#politics
Rishi Sunak to raise trade issues in US talks with Joe Biden
The prime minister says "subsidy races" are not a solution to hitting climate goals, as he visits Washington.
Bookmark of 'MPs call for action on pandemic-widened gap between England’s poor and rich pupils'
#education
#politics
Dame Meg Hillier, committee chair, said: “The DfE does not seem to appreciate the pressures schools are under as they seek to help pupils catch up amid funding constraints, challenges in recruitment and retention for staff and growing mental health needs for pupils."
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jun/07/attainment-gap-poor-rich-pupils-england-covid-pandemic-public-accounts-committee
https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/stream/bookmark-of-mps-call-for-action-on-pandemic-widened-gap-between-englands-poor-and-rich-pupils/
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday on a mission to steady Washington's relationship with Riyadh after years of deepening disagreements. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/blinken-saudi-arabia-israel-normalization/?utm_content=buffer51ab4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #politics #us #israel #saudiarabia #antonyblinken #mohammedbinsalman
European Commission body ‘biased’, Ombudsman and EU lawmakers step in https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/european-commission-body-biased-ombudsman-and-eu-lawmakers-step-in/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Politics
European Commission body ‘biased’, Ombudsman and EU lawmakers step in https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/european-commission-body-biased-ombudsman-and-eu-lawmakers-step-in/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Politics
Labour MP Jess Phillips to give talk in Burntwood
https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/2023/06/07/labour-mp-jess-phillips-to-give-talk-in-burntwood/
#Lichfield #Burntwood #News #Politics #JessPhillips #KathyCoeMBE #LabourParty
Lichfield MP calls for former UKIP leader to be given a knighthood
Tim Scott's amazing lack of knowledge on systemic racism https://youtu.be/LtefdCAefQw #TYT #thedamagereport #politics
Chris Mason: What Sunak is trying to achieve in the US
The challenge for the prime minister now is delivery, and quickly, with a general election expected next year.
#asien #international #meinung #politik #china #taiwan #usa #opinion #politics
#shangriladialogue
Die USA und Mitglieder der NATO setzen ihre hochriskante Außenpolitik mit China fort. Von der Sicherheitskonferenz des Shangri-La-Dialogs der Verteidigungsminister in Singapur kommen aber differenzierte Töne. Eine Veränderung der Souveränität Chinas findet keine Mehrheit.
https://www.pressenza.com/de/2023/06/taiwan-fest-in-der-vr-china-verankert/
7 June 2023: 596 days until a UK General Election (unless we get lucky.)
#GeneralElection #UK #Politics #GTTO #Mastodon #Fediverse #ElectionCountdown #PR #LindaSgoluppiArt
Blinken starts Saudi Arabia visit aimed at steadying relations
Malaysia wins ‘decisive victory’ in row with Sulu sultan’s heirs
Citing 'bigotry' and 'irreparable harm,' judge strikes down Florida transgender care ban
#FloridaToday #TransgenderCareBan #LGBTQRights #TransgenderHealthcare #Bigotry #IrreparableHarm #Politics #News
US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/whistleblower-ufo-alien-tech-spacecraft
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/whistleblower-ufo-alien-tech-spacecraft
Jack Dorsey Endorses RFK Jr. for President
The former #Twitter CEO promoted anti-science advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just as the anti-vaxxer’s #Instagram account is reinstated.
https://gizmodo.com/jack-dorsey-robert-f-kennedy-jr-2024-instagram-1850505777
Why we need to rewrite the script on corporate taxes
#Canada #Politics #Economics #Taxation #Neoliberalism #CorporateTaxes #Taxes #Rewrite
https://the-14.com/why-we-need-to-rewrite-the-script-on-corporate-taxes/
Whenever news breaks of another Chinese covert police operation in another country (USA, Canada, now the UK), I always wonder why the host government doesn't arrest the covert police officers instead of just asking China politely to not do it again. Like guys, China has showed they don't play by the rules time and time again. Assert your own damn laws. Or is it not a crime to run a police agency for a foreign country in the US, CA, and UK?
