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Via The Bee.

Poland will get some tanks.

General Dynamics Land Systems to Provide Abrams Tanks to Poland Under $1.1 Billion Foreign Military Sales Order

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. -- General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, announced that it has been awarded a Foreign Military Sales order from the U.S. Army worth up to $1.148 billion to deliver 250 M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams MBTs to Poland.

The state-of-the-art M1A2 SEPv3 configuration features technological advancements in communications, fire control and lethality, reliability, sustainment and fuel efficiency, plus upgraded armor. Additionally, the SEPv3 Abrams is designed to seamlessly accept future upgrades.

Thanks to SMH.

Also via SMH: Don't click on this.

Told ya.

I don't know why you people never listen to me.

Judge allows Elon Musk to amend his complaint against Twitter, and add in the allegations made by Pieter Zatko, alleging, among other things, that Twitter knows it has far more bots than it admits but won't investigate the matter, because it doesn't want to tell shareholders.

And that they are compromised by having agents of foreign intelligence services working for the company.

Musk, who is gunning to get out of his agreement to buy Twitter for $44 billion, will be allowed to add claims made by whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko to his countersuit against Twitter, Delaware Court of Chancery Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick said in a legal filing seen by The Post.

Zatko has accused Twitter of several misdeeds including having lackluster security protocols and "lying about bots" to Musk. He's set to set to testify to a Senate panel on Sept. 13.

Hot Air's new "Managing Editor" or whatever Ed Morrissey announces a bold new direction for Hot Air, including... linking right-leaning websites in the headlines, and not just left-leaning websites as they used to.

Wow, what a great idea.

Part of our new strategy will see our Headlines section expand and focus more on conservative voices and viewpoints. In fact, you may have already noticed a change over the weekend in the coverage in our marquee. We will still have links to breaking stories at traditional media outlets, but we want to help build the Right for political battle this cycle and the next. I'm very sure our readers know where to find the New York Times, the Washington Post, and NPR....

Pretty sure, thanks to AllahPundit, they also know where to find The Daily Beast, Damon Linker, Aaron Rupar, Buzzfeed Politics, Slate, Vox, Vice, and The Dispatch and The Bulwark especially.

-- but maybe they don't know some of the voices and platforms on the Right as well, nor the diversity of viewpoints and issues.

Wow. What an idea. After six years of your Headlines being stuffed to the gills with leftwing anti-conservative links, you're going to start linking conservatives.

Because you're not getting your Daily Beast links from AllahPundit, I guess I'll have to pick up the slack:

From the GQ puff piece linked:

Over the course of our conversations, the congresswoman typically answered in a confident, fast-paced patter--each sentence closely chasing the tail of the last. But now her speech slowed to a crawl and, for the first time in the hours we had spent speaking, she broke eye contact, burying her gaze in the arm of her chair. Tears pooled in the corners of her eyes.

"I hold two contradictory things [in mind] at the same time. One is just the relentless belief that anything is possible," she said. "But at the same time, my experience here has given me a front-row seat to how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in this country hate women. And they hate women of color. People ask me questions about the future. And realistically, I can't even tell you if I'm going to be alive in September. And that weighs very heavily on me. And it's not just the right wing. Misogyny transcends political ideology: left, right, center. This grip of patriarchy affects all of us, not just women; men, as I mentioned before, but also, ideologically, there's an extraordinary lack of self-awareness in so many places. And so those are two very conflicting things. I admit to sometimes believing that I live in a country that would never let that happen."

She literally just said that other people, people not named Sandy Cortes, lack self-awareness.

A guy on a long-delayed Jetstar flight from Melboure to Bali decided "eff it" and lit up a cigarette.

Not in the bathroom, either. Just right there in his seat.

He got kicked off, and the plane was delayed further.

Bond girl Lana Wood -- "Plenty O'Toole" (named after her father?) in Diamonds Are Forever -- has a role in a new movie, which is a real godsend for her, as she had been homeless for a time, starting in 2017.

In New York City, a creep groped a woman and announced that he had no shame about it, stating that he can touch whoever he wants, however he wants.

A creep declared he could "touch anyone he wants" before he groped a woman on a Manhattan train this week, cops said.

The 24-year-old victim was riding a southbound B train at the 81st Street-Museum of Natural History station on the Upper West Side around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday when the perv approached her and claimed he could "touch anyone he wants," authorities said.

He also snarled that he would "stab people in the eyes," police said.

I know the answer to this: Midnight basketball leagues.

The death of drug-dealing pervert George Floyd means that women are fair game for sexual assault by lunatic perverts, forever, according to the left and their NeverTrump allies. To oppose this would be not just "racist" but also "authoritarian."

Hillary Clinton tells the delightful story of how she once "accidentally" left Chelsea in Russia -- the Kremlin, specifically.

Accidentally. Not as a payoff or anything.

The former First Lady appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, alongside her daughter Chelsea Clinton, 42, on Tuesday night.

As part of the interview, the pair took part in a Mother Daughter Challenge, where they had to answer a series of questions asked by Fallon.

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At one point during the segment, Clinton, 74, was asked about her "craziest family vacation memory."

Taking a second to think, the mom-of-one remembered the time she and Bill managed to leave Chelsea in the Kremlin sometime during Bill's time in office from 1993 until 2001.

"I hope she [Chelsea] doesn't remember this because it was pretty traumatic," the former Secretary of State began.

For someone who claims she's not running for president again, the Queen of NeverTrump sure is going on a lot of talk shows to offer up some "humanizing," "humorous" stories about herself and, who knows, maybe accidentally increase her likeability factor.

Steven Crowder called this the best political ad he can remember seeing, and further suggested that the basic beats of this ad -- minus the specific praise of Ron DeSantis, of course -- serve as the template for every Republican ad from now until election day.

But they won't.

This is just... ugh.

Ben Domenech
@bdomenech

The total inability of Trump suckers to acknowledge that he totally botched the pandemic is still their weirdest aspect. It's obvious, it's undeniable, just admit it.

Velma Bailey @velbailey3

Megan must be waving those fat boobs of hers to get your attn ... loser

Ben Domenech @bdomenech

I must inform you it does not make me a loser to have a wife with big tits.

posted by Ace at 06:05 PM

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