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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. "The order was to kill everybody," one of them said. A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack - the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

It’s wild that you can just openly bribe the President of the United States with chunks of gold to get
whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.

Happy Halloween. 👻

a haunted house but it’s just an all hands meeting where people start disappearing

Reminder: one of their *own investors* is amongst those who has lost touch with reality as a result of their product. And they still haven’t slowed down.

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when i was in college i often wore a tshirt that said “can’t sleep, clowns will eat me” and i always thought it was funny, but nowadays i feeeeel it.

tho now its more like “can’t sleep, clowns are eating everything i value on the planet” 🙃

Jesus: Okay, no more forgiveness, Father, they know what they are doing and they are still doing it!

Noah: Yeah, man, I told you they always miss the boat.

Moses: Look, fellas, it’s about the journey, not the destination.

what … what happened to it??

Just when you think you finally escaped (json as a metaphor for life)

Alicia Murphy - Home [Official Music Video] YouTube video by Alicia murphy

i was sharing this with someone (as proof that there is more to me than WordPress drama lol) and i figured i would share it here it too, cuz i think this is such a pretty song and sometimes we just need to hear a pretty song.

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< Pe The Dallas Morning News O Gov. Abbott signs Ten Commandments bill mandating displays in Texas classrooms The new law is set to take effect Sept. 1, but it will likely be challenged in court well before then. the len Commandments L AM the LORD thụ God. haut no other gods aefort me. the to thuselfany graven me of the Lord ta heep it holy. other, that the and whith the As Texas attorney general in 2004, Greg Abbott defended the constitutionality of a granite slab bearing the Ten Commandments on the Capitol grounds. As governor, he signed a bill into law Saturday requiring Texas public school classrooms to display copies of the Ten Commandments. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck) By Nolan D. McCaskill 07.22 PM on lun 21. 2025

ummm how are they phrasing the one about coveting thy neighbor’s wife??

No swimming for kids because of Trump, Stephen Miller, and their crusade of cruelty.

I think about Harrison Bergeron a lot.

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

Mozambique: These Are the Children the United States Left to Die Part one: How the Trump Administration abandoned orphans with HIV

“Interviews with grieving caregivers, health workers and government officials across these settlements all converged on one clear and near-universal conclusion: the funding cuts have led to the deaths of children.”

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ICE raids in Los Angeles are a declaration of war ICE sent the city a message when its agents showed up in full force, and that message was responded to in kind by the people of Los Angeles

NEW: For @prismreports.org, I wrote about my beloved Los Angeles, an American city unlike any other, where there is an unspoken understanding that our place and our people must be defended at all costs:

'No act of journalism ... is too small': Creating necessary archives Archives are the "slam dunk" purpose of movement journalism. What we create just has to archive the truth for the next generation.

In which I argue that no act of journalism or archiving is too small. As @prisonculture.bsky.social and friends were saying at our event about 'zines a couple weeks ago -- make your thing! Write your stories down! This is one of our power sources! objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/no-a...

This is the spirit of Los Angeles.

This is California.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

#FreeDavidEndRaids

Efficiency is when you make the troops homeless *before* they're veterans

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

The Heart of Open Source - The WP Community Collective Delivered by Sé Reed, CEO of The WP Community CollectiveAlt Ctrl Org, Basel, Switzerland — June 6, 2025 WordPress was not built by one person. No true open source project ever is. Sure, one person can...

"Right now, we have the opportunity to decide what kind of community we are and what kind of community we want to be." — @sereedmedia.bsky.social #WordPress

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the_query A podcast for 43% of the web.

We podcasting again? Maaaaaaaaybe…

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screenshot from the linked article: Core Principles WordPress should balance experimentation with quality standards and project philosophy. GitHub repositories under WordPress should benefit the community, prevent single points of failure, and ensure open-source accessibility. Before outlining specific criteria, here are the underlying principles that guide these criteria: 1. Community Ownership: Code that serves the WordPress project should be collectively owned and maintained rather than dependent on individuals. 2. Responsible Stewardship: Maintainers must commit to responsible management of their repositories. 3. Quality Assurance: All code under the WordPress umbrella should reflect the project's commitment to excellence. 4. Transparency: Clear documentation and communication about repository status and purpose.

Just a few highlights of what stood out for me. In honor of being in Switzerland for #WCEU, I offer my thoughts thus:

Mit zweierlei Mass messen.
Deux poids, deux mesures.
Due pesi e due misure.

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The birds in Switzerland sing even when it’s raining.

Updates from the Incident Response Team In recent months, the Incident Response Team (IRT) has received excellent questions about its role and responsibilities and its approach to confidentiality. To that end, this post aims to share som…

this is the only post i’ve seen with any data about it: make.wordpress.org/project/2024...

unless the person who filed the report says something about it, no. there was a statistics post filed at least one year that reported some data, but i don’t know if that was a regular report (and there is no way to confirm the data anyway.)

These various initiatives and policy changes are often regarded as discrete problems, but they comprise a unified assault. The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science. If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us. Like the inquisitors of old, who persecuted Galileo for daring to notice that the sun did not, in fact, revolve around the Earth, they believe that truth-seeking imperils their hold on power.

The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

TL;DR: Restoring trust requires accountability.

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Mariska Hargitay: where is the perpetrator?