[opinion] Trump Says He's 'Okay' With Serving Jail Time, And He Might Do Just That (www.theroot.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/17713272...
Police investigate theft of more than 200 Pride flags in Massachusetts (www.theguardian.com)
Sonoma County jail inmates began a hunger strike a week ago, alleging jail staff weren't following COVID protocols. The jail is now quarantined with at least three positive cases. (www.pressdemocrat.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/sonoma-county-jail-hunger-strik…
German Cop Dies After Being Stabbed At Anti-Islam Rally (www.ndtv.com)
Five people taking part in a rally organised by Pax Europa, a campaign group against radical Islam, were wounded in the attack....
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents (www.404media.co)
California inmates fight wildfires — but if prisons can’t supply enough crews, what’s next? (www.sacbee.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/article287294735.html
Why investors are doubling down on Truth Social despite Trump's historic conviction (www.npr.org)
Lengthy immigrant detention can be unconstitutional, US appeals court rules (www.reuters.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/lengthy-immigrant-detention-can…
Top Democrats launch inquiry into Trump’s brazen $1bn pitch to oil execs (www.theguardian.com)
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse calls audacious request ‘definition of corruption’ amid investigation into Mar-a-Lago meeting in April...
CEOs made nearly 200 times what their workers got paid last year (apnews.com)
The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 13% last year, easily surpassing the gains for workers at a time when inflation was putting considerable pressure on Americans’ budgets....
Preliminary results project Claudia Sheinbaum to become Mexico’s first female president (edition.cnn.com)
Mexico is set to get its first female president, with preliminary results showing Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and Mexico City’s former mayor, is on track to win the country’s largest election in history....
Tulsi Gabbard’s Aunt Allegedly Stabbed, Beaten to Death with Hammer in Samoa (www.thedailybeast.com)
Who is Elizabeth Teckenbrock? Single mom who went viral for crying while baking own birthday cake says ex-husband is ‘Scientologist’ (haor.org)
Elizabeth Teckenbrock, 29, from Tampa, Florida, went viral after sharing a clip on TikTok showing the difficulty of being a single parent which has amassed more than 53million views
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents (www.404media.co)
Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth...
Live Nation, Ticketmaster Confirms Hack Affecting More Than 500 Million Customers (www.complex.com)
Biden's Gaza plan 'not a good deal' but Israel accepts it, Netanyahu aide says (www.reuters.com)
Netanyahu is under pressure to keep his coalition government intact. Two far-right partners have threatened to bolt in protest at any deal they deem to spare Hamas. A centrist partner, ex-general Benny Gantz, wants the deal considered. Hamas has provisionally welcomed the Biden initiative.
After crackdown on Hong Kong, overseas communities carry the torch to keep Tiananmen memories alive (apnews.com)
HONG KONG (AP) — As the 35th anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown neared, Rowena He, a prominent scholar of that bloody chapter of modern China’s history, was busy flying between the United States, Britain and Canada to give a series of talks. Each was aimed at speaking out for those who cannot....
Revenge: analysis of Trump posts shows relentless focus on punishing enemies (www.theguardian.com)
Navy sailor sentenced to 18 years in prison over espionage charges (www.nbcnews.com)
A U.S. sailor was dishonorably discharged and sentenced to 18 years in a military prison Thursday after being found guilty of espionage while working for the Navy in Japan....
A growing California wildfire spanning 14,000 acres is forcing residents to evacuate (www.cnn.com)
Black scholars criticize white writer's 'dehumanizing' use of blackface to write book on U.S. race relations (www.cbc.ca)
A Canadian journalist is defending his decision to travel the U.S. in blackface and write a book about racism, after facing a storm of criticism online....
100 years ago, US citizenship for Native Americans came without voting rights in swing states (apnews.com)
It’s been a century now since an act of Congress granted citizenship to Native Americans, but advocates say that right bestowed in 1924 still hasn’t translated into equal access to the ballot. Inequities are especially pronounced in remote regions across the U.S., and some key Southwestern states with large Native American...
49% of independents, 15% of Republicans think Trump should end campaign: poll (www.independent.co.uk)
Labour unions in Nigeria to begin indefinite strike over minimum wage (www.africanews.com)
The two main labour unions in Nigeria have declared an indefinite strike as from Monday over what they terms as a disagreement on a new minimum wage with the government.
Kehlani stands with Palestinians in newest music video (www.nbcnews.com)
The video: youtu.be/MpI7ekFG8A0
