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The abominable sadism of “Alligator Auschwitz”. Slated to open this week, Florida’s new detention center will have more than a little in common with a Nazi concentration camp.
US supreme court clears way for deportation of migrants to South Sudan | US immigration | The Guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
'“Today’s order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial,” she added.'
So, is it just me, or is the idea that a person can simply be flown literally *anywhere* in the world and "dropped off" regardless of where they hold citizenship maybe ONE OF THE CRAZIEST FUCKING THINGS YOU'VE EVER HEARD?
Also, where is Elena Kagan? Did she have a stroke? Was she eaten by Clarence Thomas and now resides as a chimeric parasitic organism in his torso? Did she catch whatever Fetterman caught?
In the words of one Mayor, here is how Trump and #ICE are harming Americans: “It is a campaign of domestic terror that is being imposed on our residents on a daily basis. It is a level of psychological warfare that I’ve only seen in theaters of war. It’s terrifying seeing it being displayed here in my city”: theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j… #racism #brutality #politics #immigration copy: @renewedresistance
"The well was constructed by cutting a shaft down to the water line, then intricately weaving the wicker wall to create what is basically a large, bottomless basket with sails (uprights) woven into the horizontal weavers lining the shaft. The gap between the wicker and the cut shaft was filled with large timbers which the archaeologists believe was waste wood."
In April 2024, Mongabay published a report about local concerns being raised in connection to the largest lithium mine operating in Zimbabwe.
Following publication of the report, Zimbabwe’s Environmental Management Agency took action to conduct an assessment of water pollution reported in association with the Matezva Dam – a drinking water source for hundreds of local people and their livestock. As a result, regulators fined the mining company for three violations.
@Mongabay Doesn't matter as long as we get that CO2 down and keep transferring more wealth and power to Gates and Schwab doncha know. Wouldn't want to feed the plants too much and have them take over the world.
Julius Franklin Howell (January 17, 1846 - June 19, 1948) joined the Confederate Army when he was 16. After surviving a few battles, he eventually found hims...
America250 is proud to announce a monumental celebration, kicking off a new era of American greatness, featuring special remarks by President Donald J. Trump...
It’s wild to live in a country where the government is actively creating problems where none existed prior.
I’m used to government attempts to solve problems poorly but this is just shooting yourself in the foot repeatedly with bigger and bigger guns each time.
Day 3 of #RFFF25 and another delightful event and gathering of friends.
Many thanks to Damon Thomas @ruralgloom for bringing #spokenWord to the streaming fest. And for comfy presentation of a tiny fraction of his amazing writing on such relatable memories and slice of life tales of southern gothic and rural gloom charm.
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi reportedly told the EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas on July 3 that the country cannot afford for Russia to lose the war in Ukraine amid fears the U.S.
Maybe they'll choose a wiser position, next time. Their finding out stage of the Fuck Around, Find Out cycle does not constitute an emergency or any impetus for action on the part of the West
SANAA, July 03 (YPA) - Sayyed Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi warned of the danger of aggressive American and Israeli policies aimed at targeting Al-Aqsa Mosque and all Islamic holy sites, considering what is happening in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) to pose
More than 1 million people in the European Union died from avoidable causes in 2022, according to new data from a Eurostats report. Of these, over 386,000 deaths were attributed to diseases treatable with quality healthcare, while at least 725,000 could have been prevented through effective public health interventions.
Xbox was the only Microsoft product that I liked, paid for and used. I don't use Windows or Office -except when mandated at work-, but I've had the Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox One S, and Xbox Series S. I have over 300 owned digital games on Xbox. I decided to move away from Xbox a year ago, I never used Steam before Autumn last year, and now I game on the Steam Deck more than anything else. The writing has been on the wall for a few years now though, so this news isn't surprising. I still wanted to get an Xbox Series X to keep playing the digital games I collected over the years and was waiting for a price cut but they went and raised the prices instead.
Very proud of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who worked around the clock to get the “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT” approved in the Senate. He is tough, smart, and knows how to GET THE JOB DONE. Thank you John!
For all the phases of the war, Palestinian factions (with Hamas as forefront) show a great ability on the negotiation tables, fighting diplomatically for the best possible future. Paragraph by paragraph. Day by day. The problem is that the rest of the "players" look less like negotiators and more like sellers in an open market. There are no clear (written) proposals, no guarantees for agreements, no willingness to have a "serious" profile while negotiate. Nothing. The level of Hamas leadership is much greater than (even) the american delegations.
