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#RFK Jr. may be about to demolish preventive health panel, health groups fear

#Health and #medical groups around the country are bracing for another grievous blow to America's #infrastructure of evidence-based health, this time targeting preventive #medicine.
#Trump #maga #takedown

arstechnica.com/health/2025/07

Ars Technica · RFK Jr. may be about to demolish preventive health panel, health groups fearBy Beth Mole

“BLINKEN ORDERED THE HIT. BIG TECH CARRIED IT OUT. AFRICAN STREAM IS DEAD”

by Alan McLeod in MintPress News

@palestine
@israel

“A fast-growing pan-African media outlet was erased in a coordinated takedown, accused without evidence, censored without process, and punished for challenging Washington and Silicon Valley”

mintpressnews.com/african-stre

MintPress News · Blinken Ordered the Hit. Big Tech Carried It Out. African Stream Is Dead.African Stream, a popular news service, was removed from all major platforms after U.S. officials accused it of foreign ties.
#Press#US#Africa

Is #DOGE doomed to fail? Some experts are ready to call it.

Critics are increasingly branding Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as a failure, including lawmakers fiercely debating how much funding to allot next year to the controversial agency.
#musk #takedown

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Ars Technica · Is DOGE doomed to fail? Some experts are ready to call it.By Ashley Belanger

‘Big Balls’ Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee

The first wave of #DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul.

> someone with the access to the data needs to see if he’s still getting any payments from a #Musk organization. I believe having a second job without special authorization would violate the rules

#takedown #takeover #privacy #security #bigballs

wired.com/story/big-balls-youn

WIRED · ‘Big Balls’ Is Officially a Full-Time Government EmployeeBy Makena Kelly

📢 OPERATION ENDGAME 2.0 UPDATE | Following last week's announcement, we’re seeing great progress with remediation efforts...

📧 3266 ISPs and hosting companies notified,
⬇ With a 40% download rate of remediation data!

If you've received a notification, and are yet to take action, here's what you need to do:

1. Go to: spamhaus.org/endgame-2
2. Enter the access code provided in the email.
3. Download the list of breached email accounts.
4. Verify each email account, and where necessary, contact the owner and ask them to reset their password (there's an email template on the remediation webpage).

Thank you again to everyone who is part of this important effort 🙏

The Spamhaus ProjectStrengthening trust and safety across the internet | SpamhausStrengthening trust and safety online through IP and domain reputation intelligence, expertise, education, and community collaboration.

One of the nice things about being in production is that it prevents me from writing takedowns against awful (but ultimately unimportant) people with new books out. We're talking phony and entitled types who claim that they're "so nice." Well, you motherfuckers with books out now lucked out. I'm simply too busy to step foot into your vapid morass. So I leave the easy art of exposing grifters to the creatively bankrupt types who have far more free time than I do.

Judge lets four more #DOGE employees access US #Treasury payment systems

A federal judge has given Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees access to US Treasury payment systems as long as they meet training and vetting requirements but denied the #Trump administration's motion to completely dissolve a preliminary injunction.
#privacy #security #takedown

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Ars Technica · Judge lets four more DOGE employees access US Treasury payment systemsBy Jon Brodkin

OPERATION ENDGAME 2.0 UPDATE | Following on from last week's announcement 📢 we are now sending notification emails 📩 to ISPs and hosting companies associated with the breached email accounts.

Here's what to do if you receive one:

👉 Go to this remediation webpage: spamhaus.org/endgame-2
👉 Enter the access code included in the email.
👉 Download the list of breached email accounts.
👉 Verify each email account, and where necessary, contact the owner and ask them to reset their password (there's a ready-made email template for you to use on the remediation webpage 😀)

Thank you to everyone who is part of this effort. 🙏

The Spamhaus ProjectEndgame takedown | Remediation data and support | Spamhaus

"Fraudsters who may have feared the penalties of abusing DMCA [takedowns] ..."

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wired.com/story/take-it-down-a

WIRED · Trump Signs Controversial Law Targeting Nonconsensual Sexual ContentBy Paresh Dave

TorrentFreak: Link-Busters Reports its Three Billionth ‘Pirate’ URL to Google Search. “In the escalating war against online book piracy, Dutch takedown outfit Link-Busters continues to shatter records. In less than a year, the company reported over two billion pirate URLs to Google search, reaching a milestone of three billion reported URLs overall. While the volume is impressive, it also […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/04/torrentfreak-link-busters-reports-its-three-billionth-pirate-url-to-google-search/