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theintercept.com /2026/03/02/trump-board-peace-human-right-abuses/

2h ago

Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers

2h ago

U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 2h ago

Brilliant fucking idea 🙄

3h ago

Barron Trump barred from military service as Iran war sparks outrage

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 3h ago

diagnosed President Trump with bone spurs as a favor to his father, Fred Trump, in order to help him avoid the military draft.

So Barron might be "too tall" to serve his country...? and even if he's not I'm sure we'll find out real quick that bone spurs run in the family.

It's so insane that it has always been standard practice for wealthy and powerful men to start wars then refuse to send their own children to fight, but it's especially egregious watching the Trump administration carry this shit out. The level of planning leading up to this to create another endless war seems so obvious in hindsight.

•Hegseth's "anti-woke" military speech

•Elimination of government loans for education (even for nursing and medical school, so only the wealthy can afford an education, let alone a deferment. If you're not born rich you have 2 options: take out private loans at a huge interest rate or join the army. Sign yourself over to the oligarchs one way or the other.)

•Up the country's birth rates (gotta gradually replace them as they die by the thousands at war)

•Openly admitting your goal is to eliminate the entire department of education. Because you don't need an education when your entire path birth to death has already been laid out for you:

You're born to serve while Trump and his oligarchs sit in their country club and move you around like a piece of plastic on a game board.

Life is hard and it seems like people are constantly fighting and dying around you from the moment you're born. It's all you know. Everyone around you is sick, destitute, and miserable. There are no jobs. You have no education. You know nothing but struggle and see no future for yourself.

The army is the only hand reaching out and offering to help pull you up, so you grab it.

Then you either die thousands of miles away from your home or you come back and spend the rest of your life wounded, without a doubt mentally and pretty often physically.

If you try to speak out against it or warn others, you're accused of being "woke." There is no hesitation to show you how little your rights, that you were told you were fighting for, mean to the people who sent you to fight.

3h ago

Confirmed: Cancer Free!

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 3h ago

Glad you're better!

Since my wife had her own medical event this year involving a massive infection, spinal intrusion and below knee amputation

Omg! I'm so sorry, y'all have had such a rough start to the year. I hope she's feeling better and y'all can catch a break.

we already hit the out of pocket maximum on our insurance for the year.

My husband had a surgery at the beginning of the year a few years ago and we met our out of pocket earlier than we ever had before.

It's such a weird feeling bc it's like you know it's a broken and unnecessarily complicated and expensive system in the U.S. At the same time walking out of a doctor's office or hospital without having to pay almost feels like you finally figured out how to take advantage of some kind of crooked points system, and now you can now treat yourself to the "luxury" of healthcare that you've always paid for but avoided using.

11h ago

Top 10 Most Streamed Shows in US, 2025

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 11h ago

Celebratory melodica solo

15h ago

Florida wants its own CIA. That could lead to unchecked domestic surveillance

•HUGE C.I.A. OPERATION REPORTED IN U.S. AGAINST ANTIWAR FORCES, OTHER DISSIDENTS IN NIXON YEARS (New York Times Dec. 1974)

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 15h ago

The CIA does whatever they want, shirt brother. They always have.

•2022: How the CIA Is Acting Outside the Law to Spy on Americans

•Operation CHAOS or Operation MHCHAOS was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) domestic espionage project targeting American citizens operating from 1967 to 1974, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson and expanded under President Richard Nixon, whose mission was to uncover possible foreign influence on domestic race, anti-war, and other protest movements. The operation was launched under Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Richard Helms by chief of counter-intelligence James Jesus Angleton, and headed by Richard Ober.

•The 1975-76 Church Committee congressional hearings probed widespread intelligence abuses by the FBI, CIA, IRS and NSA. Headed by Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho) in the wake of the Watergate scandal, the committee exposed how under the guise of national security agencies spied on American citizens for political purposes during the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations.

•2014: Former Church Committee Calls for New Investigative Panel

The letter comes after revelations of sweeping domestic surveillance programs by the NSA as well as charges by Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein that the CIA is spying on and obstructing a Senate investigation into CIA torture methods.

