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[Link] Man Who Shot Store Owner for Flying Pride Flag Was a Far-Right Conspiracist
Read: 22/8/2023 www.vice.com
The man who shot and killed the store owner last week over her display of a pride flag outside her store was a far-right conspiracy theorist who shared deeply anti-LGBTQ and antisemitic content on his social media accounts.
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[Link] Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Groping TV Judge at Conference
Read: 22/8/2023 www.thedailybeast.com
A sheriff in Georgia pleaded guilty on Monday to groping a TV judge at a hotel bar last year while attending a law enforcement conference in the state.
[Link] Burning Man Has Fallen: Attendees Warned Not to Arrive Due to Flooding From Storms
Read: 22/8/2023 www.vice.com
The first tropical storm to hit Southern California in nearly 100 years, Hilary, has already caused major flooding and is now moving on, spurring a state of emergency declaration in Nevada ahead of its impact.
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[Link] Congress Suddenly Wants to Know If US Taxpayers Were Helping El Chapo
Read: 4/3/2023 www.vice.com
The DEA and FBI face questions about whether they tolerated high-level Mexican corruption as US tax dollars flowed to fight the drug war.
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[Link] Here’s the real reason the EPA doesn’t want to test for toxins in East Palestine
Read: 4/3/2023 www.theguardian.com
The decision to release and burn five tanker cars of vinyl chloride and other chemicals at the site of a 38-car derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, just over three weeks ago unleashed a gigantic cloud full of particulates that enveloped surrounding neighborhoods and farms in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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[Link] SBF tries to revise bail conditions after judge noted suspicious VPN use
Read: 3/3/2023 arstechnica.com
A few weeks ago, disgraced FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried was in danger of losing his bail package and potentially being jailed until October.
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[Link] The Classified Document Scandal Is Even Dumber Than You Think
Read: 29/1/2023 www.vice.com
It’s hard to imagine a dumber way to protect our national intelligence. President Biden is facing a Justice Department special counsel investigation that’s already included an FBI search of his home after his team found classified documents at his house and private office.
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[Link] A Warden Who Ran a Prison Called the ‘Rape Club’ Is Now on Trial for Sex Abuse
Read: 29/11/2022 www.vice.com
The sexual abuse trial of a California warden who used to run a federal prison known as a “rape club” kicked off Monday, with emotional testimony from one of the women he stands accused of abusing.
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[Link] Convicted Fyre Festival Fraudster Is Planning Another Bahamas Venture, But the Bahamas Don't Want Him
Read: 29/11/2022 www.vice.com
Billy McFarland, the Fyre Festival founder who went to jail for defrauding investors to the tune of $26 million, is back at it again with another venture in the Bahamas.
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[Link] A Rare Look Inside Russia’s Massive ‘Satan’ Nuclear Missile
Read: 23/11/2022 www.vice.com
In April 2022, two months after Russia escalated its invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin test fired a RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a weapon the West calls the Satan 2.
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[Link] Alleged Club Q Shooter Changed Their Name After Edgelord Harassment Campaign
Read: 23/11/2022 www.vice.com
On Saturday night, Club Q, an LGBTQ dance club in Colorado Springs, erupted into violence as a person armed with a rifle entered the establishment and began firing. At the end of the bloodshed, five people were dead and dozens more were injured.
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[Link] Virginia Walmart manager opened fire in break room before killing six, witness says
Read: 23/11/2022 www.abc.net.au
Officers in Virginia responded to the mass shooting at the supermarket on Sam's Circle on Tuesday shortly after 10pm local time, Chesapeake Police spokesman Leo Kosinski said in a briefing. There was no clear motive for the shooting, which also left four people in the hospital.
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[Link] Navy Says All UFO Videos Classified, Releasing Them ‘Will Harm National Security’
Read: 10/9/2022 www.vice.com
The U.S. Navy says that releasing any additional UFO videos would “harm national security” and told a government transparency website that all of the government’s UFO videos are classified information.
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[Link] San Francisco Just Decriminalized Shrooms
Read: 8/9/2022 www.vice.com
San Francisco has become the latest U.S. city to decriminalize psychedelics like magic mushrooms and ayahuasca.
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[Link] Elon Musk fails in bid to delay trial over terminated Twitter deal
Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com
Elon Musk has failed in a bid to delay a trial over his termination of a $44bn (£38bn) deal to buy Twitter. The social media company is suing Musk over his decision to walk away from the transaction and is demanding that he complete the deal on the agreed terms.
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[Link] Mar-a-Lago a magnet for spies, officials warn after nuclear file reportedly found
Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com
Mar-a-Lago – the Palm Beach resort and residence where Donald Trump reportedly stored nuclear secrets among a trove of highly classified documents for 18 months since leaving the White House – is a magnet for foreign spies, former intelligence officials have warned.
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[Link] Tents, alcohol, food: towns complain of trash left by Burning Man attendees
Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com
Burning Man has become known for wild outfits, utopian philosophy, rich techies and celebrity attendees and, increasingly, frustrated locals in nearby towns.
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[Link] Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay $4.1m over false Sandy Hook claims
Read: 5/8/2022 www.theguardian.com
The jury in Alex Jones’s defamation trial on Thursday ordered the far-right conspiracy theorist to pay $4.1m in damages over his repeated claims that the deadly Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
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[Link] Trump Tried to Call a Jan. 6 Committee Witness and DOJ Has Been Notified
Read: 12/7/2022 www.vice.com
Former President Donald Trump called a witness to the House Jan. 6 Select Committee, the committee’s top Republican said Tuesday—a potentially illegal act that the committee has shared with the Justice Department. Wyoming Rep.
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[Link] Inspiring: ‘Cryptoqueen’ Breaks Barriers, Becomes First Crypto Criminal on FBI’s Most Wanted List
Read: 4/7/2022 www.vice.com
Ignatova, who ran a pyramid-scheme scam in the form of Bulgarian cryptocurrency company OneCoin Ltd., is the first crypto criminal to land the FBI’s Most Wanted List and the eleventh woman to join the list in its 72-year history.
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[Link] Harassment at a Bitcoin Conference Highlights Problems of ‘Vicious’ Industry Sexism
Read: 10/5/2022 www.vice.com
At Bitcoin 2022 in Miami, an attendee broke the code of conduct that started a wave of harassment — and a renewed discussion about sexism in the crypto industry.
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[Link] ‘It’s total terror’: Colombian cartel retaliates over kingpin’s arrest
Read: 9/5/2022 www.theguardian.com
Jorge, a community activist from Colombia’s conflict-ridden Chocó province, was already traveling to the city of Medellín when he heard news that made him turn back towards home.
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[Link] AI Identifies 160 Possible 'Crews' of Criminal Cops in Chicago
Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com
The identified groups make up less than 4 percent of Chicago's police force but account for a quarter of all complaints, settlements, and shootings.
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[Link] SafeGraph Investor Selling His Stake, Donating the Money to Planned Parenthood
Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com
Motherboard reported that SafeGraph was selling aggregated location data of people who visited family planning centers, raising concerns the data could be used to figure out which clinics were providing out-of-state abortions. Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance.
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[Link] The Starbucks Union Push Is So Successful It Could Start a Turf War
Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com
The UFCW filed to represent workers at three Starbucks in Wisconsin. Not everyone is happy about that. The tsunami of union organizing at Starbucks is one of the U.S. labor movement’s most high-profile successes in recent years.
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[Link] New lawsuit calls Kotick’s handling of Activision-Microsoft merger “inexcusable”
Read: 6/5/2022 arstechnica.com
The Activision-Blizzard shareholders' response to a whirlwind of news over the past year—which include disturbing, company-wide allegations of sexual harassment and pay disparity, followed by a $68.
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[Link] Corporations Won’t Pay $15 an Hour Unless They’re Forced To
Read: 19/4/2022 www.vice.com
The vast majority of big food and retail corporations in the United States aren’t paying anywhere near a $15 an hour minimum wage, according to a new report from Harvard researchers and the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
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[Link] Tesla asks judge to pause suit alleging ‘rampant racism’ against Black workers
Read: 19/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Tesla has asked a California judge to pause a lawsuit against the company alleging widespread racial discrimination at its flagship assembly plant.
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[Link] US man gets $450,000 after unwanted work birthday party triggered panic attack
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
A Kentucky man was awarded $450,000 in a lawsuit against his former employer, after the company disregarded his wish not to be given a birthday party.
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[Link] Russia’s Ambassador to the US Says He Hasn’t Talked to Putin in Almost 5 Years
Read: 18/4/2022 www.vice.com
Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s top diplomat in the U.S.
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[Link] Starbucks Is Blocking Union Activists and Workers on Twitter
Read: 18/4/2022 www.vice.com
James Skretta, a former barista who helped organize a union at his Starbucks in Buffalo, retweeted the tweet from Starbucks’ corporate account, which has 11 million followers, and wrote: “@Starbucks official stance on union-busting.
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[Link] Far-right InfoWars website files for bankruptcy protection
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Facing multiple defamation lawsuits, the far-right website InfoWars on Sunday voluntarily filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal court in Texas.
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[Link] Former Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Sentenced to 5+ Years in Prison for North Korea Trip
Read: 13/4/2022 www.coindesk.com
Cheyenne Ligon is a CoinDesk news reporter with a focus on crypto regulation and policy. She has no significant crypto holdings.
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[Link] The First Marvel Movie Superhero Was Black
Read: 13/4/2022 www.thedailybeast.com
In 1998, exactly 20 years before Black Panther, the first Marvel Comics superhero made its theatrical debut. It was the vampire known as Blade. And he was Black.
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[Link] Multiple People Shot and Explosive Devices Found in Brooklyn Subway Stop
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
This is a developing story. Please refresh for updates. Emergency responders answered a call about reports of smoke in the subway station at 36th Street and 4th Avenue servicing the D, N and R lines, the email continued.
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[Link] Law Enforcement Seizes RaidForums, One of the Most Important Hacking Sites
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
A coalition of international law enforcement agencies led by the U.S. Department of Justice have seized RaidForums, a nexus for a wealth of stolen data and hacks, and arrested the site’s administrator, the DOJ announced on Tuesday.
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[Link] NYPD Have Named a ‘Person of Interest’ in the Brooklyn Subway Mass Shooting
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
The individual is Frank R. James, 62. James rented a U-Haul vehicle in Philadelphia that officials have connected to the shooting, and vehicles’ keys were found at the incident.
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[Link] Cops Tried Playing Disney Music to Censor a Video
Read: 10/4/2022 www.vice.com
This time, it’s Disney. Around 11 p.m. on Monday in Santa Ana, a city just south of Los Angeles, a YouTuber with a channel called Santa Ana Audits started recording a group of police investigating a car theft in his neighborhood.
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[Link] Joe Manchin Wants to Let Companies Keep Polluting in Private, Thanks
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
Should companies have to explain their role in causing climate change? There’s a simple answer, according to Sen. Joe Manchin: Hell no.
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[Link] Starbucks CEO Announces NFTs to Workers Amid Union Drive
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
In a town hall meeting on Monday aimed at Starbucks workers amid a massive union drive, failed presidential candidate and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz revealed a development that he hoped would excite workers: crypto.
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[Link] State Senator Rants About Furries Using Litter Boxes in School, Then Apologizes
Read: 3/4/2022 www.vice.com
“I’m a little shocked, I guess... It’s something called furries,” he said.
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[Link] Sean Penn calls for billionaire to step up and buy aircraft for Ukraine
Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Hollywood actor Sean Penn has called for a billionaire to come forward and buy two squadrons of F-15 or F-16 aircraft for Ukraine in an unlikely attempt to tip the scales against the Russian invaders in the five-week-old war.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid for new trial denied, judge rules
Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid for a new trial has been denied, the judge in her Manhattan federal court sex-trafficking case said. Former British socialite Maxwell repeatedly requested a new trial after a juror on her case failed to disclose childhood sexual abuse during jury selection.
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[Link] Bruce Willis’s ‘worst performance’ award from Razzies show revoked after diagnosis
Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
The organizers of the Razzies parody awards show have rescinded Bruce Willis’s 2021 award in light of the actor’s recently disclosed aphasia diagnosis.
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[Link] Jared Kushner ‘voluntarily’ gives Capitol attack panel information in testimony
Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Jared Kushner testified Thursday before the House select committee investigating the 6 January attack on the Capitol, becoming the first member of Donald Trump’s family to speak to investigators.
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[Link] Mafia hitman escapes from federal custody in Florida
Read: 2/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
A New York mobster who killed three people and attempted to kill two others has escaped from federal custody after recently being moved to a halfway house, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
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[Link] How an Active-Shooter Training Ended With Trainer Shooting 61-Year-Old Man
Read: 16/3/2022 www.vice.com
In December, a city employee in Fort Lauderdale, Florida used his own blank-firing handgun to shoot someone in the leg during an active-shooter training he was giving.
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[Link] A Women's Prison Nurse Sexually Assaulted 12 Incarcerated Women, DOJ Says
Read: 16/3/2022 www.vice.com
The nurse, Tony Daniel Klein, is facing 21 counts of “depriving the victims of their constitutional right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment by sexually assaulting them.
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[Link] Looks Like Ron DeSantis Is Getting His Election Police Force
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ grand plan for an election police force has been widely panned as an absolutely terrible idea in practice by experts nationally.
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[Link] Judge: Jehovah’s Witness Parodies Are Fair Use. Watch Tower: So What?
Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com
In 2018, Watch Tower filed for a DMCA subpoena that would've required YouTube to hand over the identity of an animator who parodied the religious group in his videos. When that stalled, Watch Tower filed a copyright lawsuit.
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[Link] Amazon referred to US attorney general over ‘potentially criminal conduct’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Members of the Democratic-controlled House judiciary committee have referred Amazon to the Department of Justice, alleging “potentially criminal conduct” by the company and some of its senior executives.
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[Link] U.S. Police Have So Much Extra Gear They're Sending It to Ukraine
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Police departments around the U.S. are donating tactical gear to Ukraine, whose annual defense budget is smaller than the NYPD’s.
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[Link] We Filmed at a Bitcoin Conference in 2013. Here's What Those People Are Doing Now
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
This article is a writeup of the first episode of CRYPTOLAND, Motherboard’s documentary series about how cryptocurrency is affecting culture, politics, the environment, and our shared future. Watch it on Motherboard’s YouTube.
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[Link] GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn Called President Zelenskyy a ‘Thug’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
A leaked video shows GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug” while speaking to supporters about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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[Link] Russian Agent Maria Butina Says Ukraine’s Jewish President Is ‘Reviving Fascism’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
In 2018, she was convicted in the U.S. for acting as an agent for Russia. Now she's backing Putin's war on Ukraine. Maria Butina's attempts to infiltrate the NRA and Republican political circles as a Russian agent got her an 18-month prison sentence in the United States.
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[Link] Canadian accused of unleashing NetWalker ransomware extradited to US
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theregister.com
US prosecutors on Thursday said they have extradited a Canadian man to America to face charges that he conspired to distribute ransomware. Sébastien Vachon-Desjardins, 34, of Gatineau, Quebec, was detained by Canadian authorities on January 27, 2021.
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[Link] Proud Boys leader arrested on US Capitol attack conspiracy charge
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Enrique Tarrio, a leader of the Proud Boys far-right group, has been arrested and charged with conspiracy over the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
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[Link] Senator forced to backtrack after saying Republicans will repeal Obamacare
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson said Republicans should try again to repeal the Affordable Care Act if they take back power – then retreated, under fire from the Biden administration.
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[Link] Juror at centre of Ghislaine Maxwell trial controversy to go before judge
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The juror in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial who apparently did not disclose childhood sexual abuse during jury selection is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday morning for public questioning.
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[Link] US lawmakers seek criminal probe of Amazon for lying about use of seller data
Read: 9/3/2022 arstechnica.com
Amazon lied to Congress about its use of third-party seller data, the House Judiciary Committee said today. In a letter to the Department of Justice, the committee chairs asked prosecutors to investigate the company for criminal obstruction of Congress.
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[Link] Report: SEC investigating Activision Blizzard investors for insider trading
Read: 9/3/2022 arstechnica.com
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating three investors for alleged massive insider trading just ahead of Microsoft's January announcement of merger plans with Activision Blizzard, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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[Link] Brother and sister charged with cryptocurrency fraud in New York
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
US authorities on Tuesday filed criminal charges against a cryptocurrency executive and civil charges against him and his sister, accusing them of defrauding retail investors out of millions of dollars with a digital token known as Ormeus Coin.
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[Link] Reminder: Telling Cops to ‘Fuck Off’ Is Completely Legal
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
When cops confronted Michael Wood while wearing his “fuck the police” T-shirt at a local county fair in Dayton, Ohio, six years ago, he tried to explain he was well within his rights. He even removed the shirt. But the officers still asked him to leave.
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[Link] Elon Musk Dares UAW to Organize Tesla Factory, Says He Would “Do Nothing to Stop Them”
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Last night, like many other nights, Elon Musk was tweeting. In this case, he was tweeting to Gene Simmons of Kiss about the size and workforce of Tesla’s California plant.
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[Link] Warren, Sanders Demand Investigation into Amazon’s Attendance Policy
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Senators Cory Booker and Richard Blumenthal and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush also wrote the letter.
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[Link] Ethereum Companies Suddenly Ban Users In Certain Countries
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
MetaMask is the most popular crypto wallet for Ethereum users, including NFT traders. It is owned by the same parent company as Infura, which is a centralized API that feeds MetaMask data from the Ethereum blockchain.
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[Link] Wu-Tang Clan Producer Suing NYPD After Wrongfully Spending 4 Years in Rikers
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Former Wu-Tang Clan producer “True Master” spent four years at Rikers Island after being falsely accused of a rape that DNA evidence proved he didn’t commit. Now, he wants justice—with the help of star civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
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[Link] QAnon Surfer Who Killed His Kids Believed He Was Neo From ‘The Matrix’
Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com
At 3.12 a.m., Matthew Coleman was lying in bed next to his children, 2-year-old Kaleo and 10-month-old Roxy, in a hotel room in the Mexican resort town of Rosarito, when he decided to text his wife Abby. “Hi babe, miss you too. Things have been rough but starting to get some clarity as well.
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[Link] Donald Trump criminal probe in question after prosecutors suddenly resign
Read: 23/2/2022 www.abc.net.au
The criminal case is related to but separate from a parallel civil case being run by New York's Attorney-General. Both started on the probe under former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr and were asked to stay when Mr Bragg took office in January.
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[Link] Someone Keeps Papering This Texas Neighborhood in Racist Flyers
Read: 16/2/2022 www.vice.com
For the second time in a week, residents in a Houston neighborhood woke up to the sight of dozens of racist flyers strewn across their properties.
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[Link] US girl missing since 2019 found alive in hidden room
Read: 16/2/2022 www.abc.net.au
Two years after she went missing, a 6-year-old girl in the United States has been found alive and in good health.
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[Link] Peloton Apologizes to 2800 Laid-Off Workers With Free Memberships
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
Peloton, the fitness and technology company, announced Tuesday that it was laying off 2,800 people as it attempts to right the ship following a string of controversies and corporate missteps that led to production stoppages, price increases, and a plunging share price.
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[Link] Peter Thiel Is Stepping Down From Facebook to Go Full MAGA
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is stepping down from the board of Meta, Facebook’s parent company said Monday.
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[Link] Tech Firm Offers Cops Facial Recognition to ID Homeless People
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
“Police use ODIN facial recognition to identify even non-verbal or intoxicated individuals,” the brochure from surveillance firm ODIN Intelligence reads. ODIN’s specific homelessness product is called ODIN Homeless Management Information System, or ODIN HMIS.
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[Link] Supreme Court Says Racial Gerrymandering Is No Big Deal
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
The Supreme Court just undercut Black voters’ power in Alabama—and signaled that it’s likely to further gut the Voting Rights Act. This ruling isn’t specifically on the merits of whether the map violated the Voting Rights Act or not—that’ll come later.
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[Link] Woman Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin Was Cringe YouTube Rapper
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, the U.S. government accused Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31 of laundering around $1 billion in cryptocurrency stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack. As it turns out, Morgan did not exactly keep the low profile you would expect of an alleged criminal.
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[Link] Ted Cruz, Bitcoin Booster, Bought a Bunch of Bitcoin
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
Increasingly vocal Bitcoin supporter Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) bought the dip, purchasing between $15,001 and $50,000 worth of Bitcoin shortly after it hit its lowest point during a recent sell-off.
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[Link] IRS to Stop Use of Facial Recognition Tech After Widespread Backlash
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
The IRS said on Monday it will stop the use of ID.me, an identification verification service that uses facial recognition technology. Lawmakers had raised concerns with the service over the last week, with multiple members of Congress and Senators urging the IRS to stop the deployment of ID.me.
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[Link] Dwayne Johnson appears to withdraw Joe Rogan support after N-word video
Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Dwayne Johnson, the actor and former wrestling star known as The Rock, has retracted what had seemed his unconditional support for Joe Rogan, amid continued fallout from the controversial podcaster’s use of racist language.
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[Link] Warner Bros sued over ‘abysmal’ Matrix Resurrections release
Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Warner Bros is being sued by co-financiers Village Roadshow over the hybrid release of the sci-fi sequel The Matrix Resurrections.
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[Link] Free Community College in the US Is Officially Dead
Read: 7/2/2022 www.vice.com
The Biden administration’s more than $45 billion plan to offer free community college to Americans is officially dead. The lofty promise from the president’s 2020 campaign, would have provided eligible students with the option to go to college for at least two years without any cost to them.
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[Link] 'Not allowed': Naomi Osaka ban comes to light after Australian Open
Read: 6/2/2022 au.sports.yahoo.com
Details have emerged after the Australian Open about how Naomi Osaka was banned from wearing a new watch from sponsors TAG Heuer. Osaka teamed up with Tag Heuer just weeks before the Australian Open, designing a limited-edition watch with the Swiss luxury brand.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell retrial arguments must be public, prosecutors tell judge
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal arguments involving the juror who might not have disclosed childhood sexual abuse during jury selection should be public, prosecutors said in a letter Friday.
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[Link] Amir Locke shooting: hundreds protest in Minneapolis after police killing of Black man
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of downtown Minneapolis on Saturday demanding justice in the fatal police shooting of a young Black man, Amir Locke, during a “no-knock” raid on an apartment earlier this week.
