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  • Hundreds of masked racist extremists march in D.C. as Trump’s Freedom 250 celebration unfolds

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  • They are continuing the American tradition of white supremacist organizations invading cites they don't live in to intimidate people they hate.

  • More than half of children in ICE immigration courts are representing themselves, DOJ data shows

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  • Flock Safety Credibility Lost as it Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police Departments, and Public Across the Country

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  • The ACLU documents how an automatic license plate reader company has lied about its operations, signaling a need for reputable governments to avoid working with Flock Safety.

    During a city council meeting in a suburb of Wisconsin in April, the city of Oshkosh considered whether it should approve a contract to use automatic license plate readers (ALPR) from Flock Safety, a prominent company that provides ALPRs to law enforcement agencies across the country. During the meeting, one city council member asked Flock if the company’s ALPR system created heat maps that could reveal where a particular vehicle had driven over a period of time. Flock’s chief information security officer, who was in attendance, told the council that Flock’s system did not “create a pattern or heat map of an individual’s movement” through the tracking of their vehicles. At the end of that meeting, the Oshkosh City Council approved a contract with Flock. The very next morning, the city learned that Flock had lied.

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    The company has demonstrated a pattern of treating legitimate operational questions and concerns not as problems to be solved, but rather as mere public relations issues.

    In Colorado, Loveland Police Chief Tim Doran raised concern that federal agents were accessing the town’s ALPR data. Flock responded by telling the chief that federal agencies no longer had access to Loveland’s license plate readers, and had their CEO reiterate to the press that federal data sharing was a non-issue because Flock had no federal contracts. After contradictory information later came to light, the company was forced to admit that it did, in fact, have contracts with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Homeland Security (DHS) for pilot projects that gave those agencies direct access to license data. “We clearly communicated poorly,” Flock’s CEO said, acknowledging that Flock’s “public statements inadvertently provided inaccurate information.”

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    Flock knew that, despite not being a customer, ICE had indirect access to Flock’s data and system through the company’s state and local law enforcement customers. The issue was never about having direct access to Flock’s data, it was about having any access to the data. But rather than address these data security and control issues on their merits, Flock released a misleading blog which reads as an attempt to confuse the public and create a false sense of security among its potential government customers. Ultimately, Flock was forced to accept that its denials were simply not credible. The CEO admitted Flock was used for immigration enforcement but argued that such matters were not Flock’s problem.

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    While Flock claimed its new oversight tool would “significantly” reduce the risk of improper uses like abortion enforcement, in reality the tool doesn’t work. As an investigation by our colleagues at the ACLU of Massachusetts found, Flock network audits showed police frequently enter vague terms like “investigation” or “susp” instead of information about the substance of the investigation into the search reason field. In September 2025 alone, a local Oregon police department was allowed to search Flock’s ALPR system after entering “investigation” into the search reason field 111 times and “hehehe” into the field on 20 occasions, which demonstrates how easy it is to search Flock’s system while avoiding security-triggering words like “abortion.” Flock certainly would have known, if it conducted even a rudimentary test of its system, that the search field’s protections were extremely simple to circumvent. Nevertheless, Flock’s financial interests appear to have been better served by the company misrepresenting the efficacy of its security features to the public and its potential government customers.

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    Flock has even made false claims to the public and elected officials about working with the ACLU. Earlier this year, after the ACLU of New Mexico and Flock supported the same state-level ALPR legislation — albeit for very different reasons — Flock’s Senior Director of Public Affairs took to social media to claim that Flock partnered with the ACLU of New Mexico to craft the bill and pass it.

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    Ultimately, reputable governments should not do business with disreputable companies. While governments should think long and hard about not using ALPRs, if local governments insist on doing so, at a bare minimum, they should adopt strong guardrails governing future ALPR use – including strictly limiting data retention, data sharing, and what crimes they can be used to enforce. And, of course, they should refuse to partner with any company that regularly misleads the public, elected officials, and even its own customers.

  • Trump loses again after appeals court orders ICE to hold bond hearings for deportees

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  • A panel of judges on a notorious conservative federal appeals court has ruled that people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention must be granted a bond hearing before a judge within 90 days of their arrest.

    The ruling marks at least the fourth such federal court order striking down a chief component of the administration’s attempts to swiftly detain and deport tens of thousands of people from the country before they’ve had their day in court, which civil rights groups and immigration lawyers have called stark violations of due process rights.

    “It is part of the historic majesty of this long-ago founding charter that it makes no exceptions in providing basic rights to those within our boundaries, including a right to be heard when personal liberty is taken,” wrote Judge Leslie Southwick, who was appointed by George W. Bush to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana.

    The 2-1 opinion was joined by Barack Obama appointee Judge James Graves. Judge Cory Wilson, a Trump appointee, dissented.

