And if you're looking for more on rightwing extremism in the military, we did an hourlong doc investigating it that was released last fall. Give it a watch for free on our YT.
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Snoop Dogg, one of the most successful people in his field, wants to buy a Canadian hockey team.
His motives are questioned.
Yet your average corporate billionaire is usually welcomed into the league with open arms and no questions asked.
I wonder what the difference is here.
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Is this a PR stunt?
Why doesn’t he buy a team in Atlanta or Houston?
What about the hockey side?
There have been questions floating around Snoop’s interest in the Sens.
In his first interview with an Ottawa reporter, he provided me with some answers. theathletic.com/4485487/2023/0
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Cooper ‘Harris’ Andrews was a true fighter for freedom and against oppression.
He was killed outside Bakhmut on April 19, ambushed by the invaders while defending the evacuees.
His mother Willow has set up The Cooper Andrews Memorial Fund 👇
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My incredible, talented former grad student just got laid off from audio team. If anyone knows of an audio journalism job please contact . I promise you he is amazing,
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This was a uniquely amazing job, and even though it was temporary, many people never get to have that feeling. I honestly, truly, loved waking up and getting to work with this team, and these people. twitter.com/sam_eagan/stat…
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Ben himself is a part of hacker history, if you've watched any of the really well put together "CYBERWAR" series then you've enjoyed his reporting. I'm linking my favourite part of that show.
Someone should swoop in and hire Ben.
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Well, it's been a hell of a ride @VICENews. The layoff grim reaper finally got me. Thanks, for everything. In the meantime, if you are in the US, Canada, or even Europe (yes I'm becoming an EU citizen) hit me up with any work opportunities in the national security space.
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Well, it's been a hell of a ride . The layoff grim reaper finally got me. Thanks, for everything. In the meantime, if you are in the US, Canada, or even Europe (yes I'm becoming an EU citizen) hit me up with any work opportunities in the national security space.
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“He hated the military’s efforts to champion diversity, teach about racism, open service to gay and transgender Americans, allow women in combat, and root out white nationalists and other extremists in uniform.”
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The two men met in an online chatroom largely dedicated to militant neo-Nazism, and hatched plans to cripple the American power grid and set off chaos and unrest.
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I've been watching discussions of power grid attacks inside neo-Nazi chats since at least 2018, but now the FBI/DOJ are prioritizing arrests/convictions. Two of the latest convictions for plans to attack multiple power stations.
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Rightwing Edgelords Are the Real Threat to National Security
“The amount of Three Percenters and Boogaloo guys I work with is untenable,” said one Department of Defense worker.
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While Republicans are hammering on about drag queens, the military has real worries: edgelord trolls among their ranks who are willing to leak top secret military documents to impress their online friends.
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"...the amount of Three Percenters and Boogaloo guys I work with is untenable."
The Pentagon leaks illustrates the real problem at DoD.
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NEW: An Italian minister has been accused of white supremacy for saying Italians are at risk of "ethnic replacement"
For some, this echoes the Great Replacement conspiracy theory - which believes in a secret plan to replace white people with immigrants
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But the DoD acknowledged that most of the time they can figure out what the UFO is. But suggested adversary states have capabilities the U.S. gov isn’t aware of.
“I have indicators that some [UFOs] are related to foreign capabilities. We have to investigate that with our… Show more
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DoD disclosed yet another terrifying and otherworldly, "metallic orb" which was caught on vide by one of its MQ-9 Reaper drones in the Middle East, sometime in 2022.
Apparently the thing was spotted "in the region" before 👀
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A look at TikToks, merch, TV shows & politics telling the #Waco siege story to younger generations: “If you’re somebody who maybe watched the documentary and then decide to look up more about it, it would be very easy to fall down some dark rabbit holes.”
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I know Glenn is desperately trying to make Jack out into a whistleblower, but these documents are not coming from him. He never intended a single one of these to be seen by the public. They're coming from his friend(s) in the Discord server, and they aren't going to be arrested.
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Look what's going on here:
First the NYT (jointly with CIA-front Bellingcat) and WPost hunted down, exposed and ensured the arrest of the 21-year-old leaker.
Now they're having a party with the docs, publishing one "EXCLUSIVE" after the next as if they bravely "obtained" them:
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Already seeing some media frame this DoD leaker as some sort of Gen-Z specific issue. But sources have told me in the past that there's "red pilled shitposters" in their 40s working with top-secret clearances at the Pentagon. The intel threat is wider than a single generation.
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UPDATED: AG Merrick Garland announcing that Teixeira was taken into custody for his “unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified national defense information.”
No charges yet, but you have to think this will most certainly be under the Espionage Act.
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"The compartmentalization on [DoD] systems is good, but it’s not great. If his unit was responsible for Europe, it wouldn’t be out of the norm. If not, he really had to do some digging, and that digging is tracked," -intel source. Story w .
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Leaked documents have provided a portrait of some of Wagner’s global ambitions, reports .
"Wagner is willing to do the dirty work and that's something that's still in demand," Director of Research tells .
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"As of late February, Wagner associates planned to discreetly travel to Haiti to assess the potential for contracts with the Haitian Government to fight against local gangs"
vice.com/en/article/v7b via
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The top-secret documents show Vladimir Putin's favorite mercenary group has global plans well beyond fighting in Ukraine.
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And as put it, Wagner “is willing to do the dirty work and that's something that's still in demand.” But at the same time, the PMC has faced over 30,000 casualties and increased internal pressures in Russia because of the war in Ukraine.
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Leaked DoD docs say Wagner wants to send mercenaries to Haiti. As an one source told me, Wagner will “work for anyone and offer dictators coup security” and “gravitate towards regions of political instability.” Whether it can pull it off is another thing.
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“Active Clubs” a system of Neo nazi fight clubs, are among the fastest growing extremist movements in the US.
They recruit young white men into “white nationalism 3.0” using a mixed platform of fitness, personal wellness, and hate.
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At least 200 Russian journalists have signed an open letter demanding the release of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained and charged with espionage last week by Russian authorities
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Chinese spy balloon update: Apparently it didn't do much spying over "sensitive sites" due to Pentagon "mitigation" efforts, per . But reporting today described the balloon doing figure eights over top secret sites gathering SIGINT.
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Donald Trump was just indicted by a New York grand jury - he's the first former president to be criminally charged.
If you're wondering what happens next, or about Trump's criminal charges in general, read on how wild it's about to get.
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According to certain Republicans, the top threat facing U.S. troops isn’t the growing military alliance between Russia and China—it's drag queen story hours and ... equality?
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Christian Crowdfunding Site Hosting Neo-Nazi Trying to Build Whites-Only Community -
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Despite still having the most powerful military on earth (and largest budget), the GOP continues the 'woke warfighters' criticism; that somehow the Pentagon is weak because of diversity initiatives. Rep. Gaetz and others kept it going this week.
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