So far this week...
The FTC banned the use of noncompete clauses.
The DOL strengthened overtime rules.
The FCC restored #NetNeutrality.
The DOT expanded protections for airline passengers.
This is what it looks like when the government works on behalf of the people.
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To all the brave university students protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza, I see you, I hear you, and I applaud your resolve. Also, please protect yourselves.
It is my duty now for the future to point out that the band DEVO formed in the early 1970s "in response to the failed promise of utopian progress peddled by post-WWII politicians and consumer culture" and amid the turmoil surrounding Vietnam war protests in the US.
The core members of DEVO were friends with two of the four students who were shot by gas-masked National Guardsman at the May 4, 1970, Vietnam war protest on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. Three founding members of the band attended Kent State at that time.
Gerald Casale (co-founder, co-lead vocalist and bass player) said that was "the most DEVO day of his life." The theory that humankind is evolving in reverse. That was the first evidence that hit him square in the gut and the heart and the mind that this was true.
"In the next two years, I realized that the system was rotten to the core. That everything I believed was an illusion."
#DEVO #WeAreDEVO #USPol #USPolitics #KentState #AntiWar #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Protest #BoojiBoy
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There is absolutely no equivalence to the actions of student demonstrators of the '70's & these hovered over entitled Ivy League keffiyeh cosplaying Commandos.
Well, maybe like Jane Fonda & Bill Ayer.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRwrjXVd/
#palestine
#AmnestyInternational
""For millions the world over, Gaza now symbolizes utter moral failure by many of the architects of the post-World War Two system; their failure to uphold the absolute commitment to universality, our common humanity, and to our 'never again' commitment," Amnesty International's secretary-general Agnès Callamard wrote in the preface to the report."
Really good article, covering the current threats to the founding values of humanity.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2023-near-breakdown-international-law
Israel's War on Gaza Has Helped Fuel 'Near Breakdown of International Law': Amnesty
"What we saw in 2023 confirms that many powerful states are abandoning the founding values of humanity and universality enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," Amnesty's secretary-general said.oliviarosane (Common Dreams)
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Did you miss the part where a Brigade of Hamas Gazans, some 3000 to 5000 soldiers invaded and killed everyone they could find no matter their country of origin or citizenship? And then fired off approx 12,000 rockets.
Cuz, the "architects of the post WW2 system didn't attack anybody. Houthis are just shooting missiles at anybody sailing by. Syria, Assad's awesome I guess, Hezbollah, Lebanon just loves them. Iran, 300+ missiles.
Not much FUBAR''d in that neighborhood. Damb UK?
@FrankFrank
What do you think Israel has been doing for 75 years?
Territorial expansionism, apartheid, daily violent oppression and humiliation, targeting of journalists and children, provably lying about it, environmental and cultural vandalism, extra judicial assassinations, violation of neighbouring states sovereignty, detention of children, state sponsored terrorism against non-jewish residents, use of banned chemical weapons, violation of UN resolutions.. and genocide.
@rzeta0
Crap Map. The problem is this series of maps is riddled with misrepresentations & omissions, & their overall narrative is an outright lie.
The origin of these maps appears in a 2003 book “Palestine Solidarity Campaign,” British group supporting “BDS”.
An iconic feature of Palestinian propaganda literature in recent years. Use by the media has resulted in a correction or deletion.
@rzeta0
Hmmm, did anything precipitate these claimed actions?
You mean to say, right out of the blue, the mean Israeli's just started oppressing the tranquil peace loving Gazans? Really?
It couldn't have anything to do with constant deadly attacks on the Jewish State since '48?
Oh, that's right, Palestinian terrorist bombings of Israeli civilians is,... what's the term, resistance?
Hindu Nationalists Are Taking Notes—and Tech Support—From the Israeli Right
The state of Assam has become a laboratory of ethnonationalism, with warning signs of genocide ahead.Gridwork
Patriots for Ukraine: Calls grow for EU countries to step up donations of air defence systems
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/04/22/patriots-for-ukraine-calls-grow-for-eu-countries-to-step-up-donations-of-air-defence-syste?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Russia-Ukraine Crisis @russia-ukraine-crisis-euronews
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"we must demonstrate that one can leave Zionism and still be part of a Jewish community...
