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I’ll be at 3 No Kings events tomorrow — they’re all in Mointain View & Palo Alto, CA. The last one is a democracy fair. Joan Baez will be there & there will be songs. And cake.
https://bsky.app/profile/indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social/post/3lrjvqzruyc23

Indivisible Palo Alto Plus (@indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social)
REMINDER: Our TWO No Kings "We The People" events kick off tomorrow 2pm, with the Democracy Parade at the corner of Embarcadero and El Camino in Palo Alto. At the end of the parade, the "We the People" Democracy Fair begins in Rinconada Park. Register: indivisiblepaloaltoplus.org/no-kings-day

interessanter #trick für #PowerPoint:
"Textstellen in PowerPoint mit dem Textmarker hervorheben – jetzt mit individuellen Farben"

If i was an american i would surely join the #nokings protest on June 14th. An amazing number of events. Join !
https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible

No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.

"Despite good-faith efforts by DSI [dense street imagery] providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and license plates, these measures fail to address broader privacy concerns. In this work, we find that increased data density and advancements in artificial intelligence enable harmful group membership inferences from supposedly anonymized data."
via @…

Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery
Spatially and temporally dense street imagery (DSI) datasets have grown unbounded. In 2024, individual companies possessed around 3 trillion unique images of public streets. DSI data streams are only set to grow as companies like Lyft and Waymo use DSI to train autonomous vehicle algorithms and analyze collisions. Academic researchers leverage DSI to explore novel approaches to urban analysis. Despite good-faith efforts by DSI providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and l…

Flash flooding hits NYC and New Jersey declares state of emergency as storms soak Northeast | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-storms-floods-travel-chaos-b2789005.html

The Supreme court ruled
in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States
that the Constitution did not grant the president an “illimitable power of removal,”
at least over certain types of officials.
This included the head of the Federal Trade Commission, whose firing by President Franklin Roosevelt had sparked the case.
Humphrey’s Executor stood basically untouched for decades, until Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito – both of whom had previously served in the exe…

Supreme Court ignores precedent instead of overruling it in allowing president to fire officials whom Congress tried to make independent
Can the president fire leaders of more than 50 independent agencies overseen by Congress because he wants to? The Supreme Court may say yes, upending decades of constitutional law.

Charlie Kirk says 'I'm done talking about Epstein' after Trump called him over weekend (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-trump-epstein-call-b2788906.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p157#a250714p157

Trump’s DOJ urges Supreme Court to reject appeal from Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/doj-supreme-court-appeal-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-b2789037.html

Florida sheriff warns protesters ahead of nationwide rallies: 'We will kill you dead' (Madeline Sherratt/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/florida-sheriff-warning-protestors-we-will-kill-you-b2769410.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p77#a250613p77

Trump threatens Russia with 100% tariffs if no peace deal is reached with Ukraine in the next 50 days | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-russia-sanctions-ukraine-ceasefire-nato-b2788726.html