The weird story of Texas Rep. Pete Sessions' involvement in the Trump scandal.
How 'Congressman-1' Got Pulled Into Rudy Giuliani's Ukraine Scheme 06-NOV-2019 huffpost.com/entry/pete-sessio…
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How 'Congressman-1' Got Pulled Into Rudy Giuliani's Ukraine Scheme
The weird story of former Texas Rep. Pete Sessions' involvement in the Trump scandal.Matt Fuller (HuffPost)
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State Farm’s $900K check to Eaton Fire survivor won’t clear - CalMatters
A check from State Farm to a Los Angeles fire survivor has taken more than a week to clear so far. A bank is concerned about insufficient funds.Levi Sumagaysay (CalMatters)
Pete Sessions is a knowing Russian asset. Who voted for this traitor?!?
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Rep. Pete Sessions - Republican Accountability
Rep. Pete Sessions is a Republican member of the House of Representatives, representing Texas. Learn more about their support (or lack of support) for our democratic system.Republican Accountability PAC
Urteil: Warnhinweise müssen von Büchern entfernt werden anonymousnews.org/deutschland/… anonymousnews.org – Nachrichten unzensiert
Urteil: Warnhinweise müssen von Büchern entfernt werden
Das Oberverwaltungsgericht Münster hat entschieden, dass ein Sticker mit politischen Warnhinweisen von einem Buch in der Stadtbücherei Münster entfernt werden muss. Bibliotheksnutzer seien „mündige Staatsbürger“, die nicht gelenkt werden
Urteil: Warnhinweise müssen von Büchern entfernt werden
Das Oberverwaltungsgericht in Münster hat entschieden, dass Warnhinweise von Büchern entfernt müssen.Redaktion (anonymousnews.org – Nachrichten unzensiert)
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artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
source: National Portrait Gallery
notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […]
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Max Changed Back To HBO Max - Slashdot
"Max" has officially reverted back to "HBO Max," two years after Warner Bros. Discovery dropped the HBO branding. Variety reports: The switch had been anticipated to take place sometime this summer, but Warner Bros.news.slashdot.org
China Lenders Rush to Sell Riskiest Debt to Catch Low Yields
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Sources: Nvidia plans to launch a new AI chip designed for China that will be a version of its Blackwell RTX Pro 6000 processor, as soon as September (Financial Times)
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang plans Beijing trip ahead of new China AI chip launch
CEO to talk with Chinese officials next week, aiming for September unveiling of processor compliant with US export controlsZijing Wu (Financial Times)
Russia greenlights launch of Moscow-Pyongyang flight route for private airline | NK News
Russia’s aviation authority has greenlighted a private airline to launch direct flights between Moscow and Pyongyang, with the first flight scheduled for late July, a development that could revive the commercial service for the first time in years.antonsokolin (NK News)
‘Judging Freedom’: Understanding the Russian Way of War
Today’s discussion with Judge Andrew Napolitano had two central issues.Gilbert Doctorow (Armageddon Newsletter)
Mit drei Tricks zur Klima-Panik: Wie eine Studie die Ernte-Apokalypse herbeiredet
Eine alarmistische Prognose zu Ernteausfällen und Hungersnöten sorgte für ein breites mediales Echo. Doch Wissenschaftsjournalist Axel Bojanowski entlarvt: Mit veralteten Szenarien, Technik-Ignoranz und sprachlichen Tricks wird Panik geschürt – zu Un…exxpress.at
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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social:
"Pretty grim when you recognise how easily this will be weaponised. The culture war defunding of universities is also an import that has clearly escaped the tariff war."
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Isn't emphasising one form of discrimination above all others itself a form of discrimination? If we want to reduce hate-mongering, then should we proscribe Zionism?
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ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Courtney Gould (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
"Segal goes the full Trump"
-- Josh Bornstein (on Bluesky)
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"The report claims research commissioned by the special envoy “highlights a stark divide between Australians under 35 and those over 35” on attitudes toward the Jewish community and “the existence of the state of Israel”, claiming younger Australians were more likely to hold antisemitic views."
Opposing Zionism and/or Israel does not equal antisemitism.
