Sandy Hook is ~9,000. You may not remember, but Alex Jones does.

Gibraltar has a population of 32,000, which by some definitions is too small to be considered a city.

Nathan J. Robinson: The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free

Paywalls are justified, even though they are annoying. It costs money to produce good writing, to run a website, to license photographs. A lot of money, if you want quality. Asking people for a fee to access content is therefore very reasonable. You don’t expect to get a print subscription to the newspaper gratis, why would a website be different? I try not to grumble about having to pay for online content, because I run a magazine and I know how difficult it is to pay writers what they deserve.

But let us also notice something: the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the New Republic, New York, Harper’s, the New York Review of Books, the Financial Times, and the London Times all have paywalls. Breitbart, Fox News, the Daily Wire, the Federalist, the Washington Examiner, InfoWars: free!

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Seattle
• https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2023/10/11/gen-z-rent-income-housing-seattle
• https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/heres-how-much-you-need-to-earn-to-afford-a-seattle-area-home/
• https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/as-wa-housing-costs-climb-incomes-arent-keeping-up/
• https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/its-definitely-tough-new-study-shows-nearly-third-wa-households-struggle-make-ends-meet/MV7YO5CQDJBOTHZFPM4ILD2HII/

To own the tanks.

lol

$ curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/refs/heads/master/supportedsites.md | grep -i porn | wc -l
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Huh, thanks! Based on its name I assumed it was exclusively for YouTube.

$ yt-dlp https://prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com/cbsnews/vr/hls/3330898_hls/master.m3u8
[generic] Extracting URL: https://prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com/cbsnews/vr/hls/3330898_hls/master.m3u8
[generic] master: Downloading webpage
[generic] master: Downloading m3u8 information
[generic] master: Checking m3u8 live status
[info] master: Downloading 1 format(s): 2879+audio_aac-English
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 45
[download] Destination: master [master].f2879.mp4
[download] 100% of   87.22MiB in 00:00:18 at 4.66MiB/s
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 45
[download] Destination: master [master].faudio_aac-English.mp4
[download] 100% of    4.04MiB in 00:00:01 at 2.14MiB/s
[Merger] Merging formats into "master [master].mp4"
Deleting original file master [master].faudio_aac-English.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file master [master].f2879.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
$ vlc 'master [master].mp4'

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Docker, no docking!
Docker, no docking!
Docker, no docking!

EU/US have to step up financial reconstruction offers

The offers are likely to be predatory IMF/World Bank loans leading to even more neoliberal/neocolonial privatization & austerity.

The US hasn’t given Ukraine a blessed thing: they’ve all been lend-leases that will take the Ukrainian people generations to pay off.

a country under a genocidal invasion

These claims of genocide by Russia are projection by Western propaganda.

• BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
• Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
• Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
• The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
• The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
• WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
• Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
• The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
• openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
• Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
• NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide

None of my web browsers knows what to do with https://prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com/cbsnews/vr/hls/3330898_hls/master.m3u8 nor does VLC.

three sources familiar with the matter

Anonymous sources. On the one hand, this is weak tea, but on the other, I wouldn’t put it past the Biden administration at all.

Ask Ukraine.

no u

Is this a fucking joke? Are you Josep Borrell?

• List of Atrocities committed by US authorities
• A Detailed Chronological List of US Interventions, Invasions, Destabilzations, and Assistance to Oppressive Regimes (ending in 2002)
• Shock therapy (economics)
• Are We The Baddies?
• The blueprint of regime change operations How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
• Infographic: US military presence around the world The US controls about 750 bases in at least 80 countries worldwide and spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined.
• Michael Parenti: Africa is Rich

• The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
• CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
• Noam Chomsky, 2023: NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world”
• Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
• Counterpunch, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

Doubling down on Russiagate conspiracy theories isn’t the own you think it is.

• Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
• Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
• Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
• Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
• Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
• Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
• Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
• MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes
• Jeff Gerth at Columbia Journalism Review on Russiagate: Editor’s Note | Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four
• Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away