In the meantime, we must be aware of the pain that all this is causing our fellow Jews who have not yet found their way out of the web of false beliefs. As James Baldwin said, “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/18/why-they-hate-us-anti-zionism-in-the-jewish-community/
#Zionism #Israel @jewishvoiceforpeace
Why They Hate Us: Anti-Zionism in the Jewish Community - CounterPunch.org
As a longtime anti-Zionist and member of Jewish Voice for Peace, it has been a fact of my life that the organized Jewish community has considered me aAlan Wagman (CounterPunch.org)
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Sharing yesterday's Hopium Chronicles from Simon Rosenberg. (He's the guy who called the election in '22 correctly.) Definitely worth a follow for action to take on reelecting #Biden and #Democrats this fall. His mantra: Do More, Worry Less
Winning Arizona, 6 Big Problems For Trump, House Passes Ukraine Funding Rule 316-94!!!!!!!!
Was great to see so many Hopium subscribers in person last night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Simon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
Philosopher Daniel Dennett dead at 82
Part of the "New Atheist" movement, best known for work on consciousness, free will.
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Fahri Reza (@dozymoe@mastodon.social)
Free will as consciousness, does free will exist in animals. Instead of free will it's easier to understand it as both obedient and rebellious.Mastodon
It’s not just Donald Trump who’s in Vladimir Putin’s pocket.
For more than 25 years, a large swath of the GOP has enjoyed mutually rewarding relationships with Russian operatives
funding and working with K Street lobbyists, political consultants, super PACs, campaign fundraising operations, disinformation and propaganda campaigns, social media operations, cyber-warfare efforts, money laundering schemes, think tanks harboring Russian intelligence operatives, and much, much more.
Jonathan Winer, former deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement, has observed
the relationship for years:
“If you go back to the days of Jack Abramoff, when Americans started going to Moscow in the ’90s, and then to Paul Manafort in Ukraine, and so on, you start to see the spine 💥of a secret influence campaign between the Republicans and Russia that has been built up over decades,” 💥he said.
“It goes right up to Tucker Carlson rooting for Putin on Fox today. It has been built up over decades, and
it is not new,
and it deeply infects the Republican Party.
You have two forces with deep political ties that are fighting American democracy 👉in order to keep Putin in power and install a Putin-like system in America.
And to that end, 🔥they have penetrated deep into our think tanks, our media, our journalism—everything.”🔥
https://newrepublic.com/article/165782/republicans-putin-history-relationship-manafort
How Republicans Spent Decades Cozying Up to Putin’s Kremlin
The man who once worked to connect Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff to Russia is now chief of staff to Marjorie Taylor Greene. Any questions?The New Republic
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Read this by Anika Collier Navaroli
"In early 2022 I was wracked with guilt. I had been speaking with the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack about my former role as a senior policy official at Twitter. I recounted my warnings that went unheeded that violence was going to occur on January 6."
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Gaza: UN experts deplore use of purported AI to commit ‘domicide’ in Gaza, call for reparative approach to rebuilding | OHCHR
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This is a historic tech action in a long proud tradition.
From Polaroid workers rejecting their work contributing to S Africa's passbooks, to the MIT research strike where scientists refused to work for warfare; to Geoff Hinton relocating to Canada to avoid building US weapons.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-no-tech-for-apartheid-project-nimbus-israel-gaza-protest/
Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government
Google employees are staging sit-ins and protests at company offices in New York and California over “Project Nimbus,” a cloud contract with Israel's government, as the country's war with Hamas continues.Caroline Haskins (WIRED)
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Interview with Peter Maass
"I’m Jewish, & I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”
Maass covered the Bosnian genocide in the 1990s that killed about 100,000 over 4 years.
Israel is carrying out the same war crimes, he said, including sniper attacks on civilians, bombing of civilian infrastructure, attacks on bread lines & besieging whole populations. Gaza could be even worse than Bosnia.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/israel_war_crimes
#Gaza #Bosnia #IsraeliWarCrimes ..
“I’m Jewish, and I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”: Reporter Peter Maass on Gaza
We speak with veteran journalist Peter Maass about the Israeli war on Gaza and his new opinion piece for The Washington Post headlined “I’m Jewish, and I’ve covered wars. I know war crimes when I see them.Democracy Now!
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#Gaza #IsraeliWarCrimes #NazisAreNazis
Good for Paul Waldman and Thomas Schaller. They are defending their book. And they are right.
https://newrepublic.com/article/180570/trump-rural-white-resentment-honest-assessment
An Honest Assessment of Rural White Resentment Is Long Overdue
We say very clearly that rural America is hurting. But we refuse to justify attitudes that some scholars try to underplay.The New Republic
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“Israel Has Declared Record Amount of West Bank Land as State-owned in 2024”
This isn't self-defense. This isn't a counter to Hamas. This is de facto violation of international law.
