Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 19 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards in a video posted to social media Thursday evening.
Hegseth’s predecessor, Lloyd Austin, ordered the review of the awards in 2024 after a congressional recommendation in the 2022 defense bill — itself a reflection of efforts by some lawmakers to rescind the awards for those who participated in the bloody massacre on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near Wounded Knee Creek.
While the events of that day are sometimes described as a battle, historical records show that the U.S. Army, which was in the midst of a campaign to repress the tribes in the area, killed an estimated 250 Native Americans, including women and children, of the Lakota Sioux tribe, while attempting to disarm Native American fighters who had already surrendered at their camp.
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How Western Europe invented the ‘Russian threat’ – and clung to it for 500 years
How Western Europe invented the ‘Russian threat’ – and clung to it for 500 years
The myth of the bogeyman from Moscow was born of cowardice and kept alive by greedRT
Hegseth’s “Urgent” Military Meeting Is for Dumbest Reason Imaginable
"Pete #Hegseth’s big, urgent military summit will just be a “pep rally” for what he calls the “warrior ethos.” "
Hegseth’s “Urgent” Military Meeting Is for Dumbest Reason Imaginable
The defense secretary is putting the entire U.S. military at risk to hear himself speak.The New Republic
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Bug? URL rewrite after publishing breaks link
I'm trying to link to a YouTube channel and after submitting it, there's some rewrite automation that breaks the link. I've tried by app and browser, and it happens on both. Editing the post doesn't fix it either.
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Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes
Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes
It’s becoming somewhat of a running gag that any device or object will be made ‘smart’ these days, whether it’s a phone, TV, refrigerator, home thermostat, headphones or gla…Hackaday
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Local TV Giant Sinclair Ends Jimmy Kimmel Boycott - The New York Times
Local TV Giant Sinclair Ends Jimmy Kimmel Boycott
The company is one of two that has been pre-empting Mr. Kimmel’s show since he returned this week.Benjamin Mullin (The New York Times)
Democrats release tranche of Jeffrey Epstein records, including diaries and flight logs
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a tranche of partial records from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, which include flight logs, diary appointments and a financial ledger.
In the partially redacted documents, there are several emailed schedules over the years, which include:
- A 2019 breakfast with former White House adviser Steve Bannon.
- Lunch in 2017 with billionaire and Trump ally Peter Thiel.
- A potential visit from Elon Musk to Epstein’s island in 2014.
There is also a flight log from 2000, which lists Prince Andrew as a passenger on Epstein’s private plane.
Democrats release tranche of Jeffrey Epstein records, including diaries and flight logs – US politics live
Partially redacted documents mention Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Prince AndrewShrai Popat (The Guardian)
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Democrats release tranche of Jeffrey Epstein records, including diaries and flight logs
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a tranche of partial records from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, which include flight logs, diary appointments and a financial ledger.
In the partially redacted documents, there are several emailed schedules over the years, which include:
- A 2019 breakfast with former White House adviser Steve Bannon.
- Lunch in 2017 with billionaire and Trump ally Peter Thiel.
- A potential visit from Elon Musk to Epstein’s island in 2014.
There is also a flight log from 2000, which lists Prince Andrew as a passenger on Epstein’s private plane.
Democrats release tranche of Jeffrey Epstein records, including diaries and flight logs – US politics live
Partially redacted documents mention Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Prince AndrewShrai Popat (The Guardian)
Amazon's Vega OS coming to Fire TVs this year - what it means for your devices
Amazon's Vega OS coming to Fire TVs this year - what it means for your devices
Years in the making, the proprietary Linux OS that replaces Android-based FireOS is expected to be announced at next week's event. Here's everything we know so far.Maria Diaz (ZDNET)
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Oversight Democrats Release Third Batch of Documents from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Includes Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew Mentions
Oversight Democrats Release Third Batch of Documents from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Includes Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew Mentions
Washington, D.C. — Today, Democrats on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released partial records from the third batch of documents produced by the Jeffrey Epstein Estate, which includes phone message logs, copies of flight logs and ma…The Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democrats
Ohio Republicans have endorsed a bill to designate October 14 as “Charlie Kirk Memorial Day”
Republican lawmakers move quickly with proposed measures to honor Charlie Kirk in Ohio
Less than two weeks following the assassination of conservative commentator and activist Charlie Kirk, Republican lawmakers have proposed measures honoring him in Ohio.Karen Kasler (STATE NEWS)
Assata Shakur, a revolutionary hero who fought against the US for Black liberation and escaped persecution, has passed away.
