[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago

There are a few obvious ones around but it's against the rules to even suggest that they could be shills or bots. Hopefully this news will get the mods to start taking action against the most blatant ones.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 57 points 11 hours ago

The Russian funds paid for videos by popular far-right personalities, including podcaster Tim Pool and Lauren Southern. Pool has since described himself as a “victim” in the Tenet scandal.

How horrible for those poor, alt-right wing influencers. Imagine finding out that Putin has been paying you all along when you thought you were spewing Russia's talking points for American scum bags.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

The sheriff said a 16-year-old boy, for whom Friday was his first day at Joppatowne High School, shot a 15-year-old classmate in a bathroom. Gahler said it's believed the victim was struck by a single gunshot.

A student at a high school shoots another student in the school and that's not a school shooting to you?

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Oh absolutely, it is security theater. I did not mean to suggest that turning schools into fortresses was a valid solution, it's just the only solution being offered up by people like Vance.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

It's only a fact of life if people like Vance let it be. There is more than can be done besides turning schools into fortresses and thoughts and prayers.

Oh look... another school shooting today.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

He better be careful. There may be a crusty old mop sitting in a closet with his DNA on it still.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

As it happens, the individual who was assaulted chose not to press charges because they were afraid of retaliation from Trump's cultists.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

this only applies to brown children

No. It applies to poor children. While it's true that poor children are more likely to be Brown, but it's really the poor that's the factor in this case.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Scary to think that it could be Nazis all the way down.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

"Maybe Grandma and Grandma still work," said author Jacie Floyd on the social media platform X. "Maybe Grandma and Grandpa have health issues. Maybe Grandma and Grandpa live 1,000 miles away. Maybe Grandma and Grandpa don't want to. The [Republican Party] shouldn’t be planning Grandma and Grandpa's retirement for them."

Actually, the Republican party are actively trying to keep Grandma and Grandpa from retiring by pushing the retirement age up towards the average American life expectancy while Republican health care policies are pushing that average further and further down. Sorry, JD, Grandma and Grandpa are being worked to death and can't really help out.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

JD Vance's solution to school shootings? They're just a fact of life. Harden your schools and add armed guards and sniper nests.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm afraid not. The Trump supporters are so convinced that the democrats are cheating that they see conspiracies every where they look. Last time, partizan observers saw wheeled ballot containers under a table and reported it as suitcases of ballots being illegally counted. Surveillance footage showed nothing untoward actually happened, but the claims went viral among trump supporters who needed no more evidence than the initial claims.

Sending in hordes of ill-informed, poorly trained observers who will jump at shadows is a recipe for chaos. They will claim that every ballot counter who so much as scratches their nose is somehow trying to steal the election from Trump, again without any evidence at all. In fact, these people are the worst choice for observers because, as highly religious people, they are inclined to trust their beliefs rather than observable facts.

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Alternative headline: Trump finally tells the truth about something.

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Republicans, in one of the more moronic takes of the election season, say that if Biden is too old to run for office, then he's too old to hold the office and should resign.

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Fulton County prosecutors filed an emergency request for a protective order in the Georgia election subversion case on Tuesday after recorded statements made by multiple defendants as part of their plea deals were made public.

On Monday, ABC News and The Washington Post published footage of the proffer sessions, which showed the four defendants who pleaded guilty being questioned by prosecutors about their involvement in various efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

Prosecutors said the footage was turned over to the remaining defendants as part of discovery, urging the court to impose restrictions on how the defendants can disclose the materials.

“The release of these confidential video recordings is clearly intended to intimidate witnesses in this case, subjecting them to harassment and threats prior to trial, constitutes indirect communication about the facts of this case with codefendants and witnesses, and obstructs the administration of justice, in violation of the conditions of release imposed on each defendant,” prosecutors wrote in their motion.

To prevent further disclosure, prosecutors said they will not provide videos of any proffer sessions to defendants moving forward.

“Instead, defendants must come to the District Attorney’s Office to view confidential video recordings of proffers. They may take notes, but they will be prohibited from creating any recordings or reproductions,” prosecutors wrote in the filing.

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Last weekend, an auction held at his Florida home saw the item, described as "a one of a kind Trump Glock from the 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump," go up for bidding during a charity event. Pictures circulating on social media show the gun being presented at the auction, with news website Meidas Touch saying that bidding for the item began at $10,000.

However, the transaction could land the former U.S. president in considerable trouble, given that federal law prohibits those under indictment from transacting firearms. Trump is embroiled in active legal proceedings, having testified at a civil trial over the New York investigation into financial fraud at the Trump Organization. The former president has denied all wrongdoing and repeatedly said that the ongoing federal and civil cases against him are part of a political witch hunt.

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