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The manosphere: a new front for the far-right

‘There were no warning signs’: what happens when your partner falls into the ‘manosphere’?

More and more men are being sucked into parts of the internet that circulate misogynist content, leaving their families to deal with the wreckage


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Pro-Israel group asks DoJ to investigate Ms Rachel over posts on Gaza children

Pro-Israel group asks DoJ to investigate Ms Rachel over posts on Gaza children AND US student journalists go dark
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StopAntisemitism questions if beloved children’s entertainer acted as foreign agent to spread ‘propaganda’

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StopAntisemitism took issue with Ms Rachel’s posts sharing widely reported images of malnourished children in Gaza.

A prominent pro-Israel group that doxes people it deems antisemitic is calling on Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, to investigate whether beloved children’s entertainer Ms Rachel is operating as a foreign agent after sharing sympathetic content about children suffering in Gaza.

In a letter sent on Monday, the group StopAntisemitism formally requested the Department of Justice determine whether Ms Rachel, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, is “being remunerated to disseminate Hamas-aligned propaganda to her millions of followers”, claiming her social media posts about Palestinian children in anguish could constitute undisclosed work for foreign entities.

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Paul Blue Eyes

Norway fuels provider cuts off the US Navy *



It is reported that a submarine of the US Navy was no longer able to refuel in Norway and was forced to turn back.

One news source is saying the Norwegian Government intends to still cooperate.

*developing story*

Mods, this is my first post here, hope it is okay

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Commander Riker; smirk
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Kansas City man who pleaded guilty to shooting teenager who rang wrong doorbell has died

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — An 86-year-old Missouri man has died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the white man’s doorbell by mistake, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Andrew Lester of Kansas City was charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the shooting of the then-16-year-old, who survived and is now a freshman at Texas A&M. Before his trial was scheduled to begin, he pleaded guilty Friday to a lesser charge of second-degree assault, which carries up to seven years behind bars. He was scheduled to be sentenced on March 7.

The rest of the article is at the source

I'm posting from my phone so apologies for any missing tags and for a hasty post
Zendaya

Judge expected to rule in 24 hours in case that aims to sharply curtail Musk's DOGE

A U.S. judge said on Monday she hoped to rule within 24 hours in a lawsuit that aims to protect information systems at major government agencies from Elon Musk's DOGE team, which President Donald Trump has tasked with overhauling the government.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., heard arguments on Monday, the Presidents Day holiday when federal courts are closed, to consider an emergency request by 13 Democratic state attorneys general seeking to block Musk and DOGE from accessing government systems and firing employees at seven agencies.

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tl;dr
- Judge says she will try to rule in 24 hours on request to block Musk
- Democratic state attorneys general allege Musk is dismantling programs
- Musk's authority challenged in multiple lawsuits

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first time posting here. hope it's ok!
Commander Riker; smirk
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lone mod here

Please continue to request membership and feel free to submit posts. It's way less scary here than over on the Mothership (remember when we referred to ONTD that way? Ha)

Just read over the rules and follow them and you're golden.

ETA: say hi in the comments! Especially the people I've just added.

Vienna Terrorist Attack

Live Updates: 4 Dead; Suspect Was ISIS ‘Sympathizer’

A gunman was killed, and the authorities say that there is no indication of any other attackers having been involved in the shooting rampage in central Vienna.

A man who opened fire in central Vienna on Monday night while armed with an automatic rifle, a pistol and a machete and wearing a fake explosive device was a 20-year-old Austrian citizen who had sought to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said in a news briefing on Tuesday.

The rampage left four dead and 22 others wounded in the heart of the Austrian capital before the gunman was killed by the police nine minutes after the assault began, Mr. Nehammer said, adding that the evidence gathered so far showed no indication that others were involved.

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Despite being injured, heroic Turk saves policeman in Vienna terror attack

At least 3 people died, 15 more wounded in terror attack in Austria’s capital on Monday evening




A heroic Turk hurled himself into a hail of bullets in Vienna Monday night, risking his life to save both an injured women and a police officer from terrorist attack.

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Palestinian saves Austrian policeman in Vienna attack

Osama Joda, 23, risks his live to help wounded police officer during Monday’s terrorist attack

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I hope every other ontd_political member living in Austria is safe as well.

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Yet more proof that my province is a racist cesspool...

OP: As if the world needed more proof that my province (Quebec) is a racist cesspool...

Joyce Echaquan death: Canada PM Trudeau decries 'worst form of racism'

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OP: Please take note of the trigger warnings. Quebec is a racist cesspool who recently elected their own brand of Donald Trump/fascists.

Survey Finds Lack of Holocaust Knowledge Among American Young Adults

Survey Finds Lack of Holocaust Knowledge Among American Young Adults




A “shocking” number of American young adults lack a basic understanding of the Holocaust, according to a new survey.

According to the first-ever, state-by-state survey of American Millennials and Gen Z (ages 18 to 39), 63% do not know that 6 million Jews were exterminated by Nazis, and 36% thought the number was “two million or fewer.”

Nearly a quarter of those surveyed (23%) said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, had been exaggerated or weren’t sure.

Commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also known as the Claims Conference, the study found “particularly disquieting” that nearly 20% of young people in the state of New York thought Jews were responsible for the Holocaust. This view was held by 11% nationally.

"The results are both shocking and saddening and they underscore why we must act now while Holocaust survivors are still with us to voice their stories," said Claims Conference President Gideon Taylor in a statement.

"We need to understand why we aren't doing better in educating a younger generation about the Holocaust and the lessons of the past. This needs to serve as a wake-up call to us all, and as a road map of where government officials need to act."

The survey also found that young Americans couldn’t name one of the more than 40,000 concentration camps or ghettos established during World War II. Fifty-six percent could not identify Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most infamous concentration camp.



Nearly half of those surveyed said they’d seen Holocaust denial or distortion posts on social media or elsewhere online.

The survey found that 64% think Holocaust education should be compulsory.

Data was collected among adults 18 to 39 years old from 1,000 interviews nationwide and 200 interviews in each state.


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Here you can find more interesting details about the survey (Pew Research Center - pewforum.org)





Unrelated news:

Notorious Antigay Russian Ultranationalist Found Dead In Jail Cell

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Businessman Acquitted in Murder of Jan Kuciak, Journalist in Slovakia

Businessman Acquitted in Murder of Jan Kuciak, Journalist in Slovakia

Marian Kocner was acquitted of ordering the 2018 killing of an investigative journalist that set off anticorruption protests.


PEZINOK, Slovakia — After eight months of a closely watched trial, Marian Kocner — once one of Slovakia’s most powerful and well-connected businessmen — was acquitted on Thursday of ordering the murder of an investigative journalist who had threatened to expose a web of corruption involving the nation’s political and corporate elites and organized crime.

The verdict, handed down by a special criminal court that handles the country’s most serious cases, can be appealed in Slovakia’s Supreme Court. It is likely to draw scrutiny, because the murder ignited outrage across Slovakia and led to calls for reform.

The journalist, Jan Kuciak, 27, was shot and killed with his fiancée, Martina Kusnirova, in February 2018 in his home in Velka Maca, a village outside Slovakia’s capital, Bratislava.

Their bodies were discovered days after the murder, and as evidence mounted that Mr. Kuciak was the target of an assassination, the killings set off the largest nationwide protests since the 1989 Velvet Revolution. The protests brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets calling for a thorough investigation and condemning the systemic corruption that has long plagued the small Central European nation.

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