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Captainant

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  1. Captainant

    LBGTQ

    Yeah slorch, we know. You're happy to use any excuse to never change and always be the biggest peice of raider trash you can. Now go lay off some employees
  2. Tell me you dont do your own shopping without telling me
  3. Governor Newsom delivered an address this evening, posted below in full
  4. Destin was on an episode of Search Engine on this a few months ago - he had some other interesting details and anecdotes in that conversation on this same journey https://www.searchengine.show/the-puzzle-of-the-all-american-bbq-scrubber/ I was also wondering the right place to post this video - nearly put it in the 3D printing thread what with the company that's figured out a way to 3D print tools and dies for injection molding
  5. Bad Batch is another must-watch. Its a nice bit of context for Kanan's experience surviving Order 66 just in the pilot episode, and there's some really great stuff in every season
  6. The "clear distinction" that johnson is referring to:
  7. For those hoping to see LA burn, unfortunately for you it's actually a relatively small protest. It's just good fodder for uncritical people to latch on and say "those godless commiefornians had it comin"
  8. Goddamnit we all know shit is fucked. I'm tryna keep actual news updates in this thread! Take it to the surly megathread of DOOM 2: electric boogaloo.
  9. In other news, this domestic deployment of combat equipped troops has so far run up a $134,000,000 tab. https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-congress-hegseth-signal-hearings-c53cd37c2eae4327dd74e4c717057469 After persistent questioning about the cost of sending National Guard members and Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests over immigration raids, Hegseth turned to his acting comptroller, Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell, who said it would cost $134 million. Hegseth defended Trump’s decision to send the troops, saying they are needed to protect federal agents as they do their jobs. And he suggested that the use of troops inside the United States will continue to expand. “I think we’re entering another phase, especially under President Trump with his focus on the homeland, where the National Guard and Reserves become a critical component of how we secure that homeland,” he said.
  10. I mean, if we want to argue that simply being photographed over a decade ago means you're associates and complicit in their crimes... I don't think you're gonna like where that leads. Just to reiterate, the accusations made in parliament that you are highlighting are simply repeating the old claim from Israel. There is no new information or data to back your assertion, and Birawi has won monetary judgements over those unsupported accusations of him being a terrorist.
  11. Probably for the military parade on El presidente's birthday on Saturday
  12. You mean drop prosection of money laundering operations?
  13. Thanks for the link, but it seems like the only data point stating he's a terrorist is from the Israeli government. From the article, he's gone to court and won monetary judgements over it because they could never produce anything to back their claims The article even states that its just being repeated over and over and sourcing the 12 year old claim without evidence from Israel. C'mon, man. Read better.
  14. Yes, many people are saying
  15. NYT has a decent explainer, and is my source for the claim wrt/ it all being bullshit https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/abrego-garcia-charges-explainer.html Part of the charges stem from a November 2022 traffic stop outside of Cookeville, Tenn., where he was driving nine people from Houston to Maryland, according to the indictment.The stop was captured on video by body cameras worn by the Tennessee Highway Patrol, the indictment said. According to court papers, the vehicle’s passengers did not have identification. Mr. Abrego Garcia told the state troopers that he and the passengers were returning to Maryland from St. Louis after they spent two weeks doing construction work, the indictment said. Troopers said the passengers did not have luggage or construction equipment in the vehicle. Mr. Abrego Garcia was not charged with any infraction during the stop but was given a warning for driving with an expired license, the indictment said. Then on March 12 of this year, he was pulled over again, this time in Maryland by a law enforcement officer while he was heading home with his 5-year-old son in the back seat. He called his wife, Jennifer Vasquez, that night from a detention center in Baltimore. She said immigration agents had accused him of being in the Salvadoran American gang MS-13, stemming from a separate arrest in 2019. ... What happened during the 2019 arrest? In March 2019, Mr. Abrego Garcia was standing with three other men in a spot designated for day laborers outside a Home Depot in Hyattsville, Md., when a police officer approached them thinking they were loitering. Two of the men, neither of them Mr. Abrego Garcia, tossed plastic bottles containing marijuana under a parked vehicle. All four men were arrested and interviewed by the police. Only two of them were accused of having ties to the MS-13 gang. Mr. Abrego Garcia did admit to being in the United States without proper documentation but denied gang membership. While in detention in 2019, he fought his deportation by requesting a humanitarian exception, because of the gang harassment that his family had experienced in El Salvador. An immigration judge granted him a special status that indefinitely prohibited the government from deporting him to El Salvador.
