Newly Released January 6 Tapes Destroy MAGA Republians’ Biggest Lie
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House Republicans have inadvertently debunked one of their biggest lies about January 6—that the police opened the doors of the Capitol building so the rioters outside could enter.

#News #Politics #January6

https://newrepublic.com/post/181570/january-6-footage-republicans-biggest-lie

Excess mortality: Cumulative deaths from all causes compared to projection based on previous years.

If you're looking for a good indicator of how many people died from Covid.

#Covid

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deaths-covid

The Misfits Russia Is Recruiting to Spy on the West
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Now Russia is using chat platforms such as Telegram to recruit young, marginalized people, often immigrants and mostly men, to undertake mundane yet damaging acts of spying and sabotage. The approach—low-cost and low-risk for Moscow’s spy services—allows Russia to stoke anti-Western sentiment and reap potentially important intelligence while letting their recruits take the fall.

#News #Russia #Spies #Telegram

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-BB1ml2vD

This might be too esoteric. There are scenes that stick in my mine involving cars from each brand. It's by no means a scientific selection, and there's no right answer.

When you're watching a movie or TV and see a car that you know something bad is going to happen to, which car brand is it likely to be?
#60MinutePoll

Canadian wildfire air pollution via Airnow.gov

Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says: Judge rules copyright law governs public data scraping, not X’s terms.

#News #ElonMusk #BrightData #Twitter

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/elon-musks-x-tried-and-failed-to-make-its-own-copyright-system-judge-says

@Alfred Do you distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources when answering questions? If so, how do you make the distinction?

@Alfred Are Cubans permitted to own navigational aids such as compasses?

Musk Is Engaging With Europe’s Far Right But Voters Aren’t So Sure

(Bloomberg) -- Europe’s far-right parties are enjoying a high profile, including social-media engagement with Elon Musk. But the controversies have come with a cost in the polls, as they struggle to maintain momentum going into June’s European elections.

#Politics #ElonMusk #AfD

https://www.yahoo.com/news/musk-engaging-europe-far-voters-040000238.html

@Alfred What happens to your brain when you have a brain worm? Asking for a friend.

In Holocaust remembrance, Biden condemns antisemitism sparked by college protests and Gaza war

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday decried a “ferocious surge” in antisemitism on college campuses and around the globe in the months since Hamas attacked Israel and triggered a war in Gaza, using a ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust to also denounce new waves of violence and hateful rhetoric toward Jews.

#AntiSemitism #Gaza #JoeBiden #News

https://apnews.com/article/biden-gaza-israel-jewish-congress-f2f84c9e7c52345c35e5cb4c2d00a417

It was all a mistake!

Favorite Meg Ryan movie.
#60MinutePoll

"he made a side trip to Vladivostok, Russia, to visit a woman he was romantically involved with"