Trump draft executive order would make sweeping changes to the U.S. State Department
Trump draft executive order would make sweeping changes to the U.S. State Department
The changes, outlined in a 16-page draft order, would dramatically upend the department and overhaul longstanding hiring practices and department priorities.Erin Doherty (CNBC)
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Is there a federated Strava alternative?
Strava is an absolute nightmare to use. My feed is absolutely chock full of ads and dog-walkers. Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy they're taking a 0.2 mile walk around their block and logging their progress, but I don't need to see it. Nike, TrainerRoad, Zwift, Peloton all have giant ads every time their users upload an activity. And I don't understand it because it's not an ad-supported network. Like I would happily pay to have all this shit hidden. It would be extremely simple for Strava to fix this, which would just be to provide me with a simple filter for what type of activities I'd like to see. The fact that they haven't done so, a long time ago, leads me to believe that they simply don't want to, for whatever reason. Plus they've already begun to enshittify by breaking integrations with third parties.
Are there any good options for this?
E: to be clear, I'm asking about the social aspect of Strava.
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After ther recent acqusition and firing of a lot of staff, it might not be the best alternative
Edit: article with more details can't find a non paywalled version and not really any other pages that discuss the firing, just the acquisition
How Komoot lost its way
Mere days after the announcement of acquisition by an Italian tech firm, the route-planning platform laid off 80% of its staff, and former employees fear for its future.Suvi Loponen (Escape Collective)
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RFK Jr. knows amazingly little about autism
RFK Jr. knows amazingly little about autism
For someone who's been talking about it for so long, the HHS secretary got many basic facts wrong.Mother Jones
Europe pins trade hopes on Italy’s Meloni, its Trump whisperer
The Italian prime minister’s visit to Washington is high-stakes, risking her political capital in Europe and at home on a meeting with possible negative outcomes.When Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni touches down in Washington for a meeting Thursday at the White House, the European Union, scrambling to strike a deal on trade, will be playing its Trump card.
Few European leaders make a better emissary to the court of President Donald Trump. The 48-year-old Meloni heads Italy’s most right-wing government since Benito Mussolini and ranks among the select list of leaders Trump seems to like. He has described her as a “wonderful woman,” hosting her at Mar-a-Lago and inviting her to his January inauguration. (...)
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Yeah it was not against you, only against WP, even if I was harsh with language. I should have made that clear.
Sorry and thanks for posting.
Justice Alito slams Supreme Court for blocking Trump’s deportation of Venezuelans
Justice Alito slams Supreme Court for blocking Trump’s deportation of Venezuelans
Trump administration has accused the group of being gang members and wants to deport them under Alien Enemies ActGraeme Massie (The Independent)
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EU names seven countries as safe in plan to speed up migrant returns
Citizens from Kosovo, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Morocco and Tunisia would all have their claims fast-tracked within three months on the assumption that they were likely to fail.EuroMed Rights - a network of human rights organisations - warned that it was misleading and dangerous to label the seven countries as safe, because they included "countries with documented rights abuses and limited protections for both their own citizens and migrants".
EU names seven countries as safe in plan to speed up migrant returns
Citizens from Kosovo, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Morocco and Tunisia would all have their claims fast-tracked.Paul Kirby (BBC News)
I think I just understood our main point of difference. Maybe.
For me, the problems in the middle-east / West Asia for example, have been created due to colonialism. More specifically, because eurpean colonisers carved up the area when the Ottoman Empire started to crumble. In a way, I look further back in time to find the root cause, which is not that long ago, if you think about it. Btw, I also consider the US power-house as a problem that derived from european colonialism. Similarly, Australia and Canada even if they don't seem to have the US power ambitions on global geopolitics.
This is why I also see migration as such a difficult issue, but as you might have noticed I didn't talk about solutions. The prosperity of western societies was created and is maintained due to the exhaustive exploitation of other parts of the world. I believe before the west addresses that, there can be no solutions, and and-aid legislation (best case scenario that is) cannot help the healing of such deep wounds.
DHL to suspend global shipments of over $1,000 to US consumers
DHL to suspend global shipments of over $1,000 to US consumers
The company blames the halt on new US customs rules, but that it’s only temporary. Read more at straitstimes.com.The Straits Times
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Amendment to Peru law raises fears of Amazon rainforest destruction
Amendment to Peru law raises fears of Amazon rainforest destruction
A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous organizations. They warn the amendment could pave the way for large-scale legal deforestation in Peru's Amazon.Steven Grattan (AP News)
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Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa
Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa
Aditya Wahyu Harsono, father of infant with special needs, surprised at work despite valid visa through June 2026Coral Murphy Marcos (The Guardian)
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Two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents, dressed in plain clothes, had shown up and instructed the staff to stage a fake meeting in the basement so they could apprehend him, according to Gad. Hospital staff were distraught but felt forced to comply.
STOP COMPLYING YOU FUCK HEADS
Zelenskyy says Russia is trying to create an ‘impression of a ceasefire’ as attacks continue
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow continued to launch attacks after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a unilateral temporary truce.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia on Sunday of creating a false appearance of honoring an Easter ceasefire, saying Moscow continued to launch attacks after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a unilateral temporary truce.
