Israeli doctor compared killing Palestinians in Gaza to 'eliminating cockroaches'
Israeli doctor compared killing Palestinians in Gaza to 'eliminating cockroaches'
An Israeli doctor serving as an army reservist has compared killing people in Gaza to “eliminating cockroaches” in a post on social media.Lubna Masarwa (Middle East Eye)
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Sounds very much like language from the Rowandan Genocide....
Israel is trying to commit genocide.
Say it.
Israeli opposition leader, former general Yair Golan, condemns his country for 'killing babies as a hobby'
Israeli opposition leader condemns his country for 'killing babies as a hobby'
A former Israeli general and the leader of the country's left-wing opposition party has said Israel risks becoming a "pariah state" and that a "sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not give itself t…Sally Abou AlJoud (Middle East Eye)
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US Immigration Authorities Appear to Have Begun Deporting Migrants to South Sudan, Attorneys Say
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Yes, in fact it is too hard...
When the cruelty, disorientation, and disappearance is the point. 🤷♂️
"Yay! Great work, Rose!"
"Wait! Fuck! I forgot that we can only give attaboys to white men now. No one heard that though, right?"
I heard that...
"Fuck fuck fuck fuck.... Uhhhh.... Hit the bricks, Rose! We'll keep your DEI achievements, though."
FDA says Covid vaccines likely not available for healthy kids and adults this fall
Older adults and other groups at high risk for severe illness might still be able to get vaccinated, the FDA vaccine chief said Tuesday.
The Food and Drug Administration is planning major changes for how Covid vaccines are rolled out and who will be able to get the updated shots this fall.
In a paper published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s new vaccine chief, wrote that any new Covid vaccine now must undergo placebo-controlled clinical trials — meaning, some people would get the actual vaccine while others get an inactive substance like a saline shot, to compare results.
At a planned FDA vaccine panel meeting on Thursday, agency advisor are expected to advise the vaccine makers which strains to target for new shots. The new clinical trial requirement isn't expected to affect the fall rollout for older adults and other people at high risk for severe illness because drugmakers are exempt from additional testing for those groups.
Fall Covid vaccine rollout for healthy kids, adults is likely not going to happen
The FDA is planning major changes for how Covid vaccines are going to be rolled out and who will be able to get the updated shots this fall.Berkeley Lovelace Jr. (NBC News)
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UK suspends trade talks with Israel and attacks ‘repellent’ extremism
UK suspends trade talks with Israel and attacks ‘repellent’ extremism
Foreign secretary David Lammy condemns blocking of aid trucks and calls by Israeli ministers to ‘purify Gaza’Patrick Wintour (The Guardian)
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UK suspends free trade talks with Israel and announces sanctions over West Bank settlers
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/34958452
The U.K. suspended free trade talks with Israel on Tuesday and hit West Bank settlers with sanctions, less than a day after vowing “concrete actions” if Israel didn’t stop its new military offensive in Gaza.
https://apnews.com/article/uk-starmer-israel-gaza-criticism-acabcdb4da0f1368f7e8a471cf494c0e
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Ron DeSantis rips federal tailpipe emission monitoring, 'woke roads'
Florida Man: “They did this infrastructure bill, and you get the bill and they try to give you money. But then you’ve got to jump through all these hoops,” DeSantis said. “I have to monitor tailpipe emissions for Florida drivers. I am not doing that. I’m not doing the woke roads. I’m not doing any of that.”
Ron DeSantis rips federal tailpipe emission monitoring, 'woke roads'
The Governor doesn't want to 'jump through ... hoops' to get federal money, such as curbing pollution and looking at road designs that ripped up urban neighborhoods.A.G. Gancarski (Florida Politics)
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January 6 rioter who was pardoned by Trump arrested for burglary
Zachary Alam was imprisoned for role in Capitol attack and later pardoned, and now allegedly entered Virginia home and stole items
A participant in the January 6 attack pardoned by Donald Trump was recently arrested for burglary and vandalism in Virginia in what is believed to be the first incidence of new charges for a person who took part in the 2021 US Capitol insurrection.
