Hard Pass

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“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent said in a statement posted on social media...

“They’re not smart people, or they’re not savvy people,” Trump said.

. . .

“It speaks to our hubris,” Kent told reporters while campaigning for Congress. “For us not to have learned from all this just shows that there are people making money and making their careers at the other end of it. They’ve been doing it on the backs and dead bodies of U.S. soldiers.”

During his 2022 congressional campaign, Kent paid Graham Jorgensen, a member of the far-right military group the Proud Boys, for consulting work. He also worked closely with Joey Gibson, the founder of the Christian nationalist group Patriot Prayer, and attracted support from a variety of far-right figures.

Early during his first campaign, Kent acknowledged that a political consultant set up a call that was joined by Nick Fuentes, a popular right-wing influencer who has said that Jews are holding the U.S. “hostage” and once proclaimed that “Hitler was awesome, Hitler was right.”

I would like to take a moment to separate the truth from the lies regarding Charlie Kirk. There is much misinformation surrounding his life as well as his unfortunate death.

Charlie Kirk was an outspoken champion of equality, tolerance and unity. He spent many years in his teens, twenties, and right up until his death at 31 years old at protests and rallies, leading the charge for civil rights, gay/trans rights, and many other causes that he felt strongly about.

When he was 28, he met Syreeta Jenkins (26) at one of the many events that he sponsored and participated in. The two of them could not have been any more opposite. Charlie, a white cis male from Arlington Heights, Illinois, and Syreeta, a black trans woman from Virginia Beach, Virginia. The differences didn't matter though. They bonded over their shared passion for justice and equality, They quickly fell in love and together, for the next three years they were a very powerful force for radical positive change.

On the morning of September 10th 2025, Charlie awoke with purpose in his soul and heart. That day, his schedule had him giving a lecture at a highly regarded medical school on the benefits of vaccines, another topic which he was passionate about. Then, after the lecture, he quickly hit the streets to preach his message of equality, unity, tolerance and acceptance at a local protest.

After he was done with the protest, he and Syreeta met back at her house. They decided to have some drinks, and eventually made the mutual and misguided decision to use drugs, fentanyl to be specific. They had done this hundreds of times before without issue, but this time was different.

They both lost consciousness around 1015pm, according to Syreeta. She claims to have woken up shortly afterward at around 1030, to find Charlie on the floor, unresponsive. She immediately dialed 911, told the dispatcher what was going on, and proceeded to begin CPR in hopes of saving his life. Unfortunately, this didn't work, and Charlie was pronounced dead at 1147pm on September 10th, just moments before the beginning of his favorite holiday.

The conservative disinformation machine was working overtime in the moments following his death. Through the use of generative AI and mass media, a narrative that he was assassinated because he was a conservative podcaster was constructed, and they placed the blame on a nonexistent man named Tyler Robinson. Over the next few days, the entirety of the right wing (who had never even heard of him until after his unfortunate overdose) bought into this lie, and rallied around the false belief that Charlie was assassinated for having and speaking controversial and conservative beliefs at a college in Utah. This is a complete and blatant fabrication.

Over the next few weeks, Charlie became a martyr for MAGA. After his death and the great lie surrounding it, people began changing their social media profile pictures to images of him. People began getting tattoos of his face and false quotes that were misattributed to him. People began getting fired for being critical of him or the fabricated story that had been built up around him.

Most people still do not know the truth, which is why I am making this post. The US government have done an extraordinary job of burying this young man's entire past, propping up a false one, and selling the lie of his life and death to MAGA as a christ-like martyrdom tale. I hope that you will share this story with your friends. It's time that America be told the truth.

What am I gonna do, start a war in the Middle East? Come on, I got more sense than that...

Yeah, I remember starting a war in the Middle East. Fuck yo Middle East!

(For those too young to remember the skit, google Dave Chappelle Rick James and enjoy!)

A continuation of this post by @negativenull@piefed.world which was a continuation of this post by @MattW03@lemmy.ca

Onion rings…

Was thinking about this today. With all the publicity surrounding this slop, it really seems like a psyop to get younger people (or anyone) into a mindset of "I shouldn't learn programming. There's no jobs for that and AI will just do it. I shouldn't make music or art, AI will just do it anyway". I've even fallen into this trap myself a couple of times!

I'm sure educators have already heard "why am I learning this, i'll just have AI do it" a million times already.

Really seems like a great plan by the overlords. Depress everyone so they are dumb and unskilled so they are forced to use your trash.

For a year, the Trump Justice Department has been on an odd mission: to assist a mysterious former FBI informant with ties to Russian intelligence who ended up in prison for passing disinformation about Joe Biden to the bureau. His crime deeply affected American politics. The false claim he slipped to the FBI—that Biden and his son Hunter each were paid a $5 million bribe by a Ukrainian energy company—became the main evidence in the House Republicans’ reckless and ill-fated impeachment drive against the 46th president.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/65496771

Hi community,

I’m one of the maintainers of Portabase, and this is my first time sharing about it on Lemmy.

Portabase is an open-source platform for database backup and restore.

It’s designed to be simple, reliable, and lightweight, without exposing your databases to public networks. It works via a central server and edge agents (like Portainer), making it perfect for self-hosted or edge environments.

It currently supports 7 databases:

PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis and Valkey

Repository: https://github.com/Portabase/portabase

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Key features:

• Logical backups for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQLite, Redis, Valkey
• Multiple storage backends: local filesystem, S3, Cloudflare R2, Google Drive
• Notifications via Discord, Telegram, Slack, webhooks, etc.
• Cron-based scheduling with flexible retention strategies
• Agent-based architecture for secure, edge-friendly deployments
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The Circus that is the current US Administration.

Trump specifically called out the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal for reporting over the weekend that “five US Air Force refueling planes were struck and damaged on the ground at Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia.” Citing two unnamed US officials, the Journal noted that “the tankers were hit during an Iranian missile strike on the Saudi base,” and that the planes were “damaged but not fully destroyed and are being repaired.”

The US president called the story “false reporting” without substantively refuting its content. Trump wrote that four of the refueling planes are “in service” and one “will soon be flying the skies” — none of which is inconsistent with the Journal’s reporting.

Aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Trump attacked a reporter as “a very obnoxious person” after she asked the president why he’s sending 5,000 US Marines and sailors to the Middle East.

US Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) warned in a letter to Carr on Sunday that the Trump administration is engaged in a “blatant attempt to muzzle the free press” if outlets don’t align their coverage of the Iran war “with Trump’s preferred narrative.”

“Your Saturday post follows that same logic but extends it to the coverage of an active military conflict, where the chilling effect on journalists and the damage to the public’s right to know are most severe,” Markey wrote to Carr