Ninety laptops, millions of dollars: US woman jailed over North Korea remote-work scam

Don’t forget to replenish my cheese supply Trumpy.

In March 2020, about the time the Covid pandemic started, Christina Chapman, a woman who lived in Arizona and Minnesota, received a message on LinkedIn asking her to “be the US face” of a company and help overseas IT workers gain remote employment.

As working from home became the norm for many people, Chapman was able to find jobs for the foreign workers at hundreds of US companies, including some in the Fortune 500, such as Nike; “a premier Silicon Valley technology company”; and one of the “most recognizable media and entertainment companies in the world”.

The employers thought they were hiring US citizens. They were actually people in North Korea.

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Many Jewish Voters Back Mamdani. And Many Agree With Him on Gaza.

Zohran Mamdani won over Jewish voters in New York City who were energized by his economic agenda and unbothered by — or sympathetic to — his views on Israel and Gaza.

Ben Sadoff knocked on roughly 1,000 doors as a canvasser for Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral primary campaign in New York City, and the voters he met brought up the same issues again and again: the cost of rent, the cost of child care and the sense that things in the city were going in the wrong direction.

One thing they did not frequently mention was Israel, he said. And when voters — including Jewish ones — did bring it up, their comments often focused on their anguish over Israel’s war in Gaza, where starvation is spreading and about 60,000 people have been killed, according to Gazan officials.

“I think this campaign has really shown us something we have known for a while,” said Mr. Sadoff, who is Jewish and works as a bike mechanic in Manhattan. “There are a million Jewish New Yorkers who have wide-ranging opinions on all kinds of issues.”


Jewicidal ideological lemmings?

h/t Patti Jo

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Anti-hate coalition denounces presence of white nationalist ‘active clubs’ in Hamilton, calls for action

Several organizations in Hamilton are denouncing white nationalist “active clubs,” whose members were found by a recent investigative report by CBC News to be preparing for a “race war” in area gyms and parks.

The Hamilton Anti Hate Coalition, a group formerly known as No Hate in the Hammer, said it is also calling on municipal authorities and neighbours to “act immediately” in light of the investigation’s findings.


Rent seekers seeking rent.

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Sydney Sweeney’s Republican voter registration revealed amid jeans ad controversy

Sydney Sweeney registered as a Republican voter in Florida a few months before Donald Trump won a second US presidency, it has been revealed, as the public continues fixating on a new jeans ad campaign featuring the actor and a pun about her genes.

The Euphoria and White Lotus star registered to vote in Florida on 14 June 2024 – shortly after buying a mansion in the Keys – and listed her party affiliation as Republican, according to publicly available records reviewed by the Guardian on Sunday. That was about two weeks after Trump, another registered Republican Florida voter, was convicted in New York City of criminal falsification of business records and before he secured a return to the White House in November’s presidential election.


The media and the usual cast of race baiting rent seekers are the only one’s fixated on American Eagles excellent ad campaign.

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How ICE cancelled summer: hundreds of Latino festivals face impossible decision over fear of raids

For Orlando Gutierrez in Kansas City, the thought of cancelling his community’s summer Colombian Independence Day festival first surfaced “the week after the inauguration” in January, “when the raids started happening”. The decision was rooted in “trying to be safe”, Gutierrez said. “We’re not talking about folks that are irregular in terms of their immigration status. You only have to look a certain way and speak a certain language and then you’re in danger.”

For decades prior to 2025, the event had gone on interrupted – “in rain, in extreme heat” – and hosted thousands of Colombians and non-Colombians alike, Gutierrez said. “Our mission is to share our culture with people that don’t know it,” he added. “To not have the opportunity – that’s where it hurts the most.”

They’re upset that illegal alien invaders won’t be able to attend festivals.

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Student in Austria Receives Lower Grade for Not Using Gender Neutral Language

A controversial case at the Austrian Private College of Teacher Education Burgenland has caused significant uproar: a student was given a lower grade for not using gender-neutral language in her coursework.

According to the university, its actions were based on guidelines issued by the Office for Gender and Diversity Competence, which had stated that gender-inclusive language was a basic criterion in evaluating student assignments.

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The Macrons’ trans defamation suit is silly and self-defeating

Not since Jason Donovan sued the Face magazine in 1992 for calling him gay have public figures protested too much as the Macrons have just done. Both Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron have risen to the bait of right-wing influencer Candace Owens’s relentless tomcat-calling that Mme Mac was born male (and is actually her brother in disguise). It’s all wonderfully silly – and just what we need when everything seems so dismal.

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Record number of over-60s are referred to anti-terrorism scheme amid overall explosion in ‘extreme right wing’ views

Record numbers of over-60s are being referred to the Government’s troubled anti-terrorism scheme, the Daily Mail can reveal today.

Home Office figures show 127 adults in their 60s or beyond were put on Prevent’s radar in 2023/24 – the most since records began in 2016.

Of them, 43 had sparked alarm for expressing ‘extreme right wing’ views.

h/t XC

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The left needs to learn how to talk to young men — or it will keep losing them to the right says oddly dressed metrosexual

It takes only a few minutes of listening to right-wing politicians and podcasters to understand why their message appeals to so many young men in Canada, who increasingly feel that society has abandoned them in favour of women, racial and sexual minorities and the moneyed classes. Conservatives have sold them on the idea that they represent the true counterculture, rising up against the excesses and iniquities of the left-wing establishment that have kept them from finding a job or partner or affordable home.

Meanwhile, there is a fundamental problem with the message progressives have for young men today, especially those who are cisgender, heterosexual, or white. The left has to convince young men, many of whom feel barely in control of their own lives, that they’re members of a privileged class — and what’s more, that the privileges they enjoy are unjust and should be dismantled.

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This surgeon was ‘essentially experimenting on patients without their consent.’ He was allowed to keep treating — and allegedly harming — patients

When Taissa Pavliuc got a referral to the North York Endoscopy Centre, she went, hoping she could get the treatment she needed to return to competing in triathlons.

A surgeon at the clinic, Dr. Ashwin Maharaj, had been billed online as “a leading expert in minimally invasive hemorrhoid and anorectal surgery.”

Pavliuc did not know, when she arrived at Maharaj’s clinic last spring, that he was under regulatory supervision due to troubling conduct, which Ontario’s medical watchdog says included “essentially experimenting on patients without their consent.”

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