They also seemed to realize a long time ago they could get away with even more unconstitutional shit with even less oversight by outsourcing domestic surveillance to private contractors like Wackenhut (which would eventually become current ICE contractor, GEO Group)

•Many of the Wackenhut documents and a series on student movements in California highlight the suspected connections between Communism, opposition to the Vietnam War, and the broader left counterculture of the 1960s, and document the right's evolving definition of "subversion."

•Ice contractor plans for surveillance boom under Trump migrant crackdown: Geo Group, an Ice partner, is moving at ‘unprecedented speed’ to build out its monitoring, executive chair says

•3 weeks ago: The Central Intelligence Agency said it’s overhauling how it procures technology from the private sector, as part of an effort to more quickly adopt leading-edge capabilities for use in its missions. The new acquisition framework, made public Monday, involves a centralized vendor vetting system and a streamlined IT authorization process to “significantly reduce the time between when CIA defines a mission requirement and when it receives operating authority,” the agency said in a prepared statement.

18h ago

Florida wants its own CIA. That could lead to unchecked domestic surveillance

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 18h ago

CIA-style structure at the state level that blurs the traditional line between state law enforcement and intelligence work.

Well duh, you can't have a neo-confederacy destroy the union without an army.

Who needs DHS funding when you can just shuffle things around and funnel ICE and all of their 287-g state-federal partnerships into FIA? Or any of the ::Insert your red state here:: Intelligence agencies that will be created after that?

politics @lemmy.world

www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2026/mar/01/florida-cia-intelligence-unit-surveillance-views

18h ago

Florida wants its own CIA. That could lead to unchecked domestic surveillance

18h ago

Suspect in Texas shooting wore 'Property of Allah' clothing and Iranian flag emblem, AP source says

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 18h ago

Watch this (and probably multiple suspiciously timed terror related events linked to Iran between now and November) be used as the excuse for why the midterms have to be cancelled... For our own "safety"

"We're destroying democracy to save America!" -Some authoritarian shitbag who works for either the Heritage Foundation/CIA faction of the Trump administration or the Silicon Valley/CIA faction.

19h ago

The C.I.A. Helped Pinpoint a Gathering of Iranian Leaders. Then Israel Struck.

NYT (2010): Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 19h ago

Why not just be upfront about it then? Why did they try to hide the details for decades?

The 600-page report, which the Justice Department has tried to keep secret for four years, provides new evidence about more than two dozen of the most notorious Nazi cases of the last three decades.

Perhaps the report’s most damning disclosures come in assessing the Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement with Nazi émigrés. Scholars and previous government reports had acknowledged the C.I.A.’s use of Nazis for postwar intelligence purposes. But this report goes further in documenting the level of American complicity and deception in such operations.

They kept it hidden because they knew even then that controlling public opinion depends on controlling the narrative and the information the public receives or doesn't receive, hence reality based communities.

The history we're told about the collapse of the Soviet Union, and creation of modern Russia's own Oligarchy/managed "democracy," also seems to follow a similar narrative control pattern, and never acknowledges the fact that key members of the Heritage Foundation (the organization behind Project 2025), who openly opposed democracy, were in the Soviet Union just before the collapse, coaching Soviet politicians and holding mock elections to help spread "democratic values."

•"You capture the Soviet Union --I'm going to capture the states."-Thomas Roe, Heritage Foundation board member and founder of the State Policy Network to fellow Heritage Foundation board member Robert Krieble.

•In 1989, the Krieble Institute was created "to promote democracy and economic freedom in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe."

•1989: A Republican in Moscow (WaPo article about Paul Weyrich holding mock elections)

•"I don't want everyone to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."- Paul Weyrich (1980), creator of the Heritage Foundation.

•1991: RUSSIA HOUSE, TRADING IN ITS NAME WaPo Article about the first ever go between for U.S. and Russian businesses involving Weyrich and Krieble

•PBS Documentary about Weyrich and Krieble involvement in Collapse of USSR Playing For Power (2012)

But again, it's just one of those things that nobody talks about or acknowledges for some reason, even as we're watching the Heritage Foundation sitting in the White House, privatizing the U.S. government, and destroying any remaining scraps of democracy left in America.

Trump's current CIA director coincidentally also has strong ties to Heritage.

