Oh man, do I dare even wade in on this issue. It has gotten so sticky.
There’s a real chance that this attack was successful because of intelligence passed through former US President Donald Trump.
The attack did not represent the will of everyone who lives in Palestine.
The response from Israel so far has been wildly disproportionate and has labelled everyone in Gaza as an enemy, worth pulling access to important things like water and electricity to the whole area. They are calling them “human animals.”
There are literally zero good guys in this situation.
You have the former President of the US and his party who have fully embraced trying to push an authoritarian dictatorship in the states, so they have firmly placed their bets alongside foreign authoritarian dictators whom they want to make allyship with.
You have Hamas deciding to murder people for going to a concert. Maybe the concert was politically motivated or something, but from the sounds of it, it was just… a music concert and wasn’t necessarily a home to the most racist of racist Israeli’s. Plenty of the people who died there that day could have been moderates or leftists who don’t hate the Palestinian people. There are lots of moderates in Israel, you just don’t hear about them as much, because like the US, our crazed conservatives are so loud they drown out anything else in the news cycle. Like why the fuck else would I have been so familiar with the name “Netanyahu” for the last 20 years of my life, but I could hardly bring up the name of moderate or leftists Israeli politicians to save my fucking life. Because Netanyahu, like Trump is the one out doing crazy shit and causing headlines. So likely innocent people dead for a political attack that is likely going to destroy even more innocent lives in Gaza.
Then finally you have Israel deciding (like usual) to take a total disproportionate and racist response where you’re punishing each and every Palestinian for the crimes of a few. It’s racist because they have decided that “all of them are the same.” If you can’t view a group of people as a disparate group who might not all feel the same way about every little thing, you’ve chosen to stereotype them, especially if your view of them is negative, you’re choosing to be prejudiced instead of accepting that everyone is an individual, and no individual deserves to be punished for the crimes of another.
Fuck this whole shit ass clown show. We’re all just trying to have a decent fucking life here. They’re right to call out Israel, they’re wrong to not call out Hamas and Trump right alongside them.
It’s also starting to have a mild 9/11 feel, where the government was warned repeatedly, and you’re starting to wonder if they sort of just… let it happen because the aftermath would be politically convenient for what they wanted to do politically?
I mean, it’s Netanyahu we’re talking about here, I 100% firmly believe he’s enough of a scumfuck to let it happen on purpose so he could use to his advantage.
Zero good guys. The Bad, the Badder, and the Ugly.
Israeli intelligence services are supposed to be some of the best in the world. They absolutely have the tools for a targeted response.
I agree, involving more civilians will just continue the unbroken cycle of violence, because that’s how you create new sympathizers for Hamas. You take one politically neutral Palestinian, and have family members murdered by Israel in response to an attack by Hamas, and boom, suddenly, not shockingly, they support Hamas. It really undermines solving the problem.
Israeli military has the tools to root out the individuals responsible, and I really wish they would turn to those tools instead of indiscriminate bombing.
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People need to stop acting like the FBI are better than any other cops or acting “surprised” that it took them this long to take this seriously. This is par for the course with the FBI.
They’re doing this begrudgingly. They didn’t want to stop January 6th, because you’ve got a lot of Trump sympathizers in the Bureau, but after the fact, they needed to “prove” themselves since they obviously fucked up massively by ignoring a coup attempt that was so brazen, so not hidden, so out in the open that motherfuckers printed up t-shirts for the event.
Stop acting like this is anything but covering up for a right wing organization with a history of abusing left wing movements while letting right wing movements thrive. This is the same FBI that wrote letters to MLK Jr telling him he should commit suicide. This is the same FBI that railroaded Bruce Ivins over Anthrax in the Bush years (literally Robert Mueller) only for it later to be proven that it was impossible for Ivins to have produced Anthrax that pure. This is the same FBI that has made it a mission since the Bush years to find troubled, mentally-ill US citizens, put guns or bombs in their hands and push them to commit violence, only to swoop in at the last second, stop the violence, and then claim “We’re stopping terrorism!” It’s such a commonly known thing they do, comedy movies have been made about the subject.
In other words, the FBI is responsible for creating homegrown terrorists as a business model for funding for the last 20 years. Do we really believe that they’re so concerned about the MAGA threat after they completely ignored it during the Trump years?
This is PR bullshit. This is to cover for the fact that at the end of the day, the FBI are cops and what do we say about cops, kids?