Would love for someone to explain how this is any different than Russia forcibly taking Ukrainian land?
Go on. I’m waiting.
Israel has declared record amount of West Bank land as state-owned in 2024
Thousands of acres were designated as state-owned property in just three months, while the remapping of land already categorized as state-owned has been paving the way for potential settlement constructionHagar Shezaf (Haaretz)
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russia's oligarchs don't want ukrainian real estate. they want what ukraine grows. putin wants a stepping stone to rebuilding the ussr.
netanyahu and his supporters want real estate and oil.
Since President Joe Biden took office, millions of Americans have seen their student loans forgiven and millions more have seen their monthly payments reduced.
Higher education should not result in a lifetime of debt.
Republicans are out again filing lawsuits to stop this. If you want to blame someone for why it’s not more, blame them.
Biden administration announces another round of loan cancellation under new repayment plan -
https://kstp.com/associated-press/ap-us-international/biden-administration-announces-another-round-of-loan-cancellation-under-new-repayment-plan/
Biden administration announces another round of loan cancellation under new repayment plan - KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News
The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 206,000 borrowers as part of a new repayment plan that offers a faster route to forgiveness. The Education Department announced the latest round of cancellations on Friday.Krystal Frasier (KSTP-TV LLC)
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A reminder that Cannon, the federal judge in the Trump theft of classified documents case, is for all practical purposes a member of the defense team.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/aileen-cannon-trump-classified-disqualification.html
Also a reminder that it's all corruption, all the time in Trump world.
Aileen Cannon Might Actually Get Herself Kicked Off the Trump Classified Docs Case
Jack Smith is likely headed for the court of appeals.Norman L. Eisen (Slate)
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Israel, having been so close to apartheid South Africa, realised the very real threat that BDS posed to the existence of Israel as a racist occupying state.
It created the Strategic Affairs dept specifically to counter the BDS movement.
Its strategy was to ensure that any criticism of Israel was framed as equivalent to anti-Semitism.
Accusing critics of Israel of anti-Semitism deflects attention from what matters.
Andrew Feinstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueXEXjqXNvk&t=8s
Israel: Above the law? | Featured Documentary
A look into how and why international laws and principles are being applied and ignored in the Israel-Gaza conflict.The events of October 7 sent shockwaves a...YouTube
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It can be argued that EVERYONE is above any law international or otherwise not backed by armed force.
Putin's invasion of Ukraine has proven sanctions alone won't enforce international law against a dictator willing to bear the cost of sanctions to obtain any higher priority goal than international trade.
@LukefromDC
Sanctions were immediate after the invasion of Ukraine, yet 6 months of this and no similar treatment for Israel. Why do you think that is?
Because the foreign policy of the west does not come from any moral or ethical basis, it is the self-interest of western colonialism, as it always has been.
The reality is, if military aid was cut off from Israel this would have stopped months ago.
Take your point (not saying I agree), but the more apt analogy with Israel, imo, is with apartheid states. South Africa's apartheid regime was brought down by sanctions.
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
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v behind on reading this year but finished book no.1 of 2024
“The modern history of Palestine can best be understood in these terms: as a colonial war waged against the indigenous population, by a variety of parties, to force them to relinquish their homeland to another people against their will.”
Read it ⇩
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Pretty cool #WordPress fact according to @photomatt (context: Monday’s #eclipse)
"#Automattic handled more than 1 billion requests for http://NASA.gov in a 4.5 hour span, with the large majority of those served in under 400ms".
NASA
NASA.gov brings you the latest news, images and videos from America's space agency, pioneering the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.Brian Dunbar (NASA)
Fresh results from another guaranteed basic income pilot. This time from Seattle's King County where 102 people got $500/mo for 10 months.
Employment nearly doubled from 37% to 66%
Average income from jobs went up by $410/mo
Retirement plans nearly tripled
Percent with any savings of those with kids went from 0% to 42%
Percent with any savings of those without kids went from 24% to 35%
Participants also reported gains in health and well-being
https://www.seakingwdc.org/latest-news/gbi-report
New Study Reveals Impact of $500 to Fight Poverty in King County
A $500 monthly boost led to significant employment growth, enhanced savings, improved debt management, and better quality of life for diverse King County residents facing poverty.Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King (Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County)
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I had to think about that for a second,,,You are right!! revision of history is wrong, as is pushing any form of prejudice/bias propaganda...not to mention christian nationalism.
