@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: during the bidding process, Paramount promised WBD that its foreign partners and Jared Kushner's fund wouldn't have any voting or governance rights (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/paramount-wbd-voting-rights
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347 copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100 actresses and 25TB of pirated content via a torrent tracker (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/redditor-conv…
@cdarwin@c.imThe House has voted on a bipartisan basis
to restore labor rights to 1 million federal workers
after Donald Trump yanked them away in an executive order earlier this year,
in a rare show of defiance against the president by over a dozen GOP members.
In a 231 to 195 vote on Thursday afternoon,
the House passed the "Protect America’s Workforce Act",
which would nullify Trump’s ordersin March and August to exempt workers at dozens of agencies from c…
@servelan@newsie.socialSecretary Noem will rescind bargaining rights for TSA employees effective January 11th, 2026. : r/fednews
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1pl4281/secretary_noem_will_rescind_bargaining_rights_for/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse passes bill to restore federal workers' bargaining rights (Lawrence Ukenye/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/11/congress/house-passes-bill-federal-workers-bargaining-rights-00687594
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p122#a251211p122
@jensilber@mastodon.socialIt might sound reasonable in theory, but it restores discrimination in practice.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-rule-restores-equal-protection-all-civil-rights-enforcement
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347 copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100 actresses and 25TB of pirated content via a torrent tracker (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/redditor-conv…
@servelan@newsie.socialSeein's how Kristi wants to make this a thing:
**How to Handle a Knock-and-Talk: 7 Ways to Protect Your Rights When Police Come to Your Door**
https://marclopezlaw.com/how-to-handle-a-knock-and-talk-7-ways-to-protect-your-rights-when-police-come-to-your-door/
@cdarwin@c.im25 years ago today,
five GOP justices who claimed fealty to states’ rights,
and who were skeptical of a broad equal protection clause,
told Florida it could not finish counting ballots
despite the Florida Supreme Court ruling to the contrary
because of an equal protection principle never used before or since.
-- Eric Segall
@donelias@mastodon.crAP: Activists say the death toll in the crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran spiked Sunday to at least 538 people. The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency also warns the toll is likely to go up. And with the internet down in Iran and phone lines cut off, gauging the demonstrations from abroad has grown more difficult as AP’s Jon Gambrell explains
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialOn 30 April, 1993, CERN published the complete source code to the #WWW protocols developed by @…, as well as his client and server software with this statement: “CERN relinquishes all intellectual property rights to this code, both source and binary and permission is given to anyon…
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialAnnouncing our Parks-King Lecture for 2026! We are pleased to welcome Civil Rights Movement scholar AnneMarie Mingo on Tuesday, February 3, for her lecture titled "The Courage to Imagine Freedom.” 5:30 p.m., Niebuhr Hall, open to all. https://divinity.yale.edu/e…
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialDegrowth, fears and euphemisms
Reflections beyond growth: Degrowth, fears and euphemisms Álex López translated by Mark Burton In the series Prospects for Degrowth Republished from revista 15/15\15 Reflecting on the Beyond Growth Conference. Madrid, 2025 The Beyond Growth Conference document offers us a promising future: less production, less consumption... but, curiously, more public services, more rights, more democracy, more of everything good and none of the bad.
@ErikUden@mastodon.deAn uncomfortable conversation to have: Considering the U.S.' track record on human rights violations, invading sovereign nations, and committing war crimes during those efforts, should we truly remain in the same defense pact with them?
Considering the U.S. is currently openly discussing invading one of their NATO allies, bringing into question what being an ally means to the United States, does it makes any sense at all to view them as one?
I believe the nations of Europe should…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialYouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations;
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/yo
@cdarwin@c.imNEWS: Dan Richman
— key figure in now-dismissed Comey case
— wins motion for return of materials seized from his devices.
Judge finds his rights were violated,
orders that DOJ can only access data pursuant to lawful warrant.
Order could complicate efforts to re-indict Comey.
https://
@lilmikesf@c.im#OTD in 2022 right before the poorly grounded buzzing audio signal completely went out in the middle of his pedantic #Presidential voting rights speech in #Atlanta , after he'd rambled on for awhile about how great it was to work …
@aral@mastodon.ar.alI don’t know if this is a sick burn (by a FOSDEM organiser spilling the truth about FOSDEM) or an own goal.