The problem in the US is that they don’t do nearly enough to stop bad cops or make them face punishment.
If you’re a so called “good” cop but you can’t stop your compatriots from organizing internal gangs and breaking the law with impunity and hiding behind the benefits of the badge (qualified immunity, civil forfeiture, etc), you have become a bad cop.
They always claim it’s “a couple of bad apples” while ignoring the whole phrase is “a couple of bad apples spoil the bunch.”
You don’t get to claim being a good cop if you work with bad cops and aren’t doing everything you can to get them punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Yes, that’s even if it’s because you knew there would be violent retaliation up to and including being murdered by your fellow cops (that has happened recently in California). You can either walk away with the evidence you have and give it to the public, or you can sit on it for your own safety.
I mean seriously, if there’s cops willing to fuck up your life because you’re a good cop, the entire system is already off the fucking rails, my man.
Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that he would not give Democrats anything in exchange for their votes to help save his Speakership, after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) moved to force a vote on ousting him....
In a sit-down conversation with ProPublica, Biden discusses Kevin McCarthy’s “terrible bargain,” the fear of change that drives threats to democracy and the Supreme Court’s need for an ethics policy.
I will never label “best President of my lifetime” the guy who let war criminals walk and then legalized and codified some of the worst aspects of the War on Terror.
Why is Donald Trump walking free? Because we couldn’t/wouldn’t even begin to prosecute war criminals.
Milquetoast Obama letting war criminals walk literally set the stage for this. You don’t get to be shocked about the kid-gloves treatment for Trump after knowing “the best President of your lifetime” chose to not prosecute war criminals because it “might appear partisan” or some dumb shit. It’s literally the same dumb hand-wringing we get with Trump today. We are stuck with Trump because Obama didn’t have the fucking balls to prosecute war criminals.
Why are they scared to prosecute a former President? Because we have refused to do it again and again when it matters.
Anyone have any advice on how to choose between TruNAS, openmediavault, etc for homelab. I want to run nextcloud and jellyfin and maybe some VMs, though I also don’t really think that RAID is the best option for future proofing but I could be wrong.
The United States’ poverty rate experienced its largest one-year jump on record last year, with the rate among children more than doubling from 2021’s historic low of 5.2 percent to 12.4 percent according to new numbers from the US Census Bureau out today. They’re the latest data to reflect the devastating effects...
A Georgia grand jury recommended criminal charges against Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham and other allies of Donald Trump as part of its investigation into efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 presidential defeat, said a report released on Friday....
Yeah, the continued treating Trump with kid gloves and continually proving there are two separate justice systems gives me very, very little faith anything will actually happen to him.
Remember, they weren’t actually looking to prosecute him for much of anything until the documents fiasco where they gave him multiple chances to cough up the documents, but only turned it into a criminal prosecution when it became completely clear he was unwilling to cooperate. They’ve slow walked this shit as much as humanly possible and not to “ensure the case is rock solid.”
The fact is, any normal person would have been locked up two years ago, with an unaffordable bail, and would have been thrown behind bars with additional charges the first time he threatened the courts, the jurists, and society in general.
Hell, there was an anarchist in Florida who simply posted online about how people needed to own guns and be prepared to defend themselves. He posted these ideas online on January 6th and in the days following. He has never committed any violence. He’s got a longer prison sentence than a lot of people who were actually present at January 6th.
I’ll believe something is going to happen to Trump when I fucking see it.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’ -Isaac Asimov
I kind of agree with Asimov here, I think the cult of ignorance has been with us a long time, I think it springs from the puritans who emigrated here to escape the “persecution” of living in Europe during the Enlightenment. I mean, we’re talking about dumbing things down for a country that historically had witch burnings and more recently a Satanic Panic? The cult of ignorance has always been here, it’s just grown cancerous due to proliferation of misinformation and disinformation.
What’s worse is Carlin was so correct that it helped create an entire disaffected generation, known as Generation X, that basically stopped caring about politics and became increasingly cynical because Carlin was right: it was never going to get better.
So why even bother trying to fight it? And they didn’t.
To be fair, I don’t blame them one bit, their numbers were dwarfed by the boomers, and they never, not once, had political relevancy.
Krombopulos Corp: Oh boy, here I go polluting again!
Seriously, though. Why is it whenever it’s Republicans throwing the entire country in the shitter, government agencies hands are tied and they can’t do anything about it, but when it’s a Republican President with a Republican majority in at least one house of congress, government agencies suddenly don’t have their hands tied and are able to get away with absoltuely fucktons of egregious evil shit? They curiously only have their hands tied when it actually fucking helps people.
