People who have never mentioned Charlie Kirk are being wrongfully targeted online and doxxed. @npub1d6tt...9r7s reports on two such cases. Ali Nasrati discovered, after receiving a barrage of abuse and death threats and being suspended from work, that an X account started in May was using his name and a photo stolen from his social media. Cynthia Rehberg, a school principal in Wisconsin, was misidentified by a conservative influencer from a Facebook post, after which her district received 800 voicemails calling for her firing. "Over 200,000 people think that I'm somebody that I'm not," Nastrati told Lorenz, referring to the amount of views one of the X posts attacking him received. "I don't know if anybody's following me. I don't feel safe going into public areas. I don't know who's there. I don't know who is going to be able to recognize me or not, or who might do something. I'm constantly looking behind my back."
Conservatives Are Doxxing Innocent People Over Charlie Kirk
Right wing influencers are blasting people's names and personal details out to millions before ever verifying their claims.
 #News #Journalism #Media #CharlieKirk #OnlineBehavior #Doxxing
Poland calls NATO meeting after downing Russian drones. DW reports: "Poland said it scrambled defenses in response to 19 airspace breaches. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said many of the drones came from Belarus."
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Poland calls NATO meeting after downing Russian drones
NATO member Poland said it scrambled defenses in response to 19 airspace breaches. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said many of the drones came f...
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U.S. payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown. CNBC reports: "The report showed a marked slowdown from the July increase of 79,000."
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Payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 75,000 in August while the unemployment rate edged up tp 4.3%.
 #Jobs #Business #Economy #News #Trump
New details out of Afghanistan: Officials say the earthquake was the deadliest in decades, killing over 2,200 people. AFP reports:
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As a leading global news agency, AFP offers quality multimedia content in video, text, photo and graphics in six languages and now reaches North Am...
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At least 15 people have been killed and many have been injured in a funicular railway crash in Lisbon, Portugal. Here's more from NBC.
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At least 15 people killed and 18 injured in crash of funicular railway in Lisbon
An investigation is underway to determine the cause of the accident.
 #News #WorldNews #Portugal #Lisbon
A new executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to withhold federal funds from state and local governments that have moved away from cash bail. "Cashless bail" means that people don't end up in jail just because they can't afford to pay to secure their release while they await trial and are still presumed innocent. Sharone Mitchell, public defender in Cook County, Illinois, explains to @BoltsMag.org why the state entirely abolished cash bail and how the new system is more fair, works well, and hasn't harmed public safety. "What is scary is that this is tyranny 101. This is a state legislature looking at a problem, studying a problem, proposing a solution, getting the votes, and then implementing that solution — and then you have a president deciding he doesn’t like this idea," Mitchell says. "And the way he’s going to get the state to change it is to essentially rob the state or starve the state of resources. That’s the type of stuff that happens in 'The Godfather' and 'Goodfellas.'"
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Chicago’s Public Defender on Why Illinois Should Fight Trump's Threats on Cashless Bail - Bolts
President Trump on Monday issued an executive order that purports to block federal funds from state and local governments that have moved away from...
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U.S. immigration agents have arrested two Mexican contractors who were helping to tackle the Bear Gulch fire in Olympic National Forest, Washington. Crew boss David Diaz said they were among 20 Mexican contract workers, all of whom carried work visas and passports, but they were arrested on suspicion of being in the U.S. illegally. Contracts with the two firefighting companies that had been brought in to help with the fire, which is only 13% contained, have now been terminated, according to Customs and Border Protection.
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Border Patrol agents arrest fire crew members at Washington wildfire
The two Mexican men were contract workers who were in the U.S. illegally, immigration officials said.
 #ICE #Immigration #BorderProtection #USNews #TrumpAdministration #WIldfires
Both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. will claim that their opponents are the worse perpetrators when it comes to gerrymandering. Sam Wang and his team at Princeton University took a look at the data and graded states for their congressional and legislative redistricting. Here's his blogpost explaining the method, plus, at the second link, the results. "From this systematic comparison across every state, we learned that there is a very particular way that districting can be fair: take the power away from legislators."
Redistricting plans in 50 states, graded (correctly)
...but first, we have to kill the proportionality myth.
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Two children ages 8 and 10 are dead and 17 people are injured after a mass shooting at a Minneapolis school. NBC News has a live blog with the latest:
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Minneapolis shooting: 2 children dead, 17 victims injured in Minnesota Catholic school attack
Multiple senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter say federal law enforcement has identified the shooter as Robin Westman.
 #Minneapolis #News #Shooting #Crime #Guns
"The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed," writes Garrett Graff for his Doomsday Scenario newsletter. He chronicles why he feels that today, August 25, 2025, is a date to remember. "Everything else from here on out is just a matter of degree and wondering how bad it will get and how far it will go," he writes. "Do we end up 'merely' like Hungary or do we go all the way toward an 'American Reich'? So far, after years of studying World War II, I fear that America’s trajectory feels more like Berlin circa 1933 than it does Budapest circa 2015."
Doomsday Scenario
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
 #TrumpAdministration #USPolitics #Politics #USNews #Fascism #Authoritarianism #History #News