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The staggering Atlantic report about the administration’s sloppy preparation for military action is hands-down the most obvious demonstration that the right’s rhetoric about Clinton’s server was bullshit.
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"Stemming from a partnership announced earlier this week between DoorDash and Klarna, customers can now buy a burrito or McDonalds order and pay for it later across four interest-free payments": Buy now, pay later . . . for a burrito? | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/03/23/buy-…

Buy now, pay later . . . for a burrito? | TechCrunch

In 2010, a programmer who was mining bitcoin famously made the comically expensive mistake of spending 10,000 bitcoin on two pizzas. As of this writing,
Connie Loizos (TechCrunch)

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He is a completely different, rotted out person now.
A screenshot of a post on X by Mari Copeny (@LittleMissFlint ): "Show and tell 6 years ago today. He brought black engineers that worked for Tesla to meet the kids in Flint because seeing diversity was important back then. So much has changed since then." Below, an image shows a person in a panda onesie smiling next to Elon Musk, who is also smiling, with other people in the background. Copeny's account has a blue checkmark, and her profile picture shows a person in a blue and yellow outfit.
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I'm not so sure. His daughter basically talks about his faux liberalism as a sort of marketing fascade. He showed people what he wanted them to see when that was the way the wind was blowing. He's simply hitched himself to a different horse now and so we see the mask more readily now. He hasn't changed. He's just no longer wearing the mask.
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‘Insecure baby’: Trump draws ridicule after throwing fit over Colorado capitol portrait
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#MadKingDonald #news #politics #UnitedStates #WhinerInChief #CryBaby #narcissist #EmperorsNewClothes #PortraitOfAConMan #ConservativeSnowflake #snowflake

‘Insecure baby’: Trump draws ridicule after throwing fit over Colorado capitol portrait

Even some Republicans have called president’s public demand to remove the painting ‘petty’
José Olivares (The Guardian)
#news #unitedstates #politics #snowflake #narcissist #madkingdonald #whinerinchief #crybaby #emperorsnewclothes #portraitofaconman #conservativesnowflake
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A federal election is coming and our soverignty is on the line. That's why we're looking for volunteers to deliver door hangers—and help fight for proportional representation. Sign up here: secure.fairvote.ca/en/action/el... Let’s ditch first-past-the-post. Let’s make every vote count. #cdnpoli
A bold red and white graphic with large text that reads: “Ditching American products? Let’s ditch their voting system too.” At the bottom, it says: “Find out how the First Past the Post voting system weakens Canadian sovereignty, fosters division, and leaves us vulnerable to extremists.” Includes the Fair Vote Canada logo and a QR code.

Election 2025: Deliver door hangers for proportional representation!

Sign up below to deliver Fair Vote Canada door hangers in your area! This is a great way to remind thousands of local voters that Canada needs proportional representation.
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Look at the color. It's brazilian cherry wood!
#TheGeminiCrafts #woodworking
#woodworking #thegeminicrafts

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One more test of a blog post about a test to see if CogDogBlog's fediverse persona can add a "see More" link when its posts are mentioned...

Here goes nothing, or something

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This is a Test

This is a post of the CogDogBlog Federated Publishing System. This is only a test. Nah, it;s a real blog post! But my last post was not published to the Fediverse and the kind folks who make the so…
CogDogBlog
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Michael Stanclift
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getting closer. Previous ones didn’t seem to even generate anything in a preview.
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Alan is @cogdog
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@vmstan Yeah something is funky on my blog. Anyhow, my dog has an account on another instance and he sees it 😉 social.ds106.us/@felixadog/114…

Felix (@felixadog@social.ds106.us)

Attached: 1 image Hey @cogdog@cosocial.ca I can see your "More From" link here at social.ds106.us
ds106 Social
@Michael Stanclift

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I think I posted about meeting a cute guy a few months ago (maybe October/November). I am pleased to announce that as of last Wednesday we are officially dating 😀 we had our first boyfriends date last night, it was a lot of fun. (Even though there were a couple of minor hiccups lol)

Pic related, he won me the Gengar plush at the arcade 😀

A photograph of two Pokémon plushies on a wooden surface. On the left, a green Substitute and on the right, a Gengar.

