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There was the usual cabinet meeting today, where the occasion was used as a press opportunity. In this instance, ‘narco-terrorist’ remains a misnomer, the 2 September mission’s Target Engagement Authority (TEA) was the SecDef, and both Trump and...

Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI Wired An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to ...

The Institute for Supply Management released the results on Monday of its most recent survey of the manufacturing industry, revealing a loss of jobs for the ninth month in a row. The trend under ...

The killing of boat strike survivors story is rapidly metastasizing into the one that actually might bring down the T administration. The news that Congress will be vigorously investigating the murders/war crimes should set the WH off into deep panic...

Short-Attention-Span Security Theatre. Installing a toll plaza on the “cocaine superhighway to the United States” Donald Trump has said he will grant a pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison...

A cartoon by Drew Sheneman. Related |� Trump threatened him with death. Now the Pentagon will probe him.

Exactly 80 years ago today German U-Boat Commander Heinz Wilhelm Eck was executed by firing squad, along with two other officers under his command. In 1944, Eck’s submarine torpedoed the Greek merchant ship Peleus. Eck ordered the U-852 to surface....

Sound up Holy Shit! This is where my story ends. Anything between this and the comments has nothing to do with me. ZT

Just to supplement Sabrina Haake’s post currently on the Rec list: Juliette Kayyem was Massachusetts’�Undersecretary for Homeland Security and served as Undersecretary for Intergovernmental ...