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U.S. Watchdog 'American Oversight' Demands Prompt Release of FBI Records of Attorney General Nominee Matt Gaetz Investigation

Politics @beehaw.org

STOP Trump’s anti-democracy Project 2025 agenda: Add your name if you agree

Politics @beehaw.org

The North Carolina GOP snuck an outrageous antidemocratic power grab into a hurricane relief bill

World News @beehaw.org

Russia vetoes Sudan UN Security Council resolution calling for immediate halt to war

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Israel’s forced displacement in Gaza is a crime against humanity, Human Rights Watch says

Technology @beehaw.org

Political abuse on X is a global, widespread and cross-partisan phenomenon, says study

Politics @beehaw.org

'5 Calls' is one way for U.S. citizens to make a political impact and 'make your voice heard'

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U.S. Governors launch new initiative to "protect American democracy": GSD - Governors Safeguarding Democracy

Environment @beehaw.org

Bobcats are back in North America, and they’re helping protect people from zoonotic disease

World News @beehaw.org

BBC China reporter pushed away from filming at car attack scene after at least 35 people were killed -- (video, 1 min)

Science @beehaw.org

Self-experimentation: A scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab

Politics @beehaw.org

Report details Chinese false information in the 2024 U.S. presidential election

Politics @beehaw.org

American Civil Liberties Union: "During the first Donald Trump administration, we fought his unlawful policies more than 400 times. We’re even more prepared now"

Politics @beehaw.org

'The Resistance Starts Now:' U.S. rights group 'People For the American Way' announces new campaign to 'resist Project 2025'

Politics @beehaw.org

It can happen here: Everyone who realizes with proper alarm that Trump’s reëlection is a deeply dangerous moment in American life must think hard about where we are --

United Kingdom @feddit.uk

Russia suffers worst month for casualties as Ukraine's Western allies would be resolute for "as long as it takes", says UK defence chief

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Russia suffers worst month for casualties as Ukraine's Western allies would be resolute for "as long as it takes", says UK defence chief

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China's Xi Jinping courts countries in Europe and Asia to counter Trump's trade threats, but EU resists over China's support of Russia in Ukraine war, Asian countries over Beijing's assertive behavior

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Former U.S. Vice Presidential candidate and Governor Tim Walz vows to 'stand up and fight' against Trump and Republicans if they come after his state

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"Undocumented families in the U.S. are fighting for our future. Will you join us?" - A migrant mother worries for her son’s safety -- (Opinion)

  • I don't know what you want to say or what it has to do with the linked report, but there is a lot of propaganda on Chinese state-controlled media (e.g., [reports on a 'civil war in Texas'](Misinformation spreads in China on ‘civil war’ in Texas), things like that).

    What 'these people' report is on a person who forcibly disappeared after a peaceful protest, for holding a white paper. Every human being with a sane mind must condemn that.

  • TikTok’s ‘blackout’ challenge linked to deaths of 20 children in 18 months, report says - (December 2022)

    TikTok faces lawsuit over ‘blackout challenge’ death of 10-year-old girl -- (August 2024)

    Blackout challenge -- (Wikipedia)

    The blackout challenge is an internet challenge based around the choking game, which deprives the brain of oxygen.[1] It gained widespread attention on TikTok in 2021, primarily among children.[2] It has been compared to other online challenges and hoaxes that have exclusively targeted a young audience.[3] It has been linked to the deaths of at least twenty children.

    There is much more on that across the web.

  • @CanadaPlus

    I get what you mean by highlighting that no current technology can distinguish between good and bad guys, but I feel there will never be a technology that can do that. A backdoor can easily be used by your government/law enforcement to suppress people and eliminate freedoms, even if there may have been best initial intentions for such a backdoor. This is a fundamentally human -rather than a technological- issue.

  • And jolly old Elon has also something to say about it ...

    Pete Buttigieg confronts Elon Musk’s falsehoods about government’s Hurricane Helene relief: ‘Give me a call’ --- (archived)

    U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg publicly confronted Elon Musk on Friday, refuting false claims the tech billionaire made about the federal government’s response to Hurricane Helene. Musk, who has over 200 million followers on his platform, X (formerly Twitter), accused federal agencies, including the Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, of blocking aid deliveries and obstructing private relief flights to storm-hit areas in North Carolina.

    Musk shared a screenshot of a text exchange purportedly with a SpaceX engineer claiming the FAA was “throttling” airspace, preventing helicopters from delivering Starlink internet terminals. Musk labeled the government’s actions as “belligerent government incompetence,” triggering a wave of misinformation on social media.

    [...] Buttigieg responded directly to Musk on X, debunking the claims. “No one is shutting down the airspace and FAA doesn’t block legitimate rescue and recovery flights,” Buttigieg tweeted. “If you’re encountering a problem, give me a call.”

    [Edit typo.]

  • Quick reminder on Hurricane Matthew which passed North Carolina in 2017, when Trump was U.S. President:

    North Carolina denied 99 percent of federal recovery funds for Hurricane Matthew (May 2017)

    North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said Wednesday the federal government authorized just $6.1 million of the more than $900 million [less than 1 percent] the state had requested. Cooper said the funds were meant for housing and business repairs, housing elevation, agriculture, public facilities repairs, and health and mental services.

    In a letter addressed to President Trump, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson and congressional leaders, Cooper called on the federal government to support Hurricane Matthew recovery efforts [...]

    “Families across eastern North Carolina need help to rebuild and recover, and it is an incredible failure by the Trump Administration and Congressional leaders to turn their backs,” Cooper said in a statement.

  • These people are heroes if something like that exists. China must not only be called out more on that, Beijings ignorance of universal human rights must also have direct real-world consequences. Trade and investment agreements (such as WTO rules and China's infamous Belt and Road Initiative) make only sense if and when rights issues are part of these international rule sets. China's policies are manifestly unjust as its government permanently makes decisions in complete disregard of anyone else - its own people, its Asian neighbours, and the wider global community. There appears to be a slight, timid change in this respect, but much more must be done to adequately address the crimes against humanity committed by China.