North Carolina bill would call for new election when lawmakers switch parties after former state House Democrat joins GOP
#Fox8News #NorthCarolina #ElectionReform #PartySwitching #StatePolitics #DemocratToRepublican #Politics #News
From 06 Jun: Trump Judge Overrules Tennessee Drag Ban in Pride Month Surprise - A victory for LGBTQ+ folks has come during Pride Month as a judge in Tennessee has blocked a ban on... https://www.themarysue.com/trump-judge-overrules-tennessee-drag-ban-in-pride-month-surprise/ #drag-queens #lgbtq #politics #transgender
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says dam blast will not stop military plans
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 469
From 06 Jun: EPA Ends Trump-Era Bid to Kill Pollution Rules for Plastics Recycling - This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of th... https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/epa-trump-clean-air-act-plastics-advanced-recycling-gasification-pyrolysis/ #climate-desk #corporations #environment #politics
Trump melts down on Truth Social over reports that special counsel "wants to indict me" - “Looks like someone has received some very bad news from his legal team,” said MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang
#SalonNews #TrumpIndictment #TruthSocialMeltdown #SpecialCounselInvestigation #LegalTeamNews #MSNBCAnalysis #Politics #News
Newsom threatens DeSantis with kidnapping charges after migrants flown to Sacramento
#LATimes #NewsomDeSantisFeud #MigrantFlights #KidnappingCharges #Sacramento #ImmigrationPolicy #Politics #News
Global News BC: Surrey mayor says goal is to address police future ‘this month’ https://globalnews.ca/news/9749924/surrey-police-decision-this-month/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Surreypolicetransition #SurreyPoliceService #SurreyPoliceFuture #SurreyPoliceVote #MikeFarnworth #Surreypolice #BrendaLocke #SurreyMayor #Politics #Surrey #SPS
Chris Christie is the wooden stake in the heart of #Trump. I predicted Biden would beat Trump before Biden was the Dem nominee. Not a fan of Chrisie but I predict Christie will beat Biden in 2024. Here’s why - the Republicans that voted for Biden will vote for Christie this time and Dems will not show up for Biden, unless Trump or DeSantis is his opponent.
#politics
Hong Kong moves to ban protest song mistaken for national anthem
Judge grants request for George Santos’s bond sponsors to be unsealed
#TheHill #GeorgeSantos #bondSponsors #unsealed #JudgeDecision #legalNews #Politics #News
Texas sheriff recommends criminal charges over DeSantis migrant flights
#IndependentNews #DeSantisMigrantFlights #TexasSheriff #CriminalCharges #ImmigrationPolicy #MigrantRights #Politics #News
62 percent say Trump should not be allowed to serve again if convicted of ‘serious’ crime: survey
#TheHill #TrumpConviction #PresidentialPardons #Impeachment #ConstitutionalCrisis #Accountability #Politics #News
Global News BC: Delay in B.C. salmon farm transition plan welcomed by both sides https://globalnews.ca/news/9750926/salmon-farm-transition-delay-b-c/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #opennetsalmonfarm #SalmonPopulation #salmonthreatened #farmedsalmon #FirstNations #pacificocean #Environment #salmonfarm #wildsalmon #Politics #Salmon
No One Believes in Cop City. So Why Did Atlanta’s City Council Fund It?
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/06/cop-city-atlanta-funding-vote/
Human Rights Watch declares LGBTQ state of emergency in the US
Global News BC: ‘Not a tick the box operation’: Addressing MMIWG calls for justice a work in progress https://globalnews.ca/news/9749622/accountability-mmiwg-calls-for-justice-progress/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #CallsforJustice #ProgressReport #FirstNations #Indigenous #MarcMiller #Politics #Inquiry #MMIWG2S #Canada #Inuit #Metis #MMIWG
Was going to put out an afternoon edition to follow the morning edition, but there wasn’t enough new information regarding any news today.
