"Rejection is not just an event. It is a trauma. It reshapes how young people understand safety, attachment, and worth. What troubled me most in those conversations was how rarely that trauma was addressed by the child welfare system charged with protecting them." texasobserver.org/foster-care-…

#children #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #HumanRights #Texas #politics #USpol #news

Foster Care Repeats Rejection for LGBTQ+ Texans

State services should build community—and acceptance—for teens otherwise vulnerable to exploitation, homelessness, and isolation.

^{Adam McCormick (The Texas Observer)}

Remember the cyberattacks on the U.S. government in the early 2020s? The Biden admin asked tech companies to help and got some “free” upgrades.

The Trump admin is doing similarly with AI. But our reporting shows there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
propublica.org/article/federal…

#News #Cybersecurity #Government #Trump #Microsoft #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology

The Federal Government Is Rushing Toward AI. Our Reporting Offers Three Cautionary Tales.

We’ve been reporting on cybersecurity for years. As President Donald Trump and his Cabinet say artificial intelligence will transform the nation, the messaging isn’t new. It follows a familiar pattern.

^{shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

"During the lunar flyby, the closest Orion will come to the surface of the moon is 4,070 miles [6,550 kilometers]. From that distance, the crew will have a unique vantage point of the moon as a full disc — and the ability to take observations never before seen by human eyes."

npr.org/2026/04/06/nx-s1-57731…

Follow along! artemis.cdnspace.ca

#news #space #science #ArtemisII #moon

Up to 3,000 ships stranded near Strait of Hormuz amid escalation

Up to 3,000 vessels are unable to pass through the Strait of Hormuz due to heightened tensions in…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #StraitofHormuz #Hormuz #Iran #Israel #the #UnitedStates
europesays.com/iran/52614/

Just wanted to sign up to Trumps #TruthSocial to post my recent comparison of him Putin and Netanyahu and couldn't.

Guess his "...Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah..." truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…

Post broke it?

I don't believe the "site maintenance" for one second!

#News #Down #Web #Internet #SocialMedia #Trump #DonalTrump #Donald #USA #US #Politics #USpol #America #UnitedStates

Last week, from Sandy West: Out of the 254 counties in #Texas, only about six of those are not considered mental health provider shortage areas. Everybody is short mental health, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, social workers. texasobserver.org/east-texas-g…

#MentalHealth #politics #rural #USpol #healthcare #news #GunViolence

(CW: Discussion of suicide)

East Texas Hit Hard by Gun-Related Suicides

Scarcity of mental health resources, prevalence of guns, and stigma all contribute to the region's high suicide rates.

^{Sandy West (The Texas Observer)}

Last week: It's not that the drought was unpredictable. It is that the drought was predicted, and that the planning systems in place were calibrated to conditions that are no longer stable. texasobserver.org/corpus-chris…

#CorpusChristi #GulfCoast #drought #water #environment #ClimateChange #Texas #news #politics #USpol

The Corpus Christi Water Crisis Isn't Exceptional. It's Early.

When drought cycles outpace infrastructure planning, a water emergency is not a surprise—it’s a forecast.

^{Mezabahnur Masum (The Texas Observer)}

#NEWS OF THE DAY:

#UKRAINE IS WAGING A COVERT WAR AGAINST RUSSIA IN LIBYA: More than 200 Ukrainian officers and specialists have been deployed to three locations in western #Libya with the permission of the Tripoli government. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-ru…

Ukraine, Russia waging shadow war in Libya, RFI reports

Around 200 Ukrainian troops are based in Libya in cooperation with the government in Tripoli, sources told Radio France Internationale. These forces are allegedly responsible for the March 3 strike on a Russian oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea.

^{Abbey Fenbert (The Kyiv Independent)}

Orion Snaps a Selfie During External Inspection

Orion snapped this high-resolution selfie in space with a camera mounted on one of its solar array wings during a routine external inspection of the spacecraft on the second day into the Artemis II mission. Credit: NASA

flic.kr/p/2s5DQ7q

#Artemis #Artemis2 #Orion #Integrity #OrionIntegrity #spacecraft #NASA #Moon #space #news #selfie

Restrictions imposed by Israeli authorities on the entry of medical supplies into Gaza have led to critical shortages, severely impacting health care services, according to a statement released on Friday by Doctors Without Borders.

Dr. Randa Abu Masoud, a medical adviser with MSF, said the organization has been unable to bring any medical supplies into Gaza since Jan. 1, despite significant humanitarian needs in the enclave.

middleeastmonitor.com/20260403…

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Israeli restrictions push Gaza medical supplies to critical shortage: Doctors Without Borders

...