🤷♂️ https://pleroma.debian.social/objects/f49df30a-d65e-4195-833d-29b7481b3aba
@davidaugust@mastodon.online“‘Fascism thrives on indifference and ignorance,’ it warned. Freedom requires ‘being alert and on guard against the infringement not only of our own freedom but the freedom of every American. If we permit discrimination, prejudice, or hate to rob anyone of his democratic rights, our own freedom and all democracy is threatened.’”
https://
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgStarting your week by getting your DUX in a row ;-)
#retrocomputing #hpux
https://hachyderm.io/@thejpster/115521<…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDecember 10, 2025 -- Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-10-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p32#a251211p32
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaFascist paramilitary invaders start unconstitutionally raiding houses door-to-door in the USA. We no longer have rights in America. Welcome to the land of Tyranny. (Minneapolis, MN - 1/11/26)
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1qalnet
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at the auction for the Oscars' TV rights, as sources say Netflix is out, NBCUniversal gains ground, and YouTube and ABC remain active bidders (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/oscars-tv-rights-nbcuniversal-a…
@ncoca@social.coopThis CSO letter submitted today has a single #China/#HongKong entity, China Labour Bulletin.
Which self-dissolved in mid-2025...
https://foejapan.org/en/issue/20251205/27117/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialYouTube confirms it removed 700 videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with US State Department sanctions (The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-ri…
@anildash@me.dmExciting news, friends: I’ll be joining an amazing lineup this week as MC for the Mozilla Festival in Barcelona! If you’ll be there in person, please do say hi, and if not, join online as the schedule promises to be extraordinary. Get the details here: https://www.mozillafestival.org/en/
@paulwermer@sfba.social#Sigh But, you know, property rights, who is the state to hold the wealthy accountable?
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution
@PaulWermer@sfba.social#Sigh But, you know, property rights, who is the state to hold the wealthy accountable?
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialRE: https://mstdn.ca/@DavidM_yeg/115860244124414204
Ah, yes, the Nazis are against human rights.
(As defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by the way -- hardly something of "the West")
Such a surprise!
@rachel@norfolk.social
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRe “apply the pressure anyway:” that’s advice I got from…Keith Ellison.
I was part of a citizen group pressuring him to vote for the ACA when he was in the House. He met with us, and gave us an impassioned speech about universal care and how the ACA was a good first step but insufficient, relating it to the less-remembered civil rights acts of the 1950s that laid the groundwork for the big one in 1964.
Somebody from the group finally asked him, “Why are we meeting with you? You’re already convinced!”
He replied (paraphrasing here): “I •need• your pressure. I need it even if I already agree. If you’re pressuring me, then I can get on the floor of the House and say ‘My constituents are beating down the doors of my office! This has tremendous support!’ I can tell my colleagues in private about how agitated voters are. If you apply pressure, I can pass that pressure forward. I need you to do it! •That• is why you’re meeting with me.”
And now Keith Ellison is MN Attorney General. He’s already started doing the right thing. Follow his advice, and apply that pressure!
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump Says Civil Rights Led to White People Being ‘Very Badly Treated’ - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/Gaufj
@fortune@social.linux.pizza"Rights" is a fictional abstraction. No one has "Rights", neither machines
nor flesh-and-blood. Persons... have opportunities, not rights, which they
use or do not use.
-- Lazarus Long
@kctipton@mas.toICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants | Brennan Center for Justice
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/ice-wants-go-after-dissenters-well-immigrants
@aral@mastodon.ar.alMake no mistake, the only values the European Commission gives a single damn about are expressed in Euros and cents.
The guiding principle of the successor to the European Coal and Steel Community isn’t human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, it’s the Single Market.
How dare you even pretend to care when you are beyond silent in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, you despicable bunch of fancy-suited hypocrites.
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@brian_gettler@mas.toWorth a read on the broad opposition to the CAQ's proposed Quebec constitution. It's great to see lengthy quotes from my colleague and friend Paul-Étienne Rainville, who works at the Ligue des droits et libertés.
“The government has not respected any of the criteria established by the United Nations for the adoption of a democratic and legitimate constitution.”