Not sure if the dam blowing put a damper on things or what? 🤷🏻♂️❤️👊🇺🇦
#ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineWar #Politics #china #russia #NAFO
#AndreaJenkins Is an #Icon of #Trans #power
The legendary #Minneapolis #CityCouncil #President has spent a lifetime creating #change through #poetry, #politics, and #history
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Pride #PrideMonth #Representation #Culture #RoleModels #BlackMastodon
https://www.them.us/story/andrea-jenkins-minneapolis-city-council-now-awards-2023
Blaming Young People For the Fall of Roe is Like Holding Firefighters Accountable for Arson
#ReligionDispatches #RoeFallBlame #YoungPeopleRights #ReproductiveRights #FirefightersNotArsonists #BlameGameFail #Politics #News
This is a thread and worth your time. It'll be in the nest Fascism Watch because, well, RFKJr is a proto-fash coming at it from the... _sorta_ left?
We already have superheroes. And they are the everyday people -- from the blue voters to Joe and Kamala -- who work to keep America free, safe, and decent. Thank you to y'all. #politics #voteblue #democrats #votebluein2024 #votebluein2023 #biden #harris #kamala #joebiden #bidenharris2024
After years of stirring hatred and violence, Republicans in Florida are now pleading for migrants not to leave. The MAGA movement loves talking about hard work, but they sure do seem scared at the prospect of having to do it.
https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis-immigration-law/
#politics #uspol #uspoli #uspolitics #news #desantis #rondesantis #migrants #florida #desantisdestroysflorida #gqp #gqpclownshow #gop #republicans #republican
BREAKING
Mark Meadows testified before grand jury and could be part of Jack Smith's probe into Trump: report
https://www.rawstory.com/mark-meadows-jack-smith-grand-jury/
Chris Christie, ex-governor and Trump critic, seeks US presidency
Republicans say they know enough information to believe Trump's followers will abandon him.
That's why so many GOP candidates are running.
'Actively rooting for Trump to go down': Insider says many Republican Trump allies are praying for indictment
#news #politics #trump #republicans
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-republican-allies-damaging-information/
US city approves funding for ‘Cop City’ after months of protests
Most strikingly, despite enormous problems, people are a lot more upbeat, optimistic, and have taken their destiny in their own hands (they are not expecting our handouts, or our "help" to solve their problems) lest their lives are altered by catastrophes not of their creation. Contrast that with us in the West, we seem to wallow, and whine in catastrophism and pessimism. Where's the sense of optimism that literally made the US what it is? If we are ever going to change the world, we better start there, changing our mindset and being more proactive and having a sense of public commitment and not lease that off to the privateers.
8/8
#India #US #West #AI #ClimateChange #SiliconValley #Technology #Politics #GlobalWarming #Energy #Chennai #Boston
People are way more aware and mindful in the usage and disposal of resources (water, food, waste etc.,), build tree covers, less/no use of single-use plastics etc., without thumping their chest that they are "saving the planet". Maybe as a consequence of the pandemic or otherwise, the levels of public sanitation, and cleanliness were the best I have seen. For us, in the West, conservation seems to be an empty slogan to soothe our heartburns!
7/8
#India #US #West #AI #ClimateChange #SiliconValley #Technology #Politics #GlobalWarming #Energy #Chennai #Boston
How about overhauling the MBTA in Boston (supposedly one of the better mass transit systems in the US that looks even more like a joke) for example?
Before people give excuses as to why it is hard: Chennai is even more chaotic, ten times more populated than Boston and way more densely so, with more traffic and pollution, with an old transportation system that already exists, with as much contestations about property and homeowner rights (and all the cacophony of a "democracy"), much less money than here, much more corruption than here, and a much much harsher weather in which everything has to be built. If Chennai can create a stunningly modern, efficient and squeaky clean metro that is cheap (which no US city currently has), then our excuse can only boil down to lethargy, NIMBYism, rabid individualism, indifference, and lack of any will.
6/8
#India #US #West #AI #ClimateChange #SiliconValley #Technology #Politics #GlobalWarming #Energy #Chennai #Boston
So what is it that they are doing there, and we are not?
