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Oil prices could soar past $200 without Russia, but experts dismiss scenario
Oil prices could soar past $200 without Russia, but experts dismiss scenario
When negotiating new export contracts, Russian companies still retain a strong bargaining position - consumers actively compete for supply volumes, Dmitry Kasatkin notedTASS
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Running a command only when resuming from the hibernation part of suspend-then-hibernate?
In the interest of maximizing battery life, I've set up suspend-then-hibernate on my laptop. Using a discrete window manager, so I have a systemd unit that locks the screen when I close the lid. After an hour, it automatically goes into hibernation.
All is well, until I have to boot up from hibernation. I'm prompted to unlock LUKS, then I'm hit with a redundant lock screen once resumed. I've tried setting up systemd units referencing suspend-then-hibernate.target and hibernate.target, but I can't get it to kill the screen locker when resuming from hibernation only, so I don't have to type in my password twice. Is there any way to have systemd discriminate between the suspend and hibernate parts of suspend-then-hibernate?
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You don't want anything like what you're attempting.
1) Bypassing either password challenge for simplicity's sake is just defeating the purpose of having LUKS on the full disk anyway. Just encrypt your home of that's a problem for you and simplify things.
2) Killing your lock screen from the session manager is going to cause all kinds of problems, so that's not going to help. It's not JUST a plain old process to kill, it's the session manager. You kill it, and it's going to ask you again anyway, and likely destroy your existing session.
Instead, look into Clevis. Pair it with your TPM, and set it to handle the lower level LUKS challenge. Learn about it to understand the tradeoffs in security, but it's going to be more secure than what you're attempting.
This is for a SeaBIOS system without functional TPM.
Bypassing either password challenge for simplicity’s sake is just defeating the purpose of having LUKS on the full disk anyway. Just encrypt your home of that’s a problem for you and simplify things.
Could you explain this? I do not see how it would compromise the security model since the lock screen would be dismissed only after the LUKS password is entered. The screenlocker is only relevant when suspended to RAM as the LUKS key is no longer in RAM once hibernated.
Killing your lock screen from the session manager is going to cause all kinds of problems, so that’s not going to help. It’s not JUST a plain old process to kill, it’s the session manager. You kill it, and it’s going to ask you again anyway, and likely destroy your existing session.
I am using slock, which is separate from my session manager (startx in ~/.profile), and in my testing, I was able to kill it without issue.
If killing your lock screen unlocks the system, that signals there is actually little protection. Killing a lock screen should kill the session and log you out, or at least render the session unusable.
If you still want to go that route, you could wrap your hibernation process in a script or use a slightly more complex service setup to kill it once, by inspecting system/service state and enqueued systemctl operations, you determine hibernation is done (not pending)
I'm focusing on the lock screen as having one single job to do well: protect the session from any access not granted exclusively through the password.
You posit this as if the attacker and the killing of the lock screen were connected: the attacker can only kill if they already have malware, so "it doesn't matter". But the point is, if the lock screen won't relinquish access upon receiving the kill signal, even if the attacker had compromised this vector, or if there were some other cause behind the lock screen dying, crashing, whatever, access would not be granted in the first place. It stops at that layer.
Thinking in terms of "if they already can access the system, whatever" is different from thinking about security in depth/layers. So its not so much about the cause of the problem, but where you can contain it. This threat (a physical access attacker) is pretty extreme, but if we are going there, then yes, it's not unfeasible to think that they could leverage this weakness to go from a possibly limited shell access to a fully unlocked physical session where you could have unrestricted access to e.g. a browser or unlocked password manager or other in-memory information.
But the two things don't really need to be connected. The lock screen having a secondary way to allow access that does not require the password is a weakness in itself, that the attacker could exploit, but that should not have been there in the first place.
Look into man 8 systemd-suspend.service
Immediately before entering system suspend and/or hibernation systemd-suspend.service (and the other mentioned units, respectively) will run all executables in /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/ and pass two arguments to them. The first argument will be "pre", the second either "suspend", "hibernate", "hybrid-sleep", or "suspend-then-hibernate" depending on the chosen action.
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Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness
Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Treasury who spoke with Defector, and as first repor…defector.com
When your ISP pays you
Holy shit I love my internet service provider said no one ever!
