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ai123 posted...

These things go in cycles.

Stoker's novel caused a huge sensation. 60s Hammer Horror with Christopher Lee gave them a bump. Twilight likewise.

don't leave out Interview with Vampire

Don't even have to point to Nazi in Germany, it worked in Hungary for Orban

Biden is saying his debate wasn't that bad

Biden was in his own bubble for 2024 possibly in 2023. God the 2024 election was fucked from the get go.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/19/angry-and-disappointed-kamala-harris-critical-of-joe-biden-in-new-book

Kamala Harris has revealed she was angry and disappointed when Joe Biden called her hours before her US presidential debate with Donald Trump to suggest powerful associates of Bidens brother refused to support her.
The former vice-president and Democratic nominee recounts the episode and other criticisms of Biden in her campaign memoir 107 Days, obtained by the Guardian before its publication next week.

Harris writes that in September she was in a hotel room in Philadelphia, poised to take on Trump in a potentially decisive debate, when the then president called to wish her good luck and to ask if she would be back in Philadelphia before the election.
Harris wondered why Biden would ask such a non sequitur. According to the book, he told her: My brother called. Hes been talking to a group of real power brokers in Philly. He offered several names and asked if Harris knew them. She did not.
Harris writes: Then he got to his point. His brother had told him that those guys were not going to support me because Id been saying bad things about him. He wasnt inclined to believe it, he claimed, but he thought I should know in case my team had been encouraging me to put daylight between the two of us.

The then vice-president asked Biden to put the group in touch with her directly. But he was not done with the call. He sought to rewrite the history of his own disastrous debate performance against Trump three months earlier.
Joe then rattled on about his own former debate performances. I beat him the other time; I wasnt feeling well in that last one. He continued to insist that his debate performance hadnt hurt him much with the electorate. I was barely listening.
Harris goes on to reflect that her debate against Trump would be like a big prizefight, with huge consequences for America and the world, and she needed to be at the top of her game.

She writes of Biden: I just couldnt understand why he would call me, right now, and make it all about himself. Distracting me with worry about hostile power-brokers in the biggest city of the most important state.
Her husband, Doug Emhoff, could see how angry and disappointed I was. Let it go, he said. He knew I had to redirect my focus. Dont worry about him. Youre dealing with Trump. Let it go.

During the campaign and in its aftermath, Harris had avoided criticism of the president she served beside and defended him amid questions about his mental acuity.
But in 107 Days she lays bare tensions between the two. When the supreme court overturned the Roe v Wade decision on abortion in 2022, for example, Joe struggled to talk about reproductive rights in a way that met the gravity of the moment.
Harris acknowledges there was a distinction between Bidens ability to govern and to campaign, and that she had concerns about the latter. His voice was no longer strong, his verbal stumbles more frequent, she writes.

There was an awkward meeting on 4 July, when Biden was facing growing calls to step aside after his feeble debate performance. Harris hugged him and notes that he felt so frail, while Emhoff was led away to see the first lady at the time, Jill Biden.
Harris reports: She seemed tense, even angry. Whats going on? she demanded. Are you supporting us? Of course, Doug said. Of course we are supporting you. OK. Thats really important. We need to know that.
When I joined him, Harris continues, Doug was wearing a grim expression. Doug runs cool. Hes slow to anger. But I could tell something had gotten to him.

Later, he unloaded. They hide you away for four years, give you impossible, shit jobs, dont correct the record when those tasks are mischaracterised, never fight back when youre attacked, never praise your accomplishments, and now, finally, they want you out there on that balcony, standing right beside them. Now, finally, they know you are an asset, and they need you to reassure the American people.
And still, they have to ask if were loyal?
Harris had felt similar frustrations, recalling how she was once castigated by Bidens team for apparently delivering a speech too well. Their thinking was zero-sum: Ifshes shining, hes dimmed.

Biden bowed to the inevitable and dropped out of the election race on 21 July, then endorsed Harris. Campaign advisers urged her to distance herself from the president. David Plouffe, a senior aide, eventually told her: People hate Joe Biden. Harris admits: It was hard for me to hear that.
She had just over three months to fight Trump and his army of rightwing influencers. At the end of July, the Republican nominee falsely claimed that Harris, whose mother was Indian and father is Jamaican, happened to turn Black a few years ago, a remark that blew up all over the media.
Harris told the campaign aide Brian Fallon that she was not going to take Trumps bait. She writes in the book: Today he wants me to prove my race. What next? Hell say Im not a woman and Ill need to show my vagina?
Brian, on the other end of the phone, fell silent. I imagined the deep crimson of his blush.

add Estonia to have Russian aircraft in airspace

https://apnews.com/article/british-intelligence-mi6-russia-war-443df0c37ff2254fcc33d5425e3beaa6

Estonia summoned a Russian diplomat to protest after three Russian fighter aircraft entered its airspace without permission Friday and stayed there for 12 minutes, the Foreign Ministry said, just over a week after NATO planes downed Russian drones over Poland and heightened fears that the war in Ukraine could spill over.

Foreign Minister Margus Tsakhna said that Russia violated Estonian airspace four times this year but todays incursion, involving three fighter aircraft entering our airspace, is unprecedentedly brazen.
Russian officials did not immediately comment.
Russias violation of Polands airspace was the most serious cross-border incident into a NATO member country since the war in Ukraine began with Russias all-out invasion in February 2022. Other alliance countries have reported similar incursions and drone crashes on their territory.
The developments have increasingly rattled European governments as U.S.-led efforts to stop the war in Ukraine have come to nothing.

Italian F-35 fighter jets respond to Russian incursion
The Russian MIG-31 fighters entered Estonian airspace in the area of Vaindloo Island, which is a small island located in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea, the Estonian military said in a separate statement.

