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The fucking Times passive construction headline is “Wireless Devices Explode Across Lebanon After Israel Warns Hezbollah”.

Current stats: 8 people killed and at least ~2,800 injured.

Three officials briefed on the attack said that it had targeted hundreds of pagers belonging to Hezbollah operatives who have used such devices for years to make it harder for their messages to be intercepted.

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Lebanon’s health minister, Dr. Firass Abiad, said in a press conference that eight people were killed by exploding paging devices and at least 2,780 were wounded, including about 200 in serious condition.

I am sure we will learn that the body cams malfunctioned or were turned off next.

I don’t want to say “I will eat my shoe” the cams were actually on and working and the evidence makes it to trial. You guys might demand evidence that ate my shoe. But I’m 99.9% of the way to saying - I will eat my shoe if that happens. My money is that the NYPD will use another trick. The cams were working but somehow the footage later got corrupted. Gee, I wonder how that happened! Like in the movie “The Big Easy” the cops sneak a powerful magnet into the evidence room and they put it right next to something (a VCR? I don’t remember) that has recorded evidence that was damning and damaging to a cop who is going on trial. The evidence is erased and the charges against the cop are dropped.

Post Hoc, West Wing Propter Hoc 2

Libs created a back to brunch site where republicans and leftists are quickly booted out.

Trump missed a chance to call his currency TrumpBucks.

Liberals fixate on the most pointless shit.

Forget it, Jake. It’s Bluesky.

I don’t know how the OP describes his politics but I assume he calls himself a “progressive”. Words hardly mean anything in the US. He isn’t comfortable if a farebeater gets shot to death but he really doesn’t like the idea of free transit.

People really underestimate just how much it would cost to make transit free. 2/3rds of the MTA’s $6.8 bil fare and toll revenue is fares, which comes out to $4.5 bil or around $12.5 mil a day.

he notes that there is a lot of uncertainty about the impacts of extreme warming of 7 to 10 degrees Celsius

Well - I guess the “uncertainty” is how fast we actually get Mad Max mobiles. I’d say more but I don’t want to fed post.

Maybe the first assassination attempt broke Trump’s jellybean brain so he gave his two moronic sons actual power. I saw online comments that said Vance as VP was his sons’ idea. I never googled to learn if that was true but it tracks. It was a very unTrump-like pick because Vance will always steal some of the spotlight. Pence was clearly a Trump pick. 100% of the time Pence was about exciting as fencepost. I assume Vance wasn’t in Trump’s top five VP picks before that first attempt. First - haha. How many more?

Folks… Folks… They hate me so much they wanted to stop my crypto!

near an Israeli consulate

So was it actually coincidence that Matt Nelson who set himself on fire did so near an Israeli consulate?

But to blend in - you have to wear golf clothes.

I hope it was a riding mower.

a hand-made weapon

Anime Taylor Special

The Anime Taylor Special
Got a barrel that’s shiney and bold
It ain’t good for nothing but puttin’ men six feet in a hole

Song

That was so weird for me. I expected angry and bombastic Trump who maybe was even ranting like a disturbed person. Instead - it’s standup Trump doing a “lemme tell ya something” aside. His voice even gets thin at the end because he’s amused himself and he’s almost chuckling.

News from the future

“Trump was uninjured after Secret Service agents pushed him to the ground for safety after a loud ‘explosions’ were heard.” Sometime later “It has been determined that children were setting off fireworks in the vicinity…” And they interview some MAGA doofus. “They say it was fireworks like bottle rockets. I know what I heard. It wasn’t fffffffttt it was fffffffgrtt. It was Iran.”

Imagine if somebody actually shoots at Trump and says “I did it for Taylor.”

The New York Post said it was an AK-47. I don’t know why that makes it funnier for me but it does.