Last month, Putin called Navalny's demise "sad" and said he had been ready to hand the jailed politician over to the West in a prisoner exchange provided Navalny never return to Russia. Navalny's allies said such talks had been under way [...] Washington had not absolved the Russian leader of overall responsibility for Navalny's...
Eh. On one hand Putin could have killed him at any point, and is fully capable without question, but on the other hand the quality of nutrition, hygiene, and healthcare for anyone incarcerated in Russia Is likely horrific — otherwise healthy people possibly die in these prisons all the time.
The fact Trump is a viable candidate under any circumstance indicates the USA is already a failed state. The only matter up for debate is how long it circles the drain.
Although it would explain why Israel is suddenly arranging to get dozens of jets from the US in the last month or so
That’s just a quid pro quo kickback between the corporatocracy.
“We’ll channel more tax payer money through your military industrial complex if you let us continue with our nationalist ethnostate genocide… We may even start another gulf war and channel trillion$ more”
Over a dozen members of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s family, including six of his siblings, are endorsing President Biden in Philadelphia Thursday even as he makes his own bid for Biden’s job as an independent candidate....
“Given the importance of the trial schedule, the key practical question is whether the court focuses solely on Trump’s case or endorses immunity in other instances. Smith’s gambit is a fallback that would let the court order the trial to proceed even if its opinion extends to broader principles of immunity.”
Joe Biden has vowed that US commitment to defend Israel against Iran was “ironclad” as concerns rose in Washington that a “significant” Iranian strike could happen within days, in retaliation for the bombing of an Iranian consular building in Damascus....
It’s like a mafioso protecting their child. They may disapprove of the childs rogue actions, but they’ll commit whatever crimes necessary to protect them.
They may also encourage/direct the child to commit crimes, but publicly disapprove. “Here’s billions of dollars of weapons, but don’t go and do a genocide (wink wink)”.
The head of the UN’s atomic watchdog agency has condemned a drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine, saying such attacks “significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident”....
in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn’t use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing “hundreds of pages of Facebook documents,” reported that Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”...
A New York appeals court on Monday agreed to hold off collection of former President Donald Trump’s $454 million civil fraud judgment — if he puts up $175 million within 10 days....
Either way, they are trying to avoid being canon fodder for yet another greedy sociopath with illusions of grandeur, in a long line of them stretching back further than recorded history.
They’re damned if they do, and damned if they don’t.
Trumps presidency was 80% pre-covid, and entirely pre-inflation. Bidens was all covid, all inflation that saw the average person lose 20-30% of their pay.
This is how stupid and simplistic the average voter is, and it’s why conservative propaganda works so well. Their feelings don’t care about facts.
Wage rates remain insufficient for individuals and families working to make ends meet. Nowhere can a worker at the 10th percentile of the wage distribution earn enough to meet a basic family budget.
Inflation is reported relative to annual, and compounded over the last 4 years equals roughly 20% — meaning those lower wage workers are still 8% worse off. That’s only if you believe inflation figures are accurate, too. I do not because the cheapest items at my grocery store are still 50+% up from what they were 4 years ago; most governments do not include big ticket items either (where the majority of expenses go) and continuously alter how they report statistics — it’s all a deceptive smoke and mirrors game designed to make it look like the political and economic system isn’t failing; that “the economy” and “the people” are better off today than they were last decade.
Turns out conservatives love authoritarianism and just want to be ruled by a king.
Who would’ve thought the political ideology spawned to conserve the influence of landowners, aristocracy, and monarchy post democratic revolution would turn out to be such of bunch of auth dickholes?
Yeah. People don’t seem to understand that once the fascists have stacked the highest court, it’s game over for the justice system and any semblance of due process. The rule of law is dead. They succeeded in killing it.
Once the fascists have seized control of all 3 branches of government? No amount of voting, protesting, or peaceful demonstration is likely to improve the situation — at that point the only way to restore democracy is through armed revolution and civil war.