The aircraft did not have flight plans and their transponders were turned off, the statement said, nor were the aircraft in two-way radio communication with Estonian air traffic services.
Italian Air Force F-35 fighter jets, currently deployed as part of the NATO Baltic Air Policing Mission, responded to the incident, according to the statement.

Russias increasingly extensive testing of boundaries and growing aggressiveness must be met with a swift increase in political and economic pressure, Tsakhna, the foreign minister, said.
The Russian charge daffaires was summoned and given a protest note, a ministry statement said.

the antifa designation is leaving the door open for it to be used in the US

next is tiktok being bought by Trump allies, maga media takeover continues

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/tech/tiktok-ban-extension-trump

A proposal to save TikTok from going dark in the United States would involve investments from a number of US-based venture capital firms, private equity funds and tech companies. Together, the investors would create a new US-based company that will operate the app domestically, sources familiar with the framework told CNN.

The framework of the agreement, which was hammered out by US and Chinese negotiators in Madrid this week, largely mirrors the deal presented to the President Donald Trump in April, before the president announced steep tariffs on China that scrambled talks with Beijing over the popular social media app.

Among the investors, which are expected to own a roughly 80% stake in TikTok, with Chinese shareholders holding the rest, are Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz and Silver Lake, the sources said. The new consortium would also be operated by a majority-US board, including a member appointed by the Trump administration.

The Wall Street Journal first reported on details of the framework discussed in Madrid. The sources cautioned that the framework is still under discussion and could change before Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are slated to speak by phone on Friday, during which the leaders are expected to formally strike the deal on TikTok.

Any details of the TikTok framework are pure speculation unless they are announced by this administration, a senior White House official told CNN.
Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison, who last week briefly became the worlds richest person, has widely been rumored to be involved in discussions to buy TikToks US assets. Trump in January had said he would champion Ellison, a Trump supporter, buying the apps US assets.
Ellisons company already has a relationship with TikTok: Oracle in 2020 began hosting TikToks US data, and it briefly reached a deal with the first Trump administration that year to buy TikTok, before that deal was ultimately blocked.

Although Trump has previously said he would seek a 50-50 joint venture between ByteDance and a new American owner, the law banning TikTok that was passed by a bipartisan group of congresspeople and signed by former President Joe Biden prevents China from owning a stake thats larger than 20% in TikToks US assets.

Trump extends deadline
As the deal continues to be hammered out, Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order extending the enforcement of a TikTok ban in the United States by another three months an action that may be superseded later if the agreement to sell the social media apps US assets to an American-backed buyer is finalized.

Orban media takeover coming to the US

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-moves-against-media-outlets-mirror-authoritarian-approaches-to-silencing-dissent

Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders that he has often praised.

On Wednesday, Trump cheered ABCs suspension of Jimmy Kimmels late-night show after the comedian made remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk that criticized the presidents MAGA movement: Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

It was the latest in a string of attacks against news outlets and media figures he believes are overly critical of him. Trump has filed lawsuits against outlets whose coverage he dislikes, threatened to revoke TV broadcast licenses and sought to bend news organizations and social media companies to his will.

The tactics are similar to those used by leaders in other countries who have chipped away at speech freedoms and independent media while consolidating political power, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn, a close Trump ally whose leadership style is revered by many conservatives in the U.S.

What were seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government, said Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say.
Is Trump taking cues from Orbn?

Trumps approach to governing has drawn comparisons to Orbn, who has been in power since 2010. The Hungarian leader has made hostility toward the press central to his political brand, borrowing Trumps phrase fake news to describe critical outlets. He has not given an interview to an independent journalist in years.

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders says Orbn has built a true media empire subject to his partys orders through allies acquisitions of newspapers and broadcasters. The group says that strategy has given Orbns Fidesz party control of about 80% of Hungarys media market. In 2018, Orbns allies donated nearly 500 news outlets they had acquired to a government-controlled conglomerate, a group that included all of Hungarys local daily newspapers.

Opposition parties complain that they get just five minutes of airtime on public TV during elections, the legal minimum, while state broadcasters reliably amplify government talking points and smear Orbns political opponents. Hungarys media authority, staffed entirely by Orbns party nominees, has threatened nonrenewal of broadcast frequencies to keep outlets in line and forced the liberal-leaning station Klubrdi off the air.

Here, they bought outlets and replaced editorial staff wholesale, said Hungarian media analyst Gbor Polyk.
The moves against independent media, along with Orbns systematic capture of Hungarys democratic institutions, prompted the European Parliament in 2022 to declare that the country could no longer be considered a democracy.

Polyk said that while the American media landscape is far larger and more diverse than Hungarys, hes been struck by the willingness of major U.S. companies to accommodate Trumps threats.
There is a very strange kind of self-censorship in America, he said. Even with European eyes, it is very frightening to see to what degree individual bravery does not exist. From Zuckerberg to ABC, everyone immediately surrenders.

Vegy posted...

He really didn't think america was dis weak lol

capitalism has made democracy weak. The constant growth and mergers has media/news favor dollars over truth and facts. Only going to get worse as no one in charge has any moral conviction.

don't think even throwing the Ren n Stimpy games would make it appealing. The Nick games just aren't good.

Double Dare was probably left off because again not good but its NES

would say she was being a vampire but it was inside

CRON posted...

Edgy shows from the '90s and early/mid '00s had the easiest solution that worked. A simple "viewer discretion is advised" disclaimer. It's that fucking simple.

did Tom Green have one?

Doe posted...

https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1968454653554663561

disney will be doing another payoff to trump

black lives matter will be next

getting tonal whiplash from the trailers

first set of trailers from the year where comedic, last set of trailers were all dramatic

According to screenshots Blackburn shared, the assistant dean wrote on Facebook: "Looks like ol' Charlie spoke his fate into existence. Hate begets hate. ZERO sympathy." The assistant dean was fired, according to USA Today.

