Towns and villages in southern Lebanon are being levelled by Israeli demolitions, satellite images and videos obtained by BBC Verify reveal.

And yes, it’s a screensaver.

She was trying to beat a record, and that’s apparently why she did not answer the welfare check-in calls.

This gave Tehran enhanced satellite imaging capabilities and made it nearly impossible for Israel and the U.S. to target the infrastructure supporting it.

there is a site called “fedimap” which displays approximate physical locations for each fediverse instance. super cool if you want to connect to people irl and want to find physically close organizations :)

The Democratic votes on the pair of resolutions from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., were not enough to overcome universal opposition from Republicans.

The U.S. has been quietly building up a set of state-level laws that push operating system providers into the age verification plague.

Link to video of the hacking: https://xcancel.com/Paul_Reviews/status/2044723123287666921

The Big Oil owners get to make ever-more money off high oil prices, while you and your kids get tooth decay. Nice little snapshot of how Republican policy works.

If you live in California, it’s worth calling your state legislators offices and asking them to back SB-982.

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Investigation of Family Dollar and Dollar General prompts lawmakers to double penalties for retailers that repeatedly charge more at checkout than prices listed on shelves

She’s a bay roan quarter horse. She’s very sweet but can be bitey at times. She seems to be doing well with her training.

A police official in Arizona has been placed on administrative leave after showing up armed to a student-led protest and provoking an altercation that led to the arrest of a teenage girl. The officer told fellow police who arrived on the scene that he attended the students’ immigration rights protest with the intent of acting as an agent provocateur, according to a news report.

I wasn’t even the mod involved in this until they decided to spew abuse at me in a completely unrelated community that I do mod. Ugh. Why are people like this, and why are so many of them on this platform?

THEN [in a beautiful countryside village, two characters are talking] [yellow, satisfied] Things are good, harvests are bountiful [purple, arms crossed] All thanks to the leadership of our dear leader NOW [the village is in ruins, the landscape has gone gray] [yellow, pissed] Times are bad, people are starving [purple, angry] This is because of the poor work of the underlings https://thebad.website/comic/good_tsar_bad_boyar

I spent two weeks getting this inherited Massey Ferguson running in order to dig up the front garden I have (also herited) in order to plant roses for my late mother’s memory.

The Alberta government was quick to react when an Investigative Journalism Foundation investigation revealed that the amount of overtime worked by paramedics in Edmonton had increased by 81 per cent between 2021 and 2024.

An Imperial Oil pipeline spilled 843,000 litres of bitumen emulsion northwest of Cold Lake, Alta., last week.

The New York Islanders are facing questions about a promotion urging hockey fans to donate to a former New York City police sergeant who was recently convicted of manslaughter for hurling a cooler of ice at a man fleeing arrest.

A former trucker from Florida has been sentenced to more than four years in U.S. prison after smuggling handguns into Canada that were later recovered at 10 crime scenes in Ontario and Quebec, and linked to two killings.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/62649243

You can’t prove my convictions are unfounded if I keep getting lucky.

Average lifespan in 1900 - 31 years Average lifespan in 1950 - 46 years Average lifespan in 2020 - 73 years

Piles of books spark joy 😁

A jury found Wednesday that entertainment giant Live Nation, which hosts tens of thousands of concerts a year, and its Ticketmaster subsidiary had a harmful monopoly over big venues.

Nearly 200 organizations are urging the Trump administration and Puerto Rico’s governor to restore $350 million in federal funding that was meant to finance the installation of rooftop solar and battery systems for 12,000 low-income families across the U.S. territory.

A court in Kazakhstan convicted 19 activists after a protest against Beijing’s crackdown in China’s far-western Xinjiang region last year, in what experts and advocates said was the largest move yet by the Kazakh government to silence criticism at Beijing’s behest.

A Russian Geran 2 kamikaze drone flies next to a building in Kyiv

Europe has “maybe 6 weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,” the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging Associated Press interview, warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.

https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/RedSun

Agents detained Marie-Therese Ross in Alabama on 1 April after she overstayed her 90-day visa, according to DHS

After Georgia Fort and Don Lemon reported from a church whose pastor reportedly works for ICE, agents arrested Fort in front of her children

https://booping.synth.download/notes/akyncfert32904rc

This really happened, it’s not a joke

WASHINGTON — Military planning for a possible Pentagon-led operation in Cuba is quietly ramping up, in case President Donald Trump gives an order to intervene there, USA TODAY has learned.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHFNuNEyEYR

The one who may not have gotten his seat at all if it wasn’t for progress, blasts progress.

Hopefully this is readable. This is my favorite episode of this comic; it has a followup, which I’ll link below, if you’re interested.