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Steam Deck Beta Client Update: June 27th: steamcommunity.com/games/16752…
#linux #update #release #gaming #steamdeck #steam

Steam :: Steam Deck :: Steam Deck Beta Client Update: June 27th

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.GeneralFixed certain startup movies not playing correctly. Steam Input Fix glyphs for the Legion Go S the Last of Us: Part 2
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'Within the next week': Trump says Gaza cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is 'close' haaretz.com/us-news/2025-06-28…

'Within the next week': Trump says Gaza cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is 'close'

Referring to the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Trump said, 'You see the lines of people just to get one meal? It's too bad,' adding that the U.S. is 'working on Gaza and trying to get it taken care of'
Ben Samuels (Haaretz)

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So duckduckgo has a 'no AI' version, at the link noai.duckduckgo.com/

I do wish they went for an opt-in so you could choose the ai version at something like 'ai-dot-duckduckgo'. But it's better than nothing.


DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
DuckDuckGo

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#Introduction

Hello, my name is Christoff.

I live in Illinois, USA, outside the St. Louis area. Below I'll talk about my technology and creative interests, and a bit about me personally. I'm going to hashtag the heck out of this post.

the whole "deadbeef" thing is the magic number from #Solaris for freed memory. I simply chose .monster TLD because it seemed cool and I like "extended" TLDs.

#Technology

I have been using a OpenBSD, #NetBSD, or #GNU/#Linux since the late 1990s as a primary workstation. I used macOS from 2020 to 2025, switching to the #KDE neon distro (KDE plasma is amazing and KDE isn't bloated anymore, yay!).

My current career is as a #pentester where I break into web applications, IP networks, mobile applications (especially #Android), and people to their face or over the phone; code #malware; write documentation; and enjoy helping clients in a third party contractor/consultant role. I started that job change in 2020, when I earned the #OSCP certification at the height of "#infosec twitter" when I did well there.

Previously I worked for about 20 years as a senior-level programmer, and systems, infrastructure, and database administrator. Burnout was very real and I was extremely bored/unfulfilled.

Now that programming and sysadmin stuff isn't my career, I find I enjoy programming and tinkering again.

I am a big fan of NetBSD and always have been. I am not a huge fan of GNU/Linux but I do appreciate things "just working", even if it is full of closed-source binary blobs and other garbage. It was fun in the 1990s.

I know many programming languages but have been paid professionally to code in #C, #Perl, #Python, #PHP, #Java, and #Groovy for big commercial entities like eBay, small companies, and the US government.

I've maintained 99.99% uptime for a 60MM+ platform for years, including failover and backups (that were regularly tested... you test your failover and backups, right?!).

I always wanted to be a cool C and low-level programmer, which I thought for the longest time was being a kernel programmer, but now I know that isn't the life for me.

Emacs is something I've enjoyed since the beginning and I still can't code a #Lisp well. I'd love to be a cool #lisper with #CommonLisp, but haven't gotten there yet. I'm on the #c64 and #embedded #retrocomputing train now.

#Creative

For creative stuff, I aim to do a lot but tend to hop around as interests take me. I could use some discipline there (someday?).

For #music, I have an electric #bass (Fender Jazz) and electric #guitar. I love #jambands (#GratefulDead, #Phish, #Goose) and that's the type of music I like to play along to.

For #art, I like #acrylic and #watercolor painting. I rarely do it, but think about it a lot and love it when I do it. I don't have any skill or talent, but that's not the point. It's for me and no one else.

For #computing, I am venturing into #C64 #demoscene programming and exploration. Not only was I too poor to get one when I was little but I sorta forgot about it over time. The desire to do cool things in a restricted environment where folks are playing in the sandbox, too, is very exciting and attractive to me. I don't know how to code the #Commodore64 stuff yet, but will! Learning the assembly language (I have zero desire to code in BASIC again and I can just code assembly).

#Personal

I live with my soulmate and our five amazing cats in a small town outside St. Louis living a quiet life. Just doing our jobs, taking care of daily life stuff, and enjoying each other and life as much as we can. Ups and downs of life chaos, like anyone else, but we're doing alright!

We enjoy exploring places within driving distance and there are a lot of places to go to.