For example, in the city of Chennai (it's true for other cities in India too), they believe, including some level of political will and intention, that a modern, extensive, cheap, and energy efficient mass transportation and metro system is a necessity. To that end they have built several new lines that are operational, including overhauling old ones, and will complete several more new lines in the next few years. Not to forget, just Tamilnadu, the state in which Chennai is, already generates more from wind energy than any Scandinavian country.
Meanwhile our solution in the US is to talk about individual electric vehicles, autonomous self-driving, hyperloops for cars, AI for mitigating climate change, web 3.0, or whatever gets cooked up by the geniuses at silicon valley.
5/8
#India #US #West #AI #ClimateChange #SiliconValley #Technology #Politics #GlobalWarming #Energy #Chennai #Boston
While the weather was brutal (at least for me, having lived almost all my adult life in the US), the environment and resources extremely precarious, the political landscape chaotic, high levels of unemployment and inequality, decimation of the countryside, intensification of existing hierarchies (caste and otherwise) through the import of gig and app economies (thanks to the previous iteration of the "revolutionary" gift from silicon valley), people are going about their lives, adapting (and surviving), being creative whether it be arts or sciences (my mind shuts down completely in that heat), and most of all finding their own solutions out of this mess that they neither created, nor are perpetuating.
It hit me quite viscerally that we in the West are entirely unprepared to change or adapt and not willing to have the slightest changes/disruptions in our lifestyle. If people still hold on to the idea that reversing the effects of climate change is a possibility and we can continue our ways of live, they better wake up from that dream!
4/8
#India #US #West #AI #ClimateChange #SiliconValley #Technology #Politics #GlobalWarming #Energy #Chennai #Boston
The breakthroughs necessary to provide for decent lives in the face of global warming and climate change (which is already here, and not some tipping point in 2027 or 2030 etc etc.,), and modernize such a society is quite different and far removed from the technologies for which much of capital, hype, and attention seems to be directed at. So in what sense are these world-changing technologies beyond the usual march of capitalism into newer territories? If consumerism is the heart of revolutionary technologies of our era, where are the low-cost, energy and resource efficient, sustainable HVAC units, refrigerators, washer/dryers etc., which will qualitatively change peoples lives? Last I checked, almost no elite academic/corporate entity in the West is working on any of these. Some world-changing tech we seem to be working on.
3/8
#India #US #West #AI #ClimateChange #SiliconValley #Technology #Politics #GlobalWarming #Energy #Chennai #Boston
It was quite refreshing and a much needed reset for me to view from outside the hype-bubble of AI (as this purported revolutionary, epoch-making or world-changing technological breakthrough), and witness its almost irrelevance and even be a detriment/nuisance to the day-to-day lives of people there.
AI in its best-case scenario can be a useful tool, far from the world-changing tech constantly beamed on social media and elsewhere, and it hits you really hard when you see people living in 100+ F weather almost constantly. The feels like temperature was consistently between 45-50 Celsius during the daytime with high humidity for the entirety of my stay and this now lasts months in that part of the world!!.
2/8
#India #US #West #AI #ClimateChange #SiliconValley #Technology #Politics #GlobalWarming #Energy #Chennai #Boston
Just got back to Boston after nearly a month long trip to India, spending much of the time in the giant metropolis of Chennai where I grew up.
It's my first trip since before the pandemic (about 4 years), and here are some personal (and many a times harsh) observations.
1/8
#India #US #West #AI #ClimateChange #SiliconValley #Technology #Politics #GlobalWarming #Energy #Chennai #Boston
Republican House Leader Faces Resign Calls After Son's Nazi Salute Photo
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-house-leader-faces-resign-nazi-salute-oregon-1804667
#Newsweek #RepublicanHouseLeader #ResignCalls #NaziSalutePhoto #Oregon #PoliticalControversy #Politics #News
The elephant in the room:
CNN Headline - "Say bye-bye to any federal charges against Trump if he's elected in 2024"
That's the game he's playing for.
The best possible thing Biden could do in the remainder of his term, would be to convince DoJ to change their arbitrary rule about not prosecuting a sitting president.
Forever more... if a President is suspected of criminal behavior, they will be investigated just like anybody else, and if that President is indicted, then their term ENDS RIGHT THERE and the Vice-President takes the reins.
