I recall...
The US Coast Guard made over 1000 helicopter rescues during #HurricaneKatrina.
The US Marines never made it
#insurrection
#TrumpInsurrection
#newsrewind
#UnitedStates
The easy way for a machine to pass the Turing test: lower the bar.
Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree with this administration on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think that this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake ... your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute."
The #Pentagon says the unnecessary deployment of #NationalGuard members & #Marines to #protests over #immigration raids in #LosAngeles is costing $134M.
After persistent questioning from #Democrats in #Congress on Tues, #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth turned to his acting comptroller, Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell, who provided the total & said the money will come from operations & maintenance accounts.
#Trump #law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #RightToProtest #authoritarianism
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-congress-hegseth-signal-hearings-c53cd37c2eae4327dd74e4c717057469
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy
tweeted:
“Important to remember that Trump isn’t trying to heal or keep the peace.
He is looking to inflame and divide.
His movement doesn’t believe in democracy or protest
– and if they get a chance to end the rule of law they will take it.
None of this is on the level.”
CNN Reporter Detained By Police At L.A. Protests
Airlines sell passenger data to the feds through a separate data broker they spun up and put in the contract that DHS is not allowed to tell anyone that it comes from the airlines:
https://www.404media.co/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/
The symbolic aid the Madleen was carrying will be passed along to Palestinians. But it’ll do basically nothing to help, especially not compared to the 1,200 aid trucks that have entered Gaza from Israel in the past fortnight alone. This was nothing more than “irresponsible grandstanding”. As the Israeli Foreign Ministry put it: “There are ways to provide aid to the Gaza Strip – they don’t involve Instagram selfies.”
Ibraheem from Gaza wrote on FB, "One day before Eid, Hamas members were handing out green papers—US dollars—to their loyalists. Before that, it was flour, back when people couldn't find a single bite to eat. Since they took over Gaza, we haven’t seen a single good day. All our days under their rule have been dark: repression, theft of property, arrests for speaking out. I’m certain they were the ones hijacking the flour trucks—just to pay salaries to their men. For me, getting rid of Hamas is more urgent than ending the occupation. Because Hamas has never thought about the people. They never cared if we starved or died. All they cared about was staying in power."
More measles cases reported in Colorado — and people who went to 3 hospitals may have been exposed
https://coloradosun.com/2025/06/09/more-colorado-measles-cases-turkish-airlines/
‘Wildly underprepared’
#NationalGuard troops seen sleeping on floors in exclusive photos
“This is what happens when the president and (Secretary of Defense) #PeteHegseth demand the National Guard state assets deploy immediately with no plan in place (and) no federal funding available for food, water, fuel and lodging,” the source said. “This is really the failure of the federal government. If you’re going to federalize these troops, then take care of them.”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/national-guard-california-photos-20368334.php #LosAngeles
See, this is why nobody trusts cops. This officer decides to shoot a reporter in the leg, on live TV, for absolutely no reason. Nothing going on, no excuse, just lines up the shot and fires.
Also, at that range, many rubber projectiles can pass right through a person. Just depends on luck. I’ve seen people die from beanbags and rubber rounds.
An American friend posted this and I wanted to pass it along - I don't know anyone in the US military, but maybe you have friends or family who are, and they might benefit from seeing this.
Time to cancel the FIFA WorldCup in the United States while this worthless #TACOKrasnov is in office, or even alive. And the Olympics? You must be kidding, smdh
#ImpeachTrumpNow
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