boydster

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[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

ProPublica is the journalism we need, in a time when we really need it most

Eta:

Three investigators for the Heritage Foundation have deluged federal agencies with thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests over the past year, requesting a wide range of information on government employees, including communications that could be seen as a political liability by conservatives. Among the documents they’ve sought are lists of agency personnel and messages sent by individual government workers that mention, among other things, “climate equity,” “voting” or “SOGIE,” an acronym for sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.

The Heritage team filed these requests even as the think tank’s Project 2025 was promoting a controversial plan to remove job protections for tens of thousands of career civil servants so they could be identified and fired if Donald Trump wins the presidential election.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 days ago

Syria better be on alert. I really feel like Bibi is eying the Kingdom of David at its largest as far as potential war targets go at this point.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

I appreciate the irony of a so-named "news" corp keeping the terms of the settlement secret

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 89 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He'll say the same to Taiwan, too

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I sure hope no one shares that link, leading to a subsequent spike in traffic and possibly taking the site down as a result. That would be a really shameful thing to see happen.

 

Iran's alleged plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump and hack the Trump campaign amount to "an act of war," according to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

Just days after a would-be assassin's bullet grazed Trump's ear in July, the FBI announced that Iran had allegedly been separately plotting to kill the former president. Federal officials later revealed that Iran had hacked and stolen confidential information from the Trump campaign.

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[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

More post-birth abortions. Who's the villain performing these, again?

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago

Then-Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) paused Williams’s execution in 2017 and charged a board with collecting evidence about whether he was innocent. Current Gov. Mike Parson (R), who succeeded Greitens, later disbanded the board and last year began a push to set an execution date.

The cruelty is the point

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This murder will be an actual example of a post-term abortion that the right has been pretending to be scared of, ironically enough

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sounds like terrorism to me

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That, plus settlements that they'll start setting up in Lebanon as soon as they have the opportunity. Border's gotta expand...

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Matt Gaetz: YUP!

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago

They're being called terrorists in the news-adjacent and very public media finally, it's progress

 

Paraphrasing his psychotic post that they are discussing in this article: "Bullets are flying, the war has begun, the Immigrant Problem must be brought to a final solution!"

 

Just saw these new HoMe boxed sets are coming out, with the first set releasing in November

 

Credit: TimeMaps

As part of a personal educational journey, I've been exploring early human cultures. There are a lot of great websites I've encountered along the way, but this one had escaped my radar until yesterday.

I grabbed the map portion from a series of posts they had about early farming and strung them all together into a gif so I could visualize it better for myself, and it ended up looking pretty neat so it seemed crazy not to share it.

The green parts of each slide show you where the farming was happening at the time. The first slide represents 10000 BCE, and each slide after is dated 1000 years further ahead in time, all the way up to the last slide at 3000 BCE, as outlined by the TimeMaps folks.

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