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I noticed water backing up into my sink when my dishwasher drains. Oh no, I thought. A partial blockage. I used some Liquid Plumr. Side note, you go to the store, and there’s big jugs and small jugs and three brands and liquid and “gel” and one part and two part…I don’t know if you’ve seen that youtube short of a tiktok of a Tumblr post talking about how there’s no such thing as “glue”? Well this reminds me of that because who the fuck knows what these substances are? Anyway I bought one and followed the directions and it didn’t work so I’m probably going to have to take my sink drain apart which isn’t going to be fun.
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Na onder meer Spanje, Frankrijk en het Verenigd Koninkrijk is Griekenland het volgende land dat de strijd aanbindt met sociale media. Vanaf volgend jaar wil het land kinderen tot 15 jaar de toegang tot sociale media verbieden. ****Dat heeft de Griekse premier ****Mitsotakis ****via een TikTokvideo […]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45360874 USC student Tucker Collins’s attorney accuses homeland security of ‘overt act of repression’ at Los Angeles protest A freshman at the University of Southern California has lost an eye after he was shot last month with a “less-lethal” projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent at a No Kings march, according to his attorney. On 28 March, Tucker Collins, 18, took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles to photograph throngs of protesters, who held signs and chanted slogans denouncing the Trump administration’s policies, his lawyer V James DeSimone said in a statement on Wednesday. Collins followed behind a group that was headed toward the Metropolitan detention center, the downtown LA facility that has been a focal point for demonstrators in the past months. In a video from that day shared by DeSimone on social media, Collins is seen holding a camera pointed toward demonstrators outside the federal facility, when suddenly he falls to his knees.
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USC student Tucker Collins’s attorney accuses homeland security of ‘overt act of repression’ at Los Angeles protest A freshman at the University of Southern California has lost an eye after he was shot last month with a “less-lethal” projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent at a No Kings march, according to his attorney. On 28 March, Tucker Collins, 18, took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles to photograph throngs of protesters, who held signs and chanted slogans denouncing the Trump administration’s policies, his lawyer V James DeSimone said in a statement on Wednesday. Collins followed behind a group that was headed toward the Metropolitan detention center, the downtown LA facility that has been a focal point for demonstrators in the past months. In a video from that day shared by DeSimone on social media, Collins is seen holding a camera pointed toward demonstrators outside the federal facility, when suddenly he falls to his knees.
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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/40378 Iran turns the US’ own media tactics against it, using memes, AI, and viral content to ridicule Washington amid ongoing aggression. While over 92 million Iranians are bombarded by US-Israeli aggression, Washington continues to mislead the world with staged videos and online narratives. Iran, however, has skillfully turned the US’ propaganda tactics against it, exposing American failures and hypocrisy in the ongoing war. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has taken the lead in challenging US misinformation. Posting in English on X, Ghalibaf highlights the absurdity of Trump’s war messaging and the incompetence of Washington’s military operations. In one post, he taunted the US by referencing domestic protests: “Welcome to the party we started 47 years ago, No kings,” pointing to the 1979 Islamic Revolution and US failure. Welcome to the party we started 47 years ago, No kings. This is the people of Iran, and we approve this message.#NoKings pic.twitter.com/JGT78zn4kW — محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf (@mb_ghalibaf) March 29, 2026 Ghalibaf mocked US claims about aircraft losses from Iranian drones, sarcastically stating: “Sustained only minor damage,” highlighting Washington’s attempts to downplay Iranian capabilities. US hypocrisy and failed strategy exposed In another post, Ghalibaf ridiculed Trump’s ever-changing war objectives: “They’re playing 6D chess again!” He also criticized Washington’s attempts to manipulate oil markets for political gain, warning followers: “If they pump it, short it. If they dump it, go long.” He further exposed the US military’s vulnerability, writing: “How can the US, which can’t even protect its own soldiers at its bases in the region… protect them on our soil?” These posts reach hundreds of thousands, undermining Washington’s narrative of strength and competence. AI videos reveal US weakness and arrogance Accounts are widely circulating AI-generated