Sexual abuse protections for prisoned queer people eliminated

*DoJ moves to eliminate sexual abuse protections for LGBTQ+ people in prisons.* In effect, magats want to threaten those prisoners with rape.

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Monument to corruption

*The giant [White House] ballroom is [the corrupter's] monument to corruption.* Countries are donating to it as bribes for goverment favors.

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About Peter Francis

About Peter Francis, former police undercover infiltrator of protest movements, who became a whistleblower to expose that antidemocratic practice.

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Chernobyl shelter bombed

The Putin forces blew a hole in the Chernobyl reactor disaster shield, which was meant to contain radioactive materaials in the old wreckage.

The damage makes it impossible to proceed to clean up the reactor.

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Labour EU customs union

Labour is considering bringing the UK partly back into the EU by negotiating a customs union. Corbyn advocated a customs union with the EU when he was head of the Labour Party.

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Arazona Representative pepper-sprayed

Newly elected Representative Grijalva of Arizona accuses deportation thugs of spraying her with pepper spray, and a video supports the claim, but a magat official insists that it never happened.

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Pentagon press taken over by right-wing activists

Pentagon "press conferences" are now limited to right-wing extremists that will support the bully's militarist policy 110%.

Since that happened, the major US media have become mostly subservient themselves, on the big issues, but they remain willing to criticize smaller details of government actions.

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Trump pardons ex-Honduran president

*[The wrecker]'s pardon of an ex-Honduran president is shocking. So is the history of US support for him [in power].*

Hillary Clinton encouraged the coup in which he stole the presidency. Presidents Obama and Biden gave him support, as well as the wrecker.

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Qatar and Egypt urge Israeli withdrawal

Qatar and Egypt, designated as guarantors of the Gaza peace plan Israel has nominally acceped, call on Israel to withdraw its army from Gaza and allow the agreed-on international peace force to take over Gaza.

If Israel does this, that will mean an end to the bloodshed in Gaza (though not the sickness, hunger and cold). Otherwse, Israel will be visibly responsible for breaking the deal.

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Urgent: Protect wildlife, not business interests

US citizens: call on federal agencies to protect endangered wildlife, not business interests.

See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.

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Urgent: Impeach Hegseth

US citizens: phone our congresscritter and say to impeach Hegseth.

The main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. If you message Congress, please spread the word!

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Chatbot slop persuading with false information

Chatbot slop that contains a lot of supposed information can persuade people, but that supposed information tends often to be false.

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(satire) Eye Contact During Sex

(satire) *Utah Bans Eye Contact During Sex.*

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Schools buying supplies from Amazon

Some US schools buy supplies from Amazon, and get screwed by changing prices.

States ought to prohibit public agencies and institutions (such as public schools) from buying from any company that requires sellers to commit not to charge less though other retailers. This would exclude Amazon, not by discrimination, but by rejecting its anti-competitive practice.

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Footage of U.S. attack on supposed drug boat

*[Congressional representatives] who saw a video of a U.S. attack on wounded and helpless people clinging to the wreckage of a supposed drug boat on September 2 described the footage as deeply disturbing.*

*Killing of survivors sparks outrage – but entire US "drug boat" war is legally shaky.* Not to mention that any murder is vicious.

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Uygur brothers jailed in India without trial

Three Uyghur brothers have been jailed in India for 12 years, without a trial, for crossing the China-India border unknowingly since there was nothing to say it was a border.

The greatest danger to them is that India may expel them to China, which systematically brainwashes Uyghurs.

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PFAS in cereal products in Europe

A PFAS is found in high concentrations in cereal products in Europe. It is a breakdown product of other PFAS that are used in pesticides.

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Prisoner left outdoors in cage

The thugs running the Everglades deportation prison leave a prisoner in a constricting cage outdoors for a day without water to drink.

Even at this time of year, it is often rather hot for part of the day down there. Such a cage is torture, and the lack of water to drink risks doing harm.

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Google takes stand for the deportation thugs

Google takes a stand for the deportation thugs and against their victims.

Is Google's political stand a matter of support for repression?
Or is it a matter of surrendering to bullying?
Either way, it shows the injustice of the nonfree software of Google's app store.

At last for now you can load apps from elsewhere on Android. But Google is talking about making that harder.

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Lawsuit against Google over Gemini

A lawsuit accuses Google of activating its bullshit generator, Gemini, by default for various widely used apps, as a way of snooping on what users say in them.

It's not impossible to deactivate Gemini, but Google has set up a "dark pattern" to make it so inconvenient that people will give up.

Snooping, and dark patterns, are typical ways nonfree programs mistreat users. If you run a nonfree program, yo are helplessly at the mercy of any nonfree program's developer.

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