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ZhiZhu

@ZhiZhu@newsie.social

"All mimsy were the borogoves..." Avid reader, occasional world traveler, raises chickens in Texas.
Interested in #Journalism #News #USPolitics #Books #SFF #Photography #Travel #Nature #Science #Ukraine #Etymology and other things.

I create threads of news articles I find interesting, and occasionally share a #GiftArticle so those without subscriptions can read the whole article.

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ZhiZhu, to Humor
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"State laws measure if a woman is close enough to death for an abortion"
By Ann Telnaes
Editorial cartoonist
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/03/ann-telnaes-cartoon-abortion-laws/

GottaLaff, to random
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FYI, someone just asked me, "Could you please put a CW on those US politics posts?"

I said no sorry,, just mute me.

I don't understand CWing political posts. And that doesn't mean you need to @ me explaining why. I know THEIR reasons, I just disagree with them and won't do it.

I respect CWs for other things, but not politics. Politics is news and people need to be aware of what's happening. It's not gory or violent, it's politics.

Kthxbye.

ZhiZhu,
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@timecraft @GottaLaff

"Politics is not marriage.

You don't have to love the candidate you vote for.

Politics is public transportation.

If you don't vote, you are allowing those who DO vote to choose where you are going."

And if you don't pay attention to politics, you'll have no idea where the bus is going or where it can go. You're just letting those who do pay attention and vote control where your life goes.

ZhiZhu, to tech
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"Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful companies — , and — were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent...

What they found was a strong correlation between senior-level employees departing directly after a mandate was implemented... and in many cases, they went to for direct competitors."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/

ZhiZhu,
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“We find experienced impacted by these policies at major companies seek elsewhere, taking some of the most valuable human capital investments and tools of with them,” said... one of the study’s authors.

“ leaders should weigh carefully employee preferences and market opportunities when deciding when, or if, they mandate a return to office.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/

ZhiZhu,
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"“Our findings suggest that mandates cost the company more than previously thought... These attrition rates aren’t just something that can be managed away.”...

A spike in departures of senior employees... could reflect the “double-pinch” they inflict on managers, who have to deal with the policy’s effects on the teams they lead & in their own lives...

it’s also just a hit to morale...

Maybe managers leave shortly after mandates... “because it’s easier to manage a team that’s happy.”

ZhiZhu, to nature
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"Bishop’s story, from birth to presumed death, shows the extreme danger facing right #whales, which could be #extinct in three decades if they continue to disappear at the present rate.

Bishop’s species is not doomed to #extinction, advocates say, but time is running out."
#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://wapo.st/4dDItaQ

#Nature #Wildlife #Animals #Marinelife #Oceans #EastCoast #Florida #Virginia #Massachusetts #USA #News

ZhiZhu,
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"“As we watch this go one by one, the solution sits idle in the hands of the administration”...

this year, a dead female turned up off with a dislocated spine, a calf was discovered in with head lacerations, & a young female was found — again in Georgia — with a fractured skull. All the injuries are consistent with vessel strikes.

“It’s only that kill right ”"


https://wapo.st/4dDItaQ

w7voa, to random
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WABC Radio cancels Rudy Giuliani's daily talk show for violating station policy by repeatedly trying to discuss on air discredited claims about the 2020 presidential election. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/nyregion/giuliani-radio-suspended.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q00.od1Q.mEE5vfRSIMeU&smid=url-share

ZhiZhu,
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@w7voa

Free Speech
by
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1357:_Free_Speech

"The 1st Amendment doesn't shield you from criticism or consequences.

“If you’re yelled at, boycotted, have your show canceled, or get banned from an internet community, your free speech rights aren’t being violated.

It’s just that the people listening think you’re an asshole,

and they’re showing you the door.”

ZhiZhu, to Israel
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“Israel should not launch a major ground operation in , where more than a million people are sheltering with nowhere else to go,” said a senior administration official, explaining the decision to pause the shipments. “We are especially focused on the end-use of the 2,000-pound bombs and the impact they could have in dense urban settings as we have seen in other parts of .”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/07/biden-delays-weapons-israel-rafah/

ZhiZhu, to Women
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"“We are horrified at details emerging from mass graves recently unearthed in the #Gaza Strip. Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser and Al Shifa #hospitals, including of #women and #children, with many reportedly showing signs of #torture and summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive,” the experts said.

