pelespirit

An old one, but seems appropriate for what I've seen start ramping up lately.

The need for validation made me break open the vault, lol. You asked for it:

• What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol
• The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on possible obstruction by President Trump of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election
• Memo reveals a House Republican strategy on shootings: downplay white nationalism, blame left
• Panic buttons were inexplicably torn out ahead of Capitol riots, says Ayanna Pressley chief of staff
• Who’s who of Jeffrey Epstein’s powerful friends, associates and possible co-conspirators
• FBI’s Comey: Republicans also hacked by Russia
• Unsealed flight logs show that Trump was on Epstein's private jet in 1997
• Devin Nunes after Ambassador Sondland's testimony
• Lev Parnas Helped Rep. Devin Nunes’ Investigations
• Alphabet puts another $375 million into Josh Kushner’s Oscar Health, just months after previous investment
• The Program on Extremism has launched a project to create a central database of court records related to the events of January 6th, 2021.
• User Clip: Raskin - House Impeachment Video Evidence
• Here’s the Whole Transcript of That Leaked Steve Bannon Tape, Annotated
• Florida changed its COVID-19 data, creating an ‘artificial decline’ in recent deaths
• Leaked Audio of Sen. Joe Manchin Call With Billionaire Donors Provides Rare Glimpse of Dealmaking on Filibuster and Jan. 6 Commission
• Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows
• Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House
• “We’re going to take over Washington, D.C. We’re going to federalize. We’re going to have very powerful crime, and you’re going to be proud of it again,” the former president said
• Donald Trump’s Many, Many, Many, Many Ties to Russia
• All of Trump’s Russia Ties, in 7 Charts
• Here’s A Closer Look At Donald Trump’s Disturbingly Deep Ties To Russia

Edit (I found some more, but they're more propaganda focused):

• Astroturfing Information Megathread- revision 8 (old-reddit link)
• Link within previous thread and archived- "Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream -- people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc)."
• Russia and the Menace of Unreality-How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare
• Russia is using the power of 'Black PR' to destroy political reputations and spread disinformation in the West
• The availability heuristic, also known as availability bias
• What Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán Understand About Your Brain-Why do some people who support Trump also wind up believing conspiracy theories? There’s a scientific explanation for that.
• Political Misinformation Game: Harmony Square-it's an actual game
• Max Fisher on How Silicon Valley Has Rewired Our Brains | Offline Podcast
• Amygdala hijack occurs when strong emotions “take over” the thinking part of your brain.
• Asch conformity experiments
• Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services
• It's My Right to Hold This Turd
• 5 studies about fact-checking you may have missed last month
• This Video Will Make You Angry

President Donald Trump kicked off his latest evening bloodbath on Friday with the firing of the highest-ranking military officer in the country, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Charles Brown, Jr.

The unprecedented move came as one small part of a shakeup of the Pentagon's top brass. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the highest-ranking officer in the Navy, Admiral Lisa Franchetti, and the Air Force's second-in-command, Gen. James Slife, would be relieved of their positions.

Trump nominated Brown to the Joint Chiefs in 2020, picking him to serve as Chief of Staff of the Air Force. His nomination made him the first Black leader of a branch of the Armed Forces. President Joe Biden tapped Brown to chair the Joint Chiefs upon the departure of Gen. Mark Milley — who has no shortage of words about the danger Trump's second term poses.

The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), which stored police records documenting misconduct, is now unavailable, the Washington Post first reported.

The US justice department also confirmed the database’s elimination in a statement issued online.

“User agencies can no longer query or add data to the NLEAD,” the statement read. “The US Department of Justice is decommissioning the NLEAD in accordance with federal standards.”

I expected to see this story covered heavily here, but nary a peep, and within hours, it was scrubbed from both the Daily Beast’s site, as well as various other outlets on the internet. There is no retraction on the Daily Beast site, or even any acknowledgment that the story existed, and several republishers have pulled the story as well.

If you go to Google news and search “Trump Krasnov,” you may still find a couple of sites where the story, either in the van Brugen version, or under other bylines, is still up, but they are dropping like flies.

I think both sides of the aisle would love it, he wouldn't have to go to stupid meetings or handle anything, and he would go out with a huge fan base.

You're an old dude with plumbing problems, why are you still working?

The plan to carry out mass firings of civilian probationary employees at the Department of Defense has been temporarily paused until a more thorough review of the impacts can be done, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

The pause comes after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the military services to identify $50 billion in programs that could be cut next year.

Pentagon lawyers reportedly started reviewing the legality of the planned firings after CNN reported it could conflict with Title 10 section 129a of the US Code.

The North Carolina Supreme Court denied the state board of elections’ petition to bypass the appeals court level in an ongoing legal bid by GOP candidate Jefferson Griffin to overturn his 2024 election loss. As a result of the court’s 4-2 order issued today, Griffin’s challenge will proceed in the North Carolina Court of Appeals before ultimately ending up in the state Supreme Court — a move that could potentially benefit his legal efforts to unseat incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs.

By contrast, bypass directly to the North Carolina Supreme Court might have been more favorable to Riggs, as it would have enabled a recent Wake County Superior Court ruling rejecting Griffin’s challenge to remain in place if the justices (with Riggs recused) deadlocked in a 3-3 split.

According to these sources, IRS employees slated for termination were “deemed as not critical” to the ongoing tax filing season. Managers have been told be be “hands-on-deck” in the office Thursday and Friday to help with the offboarding process.

According to the latest data from the Office of Personnel Management, the IRS had more than 15,000 employees with less than a year on the job, as of May 2024. In some cases, however, IRS employees may have probationary periods that exceed one year.

Doreen Greenwald, national president of the National Treasury Employees Union, called the layoffs “arbitrary and unlawful,” and said NTEU “will keep fighting until every wrongful termination is reversed.”

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Thursday cut protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants, leaving them vulnerable to deportations by August.

“We are returning integrity to the TPS system, which has been abused and exploited by illegal aliens for decades,” a DHS official said in a statement. “President Trump and Secretary Noem are returning TPS to its original status: temporary.”

It’s the second time Noem has revoked an extension of Temporary Protected Status renewed under the Biden administration. TPS allows people from countries deemed too dangerous to return to their home due to violence, natural disasters or other unstable circumstances to obtain U.S. work permits and protection from deportation.

The red billboard, located at Sealy Avenue and University Boulevard in Galveston, (Texas) says "Welcome to the Gulf of America" in a white font and all capital letters. "Sponsored by Enron" appears below the message.

Enron had not posted about the billboard on its social media pages, as of Friday morning.

The company didn't immediately respond to a request to confirm its sponsorship of the billboard.