MediaNews (, a subsidiary of hedge fund Alden Global Capital) owns multiple local Bay Area papers, including the Marin Independent Journal, San Jose Mercury News, East Bay Times, and Vallejo Times-Herald.

(Christopher Chung, Press Democrat visual journalist and president of the newsroom’s union, Pacific Media Workers Guild Local 39521) said members of the Press Democrat’s newsroom union were led to believe that a sale to Hearst was in motion — and even voted in early April to waive their successorship clause in the collective bargaining agreement to help facilitate that sale. He said union leaders agreed to the waiver “under threat, bullying and coercion by (Sonoma Media Investments (SMI), parent company of the Press Democrat) and SMI owner Darius Anderson that alternative ownership could mean a local person with no experience in media.”

The current labor contract remains intact and effective through Aug. 31, 2026, according to the Press Democrat. But the union is bracing for changes, particularly given Alden’s track record of gutting newsrooms. Rick Edmonds, media business analyst at the Poynter Institute, said Alden’s approach is driven by profit.

Money enticed a Ukrainian to become a Russian agent.

from https://t.me/SBUkr/14758 with Telegram translation:

The detainee is a 45-year-old native of the Odessa region who lived in the capital. She was recruited remotely by Russian special services late last year when she was looking for a “quick way to make money” on the Internet.

According to the case materials, at first, at the request of the curators, she monitored certain cars, took photos of them, and passed the information on to her “contact.”

Later, the agent began to receive new tasks. In particular, on the instructions of her supervisor, she was supposed to make a homemade explosive device, and she also changed her place of residence - she moved to an apartment in the central part of Kyiv.

Since mid-April, the defendant began following public activist and volunteer Serhiy Sternenko, settling in the same residential complex as him.

Later, she received the coordinates of a “cache” in which firearms were hidden - a PM model pistol and ammunition for it.

And on the morning of May 1, 2025, the curator gave her an order to kill the activist near his home. Thanks to previous observations, the attacker already knew the make of the car and the approximate time the volunteer would leave his home.

As Serhiy Sternenko was leaving the house, a Russian agent fired several shots: one of the bullets hit him in the leg. The attacker was immediately detained on the spot by the Security Service of Ukraine.

The searches revealed a phone with evidence of working in the Russian Federation, as well as components for an improvised explosive device that she had stored in another apartment.

The SBU pre-trial investigation is ongoing. Comprehensive measures are being taken to establish all the circumstances of the crime and bring the perpetrators to justice.

The detainee faces up to 15 years in prison.

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The Star Trek Red Alert experience uses the Enterprise-D set that was re-created for Star Trek: Picard

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Carnegie Hall, Vanderbilt University, The Milton Hershey School for Orphans, and the Zuckerberg-Chan Abandoned Schools For Disadvantaged Children.

Taking photos of your food before you partake is such a modern thing…

It’s difficult to tell if they got the pilot too.

That last falling object was falling slower, but I can’t tell if it had a parachute deployed, or some other means of reducing impact forces.

But a $50 million fighter destroyed is always good news.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comin'_Thro'_the_Rye

Some birds use their own saliva or mud to glue their nest together.

I don’t think Mystique has considered how a Bamf! would affect her uterus from the inside.

Yeah of course, I don’t think anyone thinks those explosions are the ones from the drones.

The early cut off of video is because of the standard Russian anti drone signal jammers.

Unless there’s a cutaway to video from a faraway monitoring drone, you don’t get to see the actual explosion, which usually just looks like a puff of smoke.

DB2 has been using ISO dates by default for decades.

I don’t think the drones flew out there on a rapid collision course to deliver a warm cup of coffee…

People collect old fighter jets and tanks, and actually get them running, so just wait for an F-16, or look for something older.

Nothing irritates me more than the “01-May-25”, “DD-Mon-YY” i.e. the way Oracle databases format dates by default.

Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got Till it’s gone

They’re dealing with a Russian sockpuppet US President. Almost the same thing.

Russia is a terrorist state. Cozying up to an organization like that is not an option.

Most of the minerals are in the temporarily occupied oblasts, so Trump should feel free to go get 'em!

The moment I read your comment, I started thinking of how I would approach disarming that thing.

The answer is that it’s still dangerous. Effectively it’s now an IED that the enemy is watching, and is still under the enemy’s control.

The camera can still see, and you have to assume it also has remote detonation control.

To disarm it by cutting the fiber optic line, you’d have to go around it, in a manner that the immobilized drone, and any other monitoring enemy drones couldn’t see you.

Better just detonate it with a dropped munition, or monitor it and wait for the Russians to risk their own butts trying to retrieve it.