CactusPete

Today, we managed to update the main instance. Everything should slowly return to normal. Now it's time for things that will be less visible but no less important. Currently, the priority will be interactions with other instances - limiting spam, improving communication in the fediverse (including moderation) in order not to add...

"Elon didn't just break Twitter. Twitter broke Elon Musk."

Facebook said Tuesday it has identified a sprawling online propaganda effort: a pro-China campaign that had a presence on more than 50 websites....

Prosecutors in Arizona are “aggressively” ramping up their criminal probe into the 2020 fake electors plot aimed at keeping then-President Donald Trump in power. They’re not just looking at the fake electors, though. Rudy Giuliani is also now high on their list....

Users on far-right online forums are publishing private information about members of the Georgia grand jury that indicted former president Donald Trump and 18 of his allies in a sweeping criminal case focused on alleged 2020 election interference earlier this month, leading to jurors receiving threats online....

"I think what we are seeing [now] is an extension of the Tea Party movement," the former staffer told Newsweek.

This is epic AF. I thought these dope pushers were gonna get away scot free, there for a while.

Ex-president’s attorney says another indictment has ‘been highly spoken about’

The data covers the work of organisations HazteOir and CitizenGO, comprising documents which date from 2001 to 2017 like spreadsheets of donors and members, strategy and planning documents, letters, financial charts and legal and training documents. HazteOir was first founded in 2001 in Spain to campaign for right wing values,...

The oceans are a vital regulator for the climate and our weather but are rapidly heating up.

As deadly, unrelenting heat scorches Arizona, some entomologists are growing concerned about the increasing number of dead honeybees – a species vital to our ecosystem, especially food production.

The CEO of one of Infosys' other major clients, Shell, also joined Rishi Sunak's new business council two weeks ago.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday undermined a key pillar of his old boss’ defense in the special counsel’s probe into 2020 election interference, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that Donald Trump “knew well he lost the election.”

The price rise hit prisoners seeking bottled water as temperatures eclipse the 100 degree mark in unairconditioned facilities. The state vendor asked to raise the price and two state agencies signed off.

In 1969, a French comic book took readers to the stars. Eight years later, Star Wars took everyone else on the same ride....

Jesse Watters makes an argument that sounds familiar to many liberals and progressives

The three new bills come as the state begins to institute a strict new voter ID law.

Republican lawmakers held a day of back-to-back public hearings in mid-April for bills that would add restrictions to receiving unemployment insurance payouts, ban local guaranteed income programs and prevent state agencies from automatically renewing low-income health insurance.

The state said this week it will not participate in a federal program that would provide $120 in benefits to each eligible child,.

The state said this week it will not participate in a federal program that would provide $120 in benefits to each eligible child,.

GOP leaders brazenly skirted a state Supreme Court ruling with a law shielding the money from public scrutiny. Many other states are doing likewise. Are we repeating the tobacco settlement debacle?

Most everything has an expiration date, but one thing you may not have expected to expire was your vote-by-mail ballot.

The worker was fired in 2021 after complaining about the holiday pay policy of their employer, a vendor that provides Google with contract workers.