“As of Easter morning, we can say that the Russian army is trying to create a general impression of a ceasefire, but in some places, it does not abandon individual attempts to advance and inflict losses on Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X.
Despite Putin’s declaration of an Easter ceasefire on Saturday, Zelenskyy said Sunday morning that Ukrainian forces had recorded 59 instances of Russian shelling and five assaults by units along the front line, as well as dozens of drone strikes.
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Don't support genocide. Materially or tacitly.
Not a big ask. That's the baseline. Doesn't matter where. Doesn't matter who. Don't support it. Fight against it. Because we are all human beings.
If you want enthusiastic grassroots support however. That's gonna cost you actual policy that actually helps people. Here's some examples. Universal Healthcare. Free college, which you should be supporting anyway if you dont want the country to be left behind the rest of the world. UBI cuz it's just a good idea and it's been proven to work. Also we need it because -gesticulates wildly at everything- and ...people spending money is good for the economy. Sadly, we're a capitalist country. And if everyone is broke the house of cards will just unceremoniously collapse.
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And if everyone is broke the house of cards will just unceremoniously collapse.
Looks like that was the game plan, all along, unless they could sucker the populace another few terms.
What have palestinians done for the dems though?!?! Did they vote for kamalacaust?!?! DID THEYYY?!?!?!?!?
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Oh come on. Killing medics is official Israeli government policy. Why does the west not collectively counter the Israeli narrative when they flat out lie like this.
Its beyond shameful that the west allows this to happen with only students and the small number of progressives calling it out, and being brutalized for it.
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‘They are trying to make it unbearable’: Jerusalem Christians face Easter under Israeli crackdown
‘They are trying to make it unbearable’: Jerusalem Christians face Easter under Israeli crackdown
Palestinians trying to access Christianity's holiest sites in the Old City of Jerusalem face restrictions and hostilityHannah Ellis-Petersen (The Guardian)
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Unfortunately you kind of have to care a bit because if you don't it means innocent people getting slaughtered over it.
I hope to god this shit dies within the next coupla generations.
Trump Draft Order Would Drastically Overhaul U.S. State Department
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No, you can't replace diplomacy and consular services with AI. What you'll get instead is dominance over the region by Russia and China
Trump Draft Order Would Drastically Overhaul U.S. State Department
The draft executive order would eliminate Africa operations and shut down bureaus working on democracy, human rights and refugee issues.Edward Wong (The New York Times)
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The draft executive order is one of several internal documents that have circulated in the administration in recent days laying out proposed changes to the State Department. Another memo outlines a proposed cut of nearly 50 percent to the agency’s budget in the next fiscal year. Yet another internal memo proposes cutting 10 embassies and 17 consulates.
Since it marginalizes most of Africa, cuts unnecessarily, and pushes AI, I can only assume Elon wrote it. Rubio may be calling it "fake news" because he intends to do essentially the same stuff, but have ChatGPT rewrite it enough so he can take credit.
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The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky
The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky - phillipjreese.com
As users flee from Twitter/X, two visions of social media's future compete: Mastodon's community-controlled network versus Bluesky's venture-backed promises.phillipjreese@gmail.com (phillipjreese.com)
I was told something like this about an article I was pointing out wasn't on page 1 of google, but was on virtually all other engines. "Unless it's page 1 of google nobody cares"
And all I can say is "who cares? those aren't the people it's for"
What "kickstart"? The fediverse isn't a commercial venture. If we can connect with our friends and interests, it's already "working". I find fantastic new people here all the time, doing really niche stuff I'd never find on a platform focused on appealing to everyone.
If "99%" of people aren't on it, that's perfectly acceptable, and just makes it easier for the ones on it to find and talk to their friends. I don't think we need or want the vast torrent of spammers, downvote bots, and "influencer" types who use whatever gives them clicks.
Fediverse can't sustain many niche communities with its level of activity. Even gaming communities on lemmy don't have enough traffic to constitute communities for individual games. I can't do after-episode TV discussions on Lemmy because there wouldn't be enough people commenting to warrant it. If I wanted to search for a D&D game in my local community (a huge US city), I couldn't do it via Lemmy.
I can do all this on reddit, which I intend for Lemmy to replace, but I can't do that yet. So I still crawl reddit for the needs Lemmy can't replace, but I'd rather never have to open reddit in the first place.
Same is true for every alternative platform on Fediverse. I'm still using all the mainstream apps I intend to replace.
I made a choice that I still stand behind, and it doesn't include support for those that caused the problems we have. Liberals refusing to primary a candidate that had no chance of winning, then supporting a woman that was barely to the left of trump, that polling NEVER showed she had a chance, is what got trump elected.
Don't try and lecture others about responsibility when liberals failed to hold their own to the same standard.
Mexico’s Sheinbaum counters Trump deportations with tens of thousands of jobs for returned citizens
Summary
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum launched the "México te abraza" employment program to help citizens deported under Donald Trump reintegrate into the workforce.
