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    Ukraine confirms it will produce 10 million drones in 2026, rising to 20 million, as it signs a massive $1.1 billion 'drone deal' with the EU

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  • I wonder if they are calling it the "drone deal" just to get under Trump's skin. After all, he views the world as a zero-sum game, and the US as competing with Europe. So, any deal thar Europe "gets" is one less deal for the US.

    Ukraine's territorial integrity shouldn't be subject to "deals", but here we are.

  • An ICE officer fired at an SUV fleeing a car stop in Pennsylvania. That’s not how it should happen, policing experts say

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  • Hah, you think those ICE officers give a shit about what experts say?

  • Mamdani Says He Is Examining Whether His Government Can Arrest Netanyahu During NYC Visit

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  • There are legitimate concerns about American participation in the ICC:

    • the US Constitution guarantees jury trials for major offenses, and the ICC doesn't use them
    • the US Constitution states that the US Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction over all other courts, and there is no room for an international court to fit in that structure
    • US courts claim jurisdiction over US citizens who commit crimes on US soil, and there is no mechanism to insert the ICC into that.

    So it's not just that the US doesn't want to play nice, there are things in the structure of the ICC that violate the US Constitution. Those contradictions would have to be resolved before the US can join, either by changing the ICC or changing the US Constitution.

  • Mamdani Says He Is Examining Whether His Government Can Arrest Netanyahu During NYC Visit

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  • Mamdani Says He Is Examining Whether His Government Can Arrest Netanyahu During NYC Visit

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  • There are two reasons he can't do anything.

    First is the idea that when the UN chose to place its HQ in New York, the US likely had to agree to safe passage for all diplomats and officials going to the General Assembly. That just makes sense. The UN can't function if the Host Nation gets to control who goes to the meetings.

    Second, the US isn't a party to the ICC in the first place, and doesn't formally recognize its jurisdiction. IMO, this is actually the correct position, because the ICC as it is currently run does not guarantee all the protections that US courts grant its citizens, so the US could not subject its citizens to it. (Even Bill Clinton, who signed the treaty at first, acknowledged this and did not send the treaty to the Senate for ratification. George W Bush "un-signed" the treaty a few years later).

    So, it really would be impossible for a local police force to arrest a foreign leader with diplomatic immunity on the warrant of a court which is not recognized by the government.

  • Mamdani Says He Is Examining Whether His Government Can Arrest Netanyahu During NYC Visit

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  • No,you don't get it. The mere fact that he is talking about it now is a good indication that he's already done all the analysis, and knows he can't take any action. So, by coming out and saying he's "examining" it, he continues to keep the issue in the news and gain popularity on it in spite of knowing the law is not on his side.

    He has made the political determination, though, that even New York City, which by some estimations has over 1M Jewish people living in it, is fed up with Netanyahu. Which is pretty remarkable.

  • Appeals Court Lifts Block on USPS Mail-In Ballot Plan in Win for Trump

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  • I guess Oregon just doesn't get to vote, then? They've been mail-only for years

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    Fetterman Warns He Will Exit Democratic Party Over Israel Aid Platform

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  • Those 2 independants caucus with Democrats and would vote for their candidate for Leader, so the current margin once Mitch departs is 52/47 (or, 2 1/2 seats).

    The real problem for Fetterman "flipping" is after the election. While there's every possibility the Democrats will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, if they claw back a few Senate seats then the balance may end up 50/50 (or even 51D/49R). That's when Republicans will put on a huge pre$$ure campaign to get someone to defect and promise them all sorts of shit to bail them out of election consequences.

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    When gas is really high and it's running down your thigh. Trumporrhea 💨💨

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    When gas is really high and it's running down your thigh. Trumporrhea 💨💨

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  • When your diaper's getting packed and your hair is kinda wack - Trumporrhea!

  • Trump says China accessed 220 million US voter files, declassifies new intelligence

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  • Detainees at ICE facility in Texas report frequent beatings and other human rights abuses

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  • I'm waiting for this Administration to argue that only US citizens are guaranteed "human rights"....

  • Pete Hegseth Announces New Required Pentagon Testosterone Tests

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  • Did they score 4 touchdowns in one game?

  • Pete Hegseth Announces New Required Pentagon Testosterone Tests

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  • He seems to be obsessed with the purity of bodily fluids, just like Jack D. Ripper. Even looks a little like him.

  • Putting Some Zig in a Linux-Based Printer

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  • Bipartisan group of senators introduces legislation to avert looming Social Security shortfall

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  • I bet there are congressional staffers whose only job is to come up with clever, marketable acronyms for bills

  • Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans

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  • If I am reading the article correctly, the point of the lawsuit is not that they used AI to make their staffing decisions. It's that the criteria they asked the AI to use to make those decisions directly disadvantaged people who were on approved leave for medical reasons, and whose jobs were supposed to be protected by law.

    It's an important distinction. These decision makers delegated their staffing decisions to a bot. But bots are not people. If the instructions given to those bots resulted in actions that violated the law, the decision makers need to be held accountable, I the same manner they would if they made those decisions without AI assistance.

  • House passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent

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  • Actually, all "standard" time means is that the time is somewhat related to the sun being directly overhead at noon. I say "somewhat" because once you carve the world up into zones like that, the sun will never be directly overhead at noon except maybe in the middle of the zone.

    Did you know China has only one time zone? The entire huge country runs on Beijing time. The far west of the country sometimes doesn't see a sunrise until 10 AM.

    So, there is really nothing "standard" about Standard Time at all.

  • House passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent

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  • If we see Donald Trump give that big speech on Thursday in a sweater I will think we fell into the time vortex