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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 Texas
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"platform that was just adopted by the #Texas #Republican Party...

that the Bible should be taught in public #schools, with chaplains on hand “to counsel & give guidance from a traditional biblical perspective”...

That #doctors who perform #abortions should be charged with homicide. That the #UnitedStates should withdraw from the #UnitedNations and that the international organization should be removed from #US soil."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/03/texas-republican-party-new-platform/

#GOP #Christofascism #Politics #USA #News

ZhiZhu, to art
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"New Yorker editor Françoise Mouly was wrestling with fatigue.

“We are circumspect about publishing any more Trump covers — no one wants to see or hear about him anymore,”...

Yet knowing that a historic was imminent, Mouly and editor David Remnick began sifting through sketched ideas, most of them premised on a verdict."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2024/06/01/political-cartoons-trump-guilty-verdict/

ZhiZhu, to politics
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"The conviction comes at a critical moment in the campaign...

Trump’s entire persona is built around the facade that he is a powerful strongman, impervious to attacks and solely capable of defending his followers. Now he stands for election as a convict, a weak man too cowardly to take the stand who was bested by a local district attorney."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/30/trump-trial-convicted-impact/

ZhiZhu, to politics
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"Trump is a .

Resoundingly. On every count.

This was no split verdict. It was a devastating conclusion, reached swiftly but after evidently serious consideration of the evidence.

It follows on the civil jury that found liable in 2023 for sexually abusing ... In addition to the state judge who ordered Trump to pay more than $355 million for defrauding lenders & insurers about his wealth"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/30/trump-guilty-felon-2024/

ZhiZhu, to ai
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"the Israeli Army... is currently using an system named Lavender in ... Instead of serving ads, Lavender automatically puts people on a kill list based on the likeness of their surveillance data patterns to the data patterns of purported militants – a process that we know, as experts, is hugely inaccurate. Here we have the AI-driven logic of ad targeting, but for killing....

This is something that should alarm us all."
https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/en/news-1/detail/the-prizewinners-speech

ZhiZhu, to vexillology
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"Alito’s misconduct also brings Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who heads an entire branch of government, to an inflection point. If he does nothing, Roberts is complicit in the destruction of the court’s reputation. Such spinelessness might even snatch from Roger B. Taney, the author of the majority opinion in Dred Scott, the title of “worst chief justice ever.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/26/alito-durbin-supreme-court/

ZhiZhu, to journalism
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"“when I WIN the Presidency of the , they and others of the LameStream will be thoroughly scrutinized for their knowingly dishonest & corrupt coverage of people, things, and events,” Donald posted on Truth Social last September in an attack on NBC News...

What could Trump do to the media and its ability to inform the American people?

Judging by what he did in his first term, plenty."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/21/trump-second-presidency-news-media/

ZhiZhu, to ilaughed
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"Israeli officials seized equipment from the and shut down its long-standing feed of northern on Tuesday...

The move was quickly denounced by free advocates, who portrayed it as an escalation of an effort to restrict coverage of the Israel-Hamas war...

In a statement, the Associated Press firmly condemned the government’s move...

The also called the action “concerning.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/05/21/israel-seizes-associated-press/

ZhiZhu, to MIguns
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"Republican Gov. Greg Abbott... pardoning Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant convicted in the fatal of a protester during a march...

After Perry’s conviction, unsealed court records revealed that he regularly shared memes &threatening content in private messages & posts, including descriptions of killing protesters & minorities."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/abbott-daniel-perry-blm-protester/

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/

ZhiZhu, to tech
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"Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful #tech companies — #Apple, #Microsoft and #SpaceX — 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 #work for direct competitors."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/

#Jobs #Employment #Technology #Career #WorkFromHome #WFH #RTO #USA #News

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

Bishop’s species is not doomed to , advocates say, but time is running out."

https://wapo.st/4dDItaQ

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 Strip. Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser and Al Shifa , including of and , with many reportedly showing signs of and summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive,” the experts said.

...as of 29 April 2024, of 34,488 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

ZhiZhu, to business
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"The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday banned #noncompete agreements for most #US workers with a new rule that will bar employers from enforcing clauses that restrict #workers 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/

#Jobs #Employment #Business #FTC #Law #USA #News

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

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/

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 #Moscow elite say has become a hybrid war against the West. #Russia is seeking to subvert Western support for #Ukraine and disrupt the domestic politics of the #UnitedStates and #European countries, through #propaganda campaigns supporting isolationist and #extremist policies”

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https://wapo.st/3vMlQ39

#GOP #Politics #USA #News #WorldNews

ZhiZhu, to Israel
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"For three-and-a-half long hours on Jan. 29, the cellphone in 6-year old Hind Rajab’s hands was the closest thing she had to a lifeline. Alone in the back seat of a car outside a #Gaza City gas station, she was drifting in and out of consciousness, surrounded by bodies, as she told emergency dispatchers that #Israeli tanks were rumbling closer.

...Paramedics were on their way, the dispatchers kept telling her: Hold on."

#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://wapo.st/4aCoCqA

#Gaza #Israel #News

ZhiZhu, to journalism
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@lolgop @georgelakoff

To refute lies:

Always LEAD with the TRUTH, not the lies.

DO NOT put the lies first in your tweets, headlines, and/or articles.

Giving lies primacy, gives them validity.

Give the truth primacy, not the lies.


(<for the )

ht: @georgelakoff

ZhiZhu, to politics
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"The modern is supposed to be pro-family, pro-tax-cuts and anti-“waste, fraud and abuse.” So why are trying to tank a bill that is all three?

In January, lawmakers hammered out a kids-and-companies deal: would extend a few business tax breaks that had recently expired in exchange for expanding the . The bipartisan compromise turned out to be a very good bill"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/11/child-tax-credit-republicans-senate/

ZhiZhu, to Palestine
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"How does it feel to be a war-crimes reporter whose family bankrolled a nation that’s committing war crimes?

I can tell you.

I covered the genocide in Bosnia for The Post, wrote a book about it, and reported from Iraq & Afghanistan, among other conflict-ridden countries. Also, my ancestors were key funders of Jewish immigration to British-controlled Palestine."

https://wapo.st/3TUjTtp
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ZhiZhu, to Palestine
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"Thousands of took to the streets in demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government, demanding fresh ...

Demonstrators carried torches and posters denouncing , who is also facing pressure from allies, including the , over Israel’s punishing military campaign in ...

At least 33,137 people have been killed and 75,815 injured in Gaza since the war began"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/07/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza-palestine/

ZhiZhu, to journalism
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"Watching Trump sell his swindle about migrants, it occurred to me that those suckered by the Trump Media IPO got a better deal, relatively speaking. Those who bought “DJT” shares lost only their shirts. But those who have been snookered into seeing migrants as diseased animals have lost part of their souls."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/05/trump-swindle-crowd-green-bay-rally/

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