But they know that. And you do too.

Duplicitous.

A big heyooo to the catholic soldiers out there, doin their thang for Jehovah. You losers are wonderfully corrupt and shortsighted. Makes being a leftist real easy and alot of fun.

Happy May Day comrades!

All inspired by this bit of Cath-o-lic propaganda about law and pedorder. I masturbated in the shower for you folks, and came up with the title of this post.

Lindsay Garcia (D) on Thursday sued Gov. Jeff Landry (R) to block the suspension of the state’s House primary elections after the Supreme Court ruled that the state’s second majority-Black congressional district was an unconstitutional gerrymander. Garcia and voter Eugene Collins argue in their lawsuit that the elections were already in progress when Landry issued an executive order on Thursday. Garcia and Collins called the suspension unconstitutional, alleging that it violates the First, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments, interferes with the timing of the election and nullifies absentee ballots. They urged the court to halt enforcement of the executive order, allow the elections to commence and count ballots already cast. They also called on refraining “from disenfranchising any qualified Louisiana voter or de-listing any qualified candidate in any contest on the May 16, 2026 or June 27, 2026 ballot.” “The State, in short, has no lawful predicate for the cancellation it has ordered,” their complaint reads. “It cannot conduct a primary under a remedial map that does not yet exist, in a remedial proceeding that has not yet begun, before a court that does not yet have jurisdiction.”

xkcd #3240: Bottle

Title text:

"I know it seems impossible, but the trick is that I sailed in here when I was very young."

Transcript:

Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com

Source: https://xkcd.com/3240/

explainxkcd for #3240

Republicans in Congress voted to fund the Department of Homeland Security Thursday, effectively ending the 76-day shutdown of the department.

The bill, passed by a voice vote in the House, is a win for Democrats, as it still includes no money for ICE or Border Patrol, and is now headed to President Trump’s desk to be signed into law. House Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly decided to finally support the bill after a private meeting with his fellow Republican leaders earlier in the day, where they agreed that the situation couldn’t continue.

The GOP will still try to fund ICE through the reconciliation process, which takes much longer but only requires a simple majority in both chambers of Congress.

TNG S6:E18 - Starship Mine

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Lawmakers in Brussels have asked the European Commission to address claims of poor working conditions linked to BYD’s factory development in Hungary, putting the Chinese carmaker under scrutiny by the European Union (EU).

The issue ... follows a report released on 14 April by New York-based China Labor Watch (CLW).

CLW accused contractors at the Szeged site of requiring thousands of workers to work every day of the week, often in shifts exceeding 12 hours.

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According to CLW, workers – most of them from China – were only able to pause work when severe weather halted construction.

Qiang Li, founder of the group, said that managers were pushing to start vehicle production in January 2026 and “wanted to begin production of cars in January [2026], so they were rushing the project’s timeline – they weren’t letting workers leave”.

The report also alleged that employees were told to mislead labour inspectors by saying they worked only “five days per week, eight hours per day, with one hour of overtime”.

CLW said the actual schedules breached Hungary’s labour rules and resembled the International Labour Organization’s definition of forced labour.

The watchdog also named AIM Construction Hungary, a unit of Jinjiang Construction Group, as one of the contractors involved.

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In Brazil, the fallout from BYD’s labour controversy has reached the government level.

An official gazette showed that Luiz Felipe Brandao de Mello, who led the agency responsible for enforcing labour standards, was removed from his role.

Reuters, citing two sources, said the move followed a decision to place BYD on a blacklist that limited access to loans.

Brazil’s labour ministry had added the company to the list days earlier, but a court later suspended the measure pending a final decision.

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Residents of an Atlanta suburb have been rocked by the revelation that sales employees at Flock have been accessing sensitive cameras in the town to demonstrate the company’s surveillance technology to police departments around the country. The cameras accessed have included surveillance tech in a children’s gymnastics room, a playground, a school, a Jewish community center, and a pool.

Hullo chiels, how's the sun been fer yas this week? Who's been uptae summin in the great outdoors? Onyone daein tae celebrate?

A U.S. Navy warship lost power and propulsion after suffering from an “electrical malfunction” while sailing in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command region. CBS News reported that a fire broke out aboard the USS Higgins on Tuesday. Cmdr. Matthew Comer, a spokesperson for the U.S. 7th Fleet, said in a statement to The Hill that the electrical malfunction may have produced “sparking or smoke that ceased once power was removed.” The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer experienced an “engineering casualty” to its “electrical distribution system,” he said. There were no injuries to the crew onboard and the power has been restored to the ship, which was commissioned in 1999, Comer added. Investigations of the incident are ongoing. The vessel, which carries about 300 sailors and is homeported in Yokosuka, Japan, lost power and propulsion for several hours, CNN reported, citing a Defense official.

President Trump on Friday suggested that the War Powers Act, which requires presidents to seek congressional authorizations for foreign conflicts, is unconstitutional, as the Iran war hit 60 days, a key milestone under the Vietnam War-era law. The U.S. and Israel launched attacks against Iran on Feb 28, but Trump formally notified Congress on March 2 about U.S. military operations against the country — 60 days ago on Friday. Ahead of his departure for a weekend in Florida, Trump was asked whether he would now seek approval from lawmakers. “It’s never been sought before, there’s been numerous, many, many times and nobody’s ever gotten it before, they consider it totally unconstitutional,” Trump told reporters ahead of his departure from the White House. “But we’re always in touch with congress. But, nobody’s ever sought it before, nobody’s ever asked for it before, it’s never been used before. Why should we be different?” It’s unclear who “they” was referring to, but it’s a new argument from the Trump administration.

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President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order broadening U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government, two White House officials told Reuters. He seeks to put more pressure on Havana, following his administration's challenge to Venezuela's leadership. The new sanctions target people, entities and affiliates supporting Cuba's security apparatus, or those complicit in corruption or serious human rights violations, officials said. Government agents, officials or supporters are also included. It was not immediately clear which specific people or entities were impacted by the sanctions under the order, which Reuters first reported. The order authorizes secondary sanctions for conducting or facilitating transactions with those targeted under the order, officials said.

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root.

The high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8) has been codenamed Copy Fail by Xint.io and Theori.

"An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux system, and use that to gain root," the vulnerability research team at Xint.io and Theori said.

At its core, the vulnerability stems from a logic flaw in the Linux kernel's cryptographic subsystem, specifically within the algif_aead module. The issue was introduced in a source code commit made in August 2017.

Successful exploitation of the shortcoming could allow a simple 732-byte Python script to edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017, including Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu. The Python exploit involves four steps -

• Open an AF_ALG socket and bind to authencesn(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes))
• Construct the shellcode payload
• Trigger the write operation to the kernel's cached copy of "/usr/bin/su"
• Call execve("/usr/bin/su") to load the injected shellcode and run it as root

While the vulnerability is not remotely exploitable in isolation, a local unprivileged user can get root simply by corrupting the page cache of a setuid binary. The same primitive also has cross-container impacts as the page cache is shared across all processes on a system.

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