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  1. Canary Mission is an anonymously-run doxing[1] website established in 2014 that publishes the personal information of students, professors, and organizations that it describes as anti-Israel or antisemitic, focusing primarily on people at North American universities.[2][3][4] Critics have described it as weaponizing the accusation of antisemitism in order to silence critique of Israel.[1] Canary Mission's published materials have been described as a blacklist.[5][6] Profiles are publicly-available online and intended for wide use, and Canary Mission may actively send them to employers.[7] Known users of the profiles include Israeli intelligence organizations Ministry of Strategic Affairs[1][8][9] and Shin Bet,[1] which interrogate and deny entry to American citizens.[9][10][11] In March 2025, multiple foreign students with Canary Mission profiles were detained by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.[12] ***** Canary Mission's work toward silencing critique of Israel is controversial.[5][13][6] Its tactics have been compared to McCarthyism[14][4] and the makeup and reliability of profiles have been questioned. Canary Mission does not publish information about who operates or funds it.[1][5][13][6] In 2018, The Intercept reported that the website was adding students to its lists solely following their participation in Students for Justice in Palestine activities. They also reported that Canary Mission perfectly articulated its vision and strategy in its April 2015 debut video. The two-minute clip features images of Jews with yellow stars on their clothes, followed by images of hijab-clad women waving Palestinian flags. The video’s female narrator closes by saying, "It is your duty to ensure that today’s radicals are not tomorrow’s employees."[5] Although Canary Mission's website states that it is a nonprofit organization, no organization with the name Canary Mission is registered with the IRS. While Canary Mission's website provides a way to donate to the organization via debit or credit card, there is no public record of Canary Mission's sponsors or donors.[3][26] Multiple pro-Israel organizations have denied having any affiliation with Canary Mission.[11]
  2. Welp. There goes the neighborhood.
  3. Yeah, folks around here have him in real life at tailgates. If anyone knows his family, they need to let them know he's exhibiting signs of a complete psychotic break.
  4. I have a feeling all these loyal Republican Cubans will be in for a nasty surprise when it's their turn.
  5. So long as it doesn't involve mayonnaise, sour cream, ranch dressing, or tartar sauce, I should be able to choke most of it down.
  6. I wasn't joking. We should all be acutely aware (if it hasn't already dawned on us) that everything happening right now has one purpose: to control the masses through fear and intimidation.
  7. Okay, so cool. I "aided and abetted" a terrorist when I called my congressman to bitch about the lack of due process for this dude and foolishly gave them my name. Good to know.
  8. Rubio is the ONE guy I didn't expect to go full-on fascist with thos regime, bit he's really taken to it with aplomb.
  9. Notable quotes: All three companies were founded by entrepreneurs who have been major political supporters of Trump. Musk has donated more than a quarter of a billion dollars to help elect Trump, and now serves as a special adviser to the president working to cut government spending through his Department of Government Efficiency. ***** One of the sources familiar with the talks described them as "a departure from the usual acquisition process. There's an attitude that the national security and defense community has to be sensitive and deferential to Elon Musk because of his role in the government." ***** In an unusual twist, SpaceX has proposed setting up its role in Golden Dome as a "subscription service" in which the government would pay for access to the technology, rather than own the system outright. The subscription model, which has not been previously reported, could skirt some Pentagon procurement protocols allowing the system to be rolled out faster, the two sources said. While the approach would not violate any rules, the government may then be locked into a subscription and lose control over its ongoing development and pricing, they added. We the People, wouldn't actually own this weapons system flying around above us. So, what happens if we decide to cancel our subscription, and are we sure they won't target us again?
  10. "Missed it by that much" applies to all three games. Wordle 1,398 4/6 🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ Missed a 50/50 shot here. 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #676 🟨🟨🟦🟨 Fell for it. Should've scanned 3 seconds longer. 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1179 4️⃣5️⃣ 8️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ << Missed hitting my solve-in-seven-guesses goal. 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  11. I dunno. To me, that was a part of the aspect of the writing for his character I enjoyed. Within one context, he’s like an infallible robot, precisely reciting all the necessary protocols for saving/repairing the biological aspects of human existence. Within another, he’s just a guy trying to figure out how to cope like a normal, imperfect person, prone to questionable judgment like any other mortal soul.