and viral videos mocking Trump and Netanyahu as weak, incompetent, and detached from reality. One video shows Lego figures of Trump and Netanyahu examining a folder labeled “Jeffrey Epstein File,” satirizing US leadership while highlighting Washington’s failure to project credibility. Additionally, content shared by US troops on TikTok is increasingly diverging from official White House messaging on the war on Iran, revealing anxiety, skepticism, and frustration among troops facing potential deployment. While the administration of US President Donald Trump has portrayed the war as swift and decisive, framing “Operation Epic Fury” in triumphalist and even gamified language, posts circulating under the hashtag #MilitaryTok present a starkly different picture. ‘Black Day’: Iran Downed 2 US-Israeli Jets, 2 Missiles, and 3 Drones in 24 Hours #MilitaryTok: Anxiety, sarcasm, and uncertainty Many younger troops, particularly from Generation Z, are expressing unease about the war on TikTok, sharing personal and emotional reactions and blending humor with concern. Some recruits mocked their timing, joining the military just as the war began, while others used viral audio and memes to express regret or apprehension. The viral use of the song ‘In the Navy by The Village People’ has become symbolic of hesitation among troops, with videos showing service members jokingly questioning their role in the war. With limited, unclear updates from official sources, #MilitaryTok has also become an informal channel through which the public gauges troop morale and speculates on military movements. Experts note that these posts offer a “more personal perspective layered with irony or dark humor,” reflecting a generation shaped by prolonged US military occupations abroad. Public disillusionment with US war policy The online sentiment aligns with broader public opinion. A recent poll found that six in ten Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of the war, while 40% believe the war will make the US less safe. By the sixth day of the war alone, the US had reportedly spent $12.7 billion, and casualties included more than 3,500 people in Iran and 13 US service members. Polling shows Americans are increasingly skeptical of the war, especially younger generations. Only 9% of Gen Z strongly support the war, while 34% strongly oppose it. Public faith in the military has fallen, reflecting dissatisfaction with endless overseas campaigns and propaganda-driven narratives. Experts note TikTok and other social media platforms expose Washington’s failures. While the military attempts to control messaging, soldiers openly reveal operational gaps, declining morale, and the absurdity of US claims. Iran’s digital campaigns amplify this, turning US propaganda into self-parody. (Al Mayaeen – English) From Orinoco Tribune via This RSS Feed.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45350334 #Thousands of consumer routers hacked by Russia’s military ##End-of-life routers in homes and small offices hacked in 120 countries. The Russian military is once again hacking home and small office routers in widespread operations that send unwitting users to sites that harvest passwords and credential tokens for use in espionage campaigns, researchers said Tuesday. An estimated 18,000 to 40,000 consumer routers, mostly those made by MikroTik and TP-Link, located in 120 countries, were wrangled into infrastructure belonging to APT28, an advanced threat group that’s part of Russia’s military intelligence agency known as the GRU, researchers from Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs said. The threat group has operated for at least two decades and is behind dozens of high-profile hacks targeting governments worldwide. APT28 is also tracked under names including Pawn Storm, Sofacy Group, Sednit, Tsar Team, Forest Blizzard, and STRONTIUM. ###Technical sophistication, tried-and-true techniques A small number of routers were used as proxies to connect to a much larger number of other routers belonging to foreign ministries, law enforcement, and government agencies that APT28 wanted to spy on. The group then used its control of routers to change DNS lookups for select websites, including, Microsoft said, domains for the company’s 365 service. “Known for blending cutting-edge tools such as the large language model (LLM) ‘LAMEHUG’ with proven, longstanding techniques, Forest Blizzard consistently evolves its tactics to stay ahead of defenders,” Black Lotus researchers wrote. “Their previous and current campaigns highlight both their technological sophistication and their willingness to revisit classic attack methods even after public exposure, underscoring the ongoing risk posed by this actor to organizations worldwide.” To hijack the routers, the attackers exploited older models that hadn’t been patched against known security vulnerabilities. They then changed DNS settings for select domains and used the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol to propagate them to router-connected workstations. When connected devices visited the selected domains, their connections were proxied through malicious servers before reaching