^{Middle East Monitor}

Eric Trump & Donald Trump Jr. are set to "benefit from a conflict started by their father."

The two have joined Powerus, a drone manufacturing company trying to sell drones to Gulf countries amid Iranian attacks.

"These countries are under enormous pressure to buy from the sons of the president so he will do what they want. This is going to be the first family of a president to make a lot of money off war".

middleeastmonitor.com/20260403…

#USPol #TrumpFamilyCorruption #GulfStates #IranWar #news .

Trump sons-backed company seeks to sell interceptor drones to Gulf states

...

^{Middle East Monitor}

Just like many other social media corporations #Reddit is planning to require biometric / ID verification* of some users.

To get ahead of this, I have prepared an alternative for everyone :)

🎉 ...and just launched our rapidly growing #DeMeta Reddit community on a journey into the #Fediverse!

People can now also DeMeta on #Lemmy:

@DeMeta

lemmy.world/c/DeMeta

#Privacy #News #Happy #SocialMedia #celebration #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #MetaAI #Threads #Announcement #verification #Internet

The #Artemis II crew is reporting problems with #Microsoft #Outlook after leaving #earth.

From the article:

"I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

theregister.com/2026/04/02/art…

#hilarious #funny #humor #software #space #artemis2 #tech #technews #news

Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'

: In space no one can hear you scream, at Microsoft

^{Richard Speed (The Register)}

Instability makes young people mobile. Trauma makes them hungry for belonging.

Traffickers understand this. They do not begin with force. They begin with belonging. texasobserver.org/foster-care-…

#Texas #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #politics #USpol #news #HumanRights #children

Foster Care Repeats Rejection for LGBTQ+ Texans

State services should build community—and acceptance—for teens otherwise vulnerable to exploitation, homelessness, and isolation.

^{Adam McCormick (The Texas Observer)}

The federal government is charging a skyrocketing number of migrants with trespassing in military zones.

But the boundaries can be hard to pinpoint — even for investigative reporters.
propublica.org/article/militar…

#News #Immigration #Military #Defense #Border #Law #Government #Journalism

Why We Went Looking for National Defense Areas Along the U.S. Southern Border

The federal government is charging a skyrocketing number of migrants with trespassing in military zones. The boundaries can be hard to pinpoint — even for investigative reporters.

^{cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

One of the most appalling aspects of the Gaza genocide — besides its near-unprecedented slaughter of children and other innocents and its near-obliteration from existence of an entire society, unpparalleled in the modern era — is that officials in both the United States and Israel were overtly hoping to make it the new, horrifying standard for modern war.

jacobin.com/2026/04/israel-gaz…

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

The US and Israel Are Making Gaza-Style War the New Normal

In Iran and Lebanon, the US and Israeli militaries are bombing dense residential blocks, destroying civilian infrastructure, slaughtering children, and assassinating health workers. If it sounds familiar, it’s because this is the Gaza playbook.

^jacobin.com

Aaron Szabo, the Trump EPA official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution, was an unnamed author of key oil industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist, metadata shows.

propublica.org/article/trump-e…

#News #EPA #Environment #Oil #Gas #Energy #Government #Methane

The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules

Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.

^{Alex.Bandoni@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

Was going through the (partial!) Epstein Files.

This is exactly how convicted child-sex offender Jeffrey #Epstein wanted his victims to feel, when with him, especially minors! 🤢

Page 200 of the Birthday #book "The first 50 years".

Full source:
d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/…

#EpsteinFiles #News #Crime #Criminal #JeffreyEpstein #USA #US #America #UnitedStates #Government #Corruption #Evil #Psychology #manipulation #pedo #pedophile #dark #manipulative #girl #girls #woman #women #FULLEPSTEINFILESNOW

One highlight of the new Masto #update many people missed:

You can now even add Alt-Text to your profile & banner images!

A feature only very few apps have!

#Mastodon #Alt #Alttext #Guide #News #Fediverse #Feature #Update #internet #software #Inclusion #Stepbystep #screenshots #socialmedia #highlight #madeindex #profile #badart #art #stickman #lowquality #imbadatpaintingsendhelp

No need to wonder who's in charge. Israel is Washington’s most favoured client state, but it *has* to operate within parameters laid down by the US.

At the same time, Israel influences "those parameters in its own interests, chiefly by shaping military, political & cultural discourse in the US through the many levers available to it."

Just ask whose particular interests are prevailing at any one time.

jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-03…

#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #IsraelLobby #USImperialism #news .

