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• 2025/03/19 22:22 UTC [L..T] Subsidized Europe Cries in Despair «Europe wonders: how will we maintain our lifestyles, if we can't rip off the American taxpayer anymore?» Article quotes The Financial Times: «Europe enjoyed its years of low military spending thanks to a prolonged period of protection [by] the US, allowing it to build one of the most generous social security systems in the world...» « the cost of rearmament will ultimately be shouldered by taxpayers and beneficiaries of the continent’s social security nets.» The article is filled with false narratives woven around mostly-true facts.
• 2025/03/10 13:21 UTC [L..T] Amazon to begin streaming Trump's 'The Apprentice' «Amazon has announced it will begin streaming "The Apprentice" – the reality TV show famous for boosting Donald Trump's profile – on its Prime Video service on Monday.» [...] «The show's executive producer, Mark Burnett, remains one of his closest allies. [/] Burnett, the British producer behind "The Apprentice," as well as "Survivor" and "Shark Tank," was appointed special envoy to the United Kingdom in December. [/] "'The Apprentice' is one of the best shows that I ever produced. The charismatic onscreen presence of President Donald J. Trump made it a bona fide hit!" Burnett said in a press release.»
• 2025/03/05 20:01 UTC [L..T] Warning users that upvote violent content «Today we are rolling out a new (sort of) enforcement action across the site. Historically, the only person actioned for posting violating content was the user who posted the content. The Reddit ecosystem relies on engaged users to downvote bad content and report potentially violative content. This not only minimizes the distribution of the bad content, but it also ensures that the bad content is more likely to be removed. On the other hand, upvoting bad or violating content interferes with this system.» TLDR: You're not allowed to like content Reddit doesn't like. The general user consensus seems to be that this is a crackdown on criticism of the Trump-Vance administration and its courtiers in the oligarchy.
• 2025/03/05 10:30 UTC [L..T] A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn't come at a worse time for the company «Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company's shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. [/] "We're asking people to divest from Target because they have turned their back on our community," Rev. Jamal Bryant, a prominent Atlanta-area megachurch pastor who started the boycott, said in an interview with CNN.»
• 2025/03/05 01:15 UTC [L..T] A landmark verdict for LGBT+ people, initiated by Zbigniew Ziobro in Poland: «The Supreme Court issued a judgment regarding transition, demanded by former Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro. Transgender people no longer have to sue their own parents, according to the court's decision. The groundbreaking case is commented on by, among others, Piotr Jacoń, who repeatedly drew attention to the ruthlessness of the requirement that has just been abolished.»
• 2025/03/04 21:08 UTC [L..T] (fedi post) full text: «Today I stood in the rain with a couple 100 people to support Democracy. My favorite sign "Fascism starts with Silence" #protectdemocracy #50501protests #50501chicago #DemocracyFTW»
• 2025/03/04 13:22 UTC [L..T] (fedi post) Signed up to Threads, made a polite but firm comment about right-wing philosophy, got suspended.
• 2025/03/04 06:20 UTC [L..T] '79% Of Americans' Trends As Dems Block Bill Banning Trans Athletes In Girls' Sports «Senate Democrats have overwhelmingly voted against a bill that will prohibit transgender students from playing in girls' sports, paving the way for the phrase "79% of Americans" to trend on Elon Musk-owned social media platform X overnight.» ... «The Congressional Equality Caucus thanked "Senate allies who voted 'No'" to the bill, saying the proposed legislation was "so extreme" and could have "opened up any girl – trans or cisgender – to invasive physical inspections."» ...but of course, "protecting women" was only ever just an excuse.
• 2025/03/04 00:45 UTC [L..T] GOP bill to ban trans athletes from women's sports blocked in Senate «Legislation to prevent transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports failed to advance in the Senate on Monday after all Democrats voted against it. [/] The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act failed to clear an initial procedural hurdle on a 51-45 vote. It needed 60 votes to advance, which would have required at least seven Democrats to vote with all Republicans to move it. The bill cleared the House in January on an almost entirely party-line vote.» ... «On Monday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said that evening's vote "will be a time of choosing for Democrats." [/] "If the Democrats vote to oppose this legislation, they’ll have to answer to the women and girls they vote to disenfranchise," he said.» From what I can tell, most women/girls strongly support trans inclusion...
• 2025/02/27 05:17 UTC [L..T] 'Duke, don't comply': Duke, Durham community members protest to demand University stand up to Trump, end PPD policy «Around 200 Duke community members and Durham residents protested Wednesday afternoon to demand that Duke not comply with the Trump administration's efforts to end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives[1] and target undocumented communities. [/] Many participants also condemned the University's Pickets, Protests and Demonstrations policy as "prohibitive" of free speech, saying it allows for student activists to be "target[ed]." [/] The protest was attended by various local groups, including the Duke Graduate Student Union, Jewish Voice for Peace, Socialist Alternative, Duke Respects Durham and Duke Academics and Staff for Justice in Palestine. Organizers and participants gathered at 5 p.m. at Trinity Park before marching around East Campus.»