Its stupid to trash our justice system and equal treatment under the law, when we have a built in solution in the form of a Vice President.
Ever since Jan. 6th we have been watching the consequences of FAILING TO APPLY JUSTICE EQUALLY BY FAILING TO PROSECUTE A SITTING PRESIDENT.
Lock him up.
#politics #elections #voters #voting #DataDashboards #Nebraska
'This interactive Tool to Reflect Overall Voter Engagement shows voter turnout from the November 2022 general election down to the ZIP Code and census tract – eg, neighborhood – levels. In addition, TROVE compares voter participation against demographic characteristics of census tracts to analyze which may correlate to higher or lower voter turnout. '
https://www.civicnebraska.org/20230606-introducing-trove-nebraska-turnout/
Just out: The #Texas Legislature lived down to its reputation in its 88th session, as revealed by the staff of the Observer in this wrap-up from @josephinelee, Kit @oconnell, @gusbova, @justinmiller and Michelle Pitcher.
Among the biggest losers were taxpayers, teachers, #trans youths, and anyone who uses electricity. https://www.texasobserver.org/88th-session-texas-legislature-lgbtq-energy-schools/
#TXlege #politics #USpol #news #education #LGBTQIA+ #transgender #transphobia #drag #energy #ClimateChange #schools #vouchers #MassShooting #Uvalde
Chris Christie threw his hat in the ring for the #Republican presidential nomination, further crowding the field. A crowded field is one of the biggest reasons why we got #Trump in 2016 - he pulled the most votes but was only around 25%.
He was able to stand out in a crowded field by good marketing and appealing to biases. A crowded field makes this possible again.
Canadian wildfires prompt hazy skies, air quality warnings
If voters don't vote to stop the #gopfascists from gaining power in VA then they have no one but themselves to blame for what will come next. https://americanindependent.com/very-frightening-things-virginia-republicans-legislature/ #politics #voteblue
"4 - Push candidates to justify their positions.
#Republicans who hide out in right-wing media have grown accustomed to seeing their absurd positions go unchallenged. That’s not acceptable in mainstream media coverage...
It’s the mainstream media’s job not simply to recite candidates’ positions but to expose #hypocrisy, #lies and leaps of logic."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/05/media-coverage-2024-republican-election-lies/
Q&A: Canada’s anti-Islamophobia representative vows to fight hate
Lately my favorite episodes of #KnowledgeFight #podcast are the ones where Jordan sits down to chat with a guest like Jeff Sharlet. Sharlet is wise twhen it comes to the state of things, and I appreciate his view that we are currently moving through #Fascism, as opposed to the common idea that fascism is something that will take place in our future if we don't stop it.
It's here, now. What we have is the opportunity to prevent a far-right fascist regime from fully taking over. https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/812-jeff-sharlet-returns
(In before someone says "But the US has always been fascist. Yes, yes, but we need to be able to have conversations about the ways things are getting worse and more dangerous for everyone right now).
"'God did not intend for the human anus to be a sex object!' he blurted.
"I thought to myself, 'That’s the money quote.' Too bad #NPR will never let that on the air."
Freshly retired @NPR reporter John Burnett reflects on four decades as a journalist covering #religion and #politics—and the messy intersection of the two—in #Texas: https://www.texasobserver.org/npr-religion-christian-nationalism-john-burnett/
#news #politics #Christianity #extremism #WhiteSupremacy #racism #fascism #JournoLife #journalism
#Judge who threw out #DontSayGay #challenge to decide #DeSantisvsDisney #lawsuit
— Let's see, A relative owning 30 shares of Disney stock, vs a politically partisan rightwing judicial activist Judge. Yep the non-partisan judge disqualifies himself. While the partisan judge goes hotdog!
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Politics #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/06/disney-desantis-florida-dont-say-gay-allen-winsor/
Probably not the best way to fight your case.
