And here we all are building back better on the Fediverse/Threadiverse!

Emily Underwood, top deputy to Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, has announced a departure for Trust Ventures, a venture capital firm, where she will be a partner.

Underwood's departure set off fireworks on social media.

"It's a sinking ship," Democratic strategist Mike Nellis posted on X about the news.

"Rat flees sinking ship," Jason Tufele Carl Johnson, a former staffer for Rep. Raul Grijalva in Arizona, posted on X.

If this was Clinton it would be everywhere. Trump has a very chummy assistant and he attacks viciously, doesn’t defend or deflect. He obviously feels strongly and is vulnerable. Why the lack of interest?

Windows has gotten so bad that my family, who has been reticent about the switch since 2004, has finally given in and is swapping! So far I got them to agree with ChromeOS Flex (booo, but still better than windows) and Bazzite!

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/38833888

The Canadian Defence Department’s recent announcement that it’s scaling back peacekeeping missions marks the final step in the triumph of one national peacekeeping mythology over another.

“The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is rebalancing its global operational commitments to better align resources with evolving defence priorities in an increasingly complex security environment. This includes closing Operations KOBOLD, SNOWGOOSE, SOPRANO, and CROCODILE, and reducing its contribution to Operation CALUMET. Approximately 50-60 CAF members currently assigned to these missions will be progressively reintegrated into higher-priority roles supporting operations at home and abroad.” — Department of National Defence announcement, July 17, 2026

Canadians could be forgiven for thinking this announcement about the end of Canada’s participation in United Nations peacekeeping missions in Cyprus, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo is little more than bureaucratic housekeeping. In fact, it effectively marks the finale of 70 years of Canadian involvement in UN peacekeeping.

There are few countries more psychologically invested in peacekeeping than Canada. Canada as global peacekeeper is a national symbol or brand, forged in the 1956 Suez crisis, when Lester B. Pearson and other Canadian officials basically invented peacekeeping to diffuse the ill-conceived British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt and the occupation of the Suez canal zone.

For decades thereafter Canada was heavily committed to United Nations operations, peaking at nearly 4,000 personnel deployed in places like Cyprus and the Golan Heights. These were often UN “Pacific Settlement of Disputes” missions, where monitoring, buffer-zone enforcement and policing roles were central.

Someone got the entire alphabet carved into their sword and then chucked it in the Thames.

So now we're pretty sure about the anglo-saxon alphabet

The base is dovetailed at the corners and the uprights are lapped in. I have to complicate everything.

Dad ran an auto repair shop for the last 45 years and says they are the single worst brand of vehicle you can buy, I don't even think that's why I hate them so bad though

He also said they are generally annoying customers

These ducks they put all over their interiors is the cringiest shit ever and I can't even explain why it bothers me so much

If you follow any offroad forums you'll notice the jeep people will use insufferable vocabulary such as "my hubby" or "fur babies" or "puppers"

What's wrong with these people and why do they buy these cars?

Marco Rubio targets ICC’s Tomoko Akane and Abdoulaye Seye, who was investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza

The US has sanctioned the president of the international criminal court (ICC) and a prosecutor tasked with investigating crimes committed by Israel during its war on Gaza.

The new sanctions designations were unveiled by Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, who called the Hague-based ICC a “corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate”, in a statement.

Rubio announced that the US would sanction Tomoko Akane of Japan, the ICC president, and Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal, an ICC senior trial lawyer, because they had “directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials whose government has not consented to ICC jurisdiction”.

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