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Iran Blasts US 'Fabricated Pretext' To Hit Pickaxe Mountain, Launches More Attacks On Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan Amid continued fighting which has included explosions heard in Tehran overnight and in the south, Iran's leadership has condemned the Trump administration's "obsessive focus on Kolang Kouh where no nuclear activity is taking place is nothing more than a fabricated pretext for aggression, destruction, and sabotage," according to Foreign Minister spokesman Esmail Baghaei in a post on X, referring to Pickaxe Mountain. He pointed out that all of Iran's nuclear activity has long been fully...

Proper Flock'd: What This Cop Did Raises Major Red Flags... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A Naperville police officer turned a statewide camera grid into a personal tracking app, ran a man's plate about 150 times, and then retired like the file never existed. The story serves as yet another example of how the burgeoning mass surveillance grid is being abused on a regular basis. Patrick Dowhen was not a suspect. He was the ex. After Officer Oscar Maldonado started a relationship with Dowhen's fiancée, Flock became the shortcut. No warrant. No...