@markhburton@mstdn.socialStarmer urges Europe’s leaders to push the Overton window a bit more to the right by curbing ECHR
No respect for #HumanRights |
Fuckwit.
https://www.theguard…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com"You Have Arrived in Hell" -- Torture and Other Abuses Against Venezuelans in El Salvador's Mega Prison (Gonzalo Y./Human Rights Watch)
https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/11/12/you-have-arrived-in-hell/torture-and-other-abuses-against-venezuelans-in-el
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p71#a251112p71
@brichapman@mastodon.socialAI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29102025/ai-sperm-whale-communications-legal-rights/
I love this idea that understanding the communication…
@cdarwin@c.imA drastic rise in the reported death toll came as Iranian authorities intensified their crackdown on the protests, now in their second week.
Rights groups were struggling to reach contacts within Iran due to a complete internet shutdown in the country, and warned that the death toll was likely to climb even further.
The brutal crackdown has raised the likelihood of US intervention, with Trump saying he would “rescue” protesters if the Iranian government killed them.
He rei…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA Munich court sides with Germany's music rights society GEMA in a case against OpenAI, saying OpenAI can't use song lyrics without a license; OpenAI can appeal (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/german-court-sides-with-p…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgI just got a "Decomputing" talk accepted by a very tech-focused business conference (as a Keynote even) and a labor rights organization who wanted me to propose a talk instantly went for the "The Luddites were right" suggestion. Two things that a few months ago would not have been possible I think.
Things are changing, the dire state of the world sometimes allows new narratives to punch through.
@boris@cosocial.caIn Canada, the CBC might be the kind of entity to help run / coordinate “public service social media” as described in this Tech Policy Press article https://www.techpolicy.press/public-service-social-media-as-a-democratic-safeguard/
With interop…
@petaqui@masto.esLamentable... Menos mal que hay quienes guardan todo esto para que nadie pueda eliminarlo
@… https://social.freedom.press/@freedomo
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaFascist paramilitary invaders start unconstitutionally raiding houses door-to-door in the USA. We no longer have rights in America. Welcome to the home of the oppressed. (Minneapolis, MN - 1/11/26)
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1qabuvr
@servelan@newsie.socialHHS uses conscience rights to strip trans people of health care
https://www.advocate.com/health/hhs-transgender-care-conscience-rights
@paulbusch@mstdn.caSo this is percolating and the results so far are not surprising.
I'd vote NO, for the following reasons:
- oil demand continues to decline and risk is high we'll end up with an expensive underutilized pipeline. Therefore high risk we'll end up subsidizing any private entity that builds this thing.
- why would we invest public dollars to support infrastructure for a product where 75% of the profit leaves Canada? There has to be a net benefit, beyond steel sales and jobs, for this project to be considered.
- Indigenous land rights must be respected. They will be left with the rusting pipeline decades in the future, and it's impact on the land.
- the B.C. government must also have a final vote as they have to give up land and provide support.
- we don't need additional oil tankers on our west coast.
- and most importantly, with this MOU, Canada pretty much declared we aren't serious about protecting the environment or fighting climate change. We're oil whores. Harsh but....
#CanPoli #ClimateAction
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialWTF? Homicide is a state level crime. There are Federal crimes about things like deprivation of civil rights, but in general, homicide is *not* a Federal level crime.
So, Minnesota not only has a right to investigate and obtain evidence, Minnesota has the dominant right and authority to deal with this killing.
Moreover, if the Feds assert authority the state of Minnesota should demand that the Feds demonstrate that authority, with real evidence, including proofs that the accuse…
@ncoca@social.coopI've always felt this was, at least, partly true. Can be extrapolated to also be a reason why #China dominated cleantech too - something that most #climate & #environment groups don't want to acknowle…
@chiraag@mastodon.online @memeorandum@universeodon.comSupreme Court Will Consider New Curbs on Human-Rights Suits (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-09/supreme-court-will-consider-new-curbs-on-human-rights-suits
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p117#a260109p117
@Dragofix@veganism.socialMondelēz: Sugarcoated Suffering #environment
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukI hold these truths to be self-evident: that everyone is created equal and endowed with certain #inalienable rights, that among these rights are life, #liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is the fundamental creed of
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on "the woke left and the woke right", being patriotic, the Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/alex-karp-goes-to-war-palantir-big-inter…
@cdarwin@c.imChristian nationalist pastor
Joel Webbon
calls on his fellow Christians to use the slur "faggot"
in the fight against LGBTQ rights:
"No, stop it, faggots.
No, you will not convert my children.
You're degenerates, you're predators, and you're evil."