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Nota de Prensa del Ministerio Relaciones Exteriores El 25 de septiembre de 2025 falleció en La Habana, Cuba, la ciudadana estadounidense Joanne Deborah Byron, "Assata Shakur", como consecuencia de padecimientos de salud y su avanzada edad.Cubaminrex
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Jacques Baud: Europe Panics as U.S. Pulls Back From Ukraine War
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Arizona lawmaker makes post calling for execution of Democratic congresswoman
Republican Arizona lawmaker makes post calling for execution of Democratic congresswoman
John Gillette on X called for ‘people like’ Pramila Jayapal to be ‘hanged’ in response to her video on anti-Trump protestsGeorge Chidi (The Guardian)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/26/musk-bannon-thiel-epstein-documents-00582627
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/26/musk-bannon-thiel-epstein-documents-00582627
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Facebook and Instagram to charge UK users £3.99 a month for ad-free version
Facebook and Instagram to charge UK users £3.99 a month for ad-free version
Subscription service is Meta’s response to regulatory warnings over crunching users’ data to serve targeted adsDan Milmo (The Guardian)
Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile
Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile
The Cuban government has announced Assata Shakur died in Havana on Thursday at the age of 78. Shakur was a legendary figure within the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army.Democracy Now!
Dua Lipa denies firing agent over pro-Israel views
The Mail Online claimed that Lipa had parted ways with David Levy for signing a letter urging festival organiser Emily Eavis to drop the rap group over their pro-Palestinian views.
Both Lipa and her talent agency WME have called the story "categorically false", saying that Levy stopped working with the star in 2019.
In a statement, Lipa criticised Levy's attempt to silence Kneecap, but said the Mail's "deliberately inflammatory" story had been "crafted... to fuel online division".
Dua Lipa denies firing agent over pro-Israel views
Reports claimed the singer dropped her agent after he urged Glastonbury to ban Irish band Kneecap.Mark Savage (BBC News)
Merz’s fight to fix the German economy is already on the ropes
Merz’s fight to fix the German economy is already on the ropes
The chancellor came to power on a promise to bring a rapid end to Germany’s industrial malaise, but the outlook has turned increasingly grim.James Angelos (POLITICO)
Why Emerging Economies Choose EVs Over Gasoline. Chinese EV automakers are starting an export strategy by building their manufacturing outside of China. 2 mil. oil barrels are being displaced per day.
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Netanyahu claimed foreign leaders who “public condemn us privately thank us. They tell me how much they value Israel’s superb intelligence services that have prevented, time and again, terrorist attacks in their capitals.” He did not say which countries’ leaders had privately thanked him.
“So Benjamin, are those leaders in the room with us right now?”
Even the US pulled their senior diplomats who’d normally be there and sent the interns instead lmao
Trying to design my dead man's switch
Hey comrades. So I have started keeping a private journal to track and articulate my disjointed thoughts about the organising and groups I'm involved with. It's a directory of encrypted text files (currently just using vimcrypt but I could easily switch to something else) on a LUKS drive.
Obviously, it would be quite bad—both for my safety and the integrity of the groups the notes may concern—for the notes to get breached right now. However, I do think it would be valuable for revolutionaries in the future to be able to read the thoughts of someone who was involved in struggles potentially long past—it'd become a part of history, and perhaps could be used to help future communists improve upon the organising of the past.
I would want these notes to only be released after my death, so that there is no risk of incriminating me, and also only after they become irrelevant in the sense of the groups/events they concern are long past. The typical way to do this is a dead man's switch where you keep pressing some button every e.g. week, and if it doesn't get pressed for a week, your server publishes your secret documents.
The first problem with that setup is that relies on either the data being unencrypted, or I store the decryption keys on the server being used to store the encrypted data, which seems to defeat the purpose of the data being encrypted imo. I guess I could store the decryption keys separately and that also be subject to a dead man's switch but I'm just wary about the security implications of storing it at all, given the fact that I would have to use someone else's servers if I want it to be released a long time after my death rather than e.g. a week afterwards, when my own VPS may still be running.
The second problem is that digital dead man's switches assume that the individual in question isn't going to go to prison lol. It's almost certain I'll go to prison again at some point before I die (have already been locked up a few times in my short life), and it would be quite bad to have a bunch of potentially incriminating secret notes be released when I go to prison! I'm a lot more likely to be imprisoned alive than I am to die. I've thought of some ways to get around this—I could let a trusted person know about the switch and have them press it for me if I go to prison. Or, upon triggering the dead man's switch, instead of publishing things, it privately sends things to a trusted person, and that person is instructed to publish it if I'm dead and to discard it if I'm not. The prior problem about encryption still stands though.
