"a military jet flew overhead, dropping an explosive that tore apart the new building and most of the people in it.
Moments after the blast, which shook buildings miles away, a helicopter gunship appeared over the building site, shooting methodically at those who remained alive. Dozens of people, many already injured, died trying to crawl to safety" #GiftArticlehttps://wapo.st/3Kr3Y1C
This article takes a "gosh there are a lot of people who are easily overstimulated" kinda tone, but I think it's a narrowing segment of humanity that can deal with everything at typical volume all the time.
"Richard Beauvais’s identity began unraveling two years ago, after one of his daughters became interested in his ancestry. She wanted to learn more about his Indigenous roots — she was even considering getting an Indigenous tattoo — and urged him to take an at-home DNA test. Mr. Beauvais, then 65, had spent a lifetime describing himself as “half French, half Indian,” or Métis, and he had grown up with his grandparents in a log house in a Métis settlement."
Prosecutor Smith asks citizens to read this in full. The misinformation machine's spinning up, but you'll be immune if you have the facts - and Smith lays them out here. It's 45 pages, double spaced, not so long!
Trump charged in probe of Jan. 6, efforts to overturn 2020 election
A grand jury indicted former president Donald Trump Tuesday for a raft of alleged crimes in his brazen efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election
The four-count, 45-page indictment accuses Trump of three distinct conspiracies, charging that he conspired to defraud the U.S., conspired to obstruct an official proceeding and conspired against people’s rights.
@JohnShirley2023@Homoevolutis0 if you edit the OP to add a hashtag #GiftArticle then this post will appear in the @researchbuzz online tool to find gift articles. Thanks for this. It won’t appear there by me adding it in my reply here. It’s important content I hope people can read.
What a great article from the NYT, this is why I have a digital subscription (Giftlink). About the Iraqi watercrisis, climate change etc. #climate#iraq#water
The main PAC funding Trump’s 2024 campaign spends the bulk of its money on legal fees, not only for Trump, also for many of his employees past and present. The entire operation is so shady. It works a lot like organized crime does, with people getting their legal bills paid to ensure loyalty to the top guy. Details reported here (gift access): https://wapo.st/452PZXO
@heidilifeldman there’s a new online tool that seeks out a #GiftArticle. Tipping this toot to @researchbuzz to find this. I’ll read it in the morning and thanks.
If you don't think Elon Musk will use his control of Starlink's space-based internet monopoly to further his right-wing, authoritarian, anti-democratic goals, you're not watching him do exactly that right now with his control of Twitter.
'Despite tough talk, Britain’s new sanctions program against #Russia ’s invasion of #Ukraine has proved shaky. Some #oligarchs have received generous exemptions. Officials have at times overreached.'
"Mr. #Fridman also received a roughly £7,000 monthly allowance to cover his family’s basic needs."
'Officials permitted Petr #Aven a monthly allowance of £60,000'
Bowe Bergdahl walked off a base in #Afghanistan in 2009 only to be held captive by the #Taliban for five years, and whose release in a prisoner swap prompted intense controversy. #GiftArticle#NoPaywall
"Florida’s decision to teach in schools that slavery in this country was of “personal benefit” to some enslaved people is obscene revisionism...
For those who doubt this obscenity is actually in the curriculum, look no further than Page 6 of Florida’s 2023 academic standards for teaching social studies: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”" #GiftArticle#GiftLink https://wapo.st/43Il7e5
"Ron #DeSantis, running for the GOP presidential nomination as an “anti-wokeness” Savonarola, who inspired this latest effort to both-sides slavery...
On Friday, DeSantis blamed the state Department of Education — “I wasn’t involved,” he claimed — but also defended the abomination: “They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life.”" #GiftArticle#GiftLink https://wapo.st/43Il7e5
"One of my great-great-grandfathers, enslaved in Charleston, S.C., was indeed compelled to learn to be a blacksmith. But he had no ability to “parlay” anything, because his time and labor were not his own. They belonged to his enslaver.
"In a year and a half of conflict, land mines — along with unexploded bombs, artillery shells... — have contaminated a swath of Ukraine roughly the size of Florida...
It has become the world’s most mined country.
...could take hundreds of years and billions of dollars to undo...
WaPo on #Prigozhin mutiny citing a bunch unnamed government / intelligence sources, claiming that it was pretty much what it seemed at the time: Despite advance warning Prigozhin was up to something, no immediate direction from the top, many lower ranks took a wait and see approach