Trump reicht Milliardenklage gegen Universität von Kalifornien ein
Der US-Präsident geht weiter gegen die Bildungselite vor: Weil sie unzureichend gegen Antisemitismus vorgegangen sein soll, verklagt Trump nun die Universität von Kalifornien - und fordert die Zahlung von einer Milliarde Dollar.
Not to do one of those "Americans make everything about themselves" type comments, but bear with me for a moment here:
The "mature #democracy" is dying because it's so lazy defending something it never thought it had to defend
While the emerging democracy vibrantly defends its democracy because it's painfully aware of what it can lose and how much it suffered to get the chance to have one
"#Moldova Just Jailed Its #Putin-Aligned Governor. Here’s What She Did"
A pro-Kremlin regional leader has been jailed in Moldova, marking a major blow to Kremlin influence in the country’s autonomous south. As Chișinău deepens ties with the EU and Ukraine, Russia’s decades-long grip continues to unravel.
#Starlink is deliberately de-orbiting older satellites to ‘burn up’ in the pristine upper atmosphere.
‘Burn up’ actually means ‘leave a bunch of metal vapour in the upper atmosphere’.
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Before the first Starlink launches began in 2019, only about 40 to 50 satellites re-entered per year. SpaceX just brought down ten years' worth in only six months, adding an estimated 15,000 kilograms of aluminum oxide to the upper atmosphere. —————
Scientists are only just studying what this may do to the atmosphere (and life on earth). Early indications are not good.
People should be *really* worried about this and keep an eye out for future updates. Especially given the #USA seems to be turning into a lawless joke.
The Trump administration isn’t stopping at skepticism about climate change. It’s moving to bar any future administration from responding to it. Read more from @CNN:
Hey #Blind friends in the #USA is there any way for #Blind people to verify their ID with #Login.gov besides going to a post office? It's asking me to verify mine and it can't be done with Aira because it wants you to do it on your phone and you can't do that and have Aira running at the same time.
For our friends in the #USA from the #FCC: Updated Date for Comments Due: August 4, 2025 Updated Date for Reply Comments Due: September 17, 2025
On July 8, 2025, the FCC released an Order granting an extension of time for comments on the Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) proposing improvements to ensure the resiliency, reliability, interoperability, and accessibility of Next Generation 911 (NG911) networks. NG911 will provide improved support for the full range of 911 voice, text, data, and video communications, which will enable improved 911 access for individuals with disabilities. The original comment dates were July 21, 2025, and August 18, 2025.
With respect to accessibility of NG911 networks, the FNPRM seeks comment on: • Ensuring that NG911 systems support interoperability for non-voice 911 services, with specific emphasis on text, video, and multimedia capabilities that support 911 access for people with disabilities. • New interoperable text messaging protocols, such as Rich Communications Service (RCS), for text-to-911 calls. • The accessibility of sign-language communications in NG911 environments, including through: o Relay services, including video relay service (VRS); o Three-way video relay services with the 911 caller, a sign language interpreter, and a 911 call handler; and o Direct video calling (DVC) between a sign language user calling 911 and a 911 call center handler who is both fluent in sign language and trained in handling emergency calls. • Expanding the capabilities of current Internet Protocol-based relay services to support video 911 calls.
Interested parties may file comments by accessing the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System at fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/. All filings must reference PS Docket Nos. 21-479 and 13-75. People with disabilities who need assistance to file comments online may request assistance by email to FCC504@fcc.gov.
Additional information on 911 services is available at: fcc.gov/general/9-1-1-and-e9-1…. For further information on this proceeding, contact Chris Fedeli at Christopher.Fedeli@fcc.gov or 202-418-1514, or Rachel Wehr at Rachel.Weir@fcc.gov or (202) 418-1138, of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, Policy and Licensing Division. Individuals who use videophones and are fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) may call the FCC’s ASL Consumer Support Line at (844) 432-2275 (videophone).
AOC wrote on BlueSky, a good summary of the Trump budget bill adopted in Congress.
"I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing." #usa #budgetbill #aoc #fascism #geopolitics #ICE #trump @geopolitics
When you're on any global social sharing platforms - it's really beneficial to not assume that everyone you're engaging with is a US citizen.
It is important to remember that you're on global sharing arenas & to resist doing more USA #exceptionalism / #USACentric crap. Most of us on these globally accessible social sharing platforms do not live in the USA. The USA is only a tiny part of a large global audience. Just because they're often the loudest online - doesn’t mean they're more important than every other sovereign nation on the planet. It is that #USA #arrogance that most of the global population is sick & tired of.
Auf dem ehemaligen #Twitter kann man offenbar wirklich alles machen, ohne, dass man (in der #EU) belangt werden kann: #Hass, schwere #Beleidigungen, #Morddrohungen, ...
Alle Abkommen wie der #DigitalServiceAct, die da etwas anderes behauptet haben, sind wirkungs- und sinnlos. Wie so viele Abkommen mit den #USA.
Danke für's Durchspielen an den Anwalt Philipp Längle der Kanzlei Längle-Fussenegger-Singer in Dorbirn. 🙇
Warum es praktisch unmöglich ist, anonyme Hass-Postings auf X zu bekämpfen: Die Gesetze sind zu schwach, X ignoriert sie, zuständige Behörden verweigern die Arbeit. Ein Erfahrungsbericht in zehn Schritten.
