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Federal judge blocks Title IX protections for transgender students in four states (www.advocate.com)

Bannon vows Trump’s opponents will be prosecuted in a second term | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, vowed investigations and prosecutions of those who have probed the former president and his political allies, declaring at a conservative gathering Saturday that Inauguration Day in 2025 will be “accountability day.”...

NATO is doing everything it can to prevent peace in Ukraine (antiimperialistnews.substack.com)

Incoming Post editor tied to self-described ‘thief’ who claimed role in his reporting (www.washingtonpost.com)

I’ve posted about this before but now WaPo is covering it

Clearview AI is Offering a Stake in Its Company to the People Whose Photos It Stole (petapixel.com)

Clearview AI, a facial recognition start-up that scraped more than 30 billion photos from social media, can’t afford to pay the settlement bill from its class-action lawsuit so is offering Americans a stake in its company instead....

Queer dolphins, penguins and bonobos: What science shows (www.axios.com)

It’s Pride month, a good time to share this reminder: It’s natural to be queer in the animal world....

‘Making this film was forbidden’: how Agnieszka Holland’s migrant thriller inflamed the Polish right (www.theguardian.com)

Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds (www.propublica.org)

More than 171,000 people traveled out-of-state for abortions last year (www.axios.com)

Some 171,300 patients traveled out-of-state for abortions last year, new data estimates from the Guttmacher Institute show. State abortion bans that took effect in the post-Roe era have severely curbed access to reproductive care across the U.S....

Australian police accused of 'unnecessary force' against demonstrators who were protesting against China during Chinese premier's visit to parliament (www.sbs.com.au)

- One protester has claimed the Australian Federal Police used “brutalising” force in Canberra, as China’s premier met with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and dignitaries at Parliament House....

Daniel Radcliffe Conjures Up His First Tony (www.nytimes.com)

This part of the US (Pacific Northwest) is at highest risk to a devastating tsunami (www.cnn.com)

US soldier detained in Russia pleads partially guilty in court, local media reports - ABC News (abcnews.go.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16623431...

Kotak’s CEO says Indians should work 84 hours a week (hellobanker.in)

Paul Pressler, a former Southern Baptist leader accused of sexual abuse, dead at 94 (feeds.texastribune.org)

Pressler was one of the most influential, if lesser-known, evangelical figures of the last half-century, having co-led a movement in the Southern Baptist Convention that pushed the nation’s second-largest faith group to adopt literal interpretations of the Bible, strongly condemn homosexuality and more closely align with the...

High home prices are 'feudalizing' California as unaffordable housing markets pose existential threat to middle class, study says (fortune.com)

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Israel added to UN ‘List of Shame’ for abuses against children in war, joining Palestinian Armed Groups, Russia, Sudanese Forces (www.hrw.org)

For the first time, the United Nations secretary-general added the Israeli armed forces to the “list of shame” of warring parties committing grave violations against children in armed conflict. Although long overdue, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ action was fully justified....

No, a Remote Amazon Tribe Did Not Get Addicted to Porn (www.nytimes.com)

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The Feds Want to Know How Fake Titanium Got in Boeing's Planes (gizmodo.com)

DeSantis Declares Emergency Over Floods After Cutting Stormwater Funds (www.commondreams.org)

White Dad Apologized to the Black Superintendent He Pushed On Stage, But It Didn't Go As He Expected (www.theroot.com)

“The outreach was really to indicate that he, Matthew, understands his mishap in terms of what he did, what he’s caused. He’s remorseful,” Briggs continued. “I took that as some form of apology, but that’s not something I think at this time amounts to a solid apology, from my perspective....

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