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The Republican-led Senate voted down a procedural measure intended to block President Donald Trump from ordering further military strikes on Iran without congressional approval.

Five Republicans on the House oversight committee joined with Democrats to subpoena the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, as part of the ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

The House oversight committee voted 24-19 to approve a motion introduced by Republican representative Nancy Mace to compel Bondi to testify. In addition to Mace, Republican representatives Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Michael Cloud of Texas, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania voted for the motion.

The motion comes amid growing criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle of the Department of Justice’s failures regarding the Epstein files, including accidentally releasing the names of survivors and redacting, without explanation, the names of people who may have committed crimes.

Directly related articles with more info:

House Panel Votes to Subpoena Pam Bondi Over Epstein Files -- NYT
Archive.today link (archive.org doesn't return article)

Pam Bondi Subpoenaed By GOP-Led House Oversight Committee -- Mediaite

It's March and we all know what that means, St. Patrick's Day. All the grocery stores are running deals on brisket, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots.

I was able to score corned beef brisket for $3.49/lb, 8lbs of potatoes for $1.49, cabbage for $.79/lb, and carrots for $.99/lb.

$3.03 per person.

From Mediaite:

DOJ Chose Which Epstein Files You’d See — And Left Out the Trump Ones: WSJ

The biggest Epstein files story yet dropped Tuesday night in the Wall Street Journal, and you probably missed it.

The United States has just launched military strikes on Iran, and every screen in the country was pointed at the Middle East. In that environment, a major accountability story about the Justice Department and 47,635 missing Epstein files didn’t stand much of a chance of breaking through the noise. It deserves one.

Here is what the Journal found: After analyzing the DOJ’s public Epstein database, the paper identified tens of thousands of files that appeared to be missing. When reporters Sadie Gurman and Caitlin Ostroff pressed the Justice Department about the discrepancy, a spokeswoman confirmed that 47,635 documents were being held offline for further review. The department hadn’t previously volunteered that information and confirmed it only after being asked directly about the gap.

That number alone should reshape how the public understands the DOJ’s legally bound rollout of Epstein documents . . .

Note: While worthy on its own, this Mediaite opinion piece relies heavily on Wall Street Journal original reporting. I highly recommend reading it for additional context:

There Are 47,635 Epstein Files Offline for Review, DOJ Says -- WSJ
Archive.world link (archive org can't jump the paywall)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44034756

A whistleblower has claimed that the FBI allegedly halted an investigation into the death of Renee Good, a queer mother of three killed by an ICE agent, because Director Kash Patel did not want the warrant to describe her as a 'victim'.

According to Senate Judiciary Democrats, forensic teams were reportedly ordered to stand down while the warrant was rewritten, delaying evidence collection.

The allegations suggest that Patel aimed to cast Good not as a victim but as a threat to law enforcement, potentially obstructing standard civil rights and use-of-force protocols.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.ca/post/61310212

TLDW:

Brazil is requiring OS level age verification by march 17th, 2026.

New York about to vote on a law that would "require all manufacturers of internet-enabled devices, operating systems, or application stores to conduct commercially reason-able and technically feasible age assurance for users at the point of device activation."

In order to “incentivize” age verification, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that they will ignore COPPA violations for software performing age verification.

Today is Holi, the festival of colors. it is the time when friends come together and all the differences throughout the year sink in the colors of holi. Bangladesh is a country where the Hindus are a minority community. But as it is a land of multicultural diaspora, the hindus celebrate holi with a riot of colors and they embrace their muslim brothers with the extravagant colors of holi. it is the time when all disputes are forgotten in the myriads of gulal or colored powders, with which holi is celebrated. the folklore about holi is that, lord krishna played holi with his divine fiance radha and her friends. thus friendship is the fervor of this auspicious festival, and holi is the time when the spirit of camaraderie overpowers all evil forces.

Photographer: Md Rafayat Haque Khan

CC BY-SA 4.0

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/61317766

been guided by this recipe for quite a while:

recipe

I usually use ground beef; we buy from a Mennonite butcher @$8/lb (CAD), so not sure how that compares with bulk or supermarket pricing, but the whole thing would cost ~$12 CAD

Sony was an unstoppable force in the early 2000s. The release of the PS2 went swimmingly, and gamers worldwide were enjoying the technological advancements made by the console. Despite going on to become one of the best-selling consoles of all time, Sony wasn't fully satisfied with how things were going later in the PS2's lifespan. Much like its predecessor, the PS2 had a serious security problem. Once the copy protection was broken, it became the wild west, so much so, that if you buy a used PS1 or PS2 in 2026, there's a good chance it has some kind of modchip inside. Things had to change for the PS3, and Sony had a plan.