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politics @lemmy.world•Trump Posts Wildly Racist Video of the Obamas | The president shared an election conspiracy video that included a clip depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes
5·22 hours agoPer the article, somebody else created it months ago. He just posted it again
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Technology@lemmy.world•Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.English
411·24 hours agoBecause we dont want or need videos of police pissing in urinals, and they’re human and deserve to not have that recorded
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Toronto@lemmy.ca•Toronto police officers accused of leaking information to 'key' organized crime figure after corruption probe
2·2 days agoThey took out a hit on another cop
The investigation also uncovered a conspiracy to kill a unit commander at the Toronto South Detention Centre, the sources said.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Airlines should tell UK customers the carbon impact of flights, watchdog says2·2 days agoIt is a significant simplification, but people usually dont have many short flights on a trip. Its usually 1 or 2. Can be a huge improvement to get people onto electrified rail.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Airlines should tell UK customers the carbon impact of flights, watchdog says4·2 days agoPeople are avoiding flying at all over it, which is why airlines don’t want to disclose. Long trips by plane dominate yearly emissions for people who travel like that
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Michigan accuses big oil of being ‘cartel’ that fuels climate crisis and high energy costs4·2 days agoUK libel laws are pretty awful for the press.
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politics @lemmy.world•I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.
2·2 days agoCommon reasons in the US
- legal residency revoked due to country of origin often having dark skin
- asylum claim still in court
- visa revoked due to writing an op-ed
- judge would get fired for ruling in their favor
- actually a citizen, but racist cops don’t recognize citizenship of people with dark skin
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump Repeats Call to ‘Nationalize’ Elections, as White House Walks It Back
1·2 days agoNot really. More that they’re trying to influence state officials (who actually run elections in the US) into doing their bidding.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Washington Post gutting its climate team | Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.3·2 days agoThey do buy a lot of electricity generated by wind and solar. They also buy a huge amount generated using fossil fuels. Amazon got kicked out of the Science Based Targets Initiative because they weren’t willing to actually go ahead with getting off of fossil fuels.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Washington Post gutting its climate team | Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.5·3 days agoHe fired a large chunk of the WaPo staff today. Not clear if what’s left is a viable newspaper
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News@lemmy.world•Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs | The layoffs are slated to shrink the newsroom by hundreds of journalists, cutting into The Post’s local, international and sports coverage.
10·3 days agoThey’ve got a union, so there was a bit of journalism still happening up until this layoff.
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politics @lemmy.world•Minneapolis is showing a new kind of anti-Trump resistance
124·4 days agoYou don’t, but it is something that lets you organize a community in a way that enables them to act, for good or for ill. No reason to cede that exclusively to those who want to create a worse world
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Campaign group behind attack ads on Australian Labor, Greens and teal candidates was funded by coal industry lobby7·4 days agoThat’s often how this works. Spin up a fake group. Run ads and confuse people. Discard and repeat once people have forgotten
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politics @lemmy.world•‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo
4·4 days agoIt does both. No need for an either/or
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politics @lemmy.world•Mayor of Portland, Oregon, demands ICE leave the city after federal agents gas protesters | Witnesses said agents deployed tear gas, pepper balls and rubber bullets.
1·4 days agoNot when police are on the side of ICE
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politics @lemmy.world•Mayor of Portland, Oregon, demands ICE leave the city after federal agents gas protesters | Witnesses said agents deployed tear gas, pepper balls and rubber bullets.
12·5 days agoBecause the Portland cops are a bunch of Nazis who wish they could do what ICE does.
3M in particular sells a lot of filters designed for particular industrial chemicals, but which might not do much for tear gas. The 60921 should work.
The Mira CBRN filters are designed for chemical warfare and should also work.
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politics @lemmy.world•Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.
16·6 days agoAll I can say is that your experience is wildly different from any I’ve run into, and would be really unlikely unless you did something.














They were afraid it would create accountability. So they fought to prevent that.