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The original was posted on /r/mapporn by /u/rayg10 on 2025-04-25 23:14:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/mapporn by /u/DTComposer on 2025-04-25 19:41:49+00:00.

This is quite new. Just wanted to share. (The link is from Sci-Hub, so the whole thing seems legit).

Federal agents arrested a Milwaukee judge Friday on obstruction charges for allegedly interfering with an immigration arrest. Judge Hannah Dugan of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court was arrested in the county courthouse and remains in federal custody, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Kash Patel, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), posted about Dugan's arrest on X. He has since deleted the post.

Dugan's arrest comes one day after federal agents arrested a former New Mexico county judge and his wife in their home. Former Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, were charged with evidence tampering and harboring an alleged member of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. (The administration has used spurious evidence, including innocuous tattoos, to accuse Venezuelan migrants of being Tren de Aragua members in order to exile them to a notorious prison in El Salvador.)

The details of these arrests so far are scant, but suggest that the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on immigration - and increasingly going after anyone who helps undocumented immigrants in any way. More broadly, Trump's Department of Justice app …

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29149379

Source: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210422203252/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/IReallyWantSkittles on 2025-04-25 12:15:49+00:00.

Attempted to steal a bag of fries because I need something to keep me fed. Used a calculator and all to make sure my groceries came to a round 10. But got hit with 11.60. Told the guy I'd go put it back but said "ugh fuck it.". Security caught up to me and I gave the fries back.

Went home and decided to read the receipt and lo and behold, a bag of fries paid for.

I probably got double charged at the counter. I've also issues that make me exploitable. And this was my first attempt at being not good for my own benefit. It's probably my last.

I've lost two days worth of sleep over this. I'm tired, I have no potatoes.

TL;DR: Tried to steal fries. Turns out I paid and handed back a bag of fries that I paid for. The universe is funny like that.

The World Food Programme on Friday said months of Israeli blockades have entirely depleted food stocks in Gaza. The WFP warned that thousands of Palestinians could die of starvation as a result of the policy.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.dw.com/en/world-food-programme-warns-of-mass-starvation-in-gaza/a-72356829

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Holocaust survivors gathering on Holocaust Memorial Day speak out against Palestinian starvation and suffering

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/25/we-have-lost-our-humanity-holocaust-survivors-call-for-end-to-war-in-gaza

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The very same day Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins’ fifth Hunger Games book, was announced, so was a movie adaptation. Lionsgate had previously jumped on announcing the movie version of Collins’ other Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, but the sheer speed on this announcement was even quicker. The movie is set to come out November 2026, and with the book out just this past March, the turnaround is tight.

By the end of April — a little over a month afterSunrise on the Reapinghit shelves — we have a whole slate of confirmed cast members. And true to the Hunger Games formula, it’s a mix of relatively unknown young actors with promise, child stars with a shot at something new, and a few established adult actors who don’t detract from the lead roles, but instead use their existing personas to bring their characters to life. This specific equation hasn’t steered the Hunger Games movies wrong yet.

Breaking down the younger casts

Joseph Zada is set to play the younger version of Haymitch Abernathy, played by Woody Harrelson in the original movies. We don’t actually know if Harrelson is going to return for this movie, though he returned to voice the teaser. Zada currently stars in Stan’s Invisible Boys — and doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. Meanwhile, Haymitch’s tragically doomed girlfriend Lenore Dove will be played by Whitney Peak, who appeared in the Gossip Girl reboot, the Hocus Pocus sequel, and a few episodes of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

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Suffice it to say: This is going to be a career launching pad for both of them. And this extends to other younger castmates, even when they’re more “established.” The role of Maysilee Donner, one of the tributes who accompanies Haymitch into the arena, will be played by Mckenna Grace. She has a pretty robust filmography, but many of her roles are younger versions of characters (incidentally, she appeared in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina as younger Kiernan Shipka). Grace starred in the new-new Ghostbusters movies, but this’ll mark a new step in her career, too.

It’s pretty on par with the three young leads of the original Hunger Games movies. Jennifer Lawrence was cast fresh off her Oscar nomination for Winter’s Bone and while she was filming for X-Men: First Class, but still had relatively few credits under her belt. Liam Hemsworth had done that one Nicholas Sparks movie. And though Josh Hutcherson broke all our hearts in Bridge to Terabithia, much like Grace, he’d definitely been in the “child actor” boat for most of his career. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes stars Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler were in similar boats: Zegler had caught director Francis Lawrence’s eye after starring in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, but was still relatively new to the big screen, while Blyth had only been in a handful of small films and minor TV roles.

All of the young actors in the previous Hunger Games movies were a bit of a gamble in some way, but they were phenomenal in their roles. Even the more minor cast was perfectly chosen, with some going on to have big careers, like Jack Quaid and Amandla Stenberg. So much of Hunger Games casting felt like it legitimately minted younger stars by giving them prominence and a chance to showcase their talent, even in the more minor roles.

The special spice

But what really clinches the special Hunger Games casting formula is how perfectly the older, more established actors fit in. Movies and shows focusing on younger characters often risk casting adult roles with famous actors just for the name. This is especially true when the actors themselves (1) are so well known that even the target younger audience knows who they are off screen and (2) don’t really actually fit the characters they’re cast as. Consider how overpowering Lin-Manuel Miranda’s presence in His Dark Materials and Percy Jackson was. Man’s not even a cowboy!

