Found a good spot to take photos.
#Photography #Astrophotography
Stunning photos to say the least, Joaquin! Just beautiful and so well captured; excellent work.
Those were “The Lone Gunmen” in the X-Files.
Precisely. And even if the ICC (rightly) issued a warrant for him or any number of Trump’s cadre of sociopaths, Hegseth - and anyone else potentially having a warrant issued for them - wouldn’t leave the US, save for to countries that like him.
She went at Steve.
Bring it on.
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
Reported and blocked. Thank you.
By the way, Stan, I saw your message and replied to it, so as you are aware…
Of course not; that would be asking the bare minimum of a normal, rational person, and he is anything but that.
“Appear” Greek? What’s the hell does that even mean, aside from the fairly obvious “she MUST be white,” John? I mean, obviously, everyone in the Mediterranean is white, right?
Normie Republicans don’t have the same fashy bloodlust as the people running the Trump administration and their big donors and group chats bsky.app/profile/greg...
2026 is off to the most horrific of starts, between the murders of citizens in Minneapolis and elsewhere, to the inhumane crackdown on anyone not immediately white or possessing an accent. Now we go and lose the most brilliant Catherine O'Hara today and I... Rest in Peace, Ms. O'Hara.
Jesus Christ
The guy genuinely gave a shit.
And the empathy vampires murdered him for it.
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
Damn the soulless Nazis of Trumpism straight to Hell.
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Exactly. Even with days flying by so quickly over the last couple of years, and even when it was nice to have 1/4 of his term be gone already, it still feels like he’s been back in office for years. But yes, ten months until the midterms (& just under a year until winners take office); a lot of time
