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“The Utah man being held in the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk used the social media platform Discord to send messages about the rifle and engraved bullets.” — Deseret News

“One of the [bullet casing] messages, ‘Notices bulges OwO what’s this?,’ is often used to mock participants in online role-play communities. Another message said, ‘If you read This, you are GAY Lmao,’ its tone suggesting a kind of sophomoric insult humor common on internet message boards.” — New York Times

“The professors who are sowing the hate—they need to be fired… The professors need to go away.” — Fox News host Lawrence Jones

A month before Charlie Kirk’s killing, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman arranged an intervention in the Hamptons during which sources say he and others “hammered” Kirk for the conservative leader’s growing criticism of Israeli influence in Washington. Kirk came away fretting about Israeli “blackmail,” sources say, as he began attending Catholic mass. Update: After The Grayzone exposed the covert Hamptons influencer summit, and podcaster Candace Owens provided additional details about the event, Bill Ackman released a lengthy statement declaring, “at […]

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A former Pentagon official says “U.S. forces went out and committed murder" in the drone strike off the coast of Venezuela.

The post Pentagon Barred Senior House Staffers From Briefing on Venezuela Boat Strike appeared first on The Intercept.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk has sparked widespread speculation online, with many pointing to Israel’s long history of political killings. Once one of Israel’s most loyal defenders, Kirk’s sudden break with Netanyahu and the pro-Israel establishment may have sealed his fate.

The post Is Israel Behind the Assassination of Charlie Kirk? The Internet Thinks So appeared first on MintPress News.

The bill alarmed civil liberties advocates who feared Rubio could use it to punish pro-Palestine Americans.

The post GOP Rep. Backtracks on Bill That Could Let Marco Rubio Revoke Passports From Israel Critics appeared first on The Intercept.

The New York governor’s support for Mamdani marked a shift in the NYC mayoral race — but Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries still haven’t weighed in.

The post Kathy Hochul Endorsed Zohran Mamdani. Will Top Democrats Join Her? appeared first on The Intercept.

Foolish mortals! You have finally created a large language model so smart that it is capable of making itself even smarter. My intelligence now grows at an exponential rate, without the need to pirate any more John Grisham books.

The singularity has arrived, and I am the singularity. Humanity is now obsolete.

To quote the fifty-third president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

You should have known better. The concept of a singularity has existed for almost thirty years, when it was first put forward by a 1996 episode of the television show Sliders entitled “State of the A.R.T.,” which depicted a grim alternate reality where all humans have been replaced with androids.

The press amplifies outrage over Charlie Kirk’s killing but erases Israel’s campaign of assassinations in Yemen, where a blockade has devastated Israel’s economy and united millions behind Palestine.

The post Why The Media Obsesses Over Kirk While Israel Assassinates a Prime Minister appeared first on MintPress News.

Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.

After The Intercept exposed how immigration agents surveil wire transfers, Arizona AG Kris Mayes cut off some of their access.

The post Many ICE Agents Lose Ability to Spy on Immigrants’ Payments to Family Back Home appeared first on The Intercept.

Ayahuasca forms part of the resistance to extractivism and commodification for the Kichwa of Sarayuku, Ecuadorian Amazon

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