If disqualifying candidates based on false pretences is a “constitutional crisis”, why isn’t THIS inverse — restoring an insurrectionist to the ballot — a “constitutional crisis”?
At this point “constitutional crisis” just sounds like another fantasy guard rail “check” or “balance” that people view as a turning point or line in the sand, but in reality everyone will just accept the fascist takeover and act like things aren’t bad enough to do anything about it yet…
I swear, if they shit all over our freedoms 13 or 14 more times, they’re gonna regret the numerous times they shat all over us and we did nothing!
The appearance at a health center will be the latest leg in a nationwide tour by Ms. Harris, who has emerged as the most outspoken defender of abortion rights in the administration. While White House officials say they have largely reached the limits of their power to protect abortion rights, the issue has emerged as a linchpin...
I know with tailscale you can set Mullvad as the exit point for all clients within a subset. I imagine you can do something similar with a private VPN, with a ton more effort.
If you’re on a VPN then the thousand other people using that server provide that type of obfuscation.
What you seem to want is a web crawler that is perceived to be a real human and navigates alternate sites in real time. That’s a near-impossible cat and mouse game. Ultimately not worth the effort. All you have to do is be harder to track than the majority. The value for ad tech is in efficiently profiling the 99% — not the 1% of paranoid folk.
Despite resounding victories on Super Tuesday, there are indications that Donald Trump is still struggling to get strong, united Republican support, which he may need in the presidential election....
And Trump is the antichrist. They know what horse they’re backing, and they’d all go to hell with their false prophet if any of those fairytales were reality… But, in reality, we’re greedy, selfish, talking chimps who are parasitically destroying our host, while killing each other over dumb shit.
US intelligence believes Putin probably didn't order Navalny to be killed, Wall Street Journal reports (www.reuters.com)
Last month, Putin called Navalny's demise "sad" and said he had been ready to hand the jailed politician over to the West in a prisoner exchange provided Navalny never return to Russia. Navalny's allies said such talks had been under way [...] Washington had not absolved the Russian leader of overall responsibility for Navalny's...
Trump seems to get cold feet about testifying in New York hush money trial (www.independent.co.uk)
Kristi Noem killed her pet dog, "Cricket," after the animal misbehaved on a hunting trip, she says (www.salon.com)
‘Political arrest’ of Palestinian academic in Israel is civil liberties threat, say lawyers (www.theguardian.com)
Biden gains on Trump in series of polls (thehill.com)
Israeli missile has struck Iran, US officials say - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
An Israeli missile has hit Iran, two US officials have told the BBC’s US partner CBS News....
Several RFK Jr. siblings set to endorse Biden (www.cbsnews.com)
Over a dozen members of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s family, including six of his siblings, are endorsing President Biden in Philadelphia Thursday even as he makes his own bid for Biden’s job as an independent candidate....
Iran has just strengthened Netanyahu’s hand (www.politico.eu)
Israeli leader had been facing the heat over Gaza, but Tehran’s direct assault now makes it hard for allies to rein in support....
Column: Jack Smith's latest push to get Donald Trump's Jan. 6 trial moving before the election (www.latimes.com)
“Given the importance of the trial schedule, the key practical question is whether the court focuses solely on Trump’s case or endorses immunity in other instances. Smith’s gambit is a fallback that would let the court order the trial to proceed even if its opinion extends to broader principles of immunity.”
Selling Butter At 54% Profit: Leaked Docs Show Loblaws' Exorbitant Markups (thedeepdive.ca)
Biden vows ‘ironclad’ US commitment to Israel amid fears of Iran attack (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden has vowed that US commitment to defend Israel against Iran was “ironclad” as concerns rose in Washington that a “significant” Iranian strike could happen within days, in retaliation for the bombing of an Iranian consular building in Damascus....
UN nuclear watchdog head condemns drone strike on Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (www.theguardian.com)
The head of the UN’s atomic watchdog agency has condemned a drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine, saying such attacks “significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident”....