Except, some people do love their ISPs. Across America more than 400 community-owned fiber networks, serving more than 700 communities, bring joy and satisfaction to their customers:
communitynets.org/content/comm…
Many of these are in blood-red states, the kind of places where it's impossible to find a readable copy of Atlas Shrugged because every page of every copy is stuck together. Nevertheless, these publicly owned networks are wildly popular with their subscribers. What's more, there'd be a ton more of them but for the brutal ministration of ALEC, the far-right, dark money policy shop that convinced multiple state governments to ban community broadband, even in places where there was no commercial broadband service:
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One of the great predictors of whether your town will get fast, affordable, future-proof fiber is its history. Many of today's municipal broadband co-ops are descended from rural telephone co-ops, and those telephone co-ops were birthed by the New Deal's rural electrification co-ops. This is the incredibly long shadow that good public spending casts – a century of successful provision of amenities that substantially improve the quality of life of whole regions.
Take Jackson and Owlsley Counties, rural Kentucky counties in Appalachia, some of America's poorest places. Starting in 2009, the local telephone company, the Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative, started pulling fiber to every home in both counties. To get that fiber over rugged mountain passes, they pulled it on the back of a mule named "Ole Bub." Soon, every subscriber had access to symmetrical fiber broadband at speeds of up to 10gb/s, and the region found itself at the center of an economic revival:
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The Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative was founded in 1953, as an extension of the town's electrification co-op, itself founded in the 1930s after the passage of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (the REA was amended in 1949, allowing electrification co-ops to secure low-cost loans for telephone rollouts).
You don't need to live in rural Appalachia to reap the benefit of publicly backed broadband co-ops. In Minnesota's Beltrami County (pop 46,288; density 18.6 people/square mile, median income $33,392/household), the local co-op Paul Bunyan Communications offers symmetrical fiber at speeds up to 10gb/s. But that's just table-stakes: Paul Bunyan doesn't just offer reasonably priced, reliable, screamingly fast broadband – it also pays its members whenever too much cash builds up in its bank account. Paul Bunyan just paid out $3.6 million in refunds to its subscribers:
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The payouts are pro-rated based on how much you spend on broadband. Customers who were due $150 or less got a credit on their next bill, while customers owed more than $150 got a check in the mail.
Nice, huh? It gets nicer: in 2018, Paul Bunyan paid back its subscribers $2.2 million; in 2022, they paid back $6.3 million, and last year they paid back $3 million. Paul Bunyan employs 160 people in the county, at fair wages, with good benefits. Every dollar Paul Bunyan makes literally stays in the community.
99% of the county has access to fiber from the co-op. Local business growth has outperformed statewide performance. A local aerospace company owner said that the co-op fiber made the difference between running a business with $300,000 in annual revenue and a business making $3,000,000 per year.
All of this is even cooler when you learn about the kind of internet service the rest of Minnesota has had to cope with. A 2019 Minnesota Commerce Department investigation found that Frontier, the state's leading ISP, had unbelievably badly maintained infrastructure. We're talking about high-capacity long-haul wires draped over shrubs and tree-branches:
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Minnesotans on Fiber's "free market" service suffered from frequent outages. They paid higher costs for their unreliable, slow DSL lines than Paul Bunyan customers in Beltrami County paid for fiber that was literally thousands of times faster than Frontier's. Unlike Paul Bunyan's cheerful, local customer service, Frontier's service numbers went to "cost-efficient" (busied-out, distant) call centers where you could wait for hours to speak to someone who would either "accidentally" drop your call or simply refuse to help you. Customers frequently lost access to 911 service, and often saw spurious, sky-high charges on their bills that no one would explain or erase.
Frontier "strongly disagreed" with the report. But when Frontier went bankrupt (a year later!), we got a look at its internal operations and discovered just how much contempt the company had for its customers:
eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/fron…
By Frontier's own calculations, it could have made an extra $10 billion by investing in fiber rollouts, but it chose not to make that money, because the stock analysts at institutional investment funds would punish any telco that committed to capital expenditures with long-term payouts. Since Frontier's execs were mostly paid in stock, they decided not to risk a drop in their personal net worth, and so they left ten billion on the table and millions of customers stuck on 19th century copper-line infrastructure – technology that dated back to Samuel Morse and the telegraph.
Frontier was especially interested in customers who had no alternatives – no cable or fixed wireless companies that could offer competition for Frontier's own terrible service. These customers were booked as an "asset" and their connections were earmarked for substandard maintenance and slow upgrades. The old Lily Tomlin gag goes, "We don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company." But Frontier really cared about the customers who had no alternative – they cared about royally fucking those customers.
