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Patrick Breyer
CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!" [updated]
Just before a decisive meeting in Brussels, digital rights expert and former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding the a...
Free Software Is Even More Important Now - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
 Various countries blocked the EU's Orwellian "chat control" proposal, so they have redrawn the proposed legislation to achieve similar pervasive surveillance with changes in the details. For instance, companies offering email or messaging accounts would
Demand Progress
Investigate ICE prisons and end Trump’s violent ICE raids
As Trump escalates his authoritarian law-breaking, it’s time for Congress to take a stand and protect immigrants.
Glossary
 US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the deportation prisons and end the deportation thugs' violent raids. Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121 If you sign or phone, please spread the word!
Free-Range Kids
Bored Kid, 12, Gets Tons of Friends to Play Outside - Free-Range Kids
Surely you’ve heard someone (perhaps yourself) say: “I’d love my kids to play outside but there’s no one there for them to play with!” An...
 An enterprising child distributed a flier in his neighborhood urging other kids to join him at a specific place and time for outdoor play. It was a success, and started regular meetings for play.
the Guardian
‘There is no money’: As carbon markets collapse, what happens to the forests they promised to protect?
After it was found most offsets did not represent real carbon reductions, the money dried up. But successful schemes such as Kasigau in Kenya now f...
 When the bogus "carbon offsets" were unmasked and businesses stopped buying them, a few projects that were keeping some substantial forests alive were also defunded.
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The Intercept
Trump’s Federal Cops Just Gave Themselves Expansive Anti-Protest Powers Targeting Masks
The Trump administration’s new rules grant the Federal Protective Service cops powers to target masks and make arrests off federal property.
Glossary
 A new regulation gave the Federal Protective Service the power to arrest people outside of federal government facilities. I have a feeling it was established to protect against attacks launched by enemies of the US, such as the riot that the bully had launched on 6 Jan 2021. Of course, he now claims that that violent attack was not violent at all, and has pardoned
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the Guardian
‘They’re not wolves – they’re sheep’: the psychiatrist who spent decades meeting and studying lone-actor mass killers
Paul E Mullen has had a front-row seat to the men behind some of the worst public massacres. He says it’s possible to ‘disrupt the script’ fo...
 A psychiatrist who has talked with many mass shooters says that they are following a "cultural script", a sort of social trail that was made by the publicity about so many past mass shooters. He responds to this by denying them the sort of publicity that they expect to get if they commit a massacre. It is in the same spirit that I refuse to respond to the mass killer
Al Jazeera
Why has the Israeli army’s top lawyer resigned after leaking rape evidence?
Video of alleged rape of Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman went viral last year. Now the lawyer who leaked it has quit.
 Israeli prison guards were caught on video raping (and beating) a Palestinian prisoner. They were prosecuted but only for a lesser crime. The head army lawyer has resigned in protest.
the Guardian
Russian army chiefs torturing and executing soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine, report says
Investigation lists 101 superiors accused of tactics such as using drones to ‘finish’ off retreating troops and sending soldiers on death missions
 Journalists in Russia report that commanders are torturing or killing soldiers who refuse suicide missions. I would expect that the reason these commanders are not punished is that they are doing what Putin wants them to do.
the Guardian
The luxury effect: why you’ll find more wildlife in wealthy areas – and what it means for your health
The discovery that affluent neighbourhoods have more diversity of nature has implications for human wellbeing – and sheds light on the structural...
 The luxury effect in urban ecology: richer neighborhoods have more diversity of wildlife.
Glossary
The Intercept
Trump DOJ Charges House Candidate Kat Abughazaleh With Conspiracy for Protesting ICE
Abughazaleh is one of six activists facing federal conspiracy charges for actions like blocking an ICE agent’s car in Broadview, Illinois.
 Deportation thugs have charged protesters with "conspiracy" and "intimidation" for a nonviolent protest. One of them is a candidate for the House of Representatives.