Little Bits: Issue #22 for February 2025
Exciting times are ahead, a motivational message and loads of new curated bits found in February 2025 while surfing the Internet for you to enjoy.
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In a further assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion, DC are currently removing Black Lives Matter Plaza, brick by brick..
#Corruption #RemoveTrump #Fascism #Nazism #News #CurrentEvents #HumanRights #BLM
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Minneapolis #AlexPretti #Immigration #Protest #CBP #BorderPatrol
Migrants detained in Panama expressed fear of returning to their countries.
“They will execute me without hesitation,” one texted.
“I am LGBT. My country harass these people. I cannot live a normal life in my country,” said another.
☀️This Week In Global Museum.
A Daunting Museum Mission | Madrid Museum Ordered To Remove Mummy | Guggenheim Tightens Its Belt Again | Museum Investigate Whales Keeping A City Awake | Nailed-Head Rituals & Advocacy With Urgency | More Museum News.
http://www.globalmuseum.org #globalmuseum #museums #museumnews #news #museumjobs #jobs #artgallery
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Five years ago today, police burst into Breonna Taylor's home and shot her dead. @19thnews spoke to her mother, Tamika Palmer, about her ongoing quest for truth and justice, and how she is spending today. “I just want to honor her myself,” Palmer said. “I don’t want to argue with the world, I don’t want to share her with the world, I don’t want to have to prove that she deserves justice.”
#BreonnaTaylor #News #USLaw #USPolice #Blackmastodon @blackmastodon
Hello #fediverse: This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 39F at Logan airport and visibility is half a mile.
GBH News reports that MIT and Boston University are tightening budgets in anticipation to cuts to federal funding.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been confirmed as secretary for health and human services.
The NY Jets have announced that they will be parting ways with QB Aaron Rodgers.
We spoke to the relatives of three immigrants transferred to Guantanamo, who said they’ve been left in the dark about their loved ones.
“To me it’s the desperation, the frustration that I know nothing of him. It’s a terrible anguish. I don’t sleep.”
An Oklahoma family was forced to abandon their home after it filled with slick, black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels.
Despite ample evidence of oil and gas pollution, state regulators say they cannot help.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-regulators-fort-gibson-meredith-family?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Oklahoma #Oil #Gas #Energy #Environment #Pollution #Family #House
Poland to probe whether Polish children were abused by Epstein
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A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? This Chilean community shows why
"Every #democracy facing this challenge has learned you don’t defeat authoritarians by being more reasonable. You defeat them by being more determined and by uniting the country against their most visible vulnerability: their #corruption.
#History won’t judge #Democrats on whether they were moderate enough. It will judge them on whether they fought hard enough, and smart enough, when democracy was threatened."
https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-not-to-defeat-authoritarianism/
News continues to flow at breakneck speed and independent newsrooms continue to reveal and analyze what’s happening around the world. Highlights for us this week were @ProPublica's exposé on DOGE’s potential impact on social security, @KnowableMag's explainer on pregnancy at altitude, and a lovely interview by @thecontinent of the beloved Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed. Please check out these stories and all the others in this thread, comment, like, follow their accounts and give them your money. ⤵️
#Media #Journalism #News #Newstodon #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday
Attended the hearing today for State of Washington v Trump. You’ve probably heard by now but the judge agreed that Trump’s attempt to ban trans healthcare indirectly through federal funding appropriations is likely unconstitutional.
The DOJ lawyers fucked it up in a big way. You could hear the judge getting annoyed with their incompetence.
I’ll have a more in depth article sometime tomorrow, need to review my notes and the transcript.
For now, celebrate the win! 🎉
Sundance’s Future In Utah Looks Bleak As Park City Mayor Laments Anti-LGBTQ+ Flag Bill
#Festivals #News #Politics #ParkCity #RobertRedford #SaltLakeCity #Sundance #SundanceFilmFestival
https://deadline.com/2025/03/sundance-relocation-lgbtq-flag-utah-1236350703/
New today: I created a brief guide to help Texans, especially #LGBTQIA+ folks and allies living here, better understand the legislature and which bills are likely to become law ... and which ones probably won't go anywhere.
If we're going to be share, fight, protest ... we should make it count. https://kitoconnell.com/2025/03/22/bad-bills-texas-legislature-understanding-how-to/
#Texas #TXlege #politics #USpol #transphobia #HumanRights #Republicans #GregAbbott #fascism #genocide #News
LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’
The Constitution's supremacy clause bars local interference with federal officers when they act reasonably, within the scope of their duties.
But when agents cross that line, experts said, there's an obligation to try to hold them accountable.
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-local-state-police-rarely-investigate-ice-cbp-fbi?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Police #CBP #ICE #FBI #Law #Constitution #USPolitics #Immigration
Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy
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Now one of the most powerful people in the U.S. government, Peter Marocco’s turbulent tenure during the first Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to dismantle the American foreign aid system from the inside out.
NEW: Stories about pardons are often told as stories about presidential power — who had access, who persuaded a president to intervene. But what drew reporter Jeremy Kohler to this story was the people on the other side of that act of grace.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-joseph-schwartz-pardon-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Custom Keyboard Company WASD Keyboards Goes Defunct?
Can keyboard enthusiasts find answers to the questions we all have been wondering, has WASD Keyboards company gone out of business or was it acquired?
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Trump's tariffs list is missing one big country: Russia https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/trump-tariffs-russia-ukraine-ceasefire
#axios #news #usnews
Our MOLLY Award Submissions are now OPEN! Our annual prize for investigative #journalism is open to both print and digital outlets, with an annual award of $5000.
Stories can be submitted until March 20. Find out how to enter your work here: https://www.texasobserver.org/molly-awards/the-molly-awards-submissions/
New from @candicequestions: Former Tarrant County GOP Chairman Bo French is running a 'fossil fascist' campaign for Railroad Commissioner, blaming the sins of the oil and gas industry on scapegoats and racist conspiracies. https://www.texasobserver.org/bo-french-blood-and-oil-railroad-commissioner/
#Republicans #Texas #midterms #politics #USpol #news #fascism #OilAndGas #environment #ClimateChange