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)}

Processor shortage to become acute in the coming months

AMD and Intel are apparently shifting their production to server CPUs. Price increases are looming for desktop PCs and notebooks.

heise.de/en/news/Processor-sho…

#AMD #AMDRyzen #Prozessoren #Intel #IT #news

Processor shortage to become acute in the coming months

^{Mark Mantel (heise online)}

Chat control: EU Parliament rejects extension again

The EU Parliament had to vote again on the Commission's desired extension of "voluntary chat control" – and rejected it.

heise.de/en/news/Chat-control-…

#Chatkontrolle #Datenschutz #EU #Grundrechte #Netzpolitik #Überwachung #news

Chat control: EU Parliament rejects extension again

^{Volker Briegleb (heise online)}

So essentially #Meta imagines a world, in which people don't even have to write their own messages to family and friends anymore?

Like we are not talking useless emails read by a bot here:
techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/what…

Guess it's a good time to reddit.com/r/DeMeta/, to avoid massive amounts of inauthentic messages?

#AI #WhatsApp #Text #Facebook #Messenger #Artificialintelligence #MetaAI #Zuckerberg #News #Techcrunch #Tech #Technology #IT #Software

WhatsApp can now draft AI-generated responses based on your conversations | TechCrunch

The Meta-owned messaging platform is also launching a way to free up space, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more.

^{Aisha Malik (TechCrunch)}

Four female patients complained to the state medical commission about alleged sexual misconduct by Dr. Mark Mulholland from 2022 to 2024.

The board waited until April 2025 to file a formal statement of charges.
propublica.org/article/mark-mu…

#News #Washington #Health #Women #SexualAssault #Medicine #Seattle

An OB-GYN Was Repeatedly Accused of Sexual Misconduct. The State Medical Board Let Him Keep Practicing.

The first accusation against Dr. Mark Mulholland came in January 2022. Two more arrived in 2023 and a fourth in 2024 before the board took action against his license last year. Then even more patients came forward.

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

No worries RFK Jr. has you covered!

"New COVID variant with immune escape potential confirmed in US, 22 other countries "

#Covid #Medicine #Science #Disease #Mask #News #WHO #CDC

cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new-co…

New COVID variant with immune escape potential confirmed in US, 22 other countries

BA.3.2 represents a new lineage of SARS-CoV-2, genetically distinct from the JN.1 lineages that have circulated in the US since January 2024.

^{Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy}

#Meta was just found guilty and only fined $375 million?

Another slap on the wrist...

If you need proof:
"Meta shares were up 0.8% in after-hours trade following the verdict. The state had asked the jury to award ​more than $2 billion in damages."
reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

Pretty weird when a legal win against a Mega-Corporation feels like that 🥲

Well there are always all the other current cases and potential next cases against them :))

#news #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Stock #Tech #USA

This Louisiana prosecutor...
• Was forced to resign from the DA’s office for submitting false paperwork
• Withheld evidence in at least 3 death row cases
• Compared a Black teen to a dog and told the jury to “get rid of it”

Now he’s running for judge.
propublica.org/article/hugo-ho…

#News #Louisiana #Law #Legal #Courts #Election #NewOrleans #Shreveport

He Compared a Black Child to a Dog and Withheld Evidence in Death Row Cases. Now He’s Running for Judge.

Holland, who once compared a Black child to a dog, has had a career mired in controversy. That hasn’t stopped him from becoming the de facto frontrunner of his judicial race.

^{Peter.DiCampo@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

They can't seem to help themselves with those internal memos 🤯:
"...reported that the company was considering adding facial recognition to its glasses. In an internal memo on the topic, a #Meta employee wrote that the timing to launch might be perfect: "We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.""

businessinsider.com/meta-ray-b…

#Facebook #News #USA #US #privacy #tech

Meta Ray-Bans are fueling all kinds of bad behavior

Meta's Ray-Ban glasses are sparking a popular genre of video on social media: harassing store employees and random people.

^{Katie Notopoulos (Business Insider)}

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Markwayne Mullin to replace Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary in a 54-45 vote. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. and Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. voted to confirm, while Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted against. Here's all the latest from NBC.

flip.it/AVVTEX

#News #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #MarkwayneMullin

Senate confirms Markwayne Mullin to be DHS secretary, replacing Kristi Noem

The Senate voted to confirm Markwayne Mullin to lead the Department of Homeland Security, replacing Kristi Noem as DHS is shutdown leading to airport delays and lines.

^{Sahil Kapur (NBC News)}

Nachrichten AUF1 vom 23. März 2026

auf1.tv/nachrichten-auf1/nachr…

inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=uH-DY1K…

youtube.com/watch?v=uH-DY1KXc7…

Quelle: AUF1

Prüft alles, das Gute behaltet!|1.Thessalonicher Kapitel 5 Vers 21

Hashtags: #AUF1 #TV #Nachrichtensender #Sender #Österreich #Medium #alternativ #frei #unabhängig #seriös #Nachrichten #News #aktuell #Wahrheit #Bibel #Bibelvers #Thessalonicher #prüfen #Video #Invidious #YouTube

Nachrichten AUF1 vom 23. März 2026

Donald Trump gerät im Iran-Krieg immer stärker unter Druck. Sogar ein wichtiger Verbündeter wendet sich jetzt offenbar ab – zumindest hinter den Kulissen. Um wen es sich handelt, erfahren Sie in dieser Sendung.

^www.auf1.tv

CALLING TRUMP'S BLUFF!

Trump says he'll likely hold phone talks with Iran today and claims they both want to make a deal.

HOWEVER......

Iranian Foreign Minister says there are no talks with the United States, claims President Trump's statements are an attempt to lower energy prices and buy time for military plans.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #iranwar

More at @Free_Press

Sennheisers Kopfhörersparte sucht neuen Besitzer

Nach der Sennheiser-Übernahme im Jahr 2021 vollzieht der Schweizer Hörsystemspezialist Sonova eine Strategiewende und will sein Consumer-Geschäft veräußern.

heise.de/news/Sennheisers-Kopf…

#Audio #Kopfhörer #Wirtschaft #news

Sennheisers Kopfhörersparte sucht neuen Besitzer

^{Andreas Floemer (heise online)}