Trump’s lawyers went into DOJ meeting ‘guns blazing’ — and it was a mistake: legal analyst
National is shooting its Māori seat candidates in the foot. | By Tommy de Silva
#atea #opinion #politics
https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/06-06-2023/national-is-shooting-its-maori-seat-candidates-in-the-foot?utm_source=mastodon
“We invite all elected officials … to speak out against #racism and extremist ideology and all forms. We think they have a real responsibility to do that.”
On the one-month anniversary of the #Allen shooting, Special Investigative Correspondent @stevanzetti reached out to the 15 elected officials who represent constituents in the town. Not one Republican would condemn the shooter's beliefs: https://www.texasobserver.org/allen-shooting-republicans-extremism/
#Fascism #news #Politics #guns #MassShooting #Texas #Republicans #Extremism
From the archives: @delger catches up with the elder-statesman of #Climate advocacy, Al Gore, in #Houston, to discuss environmental #racism in the place where that term was born: https://www.texasobserver.org/al-gore-climate-reality-project-houston/
#ClimateChange #OilandGas #environment #news #politics #pollution #Texas #energy #democrats
The DW report to the dam breach in Ukraine... #politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNsTa90FjiA
Egal, ob gewollt oder fahrlässig, die Taten der Russen sind einfach nur abgründig... #politics
https://youtu.be/lIKFSoHQuds
Deutschland ist wirklich Abgrundtief, was die Finanzierung von Unternehmen angeht... #economics #politics
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/karriere-hochschule/unternehmergespraech/chipindustrie-wack-gruppe-muss-um-foerderung-und-aufmerksamkeit-kaempfen-18941188.html
#ClimateChange
#ClimateCrisis
#RenewableEnergy
#Biodiversity
#Overshoot
#WeAreTotallyFscked
#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards
#Nihilism
#FuckAroundAndFindOut
#Fascism
#RWNJs
#StateCapture
#HumanRights
#RightToProtest
#NationStates
#FsckPatriarchy
#fsckALLreligion
#ChangeTheSystem
#DarwinAwards
#Misanthropy
#Atheism
#Whimsy
#DrHelenMagnus
#HHGTTG
#MostlyHarmless
#MontyPythonsFlyingCircus
#MontyPython
#TheSpanishInquisition
#RippingYarns
#Beatles
#EnidBlyton
#FamousFive
#CSLewis
#Narnia
#JRRTolkien
#TheLordOfTheRings
#AusPol
#Greens
#MichaelWestMedia
#LauraTingle
#ProgIndies
#Politics
#Misdirection
#Semantics
#Logic
#Grammar
#FOSS
#Arch
#Archie
#ArchLinux
#ArchInstall
#AUR
#Fedora
#Kinoite
#KDEPlasma
#Plasma
#KDE
#Qt
#WindowRules
#Xfce
#Tumbleweed
#openSUSE
#MicroOS
#LibreOffice
#KMyMoney
#GnuCash
#VPN
#FirefoxNightly
#FirefoxBeta
#UserJS
#AboutConfig
#Sidebery
#TreeStyleTab
#Vivaldi
#VivaldiBrowser
#VerticalTabs
#PulseBrowser
#Firejail
#searX
#SteamLocomotive
#SteamLocomotives
#SteamEngine
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Unfollowed atm, but might spasmodically post on:
#GenderDysphoria
#Transition
#Transitioned
#Transwoman
#Transwomen
#Trans
#Lesbian
#Lesbians
Damit hat man ja fast gerechnet... #politics
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/ukraine-staudamm-kachowka-100.html
George Santos begs court not to reveal who paid his $500,000 bond
Workers at the #Austin-American Statesman are on #strike today as part of a broader strike at #Gannett-owned papers, reports our Staff Writer @gusbova on #birdsite: https://nitter.nl/gusbova/status/1665754356845510659#m
#Union #journalism #JournoLife #labor #workers #news #politics #USpol #protest #Texas
Gay marriage support in the US reaches its highest level ever (tied with 2022) -- at 71%. Among those aged 18-29, 89% support.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/506636/sex-marriage-support-holds-high.aspx
#GallupPoll #GayMarriageSupport #USMarriageEquality #YouthSupportRainbowRights #LGBTQ+Equality #LoveIsLove #Politics #News
“When I needed help from my elected officials, they looked the other way. I ran for election so no one would have to experience that at the #water district.”
