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Appel à témoignages : femme en zone rurale, vous avez rencontré des difficultés pour accéder à une IVG ou à un suivi gynécologique. Racontez-nous

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Academics & others need to understand a few things. A 🧵 I) First, fascism is not inevitable. Research on autocratic movements show that only about 3,5% of the population need to resist to stop them. Fascism thrives on the silence of the friends. That why visible resistance matters. 1/

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...

submitted 14 days ago • 54 comments

🇷🇺🇺🇦 La rédactrice en chef de Russia Today, Margarita Simonyan, affirme que la frappe russe sur la ville ukrainienne de Sumy serait en réalité une mise en scène inventée par l'Ukraine. La propagande russe est à l'œuvre pour tenter de justifier ce massacre. (1/2)

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

The Israeli entrepreneur Shalev Hulio gained notoriety for designing Pegasus, the spyware used by governments to hack journalists and dissidents. Today, he is selling a new AI cyber security tool to European states and corporations. His secret asset? Austria’s former leader Sebastian Kurz. [Thread]

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

www.koha.net/lajmet-e-mbr... from the 1 May electricity prices go up 16% in Kosovo. There was no real plan after the “modern” coal plant was scrapped & bc of EU sanctions expansion of thermal energy stopped. The electric distribution company was sold to a Turkish firm that seems to just raise prices

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

If I remember correctly, under Nazi Germany's Third Reich conquered countries were not necessarily opposed to being part of the Nazi empire and working with them. But Nazis thought everything should benefit Germany and Germany alone, breeding strong opposition. Trump's USA reminds me of that.

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submitted 25 days ago • 119 comments

GameStop's quarterly report came out 2 days ago. Operations continue to wind down to nothing (and still lose money), they issued $1.3 billion worth of convertible senior notes for the express purpose of buying Bitcoin, and announced closing another 1,000 stores and "a significant number" more after.

submitted 32 days ago • 41 comments

SCOOP—State Dept. now requires "enhanced" social media vetting for student visa applicants suspected of "ties to terrorist orgs/activity" or applicants who previously held a visa starting Oct. 7th, 2023. Source: "Pretty clear immediate target is anyone who participated in pro-Palestinian protests."

submitted 32 days ago • 53 comments

1/ Israel is assassinating journalists in Gaza — and Western media’s silence enables it. On March 24, Israel killed two more reporters: Hossam Shabat and Mohammad Mansour. This isn’t “crossfire.” This is a kill list. 🧵

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

I'm going to be in Lille in April as a Visiting Professor in CEThics and, among many exciting activities, I'll be giving the keynote, “Who knows Foucault? How we (mis)understand the foundations of surveillance studies across languages and cultures,” at this symposium on French Surveillance Studies.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

“On Monday, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, announced the first criminal charges under Texas’s abortion ban. Maria Margarita Rojas, a licensed midwife, was charged with the illegal performance of an abortion,” a “second-degree felony, which comes with up to 20 years in prison…” 3/22/25

submitted 36 days ago • 23 comments

Il y a 3 ans, l’ancien international de rugby argentin Federico Martín Aramburú était assassiné en plein Paris. Deux militants d’extrême droite seront jugés aux assises. Dans @mediapart.fr en octobre, la mère du rugbyman pointait la responsabilité de l’idéologie d’extrême droite dans sa mort.

submitted 40 days ago • 18 comments

#BREAKING First reports are surfacing of heavy #US strikes on the capital of #Yemen #Sanaa #Trump launches wave of air #strikes on Yemen's #Houthis www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Today at the launch of NSI’s report on Economic problems for small businesses in the north. Something I also write a on a lot. The dinar ban, the blockade on Serbian products, the lack of info on regularizing to the 🇽🇰system all problems still. Basically 🇽🇰 not doing its job in helping citizens…

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

obviously the orange man's brain is completely pickled, but just for shits and giggles: the shortest distance between Greenland and the continental portion of Denmark looks to be no more than approximately SIXTY MILES more than the shortest distance between Greenland and the continental U.S.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Pokemon Go sale to a Saudi Arabian company owned by govt comes with six separate corporate announcement blogs, not one of them directly addressing what happens to 100 million people's location data, AR mapping capabilities, or the AI maps they have been training: www.404media.co/saudi-arabia...

submitted 47 days ago • 39 comments

Not surprising, but ... techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/u...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Ironically named Build Canada should be called Break Canada. Tech CEOs want to strip away public service jobs and then step in to profit off the vacuum left behind: The Tech CEOs Who Want a DOGE for Canada #DOGE #Canada #BuildCanada thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Great, detailed breakdown of the Musk takeover of government. *Amy Gleason, the official DOGE administrator, had worked as chief product officer in one of the companies of Brad Smith, who helped Musk plan DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

submitted 59 days ago • 20 comments

*cw violence* New: An "error" suddenly turned people's Reels feeds into neverending scrolls of murder, death, animal abuse, and violence. Truly horrifying stuff, one of the worst things I've seen happen to random consumers of the internet. www.404media.co/instagram-er...

submitted 60 days ago • 53 comments