This is why people don't support big media. Greta Thunberg was kidnapped. Point blank. Was on international waters. Israel is not the world Police. They do not have jurisdiction in international waters. That is kidnapping. No denying it. And not a single large media corporation is mentioning that. What the hell is wrong with this world? #news #gaza #israel #usa #aid #climate #international
At this point I'm starting to believe the primary purpose of the sham ceasefire in Gaza, broken by Israel to continue a US-backed genocide of Palestinian people, was to allow US corporate media to catch its breath and reset to a position of trying very hard to ignore blatant war crimes against clearly innocent Palestinians. A United Nations investigation has revealed that the IDF executed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including a UN employee, in March 23rd; then tried to bury the evidence, including crushed ambulances, to hide this crime against humanity. Details of the murders make it clear that this activity was deliberate, and yet the portions of the mainstream western media that remain firmly pro-genocide have hardly registered any sort of outcry or calls for action.
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
“Seven days ago, civil defence and PRCS ambulances arrived at the scene,” the head of Ocha in Palestine, Jonathan Whittall, said in a video statement. “One by one, [the paramedics and civil defense workers] were hit, they were struck. Their bodies were gathered and buried in this mass grave.
“We’re digging them out in their uniforms, with their gloves on. They were here to save lives. Instead, they ended up in a mass grave,” Whittall said. “These ambulances have been buried in the sand. There’s a UN vehicle here, buried in the sand. A bulldozer – Israeli forces bulldozer – has buried them.”
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, said that one of its employees was among the dead found in Rafah."
As an American, please let me once again remind you that none of these atrocities would be happening without US financial, material, and diplomatic support. We're subsidizing the Israeli government, we're shipping the IDF the bombs and weapons being used to exterminate Palestinians in Gaza, and it is by US diplomatic force that Western support for Israel even as it commits a genocide, remains strong, if somewhat less overt than it was at the start of this genocide. Trump (and Biden before him) could end this inhuman slaughter today if he wanted to; he just doesn't want to because killing brown people and taking their resources (beachfront property and natural gas, in this case) is a important business activity for the entire Pig Empire.
In an environment where the media is actively cultivating a numb complicity, and western states are either ignoring the massacres, or as in the Trump regime's case, openly celebrating them, it behooves all of us in the so-called West to reject these attempts to rewind time and protect the genocide. In the months leading up to the ceasefire, Western political leaders and media were on the backfoot as independent media, folks with Tik Tok accounts, protestors, and even everyday people refused to accept the complicity of silence and demanded action. This "reset" must not be allowed to continue while Palestinians in Gaza are murdered with impunity and the complicity of the larger Pig Empire; as noted by Ahmed Moor writing in the Guardian - which is sadly where I have to get my mainstream news about a US-enabled and supported genocide the Trump administration is happily paying for, because US media outlets are still trying to pretend none of this is real:
Israel executes unarmed Red Crescent paramedics with the west’s blessing
"Nor will global leaders intervene to end the mass murder which has been punctuated by this latest obscenity. Some of them – such as Emmanuel Macron, who called for a ceasefire, might appear to want to end the slaughter. After all, dead babies in incubators and paramedics in a mass grave are unpleasant garlands to wear. But 18 months in, they are too deeply implicated. Who can forget Ursula von der Leyen’s embrace of Netanyahu? Or Keir Starmer’s affirmation of Israel’s “right” to starve Palestinians in Gaza?
Today, those who are tasked with upholding international law have been co-opted by the Israeli leadership, whether they like it or not. The logic of gangland drug dealers and criminals – new members commit crimes to join, and are locked in – prevails.
So far from being complicit, US and European leaders are the authors of this latest atrocity by their Israeli colleagues in Gaza."
Wo Gwen #Stefani zum täglichen Beten einlädt: #Hallow ist eine Art individualisierte Content-Plattform für römisch-katholisches Leben. In die #App haben laut @businessinsider.com Peter #Thiel und JD #Vance investiert. Ein #Medienethiker sieht die App als Vehikel für die post-liberalen #USA:
« 450 millions d'Européens ne devraient pas avoir à dépendre de 340 millions d’Américains pour se défendre contre 140 millions de Russes qui ne peuvent pas vaincre 38 millions d’Ukrainiens. » Andrius Kubilius, commissaire européen à La Défense
“What’s the probability of this kind of scenario? Ten per cent, 5 per cent, or 1 per cent? No one can say for sure. But it’s certainly not zero. And given the existential cost to Canada, we’d be stupid not to take it seriously. In game-theory terms, we need to pursue a strategy of “minimax regret” – to minimize, as best we can, the possibility of worst-case outcomes.”
Cascade Institute Executive Director Thomas Homer-Dixon urges Canada to bolster its defenses against the growing threat of an authoritarian and imperialist U.S. regime.
"Let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt - it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege." #fascism #USA #Canada #cdnpoli
Unless you don’t mind Elon Musk, and his team of unelected, illegitimate techbros sifting through all your social security personal/financial data, CALL YOUR THREE CONGRESS MEMBERS TODAY AND TELL THEM TO STOP DOGE!
The pissant's executive order lead to 1 air traffic controller on duty, doing the job of 2 people, at least, b/c of the policy implemented more than 1 week ago. These deaths are a direct result of the pissant administration.
All 67 people aboard an American Airlines jet and Army helicopter at Reagan National Airport are dead after the two vehicles collided on Wednesday. It is the worst U.S. aviation disaster in almost a quarter century.
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