  12. Wordle 1,397 3/6 ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #675 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🙂 Daily Quordle 1178 4️⃣7️⃣ 5️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  13. Called my congressman’s office around 4:15 and kept that poor staffer on the line until office closing time, pretty much asking why my Rep wasn’t protecting his constituents. Even with the length of the call, I kept the conversation constrained to the following three topics The local VA hospital is losing 20% of its staff (100 jobs), and the USDA research office has been shut down. What is the congressman doing to fight for those jobs? Oil and cotton (2 biggest exports) are subject to China’s retaliatory tariffs. Oil prices have plummeted, and the rig count has gone down. What is he doing to fight for those vitally important West Texas export industries? Trump said he wants to send US citizens to foreign prisons. What is he doing to protect American citizens? Asking those three questions in such a way seemed to put the staffer on the back foot because the underlying assumption is that all of them are worth fighting for, which the staffer ultimately agreed with and stated that the Congressman supported vets, jobs, and citizens. I asked why the Congressman was silent on those three important items of local interest and got a response that “he’s been traveling a lot and has been busy,” which was obviously an attempt at a nonresponse. However, I continued to push and finally got the staffer to say that the Congressman would 100% draw a red line at the deportation of Americans and told him, “Then, the Congressman needs to make a statement to that effect, because people are scared.” I don’t know if any of this will make a difference, but I felt somewhat better afterward. And, to be honest, the staffer did genuinely seem to agree with all of the above, promising to send word to the office in DC that my Rep should make a clear statement that he is opposed to the deportation of American citizens. The local staffer also admitted he had already personally fielded several calls today from US citizens in this very conservative district who are concerned about Trump’s deportation threats that were issued yesterday. I told the staffer this goes way beyond any traditional understanding of Conservative vs. Liberal “politics” and is a fundamental threat to the kind of American democracy that we’ve always known. It took some back-and-forth and some hemming and hawing, but the staffer eventually agreed that the Congressman should make a statement to that effect and would send a note to DC that he should do so. Obviously, I’m not holding my breath that my Congressman will actually issue that statement, but it was at least a start to get a true-believer staffer for a very conservative congressman to admit these things are actual threats to the fundamental concept of liberty. Maybe the staffer is a good actor/liar, but I feel like a seed of doubt was planted. I’m going to keep at this shit, get to the point where I know these staffers’ names and voices for when I call, and make some fucking noise. You guys are all really smart and make good arguments. Light up the phone lines, use your degrees, and speak about shit in concrete ways that directly tie the insanity to your local community. Stay focused and on point. In this small town that voted 80% for Trump, there’s word circulating that a small cadre of brave locals, who are willing to put their social standing at risk, is planning a protest in front of the VA hospital in rural fucking West Texas. Small progress.
  14. I’m not sure why the goats are a point of confusion. It’s heavily implied that goat sacrifice is a thing that seems to be related to the ritual of “retiring” innies on whom they’ve been experimenting, which is apparently commonplace enough that Lady Brienne clearly had gotten sick of it enough that she didn’t want to play any further role. This widespread practice raises other questions: Who the hell have the other MDR team members been trying to divine their tempers? How many are there? Are we going to see them escape, too? What would be the implications if word got out to the wider public?