their intended destination. These adversary-in-the-middle servers used self-signed certificates. When the end user clicked through browser warnings, the servers captured all traffic passing through them. Among other things, they collected OAuth tokens and other credentials set after users, unaware their connections were being tapped, completed multifactor authentication. The operation began in May 2025 on a limited number of devices. Then, in August, Britain’s National Cyber Security Center released an alert that documented a malware campaign a threat group was using to “intercept and exfiltrate Microsoft Office account credentials and tokens.” The following day, the threat group rapidly stepped up the router hijacking, an activity it continued to ramp up in the coming months. Over a four-week period starting on December 12, Black Lotus observed more than 290,000 distinct IP addresses sending at least one DNS request to the malicious APT28 DNS resolver. “This suggested that as one capability was disclosed, the actor immediately shifted to another to continue acquiring authentication material,” company researchers wrote. Black Lotus described the methodology this way: DNS changes were then propagated to the workstations on the adjacent LAN via Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). The actor operated a DNS server to behave like a typical recursive resolver, but when a targeted Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) was queried, it was configured to provide a record back containing its own IP address instead of the correct address. The only interventions were triggered by domains associated with authentication-related services. If any other domain was requested, traffic passed directly through. The actor ran a proxy service as the AitM that the end user was directed to via DNS. The only sign of this attack would be a pop-up warning about connecting to an untrusted source because of the “break and inspect.” If warnings were present and ignored or clicked through, the actor proxied requests to the legitimate services, collecting the data at the midpoint and collecting data associated with the targeted account by passing the valid OAuth token. This allowed the actor to break and inspect traffic and access authentication material such as Oauth tokens after completing the multifactor challenge. APT28 has a history of hacking routers. In 2018, researchers discovered 500,000 of the devices, mostly located in the US, were infected with malware tracked as VPNFilter. In 2024, the US Justice Department caught the group doing it again. The easiest way for people to know if their router has been compromised in the operation is to review the current DNS settings to see if they list unrecognized servers. Users should also check event logs for any unrecognized changes to DNS server settings. People should also strongly consider replacing end-of-life routers with ones that receive regular security updates. People should never click through browser alerts warning of untrusted TLS certificates. – Dan Goodin Senior Security Editor
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Reading by Tim Foley: Subscribe now Trump has announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran after previously threatening to exterminate their “entire civilization”, citing “a 10 point proposal from Iran” as the reason for the climb-down. Trump and his cronies are spinning this as a colossal victory for the United States and framing Tehran’s 10-point plan as a major capitulation to the president’s threats. But some reporters are noting that Iran has had the same terms on the table for weeks — which would mean that it is in fact the White House who is backing down. Hours before the president’s announcement, Drop Site’s Ryan Grim posted a TikTok video arguing that Trump could save face while walking back from his apocalyptic threats by simply accepting Iran’s 10-point peace plan and acting like it’s a new proposal the Iranians had only just put forward. Grim argued that Trump could get away with this because the western media have been completely ignoring Iran’s stated terms for a ceasefire this entire time. Interestingly, this appears to have been precisely what Trump wound up doing. After previously rejecting Iran’s proposals as “not good enough”, the president turned around and framed the Iranian offer as a brand new response to the pressures his administration was able to impose upon them. All the way back on March 28, Drop Site News reported the following: “Among Iran’s terms for permanently ending the war are a longterm guarantee that the U.S. and Israel will not attack Iran again and that any ceasefire also apply to Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine; reparations for the damages done to Iran during the war; sanctions relief; and that Iran retain control over the Strait of Hormuz.” These are the same terms Iran is claiming it pressured the US to accept today. Iranian state media outlet Press TV cited Iran’s supreme national security council as saying “Iran achieved historic victory by forcing criminal US to accept its 10-point plan. US has accepted Iran’s control over Strait