Nobody Cares: PRS

[Cindy Claveau]

You remember à post before it proofed in… 2018?
Do you have an eidetic memory?

Posts show up on my feed that are a lot older. Sometimes I find myself reacting to posts that are ancient. *shrug*

 

[Isabeau]

Posts show up on my feed that are a lot older. Sometimes I find myself reacting to posts that are ancient. *shrug*

Oh that’s fine, wasn’t making a jab. Unlike some, I actually like necro posting. Brings back memories, and adds spice.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Australian broadcasters project Labor win after election focused on cost of living, Trump-CBC

Van Badham (@vanbadham.bsky.social)

Canada, we’re with you! TRUMPISM IS REPUDIATED IN AUSTRALIA! #auspol

bsky.app

OK that mage made me laugh.

See you can tell it was AI generated because if that was a real Canadian Goose the kangaroo would also be dead, along with the artist

 

[Free]

Remember the political cartoonist for the Washington Post, Ann Telnaes? She's the one who resigned from the paper back in January rather than change a cartoon that showed Jeff Bezos (WP's owner), Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Mickey Mouse bowing and handing money over to Trump.

Well, she won the Pulitzer Prize.

 

[Free]

Something (good) is happening in North Carolina. Both for North Carolinian voters, and for Democracy.

WIN: Federal Court Blocks GOP Effort to Overturn North Carolina Supreme Court Election

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

In a victory for voters, a federal court has halted Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin’s efforts to overturn an election and disenfranchise thousands of voters. A federal judge has ordered the state to certify Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory.

The decision comes exactly six months after Election Day and was handed down by a judge appointed by President Donald Trump.

Griffin tried to disqualify ballots from overseas military voters and U.S. citizens born abroad who voted under long-standing state law. The North Carolina Supreme Court and North Carolina Court of Appeals initially ruled that those voters must cure their ballots by providing photo ID after the fact, or their votes would not count. The federal court has now ruled that changing the rules after the election was unconstitutional.

Judge Richard E. Myers II, a Trump appointee, ruled that the process violated equal protection because it treated some voters differently than others in the same situation.

“The cure process offends equal protection principles because it treats overseas military and civilian voters casting ballots in certain counties differently than others who are identically situated,” the court ruled, finding the process to be “inconsistent with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment” and therefore could not proceed.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Good news from Florida: the assholery plan to replace migrants with children is falling apart, it died in senate.

Florida's plan to replace migrant workers with children falls apart

Senate Bill 918 would have relaxed restrictions on working hours for Florida teenagers.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Isabeau]

Canadian pharmacist's double life: Key person behind world's most notorious deepfake porn site-CBC

David Do is, on the surface, unassuming and respectable. He owns a house just outside Toronto with his partner, drives a Tesla and is paid $121,000 a year as a hospital pharmacist.

But he leads a double life as a key person behind the world's most notorious website for non-consensual, AI-generated porn of real people: MrDeepFakes.com. He has never been fully identified until now.

 

[Free]

JD Vance's half-brother Cory Bowman was trounced in the Cincinnati mayoral elections.

ELECTION RESULTS: Cincinnati mayor, Ohio Issue 2, school levies & more

Vice President JD Vance’s half brother Cory Bowman placed second in Cincinnati’s mayoral primary on Tuesday, sending the Republican political newcomer into a faceoff with incumbent Aftab Pureval this fall. Pureval placed first in the nonpartisan three-way contest, in which third-place finisher Republican Brian Frank was eliminated. Under the rules of the southwest Ohio city’s nonpartisan primaries, only the top two primary finishers advance to the November general election.

This makes it look like he could have a chance in November. But the current numbers...

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Aftab Pureval 18,505 (82.53%)​

Cory Bowman 2,894 (12.91%)​

Brian Frank 1,022 (4.56%)​

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EDIT:

Apparently, Cory is politically suave and sophisticated as his big brother is. </snark>

JD Vance’s Little Brother Tries His Hand at Politics. It’s Not Going So Well.

And for Bowman, running for mayor might not be as important as another ambition he seems to have. His critics in Cincinnati say he appears to be more interested in using his mayoral run, enhanced by his brother’s reflected glow, to build a national profile than in actually running the city. “You know the phrase impulse shopping? This is impulse campaigning,” University of Cincinnati political scientist David Niven told me. “I think Cory Bowman came to the conclusion he wanted to run for something, and he picked literally the first thing that he saw. As a Republican in Ohio, if he’d run for almost anything else, he’d be a potent candidate, but not as a mayor of Cincinnati. I do think this could be another win by losing scenario.”

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Trump signed his first trade deal with a very tough nut to crack... the UK!

Trump and Starmer to unveil deal to cut tariffs

The UK government has been seeking an agreement to lower tariffs since Trump imposed levies on almost every country in the world last month.

www.bbc.com

 

[Khamon]

One wonders how it differs from the pre-tariffs trade agreement between the UK and US. One is inclined to believe not much if any. But Victory, Parade, ?, Profitz in Trump's pocket.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Since the USS Harry S. Truman has been deployed to the Middle East at 14/12/2024 3 F18 fell off its deck into the sea.

