U.S. Army soldier Ethan Melzer has been charged with terrorism offenses after allegedly sending information on his unit to the neo-Nazi group O9A in the hopes of facilitating a "mass casualty" attack on his fellow soldiers, the Justice Department announced Monday.

https://www.axios.com/white-supremacist-terror-attack-army-715ce949-e183-4109-a1e6-e3e89b05c41b.html

Evan Siegfried
@evansiegfried

HAHAHAAHA!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/vindman-impeachment-testimony-sends-emotional-message-father-2019-11%3famp
Lt Col Alexander Vindman sent an emotional message to his Dad before testifying. Now both he and his twin brother are being punished for telling the truth. The damage in trust that this administration has done to our country can not be measured.
Business Insider Nov. 2019

#SocialJustice

This is worth two minutes and twenty seconds of your time.

https://twitter.com/ShannonSharpe/status/1274450979685978114?s=20

"Australian researchers have assessed free online symptom checkers, finding that they produce an accurate diagnosis around a third of the time and struggle with uncommon conditions."
Unsurprised. For two serious situations years ago (a kidney stone; internal bleeding) WebMD gave utterly useless advice.
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2020/05/dr-google-symptom-checkers-wrong-most-of-the-time-study-finds/

"Can you trust what you read on Facebook? No. And why not? Because Facebook has now explicitly said that it will obey an executive order from President Trump and will refuse to fact-check misinformation and disinformation as American heads into the 2020 election."

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3562477/facebook-now-says-it-wont-even-try-to-block-2020-election-disinformation.html#jump

LA coroner walks back suicide ruling in hanging death of Robert Fuller amid backlash http://hill.cm/JufP6O1

Back in the Senate, Sanders weighs how to wield his outside-Washington power

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/back-in-the-senate-sanders-weighs-how-to-wield-his-outside-washington-power/2020/06/12/07312afc-acda-11ea-94d2-d7bc43b26bf9_story.html

Octopastry note: Well, in all these years he's only done one thing I've noticed: never voted for sanctioning Russia for a damn thing.

Christian music artist Natalie Grant says that she and her husband lost followers after calling out racism in the midst of the George Floyd protests. Why are white Evangelicals so angry by Christians acting Christ-like?

Because they aren't actually Christians?

https://christianpost.com/news/natalie-grant-says-she-and-husband-lost-thousands-of-followers-after-speaking-out-against-racism.html

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/federal-judge-after-reading-the-unredacted-mueller-report-orders-doj-to-explain-itself-at-hearing/amp/
The Judge has finally read the unredacted Mueller report and now he wants the DOJ to explain itself
Law and Crime

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/president-trump-tried-to-register-to-vote-in-florida-using-an-out-of-state-address/2020/06/03/687d0014-a4f2-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/03/americas-neck-is-broken-we-can-survive-we-have-act/