...as of 29 April 2024, of 34,488 #Palestinians killed in Gaza, 14,500 have been children and 9,500 women."
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/05/onslaught-violence-against-women-and-children-gaza-unacceptable-un-experts

#Palestine #Israel #War

ZhiZhu,
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"Over 8,000 others are reported missing or under the rubble – ...at least half of them can be assumed to be and ... an estimated 63 women, including 37 mothers are being killed daily and 17,000 Palestinian children are believed to have been orphaned since the war on began.

1.7 million people are internally displaced, and 1.1. million are projected to face catastrophic levels of insecurity."
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/05/onslaught-violence-against-women-and-children-gaza-unacceptable-un-experts

ZhiZhu,
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"the direct bombardment of #hospitals & deliberate denial of access to #health care facilities by #Israeli snipers... placing an estimated 50,000 pregnant #Palestinian #women & 20,000 new-born babies at unimaginable risk. Over 183 women per day are giving birth w/out pain relief, while hundreds of #babies have died because of a lack of electricity to power incubators... increases in miscarriages by up to 300%. 95% of pregnant & breastfeeding women face severe #food poverty”

#Gaza #Israel #War

foser, to random
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New from me and Will Royce in @theprospect on a SCOTUS corruption angle that often goes overlooked in coverage of decisions: https://prospect.org/justice/2024-05-02-covering-friends-of-the-court/

ZhiZhu,
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"The flagrant #corruption of the #Court has received a great deal of media attention & public scrutiny in recent years. But that scrutiny has been largely siloed away from coverage of the Court’s substantive deliberations & #decisions. It’s time to break out of those silos.

The story of the justices’ lucrative relationships with #right-wing #billionaires is inseparable from those billionaires’ judicial shadow-lobbying via amicus briefs."

#SCOTUS

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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I just learned that Jed Shugerman wrote a piece for the New York Times evaluating Bragg's case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opinion/bragg-trump-trial.html

Edited: I have now read it, thanks Joel.
As I have done, Jed leaves open the possibility that the prosecution may develop the case better.

@joelman in the comments offered a gift link. Thanks again.

My weekend blog post should help anyone with questions.

ZhiZhu,
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@Teri_Kanefield

What do you think of this explanation of Trump's crime?

"And while there’s nothing illegal about catch-and-kill per se, when these payments become unreported campaign contributions, it crosses over from shady to illegal. And then when you tried to hide those through falsifying your records, it becomes a felony.

That’s what’s happened here, and it won’t be hard for the prosecution to point out the difference."
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-defense-strategy-is-risky?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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If you read my weekend blog post, you know that I've been pointing out that the predicate crime in the Trump trial is not clear.

(For what I mean, see my weekend blog post).

Here is what the Washington Post reported.

See screenshots #1 and #2.

Here is the law: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ELN/17-152?utm_medium=email&wpisrc=nl-nationalpopup&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=wp_the_trump_trials

To be clear: I have no idea how this trial will turn out. I cannot substitute my judgment for the jury because I am not seeing what they are seeing.

1/

ZhiZhu,
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@Teri_Kanefield

What do you think of @jaykuo 's explanation of Trump's crime?

"And while there’s nothing illegal about catch-and-kill per se, when these payments become unreported campaign contributions, it crosses over from shady to illegal. And then when you tried to hide those through falsifying your records, it becomes a felony.

That’s what’s happened here, and it won’t be hard for the prosecution to point out the difference."
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-defense-strategy-is-risky?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

ZhiZhu, to business
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"The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday banned agreements for most workers with a new rule that will bar employers from enforcing clauses that restrict from switching employers within their industry...

