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Iran has reportedly launched a big drone attack at Israel. To be confirmed, but seems ~solid. ETA: seemingly confirmed by the Israelis, but since the drones (not missiles) were launched from Iran they will take hours [ETA2: 9 hours] to arrive (and loss of life should be limited).

Surprised there's no thread on this yet given that it's fully assimilating the Internet, BORG style. Anyone else following along as people post videos of allegedly floating rocks? IMO, as of right now... 40% ********; 40% something interesting, but not room temperature ambient pressure...

Yeah, no thanks. I know it goes into slo-mo, but that dude is in the air for a long time.

Prayers for the Turks -- 7.8 earthquake in the center of the country, and it looks bad. So many videos from so many different places with collapsed buildings.

Big step in the right direction.

Great story here. tl;dr -- openly biased judges appointed to oversee immigration cases.  Judges refuse to obey the law and display illegal personal biases during hearings.  Do gooders get judges fired.

I'm a connoisseur of wildlife vids, and this one is way up there. Get through the commentary too -- there's a twist at the end. 

Can you do it? Stumbled twice on L7, back to back, but rocked it otherwise.

This has been a fairly straightforward solution for a long time, so what's interesting about the proposal is that it's largely in response to Trump's success at cutting immigration to the point where the consequences have become clear. Path to citizenship for DACAs Additional border security...

It's a start.

And the town he lives in has ostracized him. Karma, man.  Sometimes it just punches you right in the face.

My kid got into a yellow jacket nest a bit ago while mowing.  Luckily instinct kicked in on the first hit and he ran, so only got stung once. I can see the hole -- on the side of the hill in our yard where there's a lot of roots -- and happy to go out after dark and nuke it, but... What's the...

I'd never seen this before, but it's the full(ish) argument by Paul Krugman making case that we're not spending enough given the post-2008 realities. You don't have to agree with it, but if you're going to argue about the benefits and perils of deficit spending you should probably understand...

Despite Dem concerns, ends up much ado about nothing: Republicans gain one seat (TX+2, MT+1, OH-1, WV-1). Dems lose one (CO+1, OR+1 CA-1, IL-1, NY-1). And the battleground state gains and losses net out (FL+1, NC+1, MI-1, PA-1). Under these revisions Biden would have won 303 EC votes...

Curious about the state of things outside my own world...

Headline says it all. Of note, Gaetz was the lone vote against a House bill on a human trafficking.

So much incredible in this video. Launch is at 10h:24m. ETA:  "Rapid Unplanned Disassembly" is my new favorite euphemism.  

My mom has an RV titled in her name in Ohio and we're trying to sell it. Complications: It was retitled out of Michigan into Ohio just before her husband died, but the tags were never switched. We can't find the keys.  Any keys. There is the right type of RV sitting on a lot in Michigan...

I actually wasn't aware of the origins of the phrase: How do people feel about Trump repeatedly using a phrase used to justify the murder of millions of political enemies? What does it say that the phrase is considered too toxic for Communist authoritarian governments, but our President uses...

I've referenced her research previously -- where she predicted 40+ House seats for Dems in 2018 months in advance, when most polls had it close.  Here's a big article unpacking the overall gist of "negative partisanship" and what she thinks it means for 2020. I lean towards the idea that she's...