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Pentagon officials are reportedly struggling to devise a plan to spend the extra $500 billion that Donald Trump wants to give the bloated, fraud-ridden agency in the next fiscal year, vindicating criticism of the funding proposal as immensely wasteful.

The Washington Post reported over the weekend that “White House aides and defense officials have run into logistical challenges surrounding where to put the money, because the amount is so large.”

The extra $500 billion, endorsed by the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, would push annual US military spending to a staggering $1.5 trillion after the Trump administration and congressional Republicans enacted unprecedented cuts to federal nutrition assistance and Medicaid last summer.

Crockett was reportedly the GOP’s preferred opponent in the 2026 Senate elections in Texas, but had not been considered as a potential contender in the race by her own party

The Republican Party allegedly promoted favorable polls about Representative Jasmine Crockett as part of a plan to goad the outspoken Democrat into running for the Senate.

Crockett was reportedly the GOP’s preferred opponent in the 2026 race in Texas, but had not been considered as a potential contender in the race by her fellow Democrats.

That prompted Senate Republicans to disseminate a poll in July suggesting that she would be the frontrunner in the Democratic primary.

“When we saw the results, we were like, ‘OK, we got to disseminate this far and wide,’” a source familiar with the plan told NOTUS.

As details of the death toll for January’s protests continue to emerge, three students explain why they are resisting a return to normality

More than 45 days after a brutal January crackdown that left thousands of Iranian protesters dead, students across several universities are protesting again. As Iran’s new academic term began on Saturday, students in Tehran gathered on campus, chanting anti-government slogans, despite a heavy security presence and plainclothes officers stationed outside university gates.

The Guardian spoke to protesting students about why they were rallying despite the fact that thousands had been killed and tens of thousands arrested in the January demonstrations.

“Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full,” said Hossein*, 21, a student at the University of Tehran. “It’s for them – our friends, classmates and compatriots, who were gunned down in front of our eyes, that we decided to boycott the classes.”

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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/47898127

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I Want to Make Black-Knight Fall In Love With Me!

Haven't actually finished it so this is only a soft recommendation

https://social.xenofem.me/objects/6578ab7e-bffc-4252-921b-2c58ad34464e

Ich zitiere:

Es ist ein wahrlich ungewöhnlicher Ort, um Entspannung zu suchen. In der Kläranlage Bülach ist über zwanzig Jahre lang ein nicht öffentlicher Wellnessbereich für einen «exklusiven Teil» der Mitarbeiter betrieben worden – mit Sauna, Dusche, Badewanne, Fitnessgeräten, Liegestühlen und Deko-Palmen. Pikant daran ist: Das Mini-Spa im Untergeschoss des Aufenthaltsgebäudes für Mitarbeitende war quasi geheim. Wer es eingebaut, bezahlt und unterhalten hat, lässt sich im Nachhinein nicht mehr feststellen.

Laut dem Bericht wurde die Sauna in der Kläranlage um das Jahr 2000 herum eingebaut – durch «Eigenpersonal» und ausserhalb der Arbeitszeiten. Das dafür benötigte Material sowie allfällige Einrichtungen und Reparaturen sollen privat beschafft und bezahlt worden sein. Die Sauna sei als Sponsoringbeitrag durch externe Firmen bereitgestellt worden. Bauprotokolle dazu wurden keine gefunden, jedoch ein Elektroanschluss «Sauna» auf einem Plan. Laut der GPK wusste die damalige Baukommission von der Anlage.

Die Geschäftsprüfungskommission kritisiert in ihrem Bericht, wie Verwaltung und Stadtrat mit der Wellnessanlage umgingen: Sie ist der Meinung, dass die Öffentlichkeit zumindest über die Sauna zu informieren gewesen wäre. Für die Kommission ist es unverständlich, dass die Mitarbeitenden, die von der Sauna wussten, diese als «praktisch integrierten Lohnbestandteil» betrachtet hätten. [...] «Dass es offensichtlich selbstverständlich scheint, dass eine Sauna existiert und dass diese – zu welchen Zeiten auch immer – benutzt werden kann auf Kosten der Steuerzahler und der Anschlussgemeinden, zeugt heutzutage von einem absolut verzerrten Bild über Rechtmässigkeit und von fehlendem Anstand.»

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HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY Kristi Noem told a preposterous story demonizing immigrants in high-profile public remarks alongside President Donald Trump and on Fox News last summer, about a cannibal who ate other people and then, on his Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flight, began to eat himself. At the time, The Intercept was unable to substantiate any part of the tale.

Now, three officials from federal law enforcement agencies — including Noem’s own Department of Homeland Security — with knowledge of the allegations say the entire story was fabricated.

“It is completely false,” said one senior law enforcement official who is familiar with the allegation but not authorized to speak publicly on the subject.

Two other federal law enforcement officials echoed this, telling The Intercept that the claims were ludicrous and that there was no evidence corroborating the story.

Asked for comment, a DHS spokesperson said Noem was simply relaying the claims of an air marshal. “What ‘fabrication’ of the story of the cannibal?” the spokesperson said. “She was told that story on a deportation flight by one of the air marshals.”

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#Lying israelis disqualified from Olympics

In a news story that will shock nobody, the israeli bobsled team was caught faking an illness in order to change their team roster after doing miserably in preliminary rounds. They then went on social media to lie about the events and pretend they were being persecuted by the Olympic committee.

A colony comprised of thieves, liars, and cheats; they still continue to murder Lebanese and Palestinians on a daily basis despite the ceasefires. Just a few days ago they killed 18 Lebanese and wounded dozens more after bombing an apartment complexes in the Bekaa Valley. Of course, the lying death cultists claimed they were targetting "command centers."

Over 690 Palestinians in Gaza have been slaughtered by the IOF since the start of the ceasefire, 200 of whom are children. Yet the israelis continue to claim self defense.

Social media users recently found some articles about another disturbing practice of the settler colonial death cult, literally gathering up kittens and puppies to burn them alive during some sort of holiday involving bonfires.

This depraved violence against literal defense animals happens on a weekly basis. Last week israili "civilians" burned dozens of sheep in Hebron.

In final news about the depraved settlers, israeli so-called "civilians" continue to carry out terrorism in the West Bank including torching mosques. Yesterday, hundreds of armed israeli settlers broke into the town of Huwara, south of Nablus, where they carried out provocative rituals, forcing local Palestinian businesses to shut down. This is of course happening at the same time as 'israel' is severely limiting Palestinians access to Al Aqsa mosque during the holy month of Ramadan under the claims of "security concerns."

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Hi,

I want to suggest a concept to solve the issue losing our data when an instance shut down. Maybe it already exist.

Problem

When an instance shutdown, you have no way to recovert your account and export your blocklist, subcription...It is too late and lost. You have to start it again, who prepared a backup ? Almost no one because its design was flawed.

Idea

The only solution would be nomadic identity.

I think we, the fediverse, can create a sync app on our computer. Here is the concept :

• flatpak for linux distro agnostic
• fediapp agnostic. we want to support every free software fedi app.

We install it on our computer. Then click on a plus button to add our fedi accounts.

It will ask for 2-3 fields :

• username
• password
• generated-token (not sure if it is useful, security ?)

Then it will sync on our local computer : blocklist, followers, subscription, setting... maybe encrypted for increased security

Later, we can imagine other features as :

• master account
• merging blocklist, subcription between selected account
• exporting posts, comments...
• managing account settings
• mobile app
• support of apple and windows

What do you think ? Can we achieve that ?

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