YouTube will stop removing false presidential election fraud claims - Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge
YouTube is r... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/2/23747104/youtube-election-misinformation-policy-reversal
More than 800m Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demand https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/02/more-than-800m-amazon-trees-felled-in-six-years-to-meet-beef-demand?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Twitter loses second head of Trust and Safety under Musk - And here we thought being lead moderator for Elon would be fun Twitter's second head of t... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/06/02/twitter_head_of_safety_quits/
Arab leaders shifting to strategy of reconciliation, solving own problems https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/06/02/lebanon-Arab-leaders-reconcilitaion-Syria-Saudi-Arabia-Iran/7261685732904/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #news
Woah! Did you know that the T-Rex had scaly, lizard-like lips?
Russia is pulling out all of the cards to try to quell the growing internal unrest it seems.
The Ukrainian General Staff reports that, according to their info, the Russian military leadership decided to transfer 200 cadets of 3rd year military schools to the Bilhorod region only armed with small arms and grenades. Officially, their deployment is called an "internship."
Putting your future officers' lives on the line is a sign of desperation.
For Media, ‘Border Crisis’ Means Migrants Coming—Not Migrants Dying
Centrist media's definition of a "border crisis" has less to do with human lives and more to do with partisan politics.
https://fair.org/home/for-media-border-crisis-means-migrants-coming-not-migrants-dying/
Blinken Dismisses Calls for a Ceasefire, Says US Must Build Up Ukraine’s Military https://news.antiwar.com/2023/06/02/blinken-dismisses-calls-for-a-ceasefire-says-us-must-build-up-ukraines-military/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon via Antiwar.com
I saw a graffiti in Dublin a few days ago. I wish I had had the smarts to photograph it.
It was "No Racism".
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https://t.me/liveukraine_media/9698
⚡️🇺🇦President Zelensky said that the result of the counteroffensive should be the liberation of Ukrainian territories, and when it happens, it will be tangible #Ukraine #NATO #Press #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
Revealed: The secret push to bury a weedkiller’s link to Parkinson’s disease - The Guardian
“Global chemical giant Syngenta has sought to secretly influence scientific research regarding links between its top-selling weedkiller and Parkinson’s, internal corporate documents show.”
Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake Friday to become Fort Liberty in a ceremony some veterans said was a small but important step in making the U.S. Army more welcoming to current and prospective Black service members.
US ready to stick to nuclear warhead limits 'as long as Russia does:' National Security Advisor Sullivan
We have hit the 10 out of 10 drought index in #Copenhagen.
Our garden pond has a water level about 10cm lower than it should be. The plants in the garden are starting to suffer. None of the roads we heard calling appear to have bred successfully this year, though there are plenty of newts.
The rainwater tank is empty.
No rain in the forecast for at least the next 2 weeks.
#Drought23 #Tørke23
#ClimateDiary
#RIP Cynthia Weil, a Grammy-winning lyricist of notable range and endurance who enjoyed a decades-long partnership with husband Barry Mann and helped write “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” “On Broadway,” “Walking in the Rain” and dozens of other hits, has died at age 82.
https://apnews.com/article/8fed882b68674e76aca9f711fd56495f
“Attorneys for Donald #Trump turned over material in mid-March in response to a federal subpoena related to a classified US military document described by the former president on tape in 2021 but were unable to find the #document itself, two sources tell CNN.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/politics/donald-trump-iran-subpoena
2/ “The fact that Trump’s team was unable to produce the document underscores the challenges the government has faced in trying to recover classified material that Trump took when he left the White House and in understanding the movement of government records that Trump kept.”
"Let’s imagine there was a social network called BigotFeed.
It caters toward and kowtows to Far-Right extremists & hate-filled podcasters. It is owned by a billionaire who is vocally hostile toward the entire concept of journalism and also certain minorities. ...the primary function of BigotFeed is to drive more people toward hatred, close-mindedness, and the reign of the Republican Party...
Is that enjoyable to journalists? What are you doing there?" #Twitter https://jogblog.substack.com/p/why-are-journalists-still-on-twitter?utm_source=cross-post&publication_id=1053124&post_id=125525300&isFreemail=true&utm_campaign=2282&utm_medium=email
G+ refugee and simply want my instance to work reliably.