If Truth Social was loosing cash so rapidly, how could Trump keep it afloat up until the recent IPO? According to the Guardian, by borrowing millions from a Russian shell company controlled by Postolnikov — a guy whose name is listed on FBI search warrants in an ongoing money laundering investigation.
If all of this is true, the movie about the takedown Comrade Trump appears to write itself.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans
Exclusive: Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation
Trump’s social media company went public relying partly on loans from trust managed by person of interest to prosecutorsHugo Lowell (The Guardian)
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“Things just got very real”: Legal experts say Jack Smith appeal threat “puts Cannon on notice”
“Things just got very real”: Legal experts say Jack Smith appeal threat “puts Cannon on notice”
Special counsel asks judge to rule quickly so he can appeal if the court accepts Trump's defense.Salon.com
https://www.full-stop.net/2024/03/29/reviews/shane-burley/jewish-authors-critical-of-zionism/
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📣 BREAKING: The Florida Supreme Court just ordered the abortion rights amendment to be placed on the ballot this November!
This is...a big deal.
Florida Democrats are gonna need our help.
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The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor”
“The truth is that Donald Trump undermined faith in our elections in his false bid to retain the presidency. He sparked an insurrection intended to overthrow our government and keep himself in power.”
Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor
This is a tough column to write, because I don’t want to demean or insult those who write me in good faith. I’ve started it a half dozen times since November but turned to other topics each time because this needle hard to thread.Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer (cleveland)
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This is so badass: Ukraine is using a network of thousands of mobile phones deployed across the country to track incoming drones and missiles.
h/t to @riskybusiness which notes on this week's podcast that Iranian drones apparently are really loud. So they use these network of phones to hear when lawn-mower drones trundle on by, and then shoot them down with small arms fire.
Risky Business #742 -- China bans AMD and Intel, pivots to Linux on the desktop - Risky Business
Risky Business #742 -- China bans AMD and Intel, pivots to Linux on the desktoprisky.biz
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"NBC — and most of the press — have yet to accept the reality that this is not a normal election between a Republican and a Democrat. Donald Trump and his enablers represent an extraordinary threat to democracy. This industry, which prizes objectivity above all else, is incapable of accurately covering an election where one candidate is a normal politician and the other is a dishonest, corrupt insurrectionist."
~ Dan Pfeiffer
#NBC #RonnaMcDaniel #Trump #normalization
https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/nbc-proves-that-the-media-cant-save
NBC Proves the Media Can't Save Democracy
The decision to hi former RNC chair is a symptom of a larger problemDan Pfeiffer (The Message Box)
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“Following nearly 6 months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied #Gaza, it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of & to present my findings: 'the Anatomy of a Genocide'.”
— Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs at Human Rights Council.
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Office Hours: NBC fires Ronna McDaniel, former RNC chair. Does the Republican Party have a future?
Friends, Ronna McDaniel’s tenure at NBC lasted four days. It ended last night, after network anchors and reporters blasted NBC’s decision to hire her last Friday.Robert Reich
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Jay Rosen and Greg Sargent: Ronna McDaniel fiasco may "finally" be an opportunity to get the press to stop sanitizing MAGA— IF we put enough pressure on them to do so.
Why NBC Is Suddenly in Full Meltdown Over Ronna McDaniel Hiring Fiasco
https://newrepublic.com/article/180118/nbc-meltdown-ronna-mcdaniel-hiring-fiasco
#Journalism #Democracy
@jayrosen_nyu
@GregSargent
Why NBC Is Suddenly in Full Meltdown Over Ronna McDaniel Hiring Fiasco
The revolt among NBC personalities is extraordinary—and could force a real debate about all the ways the media enables Donald Trump and MAGA.The New Republic
The Finnish Police confirmed on Tuesday that the APT31 hacking group linked to the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) was behind a breach of the country's parliament disclosed in March 2021.
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in reply to Robert Reich • • •Weird that it took so long. Almost as if this is a setup for the DNC to claim they actually did anything, just in time for Trump to overturn them before they take effect... after they deliberately throw the election.
They've been fixing the primary even more blatantly than 2016 to eliminate opposition, because they insist on reinstalling a nominee who polls say will lose.
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