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Tue, 22/04/2025 - 13:37

The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal interviews Muhammad Al-Bukhaiti, senior political officer and spokesman for Ansar Allah (the Houthi movement), on Yemen’s direct confrontation with a US military machine which is hellbent on destroying its ability to resist Israel. In this third conversation between The Grayzone and Bukhaiti, the Ansar Allah spokesman explains why he believes his movement’s war with the US-Israeli axis is unlike any conflict that preceded it, and why he believes Yemen is engaged in a righteous battle despite […]

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Tue, 22/04/2025 - 10:01

In late September 2024, Hurricane Helene, the deadliest to hit mainland USA since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, struck the Big Bend region of Florida. The damage inflicted by natural disasters in the US is sometimes reported in terms of ‘insured losses’, which in this case ran into the tens of billions, but the human cost […]

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Tue, 22/04/2025 - 10:00

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat.”New York Times

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I’m a Wife Guy, just like my boss, Grand Moff Tarkin. That’s why I don’t get the big deal around this so-called Signalgate 2.0. Is a man not supposed to talk to his wife about his day anymore? If you ask me, our beloved Empire is under attack—and so is the sanctity of marriage.

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Tue, 22/04/2025 - 09:15

In the DrupalCon Atlanta Driesnote and follow-up blog post, Dries laid out a bold vision:

Site Templates combine Drupal recipes, a theme, design elements, and default content to give users a fully functional website right from the start."

He also posed a big question to the community: Should we build a Marketplace for these templates—and if so, how?

In just the first couple weeks of conversation, hundreds of community members have weighed in across Slack, blog comments, and BoFs. From enthusiastic endorsements to thoughtful concerns, the input is rich, complex, and deeply-rooted in the spirit of Drupal.

This post captures what we’re hearing so far.

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Tue, 22/04/2025 - 07:26

Join us THURSDAY, April 24 at 1pm ET / 10am PT, for our call to chat about all things Drupal and nonprofits. (Convert to your local time zone.)

We don't have anything specific on the agenda this month, so we'll have plenty of time to discuss anything that's on our minds at the intersection of Drupal and nonprofits. Got something specific you want to talk about? Feel free to share ahead of time in our collaborative Google doc: https://nten.org/drupal/notes!

All nonprofit Drupal devs and users, regardless of experience level, are always welcome on this call.

This free call is sponsored by NTEN.org and open to everyone. 

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Tue, 22/04/2025 - 02:30

Let’s make one thing very clear: So far, there is almost no proof that JD Vance is directly responsible for the death of Pope Francis. All we know is that the vice president met with the pope and, a few hours later, the pope was dead. To draw a line between those two facts would almost definitely be a little bit premature.

Here’s what we do know: After their meeting ended and Vice President Vance left the room, the pope was still alive. We can deduce that he was alive, because he was heard asking an assistant, “Ho appena incontrato il volto del diavolo?” which roughly translates to, “Have I just encountered the face of the devil?” It’s a very common question that has been asked in many languages after encounters with JD Vance.

It should also be noted that there is a relatively low chance that spending just ten minutes in a room with Vice President Vance is enough to cause someone to die—out of either a feeling of deep disappointment in humanity or, as online forums describe it, “too much cringe.” This probably could not happen, and is unlikely to have happened a few dozen times already to other people who have met with Vice President Vance previously.

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Mon, 21/04/2025 - 22:46

There may come a time when we look back on the last decade as an anomaly in the modern history of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis – the figurehead of these years, and a radical by the standards of the Catholic hierarchy – is gone, and we are now likely to see a major shift […]