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the Guardian
US energy department cracks down on workers’ use of climate crisis language
Efficiency employees reportedly told to avoid ‘climate change’ and similar terms in their work in latest clampdown
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 The US Energy department has meticulously regulated what its staff may say, so that it cannot even hint at global heating and its effects. Meanwhile, various shutdown government offices are set with outgoing messages that make a partisan statement blaming
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the Guardian
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
2010: January - April Political Notes - Richard Stallman
 *Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most [carbon offset] schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions.* It has been clear for years that the system encourages "offset" schemes that fail to reliably reduce the total emissions. The system is designed, rather,
the Guardian
Tuesday briefing: What new plans to curb pro-Palestine Action demonstrations mean for our right to protest
In today’s newsletter: New home secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced proposals to further curtail pro-Palestine Action protests – but what d...
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 The UK government is planning new laws to repress nonviolent protest campaigns with heavier punishment. It stands to reason that thugs will increase the level of unofficial cruelty against nonviolent protesters, too.
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the Guardian
Ice arrests of US military veterans and their relatives are on the rise: ‘a country that I fought for’
As Trump urges more deportations, veterans are seeing their parents, children and even themselves detained
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The Independent
US citizen spent three days in jail after being arrested in California ICE raid
George Retes, 25, who works as a security guard for the Glass House Farms in Camarillo, was arrested last Thursday and released three days later wi...
 The deportation thugs are targeting people whose parents were US citizens on military deployment, and some US veterans too. Naturalized citizens should not be deprived of citizenship except for heinous crimes. The deportation thugs arrested a US citizen, not
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the Guardian
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
 The UK has a project to collect lots of information about criminals and crime victims in order to predict who is likely to commit murder. It will be hard to find a legitimate way to use the results. They are sure to identify a list of "likely" future murderers far larger than the list of real future murders would be if it could be known. What could the state legitimately
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Turning out the lights on the economy
How Trump is systematically concealing America from Americans
 The wrecker's activities are likely to be causing various economic problems to increase, but the wrecker is interfering with the systems that in the past used to measure such changes and track them.
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the Guardian
US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller
The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse
 *Sticks are bad, but sometimes corruption through carrots is worse.* The "compact" that the corrupter in chief is offering to universities would surrender their academic freedom and leave little chance for a court case to restore it.
The Intercept
She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas.
To keep her in ICE detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.
 *She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas.*
the Guardian
More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows
Report looks at White House nominees and appointees and agencies dictating energy, environment and climate policy
 More than 40 officials nominated by the planet-roaster in chief have direct connections to fossil fuel business,
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