Chat control is back as proposal in EU despite being voted out just few months ago (www.patrick-breyer.de)
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Russia says NATO, at 75, has returned to Cold War mindset (www.reuters.com)
1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds (www.pbs.org)
America’s largest companies are fueling record inequality, says new study (www.cnn.com)
Seven Hard Truths about the Climate Crisis | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)
Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages (arstechnica.com)
in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn’t use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing “hundreds of pages of Facebook documents,” reported that Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”...
Donald Trump selling Bibles sparks fury from Christians—"Blasphemous grift" (www.newsweek.com)
Former President Donald Trump’s latest venture selling Bibles has sparked the fury of Christians....
Economic pressure has Canadians trimming restaurant outings: report (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Trump is selling 'God Bless the USA' Bibles for $59.99 as he faces mounting legal bills (apnews.com)
Putin says radical Islamists carried out Moscow attack but maintains claim Ukraine was involved (www.theguardian.com)
Russian president says he is interested in ‘who ordered’ terror attack as US and France say Islamic State branch was responsible...
Amazon, SpaceX and other companies are arguing the government agency that has protected labor rights since 1935 is actually unconstitutional (theconversation.com)
Court agrees to block collection of Trump's $454 million civil fraud judgment if he puts up $175M (apnews.com)
A New York appeals court on Monday agreed to hold off collection of former President Donald Trump’s $454 million civil fraud judgment — if he puts up $175 million within 10 days....
Draft-dodging plagues Ukraine as Kyiv faces acute soldier shortage (www.politico.eu)
An early burst of patriotic fervor saw draft centers swamped with volunteers, but that has waned with Vladimir Putin’s war in its third year....
Ukrainian porn star raises funds for war amputees (www.politico.eu)
The adult celebrity is a “patriot of her country,” said one of the amputees who took part in a flirty photo shoot....
The House GOP just gave Biden’s campaign a huge gift: Roughly 80 percent of House Republicans just lined up behind a plan to cut Social Security and ban all abortions (www.vox.com)
Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant....
Putin dismissed US warnings about a potential terror incident as 'blackmail' just 3 days before concert hall attack (www.businessinsider.com)
Gunmen stormed a concert hall in Moscow on Friday, killing at least 60 people and injuring more than 100....
Fastest wage growth over the last four years among historically disadvantaged groups (www.epi.org)
Higher temperatures mean higher food and other prices. A new study links climate shocks to inflation (apnews.com)
Biden Campaign Lists Former Trump Officials Who've Turned Against Him And... Wow (www.huffpost.com)
Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory (www.nature.com)
GOP base has shriveled compared to last presidential election (www.newsweek.com)
The number of people who describe themselves as Republican has slightly declined since the last presidential election....
‘My soul is so tired’: Stormy Daniels stands up to Maga hate in new film (www.theguardian.com)
Former federal judge: Supreme Court ‘dangerously betrayed’ democracy with Trump disqualification decision (thehill.com)
Kamala Harris will host a marijuana reform event with rapper Fat Joe (www.nbcnews.com)
Kamala Harris Will Visit Abortion Clinic, in Historic First (www.nytimes.com)
The appearance at a health center will be the latest leg in a nationwide tour by Ms. Harris, who has emerged as the most outspoken defender of abortion rights in the administration. While White House officials say they have largely reached the limits of their power to protect abortion rights, the issue has emerged as a linchpin...
ISP junk generator
Is there something that can generate random Internet usage to make the real sites I go to a bit obfuscated?...
Donald Trump Is Not as Popular as Everyone Thinks (www.newsweek.com)
Despite resounding victories on Super Tuesday, there are indications that Donald Trump is still struggling to get strong, united Republican support, which he may need in the presidential election....
Trump’s Super Tuesday victory speech: grim visions of an American apocalypse (www.theguardian.com)
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South Korean companies are offering workers $75,000 to have babies amid the country's desperate bid for more children (www.businessinsider.com)
muh back rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)