While Regan said he was disappointed with the high court’s ruling, he indicated that the agency’s hands were tied and that it must weaken wetland protections to enforce the court’s decision.
“EPA will never waver from our responsibility to ensure clean water for all. Moving forward, we will do everything we can with our existing authorities and resources to help communities, states, and tribes protect the clean water upon which we all depend,”
Except you literally just did waver from your responsibility to ensure clean water for all. I’m so sick of public officials speaking to us as though we don’t see through this utter bullshit.
The Supreme Court can’t enforce shit, so following the rules they literally pulled out of their Federalist Society asses seems like it’s just capitulating to their lies and bullshit. If it’s clear that they’re just making their decisions up as they go, choosing things that fit their pre-defined worldview (it’s pretty fucking clear), then why the fuck would we take those decisions seriously? Instead of deriding them as the outlandish buffoonery they are?
John Marshall Roberts has made his decision, now let him enforce it.
Except for anyone who uses CloudFlare for DNS because Archive.is doesn’t respect the privacy of people who visit their pages! It’s totally broken for CloudFlare users, and has been for years now. Please use archive.org or ghostarchive.org.
We don’t block archive.is or any other domain via 1.1.1.1. […] Archive.is’s authoritative DNS servers return bad results to 1.1.1.1 when we query them. I’ve proposed we just fix it on our end but our team, quite rightly, said that too would violate the integrity of DNS and the privacy and security promises we made to our users when we launched the service. […] The archive.is owner has explained that he returns bad results to us because we don’t pass along the EDNS subnet information. This information leaks information about a requester’s IP and, in turn, sacrifices the privacy of users.
If he’s caught (which I think will be soon) this is a great way to guarantee the maximum sentence. If he’s not caught, he gets to spend the rest of his life hiding and afraid. Either way, the public wins… but I’d rather see him in prison.
Biden defeated Trump by nearly 8m votes in 2020, a substantial if not overwhelming margin of victory. Matters were very different in the electoral college. A combined total of 44,000 votes handed Biden victory in the swing states of Arizona, Wisconsin and Georgia....
Oh no! What will we do if the actual majority has a democratic voice as opposed to the “silent majority” that isn’t a majority at all but has achieved outsized importance through gerrymandering, stacking the courts, purging people from voters roles, and making voting difficult for the actual majority.
I could give a fuck about the uneducated fucking yokels who have held this country back for 200 fucking years.
When I refer to yokels, I am referring to Christianity and in general puritanism and am in no way meaning to denigrate the working class, chum. Those Christians purposefully don’t learn things and try to prevent their families from learning things, whereas the working class learns difficult specialized labor.
Yokel means an uneducated, unsophisticated person from the countryside, not the working class and blue collar labor. I’m sorry for any confusion on this part.
You know, I made my account on Lemmy.ml for a reason, so maybe you can back off and realize we’re on the same page. Like dude, my first comment was advocating direct democracy, not praising the fucking sick broken system we live in. I’m not exactly a fan of political parties here myself, or the founding fathers, or the constitution, so take it down a notch.
And to be fair, Trumps outreach was being a racist fucking pig and authoritarian who promoted killing your enemies. Is that the outreach you want us to use, or aren’t we supposed to be out here punching Nazis, not breaking bread with them? Like holy shit you had me until that bullshit. They voted for him because they want to be able to grab women by the pussy with no repercussion like he does not because they’re fucking misguided.
Debating these minute differences sounds like Manufacturing Consent to me.
Obama is far from a saint, and every US President has the same blood of Empire on their hands.
But this is rich from a guy who bailed after it was pointed out that Trump literally has no platform, only offers racism, sexism, xenophobia, hate and authoritarianism, and that maybe we shouldn’t be trying to court the opinions of people who support those things.
I’m sure all the people in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana will surely be lining up to vote for whatever out of touch liberal you are supporting instead of the person who actually engages with them.*
In this hypothetical, Trump was the person who actually engaged with them, and he won in 2016 because of that outreach.
I’m sure that buffoon really engaged them with his fucking unhinged rants and making fun of disabled people. His voters have been very honest about who they are, and it’s not our fault you’re not listening and instead arguing we should be engaging with authoritarians.
Sounds like Manufacturing Consent to me, from someone happy to debate the minute differences when it suits them.
