*The plunge in viewership comes as Weiss has ushered in an era of Trump-friendly politics for the network.*

Apparently the US Department of DefenseWar thinks that they can order non-US citizens not resident in the USA to cease and desist from mailing things.

The Trump administration apologized in court for a “mistake” in the deportation of a Massachusetts college student who was detained trying to fly home to surprise her family for Thanksgiving, but still argued the error should not affect her case.

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*While older members of leadership in the House and the Senate are retiring, some from the Silent Generation say their seniority is still a boon for their districts.*

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The move follows an announcement by Denmark that it will increase its military presence in Greenland immediately.

The notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, widely believed to be an Israeli intelligence asset, played a behind-the-scenes role in nurturing the secret relationship between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) years before the 2020 Abraham Accords, newly leaked communications reveal.

I’m not saying that all Catholics think this, but most do. also sorry if the seahorse is hard to see X—X

Elston Bostock, 49, is awaiting sentencing on a long list of charges he pleaded guilty to in recent months, following a lengthy police investigation into his actions that began in April 2024.

was dog sitting for my parents and just got a new lens for my camera. a leica elmarit-r 135 2.8 if you’re curious. ruka is old and losing her sights and sounds. reminds me of how old I’m getting given that they didn’t get her until just before i moved out.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) decried Republican efforts to discredit medication abortion in an interview Wednesday with Mother Jones, saying that “the only reason they’re going after mifepristone is because it is the way most women get their abortive care.”

One of the oddest occurrences in the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein imbroglio was the trip that Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, took in July to Tallahassee, Florida, to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year sentence for procuring underage girls, some as young as 14, for Epstein to sexually abuse. Prior to being nominated by Trump to the No. 2 position in the Justice Department, Blanche was Trump’s criminal attorney in the porn-star-hush-money-forged-business-records case in New York, in which Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts.

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Back in 2005, Citigroup literally sent a memo to rich clients called Plutonomy explaining this particular phenomenon and why it’s great for business.

A Dutch anti-immigration influencer who has promoted conspiracy theories such as the “great replacement” appears to have had her authorisation for visa-free travel to the UK revoked.(..)

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The ongoing energy crisis in Kyiv remains “extremely serious,” officials said on Jan. 15, as Ukraine’s Security Service said Russia’s ongoing strikes against energy infrastructure amount to “crimes against humanity.”

Was ein netter Nachmittag mit Kokain und Programmieren werden sollte, ist zu zwei Tagen Arbeit ausgeartet. Und der schlimmste Teil war, die Benutzerdoku zu schreiben!

vantage, ahorntal, jan 2026 @photography@lemmy.world @photography@piefed.social #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography #franken

And for anyone interested in a template:

Also applies to Kamunity or whatever centralized commercial platform that is being touted as an alternative to Reddit.

Popular Information identified 37 major companies that were actively advertising on X on January 12. Each company was contacted and asked whether they were concerned about paying for ads on a platform that was allowing users to create nonconsensual sexualized images of women and children. All 37 either declined to comment or did not respond.

Rizzo and Gracie chilling on the couch.

In his 1974 book, ​Labor and Monopoly Capital​, the influential Marxist political economist Harry Braverman argued that the expanding “science-technical revolution” was being exploited by companies to increasingly “deskill” workers; to leave them in “ignorance, incapacity, and thus in fitness for machine servitude.” The more employees outsource skilled activity to machines, the more controllable they become.

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The mismatch between the anti-ICE rhetoric and the actions of Democratic appropriators reflects a Catch-22 of congressional power: The only way lawmakers can put guardrails on the controversial agency and curb President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda at this moment is to hand it billions of taxpayer dollars.

Good to know, but sad that it has to be said.

inspired by the post by <pmjv>. this is switchy and leviathan, who are both of my OGs.

AI-generated videos purportedly depicting protests in Iran have flooded the web, researchers said Wednesday, as social media users push hyper-realistic deepfakes to fill an information void amid the country’s internet restrictions.

Another new release of the excellent open source video capture and streaming app OBS Studio is being prepared, with OBS Studio 32.1 Beta out now. You can get testing with a few new features and tweaks to existing features.

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Tribal leaders say Indigenous people have been stopped, questioned, harassed and, in some cases, detained solely on the basis of their skin color or names.

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