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@capeoian

Watching democracy die with despair, and trying to avert it. he/him

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It’s a pretty big assumption on their part that Trump can just end this on a whim. There’s residual damage and conflict that’s not going to end simply because Trump says it’s over.

06.03.2026 22:53 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I live in RI and I’ve seen my fair share of leucistic deer (mostly piebald so not pure white) but I’ve never seen a leucistic squirrel and I see a lot of squirrels. That’s neat.

06.03.2026 21:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exquisite Class? WTF is this moron talking about?

06.03.2026 21:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Imagine viewing this and concluding that academic Gender Studies is no longer relevant as a field of inquiry.

06.03.2026 15:10 👍 315 🔁 70 💬 5 📌 0

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

06.03.2026 19:47 👍 15100 🔁 4006 💬 202 📌 129
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Coffee, straight out of my nose.

06.03.2026 19:28 👍 6582 🔁 1291 💬 217 📌 116

It’s honestly wild that American media has “are liberals trapped in a bluesky bubble???” debates every two weeks while a 22 year old groyper White House staffer known as BasedBoss1488 remixes scenes from 300 in a propaganda video for a toxically unpopular lame duck president’s war of choice

06.03.2026 16:16 👍 330 🔁 83 💬 9 📌 0

INBOX: @couriernewsroom.bsky.social is circulating a video of #TX23 Republican nominee Brandon Herrera showing off his "1939 edition" copy of Mein Kampf.

06.03.2026 17:16 👍 229 🔁 116 💬 9 📌 20
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Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

06.03.2026 14:26 👍 3200 🔁 1379 💬 104 📌 446

I still have both my grandfathers records from when they enlisted. One was 5’8” and 134 lbs. The other was 5’10” and 142 lbs. They were both thin and gangly as hell. I’m 5’ 10” and I outweighed them both by junior high. This meme is truly moronic.

06.03.2026 02:13 👍 27 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

05.03.2026 19:22 👍 29473 🔁 3998 💬 367 📌 161

Sri Lanka assumes control of Iranian navy vessel, president says, amid fears it could become latest US submarine target
u.afp.com/Su2a

05.03.2026 18:17 👍 68 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 2
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Iranian forces struck one of Bahrain’s primary refineries. The facility received multiple impacts and can be seen burning.

05.03.2026 17:02 👍 37 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 5

Following this story's publication, a local reporter found that Rakhi Israni only recently registered as a Democrat from “No Party Preference" in Nov. 2025 and infrequently voted.

Someone else tipped me off to the fact that she was endorsed by the 4th largest donor to MAGA Inc/

05.03.2026 16:21 👍 398 🔁 160 💬 15 📌 12

Tragic news from #Upemba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo & I can’t find coverage!

On 3 March 2026, armed assailants attacked the park headquarters in #Lusinga. 5 staff members were murdered, more staff were kidnapped including the Park Director, Tina Lain.

#UpembaNationalPark

05.03.2026 10:05 👍 276 🔁 113 💬 7 📌 0
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A New Spy Radio Signal Has Appeared. It's Broadcasting in Farsi. A new shortwave numbers station appeared the day the bombs fell. Nobody knows who's running it.

A mysterious shortwave radio station is broadcasting strings of numbers in Farsi. open.substack.com/pub/theicema...

05.03.2026 14:08 👍 42 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 3
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Rep. Tony Gonzales admits to having an affair with a staffer who then committed suicide.

05.03.2026 00:20 👍 372 🔁 140 💬 232 📌 192
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Way too many Jalens in the NBA

04.03.2026 18:29 👍 589 🔁 243 💬 33 📌 94
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This vet should sue the shit out of Sheehy, who has a lot of money and no business being in public office.

