With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.
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Just added another batch of news accounts to the fedi.directory website. If you want to follow news sources on the Fediverse, you can find lots of them here:
➡️ https://fedi.directory/news-media
- To follow an account, copy-paste its address into your search box on Mastodon etc.
- To find out more about an account, click on its address in the listing.
- If an account is posting too often, use Mastodon's Lists feature (more info: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon).
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So #trump is doing exactly what I thought he was going to do with the #tariffs when he failed to actually strong arm any countries into unfair deals -
He is walking them back, and then saying he cut deals! When in reality things just went back to the previous tariff situation between the #usa and #china before the ABSOLUTELY INSANE trade war.
Then since #maga sheep are profoundly dumb, they'll eat it up and praise him for wrecking our #economy.
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Our top story: After over 25 years in the U.S., and despite raising a family here and having a path to citizenship, Moizali Momin was nearly deported to India. He spent months in cramped, dirty detention centers at taxpayer expense. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-ice-detention-bond-prosecutorial-discretion/
#ICE #immigration #Texas #Houston #GulfCoast #HumanRights #News #politics #USpol #fascism
UPDATE: a spokesperson from JP Morgan Chase told the Texas Observer they fired the operator of a neo-Nazi X account who we identified as their employee.
"This person is no longer at the firm. We do not tolerate hate in any form and take incidents such as this very seriously."
https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/
#politics #USpol #extremism #racism #antisemitism #Texas #news #SocialMedia #ElonMusk
My latest for Deceleration: Greg Abbott could defund the #police in San Marcos—at least partially—if the Texas governor carries through with his threats over a proposed city council resolution calling for a ceasefire in #Gaza. https://deceleration.news/palestine-greg-abbott-defund-san-marcos-police-israeli-violence/
#politics #Texas #SanMarcos #Palestine #FreePalestine #BDS #news #GregAbbott #USpol
Two days before Trump announced dramatic plans for “reciprocal” tariffs on foreign imports, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sold stock in almost three dozen companies, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.
#News #Tariffs #Trump #SeanDuffy #Stocks #Trade #Economy #Business #USPolitics
Noch auf der Suche nach #News und offiziellen Accounts von Medien hier auf #Mastodon und im #Fediverse?
Meine immer aktuelle Tabelle enthält jetzt nicht nur Accounts auf Mastodon und anderen Fediverse-Diensten, sondern auch welche auf #Flipboard, #Threads und #Bluesky – allesamt von hier abrufbar.
Insgesamt sind es jetzt 942.
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html
(hinter dem "Custom Search Builder" links darüber gibt's eine mächtige Suche)
Wisconsin’s Name-Change Law Raises Safety Risks for Transgender People
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A 167-year-old statute requires trans people to publish their old and new names in a newspaper. Families and advocates worry the requirement now poses a risk as President Donald Trump has attacked transgender rights.
https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-law-transgender-name-changes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Wisconsin #Trans #LGBTQ #Transgender #TransRights #Trump
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
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By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
#News #Trump #DOGE #Data #Climate #Health #Environment #Immigration #Science #Education
![Avatar for Axios [National News] 🤖](/proxy/identity_icon/366208678877592282/8645706047.jpeg){kind=icon}
Scoop: House Democrats plan to probe Trump DOJ's charges against McIver https://www.axios.com/2025/05/20/lamonica-mciver-doj-raskin-trump-habba
#axios #news #usnews
Spotify-Co-CEO: Top-Entwickler schreiben dank KI keinen Code mehr
Spotify-Co-CEO Gustav Söderström sorgt für Diskussionen: Seine besten Ingenieure schreiben dank KI keinen Code mehr, sondern überwachen nur noch.
#Automatisierung #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Softwareentwicklung #Spotify #news
Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained.
What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is how her detention was caught on camera.
What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rumeysa-ozturk-best-friend-inside-story-tufts-trump-louisiana-ice?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #University #Immigration #Trump #Deportation #Boston #Palestine
⚠️⛔️This channel will end if Zelensky is stupid enough to sign a mineral deal with Trump (more) https://kyivindependent.com/significant-progress-ukraine-us-to-sign-memorandum-on-minerals-deal-deputy-pm-says/ #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #CivilRights #Immigration #Law #Trump #DHS #Deportation #Border
🛑⚠️We have been threatened by Mastodon admin because of our use of Hashtags.
We object to this as Mastodon has no algorithm that forces content onto users, and users cannot subscribe to a hashtag. This means people use hashtags to seek out content. In other words looking into a hashtag is voluntary.
