Missile Defense Agency: “First of all, lower your voice”
(I don’t think MDA leaked it it’s just funny to hear DOD musing out loud about how cool it is to MacGyver missiles into different roles given the constant russian paranoia about turning GMD into cruise missile Decepticons)
TruthSocial was (oddly) the number one download in the Play Store today and it's still a ghost down. For comparison, Parler is number 422 and that's 422 within the social category.
Parler has been smarter about rebuilding though. Lest we forget, after AWS booted them they had to go hunting for cloud services with DDoS Guard, the Russian DDoS protection of choice for Hamas, 8kun, etc.
They were booted out of the Apple App Store and Google Play store. Since then, they've managed to get back on both (Play Store fairly recently). They've also taken a page from one of the smarter MAGA tech cos (Rumble) to buy a cloud services company.
Iranian telegram channels showing pics of IRGC in cities for crowd control following protests over the death of Mahsa Amini. These are the same kind of 40mm grenades that tend to lodge in people's skulls because they're heavier than comparable "less than lethal" 40mm munitions.
This is a bit of a thread. Remember when Media Matters found out that Doug Mastriano was paying Gab for "consulting"? Me too. @letsgomathias had an interesting followup on that. Turns out Gab was making new accounts automatically follow Mastriano's account.
@letsgomathias Which struck me as a little odd. Months ago, I'd seen evidence that new accounts on Gab seemed to be automatically following Joe Kent's Gab account. So I turned to @AletheaGroup's @realShawnEib to crunch the numbers for me on Kent's account.
Someone put together a video montage of all the weapons people have declared obsolete since February mulching armies.
It’s a cousin of Main Character Syndrome, the belief that this current time period is special above and beyond others and so now must be the era when Everything Changes because we, who are equally special, inhabit it.
Old enough to have lived through the A2AD branding era, when “anti access weapons,” a concept retconned on systems, had rendered the carrier and (insert here) moot. Boomers are old enough to remember when Soviet Saggers in the Yom Kippur War rendered tanks moot (the first time)