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[Link] RIAA Discards EFF’s YouTube-DL Letter, Notes That it ‘Regularly Sides With Infringers’
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
YouTube rippers FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com are contesting Magistrate Judge Buchanan's recommendation to award $82 million in piracy damages to the RIAA. The YouTube-rippers cited a letter where the EFF defends the non-infringing nature of the youtube-dl software.
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[Link] Record Labels Face Sanctions Over ‘Destroyed’ Piracy Evidence
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Internet provider Bright House has asked a Florida federal court to sanction several record labels for 'destroying' evidence that it says is crucial to the ongoing piracy liability lawsuit.
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[Link] RIAA: Yout’s Attempt to Legitimize Stream-Ripping is ‘Wordplay’
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
YouTube-ripping service Yout.com is suing the RIAA in an attempt to have its platform declared legal in the US. The case boils down to whether YouTube has meaningful technical protection measures and whether Yout circumvents them. According to the RIAA, there is no question that Yout.
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[Link] FBI Arrests Man For Fraudulently Obtaining Leaks of 100s of Pre-Release Books
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
The FBI has arrested a man who impersonated publishers and literary agents in order to fraudulently obtain hundreds of pre-release novels and other books in electronic form.
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[Link] Record Labels Still Want to Know if Piracy Trial Jurors Read TorrentFreak
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
The piracy liability trial between several major record labels and Internet provider Grande is about to begin. To rule out conflicts, both sides submitted an updated series of questions for the jury selection.
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[Link] Why Can’t You Buy Hot Meals With Food Stamps?
Read: 2/2/2022 www.vice.com
But they’re off-limits to people using food stamps. The reason is precisely that the food is warm and already prepared—a justification that’s often derided as cruel, anti-poor, and arbitrary.
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[Link] Dozens have finally been sentenced over the 2017 murders of two UN investigators in the Congo
Read: 30/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
About 50 people have been sentenced to death, many in absentia, in Democratic Republic of Congo in connection with the murders of UN experts Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp in 2017, according to a defence lawyer in the case.
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[Link] QAnon Sex Trafficking Conspiracies Have Shut Down a Texas Butterfly Center
Read: 30/1/2022 www.vice.com
The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas is situated on the Rio Grande river less than half a mile from the U.S.-Mexico border, and has long been the focus of intense and completely baseless conspiracy theories pushed by the QAnon community.
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[Link] Ezra Miller Tells Beulaville, NC KKK Members to Kill Themselves or ‘We’ll Do It’
Read: 30/1/2022 www.vice.com
Actor Ezra Miller posted a cryptic video to Instagram last night, calling out members of the Beulaville, NC Klu Klux Klan.
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[Link] Childless QAnon Influencer Ron Watkins Is Berating ‘Communist’ School Boards
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
Of course schools are not teaching their kids to be racist or spreading “transexual propaganda,” whatever that means. Perhaps Watkins would know that if he had a child enrolled in an Arizona public school, which he doesn’t. Because he doesn’t have a child at all.
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[Link] LAPD Emails Reveal Fallout of Citizen’s Botched Manhunt
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
After Citizen's CEO Andrew Frame offered a $30,000 bounty on the wrong person, LAPD officers said they would no longer work with Citizen.
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[Link] Gun Owners in San Jose Outraged They’ll Have to Buy Insurance, Like Drivers
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
Owning a gun in the city of San Jose will soon have a lot in common with owning a car. In two landslide votes Tuesday night, the San Jose City Council approved a first-of-its-kind law that mandates gun owners buy and maintain liability insurance and pay an annual feee.
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[Link] The Right Is Losing Its Mind at the Idea of a Black Woman on the Supreme Court
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has paved the way for President Joe Biden to fulfill a campaign promise to be the first to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court.
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[Link] Oklahoma executes man for 2001 murders of two hotel workers
Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the murders of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001. Donald Grant, 46, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester and was declared dead at 10.16am.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell requests new trial after lawyers raise concern about juror
Read: 23/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers have formally asked for a new trial after they raised concerns about a juror's possible failure to disclose before the trial that he was sexually abused as a child.
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[Link] ‘People Need to Know She Sucks’: Kyrsten Sinema’s Volunteers, Ex-Staff Are Fed Up
Read: 23/1/2022 www.vice.com
When Maria-Elena Dunn first met Kyrsten Sinema, she said she was elated.
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[Link] ‘The walls are closing in’: Trump reels from week of political setbacks
Read: 23/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
The last time Donald Trump heard such hammer blows, they were from renovations at Mar-a-Lago that displeased the former president. But not even that sound would have left his ears ringing like last week’s avalanche of bad news that some believe nudged a criminal indictment one step closer.
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[Link] Matt Gaetz’s Ex-Girlfriend Got Immunity in Sex Trafficking Probe: Report
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
The former girlfriend of Rep. Matt Gaetz testified in a federal sex trafficking probe involving the congressman last week and, according to CBS News, she received immunity before doing so.
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[Link] Lawmakers Plan Legislation to ‘Ban Surveillance Advertising’
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Lawmakers have proposed new legislation that they say would ban surveillance-based advertising. The legislation would target the underlying practice of targeted or personalized ads that facilitates surveillance-based advertising itself.
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[Link] A 13-Year-Old Died of a Fentanyl Overdose. Experts Say the Response was ‘Theater.’
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Last Thursday, a 13-year-old student from the Sport and Medical Sciences Academy in Hartford, Connecticut, overdosed on fentanyl at the school and died two days later.
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[Link] Florida GOP Wants to Ban Making White People Feel ‘Discomfort’ About Racism
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
A new bill pushed by Florida Gov.
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[Link] 3 Cops Charged in Shooting Death of 8-Year-Old Girl After Gunfight
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Three Pennsylvania officers have turned themselves in to authorities after a grand jury decided to bring charges against them in the death of an 8-year-old killed during a firefight they had with two teens.
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[Link] Cops Covered Up Sex Trafficking Ring to Receive Free Sex Acts, Lawsuit Says
Read: 23/12/2021 www.vice.com
Top cops for a local department in Virginia actively hindered a sex trafficking investigation for almost four years in exchange for free sex acts from the victimized women, according to a recently updated federal lawsuit.
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[Link] US Secret Service says $US100 billion stolen from COVID-19 relief funds
Read: 23/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
The US Secret Service says around $US100 billion ($139 billion) at minimum has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic.
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[Link] 'No One’s Life is Worth a Package': Amazon Workers Are Organizing for Cell Phone Access
Read: 20/12/2021 www.vice.com
The Amazon workers are also demanding that Amazon pay workers for shifts cancelled due to inclement weather. And during school closures, they want Amazon to excuse all absences caused by severe weather and to be paid 80 percent of their salary.
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[Link] Amazon's retail CEO Dave Clark defends the company's response to the deadly Edwardsville tornado in internal memo: 'fast action saved lives'
Read: 19/12/2021 www.businessinsider.com
Amazon retail boss Dave Clark thanked employees in an internal memo on Wednesday, following his visit to the Edwardsville, IL, warehouse that was struck by a deadly tornado last week.
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[Link] ‘It Has Gone Too Far’: Don Jr. Begged His Dad to Stop the Jan. 6 Rioters
Read: 14/12/2021 www.vice.com
As the Capitol riot was unfolding, some of the biggest names in the conservative movement were working their connections in the White House to get former President Donald Trump to do something—anything—to stop it.
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[Link] Company Is Very Sorry It Made Teachers Scramble for $1 Bills at Ice Rink
Read: 14/12/2021 www.vice.com
CU Mortgage Direct donated the pile of money that educators had to scoop up in a “Dash for Cash'' competition on center ice during a Sioux Falls Stampede game Saturday—which has since been immortalized in a viral video that stoked outrage across the internet.
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[Link] Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Sued By DC Attorney General for Jan. 6
Read: 14/12/2021 www.vice.com
This is a developing story. Please refresh for updates. The D.C. attorney general is suing the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys for damages for allegedly “planning, promoting, and participating in” the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, he announced Tuesday.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking trial adjourned after attorney becomes ill
Read: 9/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Ghislaine Maxwell’s New York sex-trafficking trial was unexpectedly adjourned early Thursday because an “ill” attorney needed medical care.
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[Link] Iran nuclear talks pulled back from brink as Tehran shifts stance
Read: 9/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal have been hauled back from the brink of collapse as Tehran revised its stance after pressure from Russia and China and clear warnings that the EU and the US were preparing to walk away.
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[Link] The Mystery of Florida's Cannonball-Eating Spanish Fort
Read: 8/12/2021 getpocket.com
The secret is inside the walls themselves.
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[Link] Jussie Smollett Testified He Did Drugs and Masturbated With His Attacker
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
Jussie Smollett finally took the stand in his bizarre trial Monday and testified that he once masturbated with one of the men he’s accused of hiring to attack him for attention.
[Link] Drake withdraws his two 2022 Grammy nominations
Read: 8/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Drake has decided to withdraw his two Grammy nominations.
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[Link] University of California Refuses to Release ‘Preliminary and Conceptual’ Dormzilla Agreement
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
The University of California rejected a public records request to release its agreement with billionaire Charlie Munger over the megadorm to be built on the Santa Barbara campus because the agreement is “preliminary and conceptual in nature,” the Office of the President determined.
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[Link] AOC Says She Doesn't Own Bitcoin to Do Her Job 'Ethically'
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
On Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clarified on Instagram that she does not hold any digital assets or tokens, including Bitcoin, and said she doesn’t believe policymakers should be able to hold financial products like stocks.
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[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Jailed Jan. 6 Defendants Abused ‘Because of the Color of Their Skin’
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that the people behind bars for their alleged role in the Jan.
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[Link] U.S. Boycotted Olympics Before, and It Didn’t End Well
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. is staging a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics to protest China’s human rights abuses of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. The full effect remains to be seen.
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[Link] Republican Tweets Grossest Christmas Card of All Time
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
On Saturday, the Kentucky Republican tweeted a photo of himself and his family all holding firearms with the message, “Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo.”
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[Link] The Rise and Fall of the Comedian Who Revolutionized Stand-Up
Read: 6/12/2021 slate.com
Mort Sahl, who died on Tuesday at 94, may be unknown to most people who are younger than half that age, but in his prime in the 1950s, he sparked a revolution in stand-up comedy that persists to this day.
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[Link] Ex-National Guard Official Accuses Army of ‘Stalinist’ Lies About Jan. 6
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
A former D.C. National Guard official is accusing two senior Army leaders of lying to Congress and covering up their roles in delaying a military response to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Col. Earl Matthews, a senior National Security Council and Army official who was the top attorney for the D.C.
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[Link] Trump attacks media and Mark Milley in foul-mouthed Mar-a-Lago speech
Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
In remarks to diners at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday night, Donald Trump called the American media “crooked bastards” and Gen Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, a “fucking idiot”.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell warned Epstein’s house manager not to ‘look at his eyes’, court hears
Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
The former house manager of Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach home said Thursday that Ghislaine Maxwell warned that he should “never look” his boss in the eyes.
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[Link] Researcher Found Way to Brute Force Verizon Customer PINs Online
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
An independent security researcher discovered a way to brute force Verizon PINs online, meaning they could potentially break into Verizon customer accounts. In response, Verizon has taken the impacted web pages offline.
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[Link] Prisons transcribe private phone calls with inmates using speech-to-text AI
Read: 6/12/2021 www.theregister.com
In brief Prisons around the US are installing AI speech-to-text models to automatically transcribe conversations with inmates during their phone calls.
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[Link] Youtube Ripper Strikes Back at the RIAA in DMCA ‘Circumvention’ Lawsuit
Read: 6/12/2021 torrentfreak.com
YouTube-ripping service Yout.com sued the RIAA last year in an attempt to have its platform declared legal in the US. The music industry group asked the court to dismiss the case, arguing that Yout clearly circumvents technological protection measures.
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[Link] Parents of Michigan Shooting Suspect Are On Suicide Watch
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
James and Jennifer Crumbley pleaded not guilty Saturday to four counts of involuntary manslaughter, which they were charged with in connection with their son’s alleged mass shooting at Oxford High School.
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[Link] Trump social media company claims to raise $1bn from investors
Read: 5/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump’s new social media company and its special purpose acquisition company partner said on Saturday the partner had agreements for $1bn in capital from institutional investors. The former president launched Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) in October.
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[Link] Adult Male With Omicron Variant Attended New York Anime Convention
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
During a White House press briefing, press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that a vaccinated adult male infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 attended an anime convention in New York City’s Javits Center.
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[Link] Womp, womp: Efficacy of Merck’s Thor-inspired COVID pill crumbles, vexing experts
Read: 2/12/2021 arstechnica.com
In a 13-to-10 vote, advisers for the Food and Drug Administration narrowly supported authorizing Merck's Thor-inspired antiviral pill molnupiravir for use against severe COVID-19.
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[Link] Prosecution gets Elizabeth Holmes to admit she was in control of Theranos
Read: 2/12/2021 arstechnica.com
At this point in her criminal trial, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' best chance for acquittal is for the jury to believe that she was a puppet being controlled by her boyfriend, company president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. Yesterday, the prosecution attempted to pick apart that defense.
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[Link] Trump voices old grievances in freewheeling interview with Farage
Read: 2/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump attacked Boris Johnson’s plans for clean power, slammed the Duchess of Sussex as “disrespectful”, and voiced a litany of old grievances during a freewheeling interview with UK politician-turned-broadcaster Nigel Farage aired on British TV on Wednesday night.
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[Link] TikTok Says Being Victim of Mass Shooting ‘Could Result in You Getting Hurt’
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
One student inside the school took their phone out and filmed the scene inside the classroom, where students were locked in. The gunman was outside, asking to be let in and pretending to be a sheriff. The students did not fall for it.
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[Link] Michigan Shooting Suspect’s Parents Could Be Charged for Not Locking Up Gun
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
The father of the 15-year-old charged in Tuesday’s horrific school shooting in Michigan bought the gun suspected in the killings just four days prior. Now, he and the child’s mother might be charged as well, the county’s top prosecutor said Wednesday.
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[Link] Why So Much Fentanyl Is Being Seized at the Border
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Fentanyl seizures at the United States-Mexico border more than doubled in 2021 to surpass heroin for the first time ever. But experts say the COVID-19 border shutdown may explain the record numbers because it gave agents more time to inspect fewer vehicles. U.S.
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[Link] The McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hacking Saga Has a New Twist
Read: 1/12/2021 www.wired.com
Six months ago, a tiny startup called Kytch sued Taylor, the billion-dollar manufacturer of McDonald's notoriously broken ice cream machines.
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[Link] US teen shoots and kills three fellow students, wounds six
Read: 1/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police said they did not know what the teenager's motives were for the attack at Oxford High School, about 50 kilometres north of Detroit. Officers responded at about 12:55pm to emergency calls about a shooter at the school. A teacher is among those wounded.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell was present when Epstein abused me, accuser testifies
Read: 1/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
The first accuser in the child sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell testified in court in New York on Tuesday. The accuser, who used the name “Jane”, alleged that Maxwell was sometimes present when Jeffrey Epstein abused her.
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[Link] Trump Knew He Tested Positive For COVID-19 Before Debating Biden
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
Then-President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 three days before debating Joe Biden and almost a week before he publicly admitted he had the virus, Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows reportedly revealed in his new book. Trump reportedly tested positive on Sept.
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[Link] Hardcore Bitcoiners Turn on Ross Ulbricht for Selling an NFT From Prison
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online drug marketplace the Silk Road that helped put Bitcoin on the map in its earliest days, is minting an NFT.
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[Link] Cop Caught on Video Shooting Man in Wheelchair 9 Times From Behind
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
The officer, Ryan Remington, has since been fired from the Tuscon Police Department as a result of the deadly shooting, police said Wednesday. Remington, a four-year veteran of the force, also faces possible charges in the fatal incident. Police say that sometime before 6 p.
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[Link] Elizabeth Holmes trial: former Theranos CEO recounts alleged abuse by her former lover
Read: 30/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Elizabeth Holmes has testified that she was emotionally and physically abused by her former lover and business partner, Sunny Balwani, part of her attempt to refute accusations that she lied about Theranos’ core blood-testing technology.
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[Link] Trump’s ‘fact-free’ approach caused briefing challenges, CIA report says
Read: 30/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump’s “fact-free” approach to the presidency created unprecedented challenges for intelligence officials responsible for briefing him, according to a newly released account from the CIA.
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[Link] She Wanted to Accuse a Celebrated Techie of Sexual Assault But Couldn’t. Until Now.
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
Multimillionaire tech entrepreneur Zia Chishti has stepped down from his roles in the AI software firm Afiniti, following accusations of sexually assault revealed by a former employee at a U.S. congressional hearing on Nov. 16.
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[Link] Off-Duty Cop Allegedly Hit a Guy With His Car and Took the Body Home to Mom
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
Ultimately, the cop’s father—who’s also a police officer—called 911, according to local officials.
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[Link] Arizona students seek Kyle Rittenhouse removal from online nursing classes
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A small but vocal alliance of left-leaning students at Arizona State University (ASU) is demanding Kyle Rittenhouse be removed from online classes, despite the teen’s acquittal this month on charges of murdering two men and injuring another during protests for racial justice in Wisconsin last year
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[Link] Ex-defense secretary sues over withheld material from Trump era memoir
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The former US defense secretary Mark Esper claims in a lawsuit against the defense department that material is being improperly withheld from him as he seeks to publish an “unvarnished and candid memoir” of his time in Donald Trump’s cabinet.
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[Link] Air Force Spent Millions on Encrypted App Wickr
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. Air Force has spent millions of dollars on licenses from encrypted chat platform Wickr, according to Air Force documents and public procurement records reviewed by Motherboard. The documents further solidify Wickr’s position as a preferred tool of the U.S. government and military.
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[Link] The billionaire, the socialite and the 'little black book': Ghislaine Maxwell's trial finally begins
Read: 28/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Sixteen months after FBI agents swooped in on her remote hideaway to arrest Ghislaine Maxwell on sexual abuse charges, the trial of the British socialite and former partner of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is beginning in New York.
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[Link] The Pacific is in danger of becoming a semi-narco region
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Four years ago I stood in front of a top level security conference and warned that we have just a few years to get on top of the problem of drugs being trafficked through the Pacific region or it could turn into a semi-narco region, controlled by criminal syndicates.
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[Link] Fundraiser for US man exonerated after 43 years in prison tops $1.4m
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
By mid-afternoon on Saturday, a fundraiser for a man who spent 43 years in prison before a judge in Missouri this week overturned his conviction in a triple murder had raised more than $1.4m.
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[Link] Ilhan Omar: Lauren Boebert’s ‘Jihad Squad’ bigotry is ‘no laughing matter’
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Islamophobic remarks by Lauren Boebert are “no laughing matter”, Ilhan Omar said, demanding action from congressional leaders – after the Colorado Republican said sorry. Boebert made the remarks in her home district.
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[Link] While Americans mark Thanksgiving, Republicans panned over Harris attack
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
An attack on Kamala Harris for buying expensive French cookware rebounded on the Republican party over Thanksgiving, moving social media users to compare the vice-president’s culinary outlay with the cost to taxpayers of Donald Trump’s four years in power.
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[Link] Lara Trump claims pricier turkeys are a liberal plot against Thanksgiving
Read: 27/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Lara Trump, the Fox News contributor and wife of Eric Trump, has bizarrely claimed that the rising cost of the Thanksgiving turkey is part of a liberal plot to “chip away” at American traditions.
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[Link] WHO Names New Variant Of Concern ‘Omicron,’ U.S. Issues Travel Ban
Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. and Canada are banning and restricting travel from southern Africa after the World Health Organization named a new, potentially more infectious COVID-19 variant that’s been spreading in the region. On Friday the WHO announced the new B.1.1.
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[Link] Tolkien estate vanquishes Lord of the Rings themed cryptocurrency
Read: 25/11/2021 arstechnica.com
The estate of JRR Tolkien, the author of the Lord of the Rings, has successfully vanquished a cryptocurrency that styled itself as “The One Token That Rules Them All.
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[Link] The Pentagon Forms New Department to Watch and Study UFOs
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
The Pentagon announced the formation of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), a successor to the U.S. Navy’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. The group study Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP), the U.S. military’s name for UFOs.
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[Link] Arrested couple film themselves having sex in back of US police car
Read: 25/11/2021 www.news.com.au
A raunchy Florida couple got busted for having oral sex in the back of a police car – with the man yelling “F**k Five-O” during the recorded romp, according to an arrest warrant.
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[Link] ClassPass Faces Class Action Suit Over Phony Business Listings
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
ClassPass, the fitness and health club aggregator and subscription app, is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit for allegedly claiming to be partner with “countless” small businesses on its subscription-based app without their consent or even knowledge.
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[Link] Kyle Rittenhouse Has Set Off a QAnon Civil War
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
Wood, who said on Thursday that his children would once again not be spending Thanksgiving with him, has spent the last three days in an increasingly toxic battle on the encrypted messaging app where Wood has blasted his critics and praised his defenders.
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[Link] Elizabeth Holmes throws scientists under the bus
Read: 24/11/2021 arstechnica.com
Elizabeth Holmes would like the jury to know that scientists, at Theranos and at other companies, led her astray. One of those scientists was Ian Gibbons, who led Theranos’ scientific research efforts.
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[Link] Keystone XL pipeline developers seek $15 billion for cancellation in one of biggest trade appeals against U.S. ever
Read: 24/11/2021 financialpost.com
Developers of Keystone XL are seeking to recoup more than US$15 billion in damages connected to President Joe Biden’s decision to yank a permit for the border-crossing oil pipeline even after construction began. With a request for arbitration filed Monday, Calgary-based TC Energy Corp.
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[Link] The Brutal Racism of the Trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Whether the defense likes it or not, the trial of Travis and Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan is all about race.
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[Link] Neo-Nazis Are Using the Waukesha Attack for Propaganda
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Only a day after a man drove his SUV into a Christmas parade in a suburb of Milwaukee, killing five people and injuring 48, right-wing extremists are using the incident as propaganda, spinning it as a calculated terrorist attack perpetrated by a left-wing radical.
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[Link] The QAnon JFK Cult in Dallas Is Tearing Families Apart
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Katy Garner and her sister grew up in a small town in Arkansas and were always close. “We both were cheerleaders in school, made pretty good grades, and loved to just hang out with friends and each other. No one has a perfect childhood, but we had each other. We knew that.
