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In recent weeks, nearly two dozen elected officials on both sides of the aisle said they were targeted after getting caught in the president's crosshairs.

Donald Trump’s heated rhetoric against his perceived political enemies has resulted in a blizzard of threats against at least 22 officials on both sides of the aisle in recent weeks, according to an NBC News tally.

Among those who’ve been targeted with threats after being mentioned in social media posts by the president are numerous Democrats, including Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan — but even more Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and over a dozen Indiana state lawmakers.

Three of the members of Congress that Trump accused of sedition, meanwhile, have filed complaints against him with the U.S. Capitol Police. The Capitol Police declined to comment on the complaints, saying in a statement, “For safety reasons, we cannot discuss any potential investigations.”

The effort to bring federal charges has been met with resistance by some career prosecutors who argue the crime doesn’t appear to fall under any federal statutes.

Three months after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Justice Department is weighing how to bring federal charges against the shooter, including under a novel legal theory that it was an anti-Christian hate crime, according to three people familiar with the investigation.

The suspect, Tyler Robinson, is already facing multiple state charges, including an aggravated murder count, and Utah prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty. Robinson’s partner is trans, and authorities have produced text messages from the suspect to his partner saying he was motivated to kill Kirk because he had “enough of his hatred.”

It’s not uncommon for defendants to face both state and federal charges, including for drug-related crimes and domestic terrorist attacks, among other offenses. But the effort to bring federal charges in the Kirk case has been met with resistance by some career prosecutors who have argued that the crime doesn’t appear to fall under any federal statutes, the three people said.

I have been receiving complaints from my family about my home servers running Immich. They claim that it got significantly slower to load stuff especially videos but also photos. And I can vouch for them. Yes. it got slow more like sluggish…? I'm not sure. But it doesn't feel normal because even ssh-ing into local server feels kind of sluggish now.

But the only thing that came to my mind was that I recently migrated my router facing WAN to OpenWRT router. So I suspect it has something to do with the underlying issue.

• my previous router: Tplink Archer C80
• my current (new) router: Glinet Flint 2

I flashed vanilla openwrt so the system looks like this:

System

	Hostname
		Flint2
	Model
		GL.iNet GL-MT6000
	Architecture
		ARMv8 Processor rev 4
	Target Platform
		mediatek/filogic
	Firmware Version
		OpenWrt 24.10.4 r28959-29397011cc / LuCI openwrt-24.10 branch 25.292.66247~75e41cb
	Kernel Version
		6.6.110
	Local Time
		2025-12-14 00:09:37
	Uptime
		14d 11h 56m 43s
	Load Average
		0.02, 0.01, 0.00

And CPU usage doesn't seem to be struggling at all while I play 4k video from immich

	1 Minute Load:
		0.13
		Average:
		0.27
		Peak:
		0.57
	5 Minute Load:
		0.07
		Average:
		0.22
		Peak:
		0.50
	15 Minute Load:
		0.02
		Average:
		0.12
		Peak:
		0.30

the most suggested cause of the slowness is hardware NAT (flow offloading) being disabled by default Yes, it was for me too. But I have spent enough time (more than a week) after changing 'flow offloading type' to 'Hardware flow offloading' and don't see any marginal improvement…

I use Tailscale for most of my homelab. I used ping function of Tailscale clients and the ping from a phone to server is 20-30ms (direct connection). I believe it was below 10 ms (direct connection) in the past setup.

It's such a complicated issue that I need to address bit by bit. And I've got little to no clue/knowledge. I appreciate your help. -

As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border” set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts causing turmoil in Chicago and elsewhere, he sees himself as the good guy. Not everyone agrees.