Sindarina, Edge Case DetectiveFeb 16

Imagine if just one of these Big Tech companies had enough of a spine to stand up to these autocratic regimes, instead of just folding when push comes to shove.

But I guess that's too much to ask;

"Google has cooperated with autocratic regimes around the world, including the Kremlin in Russia and the Chinese Communist party, to facilitate censorship requests, an Observer investigation can reveal.”

Do you really think Google will not do that in the US, too? They are going to erase everything.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/google-helped-facilitate-russia-china-censorship-requests

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Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests

An investigation has exposed the tech firm’s cooperation with autocratic regimes to remove unfavourable content

The Guardian
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From February 11th, 2025;

"Goldman Sachs and Deloitte have become the latest corporate giants to redraw policies in the face of Donald Trump’s anti-diversity drive.

The banking giant has scrapped a policy [that] stated that it would only take on a company’s initial public offering if the company had at least one board member from a diverse background.

Deloitte US has instructed staff working on contracts for the American government to remove pronouns from their emails, […]”

It's all just marketing.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/11/deloitte-staff-us-government-contracts-pronouns-emails-trump-anti-diversity

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Goldman Sachs and Deloitte are latest to scrap diversity initiatives

Banking giant drops policy pushing for board diversity, while major consultant tells staff to ditch pronouns in email

The Guardian
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From February 12th, 2025;

"The Associated Press said it was barred from sending a reporter to Tuesday’s Oval Office executive order signing in an effort to ‘punish’ the agency for its style guidance on upholding the use of the name of the Gulf of Mexico, in lieu of Donald Trump’s preferred name for the geographic landmark as the Gulf of America.”

At least some people still have standards.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/associated-press-oval-office-gulf-of-america

AP journalists blocked indefinitely on February 14th;

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/white-house-ap-ban-oval-office

Additional coverage;

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/ap-white-house

https://www.dw.com/en/white-house-bars-reporter-over-naming-of-gulf-of-mexico/a-71578420

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Associated Press barred from Oval Office for not using ‘Gulf of America’

Agency says its reporter wasn’t allowed into event in effort to ‘punish’ style guide on upholding use of Gulf of Mexico

The Guardian
Show threadSindarina, Edge Case DetectiveFeb 16

From February 10th, 2025;

"A record number of asylum seekers died last year while in the care of the Home Office […] and officials admit they do not know when some of them died.

Fifty-one people died in Home Office-provided accommodation in 2024, an increase of 11 on the previous year, and a more than twelvefold rise since 2019 when four people died.

[…], the Home Office initially claimed that only 30 people had died during the year, but had to apologise after it emerged there were 21 additional deaths.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/10/record-asylum-seekers-died-2024-home-office-care

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Record number of asylum seekers died in 2024 while in care of Home Office

Data obtained by the Guardian shows 51 people died in Home Office provided accommodation in 2024

The Guardian
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From February 10th, 2025;

“[The] text of the orders is an all-out attack on all women, both cis and trans. Trump is exploiting an anti-trans panic, which far too many centrists and liberals have enabled over the years, as cover for the long-standing conservative goal of trying to reverse decades of women's progress in education, the military, and science.”

"This was never meant to be limited to trans women but to expand the right-wing's assault on all women.”

Trans women are the canary in the coal mine. Nobody is safe unless ALL of us are safe.

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/10/women-is-a-banned-word-uses-trans-panic-to-strip-rights-from-all-women/

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"'Women' is a banned word": Trump uses trans panic to strip rights from all women

Under the guise of "protecting women," the military, schools, and labs are forced to take women's safety away

Salon
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From February 10th, 2025;

“Donald Trump has said that his plan to ‘take over Gaza’ would not include a right of return for the more than 2 million Palestinians that he has said have ‘no alternative’ but to leave because of the destruction left by Israel’s military campaign.