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[Link] He Made a Horror Movie About Pizzagate, then the Death Threats Started
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
No movie has captured our current political mood like The Pizzagate Massacre. The low budget grindhouse movie from Texas follows Duncan, a schlub convinced interdimensional lizard people are controlling people from the basement of a pizza restaurant.
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[Link] Stolen, Sold and Savored: Ice Cream Is a Hot Commodity in Manhattan
Read: 23/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
The thieves know just where to strike, entering stores and making their way through the aisles, past the diapers, the formula, the razors and the deodorant. You scream.
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[Link] Gopuff Delivery Workers Plan National Strike Ahead of Thanksgiving
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Some participating workers plan to not work their scheduled shifts as part of the strike, and others will refuse to fill in for them, organizers say. They hope this will have a “significant impact” on a company that promises delivery of food and goods in just half an hour.
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[Link] World’s Worst People Keep Assaulting and Harassing Flight Attendants
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
The passenger started drinking their own alcohol, which is against federal law, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. When a flight attendant told the passenger to stop, that passenger sexually assaulted the attendant.
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[Link] Apple Sues NSO Group For Hacking Its Users
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
The tech giant’s lawsuit is just the latest in a string of bad news for NSO in the last few weeks.
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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Were Justified Because Break-Ins ‘Scared’ Them, Defense Says
Read: 22/11/2021 www.vice.com
Travis McMichael had every reason to fear a 25-year-old Black man running through his neighborhood and was justified in attempting to make a “citizen’s arrest” that led to the deadly shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an attorney for the defense said in one final appeal to jurors.
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[Link] Republicans’ vilification of Trump critics is ‘ruining’ the US, says governor
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Republican party’s vilification of members of Congress who have criticized Donald Trump or supported bipartisan legislation is “ruining America”, New Hampshire’s governor, Chris Sununu, said on Sunday, adding another tacit voice to the small but growing internal opposition to the former
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[Link] A tiny island nation has put the rights to .tv up for grabs – but what’s this? Problematic contract clauses? Again?
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com
Analysis One of the internet’s most lucrative and high-profile registry contracts is up for grabs – and once again the bidding process appears to be highly problematic. The contract to run .tv has been held by dot-com operator Verisign for 20 years.
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[Link] Biden Administration Intervenes In Donald Trump's Silly Lawsuit Against Twitter To Defend Section 230
Read: 22/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
As you'll recall, a few months ago, former President Donald Trump sued Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube claiming that his own government violated the 1st Amendment... because those three private companies kicked him off their services for violating their policies.
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[Link] ATF Goes On Tour To Teach Journalists That Cops Are Usually Right When They Kill Someone
Read: 22/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
The ATF (the accepted not-actually-an-acronym for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is back on its periodic charm offensive.
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[Link] Three arrested after about 80 ransack Nordstrom store near San Francisco
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
About 80 people, some wearing ski masks and wielding crow bars, ransacked a Nordstrom department store in the San Francisco Bay Area on Saturday night, stealing merchandise before fleeing in cars waiting outside, police and witnesses said.
[Link] Ninth Circuit Tells NSO Group It Isn't A Government, Has No Immunity From WhatApp's Lawsuit
Read: 21/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
Long before its current run of Very Bad News, Israeli malware purveyor NSO Group was already controversial. Investigations had shown its exploits were being used to target journalists and activists and its customer list included governments known mostly for their human rights abuses.
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[Link] Jury Correctly Recognizes That Print-On-Demand Website Isn't A 'Counterfeiting' Business Engaged In Infringement
Read: 21/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
Phew.
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[Link] Carole Baskin refuses interviews in investigation into ex-husband’s disappearance
Read: 19/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Cpl Moises Garcia of the Hillsborough county sheriff’s office in Tampa held a news conference to provide an update on the investigation into Don Lewis’s disappearance.
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[Link] Chaos Reigns as ConstitutionDAO Fails to Buy the Constitution
Read: 19/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Thursday night, an ad-hoc mob of crypto investors tried and failed to purchase a copy of the U.S. Constitution at auction at Sotheby's, according to a post in Discord by Julian Weisser, a core member of ConstitutionDAO and one of the controllers of the wallet containing the auction funds.
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[Link] Julius Jones Won't Be Executed
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Julius Jones, the Black death row inmate whom Oklahoma planned to kill Thursday afternoon, will be granted clemency, Gov. Kevin Stitt announced. His sentence will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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[Link] Lauren Boebert Went Full Racist Conspiracy Theory Against Ilhan Omar
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Rep. Lauren Boebert used the censure of her fellow right-wing colleague to throw a best-of list of unproven Republican personal attacks at prominent House Democrats—including one of the most prominent progressives in Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar.
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[Link] School Removes Student Project About Fascism After Cops Complain
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Students at an Indiana high school are on their third day of virtual learning because they protested the school’s decision to remove a class project about ‘V for Vendetta’ which addressed police brutality.
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[Link] Rapper Young Dolph shot dead while buying cookies
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Rapper Young Dolph, who was widely admired in the hip-hop community for his authenticity and fierce independence, has been shot dead at a cookie shop in the US city of Memphis, Tennessee.
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[Link] QAnon Leader Ron Watkins Is Running for Congress and It’s Not Going Great
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
When Ron Watkins, the QAnon facilitator-turned-MAGA influencer, announced he was running for Congress in Arizona last month, he told VICE News he was pretty confident about his chances.
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[Link] Travis McMichael Admits Ahmaud Arbery Never Threatened Him Before Shooting
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Ahmaud Arbery did not threaten Travis McMichael or signal that he was armed in the moments before he was killed, but McMichael shot him dead during their struggle anyway, the Glynn County courthouse in Georgia heard Thursday.
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[Link] ‘He Had My Gun’: Ahmaud Arbery's Killer Claims It Was Self-Defense
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Travis McMichael, one of three men who chased Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in a truck with a confederate flag vanity plate, testified Wednesday that he shot Arbery during the confrontation because he believed Arbery was trying to take his gun.
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[Link] Miramax Is Suing Quentin Tarantino Over 'Pulp Fiction' NFTs
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Quentin Tarantino’s plans to sell a collection of Pulp Fiction NFTs may be thwarted by a lawsuit from the film’s studio Miramax.
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[Link] FBI Raids Home of GOP Election Official Linked to QAnon’s Ron Watkins
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
The FBI has raided the home of a Republican election official in Colorado accused of facilitating the leak of sensitive election data to QAnon influencer Ron Watkins.
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[Link] Mnuchin and Pompeo Discussed Ousting Trump After Jan. 6, Book Says
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Two of the Cabinet members closest to former President Donald Trump had multiple conversations about whether to remove him from office using the 25th Amendment, according to a new book released Tuesday.
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[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Racked Up More Than $63K in Mask Fines
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s refusal to wear a mask in violation of House rules has cost her more than $63,000 and counting, she said Tuesday—meaning more than a third of her congressional salary has been deducted so far this year due to masking fines.
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[Link] ‘QAnon Shaman’ Sentenced to More Than 3 Years in Prison for Capitol Riot
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Jacob Chansley “made himself the very image of the riot,” the judge who sentenced him said. Jacob Chansley, the “QAnon Shaman” also known as Jake Angeli, was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison today.
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[Link] ‘Domino effect’ warning as $200 billion wiped off cryptocurrency market
Read: 16/11/2021 www.news.com.au
Hundreds of billions of dollars have been wiped off cryptocurrencies in a market-wide crash that has brought the price of bitcoin down below $60,000.
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[Link] California Man in 4-Day Standoff With Abandoned Amazon Truck in Driveway
Read: 16/11/2021 www.vice.com
The man, who asked to be identified by his Twitter alias Captain Lou because he was worried his employer wouldn’t want him to beef with Amazon publicly, said his ordeal started when he ordered some Quilted Northern toilet paper from Amazon.
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[Link] Maryland Mayor Accused of Posting Revenge Porn to r/needysluts Reddit Forum
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
The mayor of a Maryland city was just charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn after he allegedly posted sexually explicit photos of a woman to Reddit while in office, according to a charging document released Monday.
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[Link] Michael Flynn Wants to Outlaw All Religions Except Christianity Now
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
Disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn claimed this weekend that if the U.S. wants to be one nation under God, then it needs to outlaw all religions aside from Christianity.
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[Link] Amazon Staten Island Workers Withdraw Request for Union Vote
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
The workers had spent months collecting signatures to call for an election.
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[Link] Father and Son Help Crack Unsolved 1969 Bank Robbery
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Theodore J. Conrad pulled off one of the biggest bank robberies in Cleveland’s history. The case eluded officials for decades, until an obituary appeared online and family secrets began to unravel. The boy watched as his father, John K.
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[Link] Doctor Charged With False Report to Summon Helicopter on Denali
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Federal prosecutors said the climber called rescuers to say that two other people on the mountain, the tallest in North America, were having a medical emergency. But it was a ruse. They said in a complaint that the doctor, Dr.
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[Link] Why Music Drives Us to Mayhem
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Mr. Ayers is a musician, writer and the U.S. head of the British record label 4AD. His memoir will be published by Viking in 2022.
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[Link] Woman who trespassed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort deported to China
Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A Chinese businesswoman convicted of trespassing at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and lying to Secret Service agents has been deported, federal authorities said, more than two years after serving her sentence.
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[Link] US confirms 2019 airstrike hit crowd of Syrian women and children
Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The US military has confirmed for the first time a 2019 air strike in Syria that killed up to 80 people, mostly women and children, but claimed the strike was justified as it killed Islamic State fighters who were attacking coalition forces.
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[Link] Stephen Colbert Is Tickled by a Judge’s Takedown of Trump
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. “Now Trump’s legal team is going to have to figure out what to obstruct next.
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[Link] Can Reaganism Rise Again?
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
For a long time, longer than I’ve held this job, my advice to Republican politicians and policymakers has been consistent: It isn’t the 1970s or 1980s anymore.
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[Link] OK, So Facebook Is Bad. Now What?
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
Evidence has been mounting for years that Facebook is harmful for its users. Countless reports have documented how the company’s algorithms push people toward radicalization, allow extremist movements to grow, and spread misinformation on an unprecedented scale.
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[Link] Democrats Are Getting Crushed in the ‘Vibes War’
Read: 14/11/2021 www.theatlantic.com
To explain the Democrats’ poor performance in state and local elections Tuesday, various commentators have made very specific claims: It was mostly about critical race theory, or mostly about Terry McAuliffe’s flaws as a candidate for Virginia governor, or mostly about suburban white women votin
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[Link] Infrastructure Bill's Drunk Driving Tech Mandate Leaves Some Privacy Advocates Nervous
Read: 14/11/2021 gizmodo.com
The recently passed $1 trillion infrastructure package is jam-packed with initiatives but sprinkled in there amid alongside $17 billion in funding for road safety programs is a mandate requiring carmakers to implement monitoring systems to identify and stop drunk drivers.
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[Link] GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Suspended from Twitter after Posting Bounty on a Critic
Read: 14/11/2021 itsgoingdown.org
A failed candidate for governor of California was suspended from Twitter for making “violent threats” after posting a $2,500 bounty; specifically asking for the name and address of a critic from Twitter.
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[Link] Theranos tests detected prostate-cancer marker in prostateless women
Read: 12/11/2021 arstechnica.com
Around 2016, Theranos’ fourth lab director, Kingshuk Das, noticed a problem. He was analyzing data from the company’s diagnostic devices when he saw results from tests for prostate-specific antigen, or PSA.
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[Link] Defense for Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Doesn’t Want Famous Black People in Court
Read: 12/11/2021 www.vice.com
One of the defense attorneys for Ahmaud Arbery’s killers was in his feelings when he found out Rev. Al Sharpton stopped by the courtroom to sit with the slain young Black man’s family.
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[Link] Holmes’ ex-boyfriend, who was Theranos exec, bullied and ignored $1.2M investor
Read: 12/11/2021 arstechnica.com
In 2006, Alan Eisenman invested more than $1 million in Theranos, a then-promising medical diagnostic company founded by college dropout Elizabeth Holmes.
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[Link] This Couple Survived the Unite the Right Car Attack. The Trauma Tore Them Apart.
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
On the day of the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Marcus Martin wore his red-and-white Jordans.
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[Link] Paul Gosar’s Violent Anime Video of AOC Could Get Him in Real Trouble
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Rep. Paul Gosar’s staff-made anime video, which shows his character killing a congresswoman and attacking President Joe Biden, could earn him a rare censure from his colleagues.
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[Link] New York City’s Billionaires’ Row Just Got Its Very Own Homeless Shelter
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Residents of Manhattan’s so-called Billionaires’ Row—a smattering of ultra-posh, super-expensive skyscrapers abutting Central Park—just might have to encounter poor people after all.
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[Link] Now the GOP Is Coming for John Deere Workers
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
So much for the party of workers. Approximately 10,000 workers at John Deere facilities in five states went on strike in mid-October, the majority of them in Iowa.
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[Link] Why are the Last 4 Digits of an SSN Important?
Read: 11/11/2021 www.stilt.com
Social Security Numbers are issued by the government and they are used for various purposes. A lot of times, different companies will use the last four digits of your SSN. However, these four digits are crucial and you need to protect them. But why are the last 4 digits of an SSNso important?
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[Link] Theranos lab chief says Elizabeth Holmes offered ‘impossible’ explanation for odd findings
Read: 10/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The former lab director of Theranos has testified that Elizabeth Holmes gave “implausible” excuses for apparent failures in the company’s tests and personally pushed back against his concerns about its signature blood testing machines.
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[Link] The US Government Made It Illegal to Buy These NFTs
Read: 10/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. government put 57 cryptocurrency addresses and one exchange on the OFAC sanctions list on Monday for facilitating ransomware and money laundering.
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[Link] Video: Howard Schultz Compares Selflessness of Starbucks to That of Holocaust Prisoners
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Schultz visited Starbucks workers in Buffalo days before a historic union election that could have reverberating effects across the fast food and retail industries.
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[Link] Neo-Nazis Are Trying to Hijack the ‘Unite the Right’ Trial and Turn It Into a Horrible Podcast
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
This is, perhaps, an inevitable byproduct of trying to hold the more than two dozen white nationalist and neo-Nazi figures, plus their organizations, accountable for the violent Unite the Right rally that left one dead, many injured, and traumatized this small college town. Sines v.
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[Link] A Jan. 6 Rioter Crawled Through Swamps to Seek Asylum in Belarus
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
An American who is accused of punching a police officer during the Capitol riots is now seeking political asylum in the eastern European country of Belarus.
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[Link] The Lawyer Behind Trump’s Infamous Jan. 6 Memo Has a Galling New Defense
Read: 9/11/2021 slate.com
As the California state bar considers whether to initiate disciplinary proceedings against John Eastman for his role in Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election, the former dean of Chapman Law School has begun to mount a defense of his infamous legal memo on the “January 6 scenario.
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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Dad Walked Out When Jury Was Shown Images of His Dead Son
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
The first time photos of Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal injuries were shown during the trial of the three white men accused of killing him, his father Marcus Arbery Sr. stood up and left the courtroom. “If you seen your kid get blown apart with a 12-gauge shotgun, what would you do?” Arbery Sr.
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[Link] Ted Cruz Doesn’t Think Texas Should Secede—Yet
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is “not ready to give up on America yet,” but he might support a Texas secession eventually if the party elected to run the federal government were to “fundamentally destroy the country” by enacting progressive proposals.
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[Link] Paramedic Shot by Rittenhouse Believed He ‘Was Going to Die’
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
The high-profile Rittenhouse trial has now entered its second week.
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[Link] Fed: Meme Stocks Might Blow Up U.S. Economy One Day
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
The Federal Reserve is worried that risk-taking online investors and social media echo chambers could lead to a “potentially destabilizing outcome.
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[Link] North Dakota Republican forced to skip anti-vaccination rally after getting Covid
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A North Dakota Republican who organized a rally to oppose Covid-19 vaccine mandates said he would not attend the event – because he was infected with Covid-19.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell to challenge claims she groomed girls for Epstein to abuse
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Ghislaine Maxwell plans at her criminal trial to challenge prosecution claims that she “groomed” underage girls for the late financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, and to offer testimony that her accusers might have faulty memories.
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[Link] The QAnon Followers Who Went to Dallas to See JFK Refuse to Leave
Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com
A group of QAnon believers who gathered in Dallas last week to see the late President John F. Kennedy and his late son reappear, remained in the city and over the weekend, and began discussing establishing a permanent base there where they could all live.
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[Link] To-go orders are ruining restaurant workers' lives
Read: 8/11/2021 www.businessinsider.com
The COVID-19 pandemic closed dining rooms and led to a boom in to-go orders across the restaurant industry — but they're making things unbearable for workers.
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[Link] After Being Sued By ACE, Nitro IPTV Now Faces a New DISH Network Lawsuit
Read: 7/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
In 2020, pirate IPTV service Nitro TV was sued by members of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment for millions in copyright infringement damages.
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[Link] The CIA’s Afghan Proxies, Accused of War Crimes, Will Get a Fresh Start in the U.S.
Read: 7/11/2021 theintercept.com
Before the Taliban took control of Kabul in August, the U.S.-backed Afghan commandos known as Zero units were the ghosts of the Afghan battlefield. Along with their CIA advisers, they were feared and, in recent years, virtually invisible.
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[Link] Meet the Antisemitic QAnon Leader Who Led Followers to Dallas to Meet JFK
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Tuesday morning, hundreds of QAnon followers gathered on the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, believing they were going to see John F. Kennedy reappear. These people had traveled from all over the U.S.
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[Link] Meet the Guy Who’s Finessing the Six Flags Meal Pass
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
One man’s theme park is another man’s dinner plan.
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[Link] NASA unveils asteroid-fighting spacecraft as it prepares for Armageddon-style mission test
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The spacecraft will be launched later this month as part of the space agency's first planetary defence test mission called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). It will direct itself at an asteroid while traveling at a speed of about 24,000 kilometres per hour.
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[Link] NRA Shell Companies Funneled Up to $35 Million to GOP Candidates, Lawsuit Says
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center and Giffords, the gun safety advocacy group started by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Sen. Mark Kelly, filed the federal lawsuit on Tuesday in D.C.
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[Link] A US nuclear-powered attack submarine hit something underwater – now its two senior officers have been fired
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The US Navy has fired the two senior officers of a nuclear-powered attack submarine that was damaged in an underwater collision last month in the South China Sea. The actions were taken by Vice Admiral Karl Thomas, commander of the US 7th Fleet, based in Japan.
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[Link] If Americans can’t have basic things like childcare, our democracy is a sham
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
In 2014, Northwestern and Princeton researchers published a report statistically documenting how lawmakers do not listen or care about what most voters want, and instead mostly care about serving their big donors.
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[Link] Lawyers for Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Really Want to Stay Away From Race
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
During opening statements in the murder trial against Ahmaud Arbery's killers, defense attorneys avoided mentioning race almost entirely.
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[Link] California town declares itself a ‘constitutional republic’ to buck Covid rules
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A northern California town has declared itself a “constitutional republic” in response to Covid-19 health restrictions imposed by the governor, in the latest sign of ongoing strife between the state’s government and its rural and conservative regions.
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[Link] Why are so many NYPD officers fighting vaccination?
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
In New York City, the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) tried and failed to block the city’s vaccine mandate for all city workers. New York City police officers have been on the wrong side of public health for most of the pandemic.
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[Link] House Democrats Back Off Targeting Billionaire Tax Schemes and Swap in New Nicotine Levy
Read: 6/11/2021 theintercept.com
A new version of the Build Back Better Act that the House Rules Committee released Wednesday was amended to protect tax avoidance schemes used by the ultrawealthy in their estate planning.
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[Link] Richard Spencer Held Parties in 'Fash Loft' For White Nationalists, Court Hears
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
It became known as “the fash loft”—and hosted as many as six parties for white nationalist influencers that summer. None of them were recorded. But many otherwise make unlikely bedfellows.
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[Link] Image Comics Refuses to Voluntarily Recognize Union
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
Image Comics will not voluntarily recognize Comic Book Workers United, which was formed by staffers there this week. The union is a first for major comics publishers.
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[Link] US Department of State stresses support of SDF
Read: 4/11/2021 npasyria.com
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday, the US Department of State stressed that they will continue to support the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against ISIS and support stability in the region.
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[Link] 'Crypto Investing Club' Leader Spent Investors' Money on Jewellery, Real Estate
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Michael Ackerman pleaded guilty to wire fraud, and also spent ill-gotten funds on private security guards. Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.
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[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Is 1 Twitter Violation Away From a Permanent Ban
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account has been suspended for a week for posting COVID-19 misinformation, and the Georgia congresswoman is just one more violation away from a permanent ban.
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[Link] Outrage as McDonald’s CEO appears to blame parents of slain Chicago children
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
McDonald’s chief executive, Chris Kempczinski, has sparked outrage after the emergence of a text exchange with the Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, in which he appears to blame two Chicago parents whose children were fatally shot.
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[Link] Ex-Nato head says Putin wanted to join alliance early on in his rule
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Vladimir Putin wanted Russia to join Nato but did not want his country to have to go through the usual application process and stand in line “with a lot of countries that don’t matter”, according to a former secretary general of the transatlantic alliance.
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[Link] ‘Honest mistake’: US strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians was legal, says Pentagon
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A US drone strike in Kabul in August that killed 10 Afghan civilians was a tragic mistake but did not violate any laws, a Pentagon inspector general said after an investigation.
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[Link] New York City Taxi Drivers Win Debt Deal After 15-Day Hunger Strike
Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
The New York Taxi Workers Alliance has declared victory in its struggle with the city government that had made millions artificially inflating the price of taxi medallions and then left taxi drivers to suffocate under debt as those prices plummeted in the age of Uber.
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[Link] US oil giants top list of lobby offenders holding back climate action
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
ExxonMobil and Chevron are the world’s most obstructive organisations when it comes to governments setting climate policies, according to research into the “prolific and highly sophisticated” lobbying ploys used by the fossil fuel industry.
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[Link] ‘Nine Eyes’? Bill Would Look at Adding Four Countries to Intel-Sharing Pact
Read: 4/11/2021 www.defenseone.com
The United States’ “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing pact is a World War II relic that needs updating to better keep tabs on China, the chairman of a key house subcommittee on intelligence told Defense One. Arizona Democrat Rep.
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[Link] Nvidia RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards Stolen in Truck Heist
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Someone has stolen a shipment of GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards from a truck in Southern California. According to a post on the EVGA forums, someone lifted the graphics cards on October 29 as they were en-route to a distribution center.