of Hormuz, enrichment right, removal of all sanctions.” The New York Times reports the following: “Two senior Iranian officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive negotiations, said the proposal included a guarantee that Iran would not be attacked again, an end to Israeli strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon and the lifting of all sanctions. “In return, Iran would lift its de facto blockade of the key shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran would also impose a fee of roughly $2 million per ship that it would split with Oman, which sits across the strait. Iran would use its share of the proceeds to reconstruct infrastructure destroyed by American and Israeli attacks, rather than demand direct compensation, according to the plan.” So as things stand right now this certainly looks like a humiliating defeat for the empire. Iran gets a lot of things it didn’t have before the war, including tolling the Strait of Hormuz and relief from the US sanctions that have been crushing its economy for years, while the empire gets to resume its shipping for a hefty fee and pretend it just rescued the world from a nuclear Iran. Quite the turnaround from a White House that just last month was saying “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” Quincy Institute’s Trita Parsi, who always has great insights regarding western warmongering toward Iran, writes the following: “I cannot emphasize this enough. A new dynamic will be at play when the US and Iran meet in Islamabad to negotiate a final deal based on Iran’s 10-point plan: Trump’s failed war has eliminated the potency of American military threats in US-Iran diplomacy. The US can still issue threats, but everyone will know that they no longer carry much weight. Essentially, war with Iran was tried and failed. As a result, negotiations will have to be based on genuine compromises from both sides, rather than coercion from either side.” There are of course many, many reasons to be pessimistic. The US and Israel have demonstrated time and time again that they will attack Iran during negotiations, and even if the US holds up its end of the bargain we can always see Israel sabotage the deal with its own aggressions. By now Iran has to know that the only way to protect itself from Israel is to impose costs for Israeli aggression on the entire western world; Tehran will have us all heating our homes with trash fires and growing carrots in our backyards if the west can’t find a way to rein in Israel. For what it’s worth, Zionist Twitter is in absolute meltdown right now, with notorious Israel apologists like Laura Loomer, Eve Barlow and Eli David rending their garments in outrage that the killing has ended with Iran positioned as it is. I’m as skeptical about this ceasefire as anyone, but the fact that the world’s worst people are in meltdown about it right now does provide a faint glimmer of hope. We shall see. ______________ Caitlin’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The best way to make sure you see everything I write is to get on my free mailing list. 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Subscribe now “A whole civilization will die tonight,” Donald Trump announced today, threatening to rain down hell on Iran. Don’t let the bravado fool you: he’s scared. On Monday, the president made a rare show of submission, bowing not to Washington or Wall Street, but to the people. “Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home,” Trump said of the Iran War on Monday, visibly irritated. “If I had my choice, I’d keep the oil; but I also want to make the people of our country happy.” The Iran war is deeply unpopular with Americans, basically every poll finding a majority opposed since the war began on February 28 — an extraordinary fact that media have largely glossed over. It is virtually unprecedented not to see a spike in popular support when Washington launches a military operation, so much so that political science has a term for it: the “rally around the flag” effect. In the case of the Iran War, it’s not that the spike in support was small or short-lived. It never happened at all. I do not pretend to know what the president will decide at 8pm ET, his deadline for Iran. I doubt even he knows. But the unprecedented public skepticism is clearly on the top of his mind. And it’s very likely on the Pentagon’s mind, too. When the commander-in-chief demands “a plan” (as Trump has), the military obliges; but in fraught situations like these, it exercises some discretion in how those plans are briefed, filling it with low percentages and high risks to send a message to the bomber-in-chief that it isn’t the preferred option. And the polling could not be more clear that this isn’t the preferred option. “Even in the most controversial wars, like Iraq, when the war initiates, people tend to rally around the flag … this is remarkable that at the very beginning of the war, there’s overwhelming opposition not only from liberals and the left, but … from much of Trump’s base as well,” politics professor Stephen Zunes of the University of San Francisco says. CNN’s data guru Harry Enten