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    By July, ICE had issued a sweeping policy of mandatory detention for immigrants arrested inside the U.S., keeping people in detention for weeks or months no matter how long they have lived in the country or whether they have a criminal record.

    The administration’s attempt to compare a person who was arrested shortly after illegally crossing the border to an immigrant who has built a life in the country after arriving decades ago “is a complete fantasy,” Judge Southwick wrote.

    That policy opened the floodgates to thousands of lawsuits from immigrants seeking their release over due process violations, cases that have overwhelmed federal courts and kicked off several legal battles to determine whether the practice is even constitutional.

    Federal court judges have overwhelmingly rejected the administration’s policy of denying bond hearings, teeing up a likely Supreme Court battle in the coming months. The Trump administration asked the justices to take up the question next term.

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    In Thursday’s ruling, the judges underscored the fact that the vast majority of people held in ICE detention did not have criminal records and did not pose a threat to their communities, a primary reason for holding people behind bars before they’ve had a chance to appeal.

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    Last week, the court’s conservative majority gave the government greater flexibility to target green card holders, allowed Homeland Security to revoke humanitarian protections for tens of thousands of immigrants, and gave the government permission to indefinitely block people seeking asylum from entering the country.

  • PlayStation fans brutally reject Sony's disc decision, eye Windows 11 PCs over Xbox

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  • I've been using Linux with various GPUs (AMD, nvidia, and integrated) and various distros since 2008 and I've never had this issue.

    I worked in a place that built and maintained computers with Linux installed and again never seen the issue you describe.

    The hardest time I ever had whit a GPU was back when I was using Ubuntu on an AMD card back in 2008. And the hardest thing then was figuring out what repo to use as newb.

    Builds with an integrated GPU in the CPU with a different dedicated GPU used to be difficult until bumblebee came about and now they couldn't be easier.

    It is true that people might have to read error messages every now and then, but in the open source community, error message make sense and you can research them entirely yourself.

    I don't doubt that you are having an issues, it may be something as simple as your hardware is too new for the distro release you have installed and you should update. However, to say that everyone will have some weird issue is wrong.

    I've convinced about 5 friends and neighbors (one over 70) to switch to Linux in the past 2 years. All I did was provide install media and help them boot to it. They figured the rest out and didn't have issues either.

  • More than half of children in ICE immigration courts are representing themselves, DOJ data shows

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  • More than half of the children with deportation orders are representing themselves in immigration courts, according to data from the Department of Justice.

    President Donald Trump’s massive immigration crackdown has made headlines for what many view as Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s aggressive tactics and alleged inhumane conditions at detention centers.

    But what is less talked about are the hundreds of thousands of children navigating the immigration court system as they face deportation.

    Of the 751,861 children with pending removal cases, 57 percent, or 425,093 of them, do not have lawyers, Drop Site News reported Friday.

    The independent investigative news site’s figures were sourced from an analysis of data from the DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review conducted by the Vera Institute of Justice.

  • PlayStation fans brutally reject Sony's disc decision, eye Windows 11 PCs over Xbox

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  • You got an abnormal issue, and I would help you troubleshoot if you'd like.

  • PlayStation fans brutally reject Sony's disc decision, eye Windows 11 PCs over Xbox

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  • Nvidia hasn't been an issue for like 10 years.

    It's super easy to install either the open or proprietary nvidia drivers on most distros nowadays.

    And KDE with Wayland works great on nvidia GPUs.

  • PlayStation fans brutally reject Sony's disc decision, eye Windows 11 PCs over Xbox

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  • Some prebuilts allow you to skip the OS or the drive altogether and save money

  • PlayStation fans brutally reject Sony's disc decision, eye Windows 11 PCs over Xbox

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  • Save about $100 and your sanity by using Linux over Windows

  • Some moments in BSG would give even Janeway pause

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  • So say we all

  • Mullvad VPN co-founder donated ~500,000USD to Swedish far-right political party

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  • Why is it so fucking hard to not fund fascists?

    I really hope this is not true. I need to see a second source to confirm.

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • Wilfred kind of trancends genres but mostly has you laughing.

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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    • American Crime Story (2016) [Season 2]

      Season two examines the 1997 murder of legendary fashion designer Gianni Versace outside of his Miami Beach mansion by serial killer Andrew Cunanan, interweaving storylines involving the lead-up to the murder and the criminal investigation that includes a nationwide manhunt for Cunanan.

    • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016)

      A comedic thriller that follows the bizarre adventures of eccentric “holistic” detective Dirk Gently and his reluctant assistant Todd. An adaptation of Douglas Adams’ wildly successful comic novels.

    • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002)

      In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too difficult for the police. Section 9 employs hackers, sharpshooters, detectives and cyborgs all in an effort to thwart cyber criminals and their plans to attack the innocent.

    • Mad Men (2007)

      Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising.

    • Orb: On the Movements of the Earth (2024)

      After learning heretical teachings about the Earth and the Sun, a child prodigy searches for his master's hidden research while evading the Inquisition.

    • Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

      Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.

    • Twin Peaks (1990)

      The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.

    • Utopia (2013)

      The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.

    • Wilfred (2011)

      Everyone else sees Wilfred as just a dog, but Ryan sees a crude and somewhat surly, yet irrepressibly brave and honest Australian bloke in a cheap dog suit. While leading him through a series of comedic and existential adventures, Wilfred the dog shows Ryan the man how to overcome his fears and joyfully embrace the unpredictability and insanity of the world around him.

  • FCC may kill $2B program that connects schools and libraries to Internet | FCC Chairman Brendan Carr cites screen time concerns, is accused of trying to be “the nation’s parent.”

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  • I'm not going to lie, screen time at public school is a concern for me. But that's an issue with the school district. I still want them to have fucking internet.

    Fuck Brandan Carr.

  • The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks To Get Online

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  • The "KIDS Act" Is an Age Surveillance Bill, Take Action. Tell Congress to reject this age-gating bill

    Within the next week, Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sprawling package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package includes a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, combined with a collection of other internet bills, study bills, reporting requirements, and new regulations. Instead of debating any of these proposals on their merits, lawmakers are attempting to move them all at once under an ultra-expedited process. 

    The package of cobbled-together bills is a mess, with different age-gating schemes for different services, using different standards. It’s a lot of complexity, and a lot of legal risk. Faced with that, many companies will conclude that the safest option is restrictive age-checking practices across their entire platforms.

    Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about private and encrypted communications. While supporters continue to claim this bill protects minors online, its requirements come at the expense of privacy, free expression, and the ability of people of all ages to use the internet without revealing sensitive data.

  • North Carolina Senate Bill 153 requires state police to contribute to the federal government's cruel deportation campaign

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  • Senate Bill 153 includes multiple provisions targeting immigrant communities in North Carolina:

    • Requiring several state law enforcement agencies to enter into 287(g) agreements with ICE
    • Removing governmental immunity for local governments that violate the state’s anti-sanctuary law
    • Requiring state agencies to take additional, unnecessary steps to ensure that undocumented people are not accessing public benefits
    • Preventing UNC Schools from passing policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement

    SB 153 is a blatant attack on immigrant communities. It forces state law enforcement to contribute to the federal government's cruel deportation campaign and doubles down on preventing local governments and universities from working to protect our immigrant communities.

  • ICE detention is as bad as it sounds. I’ve been living it for 2 years

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  • When I wake in the morning, there are no signs of the new day. There are no windows in my cell, and a light has been on all night. Like one long nightmare, it can be difficult to keep track of when one day ends and the next begins. And so life goes inside the California City Detention Facility. It feels like the land of the living dead.

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    Having been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for nearly two years, I’ve come to learn that this sort of lawlessness lies at the core of the U.S. detention system. The rule of law does not exist inside detention for me or the countless others I’ve met during my time in ICE custody.

    When I entered the country in 2024 from Belize, I was fleeing persecution. Where I expected to find refuge and due process in the U.S., I’ve instead found myself imprisoned. When I claimed asylum at the border, I was subject to mandatory detention, pursuant to Section 1225 of U.S. Code.

    Over the last two years, I’ve been transferred between three detention centers: first at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, then at Golden State Annex in McFarland and finally here in California City. All of these detention facilities have in common a fundamental disregard for our health and well-being.

    At California City, I have both witnessed and personally experienced negligent treatment and the routine violation of our rights. I assume much of the misconduct here stems from private prison corporations’ motivation to make as much money as possible. When a corporation — in this case, CoreCivic — sees us as dollar signs instead of people, it’s easy to understand why they cut corners at the expense of our safety.

    Here at California City, when I suffered from tonsillitis, I was never taken to the medical unit despite my repeated requests for treatment. Most others I have met along the way have also faced medical neglect, and many have been left worse off than myself.

    Last November, when I stood up for others’ medical care — including those in need of urgent treatment and medications for conditions like heart disease and diabetes — I and several others were sent to solitary confinement in retaliation.

    As lawsuits and investigations have demonstrated, severe medical neglect in ICE custody is a systemic problem. This medical neglect is particularly worrisome amid a record-high numbers of deaths occurring across ICE’s detention system. The death rate has more than doubled under the current administration, according to a recent Reuters analysis.

