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Incredible little artifact of 2026 hyperreality: AI James Gandolfini reads an obvious ChatGPT script about Indian scam call-centers, set to a seven nation army remix and posted by the Director of the FBI
OPERATION BLACKOUT.
These aren’t random scammers sitting behind laptops. They built fortified compounds, trafficked human beings, forced slave labor, and constructed an international fraud machine targeting Americans.
So we’re dismantling the machine.
$15+ BILLION in assets and crypto seized.
500+ fake investment sites shut down.
Hundreds arrested.
Thousands of trafficked workers freed.
10,000+ Americans warned before they could be robbed.
More than $500 MILLION saved.
And 20+ countries are now coordinating in this fight.
These criminals built an industry that could target Americans from anywhere.
-DKP 🇺🇸
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Voting rights advocates warn US citizens "could lose the right to vote" after the Supreme Court gave the Trump admin a green light to use a federal database with "known errors, including incorrectly flagging numerous eligible citizens... as noncitizens." commondreams.org/news/suprem…
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President Donald Trump has said every American should want a data center in their town. But his home county in Florida just voted to block them. commondreams.org/news/palm-b…
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Israel's genocidal war on Gaza has not only caused mass death and destruction. It has also created what one UN Trade official described as "the world's most severe economic crisis on record." commondreams.org/news/gaza-e…
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holding a crying newborn and saying “you chose to use your time to spill tears and center your feelings. this is incredibly racist and deflecting behavior”
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if we're measuring in "proportionate 9/11s" then in Gaza Israel would have killed 14 million Americans, or 4,600 9/11s
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The Bosnian genocide "only" killed 2.4% of its pre-war population. This is why the definition of genocide considers things like intent. Otherwise, like Galloway here, in the desperation to deny one, you become a denialist of others.
Scott Galloway lays out the numbers to Abdul El-Sayed.
• The Holocaust killed 40% of Europe's Jews
• Rwanda killed 70% of the Tutsis
• Cambodia killed 1/3 of the entire country
• In Gaza, it is 3% at most, alongside polio vaccines, 2,500 calories a day and leaflets warning civilians to leave
El-Sayed doesn't dispute a single number.
Instead, he says "we want to quibble about the words," and that the word genocide "should be used because it speaks to the moral imperative of action."
Genocide is the word the world coined for the extermination of a people. It is the gravest charge there is. And El-Sayed's case for leveling it at the Jewish state isn't that it's true.
It's that it helps him get what he wants.
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The post applies the Bosnian War's total death toll (~100k/~2.3% of ~4.4M pre-war population) to the "Bosnian genocide," but courts found genocide only for Srebrenica, with ~7-8k killed from an enclave of ~38-40k.
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documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/…
britannica.com/event/Bosnian-…
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Trans athletes have 'stolen' nearly 2,300 gold medals from women and girls in the US: report trib.al/JIZz4j7
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The UK's “double lock against arms sales” to Israel hasn't actually blocked any weapons transfers, a new report shows. One anti-arms trade advocate said it showed the UK's policy change is "nothing more than a soundbite designed to appease voters." commondreams.org/news/uk-isr…
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The White House is airing a TV ad glorifying Trump that says it was “paid for by the US government.” One critic called using federal dollars for what amounts to campaign material the “weirdest way to violate the Hatch Act, ever.” commondreams.org/news/trump-…
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Desperate to reduce prices before the midterms, Trump is planning a diesel export ban. Critics warn it will only cause prices to explode even more in the long term. commondreams.org/news/trump-…
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Calls are growing for Netanyahu to be arrested when he appears in New York for the UN General Assembly. Though Mamdani has said NYC can't enforce the ICC warrant against him, human rights lawyers argue it's not the only option to hold him accountable. commondreams.org/news/netany…
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Critics have described Trump's boat strikes as extrajudicial killings that violate due process. On Tuesday, he seemed to agree, saying that where previous administrations brought alleged drug trafficking suspects to court, "We don't waste our time." commondreams.org/news/trump-…
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This is an open admission and conclusive evidence of the war crime of pillage.
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Just imagine for a moment if the Iranian president stood up at the UN, imagine if Ahmadinejad had come to the UNGA, and said: “Do I annihilate the Jewish state, and do it quickly? Do I drive Israel into hell?”
Imagine the Western and global and media response and outcry.
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having a copy of the actual check used to bribe a Senator is some of the craziest shit I’ve ever seen
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The vast majority of Democratic voters believe Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza. According to a new poll, 57% of them believe the officials who enabled it in both the Trump and Biden administrations should face prosecution. commondreams.org/news/dems-w…
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The Atlantic suggests El-Sayed is paranoid about Israel's influence in US politics and then admits that, okay, well, actually, pro-Israel groups are genuinely trying to destroy his campaign
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"Life doesn’t wait for you to be ready for things," Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said about the possibility of a 2028 presidential run. "Sometimes life just makes things ready for you." commondreams.org/news/aoc-20…