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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Ha, "civilization". So that's what they're calling genocide today. Netanyahu needs to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm a Canadian. I'm sympathizing with your view as another Canadian. You're misreading and being rude.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm sure it could, but no one thinks it's worth their time when Git is right there and does the same job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Being shouted at in a mailing-list for fixing a bug doesn’t sound like fun.

What's that a reference to?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

I'm sure the Trump regime will find a way to threaten universities out of offering such basic fairness.

[–] [email protected] 139 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

“There have been no cuts to air traffic controllers, safety personnel, or safety-critical positions at the FAA,” the White House official X account posted.

That is, however, not exactly honest—even according to Trump’s own officials. In February, the administration erased 400 FAA roles, including positions that supported air safety. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed the cuts that time, though he attempted to minimize them by highlighting the overall staffing of the agency, which Duffy claimed employs some 45,000 workers.

The usual MAGA approach: lie and tell people the problem doesn't exist, while making the problem worse. Deny all responsibility for the consequences of your actions while lecturing people about responsibility.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

OK, are you telling me to fuck off after I expressed some sympathy with your view? And who do you mean by "we" and "your"? But maybe you're telling Americans to fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I hope someone is backing up these databases and archiving/leaking them. One day it may become possible again to admit that race, gender, and discrimination on their basis, are actual things in the USA to acknowledge and address, not just sweep under the carpet while doubling down on persecution as MAGA Nazis prefer.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

This is the same regime that's trying to define gay and trans people as mentally ill. The fascist intentions are clear. Their policies don't deserve a charitable reading.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lol, "could". Good old NYT, always dodging and fudging.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

De-extinction critics have pointed out that the technology creates a moral hazard: It could simply be used as an excuse to allow vulnerable animals to go extinct and assume we can just bring them back later. And they have a point. Soon after Colossal’s news about their wolves this week, the Trump administration embraced the technology and suggested removing legal protections for endangered species.

Of course they did. This US administration misses no opportunity to do evil things for profit. And of course they don't make any effort to understand the science or the ethical issues. They are greedy dumb people.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There's something very American about prioritizing shower comfort over preventing the destruction of the planet.

 

cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/2330924

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at “protecting” American energy from “state overreach.” The move, some energy experts say, is a legally dubious federal overstep designed to undermine the rights of states and local authorities to combat climate change.

The order claims “many States have enacted, or are in the process of enacting, burdensome and ideologically motivated ‘climate change’ or energy policies that threaten American energy dominance and our economic and national security.”

It specifically points to Blue-state policies like Vermont’s Superfund rules, which require fossil fuel companies to pay for damage to the climate, and California’s cap-and-trade program as examples of efforts to “dictate national energy policy.” In Section 2 of the order, Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to identify state laws or policies “burdening” access to “domestic energy resources that “are or may be…unconstitutional, preempted by Federal law, or otherwise unenforceable.”

What might some of those state laws be? According to the executive order, that could include any effort to address “climate change,” support “environmental justice,” or reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions, among others.

That’s not the end of it. The order also directs the attorney general to “expeditiously” take action to “stop the enforcement of State laws and continuation of civil actions” determined to be illegal.

It’s unclear whether this will stand up in court. Michael Gerrard, the faculty director of Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, told E&E News that the executive order is “toothless” and that Trump “has no authority on his own to nullify state laws.” Journalist David Roberts, who runs the clean energy newsletter Volts called the order on Bluesky, “wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional” and “dictator shit.”

Others on social media noted the president’s contradiction of traditionally conservative values. As climate reporter and Drilled podcast host Amy Westervelt put it on Bluesky, “States rights! But only when the states agree with us[.]”Climate scientist and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) contributing author Zeke Hausfather posted, “So much for federalism…” And Tulane environmental studies professor Joshua Basseches wrote, “Federal overreach has historically been a crusade of the Right, but these times are wild and different.”

This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.

David Roberts (@volts.wtf) 2025-04-09T05:42:55.516Z

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The Fall of the American Empire (senecaeffect.substack.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/316292

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Donald Trump is following a plan much more detailed and comprehensive than it would appear from simple slogans such as “MAGA.” Faced with resource depletion and ecosystemic collapse, the world’s economic machine is sinking fast. Governments are now acting as passengers of the Titanic, scrambling to save themselves the best they can, even if that means pushing someone else underwater. So the USA is retreating inside its immediate sphere of influence and Europe finds itself in a bad position without the resources to rearm and defend itself. The USA will try to expand northwards into Greenland and perhaps Canada in order to take their natural resources. But if Trump were to say this to the American people, they would think him feeble-minded as they did with Carter. Instead he uses propaganda to blame the situation on whichever "enemies" come to hand, and the people cheer him on.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27890752

Summary

The National Park Service removed Harriet Tubman’s image and quote from its “Underground Railroad” webpage, along with references to slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act.

The revision now emphasizes “American ideals of liberty” and downplays historical realities.

Historians and scholars condemned the move as a distortion of history and erasure of Tubman’s legacy.

The change aligns with broader Trump administration efforts to eliminate DEI content across federal sites, which critics say suppresses discussions of race, identity, and historical truth.

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