Damage confirmation. A major blast hit the “Elastic” gunpowder plant in Ryazan region on Aug 15. Cause: mishandling explosives.

Destroyed: 4 buildings, incl. powder storage.
Lost: ~300 tons of artillery powder & ~600 shells (152mm).
Casualties: 14 dead, 19 missing, 149 injured (40 hospitalized).

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

Russian tanks are now flying the American flag. Disgraceful.

The Justice Department will miss the House Oversight Committee's deadline for the Epstein files it subpoenaed.

DOJ will "begin" providing records on Friday. The deadline was Tuesday.

No indication of what DOJ will "begin" handing over and no explanation for the missed deadline.

WATCH: John Oliver clowns @reptimburchett 🤡 for claiming he sleeps in his office out of fear when he told @notusreports it’s to be more productive.

Again: we’re told he slept in his office as a state legislator in NASHVILLE also. Tim’s lying. (Again)

(H/T @bluegeorgia.bsky.social )

He made it! This wise, grizzled son of Appalachia is officially* 15(!) today

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"the Bible does not clearly condemn abortion; it simply does not rule on it. It does, however, unequivocally demonstrate, within its own cultural constructions, that a woman’s life was considered to have more value than that of an unborn fetus, and that life begins at first breath."

“It’s pretty sick… that’s how weak and pathetic the Trump administration is. How desperate they are.”

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social talks to @danpfeiffer.bsky.social about Trump sending his goons to try to intimidate Dems outside their announcement today.

One of my favorite scenes, Sam Elliott playing BG John Buford at Gettysburg.

I feel the same way about what’s going to happen in Alaska tomorrow. And there’s no Cavalry to prevent it.

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Notification about the Kennedy Center Honors:

Jay Bhattacharya, an economist who has never practiced medicine and doesn’t conduct biomedical research, thinks that you and your loved ones dying from diseases that could have been cured is worth it cause antivaxxers are nicer to him on social media than people who know how anything works