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[Link] A High School Suspended a 15-Year-Old After She Reported Sexual Assault
Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The student, who is not named in the report by WBTV, told the outlet that she was routinely harassed by a male student at Hawthorne Academy of Health Sciences in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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[Link] US Sanctions Could Cut-off NSO from Tech It Relies On
Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. government added NSO Group to a federal denylist that prohibits any American company or individual from selling or providing services to the controversial Israeli spyware seller. The sanctions effectively prohibit any U.S. company, as well as American citizens working in the U.S.
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[Link] Family Finds Dead Grandfather Being Dissected at an ‘Oddities’ Event
Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com
The family discovered what happened to their grandfathers’ body only after an undercover journalist from Seattle news outlet KING5 attended the October event and spotted the man’s name on a tag hanging from his body.
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[Link] Parallel metaverses: Facebook’s name change is challenged by Arizona retailer Meta PCs
Read: 2/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Meta PCs, an Arizona-based company that sells computers, laptops and software for gamers was an unremarkable retail outfit a week ago.
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[Link] The Great Cop Vax Mandate Apocalypse That Never Happened
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
When New York City announced that city workers—including cops–would have to be vaccinated against COVID-19, there was howling, threats, and promises that thousands would walk off the job or retire, turning the city into a dangerous, crime-ridden hellscape.
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[Link] Zillow Is Killing Its Home-Buyer Service, Cutting 25 Percent of Workforce
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Only months after announcing plans to dramatically ramp up Zillow Offers, its home-buying iBuyer service, Zillow announced Tuesday that it is effectively killing it, saying it was too difficult to accurately price homes and only served a small percentage of its customer base.
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[Link] Hundreds of QAnon Fans Are Going to Texas to See JFK Return. No, Seriously.
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Hundreds of QAnon supporters are currently traveling from all across the U.S. to Dallas, where they expect to see John F. Kennedy suddenly reappear on Tuesday night and ordain former President Donald Trump as the “king of kings.
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[Link] Starbucks Tells Unionizing Workers 'We Want You To Vote No'
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Monday evening, Starbucks sent a blatantly anti-union email to workers eligible to vote in union elections at three stores that begins on November 10.
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[Link] Alabama Judge Loses Job After Saying George Floyd ‘Got What He Deserved’
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Randy Jinks, the Talladega County Probate Judge, was removed from his position Friday.
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[Link] Trump Invokes Presidential ‘Absolute Immunity’ in Electric Avenue Copyright Suit
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Last month, lawyers acting for Donald Trump failed to have a court dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by musician Eddy Grant over the unlicensed use of his track Electric Avenue in a campaign video.
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[Link] Jen Psaki, White House press secretary to Joe Biden, tests positive for Covid
Read: 1/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Jen Psaki, Joe Biden’s White House press secretary, said on Sunday she had tested positive for Covid-19. Psaki, 42, did not travel with Biden to Rome, for the G20 summit, from where the president was due to travel on to Glasgow for the Cop26 climate talks.
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[Link] Pro-vaccine Fox News host receives support from CNN anchor over death threats
Read: 1/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The CNN anchor Jake Tapper reached across the political aisle on Friday to support Neil Cavuto, a Fox News host who received death threats after pleading for viewers to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
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[Link] Former UFC Star Paige VanZant is Hunting Down Photo Pirates on Discord
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Former UFC star and Dancing With The Stars runner-up Paige VanZant is reportedly making more money from selling pictures and videos of herself online than she ever did with the MMA organization.
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[Link] QAnon Surfer Accused of Killing His Own Kids May Mount Mental Health Defense
Read: 1/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Lawyers for the man accused of killing his own children with a spear gun because he was radicalized by QAnon conspiracy theories are seeking to delay his trial by six months to properly assess his mental health.
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[Link] An Oregon City Is Limiting How Often a Church Feeds the Homeless
Read: 1/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. An Oregon city just passed a new ordinance that would limit churches’ ability to serve free food to homeless people.
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[Link] Amazon intensifies 'severe' effort to discourage first-ever US warehouse union
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A push to unionize workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama is running into tough opposition as the retail giant, whose profits have boomed during the coronavirus pandemic despite concerns over worker safety, has launched an aggressive anti-union drive.
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[Link] 'She was my friend': Alec Baldwin breaks silence on death of Halyna Hutchins for first time on camera
Read: 31/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Actor Alec Baldwin has spoken publicly for the first time on camera about the accidental shooting on the set of a film that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, in a video released by TMZ.
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[Link] Mastodon Lawyers Tell Trump Social Network to Make Source Code Public
Read: 31/10/2021 www.vice.com
Lawyers for the social network codebase Mastodon have sent a formal letter to former President Donald Trump’s upcoming social network ‘Truth Social’ asking the site to make its source code publicly available, according to an announcement from Mastodon today.
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[Link] Activision Blizzard ends forced arbitration as CEO takes a massive pay cut
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theverge.com
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick sent a letter updating employees on the further steps he and the company will take to change its image in the wake of multiple sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits.
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[Link] $100M Theranos investor did little vetting for fear of upsetting Elizabeth Holmes
Read: 31/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Theranos sent a major investor financial projections that were wildly optimistic—perhaps even deceptive—the jury heard yesterday in the criminal trial of company founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes.
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[Link] Alleged TikTok ‘Skyrim IRL’ Murders Shows the Real Danger of Stalkerware
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Last week Ali Nassar Abulaban, a popular TikTok and other social media personality with over a million followers combined across his accounts, allegedly murdered his wife and a man.
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[Link] Jury Selection at the Charlottesville White Nationalist Trial Has Been Wild
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Jury selection was always going to be an arduous and challenging process in Sines vs. Kessler, a massive civil suit brought by nine survivors of the violence in Charlottesville against 20 white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and their various organizations.
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[Link] Millions of Americans Say They’d Quit Their Jobs to Avoid Lifesaving Vaccine
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The hesitancy is, unsurprisingly, driven almost entirely by currently unvaccinated workers.
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[Link] Department of Commerce Says We Need Fewer Repair Restrictions
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a federal agency that advises the president on telecom issues, has sent a letter to the Copyright office detailing a list of exemptions it believes should be made to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA).
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[Link] School Cop Who Shot and Killed Manuela ‘Mona’ Rodriguez Charged With Murder
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The former Long Beach, California, school safety officer who shot and killed an 18-year-old mother as she drove away from the scene of a fight will now face a murder charge.
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[Link] QAnon Influencer Who Calls Democrats Pedophiles Is an Actual Child Abuser
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. QAnon promoter David Trent has spent the last four years telling his tens of thousands of followers that the Democrats are pedophiles working as part of a global child sex trafficking ring run by the world’s elite.
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[Link] The People Who Left Their Offices to Work From Boats
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
The future of work isn’t work from home; it’s work from wherever you want. For some people, that’s an apartment; for Brad Abbott, that’s a boat. Abbott starts his day in the historic Vineyard Haven Harbor, waking up on the boat he lives on with his family.
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[Link] Australians to be able to travel to the UK, US, Italy, Greece and more without having to quarantine
Read: 28/10/2021 www.9news.com.au
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has provided a list of countries in which Australians can travel to without having to spend time in mandatory isolation.
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[Link] Even Republicans Can Be Convinced That Big Oil’s to Blame for Climate Change
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. What does it take to convince a Republican that oil and gas companies lied about the existence of climate change and are responsible for contributing to it?
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[Link] Mac Miller’s Drug Supplier Admits to Distributing Fentanyl-Laced Pills
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Stephen Andrew Walter—one of three men charged in connection with Miller’s death—agreed to a plea deal Monday, according to court documents filed in federal court in the Central District of California.
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[Link] Amazon ‘Delivery Partners’ Hit Amazon With $150 Million Lawsuit
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Two Amazon delivery companies in the Portland area sued Amazon Monday, claiming that the e-commerce giant controls nearly every aspect of their business and penalizes them for circumstances beyond their control. The companies are seeking $15 million in damages.
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[Link] Former Adviser Says Trump Let Thousands Die of COVID for no Reason
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. One of former President Donald Trump’s key coronavirus advisers thinks his administration could have prevented up to 40 percent of U.S. coronavirus deaths with a better pandemic response.
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[Link] Lawyer Who Told Trump Pence Could Block the Election Says Riot Was FBI ‘Setup’
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] It Took 7 Years To Charge Cops Who Shot Jamarion Robinson 59 Times
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Members of a U.S. Marshal’s task force shot Jamarion Robinson, a 26-year-old Black man with paranoid schizophrenia, 59 times during a raid on his girlfriend’s home in 2016.
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[Link] Police Thought They Saw Brian Laundrie Coming Home. It Was His Mom.
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. When Petito was reported missing, North Port Police set up cameras outside Laundrie’s residence. Laundrie had returned home alone Sept.
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[Link] Now Married, Japan’s Ex-Princess Mako to Move from Palace to a One-Bedroom in New York
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Four years after publicly announcing their engagement, former Princess Mako of Japan has officially tied the knot with her college sweetheart, Kei Komuro.
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[Link] Las Patronas: The Rise of Female Drug Bosses in Latin America
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
VICE World News brings you exclusive reporting from Latin America’s criminal underworld on the boss women you’ve never heard of. MEXICO CITY, Mexico — She told me her name was Brenda. When I met her, she had been in the Pavón prison on the outskirts of Guatemala City for 20 years.
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[Link] Climate Change Is Violent. Should the Fight Against It Be, Too?
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Peaceful protest isn't curbing the rapidly worsening crisis. Some activists say it’s time to attack the actual tools used to destroy the planet. Violence can be a flimsy word—so broad as to be devoid of meaning.
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[Link] Couple slammed for wearing ‘inappropriate’ T-shirts to Disney World
Read: 26/10/2021 www.news.com.au
Angry Disney fans are calling for the Mouse House to ban inappropriate garb after a couple was photographed wearing sexually suggestive T-shirts at Disney World. Over the weekend, fans posted a photo of a couple wearing matching shirts that riffed on Disney’s “D” calligraphy.
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[Link] Crypto Investors Are Bidding to Touch a 1,784-Pound Tungsten Cube Once a Year
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the latest phase of the quest to turn everything into an NFT, crypto traders are now bidding to digitally own a 1,784 lb cube of tungsten in Willowbrook, Illinois.
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[Link] Capital Rioter Begged to Be Released From ‘Cult-Like’ Patriot Wing of DC Jail
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. An alleged Capitol rioter was released to the custody of his parents Tuesday after a judge in the case said he was surrounded by the “toxic environment” of the D.C. jail holding dozens of January 6 defendants.
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[Link] McDonald’s Employees Will Strike Over Sexual Harassment
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The employees, organizers said, will strike in cities like Chicago, Detroit, Houston, and Miami. They will also call for workers to unionize, since McDonald’s, they say, has failed to adequately protect employees.
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[Link] ‘Unite the Right’ Organizers Are Facing a Court Case That Could Bankrupt Them
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia - Yellow U.S. Marshall tape cordoned off the walkways into the federal courthouse in downtown Charlottesville on Monday morning, which, for the next month will be the focal point of a civil case that could bankrupt a white supremacist movement.
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[Link] A Pair Of January 6 Planners Just Rolled On Their Congressional Accomplices
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, reportedly floated a “blanket pardon” to two organizers of the January 6 pro-Trump rallies that descended into a violent attack on the U.S.
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[Link] Feds Allege Georgia Man Blew $57,000 in COVID Cash on a Pokémon Card
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Federal authorities have charged a Georgia man with fraud after he allegedly spent $57,789 of COVID relief money on a Pokémon card.
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[Link] The World's First Ransomware Came on a Floppy Disk in 1989
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
In December 1989, Willems worked at a Belgian insurance firm, and put the disk into a work computer. Bizarrely, it presented a questionnaire, the answers of which told the user whether or not they were in danger of contracting HIV/AIDS. Willems completed the quiz, and didn't think much more of it.
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[Link] Human remains found in Florida belong to Gabby Petito's boyfriend Brian Laundrie, FBI says
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The FBI says human remains found in a Florida nature reserve belong to Brian Laundrie. Mr Laundrie was being sought as a person of interest in the death of his girlfriend Gabby Petito while the couple were on a cross-country road trip.
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[Link] Parkland school shooter pleads guilty to 17 counts of murder
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Nikolas Cruz has pleaded guilty to murdering 17 people during a rampage at his former high school in Parkland, Florida, leaving a jury to decide whether he will be executed for one of the nation's deadliest school shootings.
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[Link] This Black Cop Got Kicked Out of Her Union for Supporting BLM
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Lyft Has Received More Than 4,000 Sexual Assault Reports
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The report, released Thursday, breaks down sexual assault into five categories, including non-consensual sexual penetration, attempted sexual penetration, and non-consensual touching and kissing of body parts.
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[Link] 911 Allegedly Hung Up on a Man Who Wouldn’t Speak English. He Died.
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] What We Know About the ‘Skeletal’ Remains of Brian Laundrie
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed Thursday that remains found at a Florida nature park belonged to Brian Laundrie, the 23-year-old who was a person of interest in the death of his fiancée, 22-year-old Gabby Petito.
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[Link] Vizio In Hot Water Over Smart TV GPL Violations
Read: 22/10/2021 hackaday.com
As most anyone in this community knows, there’s an excellent chance that any consumer product on the market that’s advertised as “smart” these days probably has some form of Linux running under the hood.
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[Link] Ransomware Gang Says the Real Ransomware Gang Is the Federal Government
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Friday, a competing ransomware gang that calls itself Conti released a statement titled “ReviLives,” in support of the REvil gang, which was the target of the international operation.
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[Link] British defence chief reveals new AUKUS security pact could expand to include other allies
Read: 22/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The UK's departing Chief of the Defence Staff has signalled the new trilateral AUKUS security pact with the United States and Australia could be expanded to include other allies such as Japan.
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[Link] ‘Hard Not To Respect That’: Why White Nationalists Are Toasting the Taliban
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
When the Taliban captured Kabul in August, sealing a remarkable victory in its nearly 20-year war of attrition against the world's leading superpower, jihadist networks around the world erupted in jubilation.
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[Link] In-N-Out Refuses to Be ‘Vaccination Police’ in Dumb Move Against Mandate
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Hundreds of HelloFresh Workers Are Unionizing in New Jersey
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Wednesday, the union filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for a union election at the HelloFresh distribution center in Newark. HelloFresh is the largest meal-kit provider in the United States. Its factory workers are also unionizing at a nearby facility in Totowa, New Jersey.
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[Link] A Black 10-Year-Old Drew an ‘Offensive Sketch.’ She Was Handcuffed by Cops.
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Ultimately, the child was held for over four hours by either school staff or police. By the time she was released, she “was very hungry and exhausted,” according to the letter.
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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder Trial Jury Is Proving Hard to Pick
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Jury selection in the ongoing murder trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers is off to a rough start.
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[Link] Sim Swapper Doxes and SWATs His Accomplice
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
The SIM swapper, 20-year-old Kyell Bryan ended up doxing and swatting his former partner, according to the hacker’s guilty plea.
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[Link] Pig Kidney Successfully Transplanted From Hog to Human
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Doctors in New York City transplanted a kidney grown in a pig to a brain-dead woman in a major step forward for xenotransplantation, a process in which human organs are grown in animals and then transplanted into humans.
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[Link] A trillion-dollar coin could be minted within hours of an emergency decision to do so, former US Mint director says
Read: 20/10/2021 www.businessinsider.com
Philip Diehl, the director of the US Mint from 1994 to 2000, told Axios that the agency had no shortage of platinum coin blanks. That's the metal required to make such a coin, according to the law that the entire idea is based on.
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[Link] Custom PS5 Plate Company Dares Sony to Sue It, Gets Sued, Trolls Sony Again
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
The PlayStation 5 is an ugly machine. Thankfully, the hideous white plates flanking either side of the gaming console come off and there are several companies that sell variations on Sony’s white, default theme.
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[Link] A Proud ‘Lady Trump’ Is Running For Nevada Governor
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Fiore is perhaps best known for her hardline gun rights advocacy. In December 2015, Fiore posted a family Christmas photo to Facebook showing her entire family holding guns—including her five-year-old grandson.
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[Link] Black Democratic Party Chair Says He Got Lynching Threat For Criticizing Trump
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Ross Wilburn says he received multiple threats, including one that threatened to lynch him, after he wrote an op-ed that criticized former President Donald Trump.
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[Link] Miya Marcano’s Family Just Sued Her Apartment Complex for Wrongful Death
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Last month, Armando Caballero, a maintenance man for Arden Villas, allegedly killed Marcano, a college student who was a tenant and employee at the apartment complex in Orlando, Florida.
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[Link] Court Mistakenly Gave Potential Jurors Access to Ahmaud Arbery’s Mental Health History
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Those documents include specifics about Arbery’s mental health and prior criminal history that a judge ordered suppressed and never brought up in court.
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[Link] Right-Wing Radio Host ‘Kept Hugging People’ to Give Himself COVID
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Right-wing radio host and YouTube personality Dennis Prager apparently really, really wanted to get COVID-19. Mission accomplished.
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[Link] Northern Territory chief minister and US senator Ted Cruz in Twitter spat over Covid vaccines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Northern Territory chief minister, Michael Gunner, has hit back at US senator Ted Cruz who criticised the Northern Territory’s vaccine policy, telling the firebrand Texan conservative “you know nothing about us”.
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[Link] Sinclair Broadcast 'Disrupted’ by Ransomware Attack
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
The TV giant Sinclair Broadcast Group said it was hacked. According to a press release on Monday, the company said it detected a ransomware attack on Saturday.
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[Link] Facebook Says Extremely Common Thing It Does Is Bad When Reporters Do It
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
In an attempt to get ahead of reporting that will seemingly make Facebook—already reeling from weeks of revelations from a whistleblower—somehow look even worse, the company has adopted an increasingly popular strategy among some corporations: posting through it.
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[Link] Bill Gates reportedly advised to end inappropriate emails with female employee in 2008
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Bill Gates was allegedly advised in 2008 by executives at the company to halt inappropriate communication with a female employee, according to a new report.
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[Link] Colin Powell’s UN speech: a decisive moment in undermining US credibility
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Colin Powell will be most remembered for the act he most regretted, his 2003 presentation to the UN security council laying out US evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which turned out not to exist.
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[Link] Climate change is a national security issue, but not in the way Scott Morrison imagines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Scott Morrison describes climate change as a national security issue. He’s right – but not in the way he imagines. If global heating exacerbates conflict, conflict also exacerbates heating, in a dialectic that fundamentally links decarbonisation to the struggle for peace.
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[Link] Zillow Pumps the Brakes on Buying Homes
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
After preparing to go on a massive home-buying spree, Zillow abruptly reversed course and announced on Monday that it will not sign any new contracts for additional homes for the remainder of the year.
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[Link] China Denies Secretly Testing a Missile That Could Drop Nukes at Any Point in the World
Read: 18/10/2021 www.vice.com
On July 19, China announced its 77th launch of the Long March 2C rocket, carrying three satellite sensors to orbit. The next month, the same rocket was used to put three telecommunications satellites in space. What happened next confounded observers. China said the second launch, on Aug.
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[Link] Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Nude Photos From Hundreds of iCloud Accounts
Read: 18/10/2021 www.vice.com
Hao Kuo Chi, 40, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy and computer fraud after he hacked into hundreds of iCloud accounts and stole nude photos, according to an announcement from the Department of Justice.
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[Link] Google countersues Epic Games for lost Play Store money
Read: 17/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Epic Games keeps piling up lawsuits with app store owners. This time, Google is countersuing Epic for breach of contract. Epic signed contracts with both Google and Apple, pledging to use the default payment systems for in-app purchases.
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[Link] Big tobacco got caught in a lie by Congress. Now it’s the oil industry’s turn
Read: 17/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Two weeks from today, Darren Woods will face a potential doomsday moment before the US Congress. As the CEO of ExxonMobil, Woods was paid $15.6m last year to run the richest, most powerful private oil company in history.
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[Link] Bitcoin Miner Facing $5.6M Fine for Starting Rogue Power Plant
Read: 17/10/2021 www.vice.com
It started with a mysterious humming noise that sounded like a wave “but 100 times more annoying,” according to local reports.
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[Link] Pete Buttigieg’s Parental Leave Is Driving Conservatives Mad
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Tucker Carlson took a shot at the first openly gay Cabinet secretary for taking parental leave after the birth of his children.
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[Link] Capitol Police Officer Arrested For Aiding January 6 Rioter
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. A U.S. Capitol Police officer was arrested on Friday for allegedly warning a rioter to destroy evidence that they’d made it into the Capitol on January 6.
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[Link] A Capitol Rioter Represented Himself in Court and it Went Very, Very Wrong
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Brandon Fellows, a 27-year-old from Albany, New York, was charged with multiple crimes including obstruction of an official proceeding, which could land him in prison for up to 20 years.
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[Link] Google Opposes ‘Sweeping’ Popcorn Time Piracy Blocking Request
Read: 14/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
Google has asked a Virginia federal court for permission to formally oppose the request for a far-reaching anti-piracy injunction. The contested anti-piracy measures, aimed at shutting down a popular Popcorn Time app, are proposed by a group of filmmakers.
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[Link] 10,000 John Deere Workers Go on Strike
Read: 14/10/2021 www.vice.com
The strike was authorized after John Deere workers at a dozen facilities in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas voted by 90 percent to reject a contract negotiated for months between the United Automobile Workers union and the company.
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[Link] Wildlife officers complete two-year quest to remove tyre from elk's neck
Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The elk was first spotted with the tyre more than two years ago, during a wildlife survey. Speaking in 2020 about how the elk may have wound up like that, Mr Murdoch speculated it would have become stuck while the elk was young, before it grew antlers.
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[Link] Amazon Abandons Warehouse Plan Because San Diego Is Considering Worker Protection Law
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Amazon backed out of a last-mile distribution center project near San Diego, California, because of a proposed law that would require it to pay workers more and offer them stronger protections, Motherboard has confirmed.
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[Link] Archivists Create a Searchable Index of 107 Million Science Articles
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The General Index is here to serve as your map to all human knowledge. Pulled from 107,233,728 journal articles, The General Index is a searchable collection of keywords and short sentences from published papers that can serve as a map to the paywalled domains of scientific knowledge.
