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Truthout
10 months ago
Left-wing politics

Twitter's Ad Sales Have Plummeted 59 Percent in Months Since Musk's Takeover

Prior to Musk's takeover, advertisers provided about 90 percent of Twitter's revenue.Elon Musk arrives at Red Bull Racing's garage before the 2023 Miami Formula One Grand Prix at the Miami International Autodrome in Miami Gardens, Florida, on May 6, 2023.CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk, who once vowed to make Twitter the "most respected advertising platform," has only owned Twitter for a little over half a year.
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www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Man who blew up his kitchen making bombs on the hob is jailed

A gun-making far-right extremist who said minorities should be shot and accidentally blew up his kitchen while experimenting with explosives has been ordered to be detained for eight-and-a-half years.Vaughn Dolphin was convicted last month of six offences of possessing terrorist information, two of recklessly disseminating a terrorist publication, two of having an explosive substance and one of possessing a firearm without a licence.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Far-right extremist given eight-year term for firearm and explosives offences

A gun-making far-right extremist who said minorities should be shot and accidentally blew up his kitchen while experimenting with explosives has been ordered to be detained for eight-and-a-half years.Vaughn Dolphin was convicted last month of six offences of possessing terrorist information, two of recklessly disseminating a terrorist publication, two of having an explosive substance and one of possessing a firearm without a licence.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Jeff Epton: An open letter to Paul Vallas: Learn from my dad, Bernard Epton, and pivot to a different message

I understand how you must feel right now.The possibility of being the mayor of Chicago, this massive, shiny and troubled metropolis, is likely intoxicating.I know my father, Bernard Epton, known as "Bernie," had such feelings in 1983.The way popular history characterizes him now, a consequence of his role in the '83 campaign against Harold Washington, is not who he was in the years leading up to that election.
Digital Trends
1 year ago
Tech industry

Sorry, Elon - your Tesla phone is never going to happen | Digital Trends

Let me catch you up: After purchasing Twitter and appointing himself CEO, Elon Musk has made some - what can generously be called - controversial changes to the site and its rules.He aims to make Twitter a place where his ideas of free speech can be allowed, which has ultimately resulted in providing " amnesty " to previously banned accounts from white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, and other people that were in violation of Twitter's old terms of service.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

GOP Blames Biden for Mar-a-Lago Raid - But FBI Is Headed by Trump's Director

After Donald Trump's Florida residence was hit with a raid by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday night, hypocritical demands for defunding and "destroying" the FBI erupted from Republicans, despite their years-long complaints about the left's calls for defunding law enforcement.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Orban Wants No Mixed-Race Europeans. Will He Say That In Texas Too?

"I don't know how you didn't notice that [the] speech you delivered is a purely Nazi diatribe worthy of Joseph Goebbels."
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www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Photography

For an Artist, the Morgan Is Subject, Object and Venue

In Nina Katchadourian's current exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, the contours of two very distinct personalities take shape.There's Katchadourian herself: a multimedia artist who turns modest materials into quirky, conceptually witty works.And there's John Pierpont Morgan, the 19th-century American financier who used his unimaginable wealth to build a collection of art and manuscripts so grand that The Times of London, in 1908, called it one of the wonders of the world.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

White Supremacist Nick Fuentes's Twitter Was Reinstated - Then Banned Again

Fuentes's latest ban comes hours after he shared a post amplifying rapper Kanye West's antisemitic statements.Nick Fuentes, Alex Jones and Ali Alexander are pictured during a 'Stop the Steal' broadcaster rally at the Governor's Mansion in Georgia on November 19, 2020.Zach Roberts / NurPhoto via Getty Images On Tuesday, Twitter reinstated the account of Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist who has given high praise to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as recently as last week - only to suspend Fuentes's profile within 24 hours of its reinstatement.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Nearly 48,000 UC graduate students poised to shut down many classes, labs and research with strike

Nearly 48,000 University of California academic workers - the backbone of the vaunted higher education system who research, mentor and teach - are poised to strike Monday in a labor action that could shut down some classes and lab work just weeks before final exams.In what would be the nation's largest strike of academic workers, four UAW bargaining units representing teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, academic and graduate student researchers, tutors, fellows and others are set to picket from 8 a.m. at all of UC's 10 campuses.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Illinois man with ties to hate group among those arrested en route to Idaho Pride rally

A Downstate Illinois man was among the 31 suspected white supremacists arrested over the weekend near an Idaho pride event after they were found packed into the back of a U-Haul truck with riot gear.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

City Councilor Julia Mejia files defamation lawsuit against website operator

The Boston Globe Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia has filed a defamation and libel suit against the operator of a website who uses the brand name Turtleboy, alleging he knowingly published false statements about her last year and in 2021.Aidan Kearney, who runs the website and social media accounts under the Turtleboy brand, is the sole defendant named in the lawsuit, which Mejia filed Wednesday in Suffolk Superior Court.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

More details emerge on ex-Woburn cop who helped plan Charlottesville rally

New details have come to light surrounding a former Woburn police officer's alleged involvement in planning and participating in a deadly white supremacist rally in 2017.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Preparing to launch dedicated hotline, Rollins makes it clear to white supremacist groups, 'You are not welcome here'

"We need to expose these cowards."
East Bay Times
1 year ago
Boston

White supremacist group protests book reading, condemned by DA

A group wearing masks and hats emblazoned with "131," a symbol for the New England-based group Nationalist Social Club, was seen demonstrating in Jamaica Plain today.
Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
1 year ago
Non-profit sector