You’re the one acting like working class people must be uneducated, and thus a word like “yokel” would apply to them.
Also, Trump literally had no platform in 2020. How is that engaging the voters? What did he engage them on, sir?
I’m not re-litigating 2016, I’ve spent 7 years being browbeat by the “Fuck your feelings” Trump voters who are happy to abuse minorities and anyone they deem “different.” So the fuck out of here with that noise.
I live in the city where Trump and his goons had someone extrajudicially murdered, so it hits pretty fucking close to home, thanks.
voting for “Bad” means you support the bad, telling yourself the alternative is “worse” is just a coping mechanism and ensures no one will ever get any other choices.
This is what someone with no agency and no ability to ever organize something like a nationwide vote strike/write-in campaign tells themselves as a big fucking cope. Sure, you’ve got agency in this system, buddy. Sure you do.
No, that you have the smug superiority of someone who is like “I vote with my principles” which is great and all, but it literally doesn’t make you better than anyone else or have a reason to tell others that participating means “they support it” especially if that’s literally the only actual agency they have in this shitty fucking system, voting. (Protip, it’s literally the only agency they have.)
On top of the verifiable harm that attitude that does to minorities in the USA. It’s easily arguable that no matter what party you vote for, you’re hurting minorities all over the planet, but sorry sir, I’m about general harm reduction, even if it’s halfassed in the short term.
I don’t think letting the worse win for your pyrrhic personal victory is in any way fucking helpful, nor is acting like you’re somehow better, smarter, or more capable than others for it, or that it means they support those things.
I’m on the left, and you’re just being a smug asshat, dude. Maybe not classist, but sure obviously think you’re better than everyone else here. Do you think that’s helpful? Great job not using classist words but still acting like a smug know it all prick who thinks they know better but can’t be fucked to actually help educate, but instead wants to put others down for not already knowing. Sounds pretty fucking classist to me.
Like there’s a thousand ways you could have participated in this thread without being a rude jerk. You chose to be a rude jerk, what does that say about you?
Yeah I guess this guy forgot that Mr. Trump notoriously had a lot of white collar white people voting for him, and that his “base” absolutely isn’t just the rural working class.
I guess the working class in cities don’t exist or something. /s
Resorting to making assumptions that couldn’t be further off base? Obama solidified the worst aspects of the Bush presidency and told us to “look forward, not backward” in regards to fucking war criminals. He had plenty of scandals that were mostly swept under the rug by the media. He himself admitted that if he had ran in the 1980’s he would have been running as a Republican. He ran on a public option but then said “Fuck you people” and gave us RomneyCare.
It’s true that the list of 19 names Willis read out Monday night — "Jenna Ellis, “Sidney Powell,” “Robert Cheeley” — sounded more like the membership roster at a tony suburban golf club than like characters on “The Sopranos.” DeSantis and Giuliani are clearly leaning into stereotypes that frame “organized...
They don’t give a shit because they’re not arguing in good faith. You’re not going to convince them of anything with “Hey Republicans!”
They know exactly what they are doing.
It’s like two brothers who know they committed a crime, but no one witnessed it, so as long as they both keep up the lie, no one else can ever say the truth and know it to be true. Every single one of them holds the truth in their chest, believing they can change the truth of reality as long as they reject reality and substitute their own “truth” and never, ever admit the reality.
It’s all a purposeful charade to take power and avoid responsibility. Period. That’s all it has ever been.
Fucking finally. The Obama administration declined to go after Assange because they knew how bad it would look for press freedoms in the US.
If they went after Assange, they could rightly go after the New York Times as well. NYT general counsel has said as much for years. Letting the case continue as-is was setting up for long term disaster regarding press freedoms.
The Trump administration had zero qualms about killing press freedoms. I gotta be at least reasonably thankful the Biden administration is trying to find a less severe offramp for what the Trump admin started.
Whatever you think of Assange (it is perfectly valid to not like him or what he does), this case was a dangerous precedent for press freedom in the US, so having it downgraded to less severe charges would be a good thing.
Now now, I am not saying Obama or Biden administrations are paragons of freedom of press, but a lot of that had very little directly to do with Assange’s case.
Greenwald’s partner, for example, had far more to do with the US trying to catch Snowden. They brought down a foreign Presidents plane to try to catch Snowden, no less.