"Amid ongoing rumors, Hamas says it will officially announce its stance on the Gaza ceasefire proposal after completing talks with Palestinian factions." t.me/QudsNen/173423
It also turns out that whatever decision gets on the table is a collective decision and not a "we decide and we order" decision from Hamas. (source Al Jazeera)
There are very few chances for agreement on a #ceasefire. Israel is not a serious negotiator with this kind of demands. The "document" says that #zioNaZis will restart the slaughter whenever feel comfortable to do it...
@Mogleg Ah allowing for the old “Israel broke the ceasefire to prevent the ceasefire being broken despite not providing any evidence it would be broken.”
You know those brown indigenous people, always breaking ceasefires. You can’t trust them. That’s why the white man must bring civilisation to the savages! It’s good the colony is constantly breaking the ceasefires as it shows the savages how to be civilised. The natives should be thankful really…
“All factions welcomed this unified reply,” the statement noted, adding that the response was forwarded to mediators “in a positive spirit and with full unanimity” after both internal and external consultations were finalized.
PIJ confirmed that Hamas consulted with them and provided detailed feedback on implementation for a responsible reply.
A #PFLP leadership source told Al-Hadaf that the Front met with Hamas to seriously discuss the draft. They offered feedback and amendments, which were approved, to stop the war and allow aid without obstacles. The PFLP’s changes concerned the wording of clauses to avoid exploitation by the occupation and a return of the aggression.
#DFLP affirmed that they held consultations with Hamas and #PIJ in #Egypt, and the unified national vision for the day after the war.
Among the apparent concessions to #Hamas in the document, one involves the timing of the release of Israeli captives held in Gaza. Israel had wanted ten living captives released within a week of a ceasefire taking effect, while the new proposal would see eight released on the first day and the remaining two on day 50. Hamas has expressed concern that Israel would resume the war after retrieving its captives. The proposal states that negotiations for a permanent ceasefire should be concluded during the 60-day truce, but, if necessary, “the temporary ceasefire may be extended.” It adds that the U.S., Egypt and Qatar “will ensure that serious negotiations continue for an additional period,” if necessary. Palestinian negotiators believe this language allows too much leeway for Israel to resume the military assault on #Gaza should it decide it no longer wants a ceasefire and instead to continue its war of annihilation and conquest. dropsitenews.com/p/trump-netan… #ceasefire #gazagenocide #IsraelTerroristState #CeasefireViolations
@Proletarian Rage Israeli newspaper Maariv: The current understandings with Hamas are not new, and were proposed since March but Netanyahu rejected them for political reasons; Hamas has not changed its demands and insists on ending the war or serious negotiations; Netanyahu presented Washington with a partial agreement for prisoner release aimed at stabilizing his government domestically.
Great job by the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, who spearheaded the drive in Congress for the approval of the “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT.” He has Great Strength and Wisdom, and will go down as one of the most successful Speakers of the House in History, maybe even the BEST OF THEM ALL. Thank you Mike, and congratulations on a job well done!
.ml is not much different than the rest of the Triad, continued federation with them is continuing to allow them to spread toxic misinformation and behavior across the Threadiverse.
If you're an instance admin, please consider defederation.
Users, consider joining the lemmy.ml boycott today and help foster a better Lemmy-verse! No more posts, comments (except to counter their propaganda ofc!) or upvotes on any comms on the Lemmy.ml instance.
Other wonderful content, and this is just from when I looked at the local new feed a bit ago:
Classic RT I'm sure you all know and Pravda.ru "Pravda Report"
Documentation of Lemmy.ml's Extremism [Megathread]
Good job everyone blocking and boycotting .ml! It's having an effect, users are noticing and MAUs on their comms are falling!
And for anyone asking "Why are we boycotting/blocking lemmy.ml?" Here's a quick recap:
Lemmy.ml is an instance run by admins who are hardcore tankies and will enforce their ideology on their instance through various means from allowing (and pushing it themselves) propaganda (Such as Russia being justified in some way to invade Ukraine) and known propaganda outlets (Like RT) to removing content on their instance critical of their favored authoritarian regimes such as Russia or China and even banning users for such speech or speech critical of them if it's off their instance (Just like the Reddit mods of ol!).
If it was just some random instance it would have been defederated from long ago like the rest of the "Tankie Triad" (Hexbear and Lemmygrad), but they've positioned lemmy.ml as the "flagship" instance and abused that position and influence to become large enough to keep other instances from defederating from them.
Which I believe is harmful to the Lemmy-verse's overall growth and outside reputation. I have seen it come up before on Reddit threads (and other testimonials from people who came back and tried it again) that "They tried Lemmy but it was a bunch of tankies and went back to Reddit"
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer Lemmy to not end up with the reputation for being "Tankie Central " or even worse "Voat 2.0".
