Opinion: Is Trump’s Birthday Parade a Celebration of the Army or a Funeral Cortege for Democracy?
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Is Trump’s Birthday Parade a Celebration of the Army or a Funeral Cortege for Democracy?
The president is, once again, disrespecting our armed forces by hijacking the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday celebrations—and turning it into a party for himself.David Rothkopf (The Daily Beast)
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Housing vs. tourism: Maui Council weighs vacation rental phase-out amid tears and warnings
“The abuse of its fertile soil and fresh-flowing waters by the sugar cane and pineapple industries, to the sandalwood trade and humpback whaling history, the story of outside investors coming into these islands to make a profit and then leave nothing behind but fallow grasslands is all too familiar.”
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Housing vs. tourism: Maui Council weighs vacation rental phase-out amid tears and warnings | Maui Now
Overflow crowds turned out Monday to support or attack the hotly debated vacation rental phase-out bill, but the action started early, on the sidewalk outside the Kalana O Maui Building in Wailuku.Maui Now
Watch Out for These Invasive, Stinging Ants That May Cause Life-Threatening Allergic Reactions
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-out-for-these-invasive-stinging-ants-that-may-cause-life-threatening-allergic-reactions-180986770/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Le gouvernement et Macron relancent la bataille de la vérification d'âge sur les réseaux sociaux. La semaine dernière c'était la violence faites aux femmes qui était instrumentalisée, cette semaine c'est un fait-divers sordide qui sert d'excuse.
C'est donc le bon moment pour (re)lire la série d'articles de @sveawindwehr sur la question de la vérification d'âge dans l'UE.
Partie 1 : eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/digi…
Partie 2 : eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-…
Partie 3 : eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/keep…
Digital Identities and the Future of Age Verification in Europe
This is the first part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In this blog post, we give an overview of the political debate around age verification and explore the age verification proposal introduced by the European Co…Electronic Frontier Foundation
Israel says it is keeping Rima Hassan because hostage taking is only wrong when Hamas does it
Israel says it is keeping Rima Hassan because hostage taking is only wrong when Hamas does it
She refused to sign a false confession...Laura (Normal Island News)
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Verdict: Guilty of being Palestinian
Sentence: Thrown back into the Gaza concentration camp to be bombed
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Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is a Crackdown on Unions
The assault on and arrest of California labor leader David Huerta during the brutal immigration crackdown in Los Angeles this weekend is part of a broader attack on unionized workers by Donald Trump’s deportation machine.jacobin.com
Send In the Troops, for Real (Tom Cotton/Wall Street Journal)
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Send In the Troops, for Real
By Tom Cotton / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on memeorandum.memeorandum
Investors Are Pressing UnitedHealth Group to Deny More Care
UnitedHealth Group’s investors have profited from its sky-high coverage denial rates. Now, as the company faces mounting public pressure to approve more patient care, they are suing to stop the insurer from changing its “corporate practices.”jacobin.com
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Controversy brewing in the iNaturalist community over the nonprofit's partnership with Google to make generative-AI text content.
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What is this - iNaturalist and generative AI?
What on earth is going on with this, and why is the announcement only on X and nowhere else? https://bsky.app/profile/petnoodle.bsky.social/post/3lrasl5ixvk2t I do not know the details, but I am ABSOLUTELY against ANYTHING to do with big-tech AI.iNaturalist Community Forum
Their blog post is now up, and I've added my thoughts (or a very short summary of them) there.
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iNaturalist receives grant to improve species suggestions · iNaturalist
iNaturalist is excited to announce an award from Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI to help build tools to improve the identification experience for the iNaturalist community.iNaturalist
America’s Gas Pipeline Buildout Is Mainly for Exports—Not Energy Independence.
These projects, meanwhile, will “extend our dependency on natural gas for decades.” #ClimateChange
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America’s gas pipeline buildout is mainly for exports—not energy independence
These projects, meanwhile, will "extend our dependency on natural gas for decades."Mother Jones
A Toronto teen lay dying while a 911 caller was on hold. Now, the city is promising a review
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mayor-paramedics-promise-review-of-911-wait-times-1.7557419?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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