Because there is no algorithm, and no one owns a hashtag, users are not forced to view content. #Mastodon #Press #News #Ukraine #Media #US #Germany #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://youtu.be/rWBtA4xPqdc
⚡️🇩🇪NATO Secretary General in panel discussion at Munich Security Conference (NATO News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #Munich #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #US #UN #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #Belgium #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania #Cyprus
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Columbia Will Pay Survivors of Abusive Doctor $750 Million After ProPublica Revealed University’s Failures
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The sweeping deal means the Ivy League school’s settlements will total more than $1 billion for over 1,000 claims of sexual abuse by former patients of OB-GYN Robert Hadden, who worked at the university for 20 years despite decades of complaints.
#News #Columbia #University #SexualAbuse #SexualAssault #Women #Students
Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/space/ed-smylie-dead.html
Democratic Lawmakers Blast Trump Administration’s VA Cuts After ProPublica Investigation
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The lawmakers also accused Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins of stonewalling their efforts to learn more about agency cuts and their effects. “There are real-life dangerous impacts for veterans,” Rep. Chris Deluzio said.
#News #Veterans #Healthcare #Health #Democrats #Congress #Government #USPolitics
9-year-old Maria Antonia was supposed to go to Disney World.
Instead, immigration agents sent her to Dilley, Texas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-maria-antonia-guerra-story?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Immigration #Detention #Immigrants #Children #Family #Disney
Fetterman doubts explode into Capitol Hill firestorm https://www.axios.com/2025/05/09/fetterman-health-votes-pennsylvania-senate
#axios #news #usnews
Drug companies in the U.S. face few restraints on what to charge for their products. A bipartisan bill would penalize those companies that sell their drugs at higher prices than the average of the prices in other wealthy nations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-americans-pay-more-for-prescription-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Drugs #Pharma #Health #Healthcare #Cancer #Business #Congress
I was annoyed that the swiss government closed down their mastodon server, so I've made @swissgov that gets the English RSS feed from https://news.admin.ch and posts it.
I've now added @swissgovDE for German, @swissgovfr for French and @swissgovit for Italian.
💩 💩 💩 GLOBAL 🇮🇱 #Israel #Travel_Bans Leave #Netanyahu 👹 Flailing!
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Three nations have just taken separate travel ban action against Netanyahu's Israel in solidarity with Palestine.
Right, so nothing quite cheers the soul these days like Benjamin Netanyahu having a no good, very bad day does it and global resistance towards the atrocities he is overseeing in Gaza is making sure that in the last few days he is having an absolute mare, because the world is becoming not just a smaller place for him, but for Israel as a whole. Sure, the West still supports him, still arms him, for as long as they can anyway as tariff war with China could well change that, but for other countries, solidarity with Gaza means restrictions and bans coming for the genocidal blue and white state, from heads of state that believe in doing the right thing, all the way down to grassroots movements of ordinary working class people demanding a shift against Israel from the ground up, so here’s a story to cheer you up amidst all of the negativity surrounding Israel’s genocide, actually three stories to cheer you up, I’m spoiling you somewhat and with any luck these three will be just the start.
Right, so as Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza is now in its 18th month, the world is witnessing not just the systematic slaughter of Palestinians but also the slow unravelling of Israel’s international impunity. A growing number of nations, trade unions, and grassroots movements are taking concrete steps to isolate Israel, disrupt its military supply chains, and hold it accountable for its crimes.
So let’s start with this first story and this one concerns Bangladesh, currently with an arrest warrant out against UK Labour MP Tulip Siddiq in relation to alleged corruption, she the niece of the former despotic ruler Sheikh Hasina as I covered in a video the other day, but this is about Israel.
Bangladesh has never formally recognised Israel as a state, a principled stance rooted in its own history of liberation from genocide followed by its independence in 1971. And for decades, Bangladeshi passports carried an explicit disclaimer:
‘This passport is valid for all countries of the world except Israel.’
This restriction was lifted in 2021 under Sheikh Hasina’s increasingly authoritarian regime, a move that sparked outrage among Bangladeshis who saw it as a betrayal of Palestine, however it was done merely to meet international standard and travel to Israel remained banned in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has always stood on the side of Palestine, on the side of Gaza throughout Israel’s atrocities. But now the Bangladeshi government, under the rule of the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus, have reinstated this phrase in all Bangladeshi passports, "This passport is valid for all countries of the world except Israel."
The Times Of Israel covered the move, and notably demonstrations in support of this move in Bangladesh, an excerpt stating that...
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