Ladies and gentlemen, behold the marvel that is the efficient free market!
Municipal fiber is a godsend. It's fast, cheap and reliable, and it is an engine for economic development. Of course, the Trump administration is running away from municipal fiber – indeed, from all fiber – as fast as it can, because every fiber installation competes with Elon Musk's satellite based internet service, Skylink:
pluralistic.net/2025/07/24/geo…
The thing is, satellite internet makes sense in a few places – temporary encampments, ships at sea – but it is vastly more expensive than fiber to install and maintain, and it is millions of times slower than fiber. Nor is this something you can fix by filling the sky with more collision-prone, astronomer-demoralizing minisats – no matter how many satellites there are over your head, they're all in the same universe and have to share its single, fixed electromagnetic spectrum. Meanwhile, if you want more broadband in your fiber network, you just pull another bundle of fiber (principle ingredient: sand) through your conduit and you add dozens of new universes' worth of electromagnetic spectra that are each isolated from one another.
Smart politicians aren't being sucked in by Musk's claim that he can billionaire his way out of the intractable laws of physics. They're pulling fiber, and lots of it. In Utah, the aptly named UTOPIA network is serving publicly owned fiber to 21 cities, and private businesses can offer service over that public system, which means that Utahans have their choice of 18 carriers:
pluralistic.net/2024/05/16/sym…
Moreover, these are symmetrical connections, meaning that they are as fast for sending data as they are for receiving it:
pluralistic.net/2021/07/03/bea…
To put this in Information Superhighway terms from the 1990s, a symmetrical broadband connection is necessary for you to be a "netizen," while an asymmetrical connection that beams lots of data to you but isn't capable of letting you talk back is what makes you a "mouse potato."
It's grimly hilarious that the right has done so much damage to public fiber rollouts, given their oft-repeated grievances about being "shadowbanned" by dominant services. With symmetrical fiber, every crank could run their own server – a 4chan in every garage. And if that fiber is provided by the government, then your ISP will be bound by the First Amendment, and legally prohibited from discriminating against customers based on their political speech (something that commercial providers can do to their heart's content):
pluralistic.net/2021/01/17/tur…
The New Deal was a mere blip in the American project, but a century later, America's poorest, worst-served people are still reaping its benefits, with far faster, cheaper connections than you can get from the big telcos that have sewn up New York City and Los Angeles. And in some of those places, the public ISP doesn't just shower their subscribers with fast data – they shower them with millions of dollars.
Frontier letting its phone network fall apart, state investigation finds
State: Frontier has refused to issue refunds despite frequent, lengthy outages.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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Top Trump Aides Push for Ousting Maduro From Power in Venezuela
The push by top aides to President Trump to remove Nicolás Maduro as the leader of Venezuela has intensified in recent days, with administration officials discussing a broad campaign that would escalate military pressure to try to force him out, U.S. officials say.
It is being led by Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser. Mr. Rubio argues that Mr. Maduro is an illegitimate leader who oversees the export of drugs to the United States, which he says poses an “imminent threat.”
An opposition movement whose figures have met with U.S. officials says it is communicating with Washington on plans to dismantle Nicolás Maduro’s “criminal structure.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/maduro-venezuela-trump-rubio.html
Top Trump Aides Push for Ousting Maduro From Power in Venezuela
The push by top aides to President Trump to remove Nicolás Maduro as the leader of Venezuela has intensified in recent days, with administration officials discussing a broad campaign that would escalate military pressure to try to force him out, U.S. officials say.
It is being led by Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser. Mr. Rubio argues that Mr. Maduro is an illegitimate leader who oversees the export of drugs to the United States, which he says poses an “imminent threat.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/maduro-venezuela-trump-rubio.html
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The jank community has stepped up!
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Clojure, LLVM, and C++ walk into a bar. jank is born. Don't think about it too much.jank-lang.org
Death toll in Gaza from Israel's forced starvation rises to 453, including 150 children
The death toll from malnutrition caused by Israel’s forced starvation policy in Gaza has risen to 453 people since October 2023, the enclave's Health Ministry said.
A ministry statement on Tuesday said that 150 children were among Palestinians who died of malnutrition and famine in the territory, with food and other essential supplies blocked by a longstanding Israeli blockade.