The comments that led to investigations appeared to range widely in tone and content.
A teacher under investigation in Oklahoma wrote, "Charlie Kirk died the same way he lived: bringing out the worst in people," according to a local ABC affiliate.

A teacher in Texas wrote on Facebook, "Could this have been the consequences of his actions catching up with him?" and "#karma is a b*tch," along with other posts critical of Kirk's views, according to screenshots shared by Republican state Rep. Briscoe Cain. Cain called for the teacher to be fired, but their employment status is unknown, according to Houston Public Media.

Another teacher in Naples, NY, likened Kirk to a Nazi and allegedly wrote, among other things, "Good riddance to bad garbage," according to screenshots shared by Libs of TikTok.
"We have heard from many community members regarding concerns and outrage related to these posts," Kevin Swartz, the superintendent of Naples Central School District wrote on Facebook. "I want to be very direct in saying to you that all of your voices have been heard."

Florida's Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas denounced teachers who posted "despicable comments" about Kirk's assassination and vowed to investigate them.
A now-deleted Instagram comment allegedly written by a New Orleans firefighter read, "I think he should be forced to carry that bullet in his body. That bullet has a right to be there because it's a gift from god," according to screenshots shared by Libs of TikTok.
The state's attorney general then reshared the Libs of TikTok post, calling for "consequences" and tagged the New Orleans Fire Department.

The department has launched an investigation, according to a local NBC affiliate.
NPR reached out to multiple people who had been identified in news reports as losing their jobs due to their social media posts but they declined to comment on the record, citing fears about their safety and death threats they have received.

Republicans in power lean in
Lawmakers and officials at the state and federal levels also vowed to use their positions to punish anyone appearing to celebrate Kirk's death.

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau indicated his office might revoke the U.S. visas of foreign nationals over their social media remarks about Kirk's murder."I have been disgusted to see some on social media praising, rationalizing, or making light of the event, and have directed our consular officials to undertake appropriate action," Landau posted. "Please feel free to bring such comments by foreigners to my attention."

"I am aware of posts displaying contempt toward a fellow American who was assassinated," Navy Secretary John Phelan warned. "Any uniformed or civilian employee of the Department of the Navy who acts in a manner that brings discredit upon the Department, the @USNavy or the @USMC will be dealt with swiftly and decisively."

U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., posted on X that he planned to "use Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of every post or commenter that belittled the assassination," in a marked departure from the Republican Party's stance in the past several years which has equated content moderation with censorship.

"I'm also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked," he wrote. Loretta Ross, a community activist and Smith College professor who researches authoritarian movements, told NPR that Kirk's assassination was a tragedy that is now being used to clamp down on free speech.

She referenced the McCarthy period, when "people were punished, fired, blacklisted for having opinions that the government didn't like," and warned against an overreaction.
"It's really sad and tragic that someone's passing just becomes another way to further an agenda that further divides us."

Tyranthraxus posted...

Did I miss some really big news or something?

Miller wants a crackdown on 'the left' celebrating or not feeling it was a loss. A database is wanted to collect posts.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/13/nx-s1-5538476/charlie-kirk-jobs-target-social-media-critics-resign
Over thirty people across the country have been fired, put on leave, investigated or faced calls to resign because of social media posts criticizing Charlie Kirk or expressing schadenfreude about the conservative influencer's assassination earlier this week, according to an analysis by NPR.

And more may be to come: some GOP lawmakers and officials are signaling their readiness to punish people for their speech. Conservative activists are collecting and publicizing social media posts and profiles that they say "celebrated" his death and are calling for them to lose their jobs.

"If they have their picture on their profile, even without a name, download the picture and reverse image search it," posted right-wing influencer Joey Mannarino. "Cross-reference it with their LinkedIn profile and find their place of employment. Call the place of employment, leave Google reviews."

Some Republican elected officials, along with right-wing influencers with large followings, including Laura Loomer and Libs of TikTok, the account run by activist Chaya Raichik, shared screenshots of offending posts and demanded action.

NPR has compiled a list from news reports of 33 people who have lost their jobs or are under investigations over their posts as of Friday. Most were public school teachers, with at least 21 educators in school districts across the country fired, put on administrative leave or placed under investigation by their employers. Firefighters, members of the military, a sports reporter, an employee of the Carolina Panthers and a city council official in Indiana have faced similar treatment or calls to resign.

Among the earliest and most prominent firings was MSNBC analyst Matthew Dowd, a former Republican political consultant to President George W. Bush. As news of a shooting at a Kirk event began to spread, Dowd made comments on live television that soon after attracted widespread backlash from conservatives.

In his appearance on MSNBC, Dowd first noted that no details were known at that time, then speculated whether it was a supporter who fired the gun in "celebration." Dowd went on to say Kirk was "constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions."

He continued, "You can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place. And that's the unfortunate environment we are in." After Dowd's comment, the host confirmed that Kirk was shot.

Some of Kirk's rhetoric was incendiary. He questioned the intellectual capabilities of women and black people, said that some gun deaths were worth it to have the Second Amendment, asserted the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a mistake, and cast immigrants and transgender people as threats.

Kirk's death was made public later that day, and Dowd's firing was made public that evening.
Dowd later apologized and clarified his comments. He wrote in a newsletter Friday that at the time he was speaking, he had not known that Kirk had been the target of the shooting or that he had been shot.

"The Right Wing media mob ginned up, went after me on a plethora of platforms, and MSNBC reacted to that mob," Dowd wrote.
The result of the social media frenzy over commentary about Kirk's death is that some people who "want to go down that path of debating the things that he stood for are essentially being silenced," said David Kaye, a law professor of law focusing on international human rights, the internet and free speech at the University of California, Irvine.

