Looking back at my HS education in the US, you basically had to elect to take a (modern) Middle East history course – despite the US's disproportionate role in 20th/21st century history there. This always comes to mind whenever I run into someone who thinks this is all happening in a vacuum.

Consensus seems to be that it is airborne instead of ranger, which makes it the second most try hard thing an ice agent could have on their helmet.

“NYPD SUCK MY D*CK! NYPD SUCK MY D*CK! NYPD SUCK MY D*CK”.

Anti-ICE protesters are in the hundreds still at federal plaza. Many more joining from the permit protest dispersing, it’s 9PM pretty much and crowd still lively.

Truly feels like 2020. Crowd is growing fast!

A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data. www.wired.com/story/airlin...

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them.

ABC might as well be state media.

Protester shot in head
by LA riot police using rubber bullets

The LAPD must be so pissed that administration seems to think that the marines and the national guard are better at shooting unarmed civilians than them.

This new "tough" persona rollout is particularly cringe when you remember that DHS was not the first choice of most of its employees, but something they had to rebrand themselves for after not getting into the FBI (who also suck).

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

Separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik is intensifying his defiance of the country’s constitution, its peace accord, and the international community, even after a recent arrest warrant.

Law Prof. Ehlimana Memišević writes of the fears of war survivors like herself:

"Community Notes Can’t Save Social Media From Itself. The crowdsourced fact-checking system, which Meta adopted from X, is falling well short of stopping the spread of misinformation." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat....

The r/Telegram subreddit is some of the most unintentionally funny posting on the internet IMO. It feels like 90% "is this legit?" posts with screenshots of the most obvious honeypot scam messages possible. The other 10% being CSAM merchants/seekers cryptically asking if they're "in trouble."

Whether American policy is pro-Ukrainian or anti-Ukrainian, the Ukrainians pursue a consistent policy of sovereign self-defense. Here’s how that proves that they are just an American proxy.

by John Mearsheimer, Jeffrey Sachs, and Vladimir Putin

Google has me clicking traffic lights for 15 minutes because I use a vpn, and then allows "authors" to dump 31 slop-books on the Playstore with reviews like this. Enshittification continues.

🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

every single one of these guys is an incel loser who thought that being rich would make them popular and well-liked and when it didn't happen they lost their minds even further

If there were a Kalshi market for “is this man on T and getting ready for a divorce” I would be a buyer in that market.

Damn, the Macedonian Arts Council is quietly cooking up an absolute audiovisual experience right now.