@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-12 15:54:34
UCLA chancellor rebukes law school event featuring 9/11 ‘mastermind’ attorney
In a rare rebuke of a campus event, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk on Friday distanced the university from a law school symposium about the 9/11 terrorist attacks
that has faced criticism for including a lawyer for 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,
along with speakers whom critics accuse of sympathizing with extremism or being antisemitic.
The symposium, “25 Years After 9/11,” was spon…
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-08-03 22:27:49
Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/23/lobbyists-uk-environment-ministers-ecosystems-chicken-poultry-f…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2026-08-25 09:41:06
Which came first: an electrification plan or the need to electrify?
One way or another, the 🇫🇷🐓 fits right in.
And when it comes to the electrification of road transport, both passenger cars and, now, heavy-duty vehicles are clearly on the rise.
https://www.electrifions-la-france.gouv.fr
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-07-29 19:09:55
Another heatwave 🥵, another Java Geek Weekly 📅
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/147/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-20 16:02:46
Today, I’m talking with Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which comes out on August 25.
Jill is one of the best writers there is at identifying institutional patterns in history, and Decoder is a show about systems, so this book could not possibly be more in our zone.
You build systems by measuring things — gathering information, quantifying it as data, and taking action on it. And Jill’s big…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-22 00:36:16
An examination of cases in which people were arrested for supposedly assaulting an immigration agent finds that
nearly half of those charges were either dropped or resulted in no conviction
— suggesting that federal law enforcement has engaged in widespread misconduct in carrying out Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
The New York Times report, published on July 18, examined the close to 550 cases in which individuals
— generally protesters and/or immigrants
— we…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-19 01:35:52
The Trump administration has activated a secretive and
never-before-used legal process
to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists”
or their immediate family members.
The Justice Department submitted the first-ever application to the Alien Terrorist Removal Court
— which has lain dormant since it was established by law in 1996
— with little notice earlier this week.
The details of the July 15 application are sealed and an acco…
@pre@boing.world2026-07-30 17:18:01
Congratulations to Andy Burnham's new government in their huge achievement of arresting hundreds of terrorists today. What a coop! The streets will be safer tonight thanks to Burnham's quick thinking action in arresting hundreds of people for...
What? Really?
..arresting hundreds of people for planning to read poems in a terrorising manor, saying "Good Morning" to some protestors in a terroristic way, setting up a terror stage for terror music to be played on, clapping terroristicly, and holding up terror signs.
Some might say it's the state and police forces doing the terrorising here but of course don't say it in public or you'll be arrested and thrown in jail for terrorism.
#ukpol #terrorism
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-15 01:01:02
On July 13, the Trump administration announced in an op-ed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio
that it would “dismantle” the International Criminal Court (ICC),
“brick by brick, if necessary,”
using “all the tools at our government’s disposal.”
According to the provocative text of a State Department press release,
the United States will undertake a sweeping campaign
to dismantle the "threat to U.S. sovereignty" posed by the International Criminal …
