Ross

17 July 2025

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Consequences at the speed of Artificial intelligence!

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defence-blog.comShotgun-armed drone gets Pentagon green lightAn armed, reusable drone that fires 40 mm grenades and 12-gauge shotgun rounds and then flies back to be reloaded has been cleared for purchase and use across the U.S. military, after Skyborne Technol...

Looks like they've solved the recoil problem. It only gets more deadly from here.

The Defence Blog@defence-blog.com

The U.S. military can now buy a drone that fires grenades or shotgun rounds and then flies home to reload. Skyborne’s Cerberus MI just cleared the Pentagon’s security vetting for drones. defence-blog.com/shotgun-arme...

bit.lyCongo’s Ebola outbreak tops 10,000 cases as authorities race to slow the spread in African countriesCongo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak has topped 10,000 confirmed cases as authorities race to slow the spread across Africa.

USAid would be handy to have right now.

The Associated Press@apnews.com

Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached 10,000 confirmed cases, government data showed Tuesday, as health authorities race to slow the spread of the disease in multiple African countries.

uwcip.substack.comWhat to Know About Election Forecasting and Prediction Markets This NovemberWhat to Expect When We’re Electing

Note that election gamblers have been wrong more than right. Brazil to the left, Serbia to the right - H/t @kennethgray.bsky.social

Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social

Our election research team put out an article today explaining how the prediction markets (e.g. Kalshi, Polymarket) — and social media posts featuring visualizations from those platforms — may feed election rumors & conspiracy theories around the U.S. midterms: uwcip.substack.com/p/what-to-kn...

daylightsandiego.orgICE detainee dies at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San DiegoPrivate prison company CoreCivic confirmed that someone in its custody died on Oct. 24 in one of the housing units.

America has torture & death camps that cost billions to build and fill with abducted human beings.

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social

🧊😵 The death at Otay Mesa would bring the known number of deaths this year in ICE custody to 30. In 2025, a total of 33 people died in ICE custody, the highest number on record.

open.substack.comSunday Night Rally at Church in Doug Wilson’s Denomination Targets Adam Hamilton’s FaithKansas Sen. Roger Marshall is a longtime mainline Protestant. But on Sunday, he joined numerous evangelical pastors in attacking the United Methodist Church.

Methodists' dangerous far left crazy stuff examples: - love your neighbor as you love yourself - love the stranger as you would your own family - care for the sick, the downtrodden, and the poor These radical left lunatics got these socialist ideas from a Jewish carpenter 2,000 years ago.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Sen Roger Marshall (R-KS) summons Pete Hegseth's personal chaplain to explain that Methodists are dangerous, far-left crazies.

That Jesus guy really was the anti-Trump!

@adamrutherford.bsky.social

After 26 years on orbit and worsening leaks, the small transfer tunnel part (top of picture below) of the Zveda module of the ISS is decommissioned from habitation and left in place.

Jonathan McDowell@planet4589.bsky.social

Reported by Eric Berger back in June and now apparently confirmed by Anatoliy Zak and others, the leaky ISS Zvezda PRK and aft hatch area are declared permanently 'out of order'. Progress ships will dock at a side port to deliver cargo, and then redock at the Zvezda port for orbit reboosts.

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Adam Rutherford

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Not that it has to be official to be real, but it's nice that it is. Fuck Russia and fuck Putin. 🇺🇦

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com

It only took them 4 years and 8 months. A UN Commission of Inquiry says Russia’s systematic attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, concluding they were intended to deprive civilians of essential services and cause suffering. #Ukraine

It doesn't count towards your Endorsement Scoreboard if he's defending a safe seat, Donald. Nice try juicing your stats and rigging your own game, President Pathetic.

TrumpReposter@trumpreposter.bsky.social

(1/4) Congressman Mike Johnson is a Great Man, an outstanding Representative for the wonderful people of Louisiana’s 4th Congressional District, and a strong and fearless Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He is able to get things done when nobody else can!

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wsj.comAmerica Needs Canada’s Aluminum. Trump’s Tariff Exposed Just How Badly.Smelters in Quebec run on cheap hydroelectric power. The Trump administration’s 50% tariff has pushed up prices for American industry.

Republicans are happy to raise taxes on US manufacturing.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca

"America Needs Canada’s Aluminum. Trump’s Tariff Exposed Just How Badly. Smelters in Quebec run on cheap hydropower; 50% tariff pushes up prices for American industry." www.wsj.com/business/alu...

Wonder how many white people know that ICE-CBP thugs are detaining pregnant US citizens. Republicans gave these ICE-CBP goons billions of tax dollars to ruin the lives of anybody who is not white, regardless of citizenship or immigration status. Kavanaugh Stops are ethnic cleansing.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Cary López Alvarado is a U.S. citizen, born in LA She says ICE goons kept speaking to her in Spanish and assuming she was from Mexico, even after she told them, again and again, that she was born here and speaks English. She was 9 months pregnant when she was detained by ICE.