So if you haven't joined the boycott yet, join today and help us foster a better healthier Lemmy-verse!
You can take a look around here on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works for documentation of it or checkout this list of curated documentation
::: spoiler Evidence of bans, censorship and bias to push their "ideology":
"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/30580167
"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin lemmy.world/post/30673342
A .ml admins' (davel) response to a valid report of "NK is actually good" propaganda/misinfo lemmy.world/post/32627834
"The China censorship tool isnt actually censorship! And if it is, it's actually a good thing a state has that much power!" ~Tankies of .ml lemmy.world/post/30010789
This irony is pretty thick. OP is crying about propaganda while promoting overt imperial propaganda (radio free europe, etc.). Libs and tankies are the same damn thing with different imperial branding. That's all that this is.
Radio Free [Region] is a perfectly credible news source that does a fair job of minimizing bias
In any case, bias != Mis/Disinformation. They're vastly different beasts. One just tries to subtly write things in a way that makes the reader favor their position the other is just straight lies and made up conspiracy theories to force a certain narrative among the populace
Radio Free [Region] is literally a mouthpiece of blatant western imperialist
Ok prove it then, surely something so widely known and "blatant" to be an outlet for misinformation would have numerous online, credible, sources with their evidence
Radio Liberty was literally initiated by the CIA and has been controlled by the "United States Agency for Global Media" since it was privatised, please look it up...
Even fucking Wikipedia has it listed in the first 3 paragraphs
Additional considerations apply to the use of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). RFE/RL should be used cautiously, if at all, for reporting published from the 1950s to the early 1970s, when RFE/RL had a documented relationship with the CIA.
RFE/RL may be biased in some subject areas (particularly through omission of relevant, countervailing facts), and in those areas, it should be attributed in the article body. There is no consensus as to what subject areas require attribution. The scope of topics requiring attribution of RFE/RL should be decided on a case-by-case basis.
It hasn't been true for some time now and is generally found to be credible and fairly unbiased and RFA is seen in even a more positive light:
Radio Free Asia can be generally considered a reliable source. In particularly geopolitically charged areas, attribution of its point of view and funding by the U.S. government may be appropriate. Per the result of a 2021 RfC, editors have established that there is little reason to think RFA demonstrates some systematic inaccuracy, unreliability, or level of government co-option that precludes its use.
LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using an appeal to emotion or stereotypes). The reporting is factual and usually sourced.
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Democrats Abroad strives to provide Americans abroad a Democratic voice in our government and elect Democratic candidates by mobilizing the overseas vote.
The U.K. has spent decades trying to subvert Iran’s government, but also secretly sold them chemical weapons and spied on opposition activists, reports Martin Williams.
Belarus provides update on deployment of Russian Oreshnik missiles rt.com/russia/620859-lukashenk… Russia will deploy to Oreshik hypersonic systems to Belarus by the end of the year, according to President Alexander Lukashenko Read Full Article at RT.com #news #press
A leading biotech industry trade group denied any knowledge of a document purportedly containing the minutes of an April 3 meeting during which they criticized Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Alberta once used PR through the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system in YYC and YEG, but it was ultimately scrapped. Learn about a forgotten chapter in our voting history.
I've been thinking about this a bit since I read it this morning, and I think the only reason they were able to get rid of STV is because it was only STV for Calgary and Edmonton. With a single party still able to sweep the rural ridings, they were given solid majority governments, which shouldn't be the case with "real" STV.
I have no idea how we'll get either half of the LPC/CPC to enact STV, when FPTP has them oscillating between consecutive usually majority governments, but I expect STV will be hard to get rid of once we've had a single election with it. Not much incentive for minority partners in a coalition government to accept moving back to FPTP, right?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tucker Carlson discussed autism rates in U.S. kids, drug ads on TV, a COVID-19 pandemic "truth commission” and the vaccine-injured.
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Without a radical reform of the monetary system, deficit spending and accumulation of public debts will continue to accelerate regardless of who is in power. The problem is systemic.
Author: Mohammed Estaiteyeh | Assistant Professor of Digital Pedagogies and Technology Literacies, Faculty of Education, Brock University
One recent study indicates that 78 per cent of Canadian students have used generative AI to help with assignments or study tasks. In China, authorities have even shut down AI apps during nationwide exams to prevent cheating.
The support structures and policies to guide students’ and educators’ responsible use of AI are often insufficient in Canadian schools. In a recent study, Canada ranked 44th in AI training and literacy out of 47 countries, and 28th among 30 advanced economies. Despite growing reliance on these technologies at homes and in the classrooms, Canada lacks a unified AI literacy strategy in K-12 education.
