"And here is Trump, finessing that state power into a regime that, as with the regime in Egypt, is targeting culture, education, media, judges, students and any group or entity that poses a threat or even the potential of dissent to the regime. And I’m still waiting for the revolution."
"Aren’t we Egyptian-Americans lucky – a dictator for each side of our hyphen."
#Democratic lawmakers call for release of #Tufts student from #ICE detention
Jim McGovern and Ayanna Pressley exhort authorities to free Rümeysa Öztürk, calling her treatment ‘repression’
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Anna Betts
Fri 25 Apr 2025 13.02 EDT
A group of high-profile Democratic lawmakers has called on the Donald #Trump administration to immediately release the #TuftsUniversity graduate student #RümeysaÖztürk, praised her “unwavering spirit” and warned that the White House is engaging in “repression”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/trump-tufts-rumeysa-ozturk-ice?CMP=share_btn_url
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/24/undercover-far-right-hope-not-hate-harry-shukman
"So, I will be replacing my Google Pixelbook Go with a German Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 running its own version of the Linux (developed at the University of Helsinki) operating system."
Worth reading:
“What surprised me most was that despite my revulsion for what my new associates said and did, I often felt myself becoming friendly with them.”
Harry Shukman: “A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/24/undercover-far-right-hope-not-hate-harry-shukman
#HopeNotHate #TheGuardian
After reading Carole Cadwalladr's lament at being laid off from The Observer, I was wondering if this clown is paid anything for his blog on the newspaper his wife is an editor at?
BTW, he calls his anus, 'the downpipe'
'Nobody has done this before': Britain's beloved steam trains trial technology
With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/21/ai-slop-artificial-intelligence-social-media
> A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazy, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
‘He felt our pain’: Catholic church in Gaza grieves Pope Francis’s death
Pope made nightly phone calls to the Holy Family #Catholic church from the start of the war in October 2023
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza
Tue 22 Apr 2025 10.32 EDT
"The first time he spoke to #PopeFrancis during the pontiff’s nightly calls to the Holy Family Catholic church in #Gaza City, the congregant George Antone, 44, found himself at a loss for words.
It was October 2023, a few weeks after #Hamas ignited a devastating war in the Gaza Strip by attacking #Israel. The #Palestinian territory’s tiny Christian community had taken shelter in the strip’s three churches, but that didn’t mean they were safe. An #Israeli airstrike had just hit the Greek Orthodox church, killing 18 people; soon, snipers and bombs would also kill civilians at the Holy Family."
#StopGazaGenocide
#NotAnotherBomb
#Palestine
#news #press @palestine
Child sexual abuse scandal cast long shadow over Francis’s papacy
@ianRobinson LOL I was done with the Guardian about four years ago. #theguardian
Most of the world’s population wants stronger climate action. They just don’t realize that they are a majority https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/22/89-percent-project-climate-change #Climatecrisis #TheGuardian #Environment #Media
'Immediate red flags': questions raised over 'expert' much quoted in UK press
Israel has ‘no choice’ but to continue fighting in Gaza, says Netanyahu
PM vows not to end war before destroying Hamas, as Israeli strikes kill more than 90 people in 48 hours
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews via #TheGuardian
Sat 19 Apr 2025 17.14 EDT
"#BenjaminNetanyahu said again Saturday that #srael had “no choice” but to continue fighting in #Gaza and will not end the war before destroying #Hamas and freeing the hostages."
"#Netanyahu is under growing pressure at home, not only from families of hostages and their supporters but also from reservist and retired #Israeli soldiers who question the continuation of the war."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/19/israel-has-no-choice-but-to-continue-fighting-in-gaza-says-netanyahu?CMP=share_btn_url
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#IsraelWarCrimes
#USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#news #press @palestine @israel
Are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?
Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/pete-hegseth-signal-chat-yemen-attack
#theguardian #pollution #coal #carboncredits
Australia’s biggest industrial polluter receives millions in carbon credits despite rising emissions https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/21/australias-biggest-industrial-polluter-receives-millions-in-carbon-credits-despite-rising-emissions?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in Israel's war on Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/18/microsoft-ai-israel-gaza-war
Detained #Turkish student must be transferred from #Louisiana for hearing, judge rules
#RümeysaÖztürk was taken by #immigration officials over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for op-ed
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
via #TheGuardian
Fri 18 Apr 2025 18.40 EDT
"A federal judge on Friday ordered that a #Turkish #TuftsUniversity student detained by immigration authorities in Louisiana be brought to #Vermont by 1 May for a hearing over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/tufts-student-judge-hearing?CMP=share_btn_url
#Release Rümeysa Öztürk
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
#Australia #NoNuclear #TheGuardian
Economists issue letter calling for clean energy, not nuclear
An open letter from 60 Australian economists has rejected the Coalition’s nuclear energy plan, promoting instead the subsidising of household clean energy policies, including incentives for home battery storage.
The organiser of the letter, Gareth Bryant, an associate professor in political economy at the University of Sydney, says the letter is intended as an intervention in the election campaign, reports AAP.
“As economists, energy analysts and policy specialists we strongly support government investment in household clean energy and industrial electrification and not in nuclear energy,” the letter says.
It says simple household clean energy upgrades can deliver immediate cost-of-living benefits and reductions in carbon emissions, and electrification can safeguard the future of industrial jobs and the communities that rely on them.
The economists, from a range of Australian universities and other tertiary institutions, said the construction of nuclear power plants would take at least 15 years at a cost of at least $330bn:
It would result in higher household energy costs, drain investment away from renewable energy and energy-intensive manufacturing, and leave the Australian economy precariously over-dependent on increasingly automated mineral extraction.
The economists said they support a nationwide program to upgrade homes and industry with clean renewable energy.
They said the technologies to fund should include large-scale home electrification with smart appliances to provide bill savings, energy-efficiency upgrades and battery storage, which can save surplus solar for night-time use, and hot water retrofits for more efficient water heating.
