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@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-06-15 08:17:02

“The international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border, in some cases targeting underage girls or trading food or jobs for sex with refugees, according to a confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.
The Doctors Without Borders report — completed in July and first reported Saturday by The Associated Press — found 59 allegations of abuse and said 18…

Doctors Without Borders report found cases of abuse and exploitation by staff in Chad
A confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press says that the international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border. The organization said it launched the monthslong investigation in response to AP reporting that women had accused staff of sexually exploiting them in displacement sites in Chad. Hundreds of thousands fled there from Sudan’s civil war. Doctors Witho…

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-06-14 06:49:45

Judge blocks Trump national parks order -- calling it ‘censorship’
A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from continuing to remove information about slavery, civil rights, climate change and other topics from national parks.

Angel Kelley, a U.S. District Judge for Massachusetts, on Friday issued a preliminary injunction
directing the National Park Service to stop taking further action to implement an executive order issued by Donald Trump aimed at
scrub…

Judge blocks Trump national parks order, calling it ‘censorship’
A federal court barred the Trump administration from continuing to remove information about civil rights, climate change and other topics from national parks, directing the government to restore what it changed within the coming weeks.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-05-15 16:15:57

Rep. Steve Cohen ending campaign in Tennessee after redraw of his Memphis district (Stephen Groves/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/steve-cohen
memeorandum.com/260515/p54#a26

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-06-15 15:55:04

Russia has damaged or destroyed nearly 2,000 Ukrainian cultural heritage sites since 2022 — prosecutor general calls Lavra strike deliberate erasure - Euromaidan Press
euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/15

@doktrock@toad.social
2026-06-15 19:02:26

#Dylan on life on your '80s, New York Times

Bob Dylan, 85 Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and Nobel Prize recipient. The Best Thing The best thing about being 80 is that you outlive the clocks that have been chasing you. It's freedom from that lie that anything was ever under control. You don't chase the parade anymore. You're an old king from some vanished country. You're harder to program. You're not rushing to become anything and you're not haunted by things that you did. You're haunted by how little of it really mattered i…
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2026-05-14 21:51:03

This except from Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath stings like a taser:

The decay spreads over the State, and the sweet smell is a great sorrow on the land. Men who can graft the trees and make the seed fertile and big can find no way to let the hungry people eat their produce. Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten. And the failure hangs over the State like a great sorrow. The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thin…
@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-07-11 18:27:24

40 years ago this weekend, jerry garcia falls into a diabetic coma & nearly dies. in the hospital, his heart stops following an allergic reaction when doctors give him valium. the dead will cancel 30 dates through fall. he relearns to play guitar & is performing again by october.

~ Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia in Marin hospital EXAMINER STAFF REPORT Jerry Garcia, guitarist with the Grateful Dead, has been hospital ized. His attorney, Chris Andrian, con- | firmed that Garcia was in the hospi- tal but had no further details, other than to say, “Just tell everybody who loves Jerry to pray for him.” KFOG reported today that Gar- cia was admitted to Marin General Hospital with a high temperature. The hospital would say only that “a Jerome Garcia” had been admit- ted…
Saturday, July 12. 1986 Page Y Garci » GREENBRAE, (AP) Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead rock band, has been hospitalized after slipping into a diabetic coma that resulted from an infection caused by an abcessed tooth, a band spokesman said. (Garcia, 43, was in Marin General Hospital, about 20 miles north of San Francisco, but hospital spokeswoman Sandra Currie would not release any information about his condition. Band spokesman Dennis McNally said Garcia lapsed into a diab…
Jerry Garcia in the hospital
1 EE Pa ee. = ee. tls wn. \ : 'y . GARCIA G — From A-1 Deadheads. : Early last year Garcia was arrest : ed in Golden Gate Park. Police said he had cocaine and heroin in his "car. The charges were dropped when he agreed to enter a drug-di version program. A friend said: “There is absolute ly nothing illegal connected with "Jerry's illness. The infection has heen painful, and he’s basically ex ' hausted.” :
@jonippolito@digipres.club
2026-07-13 12:25:48

One of the biggest election stories no one's talking about: the US Democratic primaries are becoming a proxy war between rival AI factions, with candidates tuning their strategies accordingly. My latest Substack digs into how that happened.

Scatter plot titled "Political alignment with AI industry: Strategies employed by US politicians in summer 2026." Vertical axis ranges from accelerationist (bottom) to cautionary (top); horizontal axis from blue districts (left) to red districts (right). Labeled examples: Bores—"Invite the attack"; Rutinel—"Stay quiet, let allies shield you"; Lawrence—"Frame it as land, not ideology"; Lasher—"Take the money, mock the PACs"; Whitmer—"Pitch growth to older voters."
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-07-15 00:40:58

Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke the law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters just days before Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election,
a state election board found.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission, currently split evenly between Democrats and Republicans,
voted 5-1 in a closed session last week to refer the complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office,
the commission's spokesperson Emilee Miklas told the Associated Press.
The panel r…

Elon Musk’s $1 Million Voter Checks Likely Illegal, Wisconsin Board Says
The Wisconsin Elections Commission referred complaints against Musk to the Brown County district attorney’s office.

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-06-15 15:02:00

The Trump administration is executing a controversial plan to allow dirt bikes, ATVs, trucks, snowmobiles and other off-road vehicles
to drive through tens of millions of acres of public lands and national parks,
which environmental groups warn threatens endangered species and the environment.
The plan’s opponents say the impacts will be wide-ranging
and that the vehicles will likely destroy sensitive habitats, harm waterways, drive large predators like grizzly bears …

Critics say Trump’s opening of public lands to off-road vehicles is ‘reckless and nonsensical’
Move is part of broad effort to open public lands to industry and other uses, threatening wildlife and ecosystems