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*The emergency disaster agency isn’t allowed to give a proper storm warning thanks to ICE.*

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The bloodiest crackdown on dissent since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution is slowly coming into focus, despite authorities cutting off the Islamic Republic from the internet and much of the wider world.

With the change in TikTok ownership, TikTok users in the U.S. are collectively freaking out over the company’s updated privacy policy after being alerted to the changes through an in-app message.

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@lardmotel/115949561772336147

Analysts believe the purges are designed both to reform the military and to ensure loyalty to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who also chairs the military commission. They are part of a broader anti-corruption drive that has punished more than 200,000 officials since Xi came to power in 2012.

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*Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts*

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This is domino. I am introducing her to Toby at the moment. Both of them seem chilled af, so I’m probably gonna give them face to face time tomorrow

seems old. eh; https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/113369408283605212

Gold has become Russia’s most lucrative and strategically vital metal. One of the world’s largest producers, Russia holds stakes across the former Soviet Union and Africa. Cut off from the global financial system, gold is easy to melt, launder, and move through black markets, evading sanctions.

Gasmangel: Jens Spahn kauft millionen Gaspedale

https://hachyderm.io/@boki/115949076671318302

Dilara was on her lunch break in the London store where she works when a tall man walked up to her and said: “I swear red hair means you’ve just been heartbroken.”

Apple is working on a small, wearable AI pin equipped with multiple cameras, a speaker, and microphones, reports The Information. If it actually launches, the AI pin will likely run the new Siri chatbot that Apple plans to unveil in iOS 27.

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I sent you https://vger.to/lemmy.world/post/42018446 over email, you must have been using Outlook

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Hi! I adopted an FIV+ cat this past August. From reading online, I didn’t think they would get sick too much more often than FIV- cats.

Picture taken on a playground somewhere in Hamburg, Germany at almost freezing temperatures with my Canon A1 on Kodak Gold 200. No Idea how this little dude got there. It looks like it’s taking a walk on the film , I think otherwise it wouldn’t be in focus.

Auch noch (in Teilen) aus Gas.. nur noch ein erzwungener Anschluss Brudi.. ein Haus noch Brudi und der Tarif wird bezahlbar Brudi!

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*Tommy Lee Walker was executed in the electric chair in May 1956 for the rape and murder of 31-year-old Venice Parker.*

*A DHS official went to Los Angeles in June to brief officers on the new policy ahead of an immigration enforcement action, two administration officials told NBC News.*

Police arrested about 100 clergy demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota’s largest airport Friday, and several thousand gathered in downtown Minneapolis despite Arctic temperatures to protest the Trump administration’s crackdown.

Kelley filed an emergency petition asking for Tipan Echeverria and his daughter’s release around 5:37 p.m. Thursday, less than five hours after they were taken into ICE custody, the affidavit states. About 40 minutes later, she filed a motion asking a judge to stop the transfer of Tipan Echeverria outside Minnesota and to order the release of the child.

Judges in Minnesota denied motions by the Trump administration to detain three protesters arrested this week for demonstrating inside a St. Paul church whose pastor allegedly works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A greatcoat worn by the senior US border patrol official Gregory Bovino, who has spearheaded aggressive immigration operations across the country, has raised eyebrows in German media with some commentators saying it resembled a fascist aesthetic.

A masked guy breaks down your door w/o an Article III warrant absent exigent circumstances? Yeah, I’d agree. Trick will be that pressing the murder charge would be federal since a federal agent dies in the line of official work (though illegal), which would give the president grounds to push for death.

The resignation of the agent, Tracee Mergen, was only the latest shock wave to have emerged from the Justice Department’s handling of the shooting of Renee Good.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, in a seeming rebuke of the Trump administration’s withdrawal from international collaborations.