White Supremacy and the Disinformation Wars - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Joseph Phelan: [...] Platform accountability doesn't happen without organizing, right?We can do all the lobbying we want and pay the high price lobbying firms.We can get as many op-eds as we want, et cetera, et cetera.But it actually comes down to organizing.Organizing is contesting for power at the individual and group level.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia addresses attacks about drug use, body-shaming

Politics "This is what white supremacists do.They tell lies and hope that you will believe them," she said.Boston City Councilor-at-Large Julia Mejia addressed accusations that she is addicted to drugs and attacks against her looks in a YouTube video Monday.In the video, entitled 'Women of color in elected office are always under attack," Mejia says people on social media have been attributing changes in her appearance to drug use, but the changes are actually related to her ongoing health issues.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Antisemitic banners displayed at UC Davis prompt campus police investigation

The Sacramento Bee reported on the banners and said photos of the banners were shared on social media.
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Davis Mayor Lucas Frerichs, in a statement posted on social media, said he was "disturbed" by the banners displayed over such a prominent overpass.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Tech industry

How the alleged shooter livestreamed the attack, and how sites can stop such videos

The logo of live streaming video platform Twitch.
Christophe Ena/AP Investigators work the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., on Monday.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Emmett Till and his mother honored with congressional medal

WASHINGTON - The House unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.The bill, which passed the Senate in January, is meant to honor Till and his mother - who had insisted on an open casket funeral to demonstrate the brutality of his killing - with the highest civilian honor that Congress awards.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Clarence Page: Don't be duped by 'replacement theory.' Put race in its proper place.

I know it happens a lot, but we in the news media perform a public disservice when we run headlines like "The US white majority will soon disappear forever" and "America is becoming a white-minority nation."
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Parenting

Kanye West is paying $200,000 a month in child support. Where did that number come from?

How much does it cost to raise a Kardashian-West child?$200,000 a month, according to a settlement reached on Tuesday in Los Angeles superior court.Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, ended a months-long legal drama and agreed to pay that amount in child support to his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian.But where did the figure come from?
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Europe news

Adidas Cuts Forecast Again as It Contemplates Future for Yeezy Brand

Adidas, just weeks after severing its very profitable relationship with the rapper and designer Kanye West, said on Wednesday that it would need to cut revenue and earnings forecasts for a fourth time this year.The German company, the world's second-largest sportswear brand, said the lowering of its guidance for the year was linked to the termination of its partnership with Mr. West, who now goes by Ye, along with costs linked to its exit from Russia after the invasion of Ukraine and continuing difficulties in Chinese markets.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
World politics

Adidas Cuts Forecast Again as It Contemplates Future for Yeezy Brand

Adidas, just weeks after severing its very profitable relationship with the rapper and designer Kanye West, said on Wednesday that it would need to cut revenue and earnings forecasts for a fourth time this year.The German company, the world's second-largest sportswear brand, said the lowering of its guidance for the year was linked to the termination of its partnership with Mr. West, who now goes by Ye, along with costs linked to its exit from Russia after the invasion of Ukraine and continuing difficulties in Chinese markets.
amNewYork
1 year ago
Brooklyn

'I love being underestimated': Hochul rallies in Brooklyn with Dem bigwigs as election looms | amNewYork

Governor Kathy Hochul pulled out all the stops at a Brooklyn rally on Saturday as the number of days before the governor's race and her lead in the polls slipped into the single digits.The governor was joined by former President Bill Clinton, Mayor Eric Adams, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and representatives from unions including local communications, service workers and hospitality unions in a last-minute bid to galvanize voters in New York City - whose votes could decide the outcome of the race.
Independent
1 year ago
France politics

French far-right party elects new leader to replace Le Pen

Jordan Bardella has replaced his mentor Marine Le Pen at the helm of France's leading far-right party, and pledged to defend French civilization from perceived threats posed by immigration.r Bardella, 27, won an internal party vote with 85% support, marking a symbolic changing of the guard at the resurgent National Rally party.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Three arrests at 'white supremist action' in Boston, DA says

BOSTON (AP) - Three men were arrested Saturday at a rally in Boston that the district attorney called an "organized white supremacist action."
LGBTQ Nation
1 year ago
Education

Fascist Proud Boys intimidated school board meeting over a 4-inch rainbow Pride flag

A member of the neo-fascist group Proud Boys showed up on Monday to a Missouri school board meeting after local conservatives complained about a seventh-grade teacher who hung a small four-by-four-inch Pride flag in her classroom.
Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

Good Afternoon, News: Wheeler's Latest Homeless Ban, Betsy Swipes Left on Mike Nearman, and US Sends Warfare Gifts to Ukraine

Good afternoon, Portland!Good news: We're cruising into a weekend of cool 80-something temps!Better news: That's the perfect temperature to enjoy a Burger Week burg on a patio!
Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

Betsy Johnson, The Right Wing Dog Whistler

No Betsy, we get it.Your snarky comment about Portland, my hometown, was a dog whistle for corporations and white supremacists.And your bitchy and obviously grudging walk back was pathetic.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Law

An armed man tried to breach security at an FBI office in Cincinnati

The entrance to the FBI headquarters in Cincinnati is shown on Thursday.
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The FBI on Wednesday also warned its agents to avoid protesters and ensure their security key cards are "not visible outside FBI space," citing an increase in social media threats to bureau personnel and facilities.
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