  15. WebMD is gonna kill us all.
  16. Palestinian teenager who died in Israeli prison showed signs of starvation, medical report says TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Starvation was likely the leading cause of death for a Palestinian teenager who died in an Israeli prison, according to an Israeli doctor who observed the autopsy. Seventeen-year-old Walid Ahmad, who had been held for six months without being charged, suffered from extreme malnutrition, and also showed signs of inflammation of the colon and scabies, said a report written by Dr. Daniel Solomon, who watched the autopsy, conducted by Israeli experts, at the request of the boy’s family. The Associated Press obtained a copy of Solomon’s report from the family. It did not conclude a cause of death, but said Ahmad was in a state of extreme weight loss and muscle wasting. It also noted that Ahmad had complained to the prison of inadequate food since at least December, citing reports from the prison medical clinic. Ahmad died last month after collapsing in Megiddo Prison and striking his head, Palestinian officials said, citing eyewitness accounts from other prisoners. Israel’s prison service said a team was appointed to investigate Ahmad’s death and its findings would be sent to the authorized authorities. The autopsy was conducted on March 27 at Israel’s Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, which has not released a report of its findings and did not respond to requests for comment. The Ahmad family’s lawyer, Nadia Daqqa, confirmed Solomon, a gastrointestinal surgeon, was granted permission to observe the autopsy by an Israeli civil court. Widespread abuse in Israeli prisons, rights groups say Rights groups have documented widespread abuse in Israeli detention facilities holding thousands of Palestinians who were rounded up after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack ignited the war in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Authority says Israel is holding the bodies of 72 Palestinian prisoners who died in Israeli jails, including 61 who died since the beginning of the war. Israel often holds on to bodies of dead Palestinians, citing security grounds or for political leverage. Conditions in Israeli prisons have worsened since the start of the war, former detainees have told the AP. They described beatings, severe overcrowding, insufficient medical care, scabies outbreaks and poor sanitary conditions. Megiddo Prison, a maximum security facility where many Palestinian detainees, including teens, are held without charge, is regarded as one of the harshest, said Naji Abbas, head of the Prisoners and Detainees Department at Physicians for Human Rights Israel. Israel’s prison service said it operates according to the law and all prisoners are given basic rights. Ahmad’s lawyer, Firas al-Jabrini, said Israeli authorities denied his requests to visit his client in prison, but three prisoners held there told him Ahmad suffered from severe diarrhea, vomiting, headaches and dizziness before he died. They suspected it was caused by dirty water, as well as cheese and yogurt prison guards brought in the morning and that sat out all day while detainees were fasting for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the lawyer said. Malnourished and frail According to Dr. Solomon’s report the autopsy showed that Ahmed likely suffered from inflammation of the large intestine, a condition known as colitis that can cause frequent diarrhea and can in some cases contribute to death. But medical experts said colitis usually doesn’t cause death in young patients and was likely exacerbated by severe malnutrition. “He suffered from starvation that led to severe malnutrition and in combination with untreated colitis that caused dehydration and electrolyte levels disturbances in his blood which can cause heart rate abnormalities and death,” said Dr. Lina Qasem Hassan, the head of the board for Physicians for Human Rights Israel who reviewed the report at the request of the AP. She said the findings indicated medical neglect, exacerbated by Ahmad’s inability to fight disease or infection because of how malnourished and frail he was. Dr. Arne Stray-Pedersen, a professor of forensic medicine at the University of Oslo in Norway who was not involved in the autopsy, said the report suggests there was a period of prolonged malnutrition and sickness lasting at least a few weeks or months. “Based on the report, I interpret the underlying cause of death to be emaciation-wasting,” he said. Scabies rashes were also noted on his legs and genital area, the report said. There was also air between his lungs that expanded into his neck and back, it said, which can cause infection. Air can come from small tears in the lungs, which can occur from severe vomiting or coughing, it said. Ahmad’s family said he was a healthy high schooler who enjoyed playing soccer before he was taken into custody. His father, Khalid Ahmad, said his son sat through four brief court hearings by videoconference, and he noticed at one of them, in February, that his son appeared to be in poor health. The family hasn’t yet received a death certificate from Israel, the elder Ahmad said Friday, and are hoping Dr. Solomon’s report will help bring his son’s body home. “We will demand our son’s body for burial,” he said “What is happening in Israeli prisons is a real tragedy, as there is no value for life.”