•2024: Heritage Applauds John Ratcliffe as CIA Chief in President-elect Donald Trump’s Administration

Maybe in another 30+ years, we can start to open up the dialogue on the stuff we still don't acknowledge today?

23h ago

The C.I.A. Helped Pinpoint a Gathering of Iranian Leaders. Then Israel Struck.

•Operation Paperclip (1945-1959): Although he officially sanctioned the operation, President Harry Truman forbade the agency from recruiting any Nazi members or active Nazi supporters. Nevertheless, officials within the JIOA and Office of Strategic Services (OSS)—the forerunner to the CIA—bypassed this directive by eliminating or whitewashing incriminating evidence of possible war crimes from the scientists’ records, believing their intelligence to be crucial to the country’s postwar efforts.

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 23h ago

Also when people throw that "we need to support our country and support Israel" in your face, (as if opposing authoritarian governments means you also oppose all Israelis and Americans, including those opposed to their own authoritarian governments), consider reminding them of the reality behind the U.S. government's support of Israel:

U.S. staunch support of Israel can indeed be traced back to the late 1940s following WWII. However, not because the U.S. government were made up of the all American heros who wanted the world to know they stood in solidarity with Jewish people following the Holocaust (to be clear this is what I was always taught and believed was true until a few months ago).

It was because they needed an established ally in the middle east to help them control oil reserves, and to oppose socialism in Palestine they worried would lead to alignment between Israel, Palestine, and the Soviets as well as the Soviets gaining strength via control of those oil reserves.

Not to mention, the decision to "support" Israel following WWII, occured while members of the U.S. government were also secretly carrying out Operation Paperclip, and helping Nazi war criminals escape justice! Because once again, the truth has always been that the main concern of those in control of U.S. foreign policy following WWII, was to ensure the Soviets did not gain an advantage over the U.S. as a superpower. In the case of Operation Paperclip, the U.S. was concerned the Soviets would use information held by Nazi war criminals to advance the science and technology of their own governments.

And to further emphasize why it's always been such a bullshit bad faith argument to claim opposition to the anti-democratic fascist authoritarians who hide their crimes behind government power and claims of nationalism/patriotism, automatically means you also oppose the countries they use as shields to carry out this bullshit, guess what government agency just so happened to carry out Operation Paperclip?

The forerunner to the CIA, because of course they fucking did:

•President Joe Biden’s promise for the US to “stand with Israel” continues a special relationship that dates back to 1948, when President Harry Truman became the first world leader to recognize the Jewish state, moments after its creation.

•Oil drives our Israel policy: New government documents reveal a very different history of America and the Middle East

1948: when the struggle over Palestine was at its height. In the immediate postwar years, the United States defined its policy in the Near and Middle East in terms of assuring unimpeded access and control by U.S. oil companies of its great material prize, petroleum. Congressional hearings on the role of petroleum and the national defense envisioned petroleum as a weapon of war. It followed that ensuring the presence and stability of compatible regimes was an essential dimension of policy, as was containing and crushing those whose nationalist and reformist orientation rendered them suspect.

Honestly let all of that that sink in. Truman, the POTUS in 1948, the man who held the highest (elected) office in the country, didn't even know the extent of what the OSS/CIA was doing when Operation Paperclip began. Since the very beginning, unelected individuals within U.S. intelligence agencies, have been completely unaccountable and answered to nobody.

They did it in Vietnam, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and they're doing it again now in Iran (while also once again being buddy buddy with Saudi Arabia on the DL ... I fucking wonder why 🤔)

They do whatever the fuck they want, all in the name of "spreading democracy and protecting national security." And if you have a problem with it, then somehow you're being unpatriotic and unAmerican. "You're either with us or against us" is the most anti-democratic bullshit propaganda, and it's exactly what has enabled these people to hold an inverted totalitarian grip on power since WWII. Now they're nakedly helping the Trump administration destroy any remaining scraps of democracy at home, while continuing to cling to their interventionist bullshit lies in their never ending quest to protect corporate interests, gain profits, and control the majority of resources and territory around globe.

