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Reason - FBI Agent Says He Hassles People 'Every Day, All Day Long' Over Facebook Posts [29/03/2024]

The FBI spends "every day, all day long" interrogating people over their Facebook posts. At least, that's what agents told Stillwater, Oklahoma, resident Rolla Abdeljawad when they showed up at her house to ask her about her social media activity. Three FBI agents came to Abdeljawad's house and said that they had been given "screenshots" of her posts by Facebook. Her lawyer Hassan Shibly posted a video of the incident online on Wednesday.

Abdeljawad told agents that she didn't want to talk and asked them to show their badges on camera, which the agents refused to do. She wrote on Facebook that she later confirmed with local police that the FBI agents really were FBI agents. "Facebook gave us a couple of screenshots of your account," one agent in a gray shirt said in the video.

"So we no longer live in a free country and we can't say what we want?" replied Abdeljawad.

"No, we totally do. That's why we're not here to arrest you or anything," a second agent in a red shirt added. "We do this every day, all day long. It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will."

Abdeljawad's Facebook timeline is public, so the FBI agents could have found it themselves. For the past week, she has made multiple angry posts per day about the war in Gaza, referring to Israel as "Israhell." But none of the posts on her feed call for violence.

mood

I usually make female dark elf/drow rogues (ideally stealthy and using magic) as my main characters in RPGs if possible, usually make good natured decisions in quests though

looks like you have an active quest to explore those mysterious chess pieces, part of a larger story?

Miami Herald - Have more Palestinians or Israelis died in war? Half of Americans don’t know, poll says [22/03/2024]

About 32,000 Palestinians and 1,200 Israelis have been killed since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, marking a casualty ratio of roughly 26 to 1, according to officials from both governments. But despite this massive disparity, half of Americans do not know which side has had a higher death toll, according to a March 21 poll from the Pew Research Center. The poll, conducted in February, sampled 12,693 U.S. adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.5 percentage points. When asked via a “basic knowledge” multiple choice question whether the death toll was higher among Palestinians or Israelis, 48% of respondents did not select the correct answer. One-third, 34%, selected “not sure,” while 7% chose “higher among Israelis” and 7% chose “about the same.” A slim majority of respondents, 52%, correctly reported that more Palestinians have died.

maybe this is coming from that right wing 'China controls the WHO/UN because they fund them' conspiracy logic

Not reading that much right now, I tend to start stuff, lose attention, and eventually finish it months later. A couple things 'in progress', I might add more later:

Sera and the Royal Stars (good art, good character design, generic writing), One Star Squadron (good art, good writing), Star Trek: Aliens (ok art, pretty good writing so far, has stories focusing on Klingon/Ferengi/Trill, not sure if it's canon, in reviews they say the Trill story is great), original X-Men by Lee and Kirby (good art for the time I guess. Neil Adams also did a bit of art for it towards the end before it got cancelled, writing is somewhat simplistic, standard stuff for the time, I'm checking it out mainly to get some background on how it all started)

As for what I'd want to read right now: IDW Sonic, Justice League Dark (vol2 omnibus coming out soon, DC magic stuff is not bad at all, inherits a lot from the old Vertigo comics), more of the newer Hickman ultimate universe stuff, I read issue 1 of his new Spider Man and it seemed pretty good, but I think they're also all short mini series and not meant to be long ongoing series. I'm not sure how long Hickman will stay on. Maker is a good villain overall.

big feel the whole time, don't care about eclipse, do care about hexbear

I think Bender is sipping some 'Olde Fortran' there which is pretty funny

yeah it looks organic doesn't it? also nice layout with the two intersecting background lines with people inside

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