Autocrats are first & foremost losers.

John Sipher@johnsipher.bsky.social

Putin is destroying Russia, first and foremost.

@climatebrad.hillheat.com

This is good news - hopefully the unredacted pages will be revealed before the election. Texans need to know that a vote for Abbott is a vote for Elon to control the state of Texas. Voting for Hinojosa is a vote for Texans instead of a trillionaire California-transplant.

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Brad Johnson

cbsnews.comKing tides continue to impact South Florida with strong winds and heavy rains causing floodingStreets look more like rivers throughout coastal areas in South Florida.

"King tides" sure is a funny way to spell "Exxon's pollution"

bit.lyLocalized Russia-Ukraine ceasefire takes effect in Oleshky in deal brokered by Melania TrumpA localized ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia has taken effect ahead of a humanitarian mission led by U.S. first lady Melania Trump.

Today in Trump's kabuki government - just Melania taking credit for Pope Leo's efforts.

The Associated Press@apnews.com

A localized ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia has taken effect ahead of a humanitarian mission led by U.S. first lady Melania Trump.

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John Morales

@johnmoralestv.bsky.social

This year’s saltwater floods have been particularly bad. But the reality is that these conditions will hit more frequently and impact more areas with each passing year. Sea level has risen 8 inches in 30 years in Miami. Another foot is expected in 30 years. Then another foot in the next 20 years.

Jay @ the deep dive@thedeepdive.bsky.social

King tides and a full moon are causing significant flooding along Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, a warning sign of climate-related infrastructure vulnerability in coastal real estate markets.

Those who have lived or worked in the north Bay Area and Marin County are acutely aware of sea level rise brought on by our overheating atmosphere and a powerful El Niño season. These low-lying areas will be underwater more often, then continuously, as the climate changes.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Coastal flooding caused chaos in Mill Valley on Monday, leaving several roads underwater and creating some unbelievable scenes across Marin County. footage captured by KTVU showed a driver trapped inside a partially submerged car, while another person was spotted kayaking down a flooded street

The fact that POTUS is a serial rapist is central to the total moral collapse of the Republican Party. The silence of major media serves to protect rapists. Rapists do not deserve to be protected, only prosecuted. I'm so sick & tired of rapists being protected from legal consequences.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

theconversation.comNASA’s Mars orbiter fleet is getting old – here’s how that could affect future explorationNASA lost contact with its Maven spacecraft – the youngest of its Mars orbiters – at the end of 2025. The others in its fleet are over two decades old.

It may be hard to find the political will to update NASA's Mars fleet, but it is essential to continued exploration -

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com

NASA lost contact with Maven, its youngest Mars orbiter, at the end of 2025. With the rest of the satellites orbiting Mars more than two decades old, a planetary scientist explains the troubles this could cause for future exploration:

rasmussenretorts.substack.comThe Party of Pandemics Wants Your Vote!If you were hoping for transmissible bird flu, skyrocketing food prices, and/or a massive economic disaster, then vote Republican!

Not a fan of playing Republican Roulette with deadly viruses like H1N1 and Covid-19. Meanwhile, the federal agencies tasked with protecting public health have been hollowed out.

Angie Rasmussen@angierasmussen.bsky.social

About this H5N1 mink farm in Utah. It is REALLY dangerous to let bird flu spread unchecked through mammals, esp minks. They have similar susceptibility & respiratory physiology as us. Flu can adapt to human hosts by adapting to mink respiratory tracts. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-party-...

Racist old asshole showing his Republican Party values -

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Eventually he will glitch in a way that is noticeable to Republicans. President Walking Fossil is going to go down hard & unleash more chaos on his way out.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Our country is doing so well under Republicleeeeee leadership"

The lies are getting more transparently and desperately false.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump claims that thanks to Republicans, Mississippi's schools are "among the best ranked in the nation"

Oooh, pretty! 😃

Rue Mohr@ruenahcmohr.bsky.social

yay, aliexpress delivery!!!

His chronic need for an adoring audience is going to kill him.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Trump: Every time a do a physical, they say, 'is there something wrong?' So far, so good

"It's inexpensive because I don't pay my contractors."

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Trump is fuming over Obama's Cheesecake Factory joke: I'm really good at real estate and fixing things. I fix things very good, very beautifully. He said, 'This isn't a Cheesecake Factory.' Can you believe it? Which is a very successful company.

Gilding buildings is Trump's happy place - Obama scored a direct hit.

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carlos

@vaquero2xl.bsky.social

Posts like this really grind my gears because it really takes a couple seconds to find out that PR has a vibrant immigrant community, which is who they're detaining in these videos. You're really just showing your ignorant ass with this type of stuff.