Death toll in Gaza from Israel's forced starvation rises to 453, including 150 children
175 people, including 35 children, have died of forced starvation since famine was declared in Gaza last month.TRT World
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Alaskan climbing star Balin Miller dies after falling from Yosemite's El Capitan
An Alaskan climbing influencer has died after falling from El Capitan, a famous vertical rock formation in California's Yosemite National Park.
Balin Miller, 23, was live-streamed on TikTok ascending and subsequently falling from the monolith on Wednesday.
In an emotional social media post confirming her son's death, his mother Jeanine Girard-Moorman said: "My heart is shattered in a million pieces. I don't know how I will get through this. I love him so much. I want to wake up from this horrible nightmare."
Details of what caused the incident are not clear, but Miller's brother Dylan told AFP he was lead rope soloing - a technique that enables climbing alone while still protected by a rope - on a 2,400ft (730m) route named Sea of Dreams.
Alaskan climbing star Balin Miller dies after falling from Yosemite's El Capitan
Balin Miller's solo climb and fall was caught on a live stream.Ruth Comerford (BBC News)
Quantum Breakthrough Lets Individual Atoms Chat Like Never Before
Scientists at UNSW have achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing by entangling nuclear spins across distances of up to 20 nanometers in a silicon chip - the same scale as modern computer transistors[^1].The team demonstrated a two-qubit controlled-Z logic operation between the nuclear spins of two phosphorus atoms, with each atom binding separate electrons that mediate the interaction through exchange coupling[^1]. They proved genuine quantum entanglement by preparing and measuring Bell states with 76% fidelity[^1].
"The spin of an atomic nucleus is the cleanest, most isolated quantum object one can find in the solid state," said Professor Andrea Morello from UNSW[^2]. Previous methods required nuclei to be very close together and share a common electron, limiting scalability. This new approach uses separate electrons as "telephones" to let distant nuclei communicate[^2].
Lead author Dr. Holly Stemp explains the significance: "You have billions of silicon transistors in your pocket or in your bag right now, each one about 20 nanometers in size. This is our real technological breakthrough: getting our cleanest and most isolated quantum objects talking to each other at the same scale as existing electronic devices."[^2]
The method remains compatible with current semiconductor manufacturing, using phosphorus atoms implanted in ultra-pure silicon. Professor Morello notes: "Our method is remarkably robust and scalable. Here we just used two electrons, but in the future we can even add more electrons, and force them in an elongated shape, to spread out the nuclei even further."[^2]
[^1]: Science - Scalable entanglement of nuclear spins mediated by electron exchange
[^2]: SciTechDaily - "Like Talking on the Telephone" – Quantum Breakthrough Lets Individual Atoms Chat Like Never Before
“Like Talking on the Telephone” – Quantum Breakthrough Lets Individual Atoms Chat Like Never Before
Scientists have linked nuclear spins inside silicon chips, marking a leap toward scalable quantum computers. Engineers at UNSW have achieved a major breakthrough in quantum computing by creating what are known as “quantum entangled states.Colin Collins (SciTechDaily)
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Quantum Breakthrough Lets Individual Atoms Chat Like Never Before
Scientists at UNSW have achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing by entangling nuclear spins across distances of up to 20 nanometers in a silicon chip - the same scale as modern computer transistors1.
The team demonstrated a two-qubit controlled-Z logic operation between the nuclear spins of two phosphorus atoms, with each atom binding separate electrons that mediate the interaction through exchange coupling1. They proved genuine quantum entanglement by preparing and measuring Bell states with 76% fidelity1.
"The spin of an atomic nucleus is the cleanest, most isolated quantum object one can find in the solid state," said Professor Andrea Morello from UNSW2. Previous methods required nuclei to be very close together and share a common electron, limiting scalability. This new approach uses separate electrons as "telephones" to let distant nuclei communicate2.
Lead author Dr. Holly Stemp explains the significance: "You have billions of silicon transistors in your pocket or in your bag right now, each one about 20 nanometers in size. This is our real technological breakthrough: getting our cleanest and most isolated quantum objects talking to each other at the same scale as existing electronic devices."2
The method remains compatible with current semiconductor manufacturing, using phosphorus atoms implanted in ultra-pure silicon. Professor Morello notes: "Our method is remarkably robust and scalable. Here we just used two electrons, but in the future we can even add more electrons, and force them in an elongated shape, to spread out the nuclei even further."2
- Science - Scalable entanglement of nuclear spins mediated by electron exchange ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
- SciTechDaily - "Like Talking on the Telephone" – Quantum Breakthrough Lets Individual Atoms Chat Like Never Before ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
“Like Talking on the Telephone” – Quantum Breakthrough Lets Individual Atoms Chat Like Never Before
Scientists have linked nuclear spins inside silicon chips, marking a leap toward scalable quantum computers. Engineers at UNSW have achieved a major breakthrough in quantum computing by creating what are known as “quantum entangled states.Colin Collins (SciTechDaily)
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Israeli military drone dropped grenades metres from Irish peacekeepers working in Lebanon
AN ISRAELI MILITARY drone dropped grenades near to Irish peacekeepers who were protecting civilians clearing rubble close to an Irish base in south Lebanon.