•Over the past several years, significant debate has emerged regarding the role that the private sector plays in national security operations. Since 9/11, the Intelligence Community has relied heavily on private contractors for many different types of support. Given the historic and growing ties between the Intelligence Community and private corporations, the 111th Congress will likely need to assess the overall value of this relationship. This memo provides members of Congress and their staffs with an overview of the role of private corporations working with and within the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC).

23h ago

The C.I.A. Helped Pinpoint a Gathering of Iranian Leaders. Then Israel Struck.

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 23h ago

Omg the CIA was behind this 😱

So totally shocking and in no way expected /s

The United States and Israeli governments, which had originally planned to launch a strike at night under the cover of darkness, made the decision to adjust the timing to take advantage of the information about the gathering at the government compound in Tehran on Saturday morning.

So, what you're saying, is that if these blood thirsty assholes hadn't been so fucking intent on overthrowing a regime and installing their own regime, (for the sake of "democracy" of course, and with the people of Iran's safety and well-being first and foremost in their minds), they would have stuck with the original plan of just striking at night.

Which also means they probably wouldn't have also killed all those girls who were in the school they also bombed.

Because nothing screams "We're the good guys who ❤️ democracy!" Like murdering young girls attempting to get an education even while living under a regime that is allegedly so unbelievably evil and repressive, it left you with absolutely no other fucking choice but to strike ASAP in the middle of ongoing "peace" talks 🇺🇸🕊️✌️...

I guess more accurately:🇺🇸🦅💣🖕 World War III, brought to you by Carl's JR.

politics @lemmy.world

www.nytimes.com /2026/03/01/us/politics/cia-israel-ayatollah-compound.html

23h ago

The C.I.A. Helped Pinpoint a Gathering of Iranian Leaders. Then Israel Struck.

1d ago

BREAKING NEWS - Israeli media reports Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leader of Iran, was killed inside his bunker

Who is Reza Pahlavi? A royal in exile, Iran's youngest pilot, and a potential successor after Khamenei's death

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 1d ago

And of course the Trump administration/CIA already has his replacement lined up, and ready to install just like they did in Venezuela.

A good outcome would be if we could just get rid of all authoritarians instead of being offered this fucked up scale of "how evil is your authoritarian leader," based on raw number of protestors murdered, unfair elections, and unjustified detentions (so far).

Instead, we're supposed to be dumb enough to believe rank on this fucked up scale "justifies" another authoritarian overthrowing a regime with zero notice to their own government and completely ignoring rules of procedure, in the name of "freedom and democracy." Oh, and they do it in the same week we found out they're putting together an executive order to cancel our upcoming elections that could possibly take down their regime...

It's like having two families, each with their own mentally unstable and abusive parent, (plus your parent's dickhead boyfriend and all of his kids he's doing a shitty job of parenting). Your shitty parent gets in a fight with another shitty parent over who is the worse parent. Then your parent and their dickhead boyfriend, murder the other parent in front of you and all the other kids. Clearly, they have absolutely no intention of doing anything to actually help the kids of the parent they just murdered, and are planning to loot their pockets after murdering them.

But for some reason, we (as in all the kids that just witnessed exactly what happen) shouldn't worry about what comes next, because our "rockstar" parent has already arranged for "some guy" to take the kids in the other family, whether they like it or not. You know, because "democracy."

We're supposed to pretend from this day forward, that our collective memory of watching our insane narcissistic parent murdering somebody with their shady boyfriend Israel, after months of hearing them threaten to do it, is that our parent was the good guy who just did what needed to be done.

Because if we don't pretend they're a fucking hero, our insane authoritarian parent will give us something to cry about.

1d ago

Iron Age Surgeons Fixed a Woman's Shattered Jaw With Primitive Prosthetic—and She Survived

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 1d ago

The prosthetic allowed her jaw to move again, but probably with a lot of pain, the researchers noted. Needless to say, that likely curtailed the woman’s contributions to her community, which arguably made her a burden in the already harsh conditions the Pazyryk had to weather. Yet, the archaeological record clearly demonstrates she was properly treated and later buried in a proper coffin of wood—a valuable resource for the region.

“We don’t know what her personal value to society consisted of,” Polosmak mused. “In this society, everyone was valued in life simply for their existence and honored after death."

