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Demand Spotify drop ICE ads and stop helping hate-fueled recruitment
Spotify is running paid ICE recruitment ads that use dehumanizing language against immigrants and promote an agency with a long record of civil rig...
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Spotify
2025: May - August Political Notes
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 US citizens: call on Spotify to stop showing recruiting ads for the deportation thug department, ads which demonize
the Guardian
Heathrow airport’s £33bn third runway plan chosen by government
Scheme includes plan to move the M25 and could mean up to 760 more planes in the skies around London every day
 The UK government has decided on a major expansion of Heathrow airport, which will put the country on a path of ever more flying, and a faster and bigger climate disaster. The decision cites various short term advantages. They would be quite desirable, if the price were limited to the cost of construction.
civicshout.com
Tell Democrats: No New Abortion Restrictions in ACA Talks
Republican leaders, including Sen. John Thune, are demanding tighter abortion limits as the price for keeping ACA subsidies in place, even though t...
 US citizens: call on congressional Democrats to reject any new abortion restrictions in ACA funding talks. The main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. If you message Congress, please spread the word!
civicshout.com
Protect Workers’ Rights Now!
The Senate is moving toward a vote on Scott Mayer, a longtime corporate labor attorney, to sit on the National Labor Relations Board — and worker...
 US citizens: call on the Senate to protect workers' rights by rejecting the nomination of Scott Mayer, union-busting lawyer, to the NLRB The main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. If you message Congress, please spread the word!
civicshout.com
Protect Safe Abortion Access — No One Should Die for Care
No one should die because they were denied medical care. But as ProPublica reports, another Texas woman lost her life after doctors refused to prov...
 US citizens: call on legislators to protect safe abortion access: no one should die because doctors are afraid they will be imprisoned if they save her. The main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. If you message Congress, please spread the word!
the Guardian
We have a practical framework for American resistance. Now we need a spiritual one | Rami Nashashibi
There is growing understanding that our country is witnessing evil in our public life. Here is a path to confronting it
 This article lays out the moral basis of resistance against magatry, then tries to give it an unneeded "spiritual" basis. I think the first is useful, but the second is not.
the Guardian
Ukrainian naval drones strike two Russian oil tankers in Black Sea
Kyiv tries to pile pressure on Russia with attack on vessels on way to load up with oil for foreign markets
2022: March - June Political Notes
 Ukraine used drone boats to attack two Russian oil tankers sailing empty to Novorossiysk to pick up an export cargo of oil. I suggested this method a few years ago.
the Guardian
Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report
Committee highlights allegations including dog attacks and sexual violence, raising concern about impunity for war crimes
 The UN committee which monitors torture practices of various countries has reported that *Israel has "de facto state policy" of organised torture,*
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Judge Says ICE Used ChatGPT to Write Use-of-Force Reports
ChatGPT for Fascists.
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 A deportation thug was required to write a "use of force" report, and submitted a report that was almost all bullshit, invented by a bullshit generator which had only the slightest information about what the thug actually did. That thug should be punished for submitting a
the Guardian
‘We had to swim to safety. I didn’t think we would make it out alive’: the people fleeing climate breakdown – in pictures
Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer capture the families, farmers and fishers who have been forced to leave their homes by extreme w...
 Local climate disasters are happening in many countries. This article presents interviews with disaster victims in countries around the world. As long as we allow continued increase in the greenhouse gas level, these disasters will keep getting worse and more frequent.