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Universities and artists face funding threat under antisemitism plan being considered by Australian government
Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal also urges Labor government to bolster education and seek new powers to deport visitorsJosh Butler (The Guardian)
Jewish Council Rejects Special Envoy’s antisemitism plan
10 July, 2025 / Media Release
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Jewish Council Rejects Special Envoy’s antisemitism plan
The Jewish Council of Australia has today warned that the newly released Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism risks undermining […]Jewish Council of Australia (Jewish Council Australia)
Indian IPOs Set to Raise Up to $18 Billion in Second-Half Surge
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Brazil Tariff Threat, Copper Rates Date Announced, More
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Chief economist warns US now facing problems of 'lower-income and developing countries' - Alternet.org
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Chief economist warns US now facing problems of 'lower-income and developing countries'
A former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers says Republicans and President Donald Trump have set the nation up for the kind of snag that plagues developing and low-revenue nations like Tunisia and Egypt.Adam Lynch (Alternet.org)
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Volume Controller Rejects Skeumorphism, Embraces the Physical
The volume slider on our virtual desktops is a skeuomorphic callback to the volume sliders on professional audio equipment on actual, physical desktops. [Maker Vibe] decided that this skeuomorphism was so last century, and made himself a physical audio control box for his PC.
Since he has three audio outputs he needs to consider, the peripheral he creates could conceivably be called a fader. It certainly has that look, anyway: each output is controlled by a volume slider — connected to a linear potentiometer — and a mute button. Seeing a linear potentiometer used for volume control threw us for a second, until we remembered this was for the computer’s volume control, not an actual volume control circuit. The computer’s volume slider already does the logarithmic conversion. A Seeed Studio Xiao ESP32S3 lives at the heart of this thing, emulating a Bluetooth gamepad using a library by LemmingDev. A trio of LEDs round out the electronics to provide an indicator for which audio channels are muted or active.
Those Bluetooth signals are interpreted by a Python script feeding a software called Voicmeeter Banana, because [Maker Vibe] uses Windows, and Redmond’s finest operating system doesn’t expose audio controls in an easily-accessible way. Voicmeeter Banana (and its attendant Python script) takes care of telling Windows what to do.
The whole setup lives on [Maker Vibe]’s desk in a handsome 3D printed box. He used a Circuit vinyl cutter to cut out masks so he could airbrush different colours onto the print after sanding down the layer lines. That’s another one for the archive of how to make front panels.
If volume sliders aren’t doing it for you, perhaps you’d prefer tocontrol your audio with a conductor’s baton.
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Years After She Saved a Magpie it Returns the Favor Saving Her Life After She Fell from Window
Lightly tapping on her head, Jellybean the magpie roused her former caregiver enough to call her husband to helpAndy Corbley (Good News Network)
Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security
Dorsey admitted that his new messaging app had not been reviewed or tested for security issues prior to its launch.
Alice Weidel zwingt Friedrich Merz auch mental nach Deutschland
Die Generaldebatte zum Kanzleretat ist grundsätzlich die wichtigste Auseinandersetzung im Bundestag. Oppositionsführerin Alice Weidel nutzt sie für eine scharfe Attacke gegen Friedrich Merz.Sofia Taxidis (Tichys Einblick)
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Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, started calling itself 'MechaHitler'
"We have improved @Grok significantly," Elon Musk wrote on X last Friday about his platform's integrated artificial intelligence chatbot. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions."
The RBA Rate Cut That Didn’t Happen, And What Comes Next
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European court finds Russian responsible for international law violations. Here’s the key takeaways
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Sluggish Loan Growth Drags India Bank Bond Sales to 11-Year Low
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MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
Link: mcp-b.ai/
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Universal Benefits Cost Less Than Means-Tested Benefits
The biggest welfare state controversy is driven by accounting games.People's Policy Project
Netanyahu vows to ‘achieve all war goals’ in Gaza after Trump meeting
The premier told the speaker of the US House of Representatives that Israel has to ‘finish the job’ in the Gaza Stripthecradle.co
From Algeria To Palestine: The Long, Hard Road To Freedom
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This is the one-room schoolhouse that’s in our neck of the woods. The sign reads: “Black Forest School, built in 1922 with donated land-logs-labor, one teacher - grades 1-8”
Got me thinking…
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From: blenderdumbass . org
The main issue with freeing the kids, is that kids cannot vote. This is not un-doable. With slaves, slaves could not vote. But there were enough non-slaves that agreed that slaves should be freed. So it passed through. With women rights until some point in time women couldn't vote too. But there were e...
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White House Fears Elon Musk Is Still Pulling the Strings at DOGE
Though Trump and Musk are on the outs, workers with longstanding ties to the Tesla billionaire remain embedded in the government.
Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots
Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?
List of affected extensions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Nissan Poised to Offer Record-High Coupon in $4B Bond Sale
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