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It is once again time to hire some capable folks for my video game!

This is a paid #freelance #job listing for a #voiceacting role for the main character of the upcoming #indiegame Weiss.

You can find all the relevant information and signup instructions here:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Deadline for applications is 24.4.2025.

#job #indiegame #voiceacting #freelance

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Wow, that's a lot of calories.
A blue whale consumes 500 calories a day.
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cs
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what a coincidence! I am fairly certain consuming a blue whale is also about 500 calories. Makes sense.

#CountingCalories

#countingcalories

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“Anybody who is within the bounds of the United States has First Amendment rights,” EFF’s Saira Hussain told @theintercept. “This administration is trying to chip away at that notion, but that is very much what First Amendment jurisprudence has been.” theintercept.com/2025/03/23/tr…

Trump Wants Immigrants on U.S. Soil to Hand Over Social Media Accounts to Apply for Citizenship

Last time Trump demanded social media handles for citizenship, green card, and visa applicants, it was only for immigrants outside the U.S.
Matt Sledge (The Intercept)
@The Intercept
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"The government is collecting comments on the proposed policy until May 5". Of course the comment will be also used to vet the authors... 😜

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To help confirm someone's identity, Signal offers nicknames and information about the groups you share in common with your contacts. Make sure you're inviting the right person to your group. Learn about Signal's identifiers: freedom.press/digisec/blog/sig…

Understanding every one of Signal’s identifiers

We’ve heard some questions about the difference between Signal usernames, phone numbers, profile names, profiles, and nicknames. Let’s talk about it.
Freedom of the Press

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How Google nerfed my Pixel 4a—then stuck it to me, too
The devil is in the details.
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How Google nerfed my Pixel 4a—then stuck it to me, too

Nate Anderson (Ars Technica)
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Christian
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You can safely deploy Graphene OS on a Google pixel 4...
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I just replaced my Pixel 4a (not due to this system update), and we had an abysmal experience with support. They encountered a "technical error" twice, said once that the system required to wait 24 hours to continue, and then wouldn't ship through a different carrier when we requested after it was "returned to sender" due to an error with my address. Then 2FA prevented me from setting up the new phone and had to wait for Google Account recovery. Related: shakedown.social/@bathtub_jen/…

jen (@bathtub_jen@shakedown.social)

I just survived 26 days without a working cell phone. #AMA
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In extraordinary blunder top #MadKingDonald cabinet fools added Atlantic editor to chat discussing top-secret Yemen war plans.
Reminds me of the outrage over a certain e-mail server...
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
#politics #UnitedStates #dumbtatorship #news #ConfederacyOfDunces #NationalSecurity #war #Yemen #LockThemUp #LockThemUp

White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist

In extraordinary blunder top Trump cabinet members added Atlantic editor to chat discussing strikes on Houthis
Peter Beaumont (The Guardian)
#news #unitedstates #politics #nationalsecurity #war #yemen #madkingdonald #confederacyofdunces #dumbtatorship #lockthemup
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It is useful to be able to summon wind when you need it - but as with all things, you should take care not to overdo it!

#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #magic
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German folk tale "Wind in the Cloth". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!
#Magic #germany #folklore #folktale #mythologymonday

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24 March 1894 | A Polish Jew, Szmul Biedny, was born in Chęciny. He lived in France.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 7 April 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Compiegne.
No. 38247
He perished in the camp on 23 July 1942.

