Russia Sought to Kill Defector in Florida (archive.is)
AP News: A search is underway for missing submarine that takes people to see Titanic (apnews.com)
"Do the lives of Russians anywhere matter to the Russian empire? The answer is simple – they don’t," a political scientist says (web.archive.org)
“The emperor only values his throne and will do anything to protect it, while all others are mere resources to be exploited,” writes Aleksandar Đokić, a Serbian political scientist and former lecturer at RUDN University in Moscow. “In other words, the Russian empire is knowingly throwing its own people, people of its own...
Techradar Just Shouted Out Beehaw! (www.techradar.com)
From the article:...
She thought she was unshockable, then two castrated Ukrainian soldiers arrived (www.thetimes.co.uk)
For a month the two men could not tell their psychologist what had happened to them, only that it was horrible beyond words. “If there’s hell somewhere, it’s worse than that,” said one....
‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags (web.archive.org)
In 2015, many liberal residents in Hamtramck, Michigan, celebrated as their city became the first in the United States to elect a Muslim-majority city council. They viewed the power shift and diversity as a meaningful rebuke of the Islamophobic rhetoric of then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign. This...
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four returned to Portland library after 65 years (www.bbc.com)
This book and also Brave New World should be on every school curriculum.
Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko, who replaced supermarket price tags with anti-war statements, faces a 10-year sentence (web.archive.org)
Skochilenkos lawyers began presenting proof of her innocence. They weren’t able to question the prosecution’s experts, as they both failed to show up to the court hearing, saying that they had both ended up in a hospital. But the defence still has a lot of unanswered questions towards the experts. They are now planning on...
EU blocks Ukraine grain imports to five countries including Poland (www.euronews.com)
Unironically, tariffs would help here IMO to bring Ukrainian exports to the price levels set by EU wages....
Declassified report reveals that the US government is buying troves of data about its citizens (web.archive.org)
Perhaps most controversially, the government believes it can “persistently” track the phones of “millions of Americans” without a warrant, so long as it pays for the information, a newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ODNI, reveals. Were the government to simply demand...
Opinion | If the Supreme Court Abolishes Affirmative Action, Here’s What Women Need to Do | The New York Times (archive.today)
Archive Link from archive.today...
Chinese censors to restrict use of AirDrop and Bluetooth, activists fear it will further hinder their ability to mobilise people and share information (web.archive.org)
Bluetooth, AirDrop and such file-sharing services are crucial tools in China, where the so-called Great Firewall has resulted in one of the mostly tightly-controlled internet regimes. In recent years, anti-government protesters have often turned to AirDrop to organise and share their political demands. For instance, some...
Bothered by pot smell, she sued her neighbor to stop smoking — and won (www.washingtonpost.com)
A D.C. judge has ruled that a man who smokes medical marijuana in his apartment must stop after a neighbor complained that the odor from his marijuana crept into her home and caused a nuisance.