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@buercher@tooting.ch
2025-08-04 21:38:14

The redistricting battle in Texas has gone far beyond the state’s borders, as Democrats fled the state – breaking quorum and grinding legislative business to a halt. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has vowed to expel lawmakers who fail to return to the Capitol in Austin.
Abbott has also threatened to pursue legal action if any Texas Democrats solicit campaign donations that are used to pay the $500-a-day fine they’re racking up by leaving the Capitol.
theguardian.com/us-news/live/2

@buercher@tooting.ch
2025-09-18 17:02:23

First, an ABC reporter was told that his coverage amounted to hate speech and that he should be prosecuted simply for doing his job. Then, the FCC threatened to go after this same network, seizing on a late-night comedian’s inopportune joke as a pretext to punish speech it disliked. That led to a shameful show of cowardly corporate capitulation by ABC that has put the foundation of the First Amendment in danger.
theguardian.com/us-news/live/2

@buercher@tooting.ch
2025-09-18 17:00:26

Schumer warned that Donald Trump’s and his threats against people who criticize murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk “is an assault on everything this country has stood for since the Constitution has been signed”.
“One of the great hallmarks of our country is free speech, whether you agree or disagree, and this administration is trying to snuff it out. They don’t want people to even speak when they don’t like what they said. That is the road to autocracy."
theguardian.com/us-news/live/2

@buercher@tooting.ch
2025-08-22 09:08:50

Famine set to be officially declared in Gaza for first time by UN-backed group
A famine is set to be declared in Gaza by the international body responsible for monitoring world hunger.
The Guardian understands that the report will declare that the threshold for famine has been reached in Gaza City, in parts of the south and central areas of the territory but not in the north, where data is insufficient.
theguardian.com/world/live/202

@buercher@tooting.ch
2025-08-16 11:19:32

UK more or less back in EU again, at least for diplomacy.
theguardian.com/world/live/202

@buercher@tooting.ch
2025-09-10 05:25:41

What most investigative reporters in Washington, DC, are going to be trying to figure out is whether the US gave the green light to this [attack], and whether or not they did has huge implications. Obviously, this is a very unprecedented move by the Israelis. It goes against international law to bomb a sovereign country, that is, Qatar.
Did the US know this was happening, give them the green light, and are now just trying to act like they were taken by surprise?
aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20

@buercher@tooting.ch
2025-08-09 11:58:31

Film financing Switzerland and investment obligation round table now in Locarno
youtube.com/live/4IMCYIDVzN8?s