cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/67058562

Republican Sen. Mike Lee was caught fleeing from media questions about his inflammatory posts on the senseless murder of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman.

disclaimer this is from circa 2020 but feels relevant to the people dancing to mariachi getting tear gassed today

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is set to report to federal prison on Tuesday to begin serving an 11-year sentence for accepting bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt. The New Jersey Democrat has been mocked for the crimes as “Gold Bar Bob,” according to his own lawyer.

Plans to pedestrianise parts of Oxford Street will move forward "as quickly as possible", the mayor of London has said.

Archived at https://archive.is/s0HmF

A sheriff's deputy in Colorado briefly pulled over Caroline Dias Goncalves before immigration agents detained her. Now county officials are conducting a review.

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From the article: Some fucker bought 40k CSAM images with PayPal and when the authorities compared the hash of those images with the database they found out 285 known victims in 1500 images

Securitization allows banks to repackage and resell debt, famously explained by actress Margot Robbie in a bubble bath in the film “The Big Short.”

from TNG S01E02 https://youtu.be/rMubr8KEsnM

To anyone who supports capitalism or otherwise opposes socialism:

Tehran “is the principal source of regional instability and terror,” declare G7 leaders in a joint statement.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250617111845/https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-adams-calls-for-broader-protest-mask-ban-after-no-kings-march

Things that make me irrationally angry? Only three of these videos have anything to do with cream, and the video that I was searching for with cream in the title isn't even in the results!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31498992

But fucking hell, it's chilly

Today's game is Fallout 76. I went ahead and did one of the Ally missions in the game. They're like the companions from Fallout 4, except they squat at your base 24/7. The ally i did was an astronaut lady who fell to earth after being in space when the bombs drop. She had me go to this Manor to recover some codes for something. The whole place was infested with Mothman Cultists. Luckily i was able to pick them all off with a sniper rifle without getting swarmed.

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas June 17, 2025 6:46 AM EDT

Mastodon thread summarising the study, by one of the involved scientists:

These owls are amazing looking! I love Dusky Eagle Owls! 🥰

From Frank Rodin

Shown in Laurence Fishburne presents LeVar Burton with the Lifetime Achievement Award

https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/

At least 45 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip while waiting for UN and commercial trucks to enter the territory with desperately needed food, according to Gaza’s health ministry and a local hospital.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31521912

Nine days after he helped defend the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith shot and killed himself while driving to work. Over four years later, Smith’s widow is trying to prove to a jury that one of the thousands of rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is responsible for her husband’s suicide.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250617114959/https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/17/nx-s1-5435312/medicaid-cuts-big-beautiful-bill-trump-kff-poll

ACAB

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31525840

From Dave Vanden Heuvel

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From a distance they look almost like ordinary sailboats, their sails emblazoned with the red-and-white flag of Denmark.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250617112145/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/omaha-immigration-workplace-raid-aftermath-rcna212931

From Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education

A federal judge ruled Monday it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants, adding that the cuts raise serious questions about racial discrimination.

NEW YORK (AP) — The nonprofit legal aid group Lambda Legal, which advocates for LGBTQ+ rights, has raised $285 million at a time when attacks on the rights of gay, intersex and transgender people have again intensified

Full title: He was devastated when his favorite Facebook game shut down, but at 10 years old, what could he do? 8 years later, he's got the rights, the original code, and is about to relaunch Dungeon Rampage on Steam