Irish troops and other soldiers from partner forces have been assisting in the recovery and search operations for bodies in bombed out buildings across South Lebanon. As has been reported by The Journal Maroun ar Ras has been devastated by Israeli bombing.
Israeli military drone dropped grenades metres from Irish peacekeepers working in Lebanon
No one was injured in the incident which happened yesterday near the Irish outpost at UNP 6-52 as the troops helped locals clear bomb damage rubble from homes.TheJournal.ie
Israeli military drone dropped grenades metres from Irish peacekeepers working in Lebanon
AN ISRAELI MILITARY drone dropped grenades near to Irish peacekeepers who were protecting civilians clearing rubble close to an Irish base in south Lebanon.
Irish troops and other soldiers from partner forces have been assisting in the recovery and search operations for bodies in bombed out buildings across South Lebanon. As has been reported by The Journal Maroun ar Ras has been devastated by Israeli bombing.
Israeli military drone dropped grenades metres from Irish peacekeepers working in Lebanon
No one was injured in the incident which happened yesterday near the Irish outpost at UNP 6-52 as the troops helped locals clear bomb damage rubble from homes.TheJournal.ie
Students Stage Walkouts in Dozens of Spanish Cities to 'Stop the Genocide' in Gaza | Common Dreams
Students Stage Walkouts in Dozens of Spanish Cities to 'Stop the Genocide' in Gaza
"While young people like us are being killed and subjected to genocide in Palestine, we cannot be in class," said one protester in Madrid.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
Students Stage Walkouts in Dozens of Spanish Cities to 'Stop the Genocide' in Gaza | Common Dreams
Students Stage Walkouts in Dozens of Spanish Cities to 'Stop the Genocide' in Gaza
"While young people like us are being killed and subjected to genocide in Palestine, we cannot be in class," said one protester in Madrid.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
Epstein Island’ children’s toys ad made using Sora 2 takes off online
The clip, styled like a 1990s commercial, features palm trees, waterfalls, hidden rooms, and an “Orange Man” action figure resembling president Donald Trump that repeats the phrase, “don’t release the files.”
It also includes references to secret surveillance cameras and a massage room, directly invoking allegations of sex trafficking and abuse tied to Epstein’s island.
Epstein, a financier with ties to powerful figures, died in jail in 2019 while facing federal charges. Trump has maintained that he had no involvement in Epstein's crimes.
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Students Stage Walkouts in Dozens of Spanish Cities to 'Stop the Genocide' in Gaza | Common Dreams
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Students Stage Walkouts in Dozens of Spanish Cities to 'Stop the Genocide' in Gaza | Common Dreams
Students Stage Walkouts in Dozens of Spanish Cities to 'Stop the Genocide' in Gaza
"While young people like us are being killed and subjected to genocide in Palestine, we cannot be in class," said one protester in Madrid.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
A piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.
For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left.
From Genoa, Trieste and Ravenna in the north, to Salerno and Taranto in the south, in recent weeks port workers across Italy have succeeded in obstructing ships believed to have been carrying weapons for Israel, as opposition to the country’s war in Gaza intensifies.
The dockers’ determination to block weapons and stifle trade has been a crucial component of the pro-Palestinian uprising in Italy as pressure mounts on Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government to take a stronger stance against Israel.
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
With strikes and demonstrations, intensifying Italian opposition to Israel’s war is challenging the PM’s stanceAngela Giuffrida (The Guardian)
Pete Hegseth says Wounded Knee veterans will be allowed to keep their medals
The move was led by Hawaii Democratic Rep. Kaiali’i Kahele, who dubbed it the “Remove the Stain Act” and said in a statement at the time: “We must remind ourselves of the uncomfortable truth that this land – the United States – was taken from indigenous peoples.“Although we can never undo the irreparable damage inflicted on indigenous peoples, we can do our best to respect their lands, empower our communities, and acknowledge the truth behind our shared history.”