Currently, we're really into playing two-player games together and just started collecting #boardgames. Right now, we're really digging #SkyTeam, #RoyalGameOfUr, #ForrestShuffle, #SentinelsOfTheMultiverse, and this magnet game I don't know the name of. We have #SpiritIsland and #ArcNova to unwrap and learn. We tried really really hard to get into #ArkhamHorrorTheCardGame but the rules are too complicated and confusing, where it felt like we were doing the wrong thing all the time.

I am 46. I grew up loving Star Wars, Star Trek, #SciFi, reading novels non-stop, horror, and watching movies. I collect classic SciFi books from 1960s and 1970s.

I would perhaps describe myself as an extremely curious person, that loves #puzzles and #mysteries, #exploration, figuring out #HumanBehavior like I'm an alien studying humans (I'm good at it, it turns out), that has a keen eye for detail, remembering random little things, and a good listener. I'm fairly adaptable and fluid in most things, which works well for me. My brain works differently than a lot of people, and while frustrating a lot of the time for things I don't understand fully, it is me and serves me well in niches.

Making people laugh makes me happy. I am a #hacker and #tinkerer.

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Tonight we saw a GREAT VICTORY in the Senate with the “GREAT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL,” but, it wouldn’t have happened without the Fantastic Work of Senator Rick Scott, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ron Johnson, and Senator Cynthia Lummis. They, along with all of the other Republican Patriots who voted for the Bill, are people who truly love our Country! As President of the USA, I am proud of them all, and look forward to working with them to GROW OUR ECONOMY, REDUCE WASTEFUL SPENDING, SECURE OUR BORDER, FIGHT FOR OUR MILITARY/VETS, ENSURE THAT OUR MEDICAID SYSTEM HELPS THOSE WHO TRULY NEED IT, PROTECT OUR SECOND AMENDMENT, AND SO MUCH MORE. GOD BLESS AMERICA &, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

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This morning, as I was preparing our breakfast of pottage and stale bread, my 3-year-old tugged at my doublet and asked with furrowed brow:

‘Father, is it not true that in the absence of a sovereign power—whether it be Parliamentarian or Royalist—man is thrust into a condition of perpetual conflict, a war of all against all? And if so, are we not living amidst the very Leviathan Hobbes warned us of, yet without its unifying force?’

I nearly dropped the trencher. It’s moments like these that remind me: even the littlest among us can perceive the chaos of the Commonwealth when the bonds of social contract fray.

Children know.

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Leaders from countries all over the world are starting to look at Free and Open Source Software options to move their local governments and cities away from the proprietary lock that American tech companies have on them. They no longer want to have to rely on America. Personally, as a Free and Open Source Software advocate, I love to see this. Many of us do. But a question for Trump supporters: How the fuck is this making America Great Again?

I know that I'm preaching to the choir, but Trump supporters are absolute fools.

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HBDH Eziz Gabar Militia; “We Carried Out a Sabotage Action on a Factory Warehouse in Aydın!”


On the morning of June 22, the warehouse section of a factory located in the ASTIS industrial site in the Efeler district of Aydın was set on fire by the Eziz Gabar Militia using a sabotage technique.

As a result of this retaliatory action carried out in memory of our heroic comrades who fought selflessly and became martyrs in Ağrı, Batman and Şırnak, the factory was significantly damaged. The colonialist fascist Turkish state is mobilizing all its resources and carrying out operations against the freedom guerrilla in the four parts of Kurdistan, primarily in the common struggle of our peoples.

The fascist-occupier AKP-MHP gang regime, which is based on the policy of destruction and denial, continues to attack the people and revolutionaries within the scope of the collapse plan that has entered its 9th year. The political and military failures it has suffered have brought the fascist torturer AKP-MHP gang regime to the point of ending.

The occupying army, which can only confront the freedom guerrilla, which has proven its invincibility in every area it is present, especially in Northern Kurdistan, with thousands of soldiers and counter-strikes, dozens of warplanes, UAVs, UAVs and attack helicopters, is still unable to achieve the desired result by hitting the guerrilla resistance.

The unyielding resistance of the comrades who were martyred in the clashes that continued for days increases our determination to fight, and is also the reason for fighting until victory in our just cause. The military operations that are being expanded and continued in Bakur will be fruitless. It will grow the guerrilla resistance.

Until the fascist-occupier AKP-MHP gang regime and everyone who is a part of this dirty war pays the price for these attacks, it is our call to all young people and revolutionaries; Today is the day to grow the guerrilla and its resistance, to demonstrate the steel will of the united struggle against fascism and to take revenge for the martyred comrades.