• 2025/02/19 22:02 UTC [L..T] LGBTQ history videos find new home after PBS pulls content due to Trump executive orders «In response to a blizzard of executive orders from President Donald Trump, the Public Broadcasting Service recently erased a series of videos made in partnership with New York City Public Schools focused on LGBTQ history. [/] This week, the city's Education Department found a new home for them: its own website.»
• 2025/02/17 21:25 UTC [L..T] 'No Kings on Presidents Day' Rallies Target Trump-Musk Assault on Democracy and Working Class «Democracy defenders from blizzard-bound Maine to sunny southern California and cities and towns in between took to America's streets and public spaces Monday for a "No Kings on Presidents Day" action against what organizers called the "anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies."»
• 2025/02/17 18:58 UTC [L..T] Tesla was hit by a wave of protests over Musk, sales are crashing, insiders are waking up «Tesla was hit by a wave of protests across dozens of its stores in North America this weekend. With sales crashing and the board selling, it looks like some insiders are finally waking up. [/] As we reported last week, a grassroots movement has sprung to organize protests against Elon Musk at Tesla stores around North America.»
• 2025/02/17 16:29 UTC [L..T] (fedi post) full text: «Massive turnout in Portland, OR at City Hall to protest against Trump & Musk and the fascist American regime. Thousands of people out. A group broke away from city hall and is now marching. I cannot see where the march starts nor where it ends.» (with 4 photos)
• 2025/02/17 16:16 UTC [L..T] Hundreds of FAA employees are let go as Trump's mass layoffs continue «The Trump administration fired hundreds of employees with the Federal Aviation Administration over the weekend, just weeks after a fatal crash over Washington, D.C. exposed understaffing at the agency.» ... «"This decision did not consider the staffing needs of the FAA, which is already challenged by understaffing," David Spero, the national president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, AFL-CIO, said in a statement. "Staffing decisions should be based on an individual agency's mission-critical needs. To do otherwise is dangerous when it comes to public safety. And it is especially unconscionable in the aftermath of three deadly aircraft accidents in the past month."»
• 2025/02/16 23:46 UTC [L..T] Washington Post backs out of 'Fire Elon Musk' ad order «"Is it because we're critical of what's happening with Elon Musk? Is it only OK to run things in the Post now that won't anger the president or won't have him calling Jeff Bezos asking why this was allowed?" she said, referring to the Post's owner, who is also the founder of Amazon and the space company Blue Origin. [/] She said the Post did not provide an explanation for why it decided not to run the wrap ad.»
• 2025/02/15 01:49 UTC [L..T] DHS cuts at least 405 employees from workforce «The Department of Homeland Security has cut 405 employees from its workforce, a DHS official first told ABC News on Friday. [/] The bulk of the cuts were at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which saw over 200 people cut, and then the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which saw 130 people cut. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services saw under 50 people cut, and DHS Science and Technology Directorate saw 10 people cut.»
• 2025/02/14 17:56 UTC [L..T] NC State hiring freeze: Faculty, staff positions on hold amid federal budget uncertainty «North Carolina State University Executive Vice Chancellor Warwick Arden told college deans, vice provosts and senior vice provosts on Friday that he was implementing an immediate "pause on all hiring activities" in response to uncertainty about the federal budget. [/] "Given the uncertain impacts of the presidential administration's Executive Orders and guidance, the potential shut down of the federal government on March 14, and financial challenges that the state government is dealing with, leadership is becoming increasingly concerned with our budgets over the next year or two," Arden wrote in part in a memorandum. [/] Arden wrote that the hiring pause would be "until further notice."»
• 2025/02/14 17:38 UTC [L..T] The Government Is Literally Erasing Trans People from American History «The National Park Service, following orders from the Trump administration, has begun removing references to transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument's website. They're quite literally trying to erase trans people from American history. And no, I'm not being hyperbolic here: they are systematically going through government websites and removing references to trans people's existence, including one of the most important sites in LGBTQ history.»
• 2025/02/13 16:33 UTC [L..T] RFK Jr. confirmed as Trump's health secretary, over Democrats' loud objections «Kennedy faced opposition from the left for his decades of espousing conspiracy theories on vaccines and from the right for his past support of abortion rights. For several weeks, it was uncertain whether he had enough senators backing him to get through. Yesterday, Democratic senators made speeches on the floor past midnight in protest. But on Thursday morning, he had the votes to be confirmed. The vote was 52 to 48. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the former Republican majority leader and a polio survivor, was the sole Republican joining Democrats to vote against Kennedy.»
