Twitter’s Collapse Is Bad News for Organizers – But Another Commons Is Possible
Twitter’s demise is not just a story about the excesses of another “tech bro.” In October, when Elon Musk took over Twitter, users on the site began experiencing drastic modifications. These ranged from changes to Twitter’s system of “verified” blue checks, which Musk sold off for $8, to a near absence of content moderation and the elimination of most accessibility features. Musk has also raised...
South Dakota Threatens Felony Charges for Pharmacists Prescribing Abortion Pills
South Dakota’s Republican governor and attorney general on Tuesday issued a threatening letter directed at the state’s pharmacists in response to a recent move by the Biden administration to ease restrictions on dispensing abortion pills amid the GOP’s nationwide assault on reproductive freedom. Gov. Kristi Noem and AG Marty Jackley’s letter begins by noting that after Dobbs v.
McCarthy Blocks Schiff, Swalwell From Serving on Intelligence Committee
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-California) has blocked the appointment of two Democrats to the House Intelligence Committee in accordance with demands from several far right lawmakers. Earlier this week, Democratic House leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) nominated Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, both Democrats from California, to serve on the Intelligence Committee they had...
US joins Germany in sending battle tanks to Ukraine
Virginia school had three warnings about 6-year-old with gun, says lawyer
Burkina Faso unrest: France agrees to pull its troops out
11 Months Out to the 2024 Primaries, Trump Struggles to Stay Relevant
In the immediate aftermath of the November midterms, the media painted Donald Trump and his endorsed candidates as losers and Ron DeSantis, who won reelection as governor of Florida by a thumping margin, as the man of the moment. In response, Trump unleashed waves of online assaults on his onetime protégé. He was, in all likelihood, goaded to insult by a series of post-election polls showing that...
Beirut blast: Lebanon prosecutor charges judge leading investigation
Rwanda accused of 'act of war' as DRC fighter jet is hit mid-air
White Supremacist Nick Fuentes’s Twitter Was Reinstated — Then Banned Again
On Tuesday, Twitter reinstated the account of Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist who has given high praise to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as recently as last week — only to suspend Fuentes’s profile within 24 hours of its reinstatement. The site has not specified why it suspended Fuentes’s account for a second time, but one of the few tweets Fuentes shared while back on the platform referenced...
Millions brace for bad weather day after destructive tornado
Iran has amassed enough material for 'several nuclear weapons,' says IAEA chief
National Guard Wants to Expand Its Training Site to Twice the Size of Chicago
Nestled near the headwaters of the Au Sable River in Northern Lower Michigan, in lands forcibly taken from the Odawa and Ojibwa, the Michigan Army National Guard (MIANG) currently operates the largest National Guard training site in the country, Camp Grayling. At 230 square miles, it could fit Detroit (139 sq. miles), Lansing (37 sq. miles), and Grand Rapids (45 sq. miles) safely within its...
People With HIV Are Still Being Criminalized in 25 States
In 2008, Robert Suttle’s life was upended. The 30-year-old had been working as an assistant law clerk at the Second Circuit Court of Appeal in Shreveport, Louisiana, when police arrested him in front of his colleagues. A former partner had accused him of not disclosing his HIV status and, in Louisiana, that constituted a felony charge of intentional exposure to the AIDS virus. It didn’t matter...