The act was and ultimately referred to the Senate Committee on Armed Services but was revived this May by Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warrenand Jeff Merkley, with the former saying: “We cannot be a country that celebrates and rewards horrifying acts of violence against Native people.
“Congress must recognize how shameful this massacre was and take an important step toward justice for the Lakota people.”
. . . The Biden panel recommended in October 2024 that the medals should stand, but, according to Hegseth, his predecessor, then-secretary of defense Lloyd Austin, failed to act because he was “more interested in being politically correct than historically correct.”
“Such careless inaction has allowed for their distinguished recognition to remain in limbo until now,” the secretary continued. “Under my direction, we’re making it clear without hesitation that the soldiers who fought in the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890 will keep their medals, and we’re making it clear that they deserve those medals.
“This decision is now final, and their place in our nation’s history is no longer up for debate. We salute their memory, we honor their service, and we will never forget what they did.”
Remove the Stain Act of 2025 Reintroduced: Confronting a Shameful Chapter in American History
The Remove the Stain Act of 2025 will be reintroduced by Senators Elizabeth Warren (D–MA) and Jeff Merkley (D–OR), along with Representative Jill Tokuda (D–HI), on Thursday, according to Sen. Warren’s Senate office.Levi Rickert (Native News Online)
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Students Stage Walkouts in Dozens of Spanish Cities to 'Stop the Genocide' in Gaza | Common Dreams
Students Stage Walkouts in Dozens of Spanish Cities to 'Stop the Genocide' in Gaza
"While young people like us are being killed and subjected to genocide in Palestine, we cannot be in class," said one protester in Madrid.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
Bondi’s firing of federal prosecutor in Miami might upend big Medicare fraud trial
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi fired a federal prosecutor in Miami last week because he had posted critical blog commentary about Donald Trump during his first term as president — a poltically fraught decision that is threatening an upcoming trial.
Prosecutors, who are alleging millions of dollars in false insurance billing for medical equipment, telemedicine and other services, are expected to present more than 40
KFF Health Tracking Poll: Public Weighs Political Consequences of Health Policy Legislation | KFF
KFF Health Tracking Poll: Public Weighs Political Consequences of Health Policy Legislation | KFF
KFF's Health Tracking Poll finds that more than three-quarters of the public say they want Congress to extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credits that are set to expire at the end of this year.Liz Hamel (KFF)
China’s AI moment: Practical, profitable, poised to go global
China’s AI moment: Practical, profitable, poised to go global
From autonomous factories to AI doctors, Chinese companies are setting new efficiency standards that global businesses must match or risk permanent competitive disadvantage.Ashley Dudarenok (Jing Daily)
Trump’s sweeping plan to prop up coal
Coal’s health and climate impacts get no mention in the administration’s latest attempt to breathe life back into the industry.
The White House is withholding billions of dollars of funding for mass transit projects in Chicago as part of Trump’s government shutdown revenge campaign against Democrats.
Trump’s Grim Reaper Yanks Billions From Blue City in New MAGA Plot
The White House is using the government shutdown as an excuse to halt infrastructure projects that have already been funded.Janna Brancolini (The Daily Beast)
Yemen's Houthis say they will target US oil firms with sanctions
LOS ANGELES, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthis will target U.S. oil majors including ExxonMobil with sanctions, a body affiliated with the Iran-backed militia said on Tuesday.
The Sanaa-based Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center (HOCC), a body set up last year to liaise between Houthi forces and commercial shipping operators, sanctioned 13 U.S. companies, nine executives and two vessels, HOCC said.
Energy Department canceling over $7 billion in funding for clean energy projects
Conveniently, all canceled projects happen to be in states that voted for Harris.
This is pretty much textbook "the beatings will continue until morale improves."
White House budget director Russ Vought wrote on social media that the state, along with 15 others that backed former Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential bid last year, would see project funding cut. Harris beat Trump in the 2024 election here by more than four percentage points.U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said 223 projects were reviewed and, quote, "did not adequately advance the nation's energy needs, were not economically viable and would not provide a positive return on investment of taxpayer dollars," unquote.
