US removes sanctions from Antal Rogán, aide to Hungary’s Viktor Orbán | Trump administration
The United States has removed sanctions on a close aide of the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, the state department said, adding that the punitive measures had been “inconsistent with US foreign policy interests”.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Alright, #introduction time!
Hi all, I go by Julie (or Jules, on occasion) and I love #reading and #writing, mainly #SFF
As you can tell by my avatar, I am a #SuckerForStationery 🖋️
I am a cat person, but don't live with a cat at the moment. I also have small hands.
My day job is in tech, and I'm also interested in #digitalRights, #UnplugTrump, #Linux, #privacy etc.
I think #AI is bullshit and should not be used in general, and particularly not for art.
#LGBTQIA rights are human rights.
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Climate Denier Policies
Trump's Agriculture Department cancels $3B grant program for climate-friendly crops
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Austria: Higher-than-expected Fiscal Deficits Increase Pressure to Accelerate Structural Reforms
Source: Statistik Austria, IMF, Scope Ratings Excessive Deficit Procedure for Austria Increasingly Likely An improvement in the fiscal deficit to around 4.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Alcon marks 110th anniversary of Grieshaber AG site in Switzerland
In a press release on Monday, Alcon and its subsidiary Alcon Grieshaber AG recognised the 110th anniversary of the companies’ ophthalmic facility in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Sand Creek Massacre memorial to replace Civil War statue at Colorado Capitol
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Sand Creek Massacre memorial to replace Civil War statue at Colorado Capitol
The memorial will consist of a massive, 24-foot-tall sculpture of an Arapaho chief, a Cheyenne chief and a Native American woman holding a childJesse Paul (The Colorado Sun)
Slovenia’s Electric Rotary Converter Market Report 2025
Electric Rotary Converter Market Size in SloveniaAfter three years of growth, the Slovene electric rotary converter market decreased by X% to $X in 2024. In general, consumption continues to indicate a perceptible setback.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Our Warming Earth!
Extended heatwave in India, Pakistan to test survivability limits, with temperatures reaching Death Valley levels
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis
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Some upstream contributor’s have been hard at work and we now have a Hetzer Cloud downloadable image and docs page for @fedora #CoreOS Nice work everyone! docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/f…
#Hetzner #Fedora_CoreOS #Fedora
Provisioning Fedora CoreOS on Hetzner
Learn more about Fedora Linux, the Fedora Project & the Fedora Community.Fedora Docs
Meta’s antitrust trial slide redactions aren’t actually hiding anything
https://www.theverge.com/news/648893/meta-redacted-documents-leak-ftc-antitrust-opening-statement?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Meta’s antitrust trial slide redactions aren’t actually hiding anything
A poorly-redacted PDF of opening statement slides in Meta’s FTC antitrust hearing reveals details the company was trying, and failing, to hide from public view.Wes Davis (The Verge)
As a team of New York Times reporters notes today, the ruthless authoritarian regime that Trump has set into motion following Project 2025, with its total denial of rights and due process for people rounded up and shipped to hellhole foreign prisons, affords prisoners fewer rights than they had in World War II US internment camps.
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Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants
The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang. But a New York Times investigation found little evidence of criminal backgrounds or links to the gang.Julie Turkewitz (The New York Times)
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"Never before, legal analysts say, has the Alien Enemies Act been used with such little due process.
During World War II, the Department of Justice established civilian hearing boards in which 'registered aliens' of German, Italian and Japanese descent arrested by the government could argue they were not a danger to the nation, legal scholars said."
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"A Guatemalan immigrant with no Massachusetts criminal record was arrested Monday on Tallman Street after federal agents shattered the glass on his vehicle as he and his wife waited inside the car for their lawyer to arrive."
~ Gerardo Beltran Salinas
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Lawyer: Federal agents detain Guatemalan man, 29, with no criminal record
Immigration agents blocked the car that he and his wife were driving in and smashed a window to detain him without presenting a warrant.Gerardo Beltran Salinas (The New Bedford Light)
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"Juan Francisco Méndez, 29, who was taken to an undisclosed location, has been in the United States for two years and was undocumented, but pursuing an adjustment of his immigration status, according to his attorney, Ondine Gálvez. Méndez’s wife, Marilú, a beneficiary of an asylum program, had petitioned for him so he could regularize his status. They are the parents of one child."
"Gálvez said Méndez has no criminal record. A name and date of birth search in the Massachusetts judicial system showed that Méndez has no criminal record in the state, according to a clerk at the New Bedford District Court."
The family's car window was smashed and they were pulled violently from the car. One agent wore a vest that said FBI. Video link below.
"Trump’s El Salvador scheme is more than just flouting American constitutional law. It repudiates the fundamental principle of due process with roots dating back four millennia. It is, as a Reagan-appointed judge on the Fourth Circuit searingly put it, 'a path of perfect lawlessness.'"
~ Andy Craig
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Trump’s Policy of Shipping Innocents to the Salvadoran Gulag Shows Utter Contempt for Not Just the Constitution but Law Itself
His repudiation of due process, civil rights, and basic rules of justice means there is no check on who he can disappear next, citizen or noncitizenAndy Craig (The UnPopulist)
"In a way that’s never happened before in American history, a president and his subordinates are openly defying not just a court order but one upheld without dissent on appeal all the way up to the Supreme Court. The most basic way in which the judicial and executive branches of government interact has been shattered."
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"But more fundamentally than that, Trump has repudiated the very foundation of law itself. Its deep roots are at the core of human civilization as we know it, and Trump has trampled over them with no remorse."
"The press often refers to these actions as 'deportations,' but confining people to violent prisons in a country they’ve never set foot in—without adjudication of guilt or even a public airing of the accusations—is far closer to kidnapping and human trafficking than to any legitimate exercise of justice."
~ Elliot Kirschner
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Despots and Defiance
What can we learn from yesterday?Elliot Kirschner (Through the Fog, by Elliot Kirschner)
Jonathan V. Last asks Paul Krugman to comment on Trump talking with the "cool dictator" Bukele about building gulags and encouraging Bukele to build them. Krugman responds that it's interesting that, as Trump ran for president, a lot of folks said, "Oh, that won't happen." The "smart and savvy" crowd said, "Don't freak out."
And they all turned out to be very wrong.
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Krugman says,
"There was a lot of people just not believing, not believing that he was who he said he was. And look, it's not just the regular, it's not just guys in red caps and diners. Wall Street, Silicon Valley, they're absolutely shocked, shocked to discover that what you knew, what I knew, is actually the reality. They managed to convince themselves that somehow this was going to be just kind of benign, good for them."
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And they would be allowed to say bad words in public and they would not face regulation. And [they] are now having this horrible realization that—I'm not sure if they're willing to admit it to themselves— they're having this horrible realization that all of the people warning about the threat to democracy were completely right."
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Playson expands footprint in Croatia by launching its content offering with national lottery operator
iGaming studio Playson has expanded its footprint in Croatia by launching with the country's national lottery operator, Hrvatska Lutrija.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Envipco wins another major RVM order in Romania — TradingView News
Amersfoort, 15 April 2025 - Envipco Holding N.V. ('Envipco' or 'the Company'), a leading global provider of recycling systems and Reverse Vending Machine (RVM) technology, today announces another significant RVM order with a major Romanian retail gro…BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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