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  • Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issues order rescinding "anti-weaponization fund"

  • Burying the lede here. This is the important part:

    "I think this is all for political show. [Blanche] can withdraw it the day he enters office. He could issue a new order. The sons could sue to enforce it and they can settle a new lawsuit," said Rupa Bhattacharyya, a former Justice Department attorney who now serves as legal director for the Georgetown University Law Center's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection.

    She told CBS News that nothing has ever prevented the Justice Department from using its existing legal authority to pay out timely administrative claims brought against the department by defendants charged for conduct on Jan. 6, 2021, under the Federal Tort Claims Act, either.

    "There are all sorts of ways this can come back," she said.

    This is likely a facade to get holdout Republicans on board. If Blanche is appointed as AG, he could resurrect it on day one.

  • In Michigan, AIPAC faces its biggest battle yet

  • So satisfying to watch $60M of dark money go up in flames.

  • How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran

  • You don't need a control case to see that halting shipments of bombs and weapons to a nation commiting genocide would have saved thousands of innocent lives.

  • 10 more days until Mitch McConnell is allowed to die

  • Given all the evidence by this point, Occam's Razor would suggest he is dead. Or comatose, at the very least.

  • 10 more days until Mitch McConnell is allowed to die

  • Ah, so the election would be bipartisan? That makes sense for the Republicans but doesn't then explain why the Democrats aren't demanding the election go ahead in his absence. The fucker is obviously dead.

    I mean, I know the Dems often act as controlled opposition, but this is just embarrassing.

  • 10 more days until Mitch McConnell is allowed to die

  • What I'm not altogether clear on is how keeping his seat empty benefits Republicans. Doesn't this mean that they are short one vote in the Senate?

  • Tesla Stock in Freefall After Disastrous Earnings Report

  • In the US, the market has soured on EVs and the federal tax credits have gone away.

    Outside the US, China is eating their lunch.

  • Christopher Nolan continues to get under Musk's skin

  • Oh, you know -- the usual shower of Twitter chuds saw the racially diverse cast and took the film as a cultural assault on Western civilization.

    They dismissed it as wokeslop before they had even seen it, and now that the movie is out and a critical success, they're beside themselves.

  • How the fuck is Mitch McConnell actually alive?

  • He also appears to be in suspiciously ruddy health for an 84-year-old man who's allegedly been at death's door for weeks. I don't buy it.

  • How the fuck is Mitch McConnell actually alive?

  • A few years ago, I would have dismissed this type of thing as tinfoilhattery, but hear me out.

    Don't you think the way the newspaper is incorporated into the shot is odd? The positioning is strange -- like it doesn't quite belong with its surroundings.

    Well, what if someone took an old photo and used AI to add today's newspaper in at the bottom of the frame? When you zoom in on the newspaper headline, it looks like gibberish.

    Could it be compression artifacts? Maybe. But even then, the shape of the letters looks very odd. Doesn't even look like English.

    If no stronger evidence materializes, I reckon this is a fake intended to buy some time.

  • Ragged USA crash out of World Cup with last-16 defeat to Belgium

  • That third Belgian goal was pure comedy. The 4th was just the icing on the cake 🤌 A well deserved drubbing, all round.

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    YSK that there is now a huge online archive of videos/photos detailing the genocide in Gaza.

    archivegenocide.com

  • Newsom’s parting gift: A budget that delays California’s deep cuts to 2027

  • Can't wait for the new DSA firebrand replacing him to implement the billionaire wealth tax and M4A, once and for all!

    Oh, wait ... Fuck.

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  • Both of these possibilities could be true, of course.

    The latter theory also is how I believe Trump was persuaded to start military action against Iran. But I think it is also highly likely that the Israelis have dirt on Trump via Epstein, who had ties with Mossad and frequently fraternized with top-ranking Israeli officials.

    However, to leak this information publicly could cause some major blowback, given how unpredictable a cornered Trump would be. It's easy to imagine him going on a live newsfeed and start throwing all kinds of people under the bus if he thought he had nothing left to lose.

  • Iran fires waves of missiles into Israel for first time since April ceasefire

  • "If the Palestinians and the Lebanese would just hand over their homeland to the brutal foreign invader, all of this unpleasantness would end" is certainly a hot take.

  • Iran fires waves of missiles into Israel for first time since April ceasefire

  • Spare us the hasbara, please. It's insulting. They have not just been conducting targeted strikes against Hezbollah.

