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I'm not ready to face the light

  • Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive

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  • So sick of the division amongst the left. He is far from perfect, but I'd much rather take a neoliberal over a fascist.

  • UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

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  • Labour has already spoken out and said they will make no attempts to ban VPNs.

  • We never stood a chance.

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  • Then prove it instead of just speculating.

    The proof we do have is that Webb became extremely depressed because of all the media slander, his loss of credibility as a journalist from his peers and the general population and ultimately, the resignation from his position, inability to find a job, and loss of his mortgage and house a week prior to his death.

    What we have zero proof of is why the CIA would want to kill someone that didn't break the significant story in the first place, was already widely discredited and shunned, and EIGHT years after the news had died down.

    Also, it is not impossible to have a suicide with two bullets. It happens rarely when the first shot fails to be immediately lethal. Considering the first bullet went through his left cheek, it probably didn't kill him. It was the second shot that hit an artery.

    On top of that, Webb's own family firmly believe it was a suicide and they would appreciate it if you would treat it as such as they knew him a lot more than you did.

  • We never stood a chance.

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  • Important clarification:

    Webb, an investigative journalist for the San Jose Mercury News, uncovered convincing evidence that proceeds from international cocaine trafficking represented a major source of funding for US-backed right-wing death squads in Nicaragua (known as the Contras) with South Central Los Angeles and other urban African American communities serving as key markets for the drug; and more distressing, that the CIA had become aware of this illicit commerce early on and incorporated it into a broader domestic strategy, allowing the cocaine pipeline to continue and thrive to a massive degree that eventually gave rise to the U.S. "crack epidemic" of the '80s and '90s and the birth of the prison-industrial sector.

    Webb DID NOT break the story of America's crack coming from the Contras with the CIA's approval. That fact had already been available around the time it occurred. Webb's contribution was gathering and sharing the details and more evidence. To be fair, Webb never claimed to have any evidence that the CIA engineered the whole thing, only that they knew it was going on, approved of it, and even met with Contra leaders and funders to discuss it.

    Webb's downfall as a journalist is mainly due to his making unsupported claims. If he had had evidence for all of his claims, it would not have made him vulnerable to being discredited. For example, the US Justice Department found that "the allegations contained in the original Mercury News articles were exaggerations of the actual facts," and that "the claims that Blandón and Meneses were responsible for introducing crack cocaine into South Central Los Angeles and spreading the crack epidemic throughout the country were unsupported." Even Nick Schou, Webb's biographer, agreed that, "the story offered no evidence to support such sweeping conclusions, a fatal error that would ultimately destroy Webb, if not his editors."

    On December 10, 2004, Gary Webb took his own life. It is true that there were two bullet wounds in his head, which has raised suspicions that his death might not have been a suicide. However, no evidence has yet been presented contradicting the coroner's findings, so we have to accept it as such for now.

    And yes, Kill the Messenger (2014) is worth watching. It is a surprisingly accurate film starring Jeremy Renner. It portrays how Webb assembled the story and depicts the media's tomfoolery and its impact on Webb's life. Even Webb's own son liked it.

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  • Trump says he has directed Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing cost

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  • ‘The next recession starts here’: Trump team weighs abolishing bank regulators

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  • Wasn't lack of regulation what caused the 2008 recession?

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    State Senator Filmed Urinating On Himself During DUI Arrest

    www.thedailybeast.com /state-senator-filmed-urinating-on-himself-during-dui-arrest/
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    Trump picks Kelly Loeffler to lead Small Business Administration

    www.cnn.com /2024/12/04/politics/kelly-loeffler-trump-small-business-administration
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    Trump nominates Jared Isaacman—Shift4 CEO, commercial astronaut, and Musk friend—to be next NASA administrator.

    www.cnbc.com /2024/12/04/trump-nominates-jared-isaacman-for-nasa-administrator.html
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    Supreme Court hears arguments in challenge to gender-affirming care ban

    www.lgbtqnation.com /live/live-updates-supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-challenge-to-gender-affirming-care-ban/

  • Village People Singer Denies “Y.M.C.A.” Is a “Gay Anthem” As He Defends Trump’s Use of Song

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  • Way to destroy your legacy!

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    Missouri lawmaker proposes bounty system to report migrants

    www.newsnationnow.com /us-news/immigration/missouri-lawmaker-bounty-migrants/
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    Florida introduces anti-chemtrail bill

    www.newsweek.com /florida-bill-ban-weather-modification-chemtrails-conspiracy-theory-1994060
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    Neo-Nazis, emboldened by Trump's victory, are on the march across the US

    www.wired.com /story/neo-nazi-demonstrations-trump/

  • How valid is the claim that people coming or going to blue sky/mastodon/X/Truth Social will cause echo chambers to increase? is it bad?

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  • You should see the Gab echo chamber, it's absolutely horrifying.

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    How will 25 percent tariff on goods from Mexico, Canada impact Texas?

    www.chron.com /business/article/texas-mexico-canada-trump-tariffs-19952328.php

  • Trump campaign quietly distances itself from RFK jnr after new vaccine safety comments

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  • Now hopefully he drops Elon as well!

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    TIL: ACLU has a webpage that provides answers to scenarios you might experience while you are voting.

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  • You say many states outlaw faithless electors, but a shocking amount, 34 out of 50 states, still count the vote, with only 2 of those 34 actually penalizing it. The rest of the States have proper protections against such a thing from occurring, but faithless electors doing some real damage to an election is still a possibility. Will it happen this time around? Probably not. They've never really come close to changing the outcome of an election, but if they worked together, they could!

    It is worth noting that the 2016 election had 10 faithless electors and was the first election in over 100 years in which multiple electors worked to alter the result of the election.

    Sources: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election

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  • People in the tech community who care about their privacy need to understand that if a product is not open source it should NOT be trusted. Transparency is a necessary factor in guaranteeing privacy, otherwise we cannot see and prove if a person or company's claim to privacy is true.

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    TIL: ACLU has a webpage that provides answers to scenarios you might experience while you are voting.

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  • I'm more worried there will be a record high amount of faithless electors this election season.

  • Trump says RFK Jr. plan to remove fluoride from public water 'sounds okay to me'

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  • Fluoride, when swallowed, can be distributed throughout the body, which includes being in the saliva that covers the teeth. Nevertheless, fluoridated water has been shown with more than enough evidence to improve the quality of teeth in humans compared to its risks (if any) and removing it in water will reduce those benefits.