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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 3h

Yard sign generator version of the screenshot post in the quoted post.

IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE:
DONALD TRUMP IS THE ANTICHRIST
ABOLISH ICE
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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 2h

The “guided missile warheads” part is likely a typo by a DHS contracting officer and not ICE buying Javelins or something: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

Okay, I'm as pissed off at ICE's larger-than-USMC budget as the next guy, but... this reporting needed a bit more digging. It seems outrageous on the surface, but further investigation into the actual content - literally ten minutes, in my case - reveals the actual root cause and evidence that's contrary to the supposed point of the article.
The "guided missile purchases" in question are these ones: contract codes HSCEOPO7F00692, HSCOPO7F00692, and 70CMSW25P00000078. Each of these has a Product and Service Code (PSC) that designates what the purchase in general for purposes of allocations, and the PSC for those purchases is 1420:
"Guided Missile Components." Ridiculous, right?
Well, in the Description of Requirement, you get different details:
• DHS Bulk Close out
• This award provides multiple distraction devices to support law enforcement operations and ICE- Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs.
• HOLOGRAPHIC SIGHT.
Turns out, going into the FPDS Documentation, the PSC for "Optical Sighting and Ranging Equipment" - which encompasses small arms optics - is 1240, and mistyping 1240 as 1420 is a one-button slip.

This is further reinforced by all of the contracts being listed under NAICS (North American Industry
Classification System) code 332994 (Small Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Accessories) and 339999 (All Other Misc. Manufacturing - which is a lazy contracting officer's catch-all for when they don't want to find the real code).
Now, the "multiple distraction devices" contract is a bit muddy, and coming from Atlantic Diving Systems - which is a broad-spectrum military supplier - it's difficult to tell what it might be in reference to. But, still, it seemingly falls into "some contracting officer misclassified the category" as opposed to "ICE is buying guided missiles."
EDIT TO ADD: God damnit, even I missed some critical fucking context by not paying attention.
Only one of those contracts is from 2025. The other two are from 2017 and 2007!
And guess what? PSC 1366, "Guided Missile Warheads and Explosive Components?" It includes "warheads including military chemical agents" - which, again by PSC definition, includes "war agents, smoke, and signaling agents." Considering the contract was awarded in September 2025 - aka, end of fiscal year panic month - who wants to take bets that some contracting officer working to get in under the FY submission deadline couldn't figure out that a bulk order of smoke grenades did a CTRL+F search for "Chemical" and used the first result (1336) instead of scrolling through to the correct result (1365)?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

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Public Health, Sometimes @phsometimes.bsky.social · 3h

Newsmax, 2028: "the only thing we have to lose is our chains!"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, Senator Bernie Sanders, people are, in fact, worried about a U.S. Senate candidate choosing to get a tattoo of the symbol worn by the Nazis who manned the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h

Bernie about Platner,

“In all due respect, all right, what I'm worried about, 50,000 Americans may die unnecessarily? And you're worried about a tattoo?"

When I asked about his comments about sexual assault, he said "Have you served four tours of duty?" I said "I have not."

Bernie: "Ok"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4h

I too find myself wondering about this

Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 5h

I wanna fucking know how many people circling the wagons for Platner right now adamantly refused to vote for Harris last year because a tactical alliance with Liz Cheney was morally beyond the pale. I’ll bet that Venn diagram’s bigger than zero.

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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 8h

That’s called burying the lead

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SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 9h

... he called it "my toteknopf"

Well.

That seals it.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 9h

is this good? asking for my mentions.

a tweet from the right wing journalist josh kraushaar reporting that platner did indeed know what the tattoo meant and even referred it as “my totenkompf”

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Public Health, Sometimes @phsometimes.bsky.social · 9h

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Public Health, Sometimes @phsometimes.bsky.social · 10h

I guess I meant serious in the sense that, if offered cash incentives and residency, American scientist would be willing to move there.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 10h

There are Mark Robinsons everywhere for those with the eyes to see

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Public Health, Sometimes @phsometimes.bsky.social · 10h

Canada, realistically, is the only serious option (unless a handful of Euros go for it on their own), but I believe they might be having issues with university funding right now.

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Public Health, Sometimes @phsometimes.bsky.social · 10h

Shit, even putting up the cash might not get a lot of these folks to move (especially to China).

Europe, maybe, but Europeans would actually need to agree and follow through on something for once for it to actually happen.

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Public Health, Sometimes @phsometimes.bsky.social · 12h

I also find it pretty hard to imagine nobody mentioned it to him over almost twenty years.

Given he took his shirt off at a wedding, plenty of people over the years have probably seen it.

The likelihood of nobody recognizing it and telling him is pretty low in my book.

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Deep Sense of Creeping DreⱯd 2024 @devedy.bsky.social · 12h

I really do hope the runaway success of KPop Demon Hunters leads to a Renaissance for animated musicals

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Public Health, Sometimes @phsometimes.bsky.social · 12h

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13h

pretty worrying how predictive Peacemaker turned out to be.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

We are not releasing the files, but Trump's employees (including one who had to quit when it was discovered he gave a sweetheart deal to Epstein as prosecutor) vouch for him, so that should be good enough for you.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Comer: "They are both Republicans and both former Trump cabinet secretaries. And guess what? Those interviews completely debunked the Democrats' smear against President Trump. Barr stated there was no evidence that President Trump was involved in Epstein's criminal activities. Acosta confirmed ... "