My point is simply that the Grand Jury that was impaneled to look at Assange during the Obama years chose not to prosecute because they couldn’t disentangle other media outlets. If they charged Assange, it would be open season on the New York Times, which also published the documents. I think that was a wise decision.
Now the US establishment was all too happy to smear Assange during this time, especially in regards to the Swedish case and his claims of worries of extradition, but legally, they didn’t actually pursue him, for valid reasons. Legal pursuit came during the Trump administration, which was happy to destroy the future of press freedoms tenfold.
Just cleaned out mt garage, closet, and attic. No clue why I kept every single box of anything electronic/tech based in the last ten years. I just tossed boxes for phones I haven’t had in years, old CPU and heat sync boxes, boxes for 100mbps nics, old modems I don’t have anymore. I’ve never needed any of these and have...
I’ll be honest, the fact that our “justice” system is on the fence about whether or not we should prosecute a former President just shows how much of a fucking sham the entire fucking system is. The fact that the DOJ sat on it at first and only decided to go forward because he kept committing fucking crimes because he can’t help himself is fucking disgusting. They did everything they could to let him go with a slap on the wrist. Fucking sickening.
We may as well still have fucking Monarchy if they’re not willing to actually prosecute prolifically criminal motherfuckers like this.
In other words, yes, I agree with the title. It’s the most important criminal prosecution in US history because finally after 60-some fucking years of non-stop corruption, we’re finally even considering doing something about it.
There’s been precedent with nearly every president since Nixon. I’d maybe leave out Jimmy Carter, but even has skeletons in his closet. Reagan, Bush, Bush II, and Obama all had scandals and criminality that were minimized. I find it odd that people don’t realize that Obama continued some of the worst aspects of the Bush administration. It’s why I pegged it at sixty years. There was absolutely corruption before Nixon, too, but it became more egregious after him.
EDIT: Getting downvotes because I guess people have rosy memories of Obama? Obama told me whose team he was on the second he said “We need to look forward, not backward” at not prosecuting anyone in the Bush admin for lying to the world about WMD’s and leading us into an illegal and wasteful war in the middle east, a war that Obama ramped up drone warfare in. As if that wasn’t a precedent of ignoring Republican crimes that lead us to exactly where we are fucking now with everyone treating Trump with kid gloves. Bush and Cheney are literal fucking war criminals, and people cooed over how cute it was that Bush shared candy with Michelle Obama. Give me a break. That shit is precisely what lead us here, treating war criminals with kid gloves.
Yeah the guys who said “all men are created equal” while giving themselves rights to own other humans as property, and only allowing land-owning white men the right to vote, those guys were “good guys?” Right? Right?? /s
It would probably be more clear to say we had a handful in the middle (like maybe one or two really) who weren’t total complete utter pieces of shit. Like LBJ and maybe Ike (mostly for his farewell address and how prescient it was), but even with the good things they did, they were also pretty big pieces of shit in their own ways.
However with that being said there has never been an American president that was an outright corrupt traitor like Trump was
My brother in Christ, that’s literally my point. It took literally the most absolutely corrupt and endlessly shameless idiot on the planet to actually make our government consider prosecuting anyone in the upper echelons of government for clear crimes. It’s fucking sickening that it took this obscene level of criminality for it to become something worth doing something about, and they tried their hardest to softwalk it and give him chances to return the documents! Who knows if we’d even have the J6 case if it wasn’t for the documents fiasco!
I didn’t know being an incontinent hyper-obese sack of shit who eats like a petulant ten year old was “manly.”
But I guess I shouldn’t put it past Meal Team Six about being totally fucking delusional.
EDIT: I mean holy fuck this petulant pustule won’t even spend time with his own fucking son Barron anymore, because he absolutely has to be the tallest man in the room and he is fucking dwarfed by Barron. Yeah, real fucking manly to not even spend time with your progeny because you don’t like the idea that he’s taller than you. What a fucking loser ass pig.
I’m just going to be vulnerable for a minute here. I met the first person in real life who had similar server-y linux-y obsessions to me and we’d send eBay links of systems to drool over to eachother. They ended up being a terrible person but hid it from me pretty well until they couldn’t anymore and now I no longer have...
Tlaib, Bush criticized by Democrats over statements calling for end to Israel support ( thehill.com )
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[News] McCarthy says he won’t give Democrats anything in exchange for support as Speaker ( thehill.com )
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that he would not give Democrats anything in exchange for their votes to help save his Speakership, after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) moved to force a vote on ousting him....
