Goddamnit, Google. For shame. Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events

the Guardian

Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events

Company says listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for its model as tech firms roll back diversity efforts

Oh, fuck off. Spare us Elon lecturing on democracy & unelected bureaucrats when he's neither elected nor properly appointed but is running a coup. God bless Nicolle Wallace: "We're going to interrupt this pablum to fact check it. No. 1: Irony died while he was talking."

Good Lord. As if Thiel and his AI billionaires weren't bad enough, now they say they have God on their side: prosperity theology meets #TESCREAL. Good reporting by Emma Goldman. Gift link: Seeking God, or Peter Thiel, in Silicon Valley

Seeking God, or Peter Thiel, in Silicon Valley

When tech luminaries talk about their Christian faith, people listen.

Corruption. Pure corruption. Justice Dept. Tells Prosecutors to Drop Federal Corruption Case Against Eric Adams

Justice Dept. Tells Prosecutors to Drop Federal Corruption Case Against Eric Adams

The request to dismiss the charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York raised questions about the independence of federal prosecutors under Presid...

This is a small, late step in the right direction. We are certainly in a constitutional crisis but deeper: a totalitarian coup. How long will it take the Times to recognize that? Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say

Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say

Law professors have long debated what the term means. But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the bo...

In Austria, the right-wing extremist part FPÖ is attacking mainstream media in Orbán's model. Weapons include public media and govt subsidies/advertising. This is why media dependence on government is so perilous. Propaganda im Sinne der Partei

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Pressefreiheit in Österreich: Propaganda im Sinne der Partei

Die rechtsextreme FPÖ plant einen radikalen Umbau der österreichischen Medienlandschaft. Besonders der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk steht im F...

Hundreds of thousands of Germans are on the streets demonstrating against right-wing extremism. (This photo from Munich.) Let's get off our asses, America. Hunderttausende gegen Rechtsextremismus https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2025-02/demonstrationen-gegen-rechtsextremismus-deutschland-fs

Their aim is nothing short of a new Dark Ages. Anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, in favor of needless human suffering. NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/08/nih-cuts-billions-dollars-biomedical-funding-effective-immediately/

#BrokenTimes makes this passive: Trump merely joins a war (of mere skepticism, not bigotry) on trans rights and feminism. He is an adjudicated sexual assaulter and misogynist but The Times casts him as a warrior.

The Musk/Thiel/Sacks axis: The model for their destruction is not just German fascism, it is South African apartheid, rolling back Reconstruction: Jim Crow with an accent. Trump halts aid to South Africa, claiming discrimination against Afrikaners https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/08/trump-south-africa-aid-afrikaners/