  16. Paywall'd, can you copy/paste? I tried googling around and didn't find any other reporting to this effect
  17. The trafficking charges are based on him driving a van with 7 or 8 other workers, who were going to the same job. It's all horseshit
  18. The other wild thing with Jade Helm is that it was a very successful first outing of Russian disinformation to get a bunch of useful idiots riled up https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Ex-CIA-director-hysteria-over-Jade-Helm-15-12886598.php
  19. my go-to upset dog tummy meal is an instant pot with 2 or 3 cups of rice, carrot and green bean chunks, and a few frozen chicken breasts on a steamer rack up out of the liquid. By the time the rice is done cooking and you do a 10 minute natural pressure release the frozen chicken is past 165F and everything is good to go. Shred or chop the chicken and store in big ass tupperwares. That'll make two or three days of food that my dog would run through a wall for
  20. a "Pentagon official" per Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-deploy-700-marines-los-angeles-official-says-2025-06-09/ The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said a battalion would be sent, but for now, the Insurrection Act is not expected to be invoked.
  21. RFK Jr is effectively disbanding the ACIP, which could result in recommendations for immunizations changing drastically. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/rfk-jr-cdc-panel-vaccines.html Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he is "retiring" all 17 members of a crucial government panel of vaccine advisors, a shocking step that could help to sow doubts about immunizations in the U.S. "A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science," Kennedy said in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on Monday. Kennedy is removing all members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The group reviews vaccine data and makes recommendations that determine who is eligible for shots and whether insurers should cover them, among other efforts. ACIP members are independent medical and public experts who make recommendations based on rigorous scientific review and evidence. The CDC director has to sign off on those recommendations for them to become official policy. It is unclear who Kennedy will appoint to the new group. In a release, HHS said ACIP will still hold a planned meeting from June 25 to 27 to make recommendations. The advisor overhaul is the latest move by Kennedy – a prominent vaccine skeptic – to change and potentially undermine vaccinations in the U.S. since he took the helm at HHS. Under Kennedy, HHS stopped recommending routine Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children and healthy pregnant women and canceled programs intended to discover new vaccines to prevent future pandemics, among other changes.
  22. The President has also called for the arrest of Governor Newsome and said it would be a "great thing". While deploying 2000 Army and 700 Marine servicemembers into the state without the consent of the governor.
  23. 700 US Marines to be deployed to LA https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/la-immigration-protests-live-updates-trump-deploys-2000/?id=122621279&entryId=122667907 Seven-hundred Marines in California have been ordered to assist in Los Angeles and they’re expected to arrive over the next 24 hours, a U.S. official confirmed. The Marines are from the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines at Twentynine Palms, California, whom U.S. Northern Command had said Sunday were on a "prepared to deploy status" if the Defense Department needed them. Minutes before the Marines' deployment was confirmed, President Donald Trump was asked by ABC News if he planned on sending Marines to LA, and he said, "We’ll see what happens." "I mean, I think we have it very well under control," Trump said. "I think it would have been a very bad situation. It was heading in the wrong direction. It's now heading in the right direction." -ABC News' Luis Martinez and Karen Travers The president has also issued statements on Truth Social saying that he will not tolerate disrespect of National Guard troops (they're in the linked ABC reporting) - while he's ordering them to sleep on the floor because they didn't secure accomodations for the soldiers before deploying them credit to /r/Army for the picture
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