As previously hinted at, I would want a significant delay between my death and the publishing of my notes, to minimise the risk to any groups or comrades implicated by the notes. So I think I would also have to store this on some big company or, maybe, a big non-profit organisation, that is reliable and unlikely to go down in X years, where X is however long I want to wait before things get released. So that brings further concerns about security if I have to entrust anything with a big tech company (and why would they host content by a dead person? They'd probably want to delete it to reclaim storage space; not like I'm paying them any money if I'm dead).
Given the first and third problems especially, I'm starting to think this isn't possible to do?
It's not the end of the world if I can't figure out a way to publish my notes. I don't mean to overblow my own importance in the struggle—I don't think these notes will be decisive or anything. But I think it would be nice to make them available—it would be nice if they could contribute something to the world, I guess, instead of just being me trying to sort my own thoughts about things I'm doing or experiencing. But obviously protecting the movement and my comrades comes first, and if I can't set something up that doesn't put them at risk, I won't bother.
Would appreciate people's thoughts. And perhaps if we figure something out, this might inspire other people to do similarly.
Ohio Republicans have introduced a bill to designate October 14 as “Charlie Kirk Memorial Day”
Ohio bill would create Charlie Kirk Memorial Day
Sen. Al Cutrona, a Youngstown-area Republican, has proposed honoring Charlie Kirk with a state-designated memorial day.Anna Staver, cleveland.com (cleveland)
Democrats release Epstein docs with Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Prince Andrew mentions
Roughly six pages from more than 8,500 documents provided by Epstein’s estate to Democratic members on the House Oversight Committee include meeting schedules appearing to show appointments with Bannon and venture capitalist Peter Thiel during Donald Trump’s first term in office.
The documents also mention Musk joining a potential trip to Epstein’s island in 2014.
Prince Andrew also is listed in the documents as a passenger on Epstein’s aircraft, with financial disclosures provided to the committee suggesting evidence of payments from Epstein to an individual listed as “Andrew.”
House Democrats release latest Jeffrey Epstein documents with Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Prince Andrew mentions
Small tranche of documents includes meeting itineraries, flight manifest and redacted financial transactionsAlex Woodward (The Independent)
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Sinclair-owned ABC stations will bring 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' back to air Friday
Sinclair-owned ABC stations will bring 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' back to air Friday
Broadcast station owner Sinclair will begin airing "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" after three days of preempting the program since its return.Lillian Rizzo (CNBC)
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Texas Judge Overrules Jury to Send Anti-Genocide Activist to Jail for Graffiti
Texas Judge Overrules Jury to Send Anti-Genocide Activist to Jail for Graffiti | Truthout
Now, as Raunaq Alam’s team attempts to appeal the judge’s decision, he reportedly continues to be targeted.Negin Owliaei (Truthout)
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Trump has called Europe and Ukraine’s bluff
Trump has called Europe and Ukraine’s bluff
Trump’s statement is not a declaration of support for Ukraine, it’s Trump’s resignation from further participation in the peace processOwen Matthews (The Spectator)
Bondi fires a third federal prosecutor in Miami office, linked to anti-Trump posts
But Rosenzweig — considered to be among the rising prosecutors in the office — wasn’t fired because he had been associated with the criminal investigations of Trump by the Justice Department’s special counsel during the prior Biden administration. That was why two other respected federal prosecutors in the Miami office were abruptly terminated this year.
Rather, Rosenzweig was fired, according to multiple sources, because of the negative things he said about Trump on a social media blog before he became a federal prosecutor in Miami. When he was working for the prominent law firm Kobre & Kim in Washington during Trump’s first term, Rosenzweig posted criticisms of the president starting in 2017 — posts that were recently brought to the attention of the Justice Department.
Republican Arizona lawmaker makes post calling for execution of Democratic congresswoman
An Arizona Republican state representative who has expressed support for January 6 insurrectionists on Wednesday called for a Democratic congresswoman to be executed, as a response to a video clip.
The comment on X by state representative John Gillette of Kingman, Arizona, first reported by the Arizona Mirror, was a reaction to a short clip drawn from a YouTube video in March by US representative Pramila Jayapal, a longtime Democratic congresswoman representing Washington state, entitled “The Resistance Lab.” In the video, Jayapal discusses preparations for street protests against the Trump administration.
“Until people like this, that advocate for the overthrow of the American government are tried, convicted and hanged … it will continue,” he posted.