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[Link] Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo Is Getting Fired
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Art Acevedo had a busy six months as the chief of the Miami Police Department: He unknowingly took a photo with a Proud Boy, said the city was run by “Cuban mafia,” and made enemies for pushing the COVID vaccine on officers.
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[Link] Cops and Paramedics Involved in Elijah McClain Death Charged With Homicide
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The police officers and paramedics who stopped 23-year-old Elijah McClain and administered a fatal dose of ketamine to the unarmed Black man are being charged with homicide, more than two years after his death.
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[Link] Texas governor bans all vaccine mandates, including from private businesses
Read: 13/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order late Monday prohibiting all state entities, including private businesses, from requiring people to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
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[Link] Unvaccinated patients are getting kicked off organ transplant waitlists
Read: 13/10/2021 arstechnica.com
A growing number of medical facilities across the country are directing coveted organ donations to patients who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, pushing people who remain unvaccinated down or even off of transplantation waitlists.
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[Link] Starbucks Temporarily Closes Two Stores That Are Trying to Unionize
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The company said that the two temporary store closures in Buffalo have nothing to do with the union drive—one is for a remodel and the other is for training new hires.
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[Link] How South Dakota became a global tax haven
Read: 12/10/2021 www.axios.com
South Dakota has become the world's foremost tax haven — right up there with the Cayman Islands, and ahead of old-fashioned locations like Switzerland. That's one of the clear messages from the Pandora Papers leak of confidential financial information about the world's richest individuals.
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[Link] Trump Recorded a Birthday Video for Capitol Rioter Ashli Babbitt
Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Former President Donald Trump recorded a video message praising Ashli Babbitt, the QAnon supporter who was shot dead by Capitol Police during the Jan. 6 insurrection, pledging his “unwavering” support to her family and friends.
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[Link] CIA Funding Arm Gave Encrypted App Wickr $1.6 Million
Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com
In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit investment firm started by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), recently poured more than $1.6 million into encrypted messaging platform Wickr, according to public disclosure records reviewed by Motherboard. The $1.
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[Link] Alison Parker’s On-Air Murder Was in 2015 and Facebook Won’t Remove the Video
Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. On the morning of August 26, 2015, television journalist Alison Parker was in Monela, Virginia reporting for a CBS affiliate station.
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[Link] China has won AI battle with U.S., Pentagon's ex-software chief says
Read: 12/10/2021 www.reuters.com
LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Financial Times.
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[Link] California man dies after being beaten by people he tried to hit with truck
Read: 11/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A man died after he tried to hit people on a sidewalk with his truck, crashed against a building then was pulled out and beaten by the group in southern California, authorities said.
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[Link] The Taliban says US will provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan
Read: 11/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The US has agreed to provide humanitarian aid but refused to give political recognition to Afghanistan's new rulers, the Taliban says. The statement came at the end of the first direct talks between the former foes since the chaotic withdrawal of Coalition troops at the end of August.
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[Link] MAGA QAnon's 2 Biggest Celebrities Are at War
Read: 11/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. And the spat is splitting their supporters down the middle.
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[Link] Tesla ordered to pay $137M to Black former worker subjected to racist workplace
Read: 10/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Tesla owes Owen Diaz $137 million after a jury found that the Black former worker was subjected to racial abuse that the electric vehicle company insufficiently addressed during his tenure.
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[Link] Activision sued by another federal agency, settles lawsuit for $18 million
Read: 10/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Earlier today the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard after a three year investigation into alleged workplace discrimination.
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[Link] America Has Slightly Reduced Its Nuclear Arsenal
Read: 10/10/2021 www.vice.com
The Biden administration revealed how many nukes America has on Tuesday, abandoning a Trump-era policy of nuclear secrecy. Between its active and stored nukes, the U.S. is sitting on 3,750 world-ending weapons as of the last official count in September 2020.
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[Link] Trump Supporters Have Already Turned on the Cyber Ninjas
Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Doug Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based company that conducted the bogus election ‘audit’ in Arizona over the last six months, says he won’t be conducting any more recounts—unless God tells him to.
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[Link] Trump Got Racist About Haiti on Fox, for Old Times’ Sake
Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Former President Donald Trump went on Fox News Thursday night to suggest that it would be a “death wish” to allow Haitian migrants into the U.S.
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[Link] Long Beach School Cop Shot and Killed a Teen Mom
Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. A Long Beach, California, school resource officer fatally shoting an 18-year-old mother in the head as she fled a fight in her car. Now, two days after died, police are investigating the shooting as a homicide.
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[Link] The GOP Plot to Steal Wisconsin Is Off to a Ridiculous Start
Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. No one, apparently, has learned from the mistakes of Arizona and Cyber Ninjas. Particularly not Wisconsin Republicans.
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[Link] Man Allegedly Killed Pharmacist Brother to Stop Him Giving COVID Vaccines
Read: 7/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Jeffrey Burnham, 46, is accused of stabbing to death 83-year-old family friend Rebecca Reynolds in Cumberland, Maryland and stealing her car on Sept. 29.
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[Link] Proud Boy, Already Awaiting Trial, Allegedly Crashed His Boat While Drunk
Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com
Rae, 38, is currently on federal supervised release while awaiting trial for charges linked to storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. Nowhere in the order setting Rae’s terms of release did a judge say that getting arrested for alleged drunken boating was an acceptable activity while out on bond.
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[Link] How friend ‘lost to misinformation’ drove Facebook whistleblower
Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Frances Haugen, the whistleblower behind a series of damaging revelations about Facebook, is adamant that she wants to help the social media giant and not foment hatred of it.
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[Link] US supreme court convenes for pivotal term – with its credibility on the line
Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Eight justices of the US supreme court donned their black robes and returned to their austere, column-lined courtroom on Monday at the start of a new judicial term that has the potential to radically transform fundamental aspects of American life, from accessing abortion to carrying guns outside the
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[Link] Trump demands Pulitzer board rescind awards for Russia interference reporting
Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump has again demanded the Pulitzer prize board rescind the prize for national reporting awarded to the New York Times and Washington Post in 2018, for exposing Russian election interference and links between Trump and Moscow.
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[Link] ‘Save Australia’ protest erupts in New York
Read: 5/10/2021 www.news.com.au
Australia became the surprising focal point of an American anti vaccine mandate protest march for teachers in New York City overnight, with hundreds of demonstrators chanting “Save Australia” and some waving Aussie flags.
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[Link] Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest
Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com
Imagine waking up and checking your phone after several evenings of mass demonstrations. You try scrolling through your Twitter feed, but it won’t load. You turn your router off and on to no avail. You try texting a friend to complain, but the message fails to send. Frustrated, you walk outside.
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[Link] DC Bulldozed a Homeless Person’s Tent While They Were Still Inside
Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. When the machine, described in reports as both a bulldozer and a front-end loader, made contact with the tent in Washington, D.C., Monday, a person “could be heard screaming,” local news site WTOP reported.
[Link] Workers At Crime-Watch App Citizen Are Unionizing
Read: 4/10/2021 www.vice.com
The workers petitioned for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on September 22, and are waiting for approval to conduct a union election, according to the National Labor Relations Board filing. They are calling their union the Citizen Central Operations Union.
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[Link] Crack and Powder Cocaine Sentences May Finally Stop Being Racist
Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. But on Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives moved to turn that around by passing a bill to end the sentencing disparity once and for all at the federal level.
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[Link] Rikers Island Inmate Calls Into Radio Show to Talk About How Bad It Is
Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. “The only way you get a medical appointment is by laying on the floor, and they have to come get you in a stretcher.
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[Link] The FCC Wants to Force Wireless Carries to Finally Stop SIM Swapping
Read: 30/9/2021 www.vice.com
For years Motherboard has documented the rampant fraud made possible by SIM hijacking, or the act of covertly porting out a user’s phone number to a new device or carrier—without consumer awareness or approval.
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[Link] Tesla on Autopilot slammed into police cars despite flashing lights, lawsuit says
Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Tesla has been sued by five Texas police officers who were injured when a Tesla Model X in Autopilot mode crashed into police vehicles that were stopped and had their flashing lights turned on. The officers also sued the owner of a restaurant accused of overserving alcohol to the X's driver.
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[Link] Ex-Fox host claims Facebook defamed him by fact-checking climate change videos
Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Former Fox Business host John Stossel is suing Facebook, alleging that the social media company and one of its contracted fact-checking organizations defamed him when it flagged two of his videos, alerting viewers to “missing context” and “partly false” claims.
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[Link] U.S. Copyright Holders Want Russia to Criminally Prosecute Pirate sites
Read: 28/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
Russia has implemented a wide variety of anti-piracy laws and procedures in recent years. Thousands of copyright-infringing sites have been blocked and even app stores and search engines have to take action.
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[Link] Trump Called to Insist His Penis Didn’t Look Like a Toadstool, Press Sec Says
Read: 28/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. For a former press secretary who held zero briefings during her 9-month tenure, Stephanie Grisham certainly has a lot to say about the culture of the Trump White House in her new book, namely that it was a pit of sexual harassment.
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[Link] She Owes Over $12K for 911 Calls. Now She Could Lose Her Home.
Read: 27/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. When Gloria Parker dipped into her retirement savings to purchase a home in a suburb of Cleveland nearly a decade ago, she thought it’d give her a bit of security as she aged.
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[Link] Marvel Suing to Keep Rights to ‘Avengers’ Characters From Copyright Termination
Read: 27/9/2021 www.hollywoodreporter.com
Blockbuster lawsuits filed today will decide future ownership of characters including Iron Man and Spider-Man. Disney’s Marvel unit is suing to hold on to full control of Avengers characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Falcon, Thor and others.
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[Link] Pentagon burn survivors are thankful for life, though pain endures
Read: 23/9/2021 www.washingtonpost.com
Four severe burn survivors of the Pentagon attack, interviewed by The Washington Post for this story, have each charted a distinct course, holding up against seizing pain, physical limitations and debilitating trauma. They have anguished. They have celebrated. They have marked 20 years.
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[Link] Coastal Erosion Is Shutting Down Infrastructure. It’s Going to Get Worse
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Amtrak's Surfliner line along the coast of Southern California will be severely disrupted over the next several weeks as emergency crews repair damage from erosion that destabilized the cliff that supports the tracks.
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[Link] Bipartisan Police Reform Bill Is Officially Dead in Congress
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Lots of people who use ad blockers say they do it to block malicious ads that can sometimes hack their devices or harvest sensitive information on them. It turns out, the NSA, CIA, and other agencies in the U.S.
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[Link] R. Kelly's Defense in His Sex Trafficking Trial Did Not Go Well
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. R. Kelly was charged in federal court more than two years ago, but it took less than three days for the testimony called in his defense to draw to a close. And it was a somewhat less-than-stellar showing, per multiple media reports.
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[Link] Google Locks Historian’s Account Over Terrorism Research Videos
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Ed Francis studies the evolution of military technology over at his YouTube channel, Armoured Archives. But this week, Francis says five years’ worth of research stored on Google Drive has become inaccessible thanks to Google’s automated error.
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[Link] DHS Temporarily Suspends Horse Patrol in Del Rio After ‘Horrific’ Display
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Less than a week after videos and images of U.S. border patrol officers on horseback whipping Haitian migrants at the U.S.
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[Link] NYC Delivery Workers Gain Right to Use Restaurant Bathrooms
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
In the past, Motherboard has reported that gig workers and delivery drivers around the country have nowhere to pee on the job, have been banned by restaurants from using their restaurants, and under time constraints, often relieve themselves in bushes, bottles, and bags.
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[Link] A Bernie Mittens Costume Is Selling on Dolls Kill for $85
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Dolls Kill, the online purveyor of e-girl wares and platform boots, is selling a hot Sen. Bernie Sanders Halloween costume that only costs $85, or nearly 12 hours of labor for shoppers who make the federal minimum wage—pre-taxes!
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[Link] The NRA Is Bankrupt But It Still Owns America’s Gun Agency
Read: 23/9/2021 www.thedailybeast.com
The NRA declared bankruptcy; its longtime chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, has been disgraced, setting the gun rights group back on its heels.
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[Link] This Guy Is Cumming Out of His Ass
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
A rare complication from a catheter might have made this man ejaculate through his anus for two years. A man spent two years nutting out of his butthole before seeking help, in a case that perplexed and impressed researchers.
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[Link] With No U.S. Support, Leaders of Afghan Resistance Flee the Country
Read: 22/9/2021 theintercept.com
Ahmad Massoud, son of the late Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, fled to Tajikistan shortly after the Taliban seized control of the Panjshir Valley on September 6, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official, a Pentagon consultant, and two former senior Afghan government officials.
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[Link] Amazon Is Lobbying the Federal Government to Legalize Weed
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
Amazon announced on Tuesday that it is lobbying the federal government to pass a bill that would deschedule and tax weed, making it federally legal in states that have already legalized cannabis.
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[Link] Gabby Petito's Death Ruled a Homicide
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The cause of death is pending final autopsy results. The FBI has also named Petito’s missing fiancé, Brian Laundrie, as a person of interest in the case.
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[Link] Missouri couple who pointed guns at protesters may have law licenses revoked
Read: 22/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, a Missouri couple who became famous for pointing guns at protesters marching for racial justice last summer, could have their law licenses revoked.
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[Link] U.S. Copyright Holders Want Tougher Anti-Piracy Measures in China
Read: 20/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
The IIPA, which represents the MPA, RIAA, and other entertainment industry groups, would like China to take a stand against online piracy. This includes targeting pirate sites and apps.
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[Link] Alabama Had More Deaths Than Births Last Year Because of COVID-19
Read: 20/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. More people died in Alabama than were born there in 2020, a grim reminder of the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as an unprecedented crisis in the state’s history.
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[Link] Texas couple denied service at restaurant for breaking ‘no mask’ rule
Read: 20/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Natalie Wester spoke to CBS DFW, a local TV station, about her experience with her husband, Jose, and a few friends. Last week, she said, the Westers went to Hang Time, a bar and restaurant in Rowlett, 20 miles outside Dallas, for a rare outing.
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[Link] US court overturns murder conviction of police officer who shot Justine Damond
Read: 16/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a dual US-Australian citizen who called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her home.
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[Link] Alex Murdaugh Hired a Hitman to Kill Him for Insurance Money
Read: 16/9/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Cop Was Instructed to Use Music to Disrupt Filming
Read: 9/9/2021 www.vice.com
From Beverly Hills to Illinois, law enforcement officers are using “copyright hacking” in an attempt to prevent activists from posting videos of encounters to the internet. Over the past few months, some police have loudly broadcast copyrighted music when confronted by cameras.
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[Link] The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship
Read: 9/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
On the evening of 7 December 2010, in a hushed San Francisco auditorium, former Google engineer Patri Friedman sketched out the future of humanity.
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[Link] A Cop Killed Another Cop. A Woman Was Charged Instead.
Read: 8/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Jenna Holm, who’s now 35, was holding the tip of a machete under her chin and walking down a Bonneville County street when two sheriff deputies confronted her in May 2020.
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[Link] Oath Keeper Snitched on Himself to FBI Agent During Tattoo Session, Docs Say
Read: 8/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Roberto Minuta, who’s facing serious conspiracy charges for his alleged role on Jan.
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[Link] Boogaloo Bois Are Using Amazon Ring Doorbells to Protect Them From the FBI
Read: 6/9/2021 www.vice.com
Paranoia is the bread-and-butter for Amazon’s Ring camera system.
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[Link] Hunter Biden Laptop Guy Owes Twitter Money After Failed Lawsuit
Read: 6/9/2021 www.vice.com
John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of the Delaware repair store where Biden allegedly left a MacBook Pro, attempted to sue Twitter for defamation in federal court.
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[Link] DoJ vows to protect women seeking abortions in Texas after radical state ban
Read: 6/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
US attorney general Merrick Garland announced on Monday that the federal government will take action to protect those in Texas trying to obtain an abortion in the wake of the strictest anti-abortion law in the US taking effect last week.
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[Link] Former DA indicted for allegedly 'showing favor' to men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery
Read: 3/9/2021 www.nbcnews.com
Jaquelyn Lee Johnson was indicted on charges of violation of oath of public officer and obstruction of a police officer, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced. Johnson served as Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney when Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot last February.
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[Link] Biden sets himself apart by placing Afghanistan blame at predecessors’ feet
Read: 1/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Victory speeches are easy; conceding defeat is much harder. On Tuesday, Joe Biden tacitly blamed his predecessors for the failure of America’s longest war but implied that, against all odds, one winner had emerged: him.
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[Link] Does the fall of Kabul increase the terror threat to the west?
Read: 1/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
In three days in earlier this month Islamist militants killed more than 120 civilians in a series of attacks in the Sahel, a belt of increasingly anarchic and violent territory across Africa, where such groups have gone from strength to strength in recent years.
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[Link] Israel says US plan to reopen Jerusalem consulate is ‘bad idea’
Read: 1/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Israel has said a US plan to reopen its consulate in Jerusalem that was traditionally a base for diplomatic outreach to Palestinians is a “bad idea” and could destabilise the prime minister’s new government.
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[Link] FTC Orders Spyware Vendor to Stop Business
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
The FTC has banned a stalkerware vendor called SpyFone and its CEO Scott Zuckerman from working in the surveillance business, the agency said in an announcement on Wednesday.
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[Link] Why Won’t the Cops Fight Each Other in 'Grand Theft Auto 5'?
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Last year, the video of Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd sparked another wave of of protest against police violence and its role in upholding systemic racism.
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[Link] Mexico Embraces Afghan Refugees As Its Soldiers Beat Asylum Seekers Traveling by Caravan
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY — In southern Mexico, a Central American migrant crumpled to the ground as a senior official with the national immigration agency stomped on the man’s face wearing a military-style boot.
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[Link] How Big Telecom Killed Rules That Would Have Prevented Hurricane Ida Outages
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
As Louisiana residents dig out from underneath the massive damage caused by Hurricane Ida, many are having to do so without essential communications options.
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[Link] Anti-Maskers Exposed Themselves to COVID at Their Own Protest
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Everyone who attended an August 16 city council meeting in Independence, Missouri, where a proposed school mask mandate was voted down has potentially been exposed to COVID, the city said in a tweet Monday.
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[Link] Taliban Carry Coffins Draped With US Flag in Celebration of Their Victory
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
August 31 has been declared “Freedom Day” in Afghanistan by members of the Taliban, who celebrated the final departure of the United States by parading through the streets with coffins draped in American and NATO flags.
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[Link] A Texas School District Shut Down After 2 Teachers Died of COVID
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Connally Junior High seventh-grade social studies teacher David McCormick, 59, died of COVID-19 on August 24, Connally ISD assistant superintendent Jill Bottelberghe told Fox News.
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[Link] What You Need To Know About Texas’ Near-Total Ban on Abortion
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The Supreme Court let an unprecedented law that bans abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy go into effect in Texas overnight on Wednesday, effectively demolishing the protections of Roe v.
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[Link] QAnon’s Biggest Conference Is in Complete Shambles Right Now
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. QAnon John has had a difficult week. First he was kicked out of QAnon’s biggest influencer group for calling on U.S.
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[Link] The Taliban Captured Lots of Very Expensive Aircraft in Kabul. None of Them Work.
Read: 31/8/2021 www.vice.com
America’s longest war is over after 20 years following the final withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
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[Link] ‘AntiVaxMomma’ Allegedly Sold Fake COVID Vaccine Cards on Instagram
Read: 31/8/2021 www.vice.com
Jasmine Clifford, the 31-year-old “AntivaxMomma,” allegedly sold about 250 forged COVID-19 vaccine cards on Instagram from May 2021 to July, according to the Manhattan DA. The scheme involved selling these cards over Instagram that falsely stated an individual had received a COVID-19 vaccine.
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[Link] Fox News accused of stoking violence after Tucker Carlson ‘revolt’ prediction
Read: 31/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Fox News is driving political violence in the US, a media watchdog warned, after the primetime host Tucker Carlson predicted “revolt” against the Biden administration.
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[Link] Delivery Apps to 'Vigorously Fight' to Take More Money From Struggling Restaurants
Read: 30/8/2021 www.vice.com
On Thursday, the New York City Council made permanent a cap on delivery commissions extracted by third-party delivery apps. The measure was originally passed during the pandemic as emergency relief for restaurants struggling to stay open as apps continued to take commissions of up to 30 percent.
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[Link] Disgraced Girlboss Elizabeth Holmes is Finally Standing Trial for Fraud
Read: 30/8/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] COVID Troll Alex Berenson Implies He'll Sue to Get Twitter Access Restored
Read: 30/8/2021 www.vice.com
Alex Berenson, the former New York Times reporter turned “the pandemic’s wrongest man,” as the Atlantic once dubbed him, was permanently suspended from Twitter on Sunday for violating the social media company’s policies against coronavirus misinformation.
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[Link] US Marines officer relieved of duties after video seeking ‘accountability’ over Afghanistan
Read: 28/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
A US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who posted a video demanding accountability from military leaders over the evacuation of Afghanistan has been relieved of his duties and will leave US service, the Marines and the officer involved said on Friday.
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[Link] Judge: Michigan couple must pay son $30,441 for throwing out porn collection
Read: 28/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
US district judge Paul Maloney’s decision this week came eight months after David Werking, 43, won a lawsuit against his parents. Werking said they had no right to throw out his collection of films, magazines and other items, which he said then was worth $29,000 (£21,500).
[Link] Sirhan Sirhan, man who assassinated Robert F Kennedy, granted parole
Read: 28/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The man who killed Robert F Kennedy was granted parole on Friday after two of the former attorney general, senator and presidential hopeful’s sons spoke in favor of release and prosecutors declined to argue he should be kept behind bars.
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[Link] ‘We Will Hunt You Down’: Biden Promises U.S. Retaliation for ISIS Attacks in Kabul
Read: 27/8/2021 www.vice.com
President Joe Biden has indicated that the United States will retaliate against the ISIS-affiliated suicide bomb attacks at Kabul’s international airport on Thursday afternoon – promising to “hunt down” the terrorists responsible. At least 90 Afghans and 12 U.S. Service Members – 11 U.S.
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[Link] The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Was a Total COVID Disaster—Again
Read: 27/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. It turns out that when hundreds of thousands of people get together during a global pandemic, hospitals are going to suffer the consequences. And South Dakota is learning that for the second year in a row.
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[Link] Who is ISIS-K, the Islamic State offshoot in Afghanistan that has the Taliban worried?