Zachary Alam received one of the longest prison sentences, eight years, for his part in the violence committed in Washington DC by Trump supporters attempting to keep him in office after his 2020 election defeat by Joe Biden.
The judge at his sentencing noted that officers called him “by far the loudest, the most combative and the most violent of the rioters”.
Alam, who has previous convictions including auto theft and driving under the influence, was found in a nearby neighborhood and arrested and charged with felony residential burglary and misdemeanor vandalism, the newspaper said.
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Bernie Agrees: Democratic Party Is a ‘Threat to Democracy’
Bernie Agrees: Democratic Party Is a ‘Threat to Democracy’
In a recent podcast appearance, the senator from Vermont agreed his party “needed accountability” for its handling of the 2024 presidential election.Paulina Rodriguez (The Daily Beast)
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“Fair enough. I’m not gonna argue with that” is hard a wholehearted pressing of the issue that the Democrats are bad. He’s specifically talking about his dissatisfaction with the primary process for President.
He also defends voting for democrats:
“Because it’s easy to say,” said Sanders. “But ‘burning it down’ means children will not have food to eat. The schools will deteriorate. People will not have healthcare. I’m an elected official. I’ve got to represent the people. I can’t turn my back on them.”
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No, the decline started decades before COVID... Republicans, as an institution, have been destroying education in the US going back at least to Reagan. This has been a much longer play with a lot of dedication on the GOP side. As was stacking the courts with as many Federalist Society judges as possible. And creating obstacles to allowing people to exercise their Constitutional right and public duty to vote.
I just looked up the Heritage Foundation. They started in 1973. That's when the Christian Right started getting really involved in things, and Project 2025 is their dream project.
For what it's worth, what Sanders said is a lot softer than the headline implies:
Singh interjected with another question: “But could we not also say, if there hasn’t been a fair primary for the Democrats since 2008, are they not also a threat to democracy?”“Fair enough,” Sanders answered. “I’m not gonna argue with that.”
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Florida Republicans Resist Donald Trump Ending TPS for Venezuelans
Florida Republicans Resist Donald Trump Ending TPS for Venezuelans
The Supreme Court allowing the Trump administration to end TPS protections for Venezuelans may have implications for 350,000 living in the U.S.Andrew Stanton (Newsweek)
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Mexico City mayor's personal secretary and adviser shot dead in the street by gunmen on motorcycle
Mexico City mayor's personal secretary and adviser shot dead in the street by gunmen on motorcycle
Mayor Clara Brugada, who holds the second most powerful political post in Mexico, said her secretary Ximena Guzmán and adviser José Muñoz were killed.CBS News
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ICE Barbie offers her own made-up definition of habeas corpus
Kristi Noem gave an egregiously wrong definition of the legal principle habeas corpus while testifying to senators Tuesday.
“Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country,” Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary said.
She was quickly cut off by the stunned senator who had asked her to define the term, Maggie Hassan. “That’s incorrect,” the New Hampshire Democrat said.
Hassan explained that the well-known legal concept refers to a detained person’s right to know why they are being held so they can challenge their imprisonment in court.
ICE Barbie Offers Her Own Made-Up Definition of Habeas Corpus
Kristi Noem gave the jaw-dropping answer to a roomful of shocked senators.Liam Archacki (The Daily Beast)
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Chinese researchers find eukaryotes originated around 2.72 bln years ago, possibly with hydrogen origins
Chinese researchers have uncovered that eukaryotes originated around 2.72 billion years ago, earlier than the Great Oxidation Event, providing valuable insights into the evolutionary history of eukaryotes.
The findings were published in Nature on Wednesday.
The research team, composed of scientists from the East China Normal University, spent six years collecting sediment samples from salt marshes and mangrove wetlands across China.
Using techniques in computational biology, the team found that eukaryotes evolved before the diversification of all sampled Heimdallarchaeia.
