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"Republican Gov. Greg Abbott... pardoning Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant convicted in the fatal #shooting of a protester during a #BlackLivesMatter march...
After Perry’s conviction, unsealed court records revealed that he regularly shared #racist memes &threatening content in private messages & #SocialMedia posts, including descriptions of killing protesters & minorities."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/abbott-daniel-perry-blm-protester/
#GregAbbott #GOP #Racism #Violence #Republicans #Politics #USPolitics #USA #News
The USA uses violence to dominate the globe. One day this will end.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/16/how-much-money-the-us-spends-on-war.html
“People think we’re sending a big check to Ukraine,” Gregory Hayes, CEO of RTX, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “The fact is what most of that money will do [is] support American defense industries here in the U.S.”The five largest U.S. defense companies — Lockheed Martin, RTX, General Dynamics, Boeing and Northrop Grumman — had Department of Defense contracts totaling more than $118 billion in fiscal year 2022, according to the Congressional Research Service.
#USA #military #violence #peace #Ukraine #Israel #Gaza
How much money the U.S. spends on war
American military spending reached $916 billion in 2023, which accounts for more than a third of the world's total military expenditure.Andrea Miller (CNBC)
#Trump Is Getting #Slammed for #antiTrans #Pledge on #Reddit, saying he would #rollback #transgender #rights on “day one” in #office if he is #reelected.
A #commenter summed it up perfectly, “Imagine being so #hateful that this is a #Day1 priority.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://2paragraphs.com/2024/05/trump-is-getting-slammed-for-transgender-pledge-on-reddit/
Trump Is Getting Slammed for Transgender Pledge on Reddit
The 2021 executive order by Biden that Trump pledged to reverse said that “all students should be guaranteed an educational environment free from discrimination on the basis of sex."2paragraphs.com
2024 #World #Press #Freedom Index – #journalism under political pressure
#news #problem #politics #future #violence
2024 World Press Freedom Index – journalism under political pressure
Press freedom around the world is being threatened by the very people who should be its guarantors – political authorities. This is clear from the latest annual World Press Freedom Index produced by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).rsf.org
What Happens When a #Romance #Writer Gets Locked Out of #Google Docs
In March, an aspiring author got a troubling message: All of her works in progress were no longer accessible. What happened next is every writer’s worst fear.
Google never specified which of her 222,000 words was inappropriate.
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Generally speaking, files containing #violence, #abuse, child sexual abuse material, and gore violate the terms of service for Google Drive and its associated products, like Docs and Sheets.
Now many of you will be thinking, who is stupid enough to store everything in the Google #cloud? The problem is we know that, but many people out there don't. We urgently need to do more educational work and warn people about companies like Google and their practices. Tell all your friends and acquaintances and don't use the clouds of the big corporations.
#news #problem #fail #warning #danger #service #customer #internet #economy #security #wtf #omg #disaster
#POTUS #Biden is set to give a speech on May 7 at a ceremony commemorating the Holocaust.
#DouglasEmhoff, husband of VP #KamalaHarris, said at an event in New York on Wednesday that, "We’re in favor of the right to #protest. But when that crosses into #violence — when that crosse into calls for genocide, calls for Jews to be murdered, that’s completely unacceptable & must be stopped.”
#Israel #Gaza #Palestinians #FreedomOfAssembly #FirstAmendment #law
Fear is widespread on American campuses, researcher says
Students are “observing acts of physical violence and intimidation right in front of them. Jewish students are seeing Jewish buildings attacked. Muslim students are seeing people ... counterattack against Muslims. The students that are not Jewish and not Muslim, they’re just seeing everybody getting ... attacked.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/28/fear-american-campuses-00154855 #education #protests #Israel #Palestine #Hamas #antisemitism #Islamophobia #bigotry #violence
#frieden #abrüstung #gewaltfreiheit #gewalt #freiheit #politik #europawahlen #europa #wahlen #friedenspolitik #kriegsrethorik #krieg #rhetorik #propaganda #manipulation #kriegstreiberei #peace #disarmament #freedom from #violence #politics #european #elections #europe #warrhetoric #war #rhetoric #war-mongering
"Was nützt es, eine Partei zu wählen, die Agrarförderung oder Umweltpolitik anbietet, wenn dieselbe Partei uns in den Abgrund des Dritten Weltkriegs reißt?"
Europawahlen 2024 – Ich stimme für den Frieden und gegen den Krieg
Was ist der wesentliche Bestandteil des Krieges? Zahlreiche Menschen denken dabei an Waffen, Munition oder Geld…aber in Wirklichkeit ist nichts davon vonEurope for Peace (Pressenza)
