“It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs,” she claimed in a social media publication.

Now I need to take a loan in order to afford 32gb for replacement thanks to the ai bros hoarding all the chips…

So far, every country in the world has had one of two responses to the Trump tariffs. The first one is: “Give Trump everything he asks for (except Greenland) and hope he stops being mad at you.” This has been an absolute failure. Give Trump an inch, he’ll take a mile. He’ll take fucking Greenland. Capitulation is a failure.

Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas

Nicki Minaj fans and critics react to her embrace of far-right conservatism with Erika Kirk and the calls for her deportation because of it.

[two characters are talking in front a modern city full of skyscrapers]

Markets are not natural, spontaneous or free. They are legal, institutional and political creations of the state. Without law, money, regulation, wages, accounting standards and trust, markets collapse into monopoly, coercion and extraction.

My idiot child.

*Joseph Tirrell says before he was fired as the DoJ’s senior ethics attorney, he fought battles over matters like the US attorney general accepting gifts*

https://338canada.com/alberta/

GNOME’s Glycin project as the Rust-based sandboxed and extendable image loading library now supports XPM and XBM images. This is notable since those formats were the last unsandboxed image loading formats used on Fedora Linux.

Archboot, a guided, user-friendly, menu-driven installer for Arch Linux that automates much of the traditional manual installation process (while still allowing advanced users to intervene when needed), has added the COSMIC desktop environment as a new selectable option.

*NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.*

*A yearlong effort to build an AI probate assistant reveals the limits of government chatbot development.*

You are a captain of a nuclear submarine that is on station somewhere in the depth of the sea. Armed with SLBMs you are responsible for your nations deterrence and lasting peace on earth. When you get the orders to launch a counter strike, strange things happen to your Submarine Command System (SCS), soon you realize that your submarine was hit by a cyber attack. You need to dive and investigate who is responsible and how to restore your ship to full functionality.

John Bolton, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, reminds us all that a person can wind up on Trump’s enemies list, yet still be a terrible human being.

As the largest maker of electric vehicles in the United States, Tesla suffered more than other carmakers from the elimination of federal incentives.

happy caturday fedisky, from the creature

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez is in Russia, four sources familiar with her movements said on Saturday, after Donald Trump said President Nicolas Maduro had been seized by U.S. forces after an attack on the country.

International leaders reacted swiftly on Saturday morning as President Trump confirmed U.S. military strikes in Venezuela and announced the capture of the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife.

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Trump is really trying hard to make Robert Jordan look like a prophet 💀

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With each passing decade since the mid-1980s, Canadians have been spending less and less time with their friends. Just 19 per cent said they hung out with friends on an average day in 2022, down from 48 per cent in 1986, according to Statistics Canada.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oh-fuck-yeah-spread-it

Title dripping with sarcasm, just in case it wasn’t obvious.

Medics from Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) have carried out a rare rescue operation in open-sea conditions to save a wounded soldier.

European national security advisors have arrived in Kyiv to discuss peace proposals as a U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the war in Ukraine intensifies.

A military contractor with a lineage going back to the notorious mercenary firm Blackwater will help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement track down a list of 1.5 million targeted immigrants across the country, according to records reviewed by The Intercept.

Daily strikes by Ukrainian drones and missiles on Russian warehouses, oil refineries and fuel depots have led to the widespread perception that Russia’s air defence is “leaky”.

In his video alleging fraud at Somali-owned day care centers in Minneapolis, right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley was led around the city by a purported whistleblower called only “David.” Shirley — and outlets like Fox News that credulously picked up the influencer’s video — credited “David” by first name only.