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Atlanta Democratic Mayor Andre Dickens, who has spearheaded a law-and-order campaign against the residents of Atlanta, inaugurated on April 29 the sprawling 85-acre militarized “public safety training center” popularly known as “Cop City.”

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas appeared on Thursday to support Donald Trump's push to curtail the power of federal judges.

Colombia has taken a major step in Indigenous rights by formally recognizing Indigenous councils as local governments across parts of the Amazon.

During Thursday’s Supreme Court oral arguments over birthright citizenship, Justice Amy Coney Barrett once again proved herself a thorn in the side of her benefactor’s administration.

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The 69th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest kicks off this week in Basel, Switzerland, and as always, it promises a heady mix of pomp, power ballads and geopolitics. While fans gear up for a week of camp performances and dramatic key changes, this year’s competition is also weighed down by controversy over Israel’s continued participation, with questions about who gets to perform—and why—looming larger than ever.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29657554

Supporters of Jack Mazurek gathered on Monday morning at the Fulton County Courthouse—where a hearing was scheduled to take place in Mazurek’s criminal case—to demand that prosecutors drop their political prosecution against Mazurek and all individuals facing charges for their opposition to Cop City.

Over the past two decades, the housing market has emerged as a powerful means by which capitalism can exploit the working class. At our workplaces, capitalists profit from their ability to control our labor; and then we go home, where we are exploited by the landlords who profit from their control over housing. And if the answer to our oppression in the workplace is labor unions, the answer to our oppression in our homes is tenant unions.

With some jurisdictions categorically recommending that children under a certain age (in the case of Denmark under 13) should not have a tablet or smartphone, what is your opinion on the appropriate age/way to introduce these devices to your children's life? Do you use your own devices together with your children? If so, how and when?

As federal judges endure a rise in threats, CBS News has learned that some jurists have faced strange, unnerving incidents in which an unknown person orders a pizza to their home address in an apparent attempt to menace them.

A former SpaceX employee who suffers from Crohn’s disease claimed supervisors monitored his restroom use, timing each toilet break and issuing a formal reprimand if he wasn’t back within 10 minutes. The employee is suing the company for allegedly firing him over frequent bathroom use caused by a chronic medical condition, according to The Independent.

La criminalisation du travail du sexe en ligne en Suède aura des conséquences loin au-delà de la Suède.

Spain, like other countries, is having to adapt to more extreme weather. And, in the Valencia region, EU-funded innovation has spawned a new solution, right under people’s feet.

Regulation Needed to Guarantee Living Wages and Benefits, Decent Working Conditions Major digital labor platforms, also known as gig companies, operating in the United States misclassify gig workers as independent contractors, denying them labor rights,

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Tyler Yarbrough didn’t see Sinners once, but twice.

☂️👌🏻☺️ Nous sommes désormais référencé-e-s dans la cartographie du Projet Jasmine, un programme de lutte contre les violences faites aux TDS.

Hi there! Hope this is not against the rules, but given I made the app exactly to help parents (especially privacy-conscious ones), I hope it's okay.

To be honest, mothers make me sad. Especially working mothers with small children. Sometimes, when I see a woman in the late afternoon – pushing a buggy, a sniffling toddler in tow, tote bags swinging from her shoulder and two dark circles around her eyes – I want to cross the street. Not out of judgment, but because I can’t bear how exhausted she looks. The quiet despair etched into her face. I feel sorry for her. It’s so damn unfair. Studies and statistics back this up: the status quo for working mothers is dismal.

San Francisco district judge says Congress did not authorize large-scale staffing cuts and restructuring of agencies

This guy in Pisa, Italy, has planted 4 trees in a public space and by speaking to nearby people he agreed with some of them to provide water during summer time. Moreover he repaired a public drinking fountain that the administration closed (to avoid repairing), also to help provide water needed for nearby plants.

“Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts ... because, frankly, I don’t find that she poses any risk of flight,” the judge ruled.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62n8k27e61o

Lower courts prevented the administration from immediately ending a Biden-era program that granted temporary status to people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

The Trump administration secured a key victory in federal court this week as a judge allowed Elon Musk and DOGE to continue firing workers and closing down field offices at the Social Security Administration (SSA).