Another Fighter Jet Tumbles from Truman Carrier Deck into Red Sea

The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday -- the third since it deployed to the Middle East -- this time amid a landing incident that caused the jet to go overboard, defense officials confirmed to Military.com

www.military.com

 

[Soen Eber]

Since the USS Harry S. Truman has been deployed to the Middle East at 14/12/2024 3 F18 fell off its deck into the sea.

Another Fighter Jet Tumbles from Truman Carrier Deck into Red Sea

The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday -- the third since it deployed to the Middle East -- this time amid a landing incident that caused the jet to go overboard, defense officials confirmed to Military.com

www.military.com

Huh?

The Red Sea is virtually land locked - there's no unpredictable tides, the weather is fairly consistent with no major weather fronts moving through on a daily basis. Surrounded on all sides by mostly friendly (or ineffectual) countries that can't pose much of a threat, aside from Yemen whose attacks are more training exercises than anything else with some minutes of warning to get the flight deck prepared and well-ordered. Yes, there's a hell of a lot of traffic, but it's not like a tanker ship is going to creep up on the carrier and shout "Boo!".

You'd think that apart from an airbase the conditions would be nearly ideal.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Since the USS Harry S. Truman has been deployed to the Middle East at 14/12/2024 3 F18 fell off its deck into the sea.

The United States Must Retaliate Against Whatever Aquatic Demon Is Dragging Its Fancy Fighter Planes to the Watery Depths
A true hegemon always projects strength both abroad and in Neptune’s realm underneath the waves.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/uss-harry-truman-aircraft-carrier-fighter-jets-f18-super-hornet.html

I'm guessing the CO of the Truman has developed a sudden, profound interest in "opportunities in the private sector."

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Huh?

The Red Sea is virtually land locked - there's no unpredictable tides, the weather is fairly consistent with no major weather fronts moving through on a daily basis. Surrounded on all sides by mostly friendly (or ineffectual) countries that can't pose much of a threat, aside from Yemen whose attacks are more training exercises than anything else with some minutes of warning to get the flight deck prepared and well-ordered. Yes, there's a hell of a lot of traffic, but it's not like a tanker ship is going to creep up on the carrier and shout "Boo!".

You'd think that apart from an airbase the conditions would be nearly ideal.

The first aircraft was shot down in friendly fire.

The second aircraft was being towed onto an elevator from the hangar Bay when the ship made a sudden hard turn to avoid a missile.

The third aircraft had landed on the flight deck and something went wrong with the arresting gear, and the aircraft failed to get airborne again.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

The first aircraft was shot down in friendly fire.

The second aircraft was being towed onto an elevator from the hangar Bay when the ship made a sudden hard turn to avoid a missile.

The third aircraft had landed on the flight deck and something went wrong with the arresting gear, and the aircraft failed to get airborne again.

That kind of sounds like just a series of unfortunate but unrelated mishaps. I'm thinking the HST is just having a really bad year.

 

[Casey Pelous]

That kind of sounds like just a series of unfortunate but unrelated mishaps. I'm thinking the HST is just having a really bad year.

The friendly fire incident happened under the previous Commander, who was relieved of duty due to a collision with a merchant ship about a month later in February.

I think our Navy vet can attest to the Navy's tolerance for bad luck. It tends to have negative career effects. Still ... four big incidents and (likely) .going through two CO's in a matter of less than three months is frickin' serious and makes one wonder if there aren't problems that can't be solved with a "simple" change of command.

 

[Free]

Still ... four big incidents and (likely) .going through two CO's in a matter of less than three months is frickin' serious and makes one wonder if there aren't problems that can't be solved with a "simple" change of command.

That is not thinking like a MAGA Commander in Chief!

 

[Free]

Poor U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. President Trump doesn't think she can win a Senate seat for him.

Scoop: Kemp plans secret White House sortie for Georgia Senate pick

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is planning a White House sitdown with President Trump to get on the same page for supporting the best Republican candidate in the swing state's 2026 Senate race, sources tell Axios.

Why it matters: The race for the seat, held by Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, will be one of the nation's most competitive and most expensive because it's one of the best pickup opportunities for the GOP in a Trump-won state.

"The president, like the governor, wants someone who can win," said a White House adviser.

The intrigue: In both the White House and the governor's mansion, there's concern with polling that shows firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene would win a Republican primary but lose to Ossoff. One poll conducted by a Republican group shows her getting "smoked," said one person who had reviewed the numbers.

"The president loves MTG. He doesn't love her chances in a general," the Trump adviser said.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

The friendly fire incident happened under the previous Commander, who was relieved of duty due to a collision with a merchant ship about a month later in February.

I think our Navy vet can attest to the Navy's tolerance for bad luck. It tends to have negative career effects. Still ... four big incidents and (likely) .going through two CO's in a matter of less than three months is frickin' serious and makes one wonder if there aren't problems that can't be solved with a "simple" change of command.

Yeah, it is extremely unusual for a military unit to have so many seemingly unrelated mishaps without there being a fundamental flaw in leadership involved.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

It's also worth noting that the Truman has been on deployment for nearly eight months and has been extended on station at least once. Factor in these mishaps, and I'm betting morale on that ship is in the toilet.