• 2025/02/13 05:00 UTC [L..T] Seattle voters embrace excess compensation tax to build social housing, reject Chamber-conceived alternative «A grassroots initiative that would create a new source of progressive revenue to build publicly-owned social housing in Seattle appears to be on its way to a decisive victory tonight despite an onslaught of corporate cash in opposition, suggesting that voters in the Emerald City are eager to try a new approach to tackling our housing crisis.» [...] «The Seattle Times and the region’s largest corporations campaigned emphatically for the alternative conceived by the Chamber. Amazon, Microsoft, T‑Mobile, and Russell Investments underwrote the 1B campaign with large checks. Mailers sent out by the campaign for 1B carried the endorsement of Mayor Bruce Harrell.»
• 2025/02/13 05:00 UTC [L..T] Worcester passes sanctuary city resolution for transgender community «Every Tuesday for the past month, dozens of members of the LGBTQ+ community have shown up to Worcester City Council meetings and told elected officials how scared they are. For themselves. For their families. For their communities. [/] On Tuesday night the city council responded to the community's petition and voted in favor of becoming a sanctuary city for transgender and gender-diverse people.»
• 2025/02/11 07:52 UTC [L..T] Black Folks Have Been Calling for A Boycott and It's Happening on February 28th. Here's The Tea «As soon as Trump took office, he took aim at Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives in the Federal Government. Following his lead, corporations like McDonalds and Walmart started rolling back DEI initiatives in their stores. Incensed, Black folks started calling for boycotts of places like Walmart and others. However, there was no real organization to those calls. Now, it seems that white folks are on board and there is a push for a February 28 boycott of places like Amazon, Walmart and any other corporation that is following the 47th president’s lead.»
• 2025/02/11 07:33 UTC [L..T] Georgia Senate votes along party lines to ban state medical coverage of transgender procedures «The Georgia Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would prohibit state health insurance plans from paying for medical care related to changing gender. [/] Senate Bill 39 was adopted by Republicans on a 33-19 party-line vote. [/] The measure comes after a similar vote last week when the Senate passed a proposed ban on participation of transgender athletes in school sports.» ... «The legislation would prohibit the use of state health benefits coverage for "gender-affirming care." It would also ban state-owned health-care facilities and physicians who work for the state from providing such care. [/] The legislation defines such care to include hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery. [/] Republicans voted down an amendment offered by Democrats that would have carved out an exception for mental health care related to gender identity. Tillery said the underlying legislation would clearly allow such services, but Democrats insisted the language was unclear.»
• 2025/02/11 04:07 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security ...«overexpansive and unpredictable FCPA enforcement against American citizens and businesses – by our own Government – for routine business practices in other nations not only wastes limited prosecutorial resources that could be dedicated to preserving American freedoms, but actively harms American economic competitiveness and, therefore, national security.»
• 2025/02/11 01:15 UTC [L..T] Trump halts enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials «Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the US justice department to halt prosecuting Americans accused of bribing foreign government officials to win business. [/] The order instructs the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to pause prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 until she issues revised enforcement guidance that promotes American competitiveness.»
• 2025/02/07 23:27 UTC [L..T] Transgender and Nonbinary People Take Trump to Court Over Passport Restrictions «Following an executive order from President Donald Trump barring people from updating the sex designation on their passports, seven people have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the State Department's refusal to issue passports with accurate sex designations.»
• 2025/02/07 22:29 UTC [L..T] North Carolina judge's ruling retains close court election result, but more legal steps are expected «In three one-page orders, Superior Court Judge William Pittman affirmed the December rulings of the State Board of Elections. Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs maintains a 734-vote lead over Republican rival Jefferson Griffin after more than 5.5 million ballots were cast and two recounts. [/] Pittman entered the orders only a few hours after listening to arguments by lawyers for Riggs, Griffin and the State Board of Elections. The hearing marked another step through a legal jumble on the outcome of the race, which is one of but a few unresolved nationwide from the Nov. 5 elections.»
• 2025/02/07 20:59 UTC [L..T] AG Bondi to Criminally Prosecute Private Entities for DEIA «This week a contact at the DOJ sent me a dozen memos just been issued by new US Attorney General Pam Bondi. The memos, among a range of instructions, informed DOJ employees that the Department will criminally prosecute private entities that implement Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEI/DEIA) policies. This is Project 2025 in action. This is fascism, plain and simple.»
• 2025/02/07 19:54 UTC [L..T] Trump energy secretary allowed 23-year-old DOGE rep to access IT systems over objections from general counsel On Wednesday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright «granted access to DOGE representative Luke Farritor – a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern – even over objections from members of the department's general counsel and chief information offices [...]. The DOE chief information office is the department's IT and cybersecurity office. [/] Members of the general counsel and chief information offices "said this is a bad idea" because Farritor hadn't had a standard background investigation needed to access the department's system, one of the people told CNN. "He's not cleared to be in DOE, on our systems. None of those things have been done."»... further results"Template:Links/smw/date" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.