Kaye said first and foremost, political violence has no place in a democracy and people who celebrate such events are wrong to do so.
But he said at the same time, "I don't think that in a democracy we can clamp down on people engaging in debate over the legacy of somebody who was killed."

While online battles around social media posts have arisen in other murders or attempted murders of public figures in recent years,the campaign this time around appears more intense, in part due to a website, set up anonymously, called Expose Charlie's Murderers. The site corrals social media posts and the names, locations and employment of people deemed to have been "celebrating Charlie's death." No one behind the site responded to NPR's request for comment.

As of Friday morning, the site featured over 40 people, and the organizers claim that it "is being converted into a mass searchable database of over 20,000 entries." WIRED reported that some of the people featured on the homepage have received death threats.

"I'm so sorry President Trump, but the unemployment numbers next month in the jobs report are going to be very high," Loomer wrote on X on Thursday evening.
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., called for the immediate firing of multiple people in her state. "This person should be ashamed of her post. She should be removed from her position," Blackburn wrote in an X post about an assistant dean at Middle Tennessee State University.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Idk i care about Smee a lot. He's the most innocent and the actor is killing it rn. I care about Wendy because she rocks. Don't really care about the rest. Hirsch is cool.

The mother doctor irks me the most at this point because she's basically a shell of a character. She had something going for her then she started acting super out of character for the last 2 or 3 episodes.

I have to believe the marriage of the doctors was a marriage of convenience, don't seem like much of a couple

Starks posted...

Until these starts marathoning on Comedy Central or other syndication like the older seasons, I probably won't watch these.

FX put the new season on VOD, not the past ones though

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

it worked Fandom has removed all politics from all sites

Sundercles posted...

Or Dungeons and Dragons. Or Pokemon. Or Harry Potter. Or Rock music. The Right has been trying to get shit cancelled since before I was born.

Elvis and his moving hips got him in trouble with conservatives

Kami_no_Kami posted...

Who?

someone who may or may not run in 2028

I already think social media has cooked gen z critical thinking so don't ask me

but the shooter is hard right as well? What did the left do remind people the extreme views of Kirk?

Storm_Shadow posted...

Was Charlie Watts the only good Charlie?

Charles Dance

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/kamala-harris-criticism-biden-book-b2824778.html

Aides to former President Joe Biden are on the warpath after former Vice President Kamala Harris accused them of sabotaging her presidential campaign.
She made the claims which include painting Biden as "reckless" for running again in her new memoir 107 Days, which will be published on September 23. The Atlantic published an excerpt from the book this week.

A former Biden official brushed off her criticism and told Axios that she was not an impressive vice president.
"Vice President Harris was simply not good at the job," the official, speaking anonymously, said. "She had basically zero substantive role in any of the administration's key work streams, and instead would just dive bomb in for stilted photo ops that exposed how out of depth she was."
The official insisted that Biden is "not the reason she struggled in office or tanked her 2019 [presidential] campaign."

"Or lost the 2024 campaign, for that matter," the official said. "The independent variable there is the vice president, not Biden or his aides."
In the excerpt, Harris recounts her perception of some of the thought process among Biden's team and his allies ahead of the 2024 election, and accuses some of undermining her while she was vice president.
"'It's Joe and Jill's decision.' We all said that, like a mantra, as if we'd all been hypnotized. Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness," Harris wrote.

In another section, Harris writes that the stakes for the election were "simply too high" to let "an individual's ego, an individual's ambition" determine who should run against then-former President Donald Trump in 2024.
She did accept some responsibility, noting that she should have "perhaps" voiced her concerns then, but didn't want to look like she was making a grab for power.
"I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out," she wrote.
A former Biden aide told Axios Harris's mea culpa wasn't exactly inspiring.

"I'm not sure the very robust defense of not having the courage to speak up in the moment about Biden running is quite as persuasive as she thinks it is. If this is her attempt at political absolution: Lots of luck in your senior year," the aide said.
Harris also accused Biden's camp of trying to undermine and minimize her while she served as vice president.
"Their thinking was zero-sum: If she's shining, he's dimmed. None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well," Harris wrote. "His team didn't get it."
She further accused them of being silently accepting of negative news stories about her.

"When the stories [about Harris] were unfair or inaccurate, the president's inner circle seemed fine with it. Indeed, it seemed as if they decided I should be knocked down a little bit more," she said.
Despite some of the aides' comments, Harris had some sympathetic voices in the former Biden camp.

Ron Klain, Biden's former chief of staff, said he thought that Harris "did a good job" in her role as vice president and said he felt "badly that she found the experience negative."
Another former aide told Axios that "we all know that Biden folks treated her and her team like s***."
"We never thought she would actually say anything," they aide said. "The staffers across a range of ages and positions that I'm talking to are proud of her."

Umbreon posted...

Eh. Its one thing if the public gives the police information that allows them to find and arrest a suspect, but someone willingly turning themselves in isn't really "catching" anyone.

once the family believed it was him from the pictures released it was over. Telling the FBI first before confronting could be killer puts him and themselves endanger if the FBI came in guns blazing.

Enclave posted...

It's not even a tip, the dad just straight up turned him in. The FBI could have not even existed and this guy would have still been caught.

no that is how it works. Show picture of killer/PoI and friend or family will recognize it and phone in

Enclave posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/76e391c7.jpg

Found that on discord earlier, posted in the megathread as well :P

FBI has always relied on tips though. Show public picture then ask public to call in information

ICE has shot and killed a suspect
https://apnews.com/article/ice-chicago-shooting-death-immigration-operation-ca7326ca75993984e102fe3693ae469c

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a suspect who tried to evade arrest Friday in a Chicago suburb by driving his car at officers and dragging one of them, officials said.
The shooting just outside the city follows days of threats by the Trump administration to surge immigration enforcement in the nations third-largest city and less than a week into an operation labeled Midway Blitz by federal officials targeting the so-called sanctuary policies in Chicago and Illinois.
The Department of Homeland Security said in a news release that the officer was trying to arrest a man who had a history of reckless driving, but he refused officers orders and instead drove his car at them. An ICE officer who was hit and dragged by the car felt his life was threatened and opened fire, the department said.

