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In order to change this problem of binary choices relevant defence ministries need to pursue adaption and development in parallel to active procurement addressing force deficits in the near term. The glass remains half empty on defence bureaucracies being capable tackling both.

First of all this is racist af. Second of all, it’s wildly untrue. And third of all, a group of people does not need to produce science or literature to be fully human or whatever!!! What is this, 1780??? (This is a topic in my book btw)

Please, read and share. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

What’s absolutely fascinating—& entirely predictable—is that the MAHA kooks (RFK Jr, Bhattacharya, etc.) used to say that it’s important to do proper RCTs & it’s important to get rid of financial conflicts of interest in medicine, but now that they run the health system they think the opposite 🧐

Honestly it would make so much more sense to appoint Viktor Orban as White House press secretary and Nicki Minaj U.N. Secretary-General.

The Trump administration has signed an oil deal with a Venezuelan energy baron who has faced money-laundering investigations in three countries. ProPublica reviewed a copy of the 18-page agreement.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Like the median voter...

Diabolical — Republicans appear to be sending fake pro-trans/LGBTQ mailers from Wyoming directly to kids in Texas (not their parents!) to piss off voters

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

They surrendered their morals a long time ago, may as well do cognitive surrender, too

He did, in fact, do other things wrong, but also, this is a hell of an "aside."

Of course Bari Weiss has pushed CBS reporters to pursue the James Talarico was in a mental hospital and Abdul El-Sayed is tied to the Muslim Brotherhoid stories. Of course she has. www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

Tommy is not actually a registered voter in Michigan. Tricia McLaughlin is the former DHS spokesperson who kept telling the public that everytime ICE shot someone, it was because they were weaponizing their car against the masked security agent

Live your life in a way that doesn't inspire people to rapidly update your wiki like this

It’s the cowardice that gets me. Every damn time.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Statistically speaking, that is probably true, yes.

Q: Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood? El-Sayed: Yes. Why are you asking the question? Do you assume that I wouldn’t? Q: Yes, because I have not heard you disavow them yet. El-Sayed: Have you disavowed them? I have not heard you disavow them yet.

Also MSNow is a publisher and is entitled to make editorial decisions. Social media is not supposed to be a publisher, and if it starts acting like one, especially if it's obviously done to benefit certain parties, that's pure corruption and lawlessness.

Russia is now exempt from the Lindsey O. Graham Russia Sanctions Act. The US government is clearly allied with Putin against Ukraine. Vote Republican enablers out.

In case you missed it, read our reporting here:

A lot of guys who can mimic civility, like Cox here, are going to pivot to a “gee shucks can’t we all just get along” stance. The answer to that question is no. We cannot.

I think it's bad that the mayor of America's second-largest city seems to hate big cities.

I actually think the rest of Europe, en masse, coming to the defense of Ukraine and putting Russia in a chokehold that it doesn’t get out of without enormous concessions is just about the best possible outcome to Russia invading a sovereign nation

Can't go into every which way this article is dangerously wrong, spectacularly naive, or abhorrently apologetic of the Kremlin's actions: but it's conclusion that giving into Russia's demands will "avoid a Europe-wide" conflict is so fucking moronic.

TBC, since I'm actually at this place, this document doesn't endorse the views it recognizes as dominating Israel's current national security concept. It actually criticizes them.

I am opposed to masked, anonymous agents of the state running around in public, snatching people off the street. As a freeborn man of the USA.

😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan

It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.

It's almost like he's always been a right-winger or something

This framing is wild because somehow, the people who pushed the lie get passive-voiced away into a generalized “mistrust”, the Democrats get named as the ones who need to learn their lesson from this, and then we move on to a broader framing for the Republicans who are described as simply “worried”.

Fox News spent four years diagnosing Biden from the angle of his left shoelace. Trump turns into a peeled nectarine and suddenly everyone’s a privacy advocate.

Trump says Putin wants peace, but Russian drones keep reaching Ukrainian playgrounds. A Russian strike damaged a school-kindergarten and adjacent playground near Kyiv. For Ukrainians, peace is measured differently: whether Russian drones stop reaching places built for children.

this is deeply thoughtful and well worth the extensive length it was given. truly find the time in your schedule to read it all.

"The president can control me. But other than President Trump and, you know, maybe Roger Stone. . . . Other than my fiancée, the president, and Roger Stone, I don’t think anyone can control me" - a man who might it in Congress.

Important Context has a new story published in partnership with @theguardian.com. Anti-vaxxers, including Robert Kennedy Jr.’s former group, Children’s Health Defense, have been going after doctors professionally to cast doubt on measles deaths. www.importantcontext.news/anti-vaxxers...

Corporations publicly celebrating LGBT+ equality is a good thing and I am glad to see it coming back.

The thing is, in his rancid pudding brain, he truly believes this is how it works.