Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) leaned in on some of the more salacious issues concerning Hunter Biden in her questioning of IRS whistleblowers who investigated Biden at a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday — and brought sexually explicit posters to make her point.
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is accused of pushing a similar plot in Arizona to falsely declare Donald Trump won the state in 2020.
@Col3814444 She should be indicted. Ginni's group hired the busses that got the traitors to the insurrection and she actively promoted the fake electors plot
The Democratic scion is using his bid for the party’s presidential nomination to inject conspiratorial ideology into the mainstream — to the delight of conservatives
@Col3814444 Using Trump’s playbook, except organized rather than stochastic. Pure fascism to create this private paramilitary force. He’s been working on this for a long time.
I just recently set up unilem.org aimed at federating with everyone. Yes this will include meta. Some will like it and others will not but thats the beauty of the fediverse. You can choose your home or even make your own....
@Col3814444 The Plains was such a nice town. Now the Trumpist family moved in. All I needed to read is that the new neighbors had a family pic taken at the Capitol on J6. So they are rat bastard traitors stirring up trouble.
Former chief Trump strategist Steve Bannon spent "months" encouraging anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run against President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, according to a report from CBS News....
Let’s start with this: The citizen’s right to possess firearms is a fundamental political right. The political principle at stake is quite simple: to deny the state the monopoly of armed force. This should perhaps be stated in the obverse: to empower the citizenry, to distribute the power of armed force among the citizenry...
Apparently one of the lemmy.ml admins was overzealous in banning all User-Agent strings that contained the word "bot". Bans were entered for all of the individual strings containing that word which were observed in their webserver logs, which impacted kbin's reported agent of "kbinBot"....
@blightbow Thanks. I appreciate the work that the admins here do. Kbin-social is a nice landing pad for this reddit refugee. That said, I don't have an interest in posting to lemmy.ml because they seem to be a bunch of tankies, which is being generous. The question in my mind is why kbin-social hasn't returned the favor and banned them as well as their gulag archipelago instance?
@Web_Rand Thank you for the link and for this question. My opinion - kbin-social should block the lemmy.ml and lemmygrad instances for the same reason that Mastodon Art is blocking us.
A video showed a large group of uniformed officers posing for a photo with the former president and shaking his hand at Los Angeles International Airport.
@Arotrios This is why there were former cops (and current cops) and former (and current military) participating in J6. Rat bastard traitors all of them. Often unrepentant after their slap on the wrist by DOJ.
@Arotrios This is why there were former cops (and current cops) and former (and current military) participating in J6. Rat bastard traitors all of them. Often unrepentant after their slap on the wrist by DOJ.
This is meant both in a general conversation how’s your day been and a i hope y’all have better cyber security than them because shit is fucked right now over there.
@MiscreantMouse This is why I’m of the opinion that defederating from anything that smacks of Meta or Threads should be done immediately. Zsuck supports Russian bots, Alt-right Insurrectionists and hate speech and has done so since 2015, in other words, longer than Elon. Should be walled off and removed like a cancerous tumor. In my view, that should include any instance that signed an NDA with them.
I saw a survey of instances that indicated many are taking a “wait and see” approach, which is mystifying. What do people think they are find that they don’t already know about Meta?
Anybody have any tips for me on catching largemouth bass? I know for a fact they are in my pond. The water has maybe a foot of visibility, at least on the shore. I've seen them hit them top and I've heard they'll strike a senko, but I've had no luck. I've tried texas rigs, wacky worms, a top water walker, a frog, and buzz bait and I've not even had a strike in the 7 days I've been out fishing there. What am I doing wrong??
@drdiemz try a popper, slider, grasshopper, frog or similar terrestrial on a fly rod. Make sure you’re out there at dusk and your throwing at the edges of cover so they can dart out and grab it. You don’t necessarily need a lot of action on the fly-just let it sit for a while. I’ve gotten strikes by wiggling the rod tip to make it look like it’s swimming/trying to get away bass are like little pond sharks and they react accordingly. Hope this helps!
Anyone else feeling that the sudden collapse of Twitter and Reddit is related to the conservative buyout of CNN? It feels like there's a concerted effort to capture or degrade major news outlets previously seen as left-leaning or centrist. I became suspicious after it became clear that Musk was deliberately running Twitter into the ground after buying with Saudi and Russian backers, but the timing of Reddit's attempt to emulate Twitter's self-destructive practices combined with the purchase of CNN has resulted in a significant portion of the MSM landscape that's been quickly and deliberately shifted politically rightward by the owners.
Curious to hear other folks thoughts on this dynamic, and what it will mean for the upcoming elections.