Portrait photograph of a man with dark hair with a pronounced parting. He is wearing a ribbed jacket and tie. His ears are slightly protruding.
#auschwitz

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Churches and Sanctuary
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/nx-s1-5287017/churches-and-sanctuary?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Things Considered @all-things-considered-npr

@All Things Considered

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“Trump loves Big Tech: So much for the ‘Khanservatives.'" (Cory Doctorow @pluralistic) — The anti-big-tech wing of the Trump coalition, which included JD Vance, Josh Hawley, Matt Goetz, Marsha Blackburn, Ted Cruz, can eat shit and like it. pluralistic.net/2025/03/24/wha…

Pluralistic: Trump loves Big Tech (24 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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@Cory Doctorow

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Whether you're ready for something new or turned off by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, there are many great electric cars out there—and most can use the Supercharger network. pcmag.com/articles/best-electr…

Ditching Your Tesla? These Are the Best Electric Alternatives for Every Budget

Emily Forlini (PCMag)

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“The only sure way to protect yourself is to not carry information with you"

*How long will that option be legal, one wonders

wired.com/2017/02/guide-gettin…

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I don't know, but I guess we can all feel better about our digital hygiene than Pete Hegseth can.
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Is backing up your iPhone to the cloud and then erasing everything on it, to be recovered later, a viable strategy? Or even create another iCloud account and log in on that just for travel?

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GIMP 3.0.2 released

gimp.org/news/2025/03/23/gimp-…

A micro-release! mostly bug fixes that emerged with so many people trying out GIMP 3.0 - a big thank you to all those who contributed, including by reporting problems.

#GIMP #Gimp3 #imageEditor


GIMP - GIMP 3.0.2 Released

Release news for version GIMP 3.0.2
www.gimp.org
#GIMP #imageeditor #gimp3
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super excited about this! BTW, who has control over when the new version makes its way into the Linux Synaptic package manager? Is it you or the folks at Debian? I always feel that software on Synaptic lags quite far behind it's most recent release
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@vera Every distribution handles their own packages. So yeah, it's Debian which takes care of updating their GIMP package.

We only maintain the packages visible on our download page.

@Vera

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Whoops! This one rolled to the back and I didn't realize how hard it was trying. 🧅
An onion sits on my counter. It looks ok, outer skin a little flaky and wrinkled. But it has sprouted about 10 shoots out the top that are kind of a pale yellow green because it didn't get much light in the back of the space where it had rolled to. The sprouted tentacles are probably a foot long but curl around a lot because it was mashed against the back wall.

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Trump administration accidentally texted secret bombing plans to a reporter
"Shocking recklessness" in leak of detailed Yemen bombing plan to journalist.
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Trump administration accidentally texted secret bombing plans to a reporter

“Shocking recklessness” in leak of detailed Yemen bombing plan to journalist.
Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)

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Antimicrobial resistance poses a growing threat, with over 2.8 million resistant infections in the U.S. annually. Researchers are using advanced genetic analysis to track how microbes evolve to evade #antibiotics. A microbiologist explains: buff.ly/JJCWYWU

Genomic sequencing reveals previously unknown genes that make microbes resistant to drugs and hard to kill

Scientists have described antimicrobial resistance as an overlooked pandemic. Improving surveillance can help prevent deadly outbreaks.
The Conversation
#antibiotics

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"Doctors at a hospital in Jilin, China recently reported one of their most bizarre cases yet – a woman who had gotten her hand stuck in her boyfriend’s mouth while trying to film a funny video."
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd odditycentral.com/news/man-req…

Man Requires Medical Attention AFter Getting Girlfriend’s Hand Stuck in His Mouth

Doctors at a hospital in Jilin, China recently reported one of their most bizarre cases yet - a woman who had gotten her hand stuck in her boyfriend's mouth
Spooky (Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities)
#weird #weirdnews #offbeat #odd
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I've noticed something that I think is worth pointing out: pretty much ALL of the pushback I have gotten on LinkedIn over the past few months over stories critical of this administration has come from men in IT. Many of whom no doubt idolize Musk, who in their minds can walk on water.

Conversely, the response almost universally I've seen from female non/male people in IT and security professionals on LinkedIn has been a great deal more appropriate, i.e. horror, disgust and revulsion for the way this administration is treating federal employees, veterans, the courts, judges, lawyers, journalists, and important, long-standing U.S. policy interests.

