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Amazon union president knocks Biden: ‘No cavalry coming’ for American workers ( thehill.com )
‘Isn’t it past your jail time?’: Jimmy Kimmel wins cheers at Oscars with Trump jibe ( www.theguardian.com )
Oscars host makes comment onstage after ex-president writes scathing review of Kimmel on his Truth Social platform
How to block certain words on lemmy feed
As the title says I want to block posts with specific words. I'm not an American and lately my whole feed is filled with trump/biden and I'm not slightly interested. Thanks in advance.
The Supreme Court just gave insurrectionists a free pass to overthrow democracy ( www.independent.co.uk )
In a split ruling, five conservative justices decided that any candidate who tries to overthrow the government can still get elected, as long as they have the support of Congress. Alex Woodward reports
Georgia Senate passes bill banning American Library Association from state libraries ( www.advocate.com )
Trump gave top US firms staggering tax cuts, with some paying $0 or less – report ( www.theguardian.com )
Among lowest taxpayers were companies whose CEOs have become high-profile advocates for corporate social responsibility...
‘This is B.S.’: Maddow shreds ‘cravenness’ of Supreme Court delaying Trump trial ( www.msnbc.com )
"This is B.S.—you were doing this as a dilatory tactic to help your political friend," says Rachel Maddow on the Supreme Court agreeing to hear the Trump immunity argument, delaying his coup trial. "And for you to say that this is something that the Court needs to decide because it's something that's unclear in the law is just...
Record-setting $1 billion gift will allow Einstein Medical School to go tuition-free - NY Daily News ( www.nydailynews.com )
Just another example of something that could be universal if we taxed the rich appropriately.
Trump closes in on Biden with young voters: Poll ( www.axios.com )
Biden is barely beating Trump among young voters
Here’s Why Jalapeño Peppers Are Less Spicy Than Ever ( www.dmagazine.com )
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'Doom spending' takes hold among younger consumers ( chicago.suntimes.com )
Alabama Justice Who Ruled That Embryos Are ‘Children’ Appeared On QAnon Conspiracist's Show ( www.huffpost.com )
Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker indicated on the show he was a proponent of the “Seven Mountains Mandate,” an explicitly theocratic doctrine at the heart of Christian nationalism....
Duke Shuts Down Huge Plant Collection, Causing Scientific Uproar ( www.nytimes.com )
University officials say they cannot afford to maintain one of the largest herbariums in the United States. Researchers are urging Duke to reconsider....
They say MacDonald's is expensive now. Are any other chains still cheap/cheaper?
Can Trump pay? What if he doesn’t? Here’s what to know about Trump’s massive civil judgments. ( www.politico.com )
NEW YORK — A seven-figure verdict, an eight-figure verdict and, now, a nine-figure verdict....
A crowd set fire to a driverless Waymo taxi in San Francisco, as tensions about driverless tech grow ( www.businessinsider.com )
Georgia police and FBI conduct Swat-style raids on ‘Cop City’ activists’ homes ( www.theguardian.com )
The Supreme Court seems poised to reject efforts to kick Trump off the ballot over the Capitol riot ( apnews.com )
Surprise!!
The US economy is doing well. President Biden wants to know why so many Americans are still feeling bad ( www.cnn.com )
11 Democratic senators call on DEA to deschedule marijuana entirely ( thehill.com )
YSK: Indeed and other job sites are saturated with scams
For the past two years, legitimate job postings on Indeed and Glassdoor have been replaced by scams. If you're tricked, the scammers aren't satisfied with your contact info in your CV, they reach out via email to request that you connect on an encrypted messenger app where they can privately scam you out of thousands in pre-hire...
Maryland bill would force gun owners to get $300K liability insurance to wear or carry ( foxbaltimore.com )
Maryland House Democrats introduced a controversial gun safety bill requiring gun owners to forfeit their ability to wear or carry without firearm liability insurance....
Outrage in Seattle after ‘raids’ of several gay bars citing ‘lewd conduct’ laws ( www.advocate.com )
Man Displays Father’s Severed Head in Horrific Video Railing Against Biden, Immigration, ‘Far-Left Woke Mobs’ ( www.mediaite.com )
Justin Mohn, a 32-year-old Pennsylvania man, is in police custody after allegedly murdering and decapitating his father, claiming the latter was a "federal employee" and a "traitor." Before his arrest, Mohn posted a 14-minute video to YouTube in which he displayed his father's severed head, proclaiming: "This is the head of Mike...
Trump must still cough up at least $90M in E. Jean Carroll verdict — and soon — even though an appeal means she has to wait for it ( www.businessinsider.com )
Donald Trump has to cut a fat check, and his appeal of the E. Jean Carroll verdict won't delay that....
Gen Z and millennial productivity is being crushed by bosses who don’t understand them, top university research says ( fortune.com )
Starting a career has increasingly felt like a right of passage for Gen Z and Millennial workers struggling to adapt to the working week and stand out to their new bosses....
Wisconsin Republicans make last-ditch effort to pass new legislative maps ( apnews.com )
Wisconsin Republicans made a last-ditch effort Tuesday to avoid having the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court put in place new legislative district boundaries for the November election....
Florida Republican nixes plan to have taxpayers pay Trump’s legal bills ( www.politico.com )
Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use ( venturebeat.com )
Homeless family traveling in hopes of receiving unemployment relief, Great Depression, USA, 1939 ( media.kbin.social )
Parole denied for 68-year-old in Alabama: ‘A life sentence for growing marijuana’ ( www.al.com )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240118131524/https://www.al.com/news/montgomery/2024/01/parole-denied-for-68-year-old-in-alabama-a-life-sentence-for-growing-marijuana.html
Far-right extremism is thriving in rural areas. Here's what it looks like in Upstate NY ( www.northcountrypublicradio.org )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240118131456/https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/49046/20240115/far-right-extremism-is-thriving-in-rural-areas-here-s-what-it-looks-like-in-upstate-ny
Hamas releases video of three Israeli hostages saying they'll learn 'fate' on Monday ( www.standard.co.uk )
The undated 37-second video of Noa Argamani, 26, Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38, released on Sunday night showed them speaking presumably under duress, pleading with Israel’s government to end the war and get them home....
Texas "physically barred" Border Patrol agents from trying to rescue migrants who drowned, federal officials say ( www.cbsnews.com )
Federal officials and a congressman said National Guard soldiers deployed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not allow Border Patrol agents to attempt to rescue the migrants.
15 G.O.P. Governors Shut Out Food Aid for 8 Million Children ( www.nytimes.com )
Do tomatoes survive winter? ( feddit.cl )
So this year I grew some tomatoes for the first time. They were small but tasty....
Gen Zers are turning to ‘radical rest,’ delusional thinking, and self-indulgence as they struggle to cope with late-stage capitalism ( finance.yahoo.com )
Prosecutors grapple with alternate reality defense of the political fringe in Paul Pelosi trial ( www.politico.com )
We've decided to invest in squirt guns to deal with the forest fire problem ( sh.itjust.works )