My bad. Sometimes I forget that the Mayor of News has decreed there shall only be ONE HEADLINE and that any attempt at knowledge outside of the official bumper sticker is strictly forbidden.

It’s not primarily to do with Israel, which is what headlines are about. A headline about Israel invading would be misleading. You’d expect an article about Israel invading and not one about the Lebanese government’s efforts to disentangle itself from Hezbollah.

Why are you even arguing this? You didn’t read the article. You incorrectly assumed it was about something it isn’t. Like, those amateur NYT editors just haven’t stumbled upon the brilliant headline writing method of making shit up without reading anything? What are you talking about.

The article is about the internal politics of Lebanon.

1. This isn’t an article about Israel invading a country.

2. “Israel” appears in the article 27 times (once in the post body, even!), including this sentence that also includes “invaded”:

Israeli forces have also invaded and seized parts of southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah militants have engaged them in clashes over the past two days.

Scroll down. Archive.today can archive things other services can’t. That’s why Wikipedia was in a panic about the verifiability crisis removing their 700 000 links would cause. Most can’t be replaced.

Okay, I’m just gonna explain where I’m at with this right now and why.

This isn’t a huge issue for this community but for our hard news discussion communities, abandoning archive.today would instantly make a large amount of news inaccessible (probably 1/3 or more, but that’s just a guess) to the vast majority. It could limit being fully informed to those with means. That would suck. It’s a real harm.

We’re in agreement that archive.today is problematic. We really need a working alternative. The ddos attack is shitty and immature. It’s a betrayal of trust. However, the victim stated in the Ars article you linked to that this hasn’t really had any discernible impact on them. So for now it’s a theoretical harm (and an abhorrent practice) vs a real harm.

For me, as it stands now, I’ll use alternatives where I can and use archive.today where I can’t because I care a lot about that harm. I’ll be ecstatic when a real alternative emerges. Like Wikipedia fell into different camps, we’re probably similar. I respect that you come down on this differently, but that’s where I’m at with this.

You know that’s not a real alternative. I wish it was – it’d make all of this a hell of a lot easier to navigate. But it just isn’t.

I’d take an alternative if you’ve got one. Otherwise, unless there’s a serious change for the worse, I’m probably going to keep posting them. Sorry!

https://archive.is/fELBv

The craziest thing, that isn’t actually mentioned in the article, is that not a single person out of 23 voted to indict. Not one.

The case of the posthumous video games:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-fortnite/

The official @FortniteStatus X account, responding to another user, posted (archived) on Feb. 6 that a user changed their name to littlestjeff1 after the name surfaced in the Epstein files, saying in part, “Hey Official Fortnite here - this was a ruse by a Fortnite player. A few days ago, an existing Fortnite account owner changed their username from something totally unrelated to littlestjeff1, following the revelation of littlestjeff1 as a name on YouTube.”

The post also said none of Epstein’s email addresses listed in the public-facing case files exist in the game’s account system.

The case of the day-before-email:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/02/10/epstein-press-release-aug-10/

From a DOJ spokesperson:

Official statements regarding the death of Jeffrey Epstein were edited and circulated over several email chains within the Southern District of New York beginning August 10, 2019. While initial drafts of the statement list the previous date, this was merely an unfortunate typo that was later updated to reflect the correct date before being publicized. Any suggestion that the Department drafted a statement in advance of Jeffrey Epstein’s death is false.

Also:

Searches for the Aug. 10 news release revealed correspondence between FBI staff on Aug. 10 about what appeared to be the finished news release that Biase sent. Searches of the DOJ’s database did not reveal records of DOJ, U.S. attorney’s office or FBI staff discussing the versions of the news release dated Aug. 9, suggesting it wasn’t circulated internally or externally in the DOJ before Epstein’s death.

BOOOOOOORRRRRING

Get thee to mildly infuriating, you scoundrel!

This is some serious mission creep from the ‘slam’ weirdo community.

Probably nothing. What could he promise?

Given Denmark and Greenland seem to not have any idea what he’s talking about, this is most likely Trump caving and still trying to get a “Victory!” headline.

It’s like Kyiv/Kiev. Chernobyl is Russian; Chornobyl is Ukrainian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl#Etymology

Macron, call sign Maverick. I don’t know if not looking like you could buzz the tower at any given moment is technically a medical condition but the glasses are working.

Totally. It is a fun fact!

He’s currently Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.

And in case anyone reading takes her professional credentials to be “wife” instead of just taking it as a fun fact, she’s a renowned journalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and one of the world’s most important experts on modern authoritarianism. wiki

I wouldn’t be so sure that climate change and fascism are completely unrelated.

Oh shit! If they take Thunder Bay, the whole country falls… ;)