I guess what I'm saying is nobody should expect the men in IT to lead the resistance. So many of them are like this guy: angry, aggressive, and really excited about the good old US of A going back to the 80s. Like the 1880s.

A LinkedIn direct message from Stuart Grant, CISSP, CEH, Principal Information Security Architect at Itron Inc. Dear Brian: You suck. Leave your damn politics out of it. This is not a political platform. Me: Hey Stuart. I'm sorry the guy you voted for is a Fascist. You should really start paying attention instead of burying your head in the sand.
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@apodoxus I've also noticed this on HN a month ago. Before that, comments were insufferable to read when it came to politics. Now it feels like the audience has got more mature somehow.
@Sunflower Björnskalle 🌻
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@partysam @apodoxus they're not more mature, its just reached the 'find out' stage of voting for Nazis and suddenly it's important not to have Nazis in charge
@Party Sam @Sunflower Björnskalle 🌻

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Would anyone blame them if they said “hell no” to that?
alt text A screenshot of a post on X by Karly Kingsley (@karlykingsley ): "Fair question." Below, a post by Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd ) reads: "The US is scheduled to co-host the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics in 2028. Why would thousands of international athletes and millions of fans from around the world come to a country where tourists, asylum seekers, and visa holders are being disappeared to foreign prisons?" Both accounts have blue checkmarks. Rothschild's profile picture shows a person in a suit.
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fedops 💙💛
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find out what happened after 1933 in the runup for the 1936 edition and there's your answer. And most likely what will happen in the FSA between now and 2028. Assuming they wait with starting a war.

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"Walmart thought it could use its immense power as America’s biggest retailer to make Chinese suppliers eat the cost of Donald #Trump ’s #tariffs. But Walmart got a response it’s not accustomed to hearing: No."

#TrumpTax
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#trump #tariffs #trumptax

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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
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What nobody is talking about yet is how badly this will damage our already frayed relations with our major allies, who will be rightfully horrified of sharing any sensitive intelligence with a bunch of bumbling nitwits sending thumbs-up emojis.
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Let’s remember WHY they were using signal — they were doing it because signal deletes messages after a pre-set time. They were doing this using a non-official channel — in violation of lots of law — in order to keep their discussions secret and away from Congress, judges and the law.

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Stunning photos of a person dressed like a whirling dervish being peppersprayed by police at a protest in Istanbul. The first photo is by Chris McGrath, who has more photos and important details about these protests in this IG post instagram.com/p/DHlZZjhtq8L/?i…
A protestor wearing a gas mask, a tall fex hat, and a black robe that goes down to their feet. The robe gets bigger near the bottom so it can spread out when the person wearing it does a spin. The protestor is standing in front of a row of riot police at night. The air is filled with moist droplets of pepper spray, and it looks like the protestor is being heavily targeted by officers using this pepper spray.
The same person wearing a gas mask, tall yellow fez hat, and black robes, standing with their arms outstretched and back towards the row of riot police. It is a very defiant pose and striking juxtoposition of heavily armored police against one confident protestor. The air is filled with smoke and the lighting is very dramatic, like a scene out of an action film.
Police officers use pepper spray on a demonstrator wearing traditional dervish clothing during a protest on the day Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was jailed as part of a corruption investigation, in Istanbul, Turkey, March 23, 2025. / Credit: REUTERS

Chris McGrath on Instagram: "Protests continued over the past two days after the Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu, who was due to be selected as a presidential candidate for the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) during a primary election yesterd

2,265 likes, 57 comments - cmcgrath_photo on March 24, 2025: "Protests continued over the past two days after the Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu, who was due to be selected as a presidential candidate for the opposition Republican People’s Party (…
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NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
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It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on much-needed research.

propublica.org/article/nih-fun…

#News #Climate #NIH #Health #ClimateChange #Research #Government #Trump #RFKJr


NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change

ProPublica
#news #trump #government #climate #climatechange #health #research #nih #rfkjr