We call on our patriotic and revolutionary people to actively resist until we uproot the colonialists and occupiers from the lands of Kurdistan and Türkiye!

Long live HBDH!
Long live our Guerrilla Struggle!Long live our Revolutionary People’s War!Long live our United Struggle!Martyr Namirin!

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#guerrilla #hbdh #resistance #turkey #westAsia

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« … any operation that channels desperate civilians into militarized zones is inherently unsafe… »⁣⁣⁣

🔗 · youtube.com/watch?v=oA40GHvoXU…

#Palestine #ceasefire #FreePalestine @palestine⁣⁣

🕊️ 🇵🇸 🍉 🙏🏻 ✌️ ☮️


UN Chief: US-led Gaza aid operation 'Is killing people'

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivered a blunt assessment of the US-backed aid operation in Gaza, calling it 'inherently unsafe and killing people',...
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« … it's really extremely distressing to see that militarized humanitarian assistance schemes have emerged… »⁣⁣⁣

🔗 · youtube.com/watch?v=XUzyazGqeW…

#Palestine #ceasefire #FreePalestine @palestine⁣⁣

🕊️ 🇵🇸 🍉 🙏🏻 ✌️ ☮️


UN rights chief says ‘extremely distressing’ to see ‘militarised’ humanitarian aid in Gaza

UN rights chief Volker Turk, speaking at a press conference on Thursday, said that it is “extremely distressing” to see “militarised humanitarian assistance”...
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Joel [Minnesota]

@fuknukl @echoteecat
This tourney was a good romp and it's always fun to see NA.S getting more interaction with gray and dark Fedi. SRK or Diced Tomatoe, whichever wins it'll be a good game and I think the masses will be pleased. Good job on implementing fixes for issues from last year.

I'm now concerned that with Dread and SRK/Dicey down that next year won't be as dramatic.

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“In 1889 the Treasury Department—which then oversaw immigration—decided that a native-born child could not be sent out of the country with her foreign-born mother. So it admitted the foreign-born mother to take care of the citizen child.

“It was not ‘the intention of Congress to sever the sacred ties existing between parent and child, or forcibly banish and expatriate a native-born child for the reason that its parent is a pauper.’”

What has happened to us?

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June 27, 2025

After the Supreme Court today decided the case of Trump v.
Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)

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In the time before widespread #vaccination, #death often came early.

Devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of #children & leaving others w/lifelong #health problems. These illnesses were the main reason why nearly 1 in 5 children in 1900 never made it to their 5th birthday.

#Trump #RFKJr #PublicHealth #USpol #policy #science #medicine #vaccines #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics
apnews.com/article/vaccines-me…

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CynBlogger™️Dissents

I was in grammar school from 1947-55. Every single student in our large (50+) classes had ALL communicable diseases — I even had pertussis for almost six months, which nearly killed me. The polio vaccine was a true miracle for the scourge it was for thousands. We have almost 80 years of successful history that proves the efficacy of vaccination. We simply cannot let one batshit crazy person, stupidly nominated and wrongly confirmed, affect our health this way.

#ResignRFKJr

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pistolero

This may be a little too post-musket for your tastes, but "The accomplish’d lady’s delight in preserving, physick, beautifying and cookery : Containing, I, The art of preserving, and candying ... II, The physical cabinet ... and The art of angling. III, The compleat cooks guide ..." is a book from 1677 (with subsequent reprints) that includes a large amount of information about cooking and pickling and seasoning. The archive.org scans suck but the yale.edu reader sucks but there is a download button:

archive.org/details/bim_early-…
archive.org/details/bim_eighte…
collections.library.yale.edu/c…

It also contains a recipe for almond milk, which I thought was a relatively modern thing, but is apparently old.


The accomplish'd lady's delight, ... 1686 : Wolley, Hannah. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The accomplish'd lady's delight, ... 1686..Digitized from IA40310607-87.Previous issue: bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_witnesses-produced-again_1653.Next...
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Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale

Link: ubicloud.com/blog/life-of-an-i…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale

vLLM is an open-source inference engine that serves large language models. We deploy vLLM across GPUs and load open weight models like Llama 4 into it.
www.ubicloud.com

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Joseph Garibaldi
#art, #peinture, #Joseph-çGaribaldi

peintre français

Contributeurs aux projets Wikimedia (Fondation Wikimedia, Inc.)