The new rule makes it illegal for employers to include the agreements in employment contracts and requires companies with active noncompete agreements to inform workers that they are void."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/23/ftc-noncompete-agreements/

ZhiZhu, to journalism
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The Nevada Current telling it like it is in and lede:

Trump, RNC promise ‘aggressive’ election interference in battleground states

"Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee on Friday announced a “100,000 person strong” program designed to harass officials and their employees and discredit in Nevada and a dozen other states."
https://nevadacurrent.com/2024/04/21/trump-rnc-promise-aggressive-election-interference-in-battleground-states/

ZhiZhu, to Texas
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"One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her... [another horror story]... And in , a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby died.

Complaints that pregnant were turned away from emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. overturned "
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-04-20/emergency-rooms-refused-to-treat-pregnant-patients-leaving-one-to-miscarry-in-a-lobby-restroom

anneapplebaum, to random
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The pro-Russian caucus inside the GOP was defeated on Saturday. Now it's time for the US and Europe to join forces and win the war

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/republican-ukraine-russia-aid/678150/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31Myo7gT0JLHWazLZU02WIY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

ZhiZhu,
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"What is now clearly a pro-Russia caucus has consolidated inside .

The lesson is clear: Anyone who seeks to manipulate the foreign policy of the , whether the tin-pot autocrat in or the Communist Party of , now knows that a carefully designed campaign, when targeted at the right people, can succeed well beyond what anyone once thought possible."

JuliusGoat, to random
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I wrote about American Nazis and what they believe, and the white Christian movement that calls itself "conservative," and the differentiators between the two. Or perhaps I should say, the lack of them.

The danger that's coming, and that which is here already.
https://www.the-reframe.com/americans-who-want-to-kill-americans/

ZhiZhu,
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"I'm reminded today that the were defending statues erected in public spaces to honor leaders of the , who were a traitorous gang of who back in the Sixties (the eighteen sixties) waged a war against their own country, and murdered hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens in order to preserve and expand their practice of enriching themselves by enslaving Black people."

https://www.the-reframe.com/americans-who-want-to-kill-americans/

TexasObserver, to poetry
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“Freshly roused children flock toward school ...”

Sara Bawany shared this heartbreaking , in this month's magazine ... https://www.texasobserver.org/poem-elegy-for-the-insert-school-shooting/

ZhiZhu,
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@TexasObserver
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ZhiZhu, to Ukraine
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"If you knew that most of the military aid that approves for was being spent right here in the , quite possibly in your own congressional district — strengthening our defense production capacity and creating good manufacturing for workers — would you want your representatives in Washington to support it?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/18/ukraine-map-districts-weapons/

ProPublica, to Israel
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BREAKING: Secretary of State Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapes

A special State Department panel told Blinken that the U.S. should restrict arms sales to military units that have been credibly accused of human rights abuses. He has not taken any action.

https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-gaza-blinken-leahy-sanctions-human-rights-violations

ZhiZhu,
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"Multiple State Department officials who have worked on relations said that Blinken’s inaction has undermined Biden’s public criticism...

The recommendations came from a special committee of State Department officials known as the Israel Leahy Vetting Forum...

requires the to cut off assistance to any foreign or law enforcement units... that are credibly accused of flagrant violations."

molly0xfff, to random
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really upsetting to see former Wikimedia Foundation director and CEO Katherine Maher getting targeted by the rightwing outrage machine in her new role as NPR CEO. she's wonderful, and NPR is lucky to have her. i hope they stand behind her.

ZhiZhu,
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@drexer @molly0xfff

The #NYTimes once published an article saying that #Hitler wasn’t really that bad. He was just using #antisemitism as a way to attract followers & keep them excited about his #political campaign.

The NYTimes more recently published an article saying that #Trump isn’t really that bad. He is just using threats of #violence & #authoritarianism as a way to attract followers & keep them excited about his political campaign.

#Politics #Journalism #Media #Press #News #Meme

ZhiZhu, to Russia
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"The [Russian Foreign Ministry] document for the first time provides official confirmation and codification of what many in the elite say has become a hybrid war against the West. is seeking to subvert Western support for and disrupt the domestic politics of the and countries, through campaigns supporting isolationist and policies”


https://wapo.st/3vMlQ39

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