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Last week, the previously unknown individual behind a popular neo-Nazi web comic known as Stonetoss was identified on Twitter/X by antifascist researchers from the Anonymous Comrades Collective. This was followed by a concentrated campaign by Twitter/X...
by VPSReports
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 04:15 AM PDT
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Today is World Press Freedom Day as designated by the United Nations. A major global conference was held at the UN in New York to commemorate the 30th anniversary of this declaration, and a separate event was organized by The Washington Post in...
by Mark Taylor Canfield
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on Wed May 03, 2023 at 02:20 PM PDT
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From The NY Times: Airman Shared Sensitive Intelligence More Widely and for Longer Than Previously Known A Discord user matching the profile of Jack Teixeira distributed intelligence to a larger chat group, days after the beginning of the Ukraine war....
by xaxnar
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on Fri Apr 21, 2023 at 09:11 PM PDT
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On Thursday, 21-year-old Jack Teixeira of suburban North Dighton, Massachusetts, was arrested by the FBI in connection with a number of classified documents posted to an online forum. On Friday, Teixeira, who is currently an Airman 1st Class in the...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Apr 14, 2023 at 12:33 PM PDT
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The FBI wants to question a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard in connection with the disclosure of classified military documents, two people familiar with the matter said Thursday. The two people who discussed the development...
by Associated Press
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on Thu Apr 13, 2023 at 10:06 AM PDT
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UPDATE 2:12pm The NY Times reports the house of the suspect is being searched, and the Pentagon is doing a live briefing. Pinned Updated April 13, 2023, 2:11 p.m. ET3 minutes ago 3 minutes ago Aric Toler, Michael Schwirtz, Haley Willis, Riley Mellen,...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Apr 13, 2023 at 09:22 AM PDT
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As part of the recent leak of purported US secrets regarding Ukraine, one of the tidbits was that the US was “spying” on Ukraine. Spying has many forms and many information targets, not all of which are negative to the country being spied upon. In the...
by Peter Olandt
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on Sun Apr 09, 2023 at 05:12 AM PDT
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SEE UPDATES BELOW The Pentagon and the Biden administration is trying to get a handle on some critical documents that have been leaked to social media. I posted about the original story from The NY Times report which dealt with the discovery that...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Apr 08, 2023 at 09:03 AM PDT
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From The NY Times:
Ukraine War Plans Leak Prompts Pentagon Investigation
Classified documents detailing secret American and NATO plans have appeared on Twitter and Telegram.
WASHINGTON — ...
by xaxnar
141 comments
on Thu Apr 06, 2023 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Stung by criticism of its internal investigation of who leaked the Dobbs decision overruling Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court has retained former football star OJ Simpson to conduct an outside investigation. The criticism has centered on why the...
by Bethesda 1971
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on Sat Jan 21, 2023 at 08:30 AM PST
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From violent protests to attacking reproductive health facilities, anti-abortion activists across the country are trying all they can to infringe on people’s rights. But banning abortion is not going to be where they stop. Several doctors have...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed Nov 16, 2022 at 10:24 AM PST
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The civil war within the Republican Party continues. In fact, it is heating up as the midterm elections offer up the possibility of the GOP retaking control of at least the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate. This means the many...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Oct 24, 2022 at 11:17 AM PDT
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This article was originally published at Prism Though the U.S. Senate failed to codify abortion rights into federal law last Wednesday, states have already been taking a stand on the issue. When Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion was leaked on May...
by Alexandra Martinez
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on Mon May 16, 2022 at 08:15 AM PDT
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Psaki slams weak reporter question: 'This is not about the leak. This is about women's health care!' If you hadn’t heard, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is stepping down from her duties today after a solid year and a half of service. Replacing her will be current Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Psaki and Jean-Pierre...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri May 06, 2022 at 11:34 AM PDT
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The leaking of Injustice Alito's draft of the majority opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Women's Health Org. has Chief Injustice John [Taney] Roberts scouring the halls of justice for damp spots that might reveal who wet the judicial loincloth. While...
by Steve McKeand
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on Fri May 06, 2022 at 07:44 AM PDT
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Instead of addressing that the U.S. Supreme Court is contemplating a reversal on Roe v. Wade, despite the fact that 69% of Americans are in favor of it, Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield went on a farcical rant Tuesday about who he believes is behind the...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Wed May 04, 2022 at 11:48 AM PDT
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Again, let's be crystal clear here. Compared to the content of the opinion, who gave us the information is merely at worst a passing curiosity. This overturned a ruling relied upon and confirmed for nearly fifty years. Furthermore, the radical nature...
by Dem
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on Wed May 04, 2022 at 09:57 AM PDT
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No. No. We don’t need infrastructure bills in America . We are fine according to republicans. Well, that state of mind is being changed I bet as I type. (or maybe not according to Republican thinking) Manatee County Florida is under mandatory...
by Vetwife
256 comments
on Sat Apr 03, 2021 at 12:30 PM PDT
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A massive data leak obtained by Channel 4 news (a British network, now famous for its investigative work on the Cambridge Analytica story) claims that Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign identified over 3 million Black American voters as people they...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Sep 28, 2020 at 02:11 PM PDT
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Well, that didn’t take long.
People, especially elite professionals, the best in the world, apparently do not appreciate political lackeys dismissing all their work with a wave of the hand.
According to the NYTimes:
Some of Robert S. Mueller...
by 4CasandChlo
261 comments
on Wed Apr 03, 2019 at 05:02 PM PDT
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