Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Addresses Threats to the United States by the Government of Cuba
CONFRONTING THE CUBAN REGIME: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order declaring a national emergency and establishing a process to impose tariffs on goods from countries that sell or otherwise provide oil to Cuba, protecting U.S. national security and foreign policy from the Cuban regime’s malign actions and policies.
The Order imposes a new tariff system that allows the United States to impose additional tariffs on imports from any country that directly or indirectly provides oil to Cuba.
Mexico Defends Cuba Oil Shipments as Humanitarian Aid
After headlines suggested Mexico had suspended oil shipments to Cuba, President Claudia Sheinbaum stepped in once again to clarify what actually happened.
Sheinbaum explained that oil from Mexico reaches Cuba through two paths: contracts managed by state-owned oil corporation Pemex, and humanitarian aid decided directly by the Mexican government. Neither, she said, has been halted.
The confusion comes at a critical moment for Cuba, as U.S. sanctions tighten and fuel shortages deepen. Sheinbaum emphasized again that humanitarian aid is a sovereign decision and will continue.
Mexico Defends Cuba Oil Shipments as Humanitarian Aid
After headlines suggested Mexico had suspended oil shipments to Cuba, President Claudia Sheinbaum stepped in once again to clarify what actually happened. Sheinbaum explained that oil from Mexico r...PeerTube.world
Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund
Netflix Becomes Maximum-Level Patron Of Blender’s Development Fund
The streamer pledged at least €240,000/year, reinforcing Blender’s position as a professional, open-source tool for high-end animation pipelines.Jamie Lang (Cartoon Brew)
You have the right to cuddle: CPS adds pup to officer mental health strategies
You have the right to cuddle: CPS adds pup to officer mental health strategies - LiveWire Calgary
As part of their Peer Support program, the Calgary Police Service (CPS) are welcoming their first Operational Stress Intervention Dog, Sadie, a highly trained black Labrador retriever.Kaiden Brayshaw - Local Journalism Initiative (LiveWire Calgary)
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‘All That’s Left of You’ Review: Sweeping Palestinian Drama is a Breathtaking Achievement
‘All That’s Left of You’ Review: Sweeping Palestinian Drama is a Breathtaking Achievement - The Grind Magazine
The new film by director Cherien Dabis follows a Palestinian family across three generations as they navigate the upheavals of the 20th century.Alisha Mughal (The Grind Magazine)
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Ottawa signs settlement with survivors of boarding school in Saskatchewan
Ottawa signs settlement with survivors of boarding school in Saskatchewan - The Turtle Island News
The Canadian government has signed a $27-million settlement agreement with abuse survivors of a boarding school in Saskatchewan that housed Métis and First Nations children.Lynda Powless (Turtle Island News)
‘They are beautiful and I love them’ says stepdad of Inuk mother and baby killed in St. Albert
‘They are beautiful and I love them’ says stepdad of Inuk mother and baby killed in St. Albert
Ross Learn says he is "reeling" from the news that the woman he loved asLeanne Sanders (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network)
'Peace president' Trump has bombed 10 countries, now plans $1.5 trillion military budget
'Peace president' Trump has bombed 10 countries, now plans $1.5 trillion military budget
Self-declared “peace president” Donald Trump has bombed 10 countries, more than any other US leader. Now he plans to raise the military budget to $1.5 trillion -- nearly the rest of the world combinedBen Norton (Geopolitical Economy Report)
Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'
Vimeo just got hit by another round of layoffs, and it sounds like it was a big one.Business Insider reported earlier [last] week that the video hosting site had cut jobs across its global workforce.
“Yesterday, following Vimeo’s recent acquisition by a private equity firm, I learned that I, along with a large portion of the company, was impacted by layoffs,” wrote the company’s former vice president of Global Brand & Creative, Dave Brown, in a post on LinkedIn.
A software engineer said in their own LinkedIn post that they were laid off along with a “gigantic amount of the company.” And a former Vimeo staffer also posted on X that “almost everyone at Vimeo was laid off,” including the entire video team.
The news comes just months after the Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.38 billion last year. Vimeo had previously cut its workforce by 10% in September.
Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'
Employees reported major job cuts this week, just months after the video hosting site was bought by Bending Spoons.Bruce Gil (Gizmodo)
Canada’s tax system puts low-income working seniors at a disadvantage report finds
Canada’s tax and benefit system is making life harder for low-income seniors who continue working to pay the bills, according to a new report from the Montreal Economic Institute. The think tank is recommending the federal government overhaul how the Guaranteed Income Supplement, a benefit for this group of individuals, is clawed back.
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Eligible seniors can receive a little more than $13,000 a year from GIS. Once they work and earn more than $5,000, the federal government begins clawing that benefit back. For every additional dollar earned, GIS payments are reduced by 50 cents, before income tax and payroll deductions are applied.
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The clawback issue was recently flagged by another think tank. A November 2025 report from the C.D. Howe Institute found that Canadians with a modest pension income that includes CPP, as well as OAS and GIS, face some of the highest effective tax rates, often exceeding 75 per cent.
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Canada’s tax system puts low-income working seniors at a disadvantage, report finds
Guaranteed Income Supplement clawback should be reduced in certain cases, recommends Montreal Economic InstituteMeera Raman (The Globe and Mail)
To address the problem, the report recommends raising the amount seniors can earn before GIS benefits are clawed back to $30,000. That threshold was chosen because it’s around Statistics Canada’s poverty line for individuals in urban areas, Mr. Giguère said.
Alternatively, maybe they could reduce benefits to affluent seniors and increase benefits for folks who have less. 🤷♂️
Also make a society where seniors can retire properly and not have to work for low income...
low-income seniors who continue working to pay the bills
this should not even be a sentence in a civilized, developed country
Libs vs tankies is just another distraction by the owner class to keep us divided... so tired of these memes on lemmy....
We are all working class
There is no war but class war
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US white liberals are not the working class, they are a labor aristocracy of petty bourgeois who exploit the global proletariat to subsidize their lives while enforcing the capitalist modes of production. The US empire and its vassal EU states are my enemy.
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I sort of agree with you but if liberals acknowledged and understood class alignment, they wouldn't be liberals. I do think that the "opportunity for education" approach is more effective than outright hostility.
I find that online interactions about complicated topics can be quite frustrating, since snark and "dunking" trend to prevail. This is driven by corporate social media and spills over into other online interactions.
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Libs politics are in support of capitalism. Put another way, those politics stand in the way of working class liberation. There isn't a compromise here, we have to drive out all the pro-capitalist notions in the minds of the working class.
Is this meme the propaganda for achieving that? Maybe not. But the sentiment that liberal politics are right wing is correct and you won't find a single socialist worth their salt who disagrees with that.
We will organize among working class people with backwards ideas and a lack of understanding at times, but we NEVER promote or work with liberal politicians or parties.
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You can make criticisms of both. Just actually talk from a place of knowing what you are talking about when you do it.
While I'm not a leftcom, Bordiga is probably one of the more solid critics of Stalin. I disagree with Bordiga's criticism, but I can track and understand where he was coming from because he very clearly actually did the reading.
What I don't always respond kindly to, is someone going "14 kajillion dead, worse than hitler, authoritarian".
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I think what the commenter above is trying to say is that they are getting tired of seeing Lemmy users pointing fingers at each other. Most of us are clearly passionate about FOSS and hate capitalism. Otherwise, why would we have joined Lemmy?
All these "tankies" and "libs" have lost all meaning. Many times, I've seen people simply make up shit from both sides about what libs/tankies think, and then just make fun of it. It's not productive.
I'm not talking about you. I think your replies are very reasonable. But I think I can relate to the commenter's feelings.
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Liberalism is the ideology of the ruling capitalist class, and supports their "freedom" to extract surplus value from wage workers.
It has many defenders (a few even among the working class!), just like feudalism / monarchism had some peasant-class defenders.
Anyways the class contradictions between workers and capitalists are irreconcilable, are there is no sense trying to "unite" with our exploiters and class enemies.
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Feelin' FOMO over missing FOSDEM...
Feelin' FOMO over missing FOSDEM, but this does make up for it a little bit.
There is however another ActivityPub conference by @paige@masto.canadiancivil.com in Montreal next month (I'm even speaking there, hopefully!), so looking to get my fix there.
Apple acquires Israeli startup Q.ai
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/apple-acquires-israeli-startup-qai-.html
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So it sounds like they’re doing something in AI integration at the hardware level for audio?
Q makes me think of “cue” - could they be providing live translated descriptive text tech?
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