The remarks are the latest effective endorsement of ethnic cleansing by the US president, […]”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/trump-buy-gaza-plan

Rubio is expected to push it, too;

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/16/rubio-expected-to-push-trump-plan-to-displace-palestinians-from-gaza-on-trip-to-israel

And he wants Hamas eliminated, just like Netanyahu;

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/02/16/amerikaanse-buitenlandminister-hamas-moet-worden-geelimineerd-a4883263

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/16/israel-netanyahu-trump-plan-gaza

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Trump says Palestinians will have no right of return to Gaza under his plan

People will have ‘no alternative’ but to leave territory after destruction left by Israel, US president said in Fox interview

The Guardian
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From February 14th, 2025;

“As Donald Trump continues to threaten to take control over the Gaza Strip, an unlikely consensus has emerged across hardcore jihadist and far-right circles: both strongly oppose any new US military actions in the territory.”

“Joshua Fisher-Birch, a terrorism analyst at the non-profit Counter Extremism Project, said that a prospective Gaza occupation has angered the far right ‘more than any other issue has in 2025 so far’.”

Can't have good white boys dying for the Zionist cause, they are needed for the race war 🙄

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/trump-gaza-plan-galvanizing-jihadist-far-right

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Trump’s Gaza plan unites jihadist and far-right circles, experts warn

Trump’s threat to take over Gaza is galvanizing two of the most dangerous and organized extremist movements

The Guardian
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From February 11th, 2025;

“As pro-Palestinian demonstrations broke out across the US during the first year of war in Gaza, thousands of people were arrested, charged, or cited for their involvement. Most of the cases against them did not stick, a new Guardian analysis of prosecution data in a dozen major cities finds.”

“’The state’s intent is not really to prosecute – the intent is to scare people out of wanting to participate in protests at all’, said Ria Thompson-Washington, a board member with the National Lawyers Guild, […]”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/gaza-protesters-charges-dismissed

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Most charges against Gaza protesters dismissed but ‘intent is to scare people’

Protesters are facing increasingly draconian charges that get dismissed but could still have a chilling effect

The Guardian
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For the 1488th post in this thread, I’ll simply remind you of what that number stands for, in white supremacist numerology;

https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1488

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

Fuck Nazis. Fuck white supremacists. Fuck everyone who aids or appeases them.

Our fight is for all, and for equal rights for all, in all its intersections. Black lives, trans rights, informed enthusiastic consent, accessibility, the works.

No one is safe until all of us are safe.

PUNCH NAZIS 👊🏻

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From February 9th, 2025;

“Two NHS professionals were investigated and barred from their workplace for expressing interest in organising a peaceful protest in support of Palestine during their lunch break.

The therapist and nurse were accused of posing a threat to the ‘personal safety’ of the staff at Kensington and Chelsea child and adolescent mental health service, and of ‘bringing the trust into disrepute’ for considering the demonstration.”

Three-month investigation found they had done nothing wrong. Clear case of intimidation, if you ask me 😒

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/09/nhs-staff-barred-from-workplace-for-considering-palestine-demonstration

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NHS staff barred from workplace for considering Palestine demonstration

An investigation found the pair had no case to answer and that the trust had breached its own disciplinary policy

The Guardian
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Splitting the thread.

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From February 12th, 2025; "Dutch MPs have voted to withdraw an invitation to the UN’s special rapporteur on the Occupied Territories to address parliament, after right-wing parties organised a new vote. Francesca Albanese had been asked to meet members of the foreign affairs committee on Thursday, following a vote in favour of inviting her. Since then, however, pro-Israel organisations and MPs have mounted a campaign calling for her to be ‘disinvited’.” https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/02/dutch-mps-withdraw-invitation-to-uns-gaza-rapporteur/ https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/02/12/francesca-albanese-ik-ben-teleurgesteld-dat-kamerleden-ontkennen-wat-er-in-palestina-gebeurt-en-israel-geen-verantwoording-laten-afleggen-a4882863 https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/02/13/hoe-de-vn-rapporteur-voor-palestina-werd-geweerd-door-de-kamer-maar-toch-door-enkele-van-haar-leden-werd-ontvangen-a4882982 — Thread continues from here; https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/114015687501303642 1490/ 🧵 #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #NLpol

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