Hard to imagine a society where life was so respected, all available resources were generously provided in an attempt to restore somebody's health, regardless of what they could do in return for those resources. Must have been nice.

2d ago

Footage Contradicts DHS Claim That It Dropped Blind Rohingya Refugee at 'Safe Location' in Buffalo

•Since 1975, nearly $80 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 2d ago

I've spent a lot of time researching and asking that same question, and I feel like I've got a pretty good idea of the answer: Corporate propaganda created in direct response to the civil rights movement which portrayed corporations as the victims of democracy, in order to frame their future attacks on democracy as defensive and justified actions.

SCOTUS deciding faceless and unaccountable corporations were people via Citizens United then helped turbo charge that shit into the dystopia we see before us today.

•Perhaps the most important influence on the Koch brothers and their political activities has been a confidential memorandum submitted to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by Lewis F. Powell Jr. in 1971, before he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972. Titled “Attack on American Free Enterprise System,” the memo presents the argument that a minority of college and university liberal faculty members and students, among others in society, were undermining the system of free enterprise. Supporters of free enterprise, Powell argued, must organize themselves to counter the influence of left-wing and liberal faculty members and students.

•The Heritage Foundation is a right-of-center policy think tank founded in 1973 that researches and recommends policies such as free markets, limited government, a strong national defense, and courts that adhere to the original meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The idea conceived in 1971 was presented to Coors Brewing Company president and right-of-center donor Joseph Coors in 1972, and Coors wrote out a $250,000 donation as the seed money for what became the Heritage Foundation (nearly $1.6 million in 2021 dollars). Feulner later said, “There wouldn’t be a Heritage Foundation without Joe Coors.”

While Feulner was focused on economic conservativism, the co-creator of Heritage, (Paul Weyrich, architect of the new right who coined the term "Moral Majority"), was obsessed with social conservativism. Weyrich used a similar strategy to create the social movement that convinces poor people vote against their own interests, and hand control to corporations and elite pedophiles with the promise of an eventual return of American society to a utopia that never actually existed:

•The radical aims of the New Christian Right have been obscured by the way they cultivated a shared identity of victimhood and manipulated the discourse about backlash to create a nostalgic idea of the past that they then leveraged to justify their right-wing policy goals. The Catholic-Protestant alliance constructed an imagined past that they projected into the future as their ideal vision of society. Ebin calls this strategy “prefigurative traditionalism”—a paradoxical prefiguring of a manufactured past. Using this tactic, the New Christian Right coalition disguised the radicality of its politics by framing their aims as reactionary and defensive rather than proactive and offensive.

Even before the civil rights movement, it's important to remember that democracy in America has been under constant attack by Oligarchs since the very beginning.

•America's Unending Struggle Between Oligarchy and Democracy: This is the argument presented in Heather Cox Richardson’s new book, How the South Won the Civil War. Throughout American history, she contends, the forces of oligarchy and democracy have been involved in a mortal struggle for the nation’s future, and she wants to show how the visions of oligarchy have often won out—how, in other words, we got from the era of emancipation and Confederate defeat to the presidency of Donald Trump.

Those who have always relied on propaganda to distract from their own injustices by placing the blame for the problems they create, on people attempting to disturb what they view as a "natural order" that places them at the top of a heirarchy, resting on the shoulders of everyone else (mudsill theory).

•Mudsill theory is the proposition that there must be, and always has been, a lower class or underclass for the upper classes and the rest of society to rest upon. The term derives from a mudsill, the lowest threshold that supports the foundation for a building. Mudsill theory and similar rhetoric has been dubbed "the Marxism of the Master-Class" which fought for the rights of the propertied elite against what were perceived as threats from the abolitionists, lower classes and non-whites to gain higher standards of living.

When conservatives argue that the Constitution should be interpreted by its "original meaning," they are referring to an interpretation that favors this "natural heirarchy."

