Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
As Russiaβs war rages, therapy for servicemen becomes increasingly innovative.
At the Kyiv Hippodrome, horses are being used in therapy for soldiers. This week, Zoriana witnessed their healing up close.
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Trump admin agents have shot clergy members with pepper balls as recently as Thursday.
βOur role was to bear witness and to give a message about why weβre unhappy that ICE is here,β said Rev. Jorge Bautista, who was shot directly in the face.
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Rev. Kardon βsaid she has been shot multiple times w/pepper bullets, including while she was praying w/her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar ...βBut Mike Johnsonβwho once compared himself to Mosesβsays he βnot seenβ ICE βcross the line yet.β open.substack.com/pub/americasβ¦
Speaker Johnson Claims He Hasnβt Seen ICE βCross The Line Yet.β Maybe He Should Open His Eyes
The growing list of ICE violations against U.S. citizens wrongfully detained by ICE includes nearly 20 American childrenβincluding two with cancer.Gabe Ortiz (Combating Nativist Narratives)
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The image is a political cartoon depicting the White House being demolished by an excavator. The excavator is bright yellow and labeled "Trump". Debris and rubble surround the White House, which is in a state of disrepair. In the background is a cloudless blue sky and green grass. The words "Democracy itself" are written in large, black letters across the top of the image. At the bottom right corner is the text "Chattanooga Times Free Press".
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How Megachurches Use the Bible to Defend and Promote Wealth Inequality: Report
How Megachurches Use the Bible to Defend and Promote Wealth Inequality: Report
Does religion drive Americans to support or oppose economic inequality? Thatβs a question explored by a Ph.D.David Badash (The New Civil Rights Movement)
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We are aware of roskomnadzor just having ramped up their blocking efforts in #russia against #deltachat 's default onboarding chatmail relay. Signal, Whatsapp are degraded/blocked for a longer time already.
1) Delta Chat has first class shadow-socks proxy support (try ss:// links you can find ... Delta has management-proxy UX)
2) many other chatmail relays work fine and inter-chatmail/email server traffic continues unimpeded
3) if you can help with analyzing please drop into our DMs.
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I really hope that people realize that "AI browsers" are just an even faster way for all of your data to end up with some data broker being sold on the web somewhere.
I really hope people realize that "AI" is mostly a tool for doing that, and that's part of why it's getting pushed so hard.
I really hope...
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Most of us will never know how that feels ever again. To be truly outside the reach of the constant surveillance state we now live in. I feel so bad for the people that will never experience real privacy, those who will never be able to truly "get away from it all". But we're already past that point for the majority of people, at least in the U.S., and increasingly in other countries.
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South Korea census allows same-sex couples to identify as spouses in "historic" change - LGBTQ Nation
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South Korea census allows same-sex couples to identify as spouses in "historic" change - LGBTQ Nation
LGBTQ+ rights still have a long way to go in the country, but advocates praised the change as a signal of more to come.Molly Sprayregen (LGBTQ Nation)
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'Scrapheap challenge' response to hotel blaze shows #IsleOfWight #fire service on brink of critical failure
The service was unable to initially send the right number of fire engines (three) due to the poor availability of appliances on the Island. Instead, it initially sent two, leaving just two fire engines available to cover the whole of the Island.The service was also unable to provide a second aerial ladder platform, again due to a lack of firefighters.
Island services were transferred to the mainland for cost savings. Unreliable ferry service to #IOW used in emergency to move mainland fire engines
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#Safety #fire #Hampshire #fails
Isle of Wight News from OnTheWight
Isle of Wight news coverage by the award-winning team behind OnTheWight.Rufus Pickles, Local Democracy Reporter (Isle of Wight News from OnTheWight)
Bystanders Horrified by Slightly-Too-Honest AI Billboard
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Bystanders Horrified by Slightly-Too-Honest AI Billboard
The AI billboard asks you to visit a website called Replacement.AI, which brags that humans are "no longer necessary."Frank Landymore (Futurism)
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Aztec dancers, peaceful protestors throng S.F. immigration court day after Trump threats
The picket line comes within hours of federal officials calling off further action in the surrounding Bay Area.
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me in 50 years: 50 years ago we had this thing called mastodon and i had so many followers, and i even made my own projects.
grandkids: a follower? like on your neural link? also you kept an extinct elephant?
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In North Carolina, Immigrants Resist the U.S. βLanguage Graveyardβ
Speakers of HΓ±Γ€hΓ±u, an Indigenous language from what is now Mexico, are banding together to preserve their culture.Gridwork
β² @huartsound@diasporasocial.net:Surprized?Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter arrested for threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries: Police
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Repair is officially in stock. Weβve teamed up with Micro Center to make repair more visible and accessible than ever.
That means:
- iFixit Toolkits and parts now available in 30+ Micro Center stores.
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- Pros using iFixit toolsβlike the FixHub Power Series Portable Soldering Stationβfor every fix.
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Micro Center brings the expert in-store service. iFixit brings the trusted tools and guides. Together, weβre empowering everyone to fix or upgrade their techβ¦Kara Piepenbrink (iFixit)
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Thats fantastic news though. You should do the same in Australia!
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Fedora will now accept generative code contributions. This is the policy users will have to follow. TL;DR: Fedora will accept generative code so long as it is disclosed as such.
The burden will be on reviewers to determine whether contributors adhere to the pinkie promise.
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If you want to understand how untenable, radically new, and ridiculous the anti-trans idea of gender is, just consider Laker Jackson. He's an eighth grader in Arizona that is no longer allowed to participate in sports with his peers or use the boys facilities, despite having done so his entire life up until now without issue. He's a kid just trying to play sports with his friends and pee in peace.
He's also not trans.
Laker is a cis boy, but his birth certificate listed his assigned gender at birth as female. Because of anti-trans laws, his family can't correct the problem. Literally just a clerical error is all it takes for the government to decide, against all reason, that Laker is a boy.
Congratulations, the government now gets to decide your gender. That's a new power that the far right has decided the government should have over the past few years.
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Surprised Trump Is Destroying History? He Did The Same Thing Building Trump Tower. | HuffPost Latest News
Surprised Trump Is Destroying History? He Did The Same Thing Building Trump Tower.
Trump broke his promise to leave the East Wing alone β the same way he reneged on a promise to preserve art deco friezes on a building he tore down in 1980.S.V. Date (HuffPost)
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Zohran Mamdani Scorches Billionaire Pouring Millions Into Cuomoβs Campaign With Epic One-Liner | HuffPost Latest News
Zohran Mamdani Scorches Billionaire Pouring Millions Into Cuomoβs Campaign With Epic One-Liner
The New York City mayoral candidate delivered the burn while appearing on a bro-centric podcast β and even they couldn't help but laugh.Elyse Wanshel (HuffPost)
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