Nothing in either the clip or the longer video actually suggests Jayapal is advocating for the overthrow of the US government. The video carries explicit calls for non-violent protest and discussed with alarm a rise in political violence in the US.
Republican Arizona lawmaker makes post calling for execution of Democratic congresswoman
John Gillette on X called for ‘people like’ Pramila Jayapal to be ‘hanged’ in response to her video on anti-Trump protestsGeorge Chidi (The Guardian)
Mass Walkout Leaves UN General Assembly Chamber Mostly 'Empty' for Netanyahu Speech
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The protests against Netanyahu came as Israel is causing a famine in Gaza with its near-total blockade on humanitarian aid, which has killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians. Israel has launched a full invasion of Gaza, and its right-wing government has explicitly said that it plans on expelling all Palestinians who are still living in the exclave. The Israel Defense Forces’ assault has killed more than 65,000 Palestinians since October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
Israel has become increasingly isolated on the international stage in recent weeks, as the governments of France, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia have all formally recognized Palestine as an independent state.
Mass Walkout Leaves UN General Assembly Chamber Mostly 'Empty' for Netanyahu Speech
"I don't recall seeing such a large walkout for quite some time at UNGA," said one observer. "Israel has chosen to be a pariah and is increasingly treated as such by the international community."brad-reed (Common Dreams)
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Trump wants Tony Blair for Gaza transition; Netanyahu says Israel must “finish the job in Gaza”; Comey indicted
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Israeli bombardments continue throughout the Gaza Strip, with at least 47 Palestinians killed on Friday. Medical infrastructure is breaking down in Gaza City, with the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City being described as catastrophic. The U.S. is reportedly backing a plan to install former British PM Tony Blair as the head of a “Gaza International Transitional Authority.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blames the West for the war in Ukraine and its continued escalation in his speech at the UN. The Department of Justice indicts former FBI Director James Comey. Trump signs a memorandum directing increased measures against “domestic terrorism,” with a particular focus on the “Antifa” threat. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth calls hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals to attend an urgent, unscheduled meeting next week in Quantico, Virginia. Israel’s heavy airstrikes in Yemen kill at least nine and wound scores. Italian dockworkers block a ship carrying oil destined for Israel. The Indian government attempts to quash protests in the northern province of Ladakh.
Trump wants Tony Blair for Gaza transition; Netanyahu says Israel must “finish the job in Gaza”; Comey indicted
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Israeli bombardments continue throughout the Gaza Strip, with at least 47 Palestinians killed on Friday. Medical infrastructure is breaking down in Gaza City, with the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City being described as catastrophic. The U.S. is reportedly backing a plan to install former British PM Tony Blair as the head of a “Gaza International Transitional Authority.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blames the West for the war in Ukraine and its continued escalation in his speech at the UN. The Department of Justice indicts former FBI Director James Comey. Trump signs a memorandum directing increased measures against “domestic terrorism,” with a particular focus on the “Antifa” threat. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth calls hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals to attend an urgent, unscheduled meeting next week in Quantico, Virginia. Israel’s heavy airstrikes in Yemen kill at least nine and wound scores. Italian dockworkers block a ship carrying oil destined for Israel. The Indian government attempts to quash protests in the northern province of Ladakh.
Netanyahu's UN speech contained at least eight blatant lies
Netanyahu's UN speech was nothing more than “misleading rhetori aimed at justifying war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people
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Antisemitism—but not criticism of Israel—associated with support for political violence
A new study published in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism provides evidence that antisemitic attitudes, rather than anti-Israel sentiment alone, are linked to support for political violence in the United States. The findings suggest that while criticism of Israel can motivate legal activism, it is antisemitic prejudice that tends to predict a willingness to support illegal or violent political actions and general aggression.
The research was led by Sophia Moskalenko of Georgia State University, along with co-authors Tomislav Pavlović and Mia Bloom. The team aimed to address a gap in the literature by empirically distinguishing between attitudes toward Jews and attitudes toward Israel, especially in how they relate to political radicalization and violence.
Antisemitism—but not criticism of Israel—associated with support for political violence
Research in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism finds that while anti-Israel sentiment may motivate legal protest, it is antisemitism that tends to predict support for violent or illegal political actions, offering insight into distinct psychological pat…Eric W. Dolan (PsyPost Psychology News)
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Facebook and Instagram ad-free subscription arrives in the U.K.
Meta is introducing a subscription service in the U.K., allowing Facebook and Instagram users to pay a monthly fee for an ad-free experience.
https://www.neowin.net/news/facebook-and-instagram-ad-free-subscription-arrives-in-the-uk/
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