•Peter Thiel has been equally explicit. In a now-infamous 2009 essay for the Cato Institute, he declared that “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” But he’d made the point in far greater detail in an earlier essay on Strauss, in which he argued that elites must use “esoteric” doublespeak to hide their true intentions from the masses who wouldn’t and shouldn’t understand the plans their natural-born leaders were making for them.

www.commondreams.org /news/buffalo-border-patrol

2d ago

Footage Contradicts DHS Claim That It Dropped Blind Rohingya Refugee at 'Safe Location' in Buffalo

www.thedailybeast.com /president-donald-trump-admits-americans-will-likely-die-in-new-war-nobody-wants/

2d ago

Trump Admits Americans Will Likely Die in New War Nobody Wants

2d ago

US, Israel launch attack on Iran, explosions across Tehran

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 2d ago

Two old narcissistic bastards who will destroy the world in a desperate attempt to cling to power and avoid accountability for all their other crimes .

prospect.org /2026/02/26/newspapers-did-not-kill-themselves-jeffrey-epstein-mort-zuckerman-daily-news/

3d ago

Newspapers Did Not Kill Themselves - The American Prospect

3d ago

Apologies if I'm making an incorrect judgement, but does anybody else get dystopian propaganda vibes from the Working with Cancer Pledge?

Ad giant Publicis Health agrees to $350M settlement over claims it helped fuel opioid crisis

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 3d ago

I'm definitely not arguing that workplaces shouldn't be more understanding of chronic conditions. Legal protections exist for people with disabilities and chronic conditions for a reason, but even with these protections we should be doing more to legally protect people and their jobs.

However, getting people to sign this pledge doesn't seem to really accomplish anything other than serve as an advertising campaign for this movement and help spread misleading propaganda that working after being diagnosed with cancer is in the best interest of the individual battling cancer.

In reality, people battling cancer or any chronic illness seem to have better outcomes if they continue to have a sense of purpose during treatment, but a sense of purpose is not inherently tied to working or employment.

Given that this is an advertisement company with a documented history of peddling harmful corporate propaganda (fueling the opioid crisis, whitewashing detention centers for children) as well as a reputation for mistreating their own employees, this really comes off as typical (for them) predatory corporate propaganda aimed at normalizing people being pushed to continue working until their bodies physically can't keep going, and claiming that doing so is actually beneficial to their recovery.

Almost like they saw opportunity in the crisis of rising cancer rates, increased public policy aimed at government deregulation, and workplace protections being stripped away from many individuals? Which given their history, doesn't really seem implausible.

Interesting but definitely not unrelated sidenote: States like W.V. and KY were hit especially hard by the opioid epidemic much earlier than the rest of the U.S. because pharmaceutical companies targeted coal mining areas with similar propaganda, and this is the company that helped them do it. They knew people there commonly suffered debilitating back injuries while working in the mines, and peddled prescription opiates as a solution that would allow people to continue working pain free even after being injured.

"For a decade, Publicis helped opioid manufacturers like Purdue Pharma convince doctors to overprescribe opioids, directly fueling the opioid crisis and causing the devastation of communities nationwide," said New York Attorney General Letitia James. "No amount of money can compensate for lives lost and addiction suffered, but with this agreement, Publicis will cease their illegal behavior and pay $350 million to help our communities rebuild."

Opioids and Appalachia

When Purdue Pharma began marketing OxyContin to physicians in 1996, Appalachia was among the first regions that the company’s drug representatives visited — in part because its physicians tended to be frequent, high-volume prescribers of opioids. On any given day, Purdue had eight to 10 OxyContin sales representatives working in West Virginia. They “descended like locusts,” said one journalist, exceeding the deployment in similarly sized markets.

3d ago

Trump advisers ‘would prefer if Israel bombs Iran first as the politics are better’

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 3d ago

Probably the first time Trump has ever said "You go first, I insist." in his entire life.

Music @lemmy.world

3d ago

Sheer Mag - Expect The Bayonet

3d ago

What’s a conspiracy theory you no longer call a theory?

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 3d ago

????

Not sure what you mean by crude? The first season is narrated by a soft spoken broadcast journalist, and the second is narrated by his wife who is the investigator of the cases.

The entire podcast is just interviews with various witnesses and survivors. It's sometimes disturbing because these are disturbing cases, but I'm not sure what could be considered crude about it?

4d ago

Nearly blind refugee found dead in New York days after immigration agents dropped him at a coffee shop alone, officials say | CNN