Behind the scenes of VOY s5e6 "Timeless"

A US judge ruled on Tuesday that Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in southern California, was “unlawfully serving” as the head of the US attorney’s office and was disqualified from overseeing two criminal prosecutions.

The order, however, will not immediately go into effect, and the Department of Justice has said it intends to appeal.

The ruling was part of a long-running legal battle challenging the Trump administration’s maneuvers to keep Essayli in office despite not being confirmed by the US Senate. Essayli, a former Republican state lawmaker and ally of Donald Trump, became an interim US attorney in April 2025, but he was not formally nominated by the president, which allowed him to lead the office without going through the standard confirmation process.

A nondescript man says to the audience "the best thing we ever did for our town is putting someone with a storm fetish in our emergency alert center"

Sat at a desk, wearing a headset and reading from a monitor, a character whispers to themselves "oh fuck a storm"

They begin quivering and biting their lip. "Category 5!?"

Outside, a speaker blares "uuuuuuuuuuuooooooh" in the storm fetishist's voice.

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O’Keefe was charged alongside fellow influencer Cam Higby after they allegedly misrepresented themselves at polling places during Minnesota’s primary in August.

A Minnesota prosecutor on Wednesday charged conservative provocateur James O’Keefe and influencer Cam Higby with felony counts of unlawful voting and identity theft after they misrepresented themselves at polling places in August using the names of registered voters.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, who announced the charges at a news conference, accused the pair of entering polling places during state primary election voting on Aug. 11 and identifying themselves using names of registered voters in those precincts without those voters’ knowledge or permission.

“Both men stopped short of signing the oath we all sign before receiving our ballot,” she said. “But Minnesota law states clearly that no individual shall intentionally misrepresent their identity in applying for a ballot.”

AN UNPRECEDENTED LEAK of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses, but also references to internal systems and sensitive information on undercover and surveillance programs. In all, the leak provides a map of how DHS is organized and how it operates.

The records, which span DHS itself as well as seven component agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Customs and Border Protection, were last updated on August 19, 2026. The transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets and cybersecurity researcher and journalist maia arson crimew previewed the data to WIRED, which they say they obtained from a group calling itself the Department of Peace.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9892456

Banner image: A pair of nudibranchs on coral in Manta Ray Bay, Yap in Micronesia. Image by Betty Wills via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

New conservation effort launched to protect coral reefs in Yap

Conservation groups have launched a new initiative to safeguard coral reefs in Yap, a state in the Federated States of Micronesia, through both scientific innovation and traditional stewardship.

The Yap Resilience Hub, a partnership between The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation (GBRF), is a three-year project that seeks to support local conservation efforts through 2028.

“Coral reefs are central to life in Yap and across island communities because they provide food, support livelihoods, and sustain cultural practices,” Berna Gorong, capacity building manager at TNC Micronesia & Polynesia, told Mongabay by email.

The reefs are traditional fishing grounds managed under community and clan tenure and “closely tied to identity, stewardship, and daily life,” Gorong said.

The Yap Resilience Hub plans to rely on a steering committee of government, traditional leaders and community representatives to help identify candidate reef areas for protection. The reefs will be selected based on five criteria, Gorong said, including their ecological condition and potential for recovery, connectivity to other reef systems, and community and governance readiness.

Once priority reefs are identified, she said the project will support local action plans, ensuring that community priorities and local leadership remain at the forefront of the conservation strategy. “Capacity building and capacity-needs assessments will be central so local partners can sustain the work beyond the project period,” Gorong said.

“By pairing community priorities with science, planning, and capacity building, [the project] aims to strengthen reef resilience and support the long-term well-being of Yap’s people and coastal communities,” she added.

While many Micronesian reefs remain relatively healthy compared to other global regions, they face increasing pressure from rising seas and climate change.

Dawnette Olsudong, a researcher at the Palau International Coral Reef Center who has conducted assessments on coral restoration in Yap and isn’t involved in the project, said proactive measures are important.

“I am hopeful that the launch of this project will strengthen our understanding of reef conditions and improve our ability to make informed conservation and restoration decisions,” Olsudong told Mongabay. She noted her research has helped identify sites that communities perceived as degraded and in need of restoration.

The Yap Resilience Hub project is part of the Resilient Reefs Pasifika initiative, funded by the GBRF.

Now we understand why Trump didn’t want [the Epstein files] released.

Just a week before the midterm elections, which are already shaping up to be a bloodbath for the GOP, Democrats have dropped a bombshell. “A growing body of evidence demonstrates that Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s,” states a just-released report from the Democrats of the House Judiciary Committee.

Additionally, they claim that Trump has leveraged his FBI and DOJ to cover up the evidence, and have now called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate any potential wrongdoing.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1498152/massive-leak-exposes-41000-homeland-security-workers-including-undercover-ice-agents

In a unilateral declaration by the health secretary, several injections promoted by online influencers will become widely available. The F.D.A. had advised against the move.

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Because an entire race of Blue Polysexual Mono-Gender females only able to birth other females didn't seem to click very well with the Saudis.

It’s $545 for 36 cans on Amazon.

Now we understand why Trump didn’t want [the Epstein files] released.

Just a week before the midterm elections, which are already shaping up to be a bloodbath for the GOP, Democrats have dropped a bombshell. “A growing body of evidence demonstrates that Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s,” states a just-released report from the Democrats of the House Judiciary Committee.

Additionally, they claim that Trump has leveraged his FBI and DOJ to cover up the evidence, and have now called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate any potential wrongdoing.

Today's little retro gaming article (just on my NeoCities, no big feature article on my regular site this time) is about the newly released English translation of The Legend of Xanadu, Falcom's 1994 PC Engine RPG, which has finally become accessible to English-speaking players after nearly 15 years of work.

Just a little look beyond the release announcement and explore the people and effort behind it, particularly John Brandwood (Elmer) and SamIam, who've spent literal years working through the game's technical challenges, translating its enormous amount of dialogue, and even attempting a full English voice dub at one point.

I dug through some of their old development discussions and found a few interesting comments from years ago, including one from 2018 where SamIam insisted the project was never dead, despite the long periods of silence. There's also a little about Falcom's history, the original game's development and why projects like this are such an important part of game preservation. Really enjoyed learning more about this one! Hope this is the right space to share it :)