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The host of the LegalEagle channel summarizes how the US has indeed become an authoritarian nation, even if some of the authoritarian instruments are being wielded incompetently.

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Newsmast launches news app that combines local news with fediverse integration, and the first Brazilian fediverse conference with WebSocialBR

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Union-busting consultants thrive on secrecy, but they can’t hide their obscene pay rates for long.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s powerful chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, has resigned after Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies conducted searches at his apartment.

Zelenskyy announced the departure of Yermak, who had been leading the country’s peace negotiations with the US, in a late-afternoon social media video on Friday.

The president praised Yermak but made clear that “there should be no reason to be distracted by anything other than the defence of Ukraine”.

Yermak had submitted his resignation, the president said. The search for a successor would begin on Saturday and the office of the president of Ukraine, which Yermak led, would be “reorganised” as part of the process.

A troubling incident unfolded in Redmond, Washington, where Native American actress Elaine Miles was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while she was simply walking to a bus stop to go shopping. According to the Seattle Times, the agents claimed she was carrying false identification — even though the document she presented was her tribal ID.

Miles, an Indigenous performer known for her roles in Northern Exposure, Smoke Signals, Wyvern and The Last of Us, handed over her tribal identification card issued by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon. As the newspaper notes, federal agencies recognize tribal IDs as valid identification, and Miles has long used hers to travel in and out of Canada and Mexico without any difficulty.

The agents — wearing tactical vests and masks and driving two black SUVs with no front plates — refused to accept the ID, insisting it was “fake” and that “anyone can make that.”

New York City’s notoriously filthy streets are bringing people together.

A growing number of volunteer groups that collect litter on sidewalks have popped up across the five boroughs in recent years. They’re made up of people looking to get a buzz off cleaning up the city — and meeting new friends in the process.

Rachael Cain, who formed a club called the Pick-up Pigeons in 2023, leads groups of litter-pickers to neighborhoods across the city. She said members pride themselves on having taken trash trips to all five boroughs, and get excited by especially dirty blocks.

Andriy Yermak, the influential chief of staff of Ukraine's President, has resigned hours after the country's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) conducted searches in his office.

The old program is unfortunately long lost, and I deleted the textures and such, leaving only this screenshot as proof this test project existed.

This was my project learning how to do simple programming in a first person shooter. The enemy is a skeleton I pulled from the internet, the rest of the visuals I whipped up quickly. It wasn't about havingt great visuals, this was closer to trying to make a greybox to learn programming. I made this project with the goal of having simple enemy interactions and working health.

Thanks to my inability to program I ended up with a player character that could be killed, but the enemy did not have working health. The bullets of the gun were actual projectiles and with some settings actually interacted with the skeleton and pushed it back. The final state was a skeleton that was smart enough to chase the player if the player appeared in the field of view, and attack the player if close enough. The player had infinite full auto fire that could push the skeleton back without killing it.

On the night of May 31, 1921, 7-year-old Fletcher was asleep in bed as the city around her began to burn.

An angry mob of White residents had descended on the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, burning and looting homes and businesses in the thriving majority-Black neighborhood, known as “Black Wall Street.” The mob’s rageful attack had been fueled by racism and false allegations that a 19-year-old Black shoe shiner, Dick Rowland, had raped a 17-year-old White elevator operator, Sarah Page. Page declined to press charges and denied that an assault occurred.

Over two days, the raging White residents destroyed 35 city blocks. Some 300 people died, more than 800 were hospitalized and about 6,000 Black residents were detained in internment camps.

US president sends envoys to Moscow with peace plan that recognizes Russia’s war gains

Just die you traitorous asshole!