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the U.N. … disparaged Albanese personally, calling her a ‘witch.’”
https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-israel-gaza-human-rights-albanese-e1a4fbde166e34bc8d305bfbf6e2bd51
@benb@osintua.eu"Russia has long violated absolutely everything. We will defend our rights," Zelenskyy said #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/ampquotrussia-has-long-violat…
@hex@kolektiva.socialI cannot stress enough how effective economic attacks have been as a tool throughout US history. They're basically *the thing that works* historically.
Edit:
Someone else pointed out that the American Revolution started with a big economic blockade. The Civil Rights movement involved a boycott of Woolworths and there was the bus boycott. Yeah... lots of examples, and a lot of them ended with their demands being met.
@rachel@norfolk.socialImagine thinking it was in any way appropriate to hold a fucking vote on whether to support a marginalised group or not. Imagine. 🤦♀️
#ukpolitics https://flipboard.co…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialFucking amazing. Not surprising at all coming from such unfuckable losers, but still amazing.
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115503363869254443
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org“‘People demanding that AIs have rights would be a huge mistake,’ said Bengio.”
Yes, but not because “Frontier” AI models already show signs of “self-preservation,” but because it’s a huge scam aiming to make a few people even richer, who don’t care about destroying everything else.
https://www.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alhttps://mastodon.social/@randahl/115507006485634894
This is why @… made the Gaza Verified Archive (e.g., see
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYouTube confirms it removed 700 videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with US State Department sanctions (The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-ri…
@kctipton@mas.toOfficers at Texas immigration detention facility accused of beatings and sexual abuse | US immigration | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/09/texas-ice-camp-abuse-immigration
@cdarwin@c.imThe California Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment challenge to a state law that protects the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes and forbids employees of those sites from using the wrong pronouns to address a resident or coworker.
The ruling, handed down today, held that violations of the"LGBT Long-Term Care Residents’ Bill of Rights" are not protected by the First Amendment because they relate to codes of conduct in what is effectively both a workplace…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Fossil fuel projects face stricter scrutiny after Europe’s top human rights court ruling"
#Europe #FossilFuels #Energy
@karlauerbach@sfba.social @servelan@newsie.socialAustralia sanctions Afghan Taliban officials over women’s rights abuses | Taliban News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/6/australia-sanctions-afghan-taliban-officials-over-womens-rights-abuses?traffic_source=rss
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAI boom fuels "environmental justice" fears in communities of color (Russell Contreras/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/ai-civil-rights-black-latino-water-electricity
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p11#a251208p11
@cdarwin@c.imAn appeals court in Missouri
✅has ordered the rewording of a misleading explainer for a Republican-backed ballot measure
🔥that aims to undo a previously passed initiative that expanded abortion and reproductive rights in the state.
The order from the three-judge panel within Missouri’s Western District of Appeals
represents the second time in just a few months that the explanation accompanying the anti-abortion ballot measure was found to be confusing or deceptive.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @cdarwin@c.imAirstrikes by the United States of America on boats in the Caribbean and in the Pacific violate international human rights law.
The U.N. human rights chief said Friday that
U.S. military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are
“unacceptable” and must stop.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called for an investigation into the strikes, in what appeared to mark t…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGovernor Ron DeSantis Announces Proposal for Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence (flgov.com)
https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2025/governor-ron-desantis-announces-proposal-citizen-bill-rights-artificial
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p81#a251205p81
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe NYT sues the Pentagon in Washington, DC, arguing that the US DOD's new reporting restrictions infringed on its journalists' constitutional rights (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/media/new-york-times-p…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDemocrats' big election wins showed they don't need to hide their support for trans rights (Katelyn Burns/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/democrats-election-winners-trans-rights-rcna242214
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p162#a251105p162
@cdarwin@c.imThe New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal
for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during the Trump regime’s anti-migrant occupation.
The launch of the portal, came as CBP forces began disappearing residents in the city, Kenner and other suburban areas of the Greater New Orleans area and parts of the River Parishes
@servelan@newsie.socialEducation Dept. asks hundreds of fired employees to pitch in with work
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/06/education-department-civil-rights-office-trump/87643095007/
@cdarwin@c.imRussia’s Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch
an “undesirable organization”
on Nov. 28,
effectively banning the group from operating in the country.
Human Rights Watch noted that Russia had already forced the closure of its Moscow office in 2022.
“Our work hasn’t changed, but what’s changed, dramatically, is the government’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies,
its staggering rise in repression,
and the scope of the war crimes…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBBC DG Tim Davie and BBC News head Deborah Turness resign, after BBC was accused of "serious and systemic" bias on topics like Trump, Gaza, and trans rights (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/09/t…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe EU was not called the European Coal And Steel Community for nothing, folks.
