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George William Herbert
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IT/Cloud/SRE/PE, rockets & missiles, nukes not going bang, space, CS, ships. YIMBY & amateur transit geek. Part time adjunct @ miis.edu teaching Missiles & Missile Defense. I speak for myself only not $DAYJOB. V95.45XA I do #OSINT against nuclear missiles.
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Judge Crenshaw grants Abrego Garcia's motion to compel to extent of requiring govt to let him review extensive materials privately (in camera) to decide whether to give to Abrego. Includes emails from Dep AG Blanche's office & emails/memos from AUSA Ben Schrader, who quit over case.
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Yes. The denying pain medication to the dying would have lead to some interesting questions.
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Just when you think Hurricane Melissa is done intensifying, it says, “Are you sure?” Drop in central pressure measured by both NOAA and AF between center fixes suggests Melissa may incredibly be intensifying further.
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Holy shit. Midnight massacre at ICE.
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If you’re more likely to be killed if someone else gets in a human driven taxi than a Waymo, are you being rational about risk?
Preliminary evidence is Waymo is safer than human drivers.

They’re not as good as they will be, but the vast majority of accidents to date were someone hitting them not the other way around.

It’s really not that difficult to be more attentive than the normal spectrum of human drivers.
The question isn’t whether a robot taxi would kill someone. Driving is inherently dangerous and other drivers are a high risk even for lawfully operating vehicles. The question is whether there’s more risk with human or robotic taxis / cars / trucks.
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BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop
Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
www.washingtonpost.com
Only the first flying bear is notable.
Sadly, despite Hegseth the US Navy has lost aircraft every month I can recall back into the 1990s and it was weekly if not several per week in the 1950s 1960s and 70s (excluding combat operations for fairness).
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12% of US grocery spending is SNAP.

If you wanted to replace it completely with food banks run off donations, you'd need about one in ten grocery stores to become a food bank.
I need to go read his feed and … ugh. I don’t want to go pay to see this to more specifically call out the unreasonable parts. Ugh.
Surely Bigelow would have sought out at least one expert? Right?..?
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SNAP benefits are about to lapse because of the shutdown. Reminders:
1. About 1 in 2 children will receive SNAP benefits at some point and 1 in 4 children are receiving benefits in a given month.
2. Trump is already planning to cut SNAP in other ways.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...
The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill
How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps
donmoynihan.substack.com
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The Ronald Reagan video denouncing tariffs, which Donald is in such a snit about, was posted to YouTube eight years ago. It is authentic. Donald is lying. It is not AI.

We are living in such twisted times, when Ronald Reagan's own words are offensive to Republicans.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5Q...
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
www.youtube.com
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who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
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Ok, so

an attorney (suspended) claims the St. Louis sheriff (in jail) ordered him (before the suspension and jail) to intimidate a local reporter (who was reporting accurately) and the attorney apparently did so in basically the clumsiest way possible.

This is Coen brothers stuff
Sheriff's lawyer told reporter to take down an article — and he'd send deputies to their home
Blake Lawrence, an attorney for the St. Louis sheriff's office, is on administrative leave after allegedly sending harassing text messages to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter. But he says the move i...
www.stlpr.org
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This is fucked
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
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The carceral state is generally brutal and evil in the way it treats the human beings it cages, but it’s fine to point out when there are bursts of unusually concentrated or vigorous evil and use it to get people to care.
Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say
The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.
www.nbcnews.com
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This is such a great callout…

Does your Christian church have a plan to help the community when SNAP benefits don’t go out in November?

If not, you’re at the wrong church.
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This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it.

They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.