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Israel: No aid found on Gaza-bound flotilla
Israel: No aid found on Gaza-bound flotilla | The Jerusalem Post
“It was never about bringing aid to Gaza. It was about the headlines and social media followings”, Israeli Police spokesperson Dean Elsdunne said.The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
Megachurch pastor and ex-Trump adviser pleads guilty to child sexual abuse
Cindy Clemishire, 55, the woman who publicly identified herself as the victim of Morris’s sexual abuse, was present in the courtroom as he pleaded guilty. In a prepared statement she told him: “There is no such thing as consent from a 12-year-old child. We were never in an ‘inappropriate relationship.’ I was not a ‘young lady’ but a child. You committed a crime against me.”
A leaked transcript of a phone call revealed that in 2005 Morris tried to bribe Clemishire into silence, telling her to “put a price on it”.
He also became a spiritual adviser to Donald Trump. He joined the White House spiritual advisory committee during the first Trump presidency and was part of a campaign to mobilize evangelical voters for him in last year’s presidential campaign.
Trump also visited Gateway church in 2020 where he praised Morris and his senior team as “great people with a great reputation”.
Megachurch pastor and ex-Trump adviser pleads guilty to child sexual abuse
Robert Morris to serve only six months in county jail after charged with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with childEd Pilkington (The Guardian)
A new poll from KFF shows that the vast majority of Americans are supportive of Democrats’ top negotiating demand for the shutdown
In total, the newest KFF Health Tracking Poll has found that 78% of Americans want Congress to extend enhanced tax credits for people who buy their health insurance through exchanges established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), compared to just 22% of Americans who want to let the credits expire.
KFF found that majorities of Americans across all political demographics want the subsidies extended, including 92% of Democrats, 82% of independents, and even 57% of Republicans who identify themselves as part of President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement.
KFF’s poll also found that Trump and the GOP will likely shoulder the most blame if the enhanced subsidies aren’t extended.
Vast Majority of Americans—Including Trump Supporters—Want Health Insurance Subsidies Extended: Poll
The KFF poll shows the public will blame President Donald Trump and the Republican Party if the subsidies are allowed to expire.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday he ordered another strike on a small boat he accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela
New Tool Helps TikTok Shop Sellers Track Real Profits
One of the biggest challenges for TikTok Shop sellers is figuring out their actual profit. Sales numbers often look high, but once you factor in ads, shipping, refunds, commissions, and fees, the real margins can be hard to calculate.
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Local Climate Projects Persevere Despite Trump’s Effort to Crush Movement
Local Climate Projects Persevere Despite Trump’s Effort to Crush Movement
Grassroots climate initiatives are increasingly building in resilience from heat, storms, and the government itself.Greg Harman (Truthout)
Far-right pundit calls for Israel to torture Greta Thunberg
As reported by the Canary and other independent outlets, Israel ‘illegally abducted’ flotilla activists on 2 October. Activist Greta Thunberg was among those abducted, and this has drawn attention to the following message from Newsmax Australia ‘broadcaster’ Daniel Lewkovitz:
This is what Pro-Israel & Genocide lovers are like. He's fucking disgusting. If this is how he talks openly about a young woman imagine what he does to them. He's a disgusting piece of shitThe irony of him telling Greta to grow up after posting this. What a cunt. t.co/uK3edMdOui
— Sneezy Gremlin
(@SneezyGremlin) October 3, 2025
Shocking, on Greta Thunberg
Speaking on the flotilla bringing aid to the victims of Israel’s genocide, Lewkovitz said:
No sandwiches this time. Game time is over. I want Greta Thunberg terrified. I want her screaming and begging for it to stop. I want her rocking in a corner, covering her eyes. pissing and shitting in her pants. Israel is fighting a genocidal enemy and doesn’t need to be distracted by attention seeking activists with no skin in the game who think this will be cute content for Instagram. They want to enter a war zone? Fine. War is hell. Give. Them. Hell. Let them Find Out. Let their screams be a warning to other Useful Idiots for Hamas.It’s time to grow up, Greta.
In America, Newsmax is a right-wing competitor to Fox News. Famously, Newsmax aired programming from Bill O’Reilley after he left Fox News in the wake of sexual harassment allegations. The station similarly ran segments with Mark Halperin who left NBC and MSNBC following sexual harassment allegations of his own.
Lewkovitz describes himself as a “broadcaster” on Newsmax Australia and as a “Security Expert”. He doesn’t list the ‘broadcaster’ position on his LinkedIn, suggesting he’s a talking head on security concerns. Lewkovitz has made multiple appearances on Australian news channels.