04.03.2026 23:44 👍 567 🔁 116 💬 23 📌 6

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:

Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

04.03.2026 21:03 👍 2421 🔁 1188 💬 3 📌 48
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Good morning! Yes, this is he

04.03.2026 17:25 👍 5298 🔁 1169 💬 30 📌 33
Ministry of Defence L
@DefenceHQ
X.com
Update on UK operations in the Middle East: 04
March 2026
Ministry of Defence
04 MARCH 2026
• Overnight, RAF Typhoon and F-35B jets continued defensive air operations across the Middle East with support from Voyager air-to-air
refuelling in defence of British interests and allies.
• The Ministry of Defence can confirm that a Shahed-like drone which targeted RAF Akrotiri at midnight on 2nd March was not launched from Iran.
• In the last 24 hours, the UK has resupplied air defence systems to British and allied bases across the region - including UK-built air defence missiles.
• Royal Navy Wildcat helicopters - armed with Martlet missiles capable of taking out aerial threats - will arrive in Cyprus in the coming days.

Ministry of Defence L @DefenceHQ X.com Update on UK operations in the Middle East: 04 March 2026 Ministry of Defence 04 MARCH 2026 • Overnight, RAF Typhoon and F-35B jets continued defensive air operations across the Middle East with support from Voyager air-to-air refuelling in defence of British interests and allies. • The Ministry of Defence can confirm that a Shahed-like drone which targeted RAF Akrotiri at midnight on 2nd March was not launched from Iran. • In the last 24 hours, the UK has resupplied air defence systems to British and allied bases across the region - including UK-built air defence missiles. • Royal Navy Wildcat helicopters - armed with Martlet missiles capable of taking out aerial threats - will arrive in Cyprus in the coming days.

UK Ministry of Defence can confirm that a Shahed-like drone which targeted RAF Akrotiri at midnight on 2nd March was not launched from Iran.

04.03.2026 19:56 👍 150 🔁 73 💬 15 📌 11
Lanterns  | Official Teaser | HBO Max
Lanterns | Official Teaser | HBO Max YouTube video by HBO Max

They weren’t kidding about the TRUE DETECTIVE vibe.

04.03.2026 19:22 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1

There is an ahistorical belief, epitomized by just about everything Hegseth says, that the US has been somehow ineffective in warfare since WWII because it was somehow constrained in delivering destruction. To put it bluntly, this is dumb.

04.03.2026 14:30 👍 531 🔁 112 💬 25 📌 10
An immature Lophiomys imhausi displaying specialized hairs and warning coloration (A) and the same individual (center) with an adult male (top right), and female (top left), from the same trap location. The juvenile is being groomed by the male (B).

FROM: J Mammal. 2020 Nov 17;101(6):1680–1691.
"The secret social lives of African crested rats, Lophiomys imhausi"

An immature Lophiomys imhausi displaying specialized hairs and warning coloration (A) and the same individual (center) with an adult male (top right), and female (top left), from the same trap location. The juvenile is being groomed by the male (B). FROM: J Mammal. 2020 Nov 17;101(6):1680–1691. "The secret social lives of African crested rats, Lophiomys imhausi"

The African crested rat (Lophiomys imhausi) is a rabbit-sized rodent with patterned coat.

They have no natural predators which puzzled scientists because they don't display obvious deterrents to large African predators.

That's when studies found they were packing enough poison to kill an elephant.

04.03.2026 13:54 👍 445 🔁 129 💬 8 📌 17
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The New York Times has published satellite imagery confirming what Iran said it was doing while Washington was busy telling you it wasn’t working. Nearly every major US base across the Gulf. Systematically and methodically has been attacked.

04.03.2026 14:42 👍 177 🔁 123 💬 7 📌 20

Wow. Lifted her right out of the water.

04.03.2026 14:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Taiwan isn’t even a dream of China’s current military capability. The rest of your bad news is mostly correct though. AD stockpiles are going to be burnt through so fast we’ll have most every GC state questioning their deals with us. The whole thing is so stupid, abandoning Ukraine the most stupid.

04.03.2026 01:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Somebody is almost an ace.

04.03.2026 01:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0