ICE said both the officer and the driver from the shooting in the Franklin Park suburb, about 18 miles (29 kilometers) west of Chicago, were taken to a local hospital, where the suspect was pronounced dead.
We are praying for the speedy recovery of our law enforcement officer. He followed his training, used appropriate force, and properly enforced the law to protect the public and law enforcement, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said he is aware of the shooting and demanded a full, factual accounting of whats happened today to ensure transparency and accountability.
Video from the scene shows police tape and traffic cones blocking off parts of the street where a large food distribution truck and gray car can be seen from a distance. Multiple law enforcement vehicles were surrounding the area.

Erendira Rendn, chief program officer at a local advocacy group called the Resurrection Project, said the shooting shows us the real danger that militarized enforcement creates in our neighborhoods.

A community member is dead, and an officer was injured, Rendn said in a statement. These are outcomes that serve no public safety purpose and leave entire communities traumatized. ... When federal agents conduct unaccountable operations in our communities, everyone becomes less safe.
Chicagoans, meanwhile, have been preparing for weekend Mexican Independence Day celebrations that include parades, festivals, street parties and car caravans, despite the potential immigration crackdown.
McLaughlin said that viral social media videos and activists encouraging illegal aliens to resist law enforcement have made the work of ICE officers more dangerous.

Voidgolem posted...

to be fair turning himself in *isn't* "catching".

I'd take the bet that they'd never have found him if not for that

his family still would have notified the FBI

this may be the only way to save Paramount+ as the buy in is low.

how can skydance have enough money to buy WB after the Paramount merger? Most channels are now deadweight.

these days being since 1998 Columbine

el_cheato posted...

What are they gonna do, send troops to random US cities and black bag anyone who looks a little suspicious and/or brown? They're already doing that.

increase of a police state -patriot act on steroids

Sayoria posted...

I wish more people learned about Louis the 16th. While we are closing in on Nazi Germany, Louis the 16th history is the other side of the problem we are dealing with. Massive strain on the poor while the 'King' is enriching his aristocrats and seeking treasonous acts. Louis got his comeuppance however.

Problem is the after math wasn't good reign of terror and all. Then become an empire under Napoleon. His wars were both for defense and aggressive. English civil war may be closer. A religious zealot like Cromwell would lead the charge.

For example, 20 former U.S. officials and national security experts wrote a letter in late July criticizing a deal for Nvidia to sell H20 chips used in artificial intelligence to China, with 15% of revenues going to the U.S. government. They said no matter who the chip is sold to, it will fall into the hands of Chinese military and intelligence services.

Nvidia said it does not make surveillance systems or software, does not work with police in China and has not designed the H20 for police surveillance. Nvidia posted on its WeChat social media account in 2022 that Chinese surveillance firms Watrix and GEOAI used its chips to train AI patrol drones and systems to identify people by their walk, but told the AP those relationships no longer continue. The White House and Department of Commerce did not respond to requests for comment.

Thermo Fisher and hard drive maker Seagate promoted their products to Chinese police at conferences and trade shows this year, according to online posts. Officers stroll the streets of Beijing with Motorola walkie talkies. Nvidia and Intel chips remain critical for Chinese policing systems, procurements show. And contracts to maintain existing IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Oracle, and Microsoft software and gear remain ubiquitous, often with third parties.

What started in China more than a decade ago could be seen as a cautionary tale for other countries at a time when the use of surveillance technology worldwide is rising sharply, including in the United States. Emboldened by the Trump administration, U.S. tech companies are more powerful than ever, and President Donald Trump has rolled back a Biden-era executive order meant to safeguard civil rights from new surveillance technologies.

As the capacity and sophistication of such technologies has grown, so has their reach. Surveillance technologies now include AI systems that help track and detain migrants in the U.S. and identify people to kill in the Israel-Hamas war. China, in the meantime, has used what it learned from the U.S. to turn itself into a surveillance superpower, selling technologies to countries like Iran and Russia.

The AP investigation was based on tens of thousands of leaked emails and databases from a Chinese surveillance company; tens of thousands of pages of confidential corporate and government documents; public Chinese language marketing material; and thousands of procurements, many provided by ChinaFile, a digital magazine published by the non-profit Asia Society. The AP also drew from dozens of open record requests and interviews with more than 100 current and former Chinese and American engineers, executives, experts, officials, administrators, and police officers.
Though the companies often claim they arent responsible for how their products are used, some directly pitched their tech as tools for Chinese police to control citizens, marketing material from IBM, Dell, Cisco, and Seagate show. Their sales pitches made both publicly and privately cited Communist Party catchphrases on crushing protest, including stability maintenance, key persons, and abnormal gatherings, and named programs that stifle dissent, such as Internet Police, Sharp Eyes and the Golden Shield.

Other companies, like Intel, Nvidia, Oracle, Thermo Fisher, Motorola, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Western Digital, creator of mapping software ArcGIS Esri, and what was then Hewlett Packard, or HP, also sold technology or services knowingly to Chinese police or surveillance companies. Four practicing lawyers said sales like those uncovered by AP could potentially go against at least the spirit, if not the letter, of U.S. export laws at the time, which the companies denied.