People highlighted the following story related to Lewkovitz:
Well I’m just shocked— jasper nathaniel (@infinite_jaz) October 2, 2025
Australian Telegraph journalist Eliza Barr tweeted about the story on 15 August 2024, but the link no longer works:
Exclusive: Former Liberal Democrats federal election candidate and security professional Daniel Lewkovitz has been charged over an allegation of choking. With @AymonBertah for @dailytelegraph:t.co/T4yZKmTKVX— Eliza Barr (@ElizaJBarr) August 15, 2024
This suggests that either the article was removed or that Barr and others saw fit to fabricate the story for some reason.
Other commented on the story at the time, with more recent posts highlighting that the article is not accessible:
It’s nearly impossible to find any record of this on news websites now. The public has the right to know that Daniel Lewkovitz was charged over an allegation of choking. t.co/RQrVWp4QdY— Yoko Chikatilo (@ribcage666) October 2, 2025
Several people took objection to Lewkovitz’s response to Thunberg:
Why is it always middle-aged men wishing death on Greta Thunberg?What is it about her that scares them? Because it is fear. Their posts reek of it. Genuinely one of the most pathetic things you regularly see on here.
— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) October 1, 2025
Greta is *literally* bringing baby formula to starving infants. t.co/8YIiBGUPC6 pic.twitter.com/5d4ndajwvC
— Mel (@Villgecrazylady) October 1, 2025
People have also defended Thunberg from other attacks:
Greta Thunberg is doing what people should do with their privilege which is try to make the world a better place. t.co/8e1edEE4aa— America The Ghetto (@Lizzurr) October 1, 2025
Thunberg released a video recorded before her abduction:
“My name is Greta Thunberg . I’m a citizen of Sweden. If you are watching this video, I have been abducted and taken against my will by Israeli forces.. Please tell my government to demand my and the others’ immediate release.”
JUSTICE FOR GRETA pic.twitter.com/sg5p8Dq4LI
— ADAM (@AdameMedia) October 2, 2025
Thunberg has previously said:
Greta Thunberg: “I’m not scared of israel” as flotilla sails to Gaza pic.twitter.com/4RGQGsMKhL— Ounka (@OunkaOnX) September 26, 2025
Sky News Australia, meanwhile, ridiculing the activists who are opposing Israel’s genocide.
Featured image via Christopher Dawson Centre / Global Sumud Flotilla Commentary
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in reply to starlight • • •Kurotora
in reply to starlight • • •Probably I'm going to be downvoted as f*ck, but if it's for HTML, CSS and JavaScript the most privacy respecting option could be vim or, with a pinch of salt, Notepad++ if you are on Windows.
If you are learning grab a good reference book or website (I used w3school like 20 years ago) and break things.
On a personal level, I never liked the "training wheels" that some editors force into you.
But, could be that this isn't a quite popular opinion 😅
Edit: some fat-finger typos
starlight
in reply to Kurotora • • •Quique
in reply to starlight • • •grue
in reply to starlight • • •WTF is a "privacy-focused code editor?" They're just glorified text editors! They run locally! They don't connect to the Internet at all! How would they be anything other than "privacy-focused" by default? Why is this even a question?!
I fucking hate this timeline.
Anyway, to answer your question: emacs, obviously. Or vim if you're evil, I suppose. Or just whatever the Hell you want, because if your editor even has "terms of service" or a "privacy policy" of any kind something has already gone horribly wrong.
ganymede
in reply to grue • • •my first thought as well....how did we get to the point that this is a valid topic?
(not a comment about you OP, just the state of the world)
SatyrSack
in reply to grue • • •monovergent
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in reply to starlight • • •Home | Geany
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in reply to ProdigalFrog • • •Hellfire103
in reply to starlight • • •If you're just writing those languages, here are my picks:
For Linux and Unix:
For Windows:
For macOS:
starlight
in reply to Hellfire103 • • •opfar.v30
in reply to starlight • • •On the privacy front, that would be
cat, I think. Well, except on Ubuntu.Shout out to
tee.Rust Coreutils Are Performing Worse Than GNU Coreutils in Ubuntu
Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)yo_scottie_oh
in reply to opfar.v30 • • •catand/orteefit into one's coding workflow? Is it basicallycatfor displaying what's been saved andteefor writing changes to a file?opfar.v30
in reply to yo_scottie_oh • • •teewill yap back at you.krolden
in reply to starlight • • •like this
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in reply to starlight • • •hexagonwin
in reply to starlight • • •Powerful text editor for MATE
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)CodenameDarlen
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