Mastodawn

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c93ydeqyq71t?post=asset%3A18b354f7-07dd-45f5-963d-8b4b171c14d2#post

Israel carrying out 'extensive strikes' across Iran as Tehran warns 'more severe' response coming

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country will strike "every site and every target of the ayatollah regime" in Iran.

BBC News

JvB 🇨🇦🐱May 30

NPR May 30

Oil companies face a wrongful death suit tied to climate change
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/30/nx-s1-5416766/climate-change-lawsuit-oil-companies?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Science @science-npr

JvB 🇨🇦🐱May 1

Cory Doctorow May 1

House Republicans have a great plan to pay for Trump's tax-cuts for the rich: jacking up the cost of federal student loans, while eliminating protections for students who are scammed by fake universities:

https://prospect.org/education/2025-04-30-republicans-education-upper-class-privilege-student-loans/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/30/trump-u/#i-think-you-know-what-the-trustees-can-do-with-their-suggestions

Republicans Opt to Make Education an Upper-Class Privilege

The goal is to save money on higher-education assistance to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

The American Prospect

JvB 🇨🇦🐱Mar 29

Randahl Fink Mar 29

We think the US is falling apart because of Trump's reelection. But Trump is just a symptom of a bigger problem:

The US is falling apart as a result of the US allowing an insane wealth distribution, where the rich pay no taxes, because their companies are offshored and now have revenues larger than countries.

This has allowed the malignant to buy both media and social media, which has allowed them to hack democracy by polluting the minds of the uneducated, which THEN has gotten Trump elected.

JvB 🇨🇦🐱Mar 20

NPR Mar 20

3 people face federal charges for Tesla attacks. Are such acts domestic terrorism?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333315/tesla-attacks-ag-bondi-domestic-terrorism-trump-musk?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-npr

JvB 🇨🇦🐱Mar 20

Dr. Lucky Tran

Mar 20

Customs and Border Patrol denied a French scientist entry to the U.S. because they found messages on his phone criticizing Trump’s science cuts.

Apparently saying that canceling cancer research is bad can now be classified as terrorism. Chilling.

JvB 🇨🇦🐱Mar 19

George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Mar 19

Yes. That is in fact what just happened.

JvB 🇨🇦🐱Mar 19

https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/114187173562770276

DB 🌎🌏🌍 (@dbattistella@mstdn.ca)

Attached: 1 video Who knew the Canadian flag would become the flag of resistance for angry voters in the US? Angry voters raise the Canadian flag 🇨🇦 as GOP Rep. Baumgartner faces loud, disruptive town hall in Spokane, WA https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/gop-rep-baumgartner-faces-angry-disruptive-town-hall-in-spokane/ #US #Spokane #Baumgartner #AngryVoters #Canada #Not51ststate

Mastodon Canada

JvB 🇨🇦🐱Mar 17

Jeff Jarvis Mar 17

Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge’s Order https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/us/brown-university-rasha-alawieh-professor-deported.html?smid=tw-share

Brown University Professor and Doctor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

The New York Times

JvB 🇨🇦🐱Mar 10

NPR Mar 10

In show of unity, some 350,000 protesters gather in Mexico City
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/10/nx-s1-5322464/in-show-of-unity-some-350-000-protesters-gather-in-mexico-city?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World News @world-news-npr