A previous study suggested that eukaryotes are nested within Heimdallarchaeia, but their exact phylogenetic placement within Asgard archaea remains controversial.
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Grok pivots from 'white genocide' to being 'skeptical' about the Holocaust
Summary
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, integrated into X (formerly Twitter), sparked backlash after promoting the debunked “white genocide” myth and expressing skepticism about the Holocaust death toll.
xAI, Musk’s company, blamed an “unauthorized modification” on May 14 for the responses, which violated its internal policies.
Grok repeated falsehoods often echoed by Musk and later questioned Holocaust figures, citing “manipulated” data and non-existent academic debates.
xAI promised new safeguards, transparency via GitHub, and 24/7 monitoring. Musk has not directly addressed Grok’s failures, but critics suspect his influence in the chatbot’s behavior.
Grok Deletes 'White Genocide' Posts, Is 'Skeptical' About Holocaust
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot from xAI is no longer posting about the myth of 'white genocide' in South Africa but has dabbled in Holocaust denial.Miles Klee (Rolling Stone)
UK sanctions 'godmother' of Israel's settler movement Daniella Weiss
The UK government has announced sanctions on Daniella Weiss, a far-right Israeli settler known as the "godmother" of the settler movement.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the move "demonstrates our determination to hold extremist settlers to account as Palestinian communities suffer violence and intimidation".
Weiss, 79, is the leader of a radical settler organisation called Nachala - or homeland - which has also been sanctioned.
For decades, Weiss has been prominent in the founding of Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, on land captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.
UK sanctions 'godmother' of Israel's settler movement Daniella Weiss
The foreign secretary said the move "demonstrates our determination to hold extremist settlers to account".Tom Bennett (BBC News)
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EU lifts economic sanctions on Syria, following US move last week
The European Union has lifted economic sanctions on Syria in a bid to help the war-torn country’s recovery, Reuters reported citing Vice-President of the European Commission, Kaja Kallas, offering the nation another critical lifeline after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad.
This follows an announcement by the United States last week that it is lifting sanctions on Damascus.
EU lifts economic sanctions on Syria, following US move last week
Sanctions were levied during the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, who was toppled in December.Al Jazeera
haverholm
in reply to Character_Locked • • •Same thing happened to me. If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they're blocked. Because that part of the Fediverse was built by people who had been harassed and doxxed off other platforms.
Here? Blocking just means you don't see the troll, but they can continue to inflict all kinds of havoc on your post scores. Ironically, "karma" isn't a thing on Lemmy like it is on Reddit, but votes are still used to rank your posts.
I guess there are a hundred great folk on here for every preteen edgelord, but that kind of nonsense really spoils the fun of this platform. Sorry to see you get downvoted for a perfectly reasonable post.
swelter_spark
in reply to haverholm • • •ThorrJo
in reply to haverholm • • •Evidently you missed the many (many) discussions that took place maybe 5 years ago by some of those exact builders about how this is, and remains, only a fig leaf which requires every server to cooperate in maintaining the illusion.
I wish I'd saved links based on how often this comes up. There are fundamental issues with how federated systems in general and ActivityPub in particular work, and "real" blocking is one of them. People running other instances can modify the code however they want, and no technical measures have been implemented (because it turns out to be very difficult to do so) to prevent any node operator from removing the fig leaf.
Blaze (he/him)
in reply to ThorrJo • • •Piefed seems to implement bidirectional blocking
join.piefed.social/roadmap/
Roadmap - PieFed
PieFedPamasich
in reply to Character_Locked • • •It's a different blocking philosophy. Reddit used to work like Lemmy does, for example. The keyword here being "used to". Here's their announcement post from when they changed it.
I personally prefer this method of blocking, because you're not a moderator or administrator and thus should not get to customize the experience of other users than yourself.
Yes, there's the legitimate use case of stopping mass downvoters. But two-way blocking can also be (and has been) used maliciously. You can slander someone and then block them, making them unable to defend themselves or even know what happened, for example.