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| 7:17a |
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| 10:02a |
MAGA gospel in a country music star
City-born city-resident Jason Aldean sang a song
praising violence
against protesters in an imaginary small town. It also praised and
encouraged lynching, and promotes the false claim that small rural
towns are safer to live in than cities.
Right-wing extremists, including some Republican officials, just love it.
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| 10:02a |
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| 10:02a |
Congress trading stocks
A bipartisan bill to ban stock trading by members of Congress
and their families
has some momentum.
How about including Supreme Court justices and their families, too.
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| 10:02a |
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| 10:02a |
Relatives of 2 more exiled dissidents, nabbed, HK
Hong Kong "security" thugs grabbed
relatives of two exiled dissidents.
Threatening the relatives in China of oversees Chinese is
standard practice
for China. Sometimes it is aimed at frightening dissidents,
as in this case. Sometimes the threats are potential and meant just
to keep oversees Chinese in line. Sometimes they are pressured to join in
campaigns
aimed at influence
or infiltration of their host countries.
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| 10:02a |
Wrecker as unitary executive
American fascists threaten
that the corrupter will take direct control
of all federal agencies, including the Justice Department and the FBI
and use them as his personal enforcers.
At least three on the Supreme Court have already said they support this.
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| 10:02a |
Urgent: Keep the saboteur off the ballot
US citizens:
call on state election officials
to
Keep the insurrection leader off the 2024 ballot.
He is disqualified by his insurrection under the 14th amendment.
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| 10:02a |
1960s mercury dump, CAN
A company dumped 20,000lb of mercury into Canadian rivers near an
indigenous community. The mercury caused brain damage to the young
people born subsequently in the community, which caused a
high rate
of brain damage and suicide.
I don't know if it is possible to punish today the company which did
this in the 1960s. That may be too long ago. But is there any way to
remove the mercury from the environment, to make it safe to live in?
If not, what can be done to prevent harm to future generations there?
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| 10:02a |
Update: Cop City referendum, GA
Citizens of Atlanta are campaigning for a ballot initiative
to cancel the Cop City projects. The
city's lawyers
have indicated they will sue
to invalidate the initiative if it succeeds.
Why fight so desperately for this? It suggests they have a hidden, shameful reason.
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| 10:02a |
Climate commitment delayed, UK
Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP: *With the climate in peril,
winning
slowly is the same as losing.
How can Starmer settle for that?*
The same question applies to the
US,
and China,
and most other developed countries.
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| 10:02a |
Battleground Snapchat, SAU
*[Salafi Arabia] appears to be
exploiting
the US messaging app Snapchat
to promote the image of [Crown Prince Bone Saw], while also
imposing draconian sentences on influencers who use the platform to
post even mild criticism of [him].*
Countries including the US should prohibit high-level collaboration,
or significant ownership, of any social media company with dangerous
foreign interests.
Protecting against the influence of dangerous domestic influence, such
as planet roasters and other plutocratic companies, is not as easy to
codify, but addressing the former might suggest how to address the latter.
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| 10:02a |
Songwriting sellout fallout
The term "selling out" has been mostly forgotten in regard to music,
because data from online access enables the music factories to
fine-tune their products so well to match audience taste that there is
little room for anything very surprising.
As the article explains, selling out is not an all-or-nothing dichotomy.
Everyone makes
compromises in life.
The question is whether you let these compromises dominate your life
and push what you used to "really care about" into a small corner.
In the free software community, that philosophy typically flies the flag of
"open source".
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