Eurovision Song Contest launches first-ever Asia edition

Broadcasters from 10 countries, including South Korea and the Philippines, will be taking part.

bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rwq53…

(c) #BBC #News

Eurovision Song Contest launches first-ever Asia edition

^{Koh Ewe (BBC News)}

Two #seas, same place, same time, two futures:
The Gulf of #Mexico - Ecologically rich, teeming with endangered life
The Gulf of #America - Dead zone where the only things moving are oil pumps
Guess which I prefer.
Guess which evil corporations prefer.
Full #oil ahead!

Why can't it simply stay like this? "...the government must protect an endangered species “whatever the cost.”
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

This is not just a #US thing, corps are doing this, with much less #news coverage, worldwide!

Trump convenes "God Squad" to override Endangered Species Act, up oil production

Administration wants to exempt all federally regulated offshore oil from protections.

^{Inside Climate News (Ars Technica)}

Felon Trump’s reason for taking hundreds of thousands of pages of highly classified documents when he left office in January 2021, and then concealing them when the Justice Department subpoenaed him for their return in May 2022 has been one of the larger mysteries of the case. In a January 2023 “progress memo” reviewed by MS NOW, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office discussed the possible motive after the FBI discovered that Trump held on to and concealed many documents related to his businesses. MS NOW Senior Investigative Reporter Carol Leonnig breaks down what her reporting reveals about the biggest traitor in American history.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_…

#news #usa #eu #europenaunion #uk #france #deutschland #Poland #epstein

I turned down MMA fighter on a night out - so he punched me

Anne Marie Boyle suffered a brain injury and subsequent seizures which led to her losing her business, her ability to drive and her confidence.

bbc.com/news/articles/c86e3dpj…

(c) #BBC #News

I turned down MMA fighter on a night out - so he punched me

^{Selena Jackson (BBC News)}

Latest from VSN DMV: Baltimore Museum Commemorates Key Bridge Collapse

youtube.com/watch?v=0hdTU1tFev…

#dmv #vsn #news #SupportIndependentMedia #resist

For the first time, maybe ever - #Meta is spreading joy ;)

Their full commitment to #AI actually means (A(ll (I)n for Meta now. After the failed #Metaverse, they really need this to work!

Is #MetaAI even any good though? Wouldn't know - don't even know anybody who's ever used it 😜

In other #News we reached 1000 members in our reddit.com/r/DeMeta group today 🥳

🦾 The resistance is growing ❤

#Stock #Humor #Facebook #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #SocialMedia #IT #USA #US #Zuckerberg #Funny

Catching up with some of the news coming out of the Atmosphere conference.

"With Attie, anyone will be able to build their own custom feed just by typing in commands in natural language, the same as if they’re chatting with any other AI chatbot."

I'm guessing NFT profile pictures are next?

techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/blue…

#news #technology #TechNews #atmosphere #ATProto #bluesky #AI #LLMs

Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds | TechCrunch

Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.

^{Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)}

Preserve our Democatracy

Cats Against Fascists #nokings

#cats #Caturday #trump #democracy #democatracy #america #iran #war #MAGA #news

Huge crowds take part in London march against the far right – live.

#Politics #London #Protest #News

theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2…

Huge crowds take part in London march against the far right – live

Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right

^{Hamish Mackay (The Guardian)}

"The Office of the State Attorney has charged Peterson as an adult for firing a gun into a home, a second-degree felony, as well as two misdemeanor counts of possession of a firearm by a minor."

#US legal system at it's finest. The only place you can be an adult and a minor at the same time! 😜

pnj.com/story/news/crime/2026/…

FYI good time to #DeTikTok with others: reddit.com/r/DeTikTok

#TikTok #News #Crime #USA #Unitedstates #Legal #Law #Humor #Joke #Funny #America #Judge #Law #Murder #arrest

TikTok rap beef may be to blame in 'targeted' Pensacola shooting

Pensacola police arrested 18-year-old Charm Fails for attempted premeditated murder for a shooting about a TikTok argument.

^{, Pensacola News Journal (Pensacola News Journal)}

#Musk wanted Mars, but #Mars didn't want Musk 💔

Pretty ironic wouldn't ya say?

Guess we can also keep boycotting Big Tech in peace, y'all ;)

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05dlm…

#News #Elon #ElonMusk #Tech #Legal #Law #BBC #Boycott #SocialMedia #Internet #Ads

Elon Musk's X advertising boycott lawsuit dismissed by US judge

US District Judge Jane Boyle said the company had failed to show it had suffered any harm under federal competition laws.

^{Laura Cress (BBC News)}