  17. Tragic. Records show Gene Hackman’s wife researched symptoms of illness days before her death ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities on Tuesday released a lengthy investigation report detailing some of the last emails, phone calls and internet searches by Gene Hackman’s wife in the days before her death, indicating that she was scouring for information on flu-like symptoms and breathing techniques. Betsy Arakawa died in February of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome — a rare, rodent-borne disease that can led to a range of symptoms that include flu-like illness, headaches, dizziness and severe respiratory distress, investigators have said. Gene Hackman is believed to have died about a week later of heart disease with complications from Alzheimer’s disease. The partially mummified remains of Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 65, were found in their Santa Fe home on Feb. 26, when maintenance and security workers showed up at the home and alerted police. According to the report released Tuesday, a review of Arakawa’s computer showed she was actively researching medical conditions related to COVID-19 and flu-like symptoms between Feb. 8 and the morning of Feb. 12. The searches included questions about whether COVID could cause dizziness or nosebleeds. She also had mentioned in an email to her masseuse that Hackman had woken up Feb. 11 with flu or cold-like symptoms but that a COVID test was negative and she would have to reschedule her appointment for the next day “out of an abundance of caution.” Arakawa’s search history also showed a query for a concierge medical service in Santa Fe the morning of Feb. 12. A review of her phone records by investigators showed she had a call with the service that lasted less than 2 minutes and missed a return call later that afternoon. Investigators also reviewed a call history to the Hackmans’ home phone along with voicemails and security footage from stores that Arakawa had visited on Feb. 11. Authorities also are expected to release more redacted police body camera footage from inside the home as sheriff’s deputies and investigators tried to piece together what had happened to the couple. The written report describes them going through rooms of the home and finding nothing out of the ordinary and no signs of forced entry. They found paper grocery bags on the floor of the pantry. Inside one bag was a Feb. 11 copy of the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper. They also documented a bag of bagels that had been opened, with part of the contents missing. In the living room was a large piano and couches, according to the report. There were pillows on one couch as if someone had been sleeping there. Investigators also described a collection of art, puzzles and drawing supplies in the dining room, and medical supplies like bandages and tape in several kitchen drawers. The materials were being released as the result of a recent court order that mandated any depictions of the deceased couple would have to be blocked from view. All photos, video and documents from the investigation had been restricted from release by an earlier, temporary court order. The Hackman estate and family members had sought to keep the records sealed to protect the family’s constitutional right to privacy. A report by the New Mexico Department of Health showed an environmental assessment of the Hackman property found rodent feces in several outbuildings and live traps on the property. The inside of the home was clean, with no evidence of rodent activity. Nestled among the piñon and juniper hills overlooking Santa Fe, the Hackman home is not unlike others in the area as mice are common within the surrounding landscape. One of the couple’s three dogs also was found dead in a crate in a bathroom closet near Arakawa, while two other dogs were found alive. A state veterinary lab tied the dog’s death to dehydration and starvation. An attorney for the estate, Kurt Sommer, argued during a hearing last month that the couple had taken great pains to stay out of the public light during their lifetimes and that the right to control the use of their names and likenesses should extend to their estate in death. The Associated Press, CBS News and CBS Studios intervened in the matter, saying in court filings that they would not disseminate images of the couple’s bodies and would blur images to obscure them from other records.
  18. It happened to me, too, when streaming. It seemed to have defaulted to the ASL version for me. To fix it, I went to "versions" and played the one without him.
  19. Twenty new cases over the weekend, with Reeves County (Pecos) now on the board, reporting one case. Counties previously reporting cases: Gaines County (Seminole): +9 El Paso County: +4 Lubbock County: +3 Andrews County, Cochran County (Morton), Midland County: +1 Transcript of an interview from yesterday that NPR did with Dr. Peter Marks, who is the former Director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and who was just pushed out of that role last month.
  20. Yeah. Over the past few years, extended droughts in Central and South America (i.e., climate change) have been hurting coffee bean production. These same droughts have been partly responsible for driving some of the migration to the US and the slowdown in ship traffic through the Panama Canal.
  21. Big data company, owned by Peter Thiel with buddies in the White House, boasting about dominating shit.
  22. Good on you for sharing that very important information with your kid. It’s a hard lesson to learn, but being impulsively reactionary is often how we lose our hard-won rights.
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