We talk a mean human rights and democracy. But we’re still the European Coal and Steel Community.
Go Single Market, amirite?! https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_newsdigest/11550764176416580…
@cdarwin@c.imIsrael has announced it will reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the next few days
as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.
However, the border will only open in one direction:
for Palestinians to exit.
Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi says the move validates fears that
Israel’s goal is to “continue the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.”
This comes as a coalition of 12 Israeli human rights groups concluded in a new report that …
@servelan@newsie.socialTexas agency accused of violating teachers' speech rights on Charlie Kirk
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5676406-texas-teachers-union-charlie-kirk/
@aral@mastodon.ar.alOoh, I feel more US sanctions on the UN coming up. https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-hc55lmo2z/-/a-WOBuTLhPRXugyid_r6rXUg:a:3199692-/0
@cdarwin@c.im❌Mobile Fortify,
the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters,
is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike.
That's why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and civil rights organizations are
🔥demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
shut down the use of Mobile Fortify,
release the agency's privacy anal…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmpere: US sports rights spending expected to increase 20% by 2030 to over $78B; recent NBA and MLB rights deals will account for nearly half of all spend (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@servelan@newsie.social"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the State Department that will impact how the agency conducts its annual Human Rights Report."
**Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says**
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/11/21/abortion-dei-now-considered-violations-of-human-rights-us-officials-say/
@cdarwin@c.imThe federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention,
has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to
“abuse people with impunity”, experts warn.
Former federal oversight officials have sounded the alarm at the rapid dismantling of guardrails against human rights failures
– at the same time as the gov…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe Authoritarian Stack.
This is brilliant – if you’re interested in human rights, democracy, and tech, and want to understand technofascism/corporatocracy bookmark and read this.👇
#AuthoritarianStack #tech
@memeorandum@universeodon.comClassified U.S. report finds backlog of hundreds of possible Israeli human rights violations (John Hudson/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/30/state-department-report-israel-gaza-human-rights-violations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p118#a251030p118
@cdarwin@c.imOr you can host an event if you’re not seeing any options nearby:
#iceoutforgood
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F8Iu3kLxOuzXax_AwrQgiOtggsEtasx…
@servelan@newsie.social"For Afghan women, the stakes could not be any clearer. Every gesture towards normalization tells them their rights can be traded away for political convenience. Every meeting that sidelines the issue of gender apartheid reinforces the message that their lives are secondary to geopolitical interests. "
UN Report Details Deepening Crisis for Afghan Women and Warns Against Normalising Taliban Rule - Feminist Majority Foundation
https://feminist.org/news/un-report-details-deepening-crisis-for-afghan-women-and-warns-against-normalising-taliban-rule/
@servelan@newsie.social'The DOJ claimed Richman’s emails & text messages show Comey lied about using him as a conduit to convey information to reporters about the investigations. But in an emergency filing on Friday night, Richman argued that the DOJ had obtained his files in violation of his constitutional rights, and that it should not be permitted to use them in any new attempt to re-indict Mr. Comey.'
Judge Halts Justice Dept. Effort to Seek New Comey Indictment - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/1I09y
@cdarwin@c.imThe Justice Department plans to expand "gun-rights" protections
with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to enforcing the U.S. constitutional right to bear arms
The office, called the
Second Amendment Rights Section,
expects to open on December 4
and will be dedicated to investigating local laws or policies limiting gun rights.
@cdarwin@c.imDangerous Cancel Culture Precedent Following Kirk’s Murder
The Trump administration continues to counter the First Amendment rights that Kirk so often referenced and arguably died defending.
For example, the Pentagon has promised to “address” federal employees who are deemed to mock or celebrate Kirk’s death.
(The Pentagon has also in recent days announced that it will require credentialed journalists to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information that has not been …
@cdarwin@c.imThe Hawaiian Supreme Court
ruled that Hawaii’s constitution requires police to record interrogations.
And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaii residents
—unlike, they said, the U.S. Supreme Court.
https://boltsmag.org/hawaii-supreme-court-police-inter…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,
threatening the equal representation of Black voters,
and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterm election.
The case concerns Louisiana’s six congressional districts,
two of which are majority-Black,
in approximate proportion to the Black population of the state.
A previous map that gave Black voters only one district in which the…