made this point in greater detail in a segment this week, crunching decades of data about rally around the flag effects across every major U.S. military engagement in the Middle East. The numbers are stark. During the beginning of the Iranian hostage crisis, Jimmy Carter’s net approval jumped 32 points. George H.W. Bush saw a 31 point surge in the first month of the first Gulf War. George W. Bush got 14 points out of the 2003 Iraq invasion. Trump? One month into the Iran War, he is down four points — making him the only president in the modern era to lose ground after launching a war. Enton compared it to the one recent precedent he could find: Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal, which cost him six points and, as Enton put it, effectively ended his presidency politically. Biden never recovered. Whether the Iran War is the death of Trump and Trumpism remains to be seen, but the picture looks grim. The war started 12 points underwater in public polling and has since dropped another 10 — and only 29 percent of Americans say it’s worth the cost, compared to 59 percent who said the same about the 2003 Iraq War at a comparable point. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is 30 points net unfavorable, versus Donald Rumsfeld’s plus 48 at the equivalent moment in Iraq — a nearly 80-point gap. Dick Cheney was plus 62 during the Gulf War, a gap of over 90 points. Trump’s approval on the economy has hit 27 points underwater; on foreign policy, 25 points underwater. The dumb guy explanation for all of this is — incidentally, the explanation you’ll find in basically all the major media coverage — is that Americans are just feeling the pinch of gas prices. But that doesn’t explain the immediate opposition to the war from day one, before any of the economic effects started to kick in. And I don’t think Larry in Wisconsin is worrying about oil futures and the Strait of Hormuz. What makes Americans’ quiet skepticism all the more incredible is that it exists despite a tsunami of propaganda they’ve been bombarded with about the war. This week has been dominated by glowing media accounts of the made-for-Hollywood heroics involved in the rescue of the American pilot downed in Iran, the CIA’s role, their escape training, the evasion of IRGC military dogs and hunters, and on and on. Trump has pushed this personally, trying to desperately associate himself with something, anything popular. Before the shoot down and the rescue, the American public was saturated with media coverage that mostly highlighted the excellence of our weapons systems, the exquisite intelligence, and how perfectly it’s all being carried out — the surgical strikes, the careful target selection, the assurances that civilian casualties are being minimized, the retired generals nodding along on cable news about the operational brilliance on display. This is a war of the future, relying overwhelmingly on the acceleration of decision-making fueled by AI with again the message that air power provides minimal U.S. casualties. Check the news coverage on any day though: there is hardly a word about what is actually being bombed and why. It’s all 90 percent destroyed here, ahead of schedule there, practically ignoring the fact that civilization is being strangled in the routine. This is exactly the kind of ostensibly low-stakes war that the national security system has been perfecting for decades now, not so much because it is manipulating the public on purpose but because it wants to reduce the friction of public (and presidential) opinion and interference, thereby minimizes opposition. And then there’s the massive social media blitz the Trump administration has run, a spectacle that even a grizzled internet veteran like myself had never seen anything like. The Pentagon and its allies have been posting polished strike footage — bombs finding their targets, infrastructure vaporizing in infrared — with the cadence of a TikTok influencer. It is war as spectacle, war as highlight reel, designed for maximum virality. The administration has essentially been its own embed, cutting out the journalistic middleman entirely and pushing combat footage directly into the feeds of millions of Americans. By any historical standard, the propaganda infrastructure behind this war is without parallel. And yet it hasn’t moved the needle. At all. Americans just aren’t buying it anymore, this idea of fully automated luxury warfare. And the president knows it. Just about the only group that doesn’t know it is the major media, which treats every event as contingent on Washington (always the protagonist in its reality), or what the Europeans or international community say, or the price of oil and the state of the stock market. I see a civilization here at home that is bigger than any of those things, one that’s gaining the confidence to question the national security state. Trump again sees it, too (though he also sees the roughly 70 percent of his own party who support the war). Will he listen? Subscribe if you’re not buying what the national security state is selling Leave a comment Share — Edited by William M. Arkin From Ken Klippenstein via this RSS feed