The Biden Interview: The President Talks About the Supreme Court, Threats to Democracy and Trump’s Vow to Exact Retribution ( www.propublica.org )
In a sit-down conversation with ProPublica, Biden discusses Kevin McCarthy’s “terrible bargain,” the fear of change that drives threats to democracy and the Supreme Court’s need for an ethics policy.
Fox News Announces a Newsom and DeSantis Debate in November ( www.nytimes.com )
Full article: imgur.com/a/zQgPuoQ
55% of women say listening to Joe Rogan is a red flag ( changeresearch.com )
Various nuggets of interest in this survey of Gen Z and millennials
Trump Privately Frets He Could Be Headed to Prison ( www.rollingstone.com )
Picking the tight software
Anyone have any advice on how to choose between TruNAS, openmediavault, etc for homelab. I want to run nextcloud and jellyfin and maybe some VMs, though I also don’t really think that RAID is the best option for future proofing but I could be wrong.
Child poverty in the United States just more than doubled. You can thank Joe Manchin. ( www.motherjones.com )
The United States’ poverty rate experienced its largest one-year jump on record last year, with the rate among children more than doubling from 2021’s historic low of 5.2 percent to 12.4 percent according to new numbers from the US Census Bureau out today. They’re the latest data to reflect the devastating effects...
Georgia grand jury recommended charging Lindsey Graham, other Trump allies ( www.reuters.com )
A Georgia grand jury recommended criminal charges against Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham and other allies of Donald Trump as part of its investigation into efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 presidential defeat, said a report released on Friday....
Trump: 'I'm Allowed to Do Whatever I Want' With Classified Info ( www.rollingstone.com )
The former president told Hugh Hewitt that he “absolutely” would testify in the federal government’s probe of his handling of sensitive material...
A net of justice is tightening around 2020 election deniers and may be closing in on Trump | CNN Politics ( www.cnn.com )
How did we get here? The dumbing of America, from Reagan to Trump and beyond ( www.salon.com )
Note from the OP: this is an opinion piece, not a news piece....
EPA rolls back federal water protections following high court decision ( www.tucsonsentinel.com )
In court, Trump supporter faces election official he violently threatened ( webcache.googleusercontent.com )
Proud Boy Christopher Worrell, on house arrest in Jan. 6 case, disappears ahead of sentencing ( apnews.com )
If he’s caught (which I think will be soon) this is a great way to guarantee the maximum sentence. If he’s not caught, he gets to spend the rest of his life hiding and afraid. Either way, the public wins… but I’d rather see him in prison.
Trump’s indictment can’t solve the real threat: our undemocratic electoral system ( www.theguardian.com )
Biden defeated Trump by nearly 8m votes in 2020, a substantial if not overwhelming margin of victory. Matters were very different in the electoral college. A combined total of 44,000 votes handed Biden victory in the swing states of Arizona, Wisconsin and Georgia....
Hey, Republicans! It's Trump who "criminalized politics," by turning the GOP into a two-bit mafia ( www.salon.com )
It’s true that the list of 19 names Willis read out Monday night — "Jenna Ellis, “Sidney Powell,” “Robert Cheeley” — sounded more like the membership roster at a tony suburban golf club than like characters on “The Sopranos.” DeSantis and Giuliani are clearly leaning into stereotypes that frame “organized...
U.S. Official Hints at Possible Plea Deal for Julian Assange ( theintercept.com )
Excerpt:...
You Don't Need to Keep Every Electronic Box!
Just cleaned out mt garage, closet, and attic. No clue why I kept every single box of anything electronic/tech based in the last ten years. I just tossed boxes for phones I haven’t had in years, old CPU and heat sync boxes, boxes for 100mbps nics, old modems I don’t have anymore. I’ve never needed any of these and have...
U.S. v. Trump Is the Most Important Criminal Prosecution in American History ( nymag.com )
Trump’s Rivals Can’t Compete With His Version Of Masculinity ( fivethirtyeight.com )
Revoking the SSH Keys of a Friend Sucks
I’m just going to be vulnerable for a minute here. I met the first person in real life who had similar server-y linux-y obsessions to me and we’d send eBay links of systems to drool over to eachother. They ended up being a terrible person but hid it from me pretty well until they couldn’t anymore and now I no longer have...
Analysis: Pandemic deaths in Ohio and Florida show partisan divide after vaccine rollout ( arstechnica.com )
The death gap between Democrats and Republicans was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates.