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New immigrant-ID law costly, FL
Immigrants who helped Florida repair after previous hurricanes are afraid
to go there now, due to DeMentis's
law to promote deportation.
I wonder whether farms will have trouble finding workers for the harvest this year.
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Goon Squad guilty of torture
*Six [Mississippi thugs] known as the "Goon Squad" plead guilty to
torturing two [black] men,
using a sex toy on them and shooting one of them [almost killing him].*
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.) I
denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that
practice it. But I make exceptions for some articles that I consider
important — and I label them like this.
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TurboTax NOT free
Intuit claims that TurboTax is "free", but it has never been libre.
A judge has ruled
that it isn't gratis either, and ordered the company
to stop saying it is "free".
That they exchange money for using it is what most people are worked up about,
but the fact that users can't use it while keeping their freedom is what's truly important.
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Thugs-killing coverup
The Philadelphia thugs
that killed Eddie Irizarry
lied to create an excuse, and the police chief said so and told a
different story which nonetheless gave them an excuse. The cops
refused to release to videos that ought to have proved it was true.
But now a video has appeared which shows that too was all lies. They
had no grounds at all for violence.
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Big tech wartime potency
Starlink has become controversial on account of Musk's repeated surprise
blockages to Ukraine, but all big tech companies have the same sort
of
dangerous world political power
even if they have not used it yet.
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Journalistic-research source censured
Datasets for journalists
censured by Ex-Twitter and Reddit
block the posting of links to the Distributed Denial of Secrets web site.
Russia and Indonesia block the site entirely. Indonesia blocked it
after it posted the secrets of a big company that mines coal and deals
in palm oil. One must suspect it of deforestation.
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Starlink as a global weapon
The report that Musk deactivated Ukraine's use of Starlink near Crimea
just as Ukraine was sending attack drones there has been found to be a
confusion. What actually happened was that
he had never authorized
Ukraine to use Starlink in that region. Ukraine asked for this for
that attack, and he said no.
I won't call that treachery or any dirty names. However, I disagree
with his decision.
Fortunately, Ukraine has developed other ways to attack Russian ships,
in port and at sea.
It is incorrect, however, to say that supporting Ukraine's attack
would have been "escalation". Ukraine's intended attack on Putin's
ships would have been small compared to Putin's invasion of Ukraine,
and those ships had already been involved in attacking Ukraine.
Attacking them in their bases — as Ukraine has sometimes done since
in other ways — is simply continuing the war Putin started.
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Auto industry strike
Bernie Sanders: *The United Auto Workers may soon strike.
Every
American
should support them.*
I agree, but I am not sure how to do that.
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Fascism in Maricopa County, AZ
In
Maricopa
county, and many others
where fascists have organized, they are
bombarding election officials with more public records requests than they can
answer, accusing officials of hiding some nonexistent conspiracy
(the sort of thing that only fascists actually do), and frightening capable
election officials into quitting.
The danger for democracy is that their replacements will be fascists.
Fascists know that they won't be persecuted.
Instead of the rule of law, fascists practice the rule of lie.
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