Read: 27/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Deadly explosions have rocked the edge Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport overnight killing and injuring locals wanting to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban's takeover, as well as US military personnel trying to help the evacuation effort.
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[Link] PayPal will no longer charge late fees for buy now, pay later purchases
Read: 26/8/2021 www.engadget.com
Soon, you'll no longer get hit with additional charges if you miss a PayPal installment for a previous purchase.
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[Link] Many Americans aren't aware they're being tracked with facial recognition while shopping
Read: 26/8/2021 www.techradar.com
Despite consumer opposition to facial recognition, the technology is currently being used in retail stores throughout the US according to new research from Piplsay.
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[Link] The Unexpected Places the Taliban Got Rich From Before Taking Over Afghanistan
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
The extremist group made a staggering $1.6 billion last year, a key factor that helped them gain control of Afghanistan at lightning speed. On the streets of Kabul after the Taliban takeover, Afghans were running from one empty ATM to the next. Prices soared, the U.S. froze $9.
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[Link] Why Thailand Just Decriminalized a Plant That the US Has Tried To Ban
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
In a move that may indicate easing drug policies, Thailand has decriminalized a plant used to relieve pain, a decision expected to lessen crowding in prisons and impact thousands of people facing charges for its use or possession.
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[Link] First China, Now India: How Drug Cartels Get Chemicals for Meth and Fentanyl
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
Restrictions in China have pushed drug traffickers to source the chemical “precursors” they need in India. Shopping for the chemical ingredients used to make fentanyl, methamphetamine, and other illicit synthetic drugs is still easy—if you know where to look.
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[Link] Anti-Masker Charged With Child Abuse After Pushing Student Who ‘Had Enough’
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] This Is How Bad COVID Is Getting in Police Departments
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. COVID-19, the leading cause of death among cops in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic, has continued to explode in departments around the country, as the profession’s vaccine rates continue to lag.
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[Link] We Were With Afghan Soldiers as the Taliban Took Kandahar
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
Since the Taliban took control of Kabul earlier this month, a lot of the focus has been on the failures of the U.S.-trained Afghan military—why they seemed to put up little resistance to the Islamist extremists in some of the provinces, and then, finally, in the capital.
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[Link] YouTube says it bans accounts believed to be owned by the Taliban
Read: 26/8/2021 www.reuters.com
Aug 17 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube said on Tuesday it bans accounts believed to be owned and operated by the Taliban, as U.S. social media companies scrambled to publicly clarify their rules on the group that is in control of Afghanistan. After U.S.
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[Link] Twitter Refuses to Ban Taliban Accounts, Vows to Remain ‘Vigilant’ Moderating Content
Read: 26/8/2021 www.yahoo.com
Twitter will allow Taliban-affiliated accounts to continue using its platform despite its policies against glorification of violence and threats.
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[Link] WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
The Taliban have effectively taken control of Afghanistan, entering the capital Kabul as U.S. diplomats and allies flee the country.
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[Link] U.S. chip start-up says its work with UK’s biggest plant came to a ‘screeching halt’ after Chinese takeover
Read: 26/8/2021 www.cnbc.com
Pennsylvania-based Ideal Semiconductor told CNBC it was getting silicon wafers processed at the Newport Wafer Fab in Wales up until the fab was acquired by Dutch firm Nexperia, which is 100% owned by Shanghai-headquartered Wingtech Technologies.
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[Link] Capitol attack committee issues sweeping requests for official records
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The House select committee tasked with investigating the 6 January attacks on the Capitol has issued its first round of sweeping demands for records from multiple US government agencies.
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[Link] Taliban have captured more than 100 military helicopters, Russia says
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Taliban have captured more than 100 Russian-made helicopters in various states of operability, the head of a Russian state arms exporter has said, but will be largely unable to use them with little access to maintenance crews and spare parts.
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[Link] FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
The publishing house is Martinet Press, fine purveyors of Atomwaffen Division-approved books such as Iron Gates and Liber 333. The former is a book about a Satanic cult roaming a post-apocalyptic America, which opens with a scene of a child being murdered.
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[Link] We Talked to a Dealer Selling Ivermectin Through Shady Facebook Ads
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
Facebook makes money by allowing people to buy ads on its platform depicting ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug commonly used in veterinary medicine, as a treatment for or preventative measure against COVID-19, even though there's no scientific evidence it's effective when used this way.
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[Link] 2 ‘Moronic’ Congressmen Went to Kabul But No One Wanted Them There
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Neo-Nazi Leader Gets Prison for Disturbing Threats Against Journalists
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
Thanks in part to Santa Claus stamps, a leader of the neo-Nazi terror group Atomwaffen Division, or AWD, has been sentenced to three years in prison for threatening journalists and activists. Cameron Shea, 25, was first arrested in February 2020.
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[Link] FCC Proposes Record Fine Against Pro-Trump Robocall Scam, But Will It Collect?
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
The FCC this week announced that partisan disinformation merchants Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman could face a record $5 million fine for illegal robocalls placed during the run up to the 2020 elections.
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[Link] Silk Road member Peter Nash avoids further US prison time
Read: 25/8/2021 www.smh.com.au
New York: An Australian man who moderated the discussion forums on the underground drug website Silk Road was sentenced to time served on Tuesday after already being in custody for 17 months.
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[Link] R. Kelly Allegedly Forced a Woman to Have Sex as “Punishment”
Read: 24/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The woman, who is identified as Jane Doe 5 in court documents, testified on both Monday and Tuesday in New York court, Vulture reported.
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[Link] Suspected adviser to creator of black market Silk Road arrested in Thailand
Read: 24/8/2021 www.smh.com.au
New York: A Canadian man has been arrested in Thailand for his alleged role as a senior adviser to the creator of Silk Road, an online black market where illegal drugs and other goods were sold, US prosecutors announced on Friday.
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[Link] A Black Cop Was Fired for Saying the N-Word. He Finally Got His Job Back.
Read: 24/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. But now, nearly six months later and after waves of support from the community, local officials voted to reverse the department’s decision.
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[Link] A Sex Trafficking Investigation Didn't Stop Matt Gaetz From Getting Married
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The 39-year-old Florida congressman married Ginger Luckey in California, Luckey (who is now going by the name Ginger Luckey Gaetz) tweeted Saturday. Former Rand Paul aide Sergio Gor served as the officiant.
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[Link] The FDA Just Fully Approved Pfizer's COVID Vaccine
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
The landmark moment could convince some vaccine-hesitant people to get their shot—and may foreshadow a jump in new vaccine mandates to battle the pandemic. “The FDA’s approval of this vaccine is a milestone as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
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[Link] AI Can Guess Your Race Based On X-Rays, and Researchers Don't Know How
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers opening the door to a wider array of artificially intelligent medical devices, new research suggests that medical AI systems can perpetuate racial bias in health care in ways humans don’t understand and can’t detect.
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[Link] Dallas cops lost 8TB of criminal case data during bungled migration, says the DA... four months later
Read: 23/8/2021 www.theregister.com
A bungled data migration of a network drive caused the deletion of 22 terabytes of information from a US police force's systems – including case files in a murder trial, according to local reports.
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[Link] Trump Booed at His Own Rally For Telling His Supporters to Get Vaccinated
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The reason? Trump told people to go get vaccinated.
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[Link] Monsoon Rains Just Washed Away Trump's 'Impenetrable' Border Wall
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
The damage caused by the recent rains is the latest in a series of incidents that have exposed flaws in the construction of the wall, which cost U.S. taxpayers–not Mexico, as Trump had repeatedly promised–an estimated $15 billion.
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[Link] Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio Sentenced to Jail
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
“Mr Tarrio didn’t care,” Judge Cushenberry Jr. said. “That’s what I think. He could not have cared less about the laws of the District of Columbia. He cared about himself and self-promotion.”
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[Link] Nosedive in UK-US relations is another casualty of Afghanistan’s fall
Read: 23/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
So much for the special relationship. As the Afghanistan crisis has unfolded, it has precipitated a high-speed deterioration in Anglo-American relations.
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[Link] Monsters, Inc: The Taliban as Empire’s bogeyman
Read: 22/8/2021 www.aljazeera.com
The dominant narrative on the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan erases the decades of imperial violence Afghans suffered.
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[Link] Hollywood Wins Injunction To Shut Down Pirate IPTV Operations, Disable Domain Names
Read: 22/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A coalition of Hollywood studios, with the addition of Amazon and Netflix, has obtained an injunction to restrain Jason Tusa, the alleged operator of Altered Carbon, Area 51, and several other pirate IPTV services.
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[Link] Biden Assured Allies in June U.S. Would Ensure Kabul’s Stability
Read: 22/8/2021 www.bloomberg.com
President Joe Biden told key allies in June that he would maintain enough of a security presence in Afghanistan to ensure they could continue to operate in the capital following the main U.S.
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[Link] The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices
Read: 22/8/2021 static-theintercept-com.cdn.ampproject.org
The Taliban have seized U.S. military biometrics devices that could aid in the identification of Afghans who assisted coalition forces, current and former military officials have told The Intercept.
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[Link] Pepe the Frog’s Creator Nuked a $4 Million NFT Collection Over Copyright
Read: 21/8/2021 www.vice.com
Artist Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe the Frog who previously used copyright to fight off neo-Nazis who turned the character into a mascot, has found himself in yet another weird spat.
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[Link] Mo Brooks: ‘Socialism’ Is Why a Guy Threatened to Blow Up the Capitol
Read: 21/8/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Promoting Popcorn Time Piracy Costs Phone Store Employee Her Job and $6,250
Read: 21/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A federal court in Texas has ordered a former employee of a local phone store to pay $6,250 in piracy damages. The woman, who was fired, promoted the piracy app Popcorn Time to customers and also downloaded pirated content herself.
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[Link] R Kelly accuser describes physical abuse from singer when she was 16
Read: 20/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
A key accuser at the R Kelly sex-trafficking trial returned to the witness stand on Thursday, saying he often videotaped their sexual encounters and demanded she dress like a Girl Scout during a relationship that began when she was a minor.
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[Link] A New Service Promises to Make Getting a Divorce Cheap and NBD
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
That is, according to science, which says that 'tis the most popular season to consciously uncouple. Look, we’re not here to judge anyone getting divorced, especially since about half of American marriages end up that way, according to the World Population Review.
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[Link] A Third of Global Companies Have Experienced Ransomware Attack, Survey Finds
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
Analysts surveyed almost 800 companies and found that companies based in the U.S. experienced ransomware attacks at a much lower rate (7 percent) than international companies (37 percent) this past year. The survey focused on companies with more than 500 employees.
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[Link] ‘We’re Tired of Getting Treated Like Trash’: Nabisco Workers Are Striking for Normal Hours
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
A strike that began at a Nabisco factory in Portland, Oregon last week has now spread across the country to Nabisco facilities in Aurora, Colorado, and Richmond, Virginia, where Oreos, Ritz crackers, Chips Ahoy, and other popular cookies and crackers are baked and packaged.
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[Link] U.S. Government Politely Asks for Volunteers To Help Process Afghan Refugees
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
As shocking images of Afghans desperately clinging to airplanes destined for the U.S. and other allied countries played out on cable news, the Biden administration was scrambling to figure out what to do with the thousands of refugees expecting to come stateside.
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[Link] Arson Suspected After House Of Twitch's Biggest Female Star Catches Fire
Read: 17/8/2021 kotaku.com
Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, the most-watched woman on Twitch, said in a Twitter thread that her house caught fire last Friday. According to Siragusa, investigators haven’t pinpointed a specific cause but “strongly suspect arson.”
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[Link] Retrotechtacular: Amiga Pips The PC For Mission-Critical Computing At NASA
Read: 17/8/2021 hackaday.com
In 1986, a group of NASA engineers faced a difficult choice in solving their data processing woes: continue tolerating the poor performance of PC architecture, or pony up the cash for exotic workstations.
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[Link] The UK finally got Big Tech to boost teens’ privacy
Read: 17/8/2021 www.protocol.com
Social media platforms are suddenly all increasing privacy standards for teen users. Why now, after all these years? It looks like new U.K. privacy rules got the ball rolling.
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[Link] Amazon, Facebook and Google Paid Millions to Pirates, Study Finds
Read: 17/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A new report published by the Digital Citizens Alliance suggests that pirates sites earn more than a billion dollars in revenue per year, while pirate apps are good for another quarter. Part of the money comes from big brands such as Amazon, Facebook and Google.
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[Link] Pharmacist Faces Decades in Prison for Allegedly Selling Vaccine Cards on eBay
Read: 17/8/2021 www.vice.com
The news signals the criminal element of buying or selling vaccination documents, and comes as unvaccinated people seek to buy the cards or similar fakes to try and skirt proof of vaccination requested by employers or businesses.
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[Link] Swift Taliban takeover proves US and UK analysis badly wrong
Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Joe Biden could not have been clearer: a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was “not inevitable”, the US president said on 8 July.
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[Link] Biggest US reservoir declares historic shortage, forcing water cuts across west
Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Officials have declared a dire water shortage at Lake Mead, the US’s largest reservoir, triggering major water cuts in Arizona and other western states.
[Link] Joe Biden says he stands by US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Read: 17/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
US President Joe Biden says he stands squarely behind his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, after the Taliban seized power in just over a week. Mr Biden said the collapse of the Afghan armed forces was quicker than anticipated, but insisted contingency plans were in place.
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[Link] How These Young Activists Are Uniting Middle Easterners
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
The youth-run organization is based in the US but has created an international community that lives online with the sole purpose of bringing to light human right violations and current events happening in the Middle East.
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[Link] Mississippi Hospitals Are on the Brink of ‘Total Failure’ Because of the Delta Variant
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] It’s Back to School in the Apocalypse, and Parents Are Losing Their Minds
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. It’s back-to-school season during the apocalypse, and Americans are celebrating by losing their minds.
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[Link] GOP Finally Backs Unemployment Benefits, But Only for the Unvaccinated
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Wisconsin Republicans have been fighting for months to limit or eliminate unemployment benefits for their state in the face of the coronavirus. But they’ve found one group they want to help: the unvaccinated.
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[Link] Apple to only seek abuse images flagged in multiple nations following backlash
Read: 15/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Apple says it will hunt only for pictures that have been flagged by clearing houses in multiple countries following criticism over its planned system for detecting images of child sex abuse.
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[Link] ‘Florida Man’ Matt Gaetz Sure Is Spending a Lot of Time Away from Florida
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Last month, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz mocked people worried about the COVID-19 pandemic which is currently ravaging his home state by saying he had the “Florida variant, the freedom variant” of COVID-19.
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[Link] Good Luck Getting Rid of That Cuomosexual Shirt
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Well, well, well. Here you are, a one-time fervent “Cuomosexual'' now stuck with a t-shirt loudly proclaiming yourself a person who identifies as being sexually aroused by disgraced New York governor Andrew Cuomo.
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[Link] She Flagged Down Cops for Help. She Was Handcuffed and Forced to Strip.
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. When a Scottsdale, Arizona, woman flagged down the police for help finding the person responsible for smashing in her car windshield, she never expected to be the one arrested.
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[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Not to Worry About COVID: ‘We Can’t Live Forever’
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. At least 619,729 Americans, 21,219 Georgians, and 247 people in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s home county have died as a result of COVID-19 since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the New York Times.
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[Link] GOP Finally Backs Unemployment Benefits, But Only for the Unvaccinated
Read: 14/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Wisconsin Republicans have been fighting for months to limit or eliminate unemployment benefits for their state in the face of the coronavirus. But they’ve found one group they want to help: the unvaccinated.
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[Link] Court Orders RomUniverse to Destroy Pirated Nintendo Games and Stay Offline
Read: 14/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A California federal court has ordered the operator of the now-defunct pirate site RomUniverse to destroy all copyright-infringing games within two weeks.
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[Link] Sam Pepper investigated by LA police in July
Read: 14/8/2021 www.bbc.com
Police in Los Angeles have told Newsbeat they investigated YouTube star Sam Pepper in July on suspicion of a sexual offence against a woman. LAPD have confirmed he was not contacted, questioned or arrested.
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[Link] This Woman Secretly Runs One of the World's Biggest Anti-Vax Websites From Her House
Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com
An anti-vaxxer website which scrapes and misrepresents data from a government-run database has been spreading misinformation like wildfire through anti-vax communities for the last month. Now for the first time, the identity of the woman running the site has been revealed.
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[Link] The Congresswoman Behind FOSTA Is Coming for OnlyFans
Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com
More than 100 members of Congress signed a letter demanding the DOJ investigate of child sexual abuse material on OnlyFans—which adult industry experts say are baseless.
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[Link] Jake Paul Fight Piracy: Judge Dismisses Triller’s Main Lawsuit, Others On The Brink
Read: 13/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A court in the United States has dismissed Triller's original lawsuit that targeted a site alleged to have pirated the Jake Paul vs Ben Askren fight. In another lawsuit, Triller failed to inform a court that an investigation was underway and faces a case dismissal.
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[Link] Ron DeSantis Is Pretending Not to Know Florida Needs Emergency Ventilators
Read: 11/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Things have gotten so bad that this week, multiple outlets have reported that the federal government is sending hundreds of ventilators to the state to help fight the surge. But Florida Gov.
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[Link] The FCC Says It’s Finally Fixing Its Crappy Broadband Maps
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
Despite a lot of pretense to the contrary, the U.S. government has never really had a solid understanding of where broadband is or isn’t available.
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[Link] ‘What He Did to Me Was a Crime’: Cuomo Accuser Brittany Commisso Speaks Up
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Brittany Commisso, the woman who last week filed a criminal complaint against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for groping her, is going public and pushing back against the governor’s claim that he never touched anyone inappropriately.
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[Link] While Delta spreads, Republicans deflect and resort to Trump demagoguery
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
As America reaches the milestone of 70% of adults with at least one dose of a vaccine, the highly contagious Delta variant is surging. Public health officials are trying to keep the focus on the urgent need for more vaccinations.
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[Link] An Oil Company Paid Police $2 Million to Defend Its Pipeline From Protests
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
Calgary-based oil giant Enbridge set up a fund called the Public Safety Escrow Trust in May, 2020 as part of its permitting process for the Line 3 pipeline route, which carries tar sands oil from Edmonton, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin.
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[Link] The COVID Cruise Ship Saga Is Really Not Going Well for Ron DeSantis
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ attempts to ban vaccine passports have been a sinking ship for awhile, and now they’ve finally hit rock bottom.
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[Link] Why Chef Roy Choi Is Subbing Plant-Based Meat in Traditionally Meat-Heavy Dishes
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
This article was created in partnership with Field Roast. Roy Choi thinks of himself as a chef standing with a foot in two generations: “The first was where there was a big river between the guest and the establishment, between fine dining and everyday eats,” he says.
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[Link] GOP Senate Candidate Says You Should Be Worried About ‘Anti-White Racism’
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
Billionaire tech mogul Peter Thiel’s favored candidate for an Arizona Senate seat went on a recent screed against “anti-white racism,” accusing liberal teachers of turning America’s students into self-hating automatons.
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[Link] Rudy Giuliani is being investigated by the FBI over a film he was trying to make about the Bidens and Ukraine, report says
Read: 9/8/2021 www.businessinsider.com
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into Rudy Giuliani over a film project he was working on about the Biden family and Ukraine, Mother Jones reported Thursday.
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[Link] 'Hire a hit man': Two charged in US over plot to kill Myanmar's UN ambassador
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
US prosecutors have charged two Myanmar citizens over an alleged plot to attack the Asian country's UN ambassador, Kyaw Moe Tun.
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[Link] Why the French Don’t Show Excitement
Read: 8/8/2021 getpocket.com
Not only is ‘Je suis excité’ not the appropriate way to convey excitement in French, but there seems to be no real way to express it at all.
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[Link] The Supreme Court Needs to Be Cut Down to Size
Read: 8/8/2021 www.nytimes.com
Credit...Fred R. Conrad/The New York TimesOpinion ColumnistOn Tuesday, the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States sat for its third public meeting.
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[Link] In Nearly All Other Democracies, This Is Not Normal
Read: 8/8/2021 www.nytimes.com
Mr. Pildes has spent his career as a legal scholar analyzing the intersection of politics and law and how that affects our democracy.
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[Link] ‘It Failed Miserably’: After Wargaming Loss, Joint Chiefs Are Overhauling How the US Military Will Fight
Read: 8/8/2021 www.defenseone.com
A brutal loss in a wargaming exercise last October convinced the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. John Hyten to scrap joint warfighting concepts that had guided U.S. military operations for decades. “Without overstating the issue, it failed miserably.
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[Link] US-Trained Cops in Mexico Killed Migrants, Set Them on Fire, Say Prosecutors
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
New evidence obtained by VICE World News paints a chilling picture of the killing of 19 migrants by pnear the U.S border in January. MEXICO CITY — Two trucks carrying migrants sped through dusty roads a few miles south of the U.S. border as four armored police cars gave chase.
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[Link] Top Republicans move to protect Trump from Capitol attack fallout
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Top Republicans in Congress are embarking on a new campaign of revisionism seven months after the attack on the Capitol, absolving Donald Trump of responsibility and blaming the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, for the 6 January insurrection perpetrated by a mob of Trump supporters.
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[Link] Biden's Infrastructure Bill Will Try and Rebuild America's Forests
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Wildfires have destroyed an average of 7 -million acres of American forest every year since 2000. This fragments ecosystems, kills off wildlife, and shrinks our best natural weapon against greenhouse gas emissions: trees. The latest version of the $1.
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[Link] Free Guy review – Ryan Reynolds bounces through fun videogame existential crisis
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Reynolds plays a normal, boring guy whose name is Guy (amusingly, it is never clear if this is his actual given name, as in Guy Crouchback, or the more generic “guy”).
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[Link] Nancy Pelosi’s Surprise Flip on Student Debt Cancellation Came After Urging From Billionaire Power Couple
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
The drive to persuade President Joe Biden to cancel student debt took a major hit last week when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stunned Congress with a surprise statement in opposition.
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[Link] Repealing the “Walking While Trans” Ban Is Part of the Struggle to Decriminalize Sex Work
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
After years of tireless organizing, advocacy, and struggle led by trans women of color, the state of New York has finally repealed the pernicious anti-loitering statute that was widely known as the law against “walking while trans.” On Monday, New York Gov.
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[Link] Paris Hilton Is, Like, A Chef Now
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Paris Hilton glides down the aisles of a Gelson’s, a high-end Southern California grocery store where most people don’t typically pick out cereal in a Pepto-pink gown that’s giving Marilyn Monroe.