Flooding and bureaucracy drove Mary Kelleher to run for a powerful North #Texas river agency board, reports correspondent James Russell in our magazine: https://www.texasobserver.org/mary-kelleher-tarrant-regional-water-board/
(CW: Death of animals by misadventure)
(📸 Photo by Gerald Kern)
#environment #river #elections #flooding #democracy #FortWorth #politics #news #USpol #agriculture
This is how (ideally) the Brits do free-speech debates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUezfuy8Qpc
I won't post a Tucker Carlson or Steve Bannon one to compare it to, that would ruin the pleasure.
#UK #British #Comedy #Debate #Posh #People #Politics #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #Rights #ReformSection5 #RowanAtkinson #BlackAdder
Das werden wir erst über für nächsten Jahre richtig sehen...
#politics #bge
https://www.heise.de/news/USA-Allein-im-Mai-3900-Stellen-wegen-Kuenstlicher-Intelligenz-abgebaut-9164979.html
“Everything we celebrated, hoped for, and dreamed of came crashing down that day.”
We spoke with one of the plaintiffs in the growing lawsuit over #Texas abortion law and it's potential exceptions:
https://www.texasobserver.org/clarify-abortion-pregnancy-lawsuit-texas/
#abortion #healthcare #news #politics #law #HumanRights #TXlege #USpol #pregnancy
Conservatives, If You Want To Ban "Woke" Materials In Schools Shouldn't You At Least Read Them First?
https://www.theroot.com/conservatives-if-you-want-to-ban-woke-materials-in-s-1850504545
#TheRootNews #ConservativeHypocrisy #EducationReform #WokeTeachingMaterials #ReadBeforeYouBan #CriticalThinkingNeeded #Politics #News
Disney welcomes Gay Days in Florida as the feud with DeSantis rages on
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/06/04/disney-desantis-gay-days-florida/
#WashingtonPost #DisneyGayDays #FloridaFeud #DeSantisControversy #LGBTQRights #ThemeParkPolitics #Politics #News
Happy Monday, #fediverse!
Here are some stories to get you started today.
Organizers in Houston are planning to protest the TEA takeover of HISD.
The demonstration will take place at the state-appointed board of managers' first HISD meeting.
Read more >>> https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/hisd-protest-board-managers-june-8-18132696.php
Read the full First Draft newsletter here: https://link.chron.com/view/6149e1b78125da14e85a7ccciva47.pjj/4d8363d1
#news #journalism #texas #houston #austin #dallas #sports #firstdraft #politics
Some blog posts with Jasper Krommendijk:
'How to read EU legislation?' http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/p/how-to-read-eu-legislation.html
'How to read CJEU judgments' http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/p/how-to-read-cjeu-judgments-deciphering.html
Both blog posts in Dutch:
'Hoe lees je EU-wetgeving?' (new) https://europeancourts.blogspot.com/2023/06/hoe-lees-je-eu-wetgeving.html
'Hoe lees je arresten van het Hof van Justitie van de EU?'
https://europeancourts.blogspot.com/2022/09/hoe-lees-je-arresten-van-het-hof-van.html
#law #politics #study
The UK is finally trialling Universal Basic Income 👏
With AI set to take millions of jobs, this is absolutely crucial for the well-being of all the citizens in one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
I’ll be interested to see what the results are!
Universal basic income: Plans drawn up for £1,600 a month trial in England https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65806599
An open letter, signed by more than 500 Indiana doctors, asks their state licensing board to reconsider its decision to punish the obstetrician who talked publicly about providing an abortion for a 10-year-old rape victim.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/03/1179941247/abortion-caitlin-bernard-indiana-doctor-medical-board
Lauren Boebert now says her failure to vote on the debt limit was 'a protest.' But video from that night shows her frantically running up the Capitol steps trying to make it inside in time.
#BusinessInsider #LaurenBoebertDebtLimit #CapitolStepsVideo #ProtestOrExcuse #CongressionalResponsibility #VotingAccountability #Politics #News