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  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s Memoir Reveals How Ghislaine Maxwell Found the Teen at Mar-a-Lago and Sent Her to Jeffrey Epstein

  • Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump

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  • ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

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  • The Party of Donald Trump wrote the emancipation proclamation in the 1800s. Who cares?

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  • Correction -- SLRPNK.net's admins are all anarchists, but the server is not 'for' anarchists. Limiting our membership to anarchists for one means we would have to precisely define what an anarchist is, and then enforce that definition on our membership. In spaces where someone can be ejected for not being anarchist, this leads to attempts by people to censor others by trying to narrow the definition so the people they argue with fall on the wrong side of the line.

    We're looking for people who believe in the value of scientific consensus. We're building a community that wants society to change to better meet the challenges of resource scarcity, ecological collapse, and increasing authoritarian influence in politics. We celebrate good faith discussion, and discourage trolling and bad rhetoric. We don't tolerate hate speech and spamming. We believe a diverse set of ideas and approaches are more likely to solve complex problems than adhering to a strict party line. As anarchists and adminstrators, we approach revolution through prefiguration, believe that means and ends are inseparable, and want our server to reflect the society of the future we'd like to live in -- one where diversity of thought is foundational in finding creative answers, and people with varying goals and ideals are able to work together to solve shared problems.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    "Enshittification": Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It

  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    ‘ICE Kidnapping’ Signs Are Popping Up Around D.C. —And the White House Is Freaking Out

    mhtntimes.com /articles/ice-kidnapping-signs-are-popping-up-around-d-c
  • Texas @lemmy.world
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    Houston: Missing teen with autism in immigration custody, ICE reports

    www.fox26houston.com /news/missing-emmanuel-gonzalez-garcia-houston-autism
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  • The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act

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  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Lrrr, Ruler of Omicron Persei 8 is Confused.

  • What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

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  • No, but I will acknowledge it is insane and idiotic for me to spend time educating people who use Billy Madison memes to accuse others of lowing the quality of discourse.

    How was the meaning of this word altered so dramatically in the United States? During the First World War, some of the leading Progressive writers began to use the word liberalism as a substitute for progressivism, which had become tarnished by its association with their fallen hero, Theodore Roosevelt, who had run and lost on a Progressive third party ticket. Traditional liberals were not happy to see their label transformed. In the 1920s, The New York Times criticized "the expropriation of the time-honored word 'liberal' " and argued that "the Radical-Red school of thought ... hand back the word 'liberal' to its original owners." During the early 1930s, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt duked it out as to who was the true liberal. Roosevelt won, adopting the term to ward off accusations of being left-wing. He could declare that liberalism was "plain English for a changed concept of the duty and responsibility of government toward economic life." And since the New Deal, liberalism in the United States has been identified with an expansion of government's role in the economy.

    -- Daniel Yergin, The Commanding Heights

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    The U.S. Cannot Designate Domestic Groups or Political Ideologies as Terrorists

    cldc.org /the-u-s-cannot-designate-domestic-groups-or-political-ideologies-as-terrorists/

  • What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

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  • The use of the term 'liberals' by the Intercept is not meant to be synonymous with 'the left' -- its meaning in this context is the political mainstream of the Democratic Party and the left wing of the Republican Party. The term comes from the philosophy of 'economic liberalism' and adjacent to terms like 'neoliberal' and 'capitalist' but inclusive of people who engage in politics consistent with those ideologies without explicitly self-identifying as ideologues.