Without co-ordinated action, this gap threatens to widen existing inequalities and leave both learners and educators vulnerable. Canadian schools need a national AI literacy strategy that provides a framework for teaching students about AI tools and how to use them responsibly.
AI literacy is defined as:
“An individual’s ability to clearly explain how AI technologies work and impact society, as well as to use them in an ethical and responsible manner and to effectively communicate and collaborate with them in any setting.”
Whether you think AI is a good or bad thing, the fact is it’s here. AI literacy enables students to make safe and informed decisions when using AI, preventing habits that compromise academic integrity.
How about we tackle the environmental issues that Ai is causing before talking about using Ai “responsibly”
Any use of Ai in its current form is not responsible or ethical. It’s an environmental disaster and threatens to harm the collective intelligence of every citizen.
Ai is another way to lower the intelligence of the general population and keep them under corporate control.
What intelligence is there, we can't even build homes for people given the overbearing regulation by mouth breathers. AI has the potential to eradicate all this bureaucracy.
Calculators also made people dumber, but the world goes on with technology elevating peoples ability to be productive despite being dumber. Trying to stop technological progress is never going to be a good thing, you can scare monger all you want that it will turn us all fascist but youre no different than those complaining about cars or the internet.
The technological progress LLMs represent has come to completion. They're a technological dead end. They have no practical application because of hallucinations, and hallucinations are baked into the very core of how they work. Any further progress will come from experts learning from the successes and failures of LLMs, abandoning them, and building entirely new AI systems.
AI as a general field is not a dread end, and it will continue to improve. But we're nowhere near the AGI that tech CEOs are promising LLMs are so close to.
Learning about how AI works and what it is/isn't good at, is a good thing? It will most likely make kids use generative AI less, and be careful about what they use it for
People who are pro-AI seem so weird and dystopian, people who are anti-AI seem logical and reasonable, but my employer requires us to use AI, and I've even been forced to work on multiple AI projects recently. It does seem it's unavoidable unfortunately, but honestly Copilot has given me some of the most useful autocompletions I've ever had, especially for tedious things like logging, and I've had good luck with ChatGPT assisting with tedious things as well like writing both scaffolding and queries. Considering all of that, I'm torn on AI. I am afraid of the consequences of AI, the fallout of all of it, but I also do find AI/LLMs useful in my day-to-day job and I'm required to use them for my day-to-day job as well.
Israeli forces open fire at returning residents to prevent them from entering Maroun al-Ras in south Lebanon, following the end of the 60-day ceasefire period. t.me/thecradlemedia/28906
❗️Israeli forces open fire at returning residents to prevent them from entering Maroun al-Ras in south Lebanon, following the end of the 60-day ceasefire period.
BEIRUT: Israeli army fire killed 22 people in south Lebanon on Sunday, including a soldier, health officials said, as residents tried to return home on the day Israel was supposed to withdraw under a truce deal.
From the live feed of Guardian: Lebanese president concerned that #Israel may not fully withdraw troops from south by Tuesday deadline Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has expressed concern that Israeli troops may not fully withdraw its troops from southern #Lebanon in line with the truce agreement tomorrow.
“We are afraid that a complete withdrawal will not be achieved tomorrow,” Aoun said, adding that “the important thing is to achieve the Israeli withdrawal, and Hezbollah’s weapons come as part of solutions the Lebanese agree on”. _____ Qassem said any Israeli military presence on Lebanese soil after 18 February would be considered an occupying force.
Israel carried out an air strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on Sunday. The attack occurred despite a ceasefire that came into force five months ago which put an end to the conflict between Israel and the military group. The Lebanese presidency condemned the strike and called on the US and France - who brokered the ceasefire in November - to press Israel to cease its attacks on the country. bbc.com/news/articles/c9qw3z5x… #ceasefireviolation #IsraelTerroristState @lebanon @israel
Another #CeasefireViolation in #Lebanon. Mediators of the #ceasefire didn't intervene after so many of these violations. Lebanese government backs the plans of #zionazis for disarmament of Resistance both in Lebanon and in #Palestine...
"ISR warplanes and attack helicopters launched two airstrikes at dawn on Friday, targeting prefabricated rooms on the outskirts of southern Lebanon’s Deir Antar (Bint Jbeil district) and the town of Shamaa (Tyre district)
The strikes followed a night of intensified ISR aggression across southern lebanon. The bombardment was accompanied by continuous hostile aerial activity that lasted until the early hours of the morning." nna-leb.gov.lb/en/justice-law/…
"Israel" launched a series of airstrikes on Lebanon on Thursday, targeting several areas in southern Lebanon.