    In response to a *lawsuit brought *by some of us inside, a federal court ordered ICE to provide basic healthcare like access to emergency services, specialists and prescription medications. As far as I can tell as a detained person, ICE and prison officials have so far failed to comply with this order.

    Medical neglect is not our only problem here. CoreCivic, like other for-profit prison operators, pays detained people $1 a day to do cleaning jobs around the facility and other work. This is the only way many people can buy essential food and hygiene products from the commissary — yet another way CoreCivic profits.

    There is little programming here, and our freedom of movement is severely restricted. We often spend more time each day inside our 8-by-8 cell than outside of it. The temperature goes from one extreme to the next, either too hot or too cold. Sometimes we are allowed up to one hour outside in the yard, but being in the middle of the desert under the hot sun, even this outdoor time provides little relief.

    Recently, the detention center has been stricken by a drug problem. I fear it is a matter of when, not if, someone is the victim of a fatal overdose. And those in need of rehab are sent to solitary confinement — a dangerous response that seems to be used for any and every problem that staff refuse to address. On top of that, officers often work 18-hour shifts. CoreCivic and ICE have created a precarious environment in which we are all pushed to our limits.

    Simply put, this place is hell on Earth. I have come to believe that everything here is designed to break you, to make you sign your own deportation order and give up on your case.

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    I will continue to advocate for myself and others, alongside allies beyond these walls. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from — we all have the right to live and be treated with fairness and basic human dignity.

    Brady Tillett is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the California City Detention Facility in Kern County.

  • Tulsi Gabbard’s Fauci Files Don’t Prove What She Says They Prove

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  • Cul[tis]t

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Georgian [immigrant] is 50[+] person to die in ICE detention during immigration crackdown

    abcnews.com /US/georgian-migrant-50th-person-die-ice-detention-immigration/story
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    'There Must Be Accountability,' Says Jayapal in Response to 50+ ICE Detainee Deaths

    www.commondreams.org /news/jayapal-ice-deaths
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Senate OKs $70B immigration bill after rejecting efforts to permanently ban Trump’s settlement fund

    apnews.com /article/trump-settlement-fund-ice-border-patrol-vote-93b9f5b487997b629d87bf59a046d7ec
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Inside [the Concentration Camp Called] Delaney Hall’s Black Box

    www.motherjones.com /politics/2026/06/inside-delaney-halls-black-box/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    US Accepts Only White Refugees For Sixth Consecutive Month

    www.motherjones.com /politics/2026/06/south-africa-white-genocide-afrikaner-refugees-asylum/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Private [For-Profit] Prison Corporation Operating Delaney Hall [Concentration Camp] Sees Record Profits While Starving Detainees & Using Forced Labor

    quadzillahikes.substack.com /p/private-prison-corporation-operating
  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump says he won’t sign any bills into law until SAVE America Act passes

    thehill.com /homenews/administration/5773642-trump-save-act-senate-pressure/
  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    Sgt. Brian McGinnis is out of jail after he was arrested for exercising his 1st amendment right, opposing war in Congress.

  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    Brass Solidarity band, covering Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” at the Abolish ICE Festival in Minneapolis, MN, across the street from where Alex Pretti was murdered.

  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    'Unconstitutional detention': ICE must 'immediately' release immigrant who was detained after calling 911 to help save someone else's life, judge says

    lawandcrime.com /high-profile/unconstitutional-detention-ice-must-immediately-release-immigrant-who-was-detained-after-calling-911-to-help-save-someone-elses-life-judge-says/
  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    Mother Jones

    DHS built a face scanning app. You might already be in it.

  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    Immigration reporter detained by ICE after dropping off her eight-year-old daughter

    archive.ph /uwYzO
  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    IRS chief reveals nobody was fired for illegally sharing data with ICE ‘approximately 42,695 times’

    fortune.com /2026/03/06/irs-chief-nobody-was-fired-for-sharing-taxpayer-data-with-ice/
  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/mar/06/ice-arrest-oregon-shop-owner
  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says

    tucson.com /news/local/border/article_a5053df1-4ade-4424-972f-e9f5270829bb.html
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    Trump says he’s cutting all trade with Spain for refusing his Iran war request

    www.independent.co.uk /bulletin/news/trump-spain-iran-war-trade-german-chancellor-friedrich-merz-b2931255.html
  • AltMedia @altmedia.house
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    Bloody backpack of Iranian girl killed in US-Israeli attack on Iranian elementary school

  • AltMedia @altmedia.house
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    US/Israel strike on girl's school in Iran massacred 40 children

  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État

    newrepublic.com /post/207138/trump-coup-detat-midterm-elections
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Obvious "AI" slop trying to garner sympathy for fascist paramilitary invaders. Do not fall for generated propaganda. Learn to tell the difference.