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Trump pick for State Department drops out after drawing heat for comments about ‘white culture’ Jeremy Carl faced tough questions from lawmakers during a Senate confirmation hearing last month.

Trump pick for State Department drops out after drawing heat for comments about ‘white culture’

Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim suing OpenAI | CBC News The mother of Maya Gebala, a 12-year-old who remains in hospital after the shooting on Feb. 10, alleges the tech company failed to alert authorities to prompts from the shooter related to violence.

Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim suing OpenAI

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Russia's deportation of Ukrainian children amounts to crime against humanity, UN says Vladimir Putin's direct involvement in the forcible deportation of Ukrainian children has been visible from the outset, the UN says.

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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Repeated appearances suggest a conscious editorial decision at GB News that talking about migration + demographic change as 'genocide' + positing that it will inevitably lead to violence against the white group is a legitimate part of the mainstream political discourse

The College Republicans of America just appointed a groyper as their political director. Kai Schwemmer was in Fuentes' inner circle in 2021, & since then has strategically downplayed his support to avoid controversy. CRA claims over 300 campus chapters across the country

GB News is both broadcasting + clipping "there is a genocide happening in this island" due to immigration and demographic change, by Thomas Corbett-Dillon, a former digital campaign adviser to Johnson's Conservatives.

Private jet used for Nigel Farage Chagos stunt linked to Reform mega-donor Exclusive: Plane that flew Reform leader to Maldives appears to be linked to billionaire Christopher Harborne

Private jet used for Nigel Farage Chagos stunt linked to Reform mega-donor. Plane that flew Reform leader to Maldives appears to be linked to billionaire Christopher Harborne

Nigel Farage invests £215,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng’s bitcoin firm Reform UK leader strengthens ties with crypto sector with stake in former Tory chancellor’s company Stack BTC

Nigel Farage invests £215,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng’s bitcoin firm. Reform UK leader strengthens ties with crypto sector with stake in former Tory chancellor’s company Stack BTC

Councillor Chris Large's departure from Reform a mystery Neither Reform UK or Chris Large have commented on why he is no longer a member of the party.

Reform replaced its Staffs council leader over not declaring extreme social media content when vetted. His replacement has stood down & left the party, after revelations of racist social media content on an anon account, though neither he nor the party will confirm why
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2 teens face charges in plot to kill classmate that resembled infamous school shooter Investigators say an anonymous tip led to arrests after one teen allegedly brought a knife and supplies to school.

Two female Lake Brantley High School students (age 14 & 15) told officials they intended to kill a classmate & that would create a “blood bond” with Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook kilker) that would bring him back to life.
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Synagogue in Belgian city of Liege damaged in explosion, VRT reports A synagogue ​in the ‌Belgian city of ​Liege ​was damaged by ⁠an ​explosion early ​on Monday, Belgian broadcaster ​VRT ​reported, citing local ‌police.

Synagogue in Belgian city of Liege damaged in explosion, VRT reports reut.rs/4aYhBmH

67% of Britons describe themselves as anti-Trump, with Reform UK voters the only group more likely to be pro-Trump than anti

By 2024 vote
Lib Dem: 89% anti-Trump / 2% pro-Trump
Labour: 85% / 3%
Green: 82% / 4%
Conservative: 61% / 19%
Reform UK: 24% / 46%

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🧵/ 70% of Britons see Reform UK as pro-Trump, while also tending to see the Tories as being in favour of the US president

Reform UK: 70% see as pro-Trump / 2% anti-Trump
Conservatives: 35% / 13%
Labour: 21% / 36%
Lib Dems: 3% / 48%
Greens: 1% / 56%

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Undercover officer deceived women with ‘grotesque and cruel’ lies, spycops inquiry told Carlo Soracchi admits exploiting empathy of woman who had abusive father by claiming his father abused his sister

Undercover officer deceived women with ‘grotesque and cruel’ lies, spycops inquiry told

Explosion at US embassy in Oslo may have been terrorism, Norway police say Police say they are investigating other motives after the blast caused minor damage to the embassy building.

Explosion at US embassy in Oslo may have been terrorism, Norway police say

How the horror of the Dunblane school shooting changed Britain A new BBC documentary charts how the murders of 16 children and their teacher in March 1996 led to a handgun ban in the UK.

'Our children paid the ultimate price' – How the Dunblane school shooting changed Britain

TODAY at 19:15!

A far right protestor holds up a sign reading "we are Jeffrey Epstein"

There was a far-right protest against mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York yesterday and well, that's quite the sign

Eksplosjon ved den amerikanske ambassaden i Oslo Det har vært en eksplosjon ved den amerikanske ambassaden i Oslo. Ingen er skadet. Politiet jakter på en eller flere gjerningspersoner.

There's been an explosion at the gate of the U.S. Embassy in Oslo. Nobody was hurt. The police has searched the area and there's no other explosives. Suspects are at large and police is searching for them. It is too early to say who and why this happened.

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‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

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Locked door made 'incel' teen give up Southport massacre plan The teenager called police himself and said he lacked

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A chart shows the daily number of posts on 4chan’s “Adult Requests” imageboard recorded by Open Measures between Mar. 1, 2025, and Mar. 1, 2026. Daily activity on the imageboard nearly tripled over the analysis period we reviewed, peaking in January 2026.

Also... some reporters and researchers have been writing off 4chan as a dying website. That's so untrue it's absurd.

Daily activity on this single board, which is all but dedicated to nonconsensual deepfakes now, nearly TRIPLED over the past year.

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This 4chan Board Became a Factory for Explicit AI ‘Deepfakes.’ Nobody Is Stopping It. - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

NEW: One of the most active hubs for sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight. My latest takes a hard look at a 4chan board that's acting as a factory floor for online sexual abuse — where its users have victimized untold numbers of women and girls.

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if anyone has any freelance or (remote) staff opportunities, plz DM! can do writing, fact-checking, research, copy editing, book indexing, org consulting on outreach & reenvisioning, event planning & other similar such things...

Per NPR: “Police reported that Johnson, 45, tried to keep the children quiet by telling them he would share millions of dollars in restitution money he expected to receive from the Trump administration in connection with his Jan. 6 case.”

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes Andrew Paul Johnson, authorities said, tried to keep one of his victims mum by floating the promise of money he was expecting to receive from the Justice Department.

A Jan. 6 defendant pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Capitol attack was sentenced to life in prison for child molestation and related crimes. Andrew Paul Johnson was arrested in August, nine months after Trump pardoned him.

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse.

Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse. n.pr/4rUa1zD

Jansen Ganesh is on fire in this column on the UK’s role in the Iran conflict

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