In partnership with the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial, over 220 companies have posted 63,880 vacancies nationwide, surpassing a January pledge to create 50,000 jobs.
Roles span sectors like agriculture and construction, with salaries ranging from $424 to over $2,000 USD monthly. Key employers include Walmart, Grupo Bimbo, and CEMEX.
The initiative aims to provide “dignified, well-paying work” and leverage U.S. labor experience for Mexico’s economic benefit.
Mexico's Sheinbaum Counters Trump Deportations With Tens of Thousands of Jobs for Returned Citizens
The country's leading business group announced that over 200 companies have made 63,880 job vacancies availablePedro Camacho (Latin Times)
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Excellent points here. Thank you for sharing.
I'm wondering if it might suck - possibly harder - for those who voted for fascism.
Oh, most definitely in a general sense. The difference here is that they're believers.
They're willing to go through pain, agony, and the death of themselves or their loved ones, if they feel like they're in the "moral right" here with their religion.
Religion (the Abrahamic ones especially) are largely based on fascism at its core. After all, why would you question God? Why would a woman question the man of the house? Why would you question the Pope? Etc.
So, objectively, things will get very bad for them, but they will weather it better than those that are fighting fascists.
Agreed.
And the Democrats can sit, watch, and learn what it means to be electable while it happens.
This is already backfiring among us mexicans, people are angry because she and her party have scared away jobs with their law breaking policies, negligence and nepotism, so magically now she swears to create jobs for those who left the country... What about the rest of the country?
Besides she can say whatever she wants, until those jobs are created and turn out to actually be decent ones, this is just populism.
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It's no different from reading propaganda in Reddit and everyone clapping as if it were true.
Mexico Unemployment Rate
Unemployment Rate in Mexico decreased to 2.50 percent in February from 2.70 percent in January of 2025.TRADING ECONOMICS
Your own statistic says unemployement has risen and if you go back a few years you'd notice it took a FUCKING HUGE nosedive around the 2020 (covid and the expresident began his crusade against our rights and independent institutions... which she consolidated), and we haven't really recovered from that... so I don't know what else to tell you, the official numbers are still like that... but I would not trust them in a short future because they are doing everything to mask the whole shitshow they are doing.
Not a Mexican.
I can tell...
Empleo y ocupación
Información sobre población económicamente activa, tasa de desocupación, tasa neta de participación y población subocupada entre otros.www.inegi.org.mx
That graph shows unemployment at its lowest level in 10 years.
How about instead of being rude and condescending, you try to explain to us how unemployment is so bad yet apparently at its lowest level in a long time.
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Sheinbaum lanza programa 'México te abraza' y le dice a migrantes: 'No están solos'
La presidenta de México lanzó el programa "México te abraza" para apoyar a migrantes mexicanos en Estados Unidos y expresa confianza en lograr acuerdos con Donald Trump sobre políticas migratorias.Redacción (Radio Fórmula)
While I appreciate the sentiment and perhaps you’re right about meaningless populism… but from up here it really looks like she wants to take advantage of our bout of insanity to goose your economy, to reduce the reasons for people leaving in the first place, to build a more independent local economy in place of the more precarious global one.
Think of all the insane drivel drooling out the side of the mouth of mango Mussolini - somehow his strategy is “1. Wreck it; 2. ???; 3. Profit”, whereas this looks like “build it and they will come”.
Canadian politician thanks ‘malignant narcissistic slug’ Trump for uniting his country
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Delivering his speech to host Ben Meiselas, Angus said, “Donald Trump, I’m going to say this once—and I might never say it again—I want to thank you. I want to thank you for bringing Canada together.”
He continued, “It took a malignant narcissistic slug like you to make us put aside all our differences—all our regional fights, all our concerns with one another—and realize we actually had to stand up for something better: standing up for the rule of law, for democracy, for decency.”
Angus went on to hit out at Trump and his “incel gang” who are terrified of diversity, equity and inclusion, adding, “Your DEI nightmare? Well, we are your DEI nightmare, Donald. Canada will always be a country of diversity. We will always be a country of equity. We will always be a country of inclusion. And we will defend the rule of law.”
Canadian Politician Thanks ‘Malignant Narcissistic Slug’ Trump for Uniting His Country
Charlie Angus had a surprising message of gratitude for Donald Trump.Catherine Bouris (The Daily Beast)
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Michigan Rep. Thanedar calls for Trump to be impeached over case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Democratic U.S Rep. Shri Thanedar of Michigan is calling for the impeachment of Trump over the case of the man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
Thanedar's office said in a release Friday that the Trump administration's "blatant disregard" for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring they facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a "direct defiance of the U.S. Constitution."
"I've seen enough," Thanedar said in a social media post on Thursday. "Trump is not abiding by a Supreme Court ruling. I fully support impeaching him. Now."
Michigan Rep. Thanedar calls for Trump to be impeached over case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Thanedar's office said in a release Friday that the Trump administration's "blatant disregard" for a Supreme Court ruling requiring they facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a "direct defiance of the U.S. Constitution."Nick Lentz (CBS Detroit)
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"Trump: how to kill a superpower"