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The whole Bloody Mary thing apparently only works in bar bathrooms but only if you're yelling it loud enough for the bartender to hear you

08.03.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

07.03.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 6456 πŸ” 4055 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 277
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Sony are testing out 'dynamic pricing' on PlayStation Store, where it varies the pricing per customer. When you log in some prices go up. Crazy, this one will need regulation.

07.03.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 6
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07.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 176 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 5

Pete Hegseth suggested this morning that reporting on the 6 U.S. service members who were killed in Trump's Iran war is an example of the news media 'trying to make Trump look bad.'

04.03.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 2321 πŸ” 846 πŸ’¬ 315 πŸ“Œ 174
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A Iran-tied hacktivist group claims to have hacked Saudi Aramco. 12 years ago Iran wiped that company, one of the most significant cyberattacks in history. I didn't think this looked to be similar, but I asked Aramco anyway. This is their response.

03.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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I like how in 2026 a common security paradigm is writing a strongly worded letter to the guy in your computer

03.03.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 448 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 9
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WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

03.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 16872 πŸ” 6404 πŸ’¬ 969 πŸ“Œ 700

I was just wondering why your donation page only links to Facebook, LinkedIn, and X? Those are the 3 platforms your users are least likely to use. Also your donation site uses Google Captcha, I'm told? Can those be changed/updated? Thanks!

03.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Something I think about lately is that when I was 20, WWI seemed a very long time ago. Yet it doesn’t, now, in my late 70s.

The US is turning 250 this year.

02.03.2026 23:42 πŸ‘ 707 πŸ” 57 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 5

This is Axis-power logic at best.

02.03.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0
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Iran Things that Got Memory Holed, Including the So-Called Negotiators, Steve and Jared - emptywheel Among the things that have gotten forgotten about Trump's Iran invasion is that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were purportedly negotiating peace, which of course they weren't.

Reup: Iran Things that Got Memory Holed, Including the So-Called Negotiators, Steve and Jared

emptywheel.net/iran-things-...

02.03.2026 10:53 πŸ‘ 228 πŸ” 85 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

I mean it kinda is since the idea of Anonymous as a collective monicker caught on pretty fast after 4chan's formation like during the Habbo Hotel raids and stuff so the date is pretty accurate though I'd say 2004 would be more definite.

23.02.2026 13:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So many milkmen on one route. No wonder they fight.

23.02.2026 13:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Project Chanology if not even earlier. So technically it's correct which some would say is the best kind of correct.

23.02.2026 13:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Technically it's accurate. It's not that Anonymous takes its name from 4chan as much as it's literally called Anonymous since that's what every 4chan post attributes the post to and Anonymous as a collective identity started there. Anonymous as a hacktivist collective identity started later during

23.02.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

18.02.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 41054 πŸ” 10834 πŸ’¬ 476 πŸ“Œ 1027

This is made more complicated by the fact that this is a JAG lawyer standing in for the DOJ (because most of the AUSAs quit). He was ordered to be a SAUSA, which means saying "I won't do this anymore" is a direct refusal to obey an order, which can trigger a court-martial or other discipline.

19.02.2026 00:21 πŸ‘ 319 πŸ” 74 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 7

Anybody know what's going on on the Queensboro Bridge?

17.02.2026 03:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad β€” the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

11.02.2026 03:43 πŸ‘ 25560 πŸ” 7253 πŸ’¬ 411 πŸ“Œ 540
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Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in Manhattan.

β€œHistorians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”

11.02.2026 03:59 πŸ‘ 3096 πŸ” 640 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 57

This is so deeply embarrassing

08.02.2026 09:29 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was asked to check this, the journal uses a Rail Fence Cipher, so you read each line up and down, left to right. The deciphered text in the article below is accurate, and names names. The file itself can be found here:
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

08.02.2026 09:30 πŸ‘ 1625 πŸ” 814 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 85
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They looked for β€œDon T” in the Epstein files and redacted all instances, which means they also redacted a lot of β€œdon’t”

07.02.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 8628 πŸ” 2776 πŸ’¬ 271 πŸ“Œ 179
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The Washington Postβ€”for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decadeβ€”has closed its Kyiv bureau.

@lawfaremedia.org has notβ€”and we will not.

We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.

Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving

06.02.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 2549 πŸ” 736 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 27
2600 MEETINGS FOR FEBRUARY | 2600

2600 Meetings are today! New meetings in Idaho & Montana! Plus some location changes. www.2600.com/meetings

06.02.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

An update: she supposedly just had her yacht's port logs fully whiped from the internet (History of where the boat went for it's entire life) and the transmitter is completely off with the logs previously showing she went to every island AROUND Epstein's

Oh she's GUILTY guilty.

03.02.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 1252 πŸ” 476 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 44
The Morning Session

The Morning Session

The Morning Session, 1924
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16734

03.02.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The argument that people having rights makes law enforcement more difficult is not remotely convincing.

03.02.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 718 πŸ” 186 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 6
To whom it may concern,

Distributed Denial of Secrets has moved our domain to ddosecrets.org immediately. Please switch all links and email addresses from .com to .org right away. If you receive any email from an @ddosecrets.com address it is illegitimate; please contact us immediately by Signal or social media and let us know if you receive email from our old domain. Our Signal and Cwtch contacts and onion addresses remain unchanged. Technical details follow.

Our domain registration lapsed on January 28th. Our domain registrar had invalid contact information, and so we were not notified that domain auto-renewal had failed until they released the domain name and it was purchased by a domain squatter.

To our knowledge no services have been deployed maliciously using our old domain, and no emails have been sent from our old addresses.

User data, publicly published, and limited distribution data has not been compromised. Our document submission system Globaleaks is unaffected, and libraryofleaks.org remains unchanged. All of our servers are online and intact, just with a new domain name. We will keep you updated as the situation develops.

This statement can be confirmed by:

DDoSecrets social media - https://bsky.app/profile/ddosecrets.org https://kolektiva.social/@ddosecrets
Emma Best - https://bsky.app/profile/emma.best https://kolektiva.social/@mxy
Milo Trujillo - https://bsky.app/profile/backdrifting.net https://kolektiva.social/@illegaldaydream

To whom it may concern, Distributed Denial of Secrets has moved our domain to ddosecrets.org immediately. Please switch all links and email addresses from .com to .org right away. If you receive any email from an @ddosecrets.com address it is illegitimate; please contact us immediately by Signal or social media and let us know if you receive email from our old domain. Our Signal and Cwtch contacts and onion addresses remain unchanged. Technical details follow. Our domain registration lapsed on January 28th. Our domain registrar had invalid contact information, and so we were not notified that domain auto-renewal had failed until they released the domain name and it was purchased by a domain squatter. To our knowledge no services have been deployed maliciously using our old domain, and no emails have been sent from our old addresses. User data, publicly published, and limited distribution data has not been compromised. Our document submission system Globaleaks is unaffected, and libraryofleaks.org remains unchanged. All of our servers are online and intact, just with a new domain name. We will keep you updated as the situation develops. This statement can be confirmed by: DDoSecrets social media - https://bsky.app/profile/ddosecrets.org https://kolektiva.social/@ddosecrets Emma Best - https://bsky.app/profile/emma.best https://kolektiva.social/@mxy Milo Trujillo - https://bsky.app/profile/backdrifting.net https://kolektiva.social/@illegaldaydream

DDoSecrets has moved from .com to ddosecrets.org - spread the word!

29.01.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 294 πŸ” 120 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5