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Around 2,000 penguins wash up dead on Uruguay coast (www.france24.com)

White nationalists convicted of planning to riot at Idaho pride event (www.nbcnews.com)

A total of 31 Patriot Front members, including one identified as its founder, were arrested in 2022 after someone reported seeing people loading into a U-Haul van like “a little army.”

Well, We Have a Speaker. He’s an Election Denier and an Extreme Christian Fundamentalist. (newrepublic.com)

400 people killed in a single day by Israeli attacks in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)

She was told her twin sons wouldn’t survive. Texas law made her give birth anyway. (www.texastribune.org)

In December 2022, Miranda and her partner, Levi Langley, packed up the whole family, all their possessions and their pet chameleon and set out for Texas. It was time to come home....

Earth’s average 2023 temperature is now likely to reach 1.5 °C of warming (www.nature.com)

Jitsi, the open-source video conferencing platform, now requires a Google, Microsoft, or Facebook account for their online service (jitsi.org)

While Jitsi is open-source, most people use the platform they provide, meet.jit.si, for immediate conference calls. They have now introduced a “Know Your Customer” policy and require at least one of the attendees to log in with a Facebook, Github (Microsoft), or Google account....

Sigma male? Sigma balls (media.kbin.social)

All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan (www.bloomberg.com)

It astounds me that anyone thinks otherwise on Hamas. (lemmy.world)

Russian military pilot reportedly defects to Ukraine with helicopter (www.theguardian.com)

Judge partially strikes down Georgia ban on giving voters food and water in polling lines (www.cnn.com)

A federal judge on Friday narrowed a section of Georgia election law that banned the practice of handing out food and water to voters waiting in line to cast ballots, as well as halted enforcement of a requirement that voters put their birth dates on the outer envelope of their ballots.

McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased] (edition.cnn.com)

Mitch McConell says the quiet part out loud....

8BitDo’s $100 wireless mechanical keyboard screams ’80s NES (arstechnica.com)

Pro-Hitler and Holocaust denier account: X has paid me $3,000 in ad revenue sharing | Media Matters for America (www.mediamatters.org)

Democrats refuse to help GOP out of House speaker mess, trashing Jim Jordan as an 'insurrectionist' (www.nbcnews.com)

Democrats are standing firm in their refusal to bail out the House Republican majority as it struggles to elect a new speaker 10 days after after booting Rep. Kevin McCarthy....

‘Get Help’ – Elon Musk Blasted for Mocking Ukraine With Fake Zelensky Picture (www.kyivpost.com)

‘Get Help’ – Elon Musk Blasted for Mocking Ukraine With Fake Zelensky Picture The world’s richest man has continued his campaign against Kyiv, this time by using a fake picture of President Zelensky to mock Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s full-scale invasion....

Linux Mint Debian Edition officially released (blog.linuxmint.com)

LMDE 6 has been officially released. The big deal about this is that it’s based on the recently released Debian 12 and also that being based on Debian LMDE is 100% community based....

"How to tie a windsor knot" (lemmy.zip)

It's so distracting 😖 (slrpnk.net)

Has anyone defederated your instance? Introducing Defederation Investigator (defed.xyz)

cross-posted from: lemmy.basedcount.com/post/113726...

Raid of Small Kansas Newspaper Raises Free Press Concerns (www.nytimes.com)

A small town in Kansas has become a battleground over the First Amendment, after the local police force and county sheriff’s deputies raided the office of The Marion County Record....

‘X’ Rebrand Gets Twitter Blocked Under Indonesia Porn Laws (www.thedailybeast.com)

Donald Trump fined $5,000 for violating gag order in New York fraud trial and warned twice about imprisonment (www.cnn.com)

Former President Donald Trump was fined $5,000 by a New York judge on Friday for violating a gag order not to speak about any members of the court staff – and was warned twice about possible imprisonment....