Israeli forces carried out a series of airstrikes along the Litani River, hitting the area between the southern Lebanese towns of Zrariye and Deir Seryan, according to Al Mayadeen's correspondent.
Additionally, Israeli warplanes also struck the Al-Mahmoudiya and Burghaz regions in the south, according to our correspondent.
Earlier, Israeli forces targeted a civilian vehicle in the Khaldeh area, south of Lebanon’s capital Beirut, as reported by Al Mayadeen’s correspondent, while the Lebanese Health Ministry confirmed in a preliminary toll that the airstrike killed one person and wounded three others, marking another escalation in Israel’s ongoing attacks on Lebanese territory.
"Israel" launched intensified airstrikes on southern Lebanon, killing civilians and striking south Lebanese towns and Khaldeh in violation of the ceasefire.
Montreal-based firm LPC Avocats claims some 500,000 customers across Canada received an email in April 2024 saying they had won a boat through the promotion.
Superior Court Justice Donald Bisson ruled last week that the class action can move forward, but limited it to Quebec residents because the case hinges on that province's consumer protection laws.
Lawyer Joey Zukran says his clients should be awarded the boat and trailer they were told they won, plus damages.
He says the Quebec law states that merchants and not customers should be held responsible for errors.
A spokesperson for Tim Hortons says the company apologized last year to the customers who received the email, and declined to comment further because the case is before the courts.
A judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit over emails Tim Hortons sent out in error to participants in its popular Roll Up the Rim to Win promotion — but...
Former senior DEA official describes covert global financial ecosystem tying Chinese students, Sinaloa fentanyl sales, cartel cash collection, and PRC state-linked infrastructure deals.
Over the past year, I have quietly built a new kind of hope — a revolutionary intratumoral chlorine dioxide (ClO₂) therapy that delivers visible tumor regression in days, with no systemic toxicity.
Louisiana: You have an incredible Congressman in Steve Scalise! As House Majority Leader, he fought hard to help us secure the Votes for the “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT” — A HISTORIC WIN for our Country. Steve is a WARRIOR. Thank you to Steve, Jennifer, and the entire Scalise family!
Pride has not been a protest about rights for some years, but more a demand for political power by an intolerant lobby. If businesses and politicians are turning their backs on Pride, that change h…
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A leaked document this week reveals how powerful pharmaceutical interests are plotting to remove RFK Jr. from office. I’ve seen this playbook before—because a decade ago, they used it on me.
Messages over COVID vaccines have cast a shadow over Ursula von der Leyen's presidency of the European Commission and the Commission's commitment to transparency.
Good job everyone blocking and boycotting .ml! It's having an effect, users are noticing and MAUs on their comms are falling!
And for anyone asking "Why are we boycotting/blocking lemmy.ml?" Here's a quick recap:
Lemmy.ml is an instance run by admins who are hardcore tankies and will enforce their ideology on their instance through various means from allowing (and pushing it themselves) propaganda (Such as Russia being justified in some way to invade Ukraine) and known propaganda outlets (Like RT) to removing content on their instance critical of their favored authoritarian regimes such as Russia or China and even banning users for such speech or speech critical of them if it's off their instance (Just like the Reddit mods of ol!).
If it was just some random instance it would have been defederated from long ago like the rest of the "Tankie Triad" (Hexbear and Lemmygrad), but they've positioned lemmy.ml as the "flagship" instance and abused that position and influence to become large enough to keep other instances from defederating from them.
Which I believe is harmful to the Lemmy-verse's overall growth and outside reputation. I have seen it come up before on Reddit threads (and other testimonials from people who came back and tried it again) that "They tried Lemmy but it was a bunch of tankies and went back to Reddit"
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer Lemmy to not end up with the reputation for being "Tankie Central " or even worse "Voat 2.0".
So if you haven't joined the boycott yet, join today and help us foster a better healthier Lemmy-verse!
You can take a look around here on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works for documentation of it or checkout this list of curated documentation
::: spoiler Evidence of bans, censorship and bias to push their "ideology":
"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/30580167
"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin lemmy.world/post/30673342
A .ml admins' (davel) response to a valid report of "NK is actually good" propaganda/misinfo lemmy.world/post/32627834
"The China censorship tool isnt actually censorship! And if it is, it's actually a good thing a state has that much power!" ~Tankies of .ml lemmy.world/post/30010789
Dessalines, .ml admin, head Lemmy dev: "RT/Sputnik/Other known Russian propaganda outlets ✅, Credible news outlets that criticize the Russia? THATS US FUNDED PROPAGANDA!"
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