The original Hunger Games movies avoided this by casting actors whose established outward personas made sense for their characters. Harrelson might not be a book-accurate Haymitch by looks, but he’s got a knack for playing snarky and self-deprecating characters. Lenny Kravitz as a cool, fashion-forward stylist? Stanley Tucci as a bubbly, gregarious game show host? Elizabeth Banks being a hyperactive and fussy chaperone? Yeah, that all makes sense. Donald Sutherland playing a dour-faced, cold dictator whose goodwill is built on cunning, deceptive charm also does. And in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, it’s absolutely not hard to see Viola Davis as a calculating and cunning scientist, or Peter Dinklage as a brooding, jaded alcoholic who regrets his actions. They’re all actors with long, established careers, but notably not with a huge contrasting brand that would take away from the younger actors. Their casting twists and utilizes their star personas without making them the focal point.

So far, Sunrise on the Reaping only has one of these roles cast — and that is Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, the longtime secret rebel. In the original movies, he was played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Plemons fits the bill the same way Hoffman did: an actor who could most definitely play the part of covert rebel by night, charming Capitol citizens by day. It’s indicative that the casting directors on Sunrise on the Reaping are holding true to the unspoken ethos that’s guided the Hunger Games movies to massive success. And I’m certain that the rest of the casting news will only continue this pattern — the odds are already in our favor.

Sunrise on the Reaping hits theaters Nov. 20, 2026.

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Time to say goodbye to the Windows Maps application. Microsoft is killing it for good later this year.

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Donald Trump: 'I'm really not trolling' with talk of Canada as 51st state <<< Hybrid War Lost, USA population has lost Hearts + Minds to self-harm Americans since the Cambridge Analytica + Kremlin executive function mental manipulated unleashed March 2013

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5267087-trump-trolling-canada-51st-state/

"Trump: ‘I’m really not trolling’ with talk of Canada as 51st state"
by Brett Samuels - April 25, 2025

President Trump in an interview published Friday was adamant that he is serious about his talk of adding Canada as the 51st state, something Canadian leaders have outright rejected.

The president sat down for an interview with Time magazine, during which a reporter suggested Trump may have been “trolling a little bit” with his repeated comments that Canada should be absorbed into the United States.

“Actually, no, I’m not,” Trump said in the interview, which was conducted Tuesday.

“I think Canada, what you said that, ‘Well, that one, I might be trolling.’ But I’m really not trolling,” Trump added. “Canada is an interesting case.”

The president repeated his frequent claims that the U.S. is losing money to Canada because of trade deficits and that there is no need for America to import Canadian products.

“We’re taking care of their military. We’re taking care of every aspect of their lives, and we don’t need them to make cars for us,” Trump told Time. “In fact, we don’t want them to make cars for us. We want to make our own cars. We don’t need their lumber. We don’t need their energy. We don’t need anything from Canada. And I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state.”

Trump has for months mused about Canada becoming a state, shrugging off the border between the two countries as arbitrary and mockingly referring to then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “governor.”

While some critics at the time had suggested Trump was not serious about the idea, Trudeau and the Canadian politicians who were vying to replace him as prime minister, including his replacement, Mark Carney, repeatedly shut down the concept of Canada becoming a state.

Trump has also spoken about acquiring Greenland, which is an autonomous territory under the kingdom of Denmark. Danish leaders have rejected that idea.

The president told Time that Greenland “would be very well off if they — I think it’s important for us for national security and even international security.”

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NATO / USA lost the Hybrid War that was launched in March 2013 against the World Wide Web.

1. Kremlin brags that only 1% of the manipulation Hybrid War content has been discovered and removed. NATO has entirely been unable to defend, 99% flies under the defense radar of Five Eyes (FVEY).

2. Russian military was able to completely get past USA FBI, CIA, NSA, and whatever else the Pentagon has. Competely unable to defend the population against Russian Hybrid Warfare. "For years, AIVD had access to the infamous Russian hacker group Cozy Bear. That's what de Volkskrant and Nieuwsuur have uncovered in their investigation." "the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD penetrated the computer network of a university adjacent to Red Square back in 2014, only to later realize they had tapped into APT29, aka Cozy Bear, one of the Russian government-affiliated organizations that penetrated the DNC and targeted other US government departments". "It was Dutch intelligence operatives that hacked into some of Russia's own institutions -- including their closed-circuit television cameras."

3. Putin and Surkov's "Operation Matthew 4:19" global manipulation of everyday people included turning social media consumers into Russian assets of the Hybrid Warfare who deliberately spread measles and COVID-19 virus during the pandemic. Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University validated evidence going back to year 2014.

4. Absolutely no defense has been found against this Hybrid Warfare since it was unleashed in March 2013. "At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.” It was something of an underestimation. The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations"

5. It is not only leaders and public figures. The Kremlin created 5,000 artificial reality screen games (alternate reality media consumer screen games) in late 2012 / early 2013 with Cambridge Analytica psychologists and psychiatrists to induce self-harm, egoism, self-destruction, anti-humanism, anti-goodness, reactionary thinking in the population. "Британские учёные из Cambridge Analytica предложили сделать из 5 тысяч существующих человеческих психотипов - "идеальный образ" возможного сторонника Трампа. Затем.. положить этот образ обратно на всё психотипы и таким образом подобрать универсальный ключик к любому и каждому.", "Дальше оставалось только загрузить эти данные в информационные потоки и социальные сети."

6. Russia openly gloated after 6 full years since the alternate reality screen game deployment, in February 2019 that the American People, We The People, are mentally owned / that Russia manipulated hearts and minds: Americans who worry about Russia election interference should stop focusing on such trivialities and instead realize that the idea that they have a choice over how they are governed is a mere illusion, Vladislav Surkov, an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, wrote in an op-ed published this week. "The illusion of choice is the most important illusion, the main trick of Western democracy especially…. The rejection of this illusion in favor of the reality that everything is predestined will allow society to reflect first on our vision of democratic development," Surkov wrote. "Foreign politicians talk about Russia's interference in elections and referendums around the world. In fact, the matter is even more serious: Russia interferes in your brains, we change your conscience, and there is nothing you can do about it."