    Since invading Southern Lebanon, Israel military have conducted airstrikes on schools, hospitals, and residential areas. They have razed entire cities to the ground.

    They have been using the Gaza playbook of making entire areas uninhabitable in order to ethnically cleanse and expand into new territory, while killing any civilians who get in their way.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/how-israeli-offensive-destroyed-entire-villages-in-lebanon

    You don't get to use retaliatory attacks by the people you're invading as an excuse to continue to commit war crimes during a ceasefire.

  • Iran fires waves of missiles into Israel for first time since April ceasefire

  • The ceasefire with Iran on April 8th called for a pause to all hostilities in the region, but for some reason Israel unilaterally decided this didn't prevent them from continuing their invasion into Lebanon.

    Then on April 16th there was a different agreement between Israel and the Lebanon government, which again did not prevent Israel from shelling towns and murdering civilians who had not managed to flee their illegal "buffer zone" in the south.

    And then of course there's Gaza, which also is under an alleged ceasefire despite the fact that Israel continues to seize territory, airstrike refugee camps, and shoot children there on a daily basis.

  • Iran fires waves of missiles into Israel for first time since April ceasefire

  • CNN conveniently neglects to point out that there hasn't been a single day since the "ceasefire" began that Israel hasn't broken it.

    These latest Irans strikes were in retaliation to Israel attacking Beirut despite repeated warnings from both Iran and the US.

  • Democrat Xavier Becerra advances to November race for California governor

  • But not surprising, unfortunately.

    CA politics is stuck in a time warp.

  • House Dems Join GOP to Help Advance Deeper US-Israeli Military Integration

  • You do not hate Congress enough.

  • Kahn - Past Life

  • Nice! It's been a while since he put anything out.

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    You Are Not So Smart #267 - "Do your own research"

    youarenotsosmart.com /2023/08/19/yanss-267-why-people-who-are-most-likely-to-suggest-that-others-do-their-own-research-are-also-the-least-likely-to-do-their-own-research/
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    Father & sons face trial on charges of peddling industrial cleaner as ‘miracle’ cure

    www.miamiherald.com /news/local/article277382713.html
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Various challenges that Meta/Threads may face, according to Facebook's ex-Chief Security Officer

    cybervillains.com /@alex/110670465308094895
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    Could fearmongering over ''climate lockdowns' become the newest conspiracy-driven protest movement?

    www.nbcnews.com /news/world/climate-lockdowns-became-new-battleground-conspiracy-driven-protest-mo-rcna80370
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    An /r/Battlestations favorite

  • Lemmy Apps @lemmy.world
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    Boost For Lemmy is happening

    play.google.com /store/apps/details
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    Debunk This: Boomers better at identifying online misinformation than Gen Zers and millennials

    www.businessinsider.com /gen-z-millennials-worse-identifying-fake-news-than-boomers-2023-6
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    Debunk This: Immigration has significantly contributed to housing costs in the U.S.

    archive.ph /IlNYW
  • DebunkThis @lemmy.world
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    DebunkThis: CDC Director Knew Vaccines Didn't Stop COVID-19 and Mislead the Public

    dailysceptic.org /2023/06/22/cdcs-walenksy-knew-vaccines-didnt-stop-infections-in-january-2021-but-still-told-americans-vaccinated-people-do-not-carry-the-virus-email-reveals/
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    People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened

    www.psychologicalscience.org /news/releases/people-can-be-convinced-they-committed-a-crime-they-dont-remember.html
  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    Skeptic - A community for critical takes on pseudoscience, quackery, and bald-faced BS.

    lemmy.world /c/skeptic
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    Top Mind Robert F Kennedy Jr on the evils of "Wi-Fi radiation"

  • Wallpapers @lemmy.ml
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    Echo Lake

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    Misty Bavarian Forest

  • DebunkThis @lemmy.world
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    Debunk This: California politicians want to make it illegal to try to stop shoplifters

    twitter.com /carldemaio/status/1670121628800516098
  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    Debunk This - Debunking pseudoscience, myths, and spurious hogwash since 2010

    lemmy.world /c/debunkthis
  • DebunkThis @lemmy.world
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    Debunk This: Offshore Wind Farms are killing whales and harming marine life

    www.facebook.com /watch/
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    Classified Docs: How Trump case differs from Clinton & Biden

    www.csmonitor.com /USA/Politics/2023/0613/Classified-docs-How-Trump-case-differs-from-Clinton-Biden