Taibbi said he would no longer use Twitter after it blocked Substack. Musk then unfollowed him.
Elon Musk apparently on the outs with Matt Taibbi over Twitter-Substack feud (archived)
Russia was aware of Western involvement in Ukraine even before the documents were leaked online, Dmitry Peskov repeated
Russian responds to leak of ‘secret’ NATO war plan
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Ukraine War Plans Leak Prompts Pentagon Investigation (Archived)
Classified war documents detailing secret U.S. and NATO plans for building up the Ukrainian military before a planned offensive against Russia were posted this week on social media channels, senior U.S. officials said.
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U.S. officials were working to get them deleted but had not, as of Thursday evening, succeeded.
A 20-year-old photo of Kid Rock drinking Bud Light next to a drag queen has resurfaced online days after the musician repeatedly shot at Bud Light cases to protest a partnership with a transgender influencer.
Kid Rock Mocked for Photo of Him Drinking Bud Light With Drag Queen
Bud Light sucks, anyway.
On March 17, the Prosecutor General of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, introduced an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Llova-Belova. The warrant, which accused Putin and Lolva-Belova of conducting the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children to a “network of camps” across the Russian Federation, inspired a wave of incendiary commentary in the West.
ICC’s Putin arrest warrant based on State Dept-funded report that debunked itself
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YouTube: The Grayzone exposes shoddy ICC warrant against Putin
‘Seems accurate,’ Musk said of National Public Radio’s new label
NPR labeled ‘state-affiliated media’ on Twitter, same as Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua
The Nashville school shooting is leading conservatives to finally call for gun control. Their newfound enthusiasm for reforming gun laws is based on transphobia, but some of their suggestions are also supported by gun control advocates.
‘When it’s anyone but white Christian cis men, it’s not a right anymore’: Conservatives finally want gun control—for trans people
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Ben Shapiro: Ban Trans People From Owning Guns
Not surprising, Shapiro didn’t mention Trump getting rid of a mental health regulations for owning firearms in 2018.
Did President Trump Revoke Gun Background Checks for Mentally Ill People?
While the law did not change who is required to be the subject of background checks, it is true that Trump signed the repeal of a measure that would have plausibly prevented certain classes of mentally ill people from purchasing firearms by allowing a new data source to be included the system that runs those background checks. As such we rank the claim mostly true.
The main suspect in the murder of prominent Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, Darya Trepova, has admitted she was recruited by a man with ties to the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), news outlet Shot claimed on Monday, citing sources. Tatarsky was killed on Sunday by a blast from an improvised explosive device.
St. Petersburg Bomber Hired by CIA Linked Ukrainian Journalist Roman Popkov
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Researching the National Republican Army and Ilya Ponomarev/Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Russia arrests anti-war activist following blast that killed hawkish blogger (CNN)
Video: On The E-Girl Army Psyop Phenomenon via Justin Taylor
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Weaponizing e-girls: How the US military uses YouTube and TikTok to improve its image
How E-girl influencers are trying to get Gen Z into the military
But Haylujan isn’t the only E-girl using Sanrio sex appeal to lure the internet’s SIMPs into the armed forces. There’s Bailey Crespo and Kayla Salinas, not to mention countless #miltok gunfluencers cropping up online. While she didn’t document her military career, influencer Bella Poarch also served in the US Navy for four years before going viral on TikTok in 2020, and is arguably the blueprint for this kind of kawaii commodified fetishism in the military. An adjacent figure, Natalia Fadeev, also known as Gun Waifu, is an Israeli influencer and IDF soldier who uses waifu aesthetics and catgirl cosplay to pedal pro-Israel propaganda to her 756k followers. She poses to camera, ahegao-style, with freshly manicured nails wrapped neatly around a glock, the uWu-ification of military functioning as a cutesy distraction from the shadowy colonial context: “when they try and destroy your nation,” she writes in one caption.
from the we-become-what-we-fear dept
Thu, Mar 30th 2023 10:49am – Mike Masnick
Earlier this month, we wrote about Mark Warner’s RESTRICT Act, mainly in the context of how it appeared to be kneejerk legislating in response to the moral panic around TikTok.
Senator Warner’s RESTRICT Act Is Designed To Create The Great Firewall Of America
America with Chinese Characteristics?! /sarcasm
from the may-as-well-just-be-government-contractors dept
Most tech companies handling data requests from governments now publish transparency reports. As everything moves towards always-online status (including, you know, your fridge), social media platforms and other online services have become the favored targets of government data requests. It just makes sense to look there first rather than out there in the real world, where people (and their communications) are that much more difficult to locate.
US And EU Nations Request The Most User Data From Tech Companies, Obtain It More Than Two-Thirds Of The Time
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