Weaponizing antisemitism makes students 'less safe,' says drafter of definition
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5326047/kenneth-stern-antimsietim-executive-order-free-speech?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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With Trump's crackdown on DEI, some women fear a path to good-paying jobs will close
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5332213/jobs-women-trump-dei-civil-rights?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Travel Guide for Queenstown, New Zealand - New Zealand Purple Travel Guide
Queenstown is a busy year-round tourist destination. Our itinerary shows you the best things to see in the QUeenstown area and has lots of photos which allow you to decide what you want to see.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
Ferrets, water testing and future scientists at risk due to DOGE spending cuts
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333655/interior-department-budget-cuts-doge?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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How well do you know your March Madness trivia? Take our quiz
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g-s1-54770/march-madness-quiz-ncaa-tournament?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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'Snow White,' and four more buzzy movies coming to theaters this weekend
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5330918/movies-in-theaters-this-weekend-march-2025-snow-white?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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COMIC: Still cringing about that awkward moment? Here's what to do about it
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5332144/comic-still-cringing-about-that-awkward-moment-heres-what-to-do-about-it?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The biggest upward transfer of wealth in history
Trump’s tariffs will especially hurt lower-income Americans, while his tax cuts will especially benefit the wealthy.Robert Reich
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20 March 1922 | A Pole, Zdzisław Zajączkowski, was born in Grudziądz.
In #Auschwitz from 6 April 1941.
No. 13392
He perished in the camp on 25 June 1942.
Fun labyrinth trick: any connected maze (you know, right hand rule works) and be turned into a labyrinth by putting a wall down the middle of the corridor, where your other hand would be as you follow the wall with your right hand.
I could see turning a maze into a labyrinth going very easy tracing with a pantograph.
What warming U.S.-Russia relations could mean for Iran
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333647/what-warming-u-s-russia-relations-could-mean-for-iran?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Texas continues to be a major player in Trump's immigration enforcement plans
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5321401/texas-continues-to-be-a-major-player-in-trumps-immigration-enforcement-plans?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Alvaro Bedoya, Democratic FTC commissioner fired by Trump administration, speaks out
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333640/alvaro-bedoya-democratic-ftc-commissioner-fired-by-trump-administration-speaks-out?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Author Clay Risen discusses his book 'Red Scare' on the story of McCarthyism
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5189261/author-clay-risen-discusses-his-book-red-scare-on-the-story-of-mccarthyism?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Morning news brief
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5330381/morning-news-brief?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Israel launches new ground invasion into Gaza after breaking ceasefire
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333858/israel-launches-new-ground-invasion-into-gaza-after-breaking-ceasefire?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The fediverse is a strange flower indeed. This week I tried to give away some equipment I no longer needed. 1st toot: Crickets, no one's interested. 😑 2nd toot: People are busting down my door to get the stuff 🙀
So I thought to myself, hey, maybe this works with #music, too.
Here is "Fish Out Of Water", a beautiful song from my current #album "Malers Hüs".
submarinebroadcastingco.bandca…
Up until now it's been mostly #crickets for Malers Hüs. But maybe we can change that…? ❤️
Zelenskyy and Trump speak after Trump call with Putin
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333801/zelenskyy-and-trump-speak-after-trump-call-with-putin?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Fed holds interest rates steady, citing uncertainty over effect of tariffs on economy
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333654/fed-holds-interest-rates-steady-citing-uncertainty-over-effect-of-tariffs-on-economy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Pepsi to buy prebiotic soda brand Poppi for nearly $2 billion
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333692/pepsi-to-buy-prebiotic-soda-brand-poppi-for-nearly-2-billion?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Minneapolis jury convicts nonprofit head in massive pandemic fraud case
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333791/minneapolis-jury-convicts-nonprofit-head-in-massive-pandemic-fraud-case?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Musicians who lost instruments in Hurricane Helene get to pick out new ones
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5327545/musicians-who-lost-instruments-in-hurricane-helene-get-to-pick-out-new-ones?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Two perspectives on the role of the courts in the early months of Trump's second term
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333634/two-perspectives-on-the-role-of-the-courts-in-the-early-months-of-trumps-second-term?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Federal judge denies request to block DOGE takeover of U.S. Institute of Peace
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333857/federal-judge-denies-request-to-block-doge-takeover-of-u-s-institute-of-peace?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Jury finds Greenpeace owes hundreds of millions for Dakota Access pipeline protest
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333868/jury-finds-greenpeace-owes-hundreds-of-millions-for-dakota-access-pipeline-protest?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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As March Madness continues, we look at the qualities of a great 'Cinderella team'
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333658/as-march-madness-continues-we-look-at-the-qualities-of-a-great-cinderella-team?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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🚨 Today, we filed our second complaint against OpenAI over ChatGPT hallucination issues
👉 When a Norwegian user asked ChatGPT if it had any information about him, the chatbot made up a story that he had murdered his children.
