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Saw the [email protected] comm and has a... suspicious amount of negative articles and specific people who submit things and stuff. Just want to get some actual news up in a /c/ that Americans can refer to if they would like.

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A Texas school district has sent a warning to parents that border patrol agents could be boarding school buses to check the citizenship status of students.

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"We want to bring religion back—stronger, bigger, better than ever before."

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Thousands of federal workers are set to be purged by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to a report.

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U.S. President Donald Trump faced criticism for his executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the subject of an ICC arrest warrant.

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America's main agency tasked with administering humanitarian aid to other countries has reportedly slashed its workforce from 10,000 to fewer than 300, according to a report.

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Drugmakers offer “copay assistance programs” to help people afford expensive medicines. But health insurers are milking these programs for billions of dollars in extra profits while denying patients the benefits they were designed to provide.

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Progressive Saikat Chakrabarti plans to challenge Nancy Pelosi in 2026, arguing that the Democratic Party "needs a bold vision for how to raise living standards, quality of life, and security for all Americans."​

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The attorney general’s directive sparks concerns over the Trump administration’s impact on civil rights protections.

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Résumé of pop singer and RNC co-chair will now include hosting a show focusing on ‘the Golden Age of America’

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WHAT’S REALLY HAPPENING is much more straightforward: A donor-advised fund granted money to DDTI for the express purpose of supporting center-right, pro-democracy organizations. Bill is on the board of DDTI.

It’s all pretty routine, unless you’re a ketamine-addled, terminally online, X-brained wackjob with a tenuous grasp on how the government you now run actually functions.

What’s really going on here is Elon thinks that by siccing an online mob on Bill, he can intimidate him—and all of us—into silence. Into just going away.

Hilarious. Because Bill Kristol was one of the fuckwit chickenhawk propagandists of the Iraq War II: Gee Dubbaloo. To get pelted by virtual rocks and garbage by even more arrogantly ridiculous rightwingers is kinda funny.

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I would like to provide a little bit of motivation to our current Democratic politicians.

Question for you all: What happens to the opposing politicians of dictators?

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What happens? Quickly?

Y'all are fighting this as like business as usual but you know it isn't, you went to those fancy schools, you studied history, you know the signs. You keep saying that Trump is the new tiny mustache man. You are calling what he does fascism.

What happens to the opposing politicians under those regimes?

And it's not like you can hide anywhere. We have your voting records, we have your quotes, we have you on video. They know where you stand. They've never gonna trust you, no-no-no. You're more useful as an example.

So I would suggest to the Democratic party that you locate that Scooby Doo villian who apparently stole all of your spines and you start fighting like your life depends on it, because it probably does.

Stop being polite and nice to the people cosplaying as the bad guys from Indiana Jones.

By the way this message is not for AOC or Jasmine Crockett, y'all are made of steel. But for the rest of you, since y'all can't be motivated by like you know basic human decency and protecting your constituents. Maybe you all can be motivated by the historic timeline that says YOU'RE NEXT

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript

The 1st Amendment should guarantee the right to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press, the right to protest, and the right to talk to all levels of government about grievances.

Recently, I saw headlines that seem to indicate all 5 of those freedoms are being challenged via either executive order, by law enforcement (dispute the laws stating the contrary), or by the suggestion of very powerful people within the government (elected or otherwise).

I know that there will be pushback against these challenges to our essential liberties. But they will also be slow and require enforcement.

I'm just wondering at what point do we know that our freedoms are actually gone for good. And if we wait to know the answer, will there be anything left to do about it?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/29081069

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On January 16, the second thing: 18 former European presidents and prime ministers published a powerful letter calling for the European Commission, the executive arm of the 27 countries in the European Union (EU), to break up Google, directly targeting its heavily monopolized advertising business.

“The consolidation of power over vital tech platforms jeopardizes our independence and undermines efforts to enforce our laws,” the statement said. They recommend a breakup, plus a “European tech deal” to reclaim control over critical digital infrastructure on which we all depend.

Hundreds of millions of Europeans and Americans stand shoulder to shoulder in the same fight here against, in this case, Google. Indeed, US and European regulators have been collaborating closely in the last few years on taming Big Tech. The problem now, of course, is a wrecking ball called [new U.S. President Donald] Trump.

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The key is to reframe this fast-evolving story of economic conflict, not as a fight between “The United States” and “Europe”—or even between right and left. No, what is unfolding is a global conflict between ordinary people everywhere, standing shoulder to shoulder against the globalized billionaires and oligarchs.

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Archived

  • Electing Trump: In 2016, the gun industry shared data about firearms owners and others with Cambridge Analytica to help elect Donald Trump and keep a Republican majority in the Senate.
  • Legal Worries: The gun industry and Cambridge tried but failed to get more customer data, records show. One gun seller worried about possible government investigations.
  • Profiling Gun Owners: Cambridge used the industry’s data to create behavioral profiles of people who had bought guns and other potential voters and then targeted them with specific ads.

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In 2016, as part of a push to get Donald Trump elected president for the first time and to help Republicans keep the Senate, the NSSF [National Shooting Sports Foundation] worked with the consultancy Cambridge Analytica to turbocharge the information it had on potential voters. The U.S. subsidiary of a London-based firm, which would later go out of business amid a global scandal over its handling of confidential consumer data, Cambridge matched up the people in the database with 5,000 additional facts about them that it drew from other sources.

The details were far-ranging and intimate. Along with the potential voters’ income, debts and religious affiliation, analysts learned whether they liked the work of the painter Thomas Kinkade and whether the underwear women had purchased was plus size or petite.

Cambridge analysts ran the enhanced data through an algorithm to create psychological profiles that allowed for more incisive targeting. Potential voters were assigned one of five personality groups: risk-takers, carers, go-getters, individualists and supporters. Each got a tailored message. Risk-takers were viewed as highly neurotic and susceptible to ads that pricked their fears, Cambridge records show. Go-getters, on the other hand, would respond better to messages of optimism and the promise of a better future.

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