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[Link] DaBaby Could Still Get Paid by the Festivals That Dropped Him
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Seven major music festivals have now cut DaBaby from their lineups after the rapper went on a homophobic rant at Rolling Loud in Miami last week, then immediately doubled down, spouting off comments that were arguably even more offensive than what he said at first.
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[Link] The Future of Cryptocurrency Is Being Decided in Biden's Infrastructure Bill
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Two competing amendments to the Senate’s infrastructure bill may shape the future of cryptocurrency in the United States as senators fight over who must be subject to new tax reporting requirements.
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[Link] Does Canceling DaBaby's Shows Actually Help Hip-Hop's Homophobia Issue?
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
DaBaby is the most talked about rapper this week, and unfortunately, the commotion has nothing to do with new music.
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[Link] Senate Infrastructure Bill Would Invest $500 Million in “Smart City” Surveillance Technology
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
Buried in the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure bill is a grant program that would distribute $500 million to cities to experiment with sensors, autonomous vehicles, drones, and other technologies intended to improve urban living standards. Under the $1.
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[Link] Wall Street Investors Press Corporate Landlords on Eviction Plan
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
In courthouses across the country this week, grief and anger over looming eviction orders turned to hope as the Biden administration shifted course.
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[Link] The Problem Isn’t Just Cuomo, It’s the System That Made Him
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should have resigned or been removed from his position months ago. This much is obvious. It should have been sufficient that the governor oversaw a cover-up of thousands of pandemic deaths in New York nursing homes — deaths for which he bears major responsibility.
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[Link] ‘The Pied Piper leading us off a cliff’: Florida governor condemned as Covid surges
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Florida governor Ron DeSantis earned a new moniker this week as the resurgent coronavirus continued to wreak havoc on his state: the “Pied Piper of Covid-19, leading everybody off a cliff”.
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[Link] Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Is a Truth-Teller in a Time of Systemic Deceit and Lethal Secrecy
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
Since the arrest and indictment of Daniel Hale on charges that he leaked the documents that formed the basis for The Intercept’s series “The Drone Papers,” as well as documents about the government’s secret watchlisting system, I have wanted to speak publicly about this unjust prosecution.
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[Link] Inside the Falun Gong Disinformation Machine
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
On this episode of VICE News Reports, we tell the story of how the little-known movement became one of the most influential digital publishers of anti-China, pro-Trump propaganda.
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[Link] FTC Slams Facebook For Lying About Why it Shut Down Misinformation Research
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. In a rare rebuke against a big U.S.
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[Link] Matt Gaetz Has a Podcast Now, and It’s Just As Bad As You’d Expect
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Matt Gaetz is a United States congressman who’s currently under investigation for sex crimes, but he’s apparently still got some free time to step into a new role: Podcaster.
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[Link] Cuomo Is Now Facing Potential Criminal Charges For Sexual Assault
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. A woman who accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of groping her has now filed a criminal complaint against him, a move that could ultimately land the embattled governor in handcuffs.
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[Link] David Dobrik Just Threw Himself A Party
Read: 7/8/2021 www.mtv.com.au
This year we’ve seen YouTuber David Dobrik make headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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[Link] Town Puts 90-Day Ban on New Bitcoin Mines Because They're 'Unsightly'
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
The Massena town board on Wednesday approved the moratorium, as drafted on July 23, to bar new Bitcoin miners from receiving site plan approval. But the miners already established in Massena can continue to operate there.
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[Link] 5-Year-Old Had to Get Stitches After Police Dog Bit Him in the Face
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The 8-year-old Dutch Shepherd, whose name is Barry, was off his leash and bit the left side of the boy’s face on his ear and near his eye during what was supposed to be a routine demonstration at a community event in South Pasadena.
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[Link] Pentagon Wrongly Admitted Killing 21 Civilians in Iraq and Syria
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
The Defense Department has been forced to withdraw a key part of an official report to Congress, after wrongly claiming responsibility for killing 21 civilians in Iraq and Syria who were actually slain by close U.S. allies.
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[Link] Austin Police Decline to Investigate Complaints in Protest of Reform Attorneys
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
As has been the case with many progressive district attorneys elected in recent years, the backlash to the Texas DAs’ approach has come in large part from law enforcement and right-wing media.
[Link] CNN fires three employees who went into the office unvaccinated.
Read: 6/8/2021 www.nytimes.com
CNN said this year that employees would need to be vaccinated against the virus to return to its American offices.Credit...
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[Link] Controversial crime app Citizen launches $20/month Protect service
Read: 6/8/2021 techcrunch.com
After months of testing with upwards of 100,000 beta testers, Citizen today is launching its premium Protect offering for all users. The subscription service runs $20 a month and opens up a number of features on the app.
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[Link] Amazon will pay you $10 in credit for your palm print biometrics
Read: 6/8/2021 techcrunch.com
How much is your palm print worth? If you ask Amazon, it’s about $10 in promotional credit if you enroll your palm prints in its checkout-free stores and link it to your Amazon account.
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[Link] How Smugglers Flood Mexico With Cheap U.S. Guns
Read: 6/8/2021 www.vice.com
U.S. gun laws are easily exploited by traffickers and cartels in Mexico, who have caused devastation in their wake. The following is an adapted excerpt from Ioan Grillo’s latest book, Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels.
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[Link] Tucker Carlson Has Seen the Future, and It Is Fascist
Read: 5/8/2021 nymag.com
In 1919, the progressive journalist Lincoln Steffens visited the nascent Soviet Union and declared, “I have seen the future and it works.
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[Link] How Putting 'Jackets' On Buildings Can Help Fight Climate Change
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Buildings are responsible for an estimated 39 percent of annual US greenhouse gas emissions, and around a third of this energy is wasted—let out through holes, cracks and faulty windows. Enter: Building jackets.
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[Link] Afghan Interpreters Escaping the Taliban Are Being Flown to Canada
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Flights carrying Afghani interpreters and support staff who helped the U.S. and Canadian militaries during the Afghanistan War touched down in North America over the past week, as a new Taliban offensive surges across the country.
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[Link] How to Read Uber and Lyft's Purposefully Confusing Earnings Reports
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
For years, Uber and Lyft have claimed that profitability is just around the corner (or used accounting tricks to claim that they’re making money).
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[Link] A Cop Wrongly Handcuffed a Black Mom and Kids. Now He’s Running for Sheriff.
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Almost a year after Aurora, Colorado, police officers wrongly handcuffed a Black mother and members of her young family in a parking lot, one of the cops involved has thrown his hat into the race for county sheriff of a nearby town.
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[Link] QAnon Thinks Cop Suicides After the Capitol Riot Are a Cover-Up
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. QAnon conspiracy theorists firmly believe that pretty much everything is fake or a cover up. The stolen election, the COVID-19 pandemic, and of course, the Capitol riots, in which QAnon followers played a central role.
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[Link] Biden Broadband Plan Weakened by Lobbying and ‘Bipartisan Compromise’
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
The Biden administration’s original $100 billion broadband plan has been steadily scaled back by “bipartisan compromise” and telecom lobbying.
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[Link] Hands On: DEF CON 29 Badge Embraces The New Normal
Read: 5/8/2021 hackaday.com
To say that 2020 was a transformative year would be something of an understatement. The COVID-19 pandemic completely changed the way we worked, learned, and lived.
[Link] How to Check if the Business That Won’t Pay You a Fair Wage Got a PPP Loan
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Summer’s ugliest trend is bosses pinning the blame for business interruptions on “lazy” workers.
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[Link] Cops Pulled Their Guns on a Black Realtor Showing a Home to Black Clients
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Eric Brown, a Black realtor in Wyoming, Michigan, had been giving a potential buyer, who also happened to be Black, and his 15-year-old son a tour of a home on the market. Just minutes into the viewing on Aug.
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[Link] Inside the Wild $500 Billion World of Counterfeit Goods
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
When faced with two seemingly identical products, most people would be tempted to buy the cheaper option. After all, who doesn’t love a bargain? The world of counterfeit goods is both much larger and more dangerous than you probably realize.
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[Link] Cop Fired For Proud Boy Protests Blames 'Woke Witch Hunt'
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
In the livestream, Proud Boy Eddie Block signalled familiarity with Fitzgerald, calling him “Rick” and implying he was a member of law enforcement. Fitzgerald was wearing sunglasses and a jersey emblazoned with the numbers 76.
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[Link] Britney Spears’ Dad Tried to Cancel Her Vacation, Lawyer Says
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Britney Spears doesn’t want to wait to kick her dad out of the conservatorship that’s controlled her life since 2008. At this point, the pop star says, it’s a matter of saving her mental health—and her finances.
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[Link] Lawyer Who ‘Shut Down’ 4Anime Has Giant Pirate Sites in His Crosshairs
Read: 5/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Last month, 4anime - one of the world's largest streaming sites - shut down after Legacy Rights Group obtained a DMCA subpoena to identify its operators. With attorney Corey D. Silverstein now taking credit for that shutdown, trouble could lie ahead for more anime-focused sites.
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[Link] Jared Kushner’s hidden genius? To make terrible decisions – yet keep failing upwards
Read: 5/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Having selflessly served the public for four long years, Jared Kushner has decided it’s time to step away from politics and apply his unique talents elsewhere.
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[Link] Why don’t you get a jab? Offspring drummer ousted after refusing Covid vaccine
Read: 5/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Pete Parada, drummer with Californian pop-punks the Offspring, has said he has been ousted from the band over his refusal to be vaccinated for Covid-19.
[Link] Mexico Just Sued the US Gun Industry for Causing 17,000 Killings a Year
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
The lawsuit names among others Smith & Wesson, Beretta, Century Arms, Colt, Glock and Ruger. Their guns are the ones most often recovered in Mexico, according to the complaint from the Mexican government. It also lists Barrett, “whose .
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[Link] No One Knows How This Proud Boy Got $1 Million for Bail
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
The recent back-and-forth in court documents filed this week is part of Nordean’s ongoing battle to get out of jail before trial.
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[Link] The Gulf of Mexico’s 'Dead Zone' Is Now the Size of Connecticut
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
A scientist-led research cruise has found that the Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone” is now measuring at 6,334 square miles, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Tuesday, which is roughly the size of Connecticut.
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[Link] Uber, Lyft Introduce Prop 22 Clone to Undermine Labor Law In Massachusetts
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
It’s nearly been a year since Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and Postmates wrote Proposition 22—a ballot measure that exempted them from following California labor laws—and spent $220 million on a deceptive campaign to pass it.
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[Link] Miami Launches 'MiamiCoin' to Make Millions and Fund the Police
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Thousands of Bitcoiners in June descended on Miami for Bitcoin 2021, a semi-religious event that celebrated all things related to the world’s biggest cryptocurrency.
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[Link] Activision Blizzard Faces Second Lawsuit Over First Lawsuit
Read: 4/8/2021 kotaku.com
A class action lawsuit filed today in the U.S. District Court of Central California on behalf of investors alleges that Activision Blizzard’s intentional failure to disclose its ongoing problems with sexual harassment and discrimination artificially inflated the company’s stock value.
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[Link] Bubonic plague in chipmunks forces closure of top Lake Tahoe sites
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Surrounded by fires, parched by drought, and shut down by the pandemic – residents of California’s scenic South Lake Tahoe thought they’d endured everything.
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[Link] Colonel describes hearing damning phone call that led to Trump’s first impeachment: ‘I could hardly believe it’
Read: 4/8/2021 www.independent.co.uk
“There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son. That Biden stopped the prosecution,” said Mr Trump, according to Mr Vindman’s new book Here, Right Matters: An American Story , an excerpt of which was published by The Atlantic on Tuesday.
[Link] Why the internet in Cuba has become a US political hot potato
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Cubans used to joke about Napoleon Bonaparte chatting to Mikhail Gorbachev, George W Bush and Fidel Castro in the afterlife. “If I’d have had your prudence, I’d never have fought Waterloo,” the French emperor tells the last Soviet leader.
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[Link] US Lawmakers Suggest That Piracy is Part of Twitter’s Business Model
Read: 4/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A group of bipartisan U.S. House Representatives has sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, urging the company to take copyright infringement seriously.
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[Link] Matt Damon reveals he only recently stopped using homophobic slur
Read: 3/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Matt Damon has been heavily criticized after revealing that he has only recently stopped using a well-known homophobic slur, after being told by his daughter that it was unacceptable.
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[Link] Retired US general says the Trump White House 'was complicit in the planning' of the January 6 insurrection
Read: 31/7/2021 www.businessinsider.com
Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who was tasked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with conducting a review of the US Capitol's security after January 6, on Tuesday said President Donald Trump's White House was complicit in orchestrating the insurrection.
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[Link] ‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer Seeks to Reduce 14-Year Prison Sentence Due to COVID Pandemic
Read: 31/7/2021 torrentfreak.com
Paul Hansmeier, one of the lead attorneys behind the controversial Prenda Law firm, has asked the court for a reduction of his 14-year prison sentence. The disbarred lawyer says that he faced extraordinarily difficult living conditions in prison due to the COVID pandemic.
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[Link] Over half the deer tested in Michigan have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2
Read: 31/7/2021 arstechnica.com
On Wednesday, the US Department of Agriculture released some rather disturbing news: a survey of wild deer populations has found that large numbers of the animals seem to have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
[Link] Republicans used to laud ‘personal responsibility’. Not with Covid
Read: 31/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
“It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions,” declared Ronald Reagan at the 1968 Republican National Convention.
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[Link] That One-of-a-Kind Wu Tang Clan Album Has Been Resold, and No One Knows Who Has It
Read: 31/7/2021 www.ign.com
The one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, previously owned by controversial pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has been resold – and virtually nobody knows who has it now.
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[Link] The South Park Creators Are Buying the Landmark Restaurant Featured In the Show
Read: 31/7/2021 www.ign.com
South Park duo Trey Parker and Matt Stone have set their sights on becoming the new owners of Casa Bonita, the iconic restaurant that famously featured on their hit show.
[Link] US fencers wear pink masks after teammate accused of sexual misconduct
Read: 31/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
Three members of the United States Olympic men’s épée team wore pink masks on Friday amid allegations their teammate is guilty of sexual misconduct. Jake Hoyle, Curtis McDowald and Yeisser Ramirez all wore pink facemasks before the start of the competition.
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[Link] IRS must turn over Trump tax returns to Congress, DoJ says
Read: 31/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
The US Department of Justice on Friday ordered the Internal Revenue Service to hand Donald Trump’s tax returns to a House committee, saying the panel had invoked “sufficient reasons” for requesting them.
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[Link] Er, no, we would like to continue suing Facebook, US state AGs tell courts
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Attorneys General from 46 US states, plus Guam and Washington DC, have appealed a district court’s decision to dismiss their antitrust lawsuit against Facebook that claims the social media giant illegally acquired its competitors to maintain a monopoly.
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[Link] Founding Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison dies aged 46
Read: 30/7/2021 www.abc.net.au
Joey Jordison, the founding drummer of heavy metal band Slipknot, has died aged 46. Slipknot's website and social media pages went dark after the news.
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[Link] Laura Ingraham says Capitol police beaten by Trump mob have ‘nobody to blame but themselves’
Read: 30/7/2021 www.independent.co.uk
Fox News' Laura Ingraham attacked Capitol Police officers on her Wednesday night show. Following a speech about her perceived failures of Dr Anthony Fauci, she went on to discredit officers: “Fauci has no one to blame but himself, ditto for the Capitol police who testified on Wednesday”.
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[Link] Biden asks Congress to extend COVID-19 eviction ban set to expire this week
Read: 30/7/2021 www.reuters.com
WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden asked Congress on Thursday to extend a moratorium on evictions to protect millions of U.S. renters and their families that is set to expire this week amid a deadly rise in coronavirus infections, the White House said.
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[Link] DACA: Joe Biden Pledges to Fight for Program after Judge Rules Against It
Read: 30/7/2021 www.teenvogue.com
The legal fight over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program continues. The Obama-era policy has provided hundreds of thousands of migrant Dreamers with legal protections against deportation.
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[Link] $15 Minimum Wage Isn't Enough for Workers to Afford Rent in Any U.S. State
Read: 30/7/2021 www.teenvogue.com
This story is published as part of Teen Vogue’s 2021 Economic Security Project fellowship. In Florida, someone working full-time would need to make $24.82 an hour to afford a two-bedroom rental. In Colorado, you’d need to make $27.50 an hour. In Washington state you’d need to make $29.
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[Link] Olivia Rodrigo Visits Joe Biden's White House to Support Youth Vaccine Initiative
Read: 30/7/2021 www.teenvogue.com
Olivia Rodrigo is teaming up with President Joe Biden in an effort to promote COVID-19 vaccinations.
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[Link] Newegg Thanks Kid For Finding Graphics Card Lottery Loophole, Closes It
Read: 29/7/2021 kotaku.com
Buying high-end gaming hardware is a pain in the ass at the moment. New Xbox Series X/S stock sells out fast. Early access to PS5 orders are pay-gated at places like Amazon and GameStop. And the graphics card market is, well, you know how it is.
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[Link] Consumer losses top $500 million due to Covid-related fraud
Read: 28/7/2021 www.cnbc.com
Consumer losses due to Covid-related fraud top $500 million, as criminals rip off the unwary in a variety of schemes ranging from online shopping to travel, according to data from the Federal Trade Commission.
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[Link] Entire Plane Evacuated Over a Teen’s Moronic AirDrop Prank
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
A United Airlines flight headed out of San Fransisco International Airport was hurriedly deboarded Thursday afternoon after staff aboard the plane announced an urgent threat.
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[Link] Fully Resistant Superbug Fungus Spreads Between People in the U.S. for the First Time
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
A dangerous, drug-resistant fungal infection seems to have accomplished a new scary feat in the U.S. On Friday, officials with the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported two unrelated outbreaks of Candida auris that happened earlier this year.
[Link] People Are Stealing Water in California at Record Rates for Illegal Weed Farms
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
Cannabis needs water to grow, but water is scarce in California right now. The state is experiencing a record-breaking megadrought which has been exacerbated by this summer’s extreme heat. Some weed growers are resorting to stealing water to make sure they have enough to tend to their farms.
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[Link] Facebook Just Blocked the #VaccinesKill Hashtag Two Years Too Late
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
At least two years after it would have been politically prudent to do so, Facebook moved to block content under the #VaccinesKill hashtag on Wednesday.
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[Link] Robinhood to Raise Billions From the Rich, Give None of It to the Poor
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
Robinhood, the wildly popular stock-trading app that’s made it easy to throw fistfuls of money at meme stocks while also occasionally locking those users out of trades on a whim, is ready to cash in big time.
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[Link] Over 1,000 Activision Blizzard Employees Sign Letter Condemning Company's Response To Allegations
Read: 27/7/2021 kotaku.com
“Following the announcement from Activision Blizzard, and in light of the internal memo circulated by Frances Townsend, a group of over 800 employees from across all of Activision-Blizzard-King and its subsidiaries came together to take action,” a representative of the group told Kotaku.
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[Link] Most wanted: The top 5 online crime gangs running ransomware
Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com
An independent news and commentary website produced by academics and journalists.
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[Link] Get ready to share pavements with stocky little delivery bots
Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com
Ioanna is a writer at SHIFT. She likes the transition from old to modern, and she's all about shifting perspectives.
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[Link] How REvil Ransomware Took Out Thousands of Business at Once
Read: 27/7/2021 www.wired.com
A massive chain reaction on Friday infected at least hundreds and likely thousands of businesses worldwide with ransomware, including a railway, pharmacy chain, and hundreds of storefronts of Sweden's Coop grocery store brand.
[Link] Ferret That Died in 1988 Is Brought Back to Life by Scientists
Read: 25/7/2021 earthlymission.com
For the first time, scientists have cloned an endangered U.S. species! Meet black-footed ferret Elizabeth Ann, whose “original version” has been dead for more than 30 years.
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[Link] Blizzard Boss Accused Of Failing To Address Sexual Harassment Calls New Allegations ‘Troubling’
Read: 24/7/2021 www.kotaku.com.au
In the email, first reported by ’s Jason Schreier, a copy of which was also viewed by Kotaku, Blizzard president J. Allen Brack wrote, “I personally have a lot of emotions coming out of yesterday, and I know you do, too.
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[Link] Biden administration transfers its first detainee out of Guantánamo
Read: 20/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Biden administration has transferred a detainee out of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility for the first time, sending a Moroccan man home years after he was recommended for discharge.
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[Link] MAGA World’s ‘Freedom Phone’ Actually Budget Chinese Phone
Read: 16/7/2021 www.thedailybeast.com
The pro-Trump internet went wild on Wednesday for the Freedom Phone, a $500 smartphone that comes stocked with conservative apps and promises to liberate anyone else who buys it from Silicon Valley censorship.
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[Link] MAGA Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer Discovers the Downside of QAnon
Read: 15/7/2021 www.rightwingwatch.org
MAGA pastor Jackson Lahmeyer launched a primary challenge to Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma earlier this year because he was outraged by Lankford’s failure to challenge the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory on Jan.
[Link] Assange fiancee rejects US proposals over possible extradition
Read: 14/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
US assurances that Julian Assange would not be held under the strictest maximum-security conditions if extradited from the UK have been rejected by his fiancee, who described them as a formula to keep him in prison for the rest of his life.
[Link] “Bad mergers” and noncompete clauses targeted in Biden executive order
Read: 14/7/2021 arstechnica.com
President Joe Biden announced his anticipated executive order today, and it’s a sweeping document that seeks to counter rising corporate consolidation and foster greater competition in everything from labor markets to mergers, banking, healthcare, device repairs, transportation, broadband, and mor
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[Link] Afghanistan stunned by scale and speed of security forces’ collapse
Read: 14/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
Last autumn, with the departure of American troops from Afghanistan looming after the US signed a withdrawal deal with the Taliban, several of the most senior security officials in Kabul urged President Ashraf Ghani to make some hard choices.
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[Link] Lauren Boebert rants against welfare at CPAC but oversees counties with highest state unemployment
Read: 14/7/2021 www.independent.co.uk
Colorado Republican Rep Lauren Boebert bombastically told the US federal government during the CPAC conference to “leave us the hell alone”.
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[Link] DARPA flings cash at FENCE — a smart camera that only sends pics when pixels change
Read: 9/7/2021 www.theregister.com
The USA’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced it will fund development of a new type of “event-based” camera that only transmits information about pixels that have changed.