  • Texas @lemmy.world
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    Prairieland Defendants Arraigned in Fort Worth Federal Court Defendants Remain in Custody on up to $10 Million Bonds for Unindicted Charges

    actforfree.noblogs.org /2025/09/27/for-immediate-release-september-24-2025-usa/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

    theintercept.com /2025/09/27/trump-antifa-terrorism-fascism-activists/
  • Texas @lemmy.world
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    This Amarillo Woman Devoted Years to Maintaining America’s Nuclear Arsenal. She’s Paid a Hefty Price.

    www.texasmonthly.com /news-politics/amarillo-pantex-nuclear-weapons-cancer/
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    Texas Judge Overrules Jury to Send Anti-Genocide Activist to Jail for Graffiti

    truthout.org /articles/texas-judge-overrules-jury-to-send-anti-genocide-activist-to-jail-for-graffiti/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    A Martyr For Truth and Faith and Memorial Plazas

    www.commondreams.org /further/a-martyr-for-truth-and-faith-and-memorial-plazas

  • One Of Our Own: On Wonderful Americans Like Charlie

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  • Respect.

  • One Of Our Own: On Wonderful Americans Like Charlie

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  • Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse

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  • What ghouls

  • 'Lost African tribe' set up home in Scots woodlands as locals left baffled

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  • 'Lost African tribe' set up home in Scots woodlands as locals left baffled

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  • Britain with no irony: "You can't come to a land and act like its yours! We were living here first!"

  • This comic hung in my office for years

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  • The solution to the problem is often logging out, clearing SLRPNK.net cookies, and then logging back in.

  • Trump Ally Bukele Reportedly Set to Arrest Journalists Who Revealed His Secret Pact With Gangs | Common Dreams

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  • Wasserman Schultz says Gabbard 'likely a Russian asset'

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  • A reasonable criticism. Be the change you want to see in the world.

  • revealing the fediverse's gifts - Erin Kissane

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    Trump rally at Madison Square Garden follows a long tradition in politics

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  • Elon Musk’s super PAC awards $1 million prizes to 2 registered voters, despite DOJ warning

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  • MBFC is claiming CNN is Left-Center, when it is owned by conservative billionaire John Malone. This is an example of MBFC's intentional distortion of the political spectrum by falsely representing it as dominated by a left-wing bias.

    An example of CNN's actual right-wing bias is when they put an obvious Trump Supporter on their televised panel of 'undecided voters'. According to Parker Molloy from The New Republic, this isn't "an isolated case of questionable representation in CNN’s voter panels. In fact, it appears to be part of a troubling pattern stretching back years." She suggests it could be "a potential willingness to mislead viewers for the sake of compelling television." - media ownership and their profit motive, and complicity of the media elite are sources of bias that MBFC does not adequately account for.

    !politics and !world now appear to be willing to consider backing away from MBFC. The vote to "Kill" -- stop their bot from advertising MBFC in all of community posts -- appears to be leading in both communities.

    If you upvote the Kill comment so that this lead becomes a landslide, you can make it even more embarrassing and difficult for them to claim 'bots' or backtrack.

  • Chinese hackers believed to have targeted Trump, Vance cellphones: Sources

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  • ABC News is a brand of Disney Advertising. It is lead by a conservative billionaire, and is not a left-biased organization.

    Fact-checking is an essential tool in fighting the waves of fake news polluting the public discourse. But if that fact-checking is partisan, then it only acerbates the problem of people divided on the basics of a shared reality. Dave Van Zandt has admitted to a US-centric bias in MBFC's ratings. It's fairly easy to notice an American conservative lean in MBFC's bias ratings, as well as their credibility ratings.

    A consortium of fact-checking institutions have joined together to form the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), and laid out a code of principles. You can find a list of signatories as well as vetted organizations on their website. MBFC is not a signatory to the IFCN code of principles. As a partisan organization, it violates the standards that journalists have recognized as essential to restoring trust in the veracity of the news. Partisan fact-checking sites are worse than no fact-checking at all. Just like how the proliferation of fake news undermines the authority of journalism, the growing popularity of a fact-checking site by a political hack like Dave M. Van Zandt undermines the authority of non-partisan fact-checking institutions in the public consciousness.

    Please choose "Kill" -- to stop giving free advertising to MBFC on Lemmy.