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President-Elect Nawrocki Outlined Poland’s Three Priorities In Central & Eastern Europe thealtworld.substack.com/p/pre…

President-Elect Nawrocki Outlined Poland’s Three Priorities In Central & Eastern Europe

Andrew Korybko- The common thread tying them together is the “Three Seas Initiative” since they’re all related to it in some way.
thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)

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Soy Melson is especially ugly this evening:

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Their motto is deception. (@SiRrogueKnight@noauthority.social)

@ceo_of_monoeye_dating@lab.nyanide.com You're a sad little autistic computer programmer who was abused as a kid... no excuse for your behavior now. You perpetuate what you deserve. And this tourney is the apex of your life, buddy... 😀 Enjoy... 🍻
NAS

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The way these foreign-born Democrats lie to make America and her institutions look bad just makes me more resolute than ever that no foreign-born person should be allowed to run for elected office.
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Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal Shares' Sob Story' About ICE Supposedly Abusing Pregnant Illegal and It Backfires when the Migrant's Chilling Background Emerges | The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger

          Far-left Rep.
Cullen Linebarger (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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The Barbarity of Solitary Confinement in South Carolina: Kevin Rashid Johnson


Both the United Nations and Courts all over have recognized that continuous confinement inside a cell for even brief periods is torture and has proven in extensive psychological studies to cause mental illness and organic brain damage.

There has been a broad outside and inside movement to reform and end solitary confinement in my home state of Virginia for over a decade. This struggle has led to laws being passed that require daily out-of-cell time for Va prisoners in solitary (1), and a pending federal class action lawsuit in which the presiding judge and the appeals court have found Va’s conditions in solitary to be unconstitutional and harmful to prisoners’ mental health. (2) Not so in South Carolina, where the conditions in solitary are far worse than anything in Va, and where I was recently
interstate transferred.

Not only are the conditions in SC’s solitary confinement units (euphemistically called “Restrictive Housing Units”) downright medieval, but there are no efforts to reform nor end them. Worse still, the corruption and retribution of SC administrative officials operate to stomp out any efforts by prisoners to bring attention to SC’s prison conditions.

I’ve been in SC since May 1, 2025 and have been thrown in solitary twice already, and have gotten to see and experience the barbarity of these units.

Although I was in general population when I left Va, I was thrown in solitary as soon as I arrived in SC. I was initially taken to SC’s Reception and Orientation institution called Kirkland. There I was thrown into a cold solitary cell with nothing but a filthy mattress and no clothes except a nylon smock. Not even underwear. When I protested that I would not accept meals and requested to call attorneys. I was transferred the next day to Perry Correctional (sic!) Institution, where I was again thrown in solitary. Approximately half of the buildings at Perry are solitary confinement units and prisoners are sent to Perry from all over the state to be held in solitary long term.

Here one is confined in a cold cell with a concrete slab raised about 6 inches from the floor. At night when the cells are left completely dark, bugs, spiders and mice crawl on and around one’s body. Prisoners have been held in solitary at Perry for years. My neighbor, Jimmy Causey, has been here for eight years.

There is no view outside the cells. We receive no outside exercise or fresh air. WHen I arrived at Perry on May 2d, the prisoners in solitary had been to outside exercise only five times this entire year. The denial of regular outside exercise in solitary standing alone, has been found unconstitutional by federal courts. While in other states solitary is characterized as 23/1 hours of in-cell confinement, in SC it is literally 24/7. The only times prisoners come out of their cells here is to shower for 15 minutes three times per week, which is often denied as well.

We can have no personal property, no personal books to read, no periodicals. We can’t make canteen purchases. Not even personal hygiene items. The only hygiene items we may use are state-issued toothpaste, toothbrush and soap. No deodorant, shampoo, or hair grease is allowed. One can’t groom or shave, and even could we there are no mirrors to see oneself. Yet the rules say our hair must be kept closely cropped.

We cannot purchase stationary to write loved ones. Only two outgoing letters are permitted per month. We are not allowed to communicate directly with the media. We cannot write to but one lawyer, and only if they are confirmed to be actively representing us in pending legal proceedings. These obstacles to communication obviously work to sever community and family ties in outright contradiction of any claims to rehabilitation and enabling anyone to reenter society as a healthy and productive member. And they prevent public exposure and accountability for the inhumane conditions in these prisons and units, and any prisoner from obtaining attorneys to assist them, whether to challenge discrepancies in their original criminal cases or to contest the conditions of their confinement (the latter being the obvious purpose of these illegal obstructions to communicate with lawyers).