Everything was built on American tech, said Valentin Weber, a researcher at the German Council on Foreign Relations who studied the use of U.S. tech by Chinese police. Chinas capability was close to zero.
IBM, Dell, Cisco, Intel, Thermo Fisher and Amazon Web Services all said they adhere to export control policies. Seagate and Western Digital said they adhere to all relevant laws and regulations where they operate.

Oracle, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and tech conglomerate Broadcom, which acquired VMWare and cloud company Pivotal in 2023, did not comment on the record; HP, Motorola and Huadi did not respond, and Esri denied involvement but did not reply to examples. Microsoft told AP it found no evidence that it knowingly sold technology to the military or police as part of updates to the Golden Shield.

Some U.S. companies ended contracts in China over rights concerns and after sanctions. For example, IBM said it has prohibited sales to Tibet and Xinjiang police since 2015, and suspended business relations with defense contractor Huadi in 2019.
However, sanctions experts noted that the laws have significant loopholes and often lag behind new developments. For example, a ban on military and policing gear to China after the 1989 Tiananmen massacre does not take into account newer technologies or general-use products that can be applied in policing.

They also noted that the law around export controls is complicated. Raj Bhala, an expert in international trade law at the University of Kansas, said the issues the AP described fell into the kind of gray area that we put in exams.
It would raise concerns about possible inconsistencies, possible violations, said Bhala, who emphasized he was speaking generally and not about any specific company. But I really stress possible. We need to know more facts.

While German, Japanese and Korean firms also played a role, American tech firms were by far the biggest suppliers.
The Xinjiang government said in a statement that it uses surveillance technologies to prevent and combat terrorist and criminal activity, that it respects citizens privacy and legal rights and that it does not target any particular ethnicity. The statement said Western countries also use such technology, calling the U.S. a true surveillance state. Other government agencies did not respond to a request for comment, including Chinas police and authorities in the Yangs province.

This technology still powers the police database that controls the Yangs and other ordinary people. An estimate based on Chinese government statistics found at least 55,000 to 110,000 were put under residential surveillance in the past decade, and vast numbers are restricted from travel in Xinjiang and Tibet. Chinas cities, roads and villages are now studded with more cameras than the rest of the world combined, analysts say one for every two people.

Because of this technology we have no freedom at all, said Yang Guoliangs elder daughter, Yang Caiying, now in exile in Japan. At the moment, its us Chinese that are suffering the consequences, but sooner or later, Americans and others, too, will lose their freedoms.

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https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China
BEIJING (AP) The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks.
By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intricate network based on U.S. technology that spies on them and predicts what theyll do.
Their train tickets, hotel bookings, purchases, text messages and phone calls are forwarded to the government. Their house is ringed with more than a dozen cameras. Theyve tried to go to Beijing 20 times in the past few years, but masked men show up and grab them, often before they depart. And last year, Yangs wife and younger daughter were detained and now face trial for disrupting the work of the Chinese state a crime carrying a sentence of up to a decade in prison.

Yet the Yangs say they are not criminals. They are simply farmers trying to beg Beijing to stop local officials from seizing their 1 1/2 acres of land in Chinas eastern Jiangsu province.
Every move in my own home is monitored, Yang said, sitting behind black curtains that block him from the glare of police lights trained straight at his house. Their surveillance makes me feel unsafe all the time, everywhere.

Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers like the Yangs are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the worlds largest digital surveillance apparatus. Most of this technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide: the United States.

Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built Chinas surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an Associated Press investigation found. They sold billions of dollars of technology to the Chinese police, government and surveillance companies, despite repeated warnings from the U.S. Congress and in the media that such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities.

Critically, American surveillance technologies allowed a brutal mass detention campaign in the far west region of Xinjiang targeting, tracking and grading virtually the entire native Uyghur population to forcibly assimilate and subdue them.

U.S. companies did this by bringing predictive policing to China technology that sucks in and analyzes data to prevent crime, protests, or terror attacks before they happen. Such systems mine a vast array of information texts, calls, payments, flights, video, DNA swabs, mail deliveries, the internet, even water and power use to unearth individuals deemed suspicious and predict their behavior. But they also allow Chinese police to threaten friends and family and preemptively detain people for crimes they have not even committed.

For example, the AP found a Chinese defense contractor, Huadi, worked with IBM to design the main policing system known as the Golden Shield for Beijing to censor the internet and crack down on alleged terrorists, the Falun Gong religious sect, and even villagers deemed troublesome, according to thousands of pages of classified government blueprints taken out of China by a whistleblower, verified by AP and revealed here for the first time. IBM and other companies that responded said they fully complied with all laws, sanctions and U.S. export controls governing business in China, past and present.

Across China, surveillance systems track blacklisted key persons, whose movements are restricted and monitored. In Xinjiang, administrators logged people as high, medium, or low risk, often according to 100-point scores with deductions for factors like growing a beard, being 15 to 55 years old, or just being Uyghur.

Some tech companies even specifically addressed race in their marketing. Dell and a Chinese surveillance firm promoted a military-grade AI-powered laptop with all-race recognition on Dells official WeChat account in 2019. And until contacted by AP in August, biotech giant Thermo Fisher Scientifics website marketed DNA kits to the Chinese police as designed for the Chinese population, including ethnic minorities like Uyghurs and Tibetans.

While the flood of American technology slowed considerably starting in 2019 after outrage and sanctions over atrocities in Xinjiang, it laid the foundation for Chinas surveillance apparatus that Chinese companies have since built on and in some cases replaced. To this day, concerns remain over where technology sold to China will end up.

well they were warned ahead

White House describes Israeli attack as an unfortunate incident and says it warned Qatar in advance
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that the U.S. received prior notice about the pending attack from Israel.
In response, diplomatic envoy Steve Witkoff passed along a warning to the Qataris.
President Donald Trump spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the attack, Leavitt said, and made his thoughts and concerns very clear.
She said Trump believes the attack was an unfortunate incident that didnt advance peace in the region.