Move comes after US president withdraws nomination of Ed Martin, GOP loyalist who supported January 6 pardons

Chief Justice John Roberts stressed the importance of judicial independence during public remarks Wednesday, noting that the judiciary’s role as a co-equal branch of government is central to the nation’s political system.

The announcement, which comes six months after the final votes were cast, ends the final unresolved contest from the 2024 election.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) holds the secrets to designing more resilient homes, cities and critical infrastructure.

In the fall, Urschel will be teaching an intro to linear algebra class for the first time. The course can have up to 300 students. He also works with an MIT program for high schoolers called √mathroots. According to its website, the program was “designed to broaden the talent pool for the mathematical community” – a goal that resonates for Urschel as a Black mathematician.

“White nationalist and identitarian movements have strategically used women in their public-facing campaigns to make their ideas seem less dangerous and more legitimate,” Julia Ebner, author of Going Mainstream: How Extremists Are Taking Over, told me.

Manga review: Akumetsu

The US Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to enforce his ban on transgender troops serving in the military while challenges to the policy make their way through the courts.

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September 7, 2019 by abolitionjournal

The president and those around him just had to brag — and Howell turned their own words against them.

In a moment when the experiment of the United States is teetering on the brink, the Trump administration is weaponizing deep-seated hatred of marginalized people to exacerbate ideological divides and deepen MAGA’s cult-like relationship with the president. A key component to this is their belief in and use of eugenics—the idea that it’s possible to create an ideal human by ≥eliminating “undesirable traits.” Meaningful resistance to Trump, then, requires a culture shift grounded in understanding the ideology’s history, the tech industry’s role in encouraging it, and the complicity of liberals and the left in conversations about whose life has value. It also means acknowledging just how deeply baked the ideology is into modern American culture.

There are a lot of words you could use to describe Donald Trump’s leadership style, or what he and Elon Musk have in common. That’s why it’s odd that the phrase chosen by Axios in February 2025 was “masculine maximalism.”

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At the entrance to the New Kituwah Academy in Cherokee, North Carolina, a big red sign reads ‘English Stops Here.’ The school, which teaches preschool through the sixth grade, is a Cherokee language immersion program. Classes, lunch and after-school activities are conducted primarily in Cherokee, and the school’s books, maps and diagrams are full of the 85 symbols that make up the Cherokee syllabary.

US district judge Beryl Howell says order violates first, fifth and sixth amendments and permanently blocks it

The broadcaster, a target of president’s sweeping cuts to US media agencies, could be back on air as soon as next week

Members of the Indigenous Waorani village of Kiwaro looked skyward as a helicopter hovered over the rainforest canopy in the center of Ecuador and landed in a nearby clearing. Out stepped government officials, there to inform the community about an impending auction of oil rights on their land.

The research focused on a model where small, interconnected subgroups operate within larger populations, allowing decisions to emerge through a structured, bottom-up process. This network-based model enables populations to make complex decisions efficiently while still reflecting the will of the broader group.

Hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. and globe gathered on May 1, or International Workers Day, also known as May Day, to celebrate the international labor movement and resist the agendas of leaders that they say are attempting to divide the working class by attacking unions and immigrant communities. This year, labor leaders in the U.S. made a national call for May Day actions, building on the momentum of the “Hands Off” rallies earlier in April that drew large crowds in all 50 states. People across the country are mobilizing under the call, “​For the Workers, Not the Billionaires.”

Hammer & Hope asked Black organizers, academics, and writers to consider the state of Black politics five years after the 2020 uprisings and with the re-election of Donald Trump. Their responses, some written before Trump’s inauguration, offer ideas for where we go from here.

https://apnews.com/article/may-day-workers-labor-unions-rallies-marches-trump-46de8196d7f01d7458c3d77ccd5e0e54

A Donald Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas ruled that the president unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act and blocked the administration from quickly deporting some alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.

(To be clear, they intend to cut down the rainforest and plant 3 million hectares of grass.)