“The US plane manufacturer Boeing has begun flying 737 Max jets that were refused by Chinese airline customers back to the United States, as the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies escalates.”
Why isn't the world going insane at Republican politicians visiting concentration camps and posing in front of people who will likely be dead within the decade.
This wasn't even normal in 1942. It's not even normal in North Korea - Fascist regimes usually keep their death camps a secret.
Texas is almost certainly getting school vouchers — Senate Bill 2 has passed in the state’s House and is likely to have a fairly smooth passage to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. It’s the culmination of a 30-year battle that has until now been blocked by Democrats and rural Republicans.
@TexasObserver takes a look at how it happened. Zeph Capo, the president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers, said in a statement: “Greg Abbott relied on a last ditch phone call from Donald Trump to bully Republican lawmakers to fall in line.”
I’ve given hundreds of talks over the last two decades and beyond. Here are a few of my favourites in chronological order so you can see how my focus and thoughts have evolved through the years.
I hope you enjoy them.
PS.
Google is gifting a year of Gemini Advanced to every college student in the US Got a .edu email? You can sign up for a free year of Google One AI Premium. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/goo…
The Times reported that Israel was planning to #strike Iran as soon as May, but Trump stepped in because the #WhiteHouse was leaning toward taking a diplomatic approach toward #Tehran as opposed to a #military one.
Portrait of Palestinian boy who lost both arms is World Press Photo of the year for 2025
“One of the most difficult things Mahmoud’s mother explained to me was how when Mahmoud first came to the realization that his arms were amputated, the first se…
Part of the reason the second amendment was written was to ensure that American civilians were sufficiently armed to deal with a British invasion. Yet when Tom Franks knocked on their door and asked – with a British accent – if he could see their guns, have a chat and take their photograph, he was invited straight into the subjects’ homes.
The move would be a major violation of the law upon orders from the #Trump admin as it attempts to choke off federal money & support for #research & #academia in US #universities.
[Jiminy Cricket am I editorializing & cursing in print more & more now that muther f⁕⚠︎er is in office!]
The move would be a major escalation of the Trump administration’s attempts to choke off federal money and support for the leading research university.
"👉Meta AI: Jetzt kommt der Rechtsruck für den Whatsapp-Chatbot👈
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... beleidigen. #LGBTQ-Personen dürften jetzt etwa als „psychisch krank“ bezeichnet werden - zudem wurde ein Paragraf gestrichen, der bislang verbot, Frauen als „Haushaltsobjekte“ zu bezeichnen.👈
Professionelle #Faktenchecks wurden in den #USA ebenfalls abgeschafft - auch diese bezeichnete #Zuckerberg in einem
"👉Meta AI: Jetzt kommt der Rechtsruck für den Whatsapp-Chatbot👈
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... Wochen hatte der #Socialmedia-Konzern eine 180-Grad-Kehrtwende vollzogen und seine Plattformen mit großen Ankündigungen auf Linie des neuen #US-Präsidenten #DonaldTrump gebracht....
#Vance: "If the Europeans had been a little more independent, and a little more willing to stand up, then maybe we could have saved the entire #world from the strategic #disaster that was the American-led invasion of #Iraq."
US Vice President JD Vance hailed his country's transatlantic alliances, striking a more positive note, but in an interview urged European states to show greater independence.
You know why countries in #Europe are so quiet about the #ElSalvador situation?
They started the normalisation of extraterritorial #detention of #migrants & #asylumseekers, often without any due process. The #UK #Rwanda plan. #Italy plan with #Albania. & some still want to do it.
A whistleblower who works at NLRB says that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data. And, the Trump administration froze over $2 billion for Harvard after it rejected demands.
In a stunning White House appearance that should alarm anyone who cares about constitutional rights, democracy, the rule of law or anything of the sort, Donald Trump and Salvadoran dictator Nayib B…
Irish passengers travelling to the US are being warned to delete social media apps from their devices if they have been openly critical of President Trump online.
I would suggest that anything published that is not viruently pro MAGA is likely to be of cobncern. Much better just to not bother travelling to the US at all, you know it makes sense.
State Sen. Becca White said she saw a handcuffed Mohsen Mahdawi, accompanied by several masked and hooded men, being put into an unmarked black vehicle just after noon.
In the trial, FTC regulators want to force Meta to spin off the two services. If it succeeds, it would be a major blow to Meta's #business. #Instagram and #WhatsApp both have over 2 billion active users, according to the latest available data from those companies.
And there are plenty of us who ARE stuck in this Dickensian hellhole, and nevertheless agree 100% with your response to #MarcoRubio. At this point, no one who lives outside the #USA should even consider visiting. #AmeriKKKa #TravelWarning
With all due respect, you can shove your shithole country up your ass. Those of us lucky enough not to be stuck in your Dickensian hellhole and aren’t masochists have absolutely zero desire to contaminate our lives and enrich your fascist regime by visiting.
An immigration judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration can deport Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a decision that comes a month after his arrest prompted national outrage and marked the start of the federal government…
“‘The president made it very clear: When the United States is punched, he will punch back harder,’ White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters”
Amir Makled sat down with All Things Considered host Juana Summers to describe his experience, and what it could mean for other attorneys who are going against the wishes of the Trump administration.