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#KochNetwork spent $78 million on buying this policy from Republicans.
opensecrets.org/news/2024/08/k…

Who knows how much it spent buying corrupt Supreme Court Justices.
theintercept.com/2022/06/30/su…

The fossil fuel industry makes $3 billion a day in profit, enough to buy wars, famines, disastrous weather events, and catastrophic wildfires.
commondreams.org/news/trump-oi…

theguardian.com/environment/20…

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…


‘Big oil’s negligence’: LA residents call on fossil fuel industry to pay for wildfire damages

Experts say climate crisis was likely responsible for a quarter of the dryness that fueled the fires’ rapid spread
Dharna Noor (The Guardian)
#kochnetwork

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OMG

🚨🚨#Trump's *#NationalSecurity* team accidentally included The Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg in a #Signal conversation about strikes on #Houthis, & they used the non-governmental platform to coordinate staffing among departments & the White House.🚨🚨

They absolutely broke several #laws in communicating classified detailed warplans over a nongovernmental app on their private phones.

I mean… talk about an #idiocracy & #kakistocracy.

#GiftArticle

theatlantic.com/politics/archi…


The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
#trump #nationalsecurity #idiocracy #signal #giftarticle #laws #kakistocracy #houthis
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The White House has confirmed there was an ‘inadvertent’ leak involving top Trump officials

The Atlantic reported that its top editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally added to a group chat where #Trump’s *#NationalSecurity* team plotted attacking #Yemen.

#idiocracy #kakistocracy #USpol #law #geopolitics
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#uspol #trump #nationalsecurity #law #idiocracy #geopolitics #yemen #kakistocracy
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#Trump openly admits he is uninformed about his administration’s planning for strikes on #Houthis. Apparently he doesn’t get looped-in on #US #WarPlans.

Trump asked about his Cabinet officials including #JeffreyGoldberg on a secret war plan #Signal exchange:

"I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of the Atlantic. …You’re telling me about it for the first time.”

#NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy #USpol #law #geopolitics

#us #uspol #trump #nationalsecurity #law #idiocracy #geopolitics #signal #kakistocracy #houthis #jeffreygoldberg #WarPlans

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Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested

No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank before being handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
Lorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)

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They can't be serious 🙄 comicsands.com/tesla-vandals-d…

Harris Faulkner Touts Death Penalty For Tesla Vandals: VIDEO

Koh Mochizuki (Comic Sands)
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They're serious. The people who disagree with them (the "other") are not real humans, and thus do not possess real human lives worth protecting. This is how their predecessors convinced themselves that it was reasonable to murder 17,000,000 people (including 6,000,000 Jews) in World War II.

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Ever crafty Ukrainian drone operators no longer need Russians to be present at the time of delivery.

Here, the Ukrainian team discovers the hideout of RUSSIAN drone operators, subsequently placing a drone inside this hideout while their were away, then..

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ur boss keeps memecoin grifting and ur feeling left out wyd

#JDVance #uspol #corruption

BREAKING Lobbyist And Government Contractor Bought JD Vance’s Home For $170,000 Over Asking Price A government contractor and lobbyist who served in President Donald Trump’s first administration bought Vice President JD Vance’s Virginia home in “* an above-market deal, a sale his spokesperson says was based on the market.
#uspol #corruption #jdvance

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A Cassette Audio Control for the Web
sheep.horse/2025/3/a_cassette_…

#FunWeb


A Cassette Audio Control for the Web

Normally I see nothing wrong with skeuomorphism in computer interfaces but even I will admit this is deeply silly even by my standards. The project was born in the depths...
sheep.horse
#funweb

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Signal's a great app to keep your communications secure, but make sure you know the identities of the users in your group chats.

Our SSD guide on how to use Signal includes guidance on managing your group chat preferences. ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-…

How to: Use Signal

Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.0. iPhone: 7.
ssd.eff.org

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