The meals are disgusting and bland, non-nutritious (composed primarily of breads and pasta), repetitious and the portions insufficient. EVERYONE complains of constant hunger pangs and substantial weight loss. Not only are the general portions tiny, but as opposed to the three meals given on weekdays, only two meals are served on weekends. The two weekend meals are basically the same portions given on two of the weekday trays. Worse still, the time between the last meal and the meal the next day on the weekends is approximately 20 hours. This is illegal and literal torture. In fact courts have held that the dull continuous pain of prolonged hunger constitutes corporal punishment.

So prisoners in SC’s solitary sit idle, stripped of all fresh air, sensory stimulation, and diversionary activities day after day, for months to years on end, under the most blatant conditions of mental torture. I’ve not seen this extreme level of total denial of environmental stimulation and solitary confinement anywhere else in my 35 years of confinement. In fact, this sort of solitary was outlawed by federal courts in Va over 50 years in the landmark case of Landman v. Royster. (3)

Not only are the solitary conditions inhumane per se, but they’re coupled with physical abuses sanctioned by administrators. Prisoners are routinely gassed and beaten by guards. They’re hogtied and left naked in empty cells for hours on end. Of course hogtying has often proved fatal and has been banned in prisons for decades. (4)

I’ve observed others left in empty cells to sleep on bare concrete with no clothes except boxers for three days, for nothing but making noise by striking a cell door with their hands. In one case the prisoner only wanted to be taken outside so he could perform his wiccan prayers after months of prisoners in solitary illegally receiving no outside exercise.

To add greater insult to the mistreatment, food, medications, and showers are illegally used as punishment and to compel submission. One is denied meals, meds, and showers if they are not fully dressed and standing in the rear of their cell when guards arrive at their cells to provide these things. Prisoners are not required to be dressed and standing in this manner at any other times when guards come to their cells. The measure is calculated to use needed essentials as weapons and tools of forced compliance with arbitrary orders to instill docility and submission. Like training animals.. Or breaking slaves.

Suffering under these conditions for just days is literally torture. As it’s meant to be. SC’s prisoners need a support movement to end this abuse.

Dare to struggle Dare to Win!

All Power to the People!
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Endnotes:
1. See, for example, Va. Code, section 53.1-39.2 (limitations on
Restorative housing units).
2. Thorpe v. Clarke, 37 F. 4th 926 (4th Cir. 2022)
3. Landman v. Royster, 333 F. Supp. 621 (E.D.va <e.d.va&gt;. 1971)
4. Weigel v. Broad, 544 F. 3d 1143 (coth cim. 2008)

source: Kevin Rashid

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#blackLiberation #kevinRashidJohnson #newAfrikanPantherParty #northAmerica #repression #southCarolina

THE BARBARITY OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN SOUTH CAROLINA (2025) By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

Rashid

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Uh-Oh! Political Antisemitism Smears Have Stopped Working!

Zohran Mamdani has won the Democratic Party primary in the New York City mayoral race after a frenetic smear campaign to portray him as an antisemite for his pro-Palestinian views, and now all the world’s worst people are freaking out about it.

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Uh-Oh! Political Antisemitism Smears Have Stopped Working!

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)

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Lovely write-up of the wealth of housing co-ops in Liverpool from the Liverpool Post

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#Liverpool #housing #cooperative


Liverpool has the most cooperative housing outside of London. So why does no one know about them?

Ella Benson Easton journeys through the city’s co-ops to find out why this radical way of living is one of Liverpool’s best kept secrets
Ella Benson Easton (The Post)

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This is HUGE if it can be proven. It would wipe out almost everything Biden did as pResident.
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CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS? Researcher Suggests Biden’s Autopen Signatures May Not Be His (Likely Jill’s) – Meaning All Autopen Signed Documents Are Forgeries | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

           A Missouri pharmacist suspects the Biden autopen signature is bigger than already reported.
Joe Hoft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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Armenia's Yerevan Court Arrests Archbishop Ajapakhyan for Two Months, Lawyer Says en.sputniknews.africa/20250628…

Armenia's Yerevan Court Arrests Archbishop Ajapakhyan for Two Months, Lawyer Says

Head of a diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Archbishop Mikael Ajapakhyan, was detained on Friday on suspicion of coup attempt. He denies the charges as fabricated.
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