[Link] Chauvin Is Guilty but His Accomplices Go Free
Read: 4/7/2021 goodmenproject.com
Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd. In a lot of ways, this is a very positive step in correcting the problems of policing in this country.
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[Link] Texas soldier who shot protester indicted on murder charge
Read: 3/7/2021 abcnews.go.com
AUSTIN, Texas -- An Army soldier who shot and killed an armed protester after driving into a crowd demonstrating against police violence in the Texas capital last summer has been indicted on murder charge, authorities said Thursday. Sgt.
[Link] Florida condo collapse survivor saw a crack forming and told herself, 'You have to run to save your life'
Read: 3/7/2021 www.ctvnews.ca
If one of many small moments of Iliana Monteagudo's last night in her Surfside, Florida, condo had gone differently, she said she believes she would not be alive today.
[Link] Report: Judge Throws Out Antitrust Cases Brought Against Facebook
Read: 2/7/2021 uploadvr.com
The United States Federal Trade Commission has 30 days to refile its complaint against Facebook after a federal judge on Monday threw it out as well as another case brought by dozens of individual states. You can read through the opinions written by judge James E. Boasberg for the U.S.
[Link] US strikes hit Iran-backed militia facilities in Iraq and Syria
Read: 28/6/2021 www.theguardian.com
The US has carried out air strikes against Iran-backed militia in Iraq and Syria, in response to drone attacks by the militia against US personnel and facilities in Iraq.
[Link] Yabba dabba deal! California town settles suit over Flintstones house
Read: 28/6/2021 www.theguardian.com
The owner of a controversial Flintstones-themed house has settled a lawsuit with the town of Hillsborough, in the San Francisco suburbs, which alleged she violated local codes when she put dinosaur sculptures in the back yard and made other landscaping changes that caused local officials to declare
[Link] Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart Take Down Candace Owens
Read: 23/6/2021 www.thedailybeast.com
“There is no possible way that I owe Candace Owens an apology, is there?” Dave Chappelle asked at the top of the latest episode of his podcast The Midnight Miracle.
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[Link] Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner distance themselves from the former President and his constant complaints
Read: 23/6/2021 www.cnn.com
With each passing day away from Washington, former President Donald Trump's grievances continue unabated. And those complaints appear to be driving away two of the people who were closest to him during his White House tenure: his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
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[Link] 50 Years Ago Today, Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers Helped End the Vietnam War
Read: 14/6/2021 jacobinmag.com
The first installment of reporting based on the Pentagon Papers was published half a century ago today in the New York Times. Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg risked life imprisonment to expose the lies and brutality that the US war on Vietnam was based on.
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[Link] In a Different Capitol Siege, Republicans in Oregon Call for Accountability
Read: 11/6/2021 www.nytimes.com
G.O.P. lawmakers in the state are calling for the resignation of a legislator who appears to have encouraged protesters to breach the State Capitol in December. A little more than two weeks before a mob of supporters of Donald J. Trump stormed the U.S.
[Link] Trump Has Reportedly Been Telling People He’s Going to Be President Again by August, Which Would Suggest He’s Planning a Coup (Or Has Fully Descended Into Madness)
Read: 3/6/2021 www.vanityfair.com
Is Donald Trump ever going to be president again? In theory, should he set aside the fact that he actually hated being president, and decide to run again in 2024, and should tens of millions of Americans lose their minds and cast their votes for a wannabe dictator who is probably at this moment rant
[Link] Trump closes his ‘beacon of freedom’ website a month after launching it
Read: 3/6/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump has discontinued the blog-type website he launched in a fanfare less than a month ago as “a beacon of freedom” and “a place to speak freely and safely”.
[Link] California teen who pushed bear off fence: ‘I didn’t know I had it in me’
Read: 3/6/2021 www.theguardian.com
A California teen who shoved a bear to protect her dogs spoke out on Wednesday about the split-second decision to save her pets.“I was just shaking so much, I didn’t know I had that in me. I still couldn’t believe that I pushed a bear,” Hailey Morinico said in a television interview.
[Link] Risk of Nuclear War Over Taiwan in 1958 Said to Be Greater Than Publicly Known
Read: 2/6/2021 www.nytimes.com
The famed source of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg, has made another unauthorized disclosure — and wants to be prosecuted for it.
[Link] US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets Via Flashcard Apps
Read: 2/6/2021 www.bellingcat.com
Practice weapons are usually recognisable by their colours. The B61’s are silver/grey (sometimes referred to as the “silver bullet”), while BDU-38’s appear to be white.
[Link] Prosecutors investigating Trump tell witness to prepare for grand jury testimony
Read: 31/5/2021 www.cnn.com
Manhattan prosecutors pursuing a criminal case against former President Donald Trump, his company and its executives have told at least one witness to prepare for grand jury testimony, according to a person familiar with the matter -- a signal that the lengthy investigation is moving into an advance
[Link] Bill Cosby parole petition denied after he refuses therapy for sexual offenders
Read: 31/5/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Pennsylvania parole board has turned down comedian Bill Cosby’s petition to be released from a 10-year prison sentence for aggravated indecent assault, citing his refusal to participate in a therapy program for sexually violent predators.
[Link] The Air Force's 'rods from god' could hit with the force of a nuclear weapon — with no fallout
Read: 25/5/2021 www.businessinsider.com
The 107-country Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967 prohibits nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons from being placed in or used from Earth's orbit.
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[Link] Joe Biden feels political ground shift as Israel-Gaza conflict rages on
Read: 17/5/2021 www.theguardian.com
In his staunch defence of Israel, Joe Biden is sticking to a course set decades ago as a young senator, and so far he has not given ground on the issue to the progressive wing of his party or many Jewish Democrats urging a tougher line towards Benjamin Netanyahu.
[Link] Man who helped create bomb-making videos for Islamic State pleads guilty
Read: 15/5/2021 www.nbcnews.com
Romeo Xavier Langhorne, 31, of St. Augustine, Florida, and then Roanoke, Virginia, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida said.
[Link] Technician for water co. linked to liver failure says his dog got liver illness
Read: 15/5/2021 arstechnica.com
The lead water technician for Real Water—a Las Vegas-based company that produces “alkalized” bottled water now linked to liver failure cases—testified that he had no relevant experience to be a water technician when he was promoted to the position last August.
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[Link] Suspect in Capitol riot who left a note for Nancy Pelosi says he called her the 'less offensive' 'biatch,' not 'b----' in new argument for bail
Read: 28/4/2021 www.businessinsider.com
An Arkansas man arrested and charged in connection to the Capitol insurrection is arguing slang semantics in a new request for bail.
[Link] Teenage Girl Is Fatally Shot by the Police in Columbus, Officials Say
Read: 21/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
The police in Ohio, who released body camera footage, said the girl had threatened two other girls with a knife before an officer opened fire. The girl’s death cast an immediate pall over public expressions that justice had been served in Mr.
[Link] Pa. National Guard activated as Philly preps for potential unrest ahead of Derek Chauvin murder trial verdict
Read: 18/4/2021 www.inquirer.com
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[Link] One of the police officers who shot Breonna Taylor is writing a book about it
Read: 18/4/2021 www.indy100.com
Jonathan Mattingly, who was one of three officers who killed Taylor, is writing The Fight for Truth: The Inside Story Behind the Breonna Taylor Tragedy, which will be published by Tennessee-based Post Hill Press later this year.
[Link] The world's first publicly traded person - Marketplace
Read: 18/4/2021 www.marketplace.org
A few months ago Mike Merrill, a freelance creative producer in advertising, saw a job opening that piqued his interest. Should he put in an application?
[Link] FedEx says no plan to change cell phone policy in work areas
Read: 18/4/2021 www.commercialappeal.com
FedEx Corp. does not plan to change its cell phone policy following the mass shooting Thursday near Indianapolis. The Memphis-based carrier restricts employees from carrying cell phones in some work areas.
[Link] Dog care, hair appointments and restaurant reservations: The odd jobs of State Dept. aides under Mike Pompeo.
Read: 18/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
By and Last year, when he was still secretary of state, Mike Pompeo dismissed accusations that he or his wife, Susan, had asked State Department staff to walk his dog or perform other personal tasks as “patently false” and “crazy stuff.
[Link] Daunte Wright: Obamas say police killing reveals ‘just how badly we need to reimagine policing and public safety’
Read: 16/4/2021 www.independent.co.uk
Barack and Michelle Obama said their “hearts are heavy over yet another shooting of a Black man” following the police killing of Daunte Wright in Minnesota.
[Link] Minneapolis Transit Union Refuses to Transport Arrested BLM Protesters
Read: 16/4/2021 www.leftvoice.org
Daunte Wright, only 20 years old, was brutally murdered by the police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a suburb just outside Minneapolis, on Sunday afternoon.
[Link] Video Is Released of Chicago Police Fatally Shooting 13-Year-Old
Read: 16/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
Mayor Lori Lightfoot called for calm before the body camera footage was made public. The victim, Adam Toledo, was one of the youngest people killed by the police in Illinois in years.
[Link] FBI nuked web shells from hacked Exchange Servers without telling owners
Read: 15/4/2021 www.bleepingcomputer.com
A court-approved FBI operation was conducted to remove web shells from compromised US-based Microsoft Exchange servers without first notifying the servers' owners.
[Link] Minneapolis under curfew following protests against police killing of 20-year-old black man
Read: 13/4/2021 www.sbs.com.au
Fresh protests broke out Monday night in Minneapolis despite a curfew implemented after a police officer fatally shot a young black man when she appeared to confuse her handgun with her taser, fueling tensions in a US city already on edge because of the George Floyd murder trial.
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[Link] ‘Dumb son of a bitch’: Trump attacks McConnell in Republican donors speech
Read: 12/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump devoted part of a speech to Republican donors on Saturday night to insulting the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell. According to multiple reports of the $400,000-a-ticket, closed-press event, the former president called the Kentucky senator “a dumb son of a bitch”.
[Link] Mike Lindell says he hired investigators to find out why Fox News won’t book him
Read: 12/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
Mike Lindell, the formerly ubiquitous purveyor of both Donald Trump’s election lies and his own range of My Pillow bedding accoutrements, says he has hired private investigators to find out why he appears to have fallen out of favor with Fox News.
[Link] Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed a Black Army Medic Is Fired, Officials Say
Read: 12/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
Joe Gutierrez, who is accused of using excessive force during a traffic stop in Windsor, Va., has been dismissed, the town said. The officer, Joe Gutierrez, was terminated for his role in the Dec. 5 encounter involving Caron Nazario, a second lieutenant in the U.S.
[Link] Leaked Chats Show ‘White Lives Matter’ Movement in Shambles After Antifa Infiltration
Read: 11/4/2021 www.vice.com
Just days before a series of White Lives Matter rallies were to take place in cities across the U.S., the movement has fallen into shambles after antifascists posed as event organizers and lured unsuspecting racists to join several fake Telegram channels.
[Link] Black Army Medic Pepper-Sprayed in Traffic Stop Accuses Officers of Assault
Read: 11/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
Second Lt. Caron Nazario was in uniform when two Windsor, Va., police officers ordered him to stop his car, pointed their weapons at him and doused him with pepper spray. Caron Nazario, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, was driving to Petersburg, Va.
[Link] Capitol Rioters Face the Consequences of Their Selfie Sabotage
Read: 9/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
Joe Biggs and his fellow Proud Boys left an incriminating social media trail for federal investigators before and during the Capitol attack on Jan. 6. WASHINGTON — On Jan.
[Link] G.O.P. Group Warns of ‘Defector’ List if Donors Uncheck Recurring Box
Read: 9/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
The National Republican Congressional Committee says to donors who opt out of recurring monthly donations: “We will have to tell Trump you’re a DEFECTOR.”Former President Donald Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., in February.Credit...
[Link] US teen saves boy’s life more than 800 miles away after seeing crash on TikTok
Read: 9/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
An adventurous young off-roading enthusiast in West Virginia was saved by social media recently when a teenager more than 800 miles away noticed he was in need of help.
[Link] Nike suspends Deshaun Watson deal over ‘disturbing’ sexual assault allegations
Read: 9/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
Nike has suspended its partnership with Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson after more than 20 women came forward to accuse him of sexual assault or inappropriate behaviour. “We are deeply concerned by the disturbing allegations and have suspended Deshaun Watson.
[Link] Amanda Gorman says she has declined around $17m in deals since inauguration
Read: 9/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
Amanda Gorman, the 23-year-old American poet who drew widespread acclaim for her reading at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration, has revealed she has turned down millions in endorsements because the companies do not “speak to” her.
[Link] Capitol riot defendant flips to help prosecutors against Proud Boys
Read: 9/4/2021 www.cnn.com
At least one of the Capitol riot defendants has flipped against the Proud Boys, agreeing to provide information that could allow the Justice Department to bring a more severe charge against the group's leadership, according to an attorney involved in the case.
[Link] ‘An international embarrassment’: Biden announces gun violence plan
Read: 9/4/2021 www.smh.com.au
Washington: Joe Biden has announced a series of policies aimed at curbing gun violence in the US, a phenomenon the President described as an “epidemic” and “international embarrassment“.
[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell Is Still in Jail and the Feds Are Working Very Hard to Keep Her There
Read: 8/4/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Uber gave drivers more control to prove they're independent. Now the company is taking back control because drivers actually used it.
Read: 7/4/2021 www.businessinsider.com
In late 2019, California lawmakers passed AB-5, hoping to make it harder for companies such as Uber to skirt labor laws and off-load healthcare and unemployment-insurance costs to taxpayers by misclassifying workers as contractors.
[Link] Donald Trump uses new website to rewrite history of his presidency
Read: 7/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump has launched a new website celebrating his time as US president that includes a very selective retelling of the history of his time in office.
[Link] Supreme Court rules API copying is fair use
Read: 7/4/2021 arstechnica.com
The Supreme Court has sided with Google in its decade-long legal battle with Oracle over the copyright status of application programming interfaces. The ruling means that Google will not owe Oracle billions of dollars in damages.
[Link] Teen Vogue Staff Rail Against New Editor-in-Chief’s Past Tweets Mocking Asians
Read: 19/3/2021 www.thedailybeast.com
Staffers at Teen Vogue on Monday publicly blasted their newly hired editor in chief Alexi McCammond, particularly taking aim at parent company Condé Nast’s hiring process along with some of the new editor’s past tweets that deployed harmful Asian stereotypes.
[Link] Climate Chaos Is Coming — and the Pinkertons Are Ready
Read: 17/3/2021 www.nytimes.com
As they see it, global warming stands to make corporate security as high-stakes in the 21st century as it was in the 19th. The Pinkertons wanted me to picture myself in a scene of absolute devastation.
[Link] The B-2 Bomber: Those Who Forget History Are Doomed To Reverse Engineer It
Read: 17/3/2021 hackaday.com
The Drive had an interesting post recently, about someone noticed a procurement from the U. S. Air Force to reverse engineer the B-2 bomber’s Load Heat Exchanger (whatever that is).
[Link] Matthew McConaughey 'seriously considering' run for Texas governor
Read: 17/3/2021 www.theguardian.com
Matthew McConaughey has announced he is “seriously considering” a run for Texas governor, a year before the state election. The actor revealed his intention on a recent episode of Crime Stoppers of Houston’s The Balanced Voice podcast on Wednesday.
[Link] The man who put his feet up on a desk in Pelosi’s office during the Capitol riot throws a tantrum in court.
Read: 4/3/2021 www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2021, 12:46 p.m. ETMarch 4, 2021, 12:46 p.m. ETRichard Barnett of Gravette, Ark., posed for photographs while sitting at a desk in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the siege at the Capitol.Credit...
[Link] Boy Scouts Will Sell Nearly 60 Norman Rockwell Works to Pay Sex-Abuse Claims
Read: 3/3/2021 www.nytimes.com
The Boy Scouts of America, which is facing more than 82,000 sex-abuse claims, said in a court filing that it would establish a settlement fund of at least $300 million.
[Link] She Was Seen as a Victim in the Sarah Lawrence Cult Case. Now She’s Charged.
Read: 2/3/2021 www.nytimes.com
Isabella Pollok was one of the students at Sarah Lawrence College who prosecutors said was exploited by a classmate’s father, Lawrence V. Ray. Now she is under indictment, too. Ms. Pollok was only 19 when she fell under the sway of the man, Lawrence V. Ray, prosecutors said.
[Link] Mother whose 11yo son died in Texas freeze sues electricity companies for $100 million
Read: 27/2/2021 www.abc.net.au
The mother of an 11-year-old boy who died after they lost electricity and heat in their Texas mobile home during last week's freeze has filed a $US100 million ($126 million) lawsuit against two power companies for gross negligence.
[Link] Costco To Raise Minimum Wage To $16 An Hour: 'This Isn't Altruism'
Read: 27/2/2021 www.npr.org
Costco plans to edge up its starting wage to $16 an hour starting next week, CEO W. Craig Jelinek said on Thursday, revealing plans that would propel his company ahead of most of its retail competitors. Costco raised its starting pay to $15 per hour in 2019.
[Link] Celebratory Cannon Salute at Baby Shower Ends in Death, Police Say
Read: 10/2/2021 www.nytimes.com
The authorities are trying to determine why a device exploded, hurling shrapnel into a Michigan backyard. The man, Evan Thomas Silva, a guest at the party, was about 10 to 15 feet from the device when it blew up in the backyard of a home. Metal shrapnel hit Mr.
[Link] Baby shower stunt goes wrong as man killed by exploding cannon
Read: 10/2/2021 www.news.com.au
Evan Thomas Silva, 26, was fatally struck by an exploding cannon which was fired during a backyard party in Genesee County, Michigan, on Saturday night, The US Sun reports.
[Link] Idaho Officer Killed Man at His Home After Mistaking His Identity, Police Say
Read: 10/2/2021 www.nytimes.com
The shooting took place in the backyard of a home in Idaho Falls, where police officers were searching for a man who fled a traffic stop on Monday morning. The police did not identify the victim or the officer who shot him.
[Link] Pentagon, stumped by extremism in ranks, orders stand-down in next 60 days
Read: 7/2/2021 www.reuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Wednesday acknowledged it was unsure about how to address white nationalism and other extremism in its ranks, and announced plans for military-wide stand-downs pausing regular activity at some point in the next 60 days to tackle the issue.
[Link] ‘4 Corners’ Is Being Slammed For Interviewing A Far-Right Extremist Again
Read: 3/2/2021 junkee.com
Viewers of last night’s 4 Corners, which saw journalist Sarah Ferguson fly to Washington DC to report on January’s Capitol riots, have taken to social media to question the decision to air an interview with the chairman of white supremacist and fascist group the Proud Boys.
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[Link] A SoulCycle Instructor Got the Vaccine as an ‘Educator’
Read: 3/2/2021 www.nytimes.com
The spin class teacher, Stacey Griffith, has since apologized. But to many, it was another example of wealthy or well-connected people cutting lines for doses.
[Link] Rochester Officers Suspended After Pepper-Spraying of 9-Year-Old Girl
Read: 2/2/2021 www.nytimes.com
The incident, captured on body-camera footage, renewed scrutiny of a department whose officers had placed a hood on Daniel Prude, a Black man, before he died from suffocation. The police department in Rochester, N.Y.
[Link] Cable ISP warns “excessive” uploaders, says network can’t handle heavy usage
Read: 2/2/2021 arstechnica.com
Mediacom, a cable company with about 1.4 million Internet customers across 22 states, is telling heavy uploaders to reduce their data usage—even when those users are well below their monthly data caps.
[Link] Tyler Perry Gets Covid-19 Vaccine on TV to Reassure Black Skeptics
Read: 29/1/2021 www.nytimes.com
The Madea creator and studio head talks about the history of the medical and government establishment’s exploitation of Black people. Can Tyler Perry assuage distrust among Black Americans who are skeptical about the Covid-19 vaccine?
[Link] President Obama: Libya aftermath 'worst mistake' of presidency
Read: 29/1/2021 www.bbc.com
US President Barack Obama has said failing to prepare for the aftermath of the ousting of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi was the worst mistake of his presidency. Mr Obama was answering a series of questions on the highs and lows of his time in office on Fox News.
[Link] Health Workers, Stuck in the Snow, Administer Coronavirus Vaccine to Stranded Drivers
Read: 29/1/2021 www.nytimes.com
Public health workers in Josephine County, Ore., said they had walked from car to car, giving shots to drivers with vaccine doses that would expire in six hours. The public health workers were driving back from a vaccination site in rural Cave Junction, Ore.
[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to force Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to retake their oaths on a Bible in a resurfaced video
Read: 28/1/2021 www.independent.co.uk
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon-supporting Republican who is known for pushing conspiracy theories and making racists comments, previously tried to force Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to retake their congressional oaths on the Bible.
[Link] Second police officer dies by suicide after Capitol attack
Read: 28/1/2021 thehill.com
Acting MPD Chief Robert Contee identified the officer as Jeffrey Smith, who he said was injured while trying to help contain the mob of former President Trump's supporters attempting to stop Congress from certifying President Biden's electoral victory.
[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Believes in Frazzledrip, QAnon’s Wildest Conspiracy Theory
Read: 28/1/2021 www.vice.com
The average QAnon believer likely has no idea what “frazzledrip” is. But Marjorie Taylor Greene, the newly minted representative from Georgia who recently filed impeachment papers against President Joe Biden, is no average QAnon follower.
[Link] “I can’t tell you how much vaccine we have,” new CDC head says
Read: 27/1/2021 arstechnica.com
With the country’s vaccine rollout in utter disorder, health officials in the Biden administration are cautiously trying to both manage expectations and express optimism.
[Link] Biden plans to limit private prisons and transfer of military equipment to police
Read: 27/1/2021 www.reuters.com
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[Link] Bomb Explodes at California Church Known for Hateful Views
Read: 26/1/2021 www.nytimes.com
Officials said no one was injured in the attack. The church had been the target of protests over its messages against women, Jews, L.G.B.T.Q. people and the Black Lives Matter movement. The F.B.I.
[Link] ‘Constitutionally Illiterate’ Tennessee Authorities Arrest Man For ‘Posting an Anti-Police Meme’ on Social Media
Read: 26/1/2021 lawandcrime.com
Special Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and Dickson Police Department on Friday arrested a man accused of posting a fake photograph on social media depicting two men urinating on the grave of a police officer who was tragically killed on duty in 2018.