@Arotrios My sense is that there is not a direct correlation. However, the suits at CBS hired Mick Mulvaney to try to take market share from Fox. CNN changed and went authoritarian after they were bought by a conservative billionaire. Elon is a billionaire chaos agent working to promote disinformation and white nationalism. Spez is a clueless moron wannabe billionaire- he’s allowed Russian and Chinese disinformation and disruption to fester, even though he got rid of the Donald subreddit because they kept calling him a pedo (he moderated the “Jailbait” subreddit. And of course the conservative billionaire Murdoch hired Roger Ailes from the Nixon administration to create Fox News and also bought the Wall Street Journal. Don’t forget Sinclair media it’s the same deal. So I think this trend of the billionaire class buying up media buying up platforms and outlets in order to generate misinformation and solidify their political base will continue and intensify for 2024. Hopefully people see through their bullshit.
Ask someone who claims to be a weapons expert of any stripe whether shotguns are effective for home defense and you are going to get an EARFUL of opinions.So...
@borkcorkedforks I agree shotguns are not for everyone, especially someone who is new to firearms. I’m most comfortable using mine because I’m mostly a shotgun guy and I have confidence that I can hit what I point at because I’ve used the same gun for more than 30 years. Browning A5 “light” 12 with a buck barrel. There is a good distance between my house and the neighbors. That said, I plan to pick up a semi-auto 9mm so I have a good sidearm and also an AR well in advance of the next election cycle
I've played with pretty much any film I come across, and in terms of cost-benefit I've settled on Fomapan films. I like the grain structure, they are some of the cheapest BW film available and have great latitude if you like to mess with stand development. I shot this photo on a Pentax ME camera using Fomapan 100. Developed at...
Greene displays sexual images of Hunter Biden at IRS whistleblower hearing (thehill.com)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) leaned in on some of the more salacious issues concerning Hunter Biden in her questioning of IRS whistleblowers who investigated Biden at a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday — and brought sexually explicit posters to make her point.
Ginni Thomas under scrutiny following arrest of Michigan fake electors (www.newsweek.com)
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is accused of pushing a similar plot in Arizona to falsely declare Donald Trump won the state in 2020.
RFK Jr. Is Raking in Big Money From GOP Donors (www.rollingstone.com)
The Democratic scion is using his bid for the party’s presidential nomination to inject conspiratorial ideology into the mainstream — to the delight of conservatives
State guard set up by DeSantis is being trained as personal militia, veterans say (www.theguardian.com)
Veterans resign as force established as civilian disaster relief becomes ‘militaristic’ and ‘abusive’
A Lemmy instance with no defederation
I just recently set up unilem.org aimed at federating with everyone. Yes this will include meta. Some will like it and others will not but thats the beauty of the fediverse. You can choose your home or even make your own....
A gay couple ran a rural restaurant in peace. Then new neighbors arrived. (www.washingtonpost.com)
The conflict between a restaurant and conservative neighbors is tearing at the fabric of The Plains, Va., population 250.
Rumor: Steve Bannon spent months recruiting anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. to run against Biden as chaos agent. (www.salon.com)
Former chief Trump strategist Steve Bannon spent "months" encouraging anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run against President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, according to a report from CBS News....
70 House Republicans voted to cut off all US military aid to Ukraine (www.businessinsider.nl)
Rep. Matt Gaetz offered an amendment to the annual defense bill to cut off all military aid to Ukraine. The measure easily failed — but 70 House
Since everyone is posting old memes, this 10 year old essay might fit in: "The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights" (www.thepolemicist.net)
Let’s start with this: The citizen’s right to possess firearms is a fundamental political right. The political principle at stake is quite simple: to deny the state the monopoly of armed force. This should perhaps be stated in the obverse: to empower the citizenry, to distribute the power of armed force among the citizenry...
lemmy.ml is no longer shadowbanning kbin. (lemmy.ml)
Apparently one of the lemmy.ml admins was overzealous in banning all User-Agent strings that contained the word "bot". Bans were entered for all of the individual strings containing that word which were observed in their webserver logs, which impacted kbin's reported agent of "kbinBot"....
Where do I find which instances kbin.social is federated or defederated with?
See title. I can't find what instances are federated or defederated with kbin.social.
News: LAPD taking selfies with Donald Trump sparks outrage (www.newsweek.com)
A video showed a large group of uniformed officers posing for a photo with the former president and shaking his hand at Los Angeles International Airport.
Reddit is a dead site running (dbzer0.com)
PSA: LEMMY.WORLD WAS COMPROMISED
If you are a lemmy.world user, log out and log back in to clear cookies!...
18+ So Lemmy.world got hacked, how are y'all doing?
This is meant both in a general conversation how’s your day been and a i hope y’all have better cyber security than them because shit is fucked right now over there.
Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads (www.mediamatters.org)
Shotguns for Home Defense (www.youtube.com)
Ask someone who claims to be a weapons expert of any stripe whether shotguns are effective for home defense and you are going to get an EARFUL of opinions.So...
How often do you turn federation off?
The title. How often do you turn off federation and only scroll through kbin threads and magazines?
What's your go to B&W film?
I've played with pretty much any film I come across, and in terms of cost-benefit I've settled on Fomapan films. I like the grain structure, they are some of the cheapest BW film available and have great latitude if you like to mess with stand development. I shot this photo on a Pentax ME camera using Fomapan 100. Developed at...