Kyiv hopes that the knowledge it has gained fighting Russia will give it both money and leverage with Donald Trump.

Ukrainian officials are in talks with rich Gulf countries, peddling their country's hard-won anti-drone expertise against Iranian attacks in exchange for crucial cash for Kyiv's defense industry.

Polite American officials are also talking to Ukrainians on sharing their drone tech — something that may at least temporarily boost Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's leverage with the White House.

Both negotiations could offer Ukraine desperately needed help: money at a time when the EU's promised €90 billion loan has stalled thanks to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's veto, and American interceptors for Ukraine's Patriot air defense systems to knock down Russian ballistic missiles.

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Masoud Pezeshkian issues rare apology to neighbouring Gulf states for Iranian strikes as war enters eighth day

The president of Iran has rejected Donald Trump’s call for the country’s unconditional surrender as a “dream”, while issuing a rare apology for Iranian strikes that had targeted sites in neighbouring Gulf states.

In a prerecorded address broadcast on state television on Saturday, Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said the country would never capitulate, responding to remarks by the US president, who said on Friday that only Iran’s total submission could bring the war to an end.

Iran’s enemies, Pezeshkian said, “must take their dream of the Iranian people’s unconditional surrender to their graves”, in remarks that further escalate the eighth day of conflict, which has choked global oil supplies and cut world air travel.

At the same time, Pezeshkian issued an apology to neighbouring states for Iran’s recent “actions”, in an apparent attempt to ease regional anger after Iranian strikes hit civilian targets in Gulf Arab countries.

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No it isn't, and we need to get it through our heads. We weren't mad at Hitler for what he did, we were mad because he forgot his place.

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10941407

I'm trying to circulate air in my house. We have a split level home (lower, middle, upper, in a zig zag sort or arrangement. I hate it, but that's beside the point) and the lowest level is always too cold and highest level too warm. I want to move air from the lower level to at least the middle level.

I need a fan, preferably small or thin profile that blows 90° from intake. Ideally a box fan that has a horizontal intake but exhausts up or sideways. What I've done in previous years is have a rotated fan that pointed up, intake from below, and was raised off the ground.

The closest I've found is a carpet dryer drum style. It has round intakes on the side and a rectangular vent on the front. That would totally work (point the intake at the cold room and the exhaust up towards the middle room) but it's way over powered for my situation. Also, it's a bit wider than ideal, though slimmer than what I used last year.

President Vladimir V. Putin threatened to cut off remaining gas supplies to Europe as the Iran war drives a surge in energy costs.

Russia has a question for the European countries that have shunned its energy exports: Do you miss us now?

The Kremlin is enjoying a sudden resurgence of its importance as a global supplier of oil and gas, as the conflict in Iran disrupts energy production and shipment across the Middle East and sends global energy prices soaring.

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Mr. Putin spoke with bravado about European nations’ longstanding plans to phase out imports of Russian gas in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, threatening to accelerate the divorce himself as prices spike on the continent.

“Now other markets are opening up, and perhaps it’s more advantageous for us to stop supplying the European market right now,” Mr. Putin said on Wednesday to a state television reporter, Pavel Zarubin, who chronicles the Russian leader.

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I had an absolute banger of a pun, but it was hypercontext sensitive AND NOW I HAVE NOWHERE TO PUT IT!!

Gone, like farts in wind

She should have answered my 1,500+ voicemails I left her over the divorce. Sucks to be her!

Avocado. I heard much about these fruits/berries/whatever. But I am a poor guy from a very poor and totally non-tropical country. So apples and carrots are the sweetest things around and apples become too expensive too.

Still I bought a few. Just out of curiosity. It tastes like... butter block. Internet says that it should be this way. So... Why people eat it? Maybe it is bad alone and\or raw, but after some preparation it is delicious?

Am I missing something?

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/43077176

The original article link from the mirror gave me an error message so I am posting an archive of it.

Rodríguez was reportedly in a car with her husband, a U.S. citizen, when agents stopped the vehicle and detained her. Her lawyer says officers did not present an arrest warrant at the scene and instead showed a "Notice to Appear", a document that typically begins immigration court proceedings.

Since the arrest, the journalist has been moved out of Tennessee and is believed to be heading to a federal immigration detention center in Louisiana.

Her immigration attorney, Joel Coxander, said Rodríguez had previously received a letter from ICE asking her to come to their office for processing, which he insists was not mandatory.

"So ICE sends out these letters to citizens who've never had any contact with [them]," he says. "The letters just say, like, 'Hey, please come by the ICE office.'"

"They're invitations," Coxander added. "They don't say they're required. They say, 'Come in so we can help ensure the best outcome for your case.' They cite no legal requirement to come."

This isn't the first time the Trump administration has used video games to promote its political ideologies. Following the recent escalation of the United States and Israel's joint military campaign against Iran, the White House has taken to X to share a video promoting its ongoing operations. In addition to real footage from recent attacks, the video includes a killstreak animation from 2023's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/43076485

However, several Democratic lawmakers zeroed in on a federal judge’s finding that the IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information “approximately 42,695 times” to Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of an agreement between ICE and the Department of Homeland Security to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S. Immigration and border security are a major part of the agenda of President Donald Trump, a Republican.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/43075603

“I was really scared. I couldn’t stop shaking,” Emely recalled in a recent interview.

“It was like they were trying to kidnap me,” added Juanita.

The mother and daughter were speaking out for the first time since Juanita’s arrest became part of a court case that secured a major victory for immigrants’ rights in Oregon. The lawsuit challenged ICE’s tactic of detaining people without warrants or probable cause, a practice advocates say has fueled widespread racial profiling and chaotic arrests.

Last month, a federal judge sided with the plaintiffs and issued a preliminary injunction blocking ICE agents in Oregon from continuing their “arrest first, justify later” tactics, as lawyers labeled it. The judge said ICE’s conduct had been “brutal and violent”, saying agents’ arrest strategy “systematically violates federal law and individual constitutional rights”.

Tankies keep getting proven correct so I'm just going to use their predictions to convince people I can see the futire.

Shit's easy, why has no one done this yet?

Tennessee the hateful, bigoted government handout state.

Rodriguez has said she left Colombia after receiving death threats for her coverage of crime in the region, according to a statement from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. The association said it “denounces immigration tactics that detain journalists and any efforts to interfere with news coverage of immigration enforcement.”

Someone give Estefany Rodriguez Florez a medal already, damn.