Sephirothe posted...

09? I had a flip phone

which way did it open clam, book, or slide

The US had some forewarning that Israel intended to carry out the strike on Hamas in Qatar

Thats according to an Israeli official and another person familiar with the matter, who were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Pentagon officials referred questions about coordination to the White House. And the White House officials did not respond to request for comment.
It was not clear how much warning was provided or whether the U.S. expressed approval for the strike.
Congressional leaders appeared caught off guard by Israels strike.

Im not sure about that development, House Speaker Mike Johnson said when asked about the situation at his weekly press conference Tuesday. Well have to reserve judgement.
Senate leaders Democrat Chuck Schumer and Republican John Thune made no mention of the strikes in their opening remarks as the chamber convened.
It was unclear if they had been briefed ahead of the action.

Trump gave last warning to Hamas earlier this week
Earlier this week, Trump said that he was giving his last warning to Hamas regarding a possible ceasefire, as Arab officials described a new U.S. proposal. A senior Hamas official called it a humiliating surrender document, but the militant group said that it would discuss the proposal and respond within days.
The proposal, presented by Trumps Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, calls for a negotiated end of the war and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza once the hostages are released and a ceasefire is established, according to Egyptian and Hamas officials familiar with the talks, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door discussions.

*Israel targeted Hamas leaders in Qatar as they discussed Gaza war ceasefire proposal

https://apnews.com/article/qatar-explosion-doha-e319dd51b170161372442831a8023db5

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Israel launched a strike on Hamas leadership in Qatar on Tuesday as they discussed a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, officials said. It marked a stunning extension of Israels campaign against the militant group and risked upending negotiations aimed at winding down the war and releasing Israeli hostages.

Black smoke rose over the skyline of the Qatari capital, Doha, with authorities there acknowledging the strike. It wasnt immediately clear if anyone was hurt in the attack.

The assault marks the second time the energy-rich nation has been directly attacked in the nearly two years of war that have gripped the wider Middle East since Hamas Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel. Qatar has served as a key negotiator in efforts to end the conflict. It also calls into question whether any negotiations immediately will continue.

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned the attack, saying all parties must work towards achieving a permanent ceasefire, not destroying it.

Attack came Tuesday afternoon
It wasnt immediately clear how the attack was carried out, though Israeli military spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee referred to Israels air force carrying out the strike. Qatar Airways planes continued landing in Doha amid the strike, even as at least one Qatari air force aircraft took off on patrol over the country.
Israeli officials have sent mixed messages throughout the war, relying on Qatari mediation while also questioning its willingness to put pressure on Hamas. In a statement after the attack, which didnt specifically name Qatar, Israels military said Hamas leaders were directly responsible for the brutal October 7th massacre, and have been orchestrating and managing the war against the State of Israel.

The Israelis said it used precise munitions and additional intelligence in the strike, without elaborating. An Israeli official, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss details beyond the statement, confirmed that the Israelis targeted Hamas in Qatar.

Qatar condemned what it referred to as a cowardly Israeli attack on Hamas political headquarters in Doha. Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari called it a flagrant violation of all international laws and norms.
Qatar confirms that it will not tolerate this reckless Israeli behavior and the ongoing disruption of regional security, nor any act that targets its security and sovereignty, al-Ansari added.

Israel initiated it, Israel conducted it and Israel takes full responsibility, Netanyahu said in a statement.
It remains unclear what regional reaction will come from the strike. Immediately afterward, Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan wrote online: Full solidarity with our dear Qatar. That comes as the United Arab Emirates already has warned Israel its possible annexation of the West Bank threatened the Abraham Accords, an agreement by which Abu Dhabi normalized relations with Israel five years ago.
Arab officials say there is a new U.S. proposal for a ceasefire. A senior Hamas official called it a humiliating surrender document, but the militant group said that it would discuss the proposal and respond within days.

Mediators had previously focused on brokering a temporary ceasefire and the release of some hostages, with the two sides then holding talks on a more permanent truce. Witkoff walked away from those talks in July, after which Hamas accepted a proposal that the mediators said was almost identical to an earlier one that Israel had approved.
An official in Egypt, which also has been meditating a potential ceasefire, told the AP that the strike came when a meeting by Hamas officials over the talks had been scheduled for the site. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, because he wasnt authorized to talk to reporters.

Zikten posted...

when is DeSantis up for reelection? And are there any possible dems who could defeat him?

I know nothing about Florida state politics

Desantis can't serve three consecutive terms. He shouldn't be able to in 2026.

because it happened in 2008

monkmith posted...

quick reminder that the whole reason trump is sending troops to random blue cities is because he's hoping someone shoots one of them so he can declare martial law and block elections entirely.

he can't block elections entirely and sending troops to cities is supported by his base. Making elections harder vs eliminating are two different things. He losses the voters in cities but he keeps feeding meat to his voters. The disengaged then also hear the one headline Trump is cleaning up the crime in cities and believe it. You are right Trump and MAGA want the fight because it paints the opposition to Trump as wanting disorder and chaos.

Akuryu posted...

Psst, there won't be a next Democrat president...

A dem president is still a possibility but having both houses is a pipe dream. Split is the best you can hope for. GOP continue stacking the deck for house and not all voters see how dangerous GOP/MAGA is.

it was only the sand ocean track.

Hoth is white land

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr70511v774o

Venezuela is doing fly bys on US ships

--Donald Trump has warned that, if Venezuelan jets fly over US naval ships and "put us in a dangerous position, they'll be shot down".

The president's warning comes after Venezuela flew military aircraft near a US vessel off South America for the second time in two days, US officials told the BBC's US partner CBS News.
The reports follow a US strike against what Trump officials said was a "drug-carrying vessel from Venezuela" operated by a gang, killing 11 people.

Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro has said that the US allegations about his country are not true, and that differences between the nations do not justify a "military conflict".
"Venezuela has always been willing to talk, to engage in dialogue, but we demand respect," he added.

When asked by reporters in the Oval Office on Friday what would happen if Venezuelan jets flew over US vessels again, Trump said Venezuela would be in "trouble".
Trump told his general, standing beside him, that he could do anything he wanted if the situation escalated. Since his return to office in January, Trump has steadily intensified his anti-drug-trafficking efforts in Latin America.

Maduro has accused the US of seeking "regime change through military threat".
When asked about the comments, Trump said "we're not talking about that", but mentioned what he called a "very strange election" in Venezuela. Maduro was sworn in for his third term in January after a contested election.

Trump went on to say that "drugs are pouring" into the US from Venezuela and that members of Tren de Aragua - a gang proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the US - were living there.

• US strike on 'Venezuela drug boat': What do we know, and was it legal?

The US military has moved to bolster its forces in the southern Caribbean, including through the deployment of additional naval vessels and thousands of marines and sailors to stem the flow of drugs.

The White House said on Friday that it is sending 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico.
When asked about the build-up of military assets in the Caribbean, Trump said: "I think it's just strong. We're strong on drugs. We don't want drugs killing our people."
Trump is a long-time critic of Maduro, and doubled a reward for information leading to his arrest to $50m (37.2m) in August, accusing Maduro of being "one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world".

During Trump's first term in office, the US government charged Maduro and other high-ranking Venezuelan officials with a range of offences, including narco-terrorism, corruption and drug trafficking. Maduro has previously rejected the US allegations.

How many alt-right conventions are there? Heard of another one on the radio called Natcon that occured this week. Goes hard on the christofascism and has members from Trump admin attending. Growing in popularity is a dangerous figure Doug Wilson a preacher from Idaho, recently saying women shouldn't vote, also has Pete Hegseth as a member. The march to fascism is coming faster than expected.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/eric-schmitt-natcon-speech-national-conservatism-rcna228874
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/national-convservatism-conference-trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/pete-hegseth-crec-church-podcast

"A rightwing conference recently saw theocratic Christian nationalists, far-right publishers and members of men-only secret societies speaking alongside the Missouri senator Eric Schmitt, the assistant attorney general for civil rights at Donald Trumps Department of Justice and other senior Republican figures.
The speaker list at the National Conservatism conference in Washington DC raises questions over what distinctions exist between the nationalist hard right in the US and members of the Trump administration and the Republican party.

Heidi Beirich, the chief strategy officer and co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, said: NatCon is filled with extremists touting white nationalism and conspiracy theories. What is notable is how Trump administration officials and allies are key players in the event, showing that it is near impossible today to distinguish the far right from the administration.

The conference schedule was peppered with the names of leading figures of the so-called new right, an anti-democratic and ultra-nationalist far-right movement whose reactionary views have often undergirded the administrations actions.

The conference also featured prominent faces from the universe of thinktanks surrounding the Trump administration who have signed on to, or even devised the Project 2025 agenda that has provided a blueprint for Trumps actions in its first months.

The Heritage Foundation president, Kevin Roberts, for example, delivered a presentation entitled The Family: The Foundation of Americas Next 250 Years.
His speech leaned into male grievance and anti-immigrant sentiment, with Roberts endorsing the righteous anger such young men feel when our elites say they can be replaced by immigrants or machines.
Alongside the prominent far-right figures, several members of the Trump administration appeared at NatCon.

A speech by Schmitt, the Missouri senator, presented contemporary politics as a battle between the nation and the forces that would erase it, claiming that in Europe, the immigration crisis threatens to transform the ancient fabric of those nations, and all who object are menaced by an increasingly totalitarian censorship state.
Schmitt took aim not only at illegal immigration but legal immigration, saying: It should be clear that the fact that something is sanctioned by our government doesnt mean its good for our country.

Schmitt appeared to emphasize the idea that the American constitution has a basis in race: If you impose a carbon copy of the US constitution on Kazakhstan tomorrow, Kazakhstan wont magically become America. Because Kazakhstan isnt filled with Americans, its filled with Kazakhstanis.

Schmitt said what set Donald Trump apart from the old conservatism and the old liberalism alike was his knowledge that America is not just an abstract proposition, but a nation and a people with its own distinct history and heritage and interests, and his election culminated a pitchfork revolution driven by the millions of Americans who felt they were turning into strangers in their own country.
He identified America with colonial violence, including the pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier, the outnumbered Kentucky settlers repelling wave after wave of Indian warband attacks from beyond the stockade walls, whom he said would be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for a proposition rather than a homeland for themselves and their descendants.
The Guardian has previously reported that Schmitt hired Nate Hochman as a policy adviser in February. He was hired despite his previous professional history, including his 2023 exit from Ron DeSantiss failed presidential campaign over a promotional video containing neo-Nazi imagery, and a stint last year at an ostensible thinktank founded by Marco Rubios current chief of staff, Mike Needham where Hochman created conspiracy-minded videos targeting Haitian migrants, LGBTQ+ people, and human rights groups.

Another member of the Trump administration, the deputy attorney general, Harmeet Dhillon, gave a speech in which she characterized the justice departments civil rights division, which she leads, as the presidents shock troops. Were the front guard. We are going to go first and clear the way for others to do their work.

Other administration figures who spoke at NatCon included the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and the Small Business Administration head and former senator, Kelly Loeffler.

The American public needs to catch up fast on the reality of American politics, said Katherine Stewart, the author of Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy. This isnt about left v right or liberal v conservative. The present administration and its NatCon supporters represent a fanatical movement that does not believe in democracy, individual rights, rational discourse, or any of the things that actually made America great.