Defiance Dispatch@defiancedispatch.bsky.social

Footage of ICE in San Juan, Puerto. ICE agents are roaming neighborhoods in San Juan... why exactly? What are they going to do? Send Puerto Ricans back to Puerto Rico? Credit @kristenclarke

Ossoff is rightfully aggressive about calling out the moral black hole at the center of the Republican Party. The Republican Party is a gang of hate speakers, ethnic cleansing, and economic destruction.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social

Jon Ossoff’s closing argument went in for the kill.

"I'm gilding the White House and horse statues with your tax dollars, you poor commoners!"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump claims the billion+ dollars he's spending on White House renovations is "peanuts"

@juliametraux.bsky.social

"I raised taxes for everybody!" "We're raking in billions of your tariff taxdollars because you are paying more for everything!"

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Trump: I hate these stupid people back there. They go, 'tariffs, tariffs.' They don't cause inflation. They cause success. They cause, uhhhh... jobs

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Julia Métraux

semafor.comRest of World faces prospect of shutting downThe six-year-old digital publication has seen the social and web search traffic on which it depends evaporate.

This sucks. Genuinely have enjoyed reading tech articles from Rest of World that has interesting perspectives from the Global South. www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

"Crashout - The Movie"

AZ Intel@azintel.bsky.social

Earlier today: Jonathan D. Miller, the Libertarian candidate for North Carolina’s Senate seat, was taken into custody after an hours-long standoff with police following the posting of threats.

Trump thinks like a thug. A playground bully with the nuclear codes.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Iran: "We beat the shit out of them"

cato.orgThe White House Council of Economic Advisers' Imaginary Cost of Illegal ImmigrantsOnce we account for the cost of mass deportation—which CEA conservatively estimates at $148 billion or nearly $13,000 per illegal immigrant over 5 years—the only thing the CEA proves is that it would ...

Immigration is essential for a growing economy -

Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)@portlandken.bsky.social

The conservative Cato Institute looked at the Trump Admin's claims that illegal immigrants are costing taxpayer money by using services. They concluded that immigrants have CONTRIBUTED (not cost) $1.7 trillion. www.cato.org/blog/white-h...

House Democrats have released overwhelming evidence of serial rape by the President of the United States of America. It has been taken for granted for too long. Donald Trump is an objectively evil man, and must be held accountable for his crime spree across the federal government.

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Trump does Texas. 2 rally stops in 1 day is a tough campaign schedule for an 80-year-old in failing health.

WH Press Pool Reports@whpresspool.bsky.social

President Trump’s Daily Schedule 📅 Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026 8:00 AM EDT THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time CLOSED PRESS 📍 The White House THE PRESIDENT departs the White House en route Corpus Christi, Texas 📍 The White House (1/4)

Republicans in disarray -

VoteHub@votehub.com

NEW — Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who endorsed Dan Sullivan, says the DOJ should not have sued to pause certification if another candidate defeats him. The lawsuit cites possible voter confusion over two Dan Sullivans on the ballot.

tmz.comNicki Minaj Floated As Press Secretary Replacement By White House StaffersNicki Minaj has received some informal nominations to be the next White House press secretary ... with 2 staffers glowingly floating her name as a replacement after Katie Zacharia was fired.

Amazing, no notes -

David BASTARDspan@davidbix.com

what no

Republicans are honest about protecting trillionaires from any sort of accountability for crimes against humanity. Open corruption is the Republican Party brand.

Boo!-per Lund@cooperlund.online

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

Republicans in disarray -

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump in Mississippi: "I'm here because Cindy is doing great" (He's there because Cindy is not doing great)

Time to go on the offense -

Senate Majority PAC@majoritypac.bsky.social

Republicans, they're not like us.

jta.orgEl-Sayed campaign disavows PAC ad linking US inflation to Israel - Jewish Telegraphic AgencyBacked by Cenk Uygur, the spot drew criticism for invoking antisemitic tropes about U.S. support for "killing Palestinans."

This is wrecker shit -

Avishai ✡️ Weinberger@avishaiw.bsky.social

El-Sayed disavows the ad. Good. Wish he also said it was bad, but I’ll take it. Cenk can go to hell. www.jta.org/2026/10/26/p...

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Doomer Girl News

@doomergirlnews.bsky.social

Death camps.

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸@judiciarydems.senate.gov

BREAKING: Another immigrant has died in ICE custody, the 28th death in ICE detention in 2026.

reut.rsPennsylvania measles cases rise to 1,360, state health department saysThe Pennsylvania Health Department on Monday reported 1,360 measles cases ‌in the state, up 22 cases from its previous update.

16h

This used to be a solved problem.

Reuters@reuters.com

Pennsylvania measles cases rise to 1,360, state health department says reut.rs/4Bns6LH