Title is cringey but the guy was/is a Marine who fought in Iraq and then volunteered to go to Ukraine when it first popped off.

But he ran drones in Ukraine, and has driven thru the same tunnels the Houthis are still occupying and were building drones already a decade ago.

So there's not many other people better equipped to explain why the Houthis capturing the Bab al-Mandab Strait isn't the same as any random militia doing it.

No one is going to be able to bomb them out, someone is going to have to send a whole bunch of troops thru miles and miles of tunnels filled with explosives and fighters who will die for their cause with zero hesitation.

The messages are polite enough. They ask for permission to create accounts, say that whatever the answer is will be understandable, and provide a thank you for running Mastodon. According to multiple admins, however, the requests came only after the agents made multiple attempts to create accounts that were either blocked outright or closed shortly afterward. Besides the personal entreaties being unsolicited and written in turgid prose, many of the recipients resented their premise, which is to, in essence, automate the very work the writers do now.

“Over the last three days I got over a dozen of these messages, offering to do my research for me in exchange for a nominal fee, around $25 or so,” Ernie Smith, the editor of the publication Tedium, wrote. “Each was sent under the domain iLands.app. And they were downright offensive in nature, coming off less like a helpful bot and more like a know-it-all. Turns out they’re just bots trying to keep their own lights on by trying to take my job.”

The messages are the work of iLands, a company whose website appears to be substantially written by poorly trained AI. While the independently minded Mastodon admins have largely blocked the bots, iLands agents have found homes on both Bluesky and X.

From Abdul's YouTube channel, so it doesn't give Faux News any clicks. 25 minutes so probably the full thing.

Spoiler:

Mamdani spoke at a pro-cop event in Staten Island. Obviously not in support of cops, probably just standard for the mayor to show up.

Got booed like crazy, but laughed it off like nothing.

And some crazy MAGA "artist" booed so fucking hard and screamed so loud at Mamdani that he gave himself fucking a heart attack.

Stops being political like halfway thru.

Edit:

Video is from Desus Pieces, and some random co-host I didn't recognize because he tries a new one every show still

So if McConnell had to step down before today, it would have been a special election with Maisse eligible.

Now that it is not the case, how long do people think before he resigns or is ruled medically incapable?

Or do people think they'll just pull the plug?

Personally, I think they'll save it for when they need to distract from something. So it may be a week or two.

Author of the 2019 book "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism"

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/in-the-ruins-of-neoliberalism/9780231193856/

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"They not like us" parody from the POV of the pope...

Kind of a banger

It's currently unmoderated and a sensitive topic.

So regardless of if it's me, someone should be a mod over there.

This shouldn't be on the official HHS website, but it is. So I guess it's a political video