Two Myanmar Political Prisoners ‘Killed’ in Bago after Arrest (www.irrawaddy.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/15679473...
Joe Rogan and Bret Weinstein Promote AIDS Denialism to an Audience of Millions (www.vice.com)
Warren Buffett’s Squishmallows firm sues Build-A-Bear amid ‘knock-off’ claims (www.theguardian.com)
Jazwares claims that rival has created its own pillow-like toys to cash in on its viral success...
Top UN Court rejects South African request for intervention in Rafah (www.ctvnews.ca)
Interesting considering the number of people who took the last ruling as proof of a genocide. I’d have expected the Court to intervene if they felt that way.
Tesla Cybertrucks Are Rusting Despite Being Made Of Stainless Steel (jalopnik.com)
Despite the recent release of these Tesla EVs — and the little road time they’ve been subjected to — Cybertrucks are already developing imperfections on their body panels, leading owners to debate what’s causing the early signs of rust on forums. From Futurism:...
Trump faces a $370m fine in New York fraud trial. How would he pay it? (www.bbc.com)
Trump could secure a bond, but it will cost him...
‘Hamas is not a terrorist group,’ says UN Relief Chief Martin Griffiths (www.jpost.com)
UN Relief Chief Martin Griffiths told a representative from Sky News on Wednesday that he did not consider Hamas to be a terrorist group....
Republicans Are Planning to Totally Privatize Medicare -- And Fast (www.rollingstone.com)
18 elementary students, teacher fall ill after dry ice experiment in Tennessee classroom (www.usatoday.com)
Science experiment gone wrong sends 18 students, teacher to Tennessee hospital (abcnews.go.com)
A science experiment gone wrong at a Tennessee elementary school sent 18 students and a teacher to the hospital on Friday, officials said....
Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf (wamu.org)
The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging can be repurposed, and local governments use taxpayer money to gather and process the material. Yet from the early days of...
Judge fines Trump more than $300 million, bars from running businesses in New York for three years (www.nbcnews.com)
Passenger allegedly boards flight from Nashville to Los Angeles without a ticket (www.usatoday.com)
A woman allegedly boarded a flight from Nashville to Los Angeles without a boarding pass earlier this month....
US wholesale inflation accelerated in January in latest sign that prices picked up last month (apnews.com)
Sora: OpenAI launches tool that instantly creates video from text (www.theguardian.com)
Model from ChatGPT maker ‘simulates physical world in motion’ up to a minute long based on users’ subject and style instructions
Japan loses crown as world’s third-largest economy after it slips into recession (www.theguardian.com)
Fall in rank below Germany has been attributed to a weak yen and country’s ageing, shrinking population...
Trump's legal debts top a half-billion dollars. Will he have to pay? (www.independent.co.uk)
Donald Trump’s legal debts might now exceed a half-billion dollars...
Billionaire Soros to Become Biggest Stockholder in US Radio Company (www.bloomberg.com)
Archived link:...
Trump Privately Expresses Support for a 16-Week Abortion Ban (www.nytimes.com)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/fPvml
Tributes to Alexei Navalny, Putin's greatest foe, removed from Russian cities as police look on (apnews.com)
Navalny’s death at age 47 has deprived the Russian opposition of its most well-known and inspiring politician less than a month before an election that will give President Vladimir Putin another six years in power....
Texas will build camp for National Guard members in border city of Eagle Pass (apnews.com)
Texas will build an operations base for up to 1,800 National Guard members in Eagle Pass, expanding the presence of soldiers in the border city where the state has clashed with the Biden administration over immigration enforcement, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced Friday....
Leak of Russian ‘Threat’ Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say (www.wired.com)
Judge Engoron Takes Parting Shot at Ivanka Trump (archive.is)
But god forbid we prosecute a wealthy white woman for perjury. That would just be beyond the pale....
Walmart Is Getting Tired of Just Being a Store (nymag.com)
Amazon argues that national labor board is unconstitutional, joining SpaceX and Trader Joe's (apnews.com)
Amazon is arguing in a legal filing that the 88-year-old National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional, echoing similar arguments made this year by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the grocery store chain Trader Joe’s in disputes about workers’ rights and organizing....
