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Yabloko, a pro-LGBTQ+ opposition party that has consistently criticised Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, was excluded from the nationwide party-list ballot on 10 August. The decision prompted protests outside the Supreme Court in Moscow, where around 500 supporters gathered as the ruling was delivered.

I know that I can simply make my own private certificate authority that only I and my family trust. But is there some public provider like letsencrypt that is in a free-er part of the world than the US?

Full title: Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed in NYT lawsuit

Her reputation preceded her. As Bourne approached the lectern for public comment — shouting about “healthy, whole women!” — scores of district-area teachers got up from their seats and walked out of the meeting.

Bourne went ballistic.

“Ask those teachers to stop interrupting my comment!” she shouted at the meeting chair. “I want my time back! I want my time back!”

Stephen Miller is leading an unprecedented and intense White House drive across a host of government departments to accelerate the removal of undocumented immigrant children from the US, using tactics that critics say are cruel and racist and, in some cases, flout federal law, the Guardian has learned.

As deputy chief of staff at the White House, focused on immigration policy, Miller is seen as the mastermind and enforcer behind Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigration agenda.

He is directing a whole-of-government approach that has been ramping up throughout Trump’s second term and is targeting a vulnerable population of undocumented children. Many abruptly find themselves denied access to legal immigration pathways in the US, with their applications fast-tracked and then rejected before being forced out of the country.

Almost 200,000 children have been ordered removed from the US by immigration judges since Trump returned to the White House, a doubling of such court orders since January 2025, according to analysis of data from the Department of Justice’s executive office for immigration review (EOIR) conducted by the California-based advocacy Mobile Pathways and shared with the Guardian. The advocacy group has focused its numbers on children appearing in immigration court, regardless of whether they arrived in the US alone or with family, and believes the total to be an undercount.

Miller has harnessed personnel and power for his task from at least five cabinet-level government departments, as described to the Guardian by several sources briefed on various initiatives, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The departments include Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees the care of migrant children who are in the country without a parent or guardian; the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) are based; and the Department of Justice (DoJ), which houses the immigration courts – with the state department and the Department of Defense playing more subsidiary roles.

Miller frequently confers with subordinates, daily at times, pressing them to maximize removals of immigrant children from the US, according to a number of sources familiar with the White House plans.

“The folks that have to do the implementation are told, ‘These instructions came directly from the White House,’ or ‘These instructions came directly from Stephen Miller,’ as a way of conveying, you know, the importance of implementing them in a timely fashion and doing it in the way that they were instructed to do it,” one source said.

Today’s game is Project Zomboid. We made a trip into Louisville today. It was a fucking adventure. I usually measure Zomboid sessions based on how many events could go into a Zombie TV Show. And this one was damn full of them.

After packing up the van we got everyone piled in and headed off down the road. The first stop was at a gas station where we stopped to grab some extra supplies. That’s where we had our first scare. One of our guys got grabbed and nearly got bitten. By a miracle he made it out alive. We finished fueling up and headed to our next stop.

That brought us to the military base. There was an entire horde in there and we fought our way through the entire thing. We had quite a few scares but somehow cleared the entire thing. If I had to guess we killed maybe 300 Zombies in there.

As we were looting it though the worst thing happened: The Helicopter Event. We tried to bunker down but it saw us and we had to hide out while it drew half of Louisville to our door step. We fought them off until the end of the event. We decided to stay there because it gave us a narrow choke point to hold down. Once we survived that though we finally made it to our destination.

We drove into town and found some Sheep. Just chilling in Louisville. We tried to take them home but they were too heavy and maimed some of our guys. So we just butchered them and took the meat home instead. We were starting to get tired but some of us wanted to press on. One of our players found some car keys and a working car, so they took some of the group home while the rest of us kept exploring.

Our trip ended at the Gentlemen’s club. It wasn’t originally our goal, but one of our guys unfortunately got bitten here and died. We took his stuff but with us being down a man we decided not to press our luck and turn around.

Thankfully the trip home was a lot less eventful, it was chill and we basically had no issues besides some mild traffic. I let one of our other players drive so I could mark up the road. I mark it up as we go so we can keep an eye on where the road blocks are and be aware. It’s handy.

When we finally got home we unloaded from our trip that lasted nearly 4 hours. It was a blast. I’m glad I got to take that trip because it’s some of the most fun I’ve had in Zomboid for a long while.

I am clearly not good at post-producing, but I had a great lot of fun shooting these beauties.

Shot with a Canon EOS 4000D 1/1250 f/5.6 300mm ISO 200

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