Find out more: noyb.eu/en/ai-hallucinations-c…
AI hallucinations: ChatGPT created a fake child murderer
ChatGPT created a fake story about a Norwegian man, claiming that he killed his two children and went to jail. This never happenednoyb.eu
On #Lahore's disastrous approach to "development" - the american model of urban sprawl and real-estate capitalism fully in control, suffocating and drowning millions in heat and floods.
dawn.com/news/1892744/lahores-…
#RealEstate #ClimateDiary #UrbanPlanning #Heatwave #Flood #Pakistan #SouthAsia #ClimateAdaptation
Lahore’s urban disaster: From colonial sprawl to capitalist chaos
Lahore’s urban planning is a tragic loop — bulldozing farmland, displacing the poor, and destroying the environment — all for soulless real estate. The Ravi Riverfront Project is its latest, most reckless gamble.Shehreen Umair (DAWN.COM)
Weaponizing antisemitism makes students 'less safe,' says drafter of definition
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5326047/weaponizing-antisemitism-makes-students-less-safe-says-drafter-of-definition?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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If #astroturfing in the Fediverse is a sign of its growing importance, then we're on a good track. 😬
Check out the fusionenergy hashtag. All identical/very similar posts hyping fusion energy, all coming from social.freysa.ai. And the accounts' avatars are all the same style. Interesting.
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Trump admin defends arrest of high-profile undocumented mother of 4 (three of them US citizens) as outraged supporters rally for her release.
"Jeanette Vizguerra started making international headlines in 2017, when she sought refuge in the basement of a Colorado church to avoid deportation." cnn.com/2025/03/19/us/jeannett…
“… Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers showed up at the Denver-area Target where she worked. The cashier was taking a shift break outside the store when ICE swooped in and took her into custody.”
Multiple federal officers hunting down a working mom at her job. We all feeling safer yet?
"Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, also a Democrat, described Vizguerra’s arrest as 'Soviet-style political persecution.'
'This is not immigration enforcement. This is a mother of American citizens, a Target employee and a non-profit founder,' Johnston said in a Facebook video. 'This does not make our community safer. It makes it lawless.'"
"Google says changes to the Play Store may expose users to malware and fraud"
Does this mean that Google isn't aware of the massive amount of malware and fraud in the Play Store? Or did Google borrow that line from Apple?
techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/goog…
Google search, Play Store falling foul of Digital Markets Act rules, says EU | TechCrunch
Google Search and its Play Store app marketplace are suspected of breaching the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA), per preliminary findingsNatasha Lomas (TechCrunch)
*DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE US!*
“‘I learned with concern that a French researcher,’ on a mission for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), ‘who was going to a conference near Houston was banned from entering American territory before being expelled,’ said the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Philippe Baptiste, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP). ‘This measure was allegedly taken by the American authorities because this researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friendly relationships in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy,’ he added.”
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#USA #fascism #EU #France #science #freedomOfSpeech #privacy #travelWarning
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines.Le Monde avec AFP (Le Monde)
Netanyahu has resumed bombing Gaza to save his own skin.
Peace would “almost certainly plunge Netanyahu into a political crisis that could end his nearly uninterrupted 15-year rule.”
apnews.com/article/israel-pale…
Why Netanyahu ended the Gaza ceasefire with surprise strikes
The wave of Israeli strikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday was the culmination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to get out of the ceasefire with Hamas that he agreed to in January.Joseph Krauss (AP News)
Despite what news coverage may make it seem, protests against the Trump regime are more widespread now than they were at the same point in Trump's first term. And the types of protests being used by regime opponents are far more diverse.
#USPol #protests #resistance #TrumpRegime
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Resistance is alive and well in the United States
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.Erica Chenoweth (Waging Nonviolence)
Stochastic eugenics is still eugenics. 
#FuckFascists
"The reason that the budget would have such an extreme impact on the wealth of the poorest 40 percent of the country, they explain, is because the GOP is looking at cutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $230 billion over ten years, while at the same time cutting Medicaid by $880 billion over ten years.”
rawstory.com/republican-budget…
#USPol #StochasticEugenics #Eugenics
GOP budget plan would take from the poorest 40 percent and give it to the rich: Yale
The budget plan being contemplated by congressional Republicans would represent a massive transfer of wealth from the poorest 40 percent of Americans to the richest 1 percent of the country, according to a new analysis from Yale's Budget Lab.Brad Reed (Raw Story)
US-Aktivist Khalil: Eine Abschiebung, die einschüchtern soll
Wegen seiner Rolle bei den Gaza-Protesten soll Mahmoud Kahlil abgeschoben werden - trotz unbefristeter Aufenthaltserlaubnis. Der Student ist in den USA zum Symbol für die bedrohte Meinungsfreiheit geworden. Von G. Ucar.
➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/…
#USA #NahostKrieg #Studentenproteste
US-Aktivist Khalil: Eine Abschiebung, die einschüchtern soll
Wegen seiner Rolle bei den Gaza-Protesten soll Mahmoud Kahlil abgeschoben werden, trotz unbefristeter Aufenthaltserlaubnis. Der Student ist zum Symbol für die bedrohte Meinungsfreiheit in den USA geworden.Giselle Ucar (tagesschau.de)
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