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Federal Workers Can’t Get the White House’s App Off Their Phones

In May, the White House announced that its new app would be automatically downloaded onto the work phones of millions of government employees. The problem: Federal workers hate it and can’t get rid of it.

Employees of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the State Department, and the Department of Labor (DOL), who spoke to WIRED on the condition of anonymity due to fear of retaliation, say that they were disturbed when the app appeared on their phones. Some attempted to delete it, but to no avail.

“I deleted it as a test and it came immediately back,” says an employee from the USDA.

Very Trump-like.

 

[Noodles]

I mean, thats usually how company run devices work.

I would never use my personal device for work fornthat reason. I can carry two phones.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I have been trying to get them to provide a company phone for a few years now because I refuse to trust their BYOD program. And they refuse, so I tell them they're not going to be able to get me by email every time they complain they can't get me by email.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Serious earthquake in Venezuela just now. There is damage being reported in Caracas.

Initial magnitude is 7.1.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I'm posting this here rather than in the Britain thread because, while this took place in the UK, I think the same regime applies anywhere US service personnel are stationed overseas.

‘Degrading’: why did a US fighter pilot avoid British trial after strangling a woman in England?

In the criminal justice system for England and Wales, Wulfson’s trial would probably have been held at the city’s crown court, and the alleged offence categorised as rape. A jury of ordinary citizens – men and women – would have heard the case. If found guilty, a judge would have decided the sentence.

However, Wulfson’s case was tried at a court martial on a US airbase, despite his alleged crime taking place while he was off duty and in an English city. The proceedings followed US military law, and the offence was not charged as rape but as sexual assault and “aggravated sexual contact”.

The defence counsel's conduct is pretty shocking to someone used to British courts.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

The Venezuela earthquake was really bad. Recovery and rescue efforts are underway, but there is serious damage in the capital and model predictions are that there could be thousands of deaths or injuries.

 

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The newest form of swatting.

A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family

Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.

petebuttigieg.substack.com

 

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Blue Georgia (@bluegeorgia.bsky.social)

Raphael Warnock: The United States of America has become the mass incarceration capital of the world. Bill Maher: There's a lot of ways to go to jail in America. Warnock: Unless you're in the Oval Office.

bsky.app

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Father and son rescued after four days buried under building rubble

The death toll in Venezuela so far is over 1,400, with thousands still missing.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

A video from the earthquake, it starts about 1:15 in

 

[Ellie]

Love this guy.

 

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Palantir Acquires Pentagon For $800 Billion

MIAMI—In an effort to diversify its holdings in the highly competitive militarized surveillance space, data analytics firm Palantir announced Thursday that it had acquired the Pentagon for $800 billion. “After months of negotiating, I am thrilled to announce that the U.S. government has accepted...

theonion.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Bit of a row currently as it was recently exposed that the CEO and co-founder of European VPN company Mullvad, Daniel Berntsson, is the primary bankroller of Sweden's far-right Örebro Party which advocates among other things mass-deportations of immigrants and Sweden-born individuals who are children of immigrants.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Not sure where to put this but hey - I can't pass up posting about a real life Mexican Batman who duct tapes thieves to poles and paints their faces with cat whiskers.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/06/29/mexican-batman-tapes-men-to-lamp-posts/

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

A California man has pleaded guilty to felony harassment for sending phony ransom notes to the Guthrie family after the Savannah Guthrie disappearance

In entering his guilty plea, Callella admitted that he called and sent text messages to Guthrie's family on February 4 inquiring about a bitcoin transfer, and "he acknowledged that he knew an earlier ransom demand had been made," the U.S. Attorney statement said.

"Callella also admitted that his actions were meant to harass the family by seeking information about the ⁠investigation into the missing person's disappearance," the statement said.

To be clear, Savannah Guthrie does appear to have really been kidnapped, and the FBI says it has reviewed ransom demands that it deems, for now, to be credible. But there has also been a flood of fake demands since the kidnapping, all the way up to as recently as last week. The particular guy in this case sent his the very next day after the crime first made national news.

 

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"Callella also admitted that his actions were meant to harass the family by seeking information about the ⁠investigation into the missing person's disappearance," the statement said.

Fucking people with way too much time on their hands.

 

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We may be forced to burn the whole thing to the ground.

 

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"Truth persists." Uh huh...

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Turkey blocks American LGBTQ+ cruise from docking, citing ‘moral standards’ | CNN