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LOS ANGELES (CN) — A federal judge in California Friday awarded Hunter Biden $1.7 million in punitive damages in his defamation dispute against former Overstock.com CEO and 2020 election denier Patrick Byrne.

U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson had already indicated at a hearing in January that Byrne faced punitive damages after failing to defend himself against the claims by former President Joe Biden’s son. Byrne had claimed Biden had sought an $800 million bribe from Iran sometime in 2021.

“Here, the evidence is clear and convincing that defendant has engaged in intentional misrepresentation with conscious disregard towards plaintiff’s rights,” Wilson said. “Defendant’s defamation went far beyond mere negligence. In fact, defendant has admitted that after the offending article was published, defendant repeatedly reposted the article across social media platforms and encouraged his followers on those platforms to promote it further.”

from the the-censorship-police-are-getting-bolder dept

Another senior Trump administration official [Adam Candeub] is gleefully showing off his true colors: The current general counsel for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published an opinion column with the Heritage Foundation’s news outlet The Daily Signal calling for stronger obscenity regulation.

[...] Candeub proposes a supposed moral restoration of obscenity laws such that anything viewed through the lens of non-traditional sexual expression could be fair game for legislatures to heavily restrict or outright ban.

[...] Candeub works for the FCC and is backing a legal strategy that’s been used, historically, to aggressively prosecute women, LGBTQ+ individuals, entire communities of color, consensual sex workers, and pornographic and non-pornographic publishers for their speech.

This is the FCC presenting itself as the morality speech police.

Mystery surrounding Senator Mitch McConnell’s health is deepening as the US Congress prepares to return from recess next week.

McConnell, 84, has not been seen in public since he was admitted to hospital in the Washington area on 14 June. Nearly a month later, the Kentucky Republican’s office has released only sparse updates, saying he is “continuing to improve” and remains engaged with Senate business, while refusing to disclose the nature of his illness or explain why he remains hospitalised.

• Video of EMS
• Audio of 911 call

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/56311226

Mayones Duvell Pro 6-string (custom).

Found out about Mayones from one of the posts on BuyEuropean comms after getting blown off by an ESP dealer about a custom order. Got in touch with them and this is the result.

Had to tinker a bit with it (changed the arm to push-in style and tuned it down to B-standard). Plays better than it looks!

"We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it," said Khanna, a progressive lawmaker from California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

"And these hoodlums come in with machine guns – M4, an American-made machine gun – and they detain us. They block off the road. And then they call the IDF and the IDF is on their side, not on the side of the Americans," Khanna said, referring to the Israeli military.

An aide to ⁠Khanna who was in the group, Cameron Kasky, said they were held for more than an hour and made appeals to the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for help. A group of officers who appeared to be police eventually intervened, leading to their release, Kasky said.

From Sushrut Badve

Absolute camouflage..

It took us some time to see this beauty..

Brown Fish Owl..

Maharashtra || April 2025...

Source (Bluesky)

Trump likes winners. And Ukraine, recently, has started winning. That was a NATO official explaining why we saw some pretty significant changes from the US at the summit this past week and honestly, it went way better than I thought it would.

Bottom line: good news for the United States, good news for NATO and good news for Ukraine.

Preston Stewart also interviews Zelensky in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSU0xFJ_Gtw

But then again, who doesn’t love Glycerin?

This past weekend, I read an most extraordinary book, Adam H. Johnson’s How to Sell a Genocide. You will definitely want to read it, since much of it is about the New York Times. Johnson makes an astonishing case for prosecuting many of your reporters, editors, and managers for the crimes of inciting and maintaining Israel’s genocide in Gaza. As you know, the legal prosecution of genocide is not limited to investigations of the military or police. As we saw with the Holocaust and Rwanda, genocide prosecutors have also typically investigated the role that media groups play in generating violence. Johnson details the role you have played—and continue to play—in producing American consent for the ongoing US-Israeli assault on the Palestinian people. I hope that Johnson’s study will become part of a legal case at the Hague, where perhaps you and your colleagues will receive a fair trial.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/63812

Professor Elliott Colla was a lifelong New York Times reader but can no longer trust the paper due to its coverage of Gaza. In fact, he's found that there is a strong case for prosecuting many at the paper for their role in the genocide.

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Buffy Fish Owl 马来渔鸭

"After successfully delivering a slippery eel to his owlet and waiting nearby, the daddy Buffy transitions into a highly alert state to begin his second round of hunting "

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