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In both instances, a crowd of onlookers gathered to #protest the agents.
Plaintiffs in the case include #media orgs such as the #Chicago Headline Club, Block Club Chicago, & the Chicago Newspaper Guild, which represents #journalists who work at the Chicago Sun-Times.
Case page:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559589/chicago-headline-club-v-noem/
#Trump #law #judiciary #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #PoliceBrutality #MilitaryState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
#3D-Print #Implant for #Diabetic #Patients that releases #Medicine under the Skin
Engineers from MIT, recently created a chip with a 3D-printed component that can be embedded under the skin. This 3D-printed mechanism is able to release medicinal contents when the device is triggered by a wireless command.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/implantable-device-could-save-diabetes-patients-low-blood-sugar-0709
#mit #healthcare #science #engineer #media #medicinal #chemistry #chip #tech #programming #news
New #blog post: Subtitles
I thought more about subtitles today than I normally do.
https://lwgrs.bearblog.dev/subtitles/
#Echo #Media #VideoGames
@mastodonmigration @MastodonEngineering and a different tool doesn't repost #media which is what said account to migrate does use quite a lot...
Reading every headline & lede that invariably starts with “Democrats block GOP bill”, I’d like to remind everyone, the #media especially, that Trump’s party — the #RepublicanParty — controls the #WhiteHouse & both chambers of #Congress.
This shutdown is their doing.
By all accounts #Trump & #Project2025’s #RussVought absolutely wanted it because it consolidates #power under the #ExecutiveBranch, exactly what they have been working for.
The #CEO of the largest #rental #company in #America got #assassinated in #Manhattan. Mainstream #media is desperately trying to cover it up, now refers to the CEO as just an “#employee”.
"The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?"
Robert Reich
As Lord Foulkes points out @BylinesScotland
'Nigel Farage has built his career on one trick: convincing people he’s the outsider raging against the establishment. Yet no politician in modern British history has been given such an easy ride by that very establishment – above all, the mainstream media'!
Our media has comprehensively failed in its key political role; casting a critical(!) eye on politicians' claims & positions.
https://bylines.scot/news/the-farage-mirage-how-the-media-is-warping-our-politics/
Today the LibDems conference gets under way & while there's not exactly been a news blackout you'd be struggling to find reams of analysis & discussion of the prospects for the weekend....
The skewing of the media environment towards the right has (again?) left the LibDems scrambling to gain some traction... and now challenged on the Left from a newly energised Green Party under Zac Polanski, Ed Davey is will need to move beyond stunts to hope to gain attention...
"Broadcast television, as it has existed for decades, is coming to an end. Billionaires are accelerating their efforts to consolidate control over media platforms and the president is eager to help them do so, provided they shut down his critics. If they don’t, he threatens to use the levers of government to financially punish them. None of this is secret; the brazenness is, at least partly, the point":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/2025/09/18/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-abc-off-the-air/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzU4MTY4MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU5NTUwMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTgxNjgwMDAsImp0aSI6ImQ1ZWIzNGIwLTNmMjUtNGZhYi1iMzliLTQ3ZTZhMDUyZWIwZiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L3R2LzIwMjUvMDkvMTgvamltbXkta2ltbWVsLWNoYXJsaWUta2lyay1hYmMtb2ZmLXRoZS1haXIvIn0.f_QdD28Uf_Wl2dh4UEt6oDsDpJyklAmYc9zTU7BWMac
#CivilLiberties #media #censorship #politics
As the US government sabotages its own climate web site (along with many other science-based or truth-based sites), a new site is the phoenix borne of its ashes. May it thrive. Please consider donating or otherwise supporting their efforts (e.g., by sharing notice of the site).
#climate #ClimateDenial #resist #science #truth #media #journalism #ClimateData #ClimateReporting #propaganda #hope #politics #USPolitics #fascism #PostTruth
Here's another URL that might be worth sharing:
People who have never mentioned Charlie Kirk are being wrongfully targeted online and doxxed. @taylorlorenz reports on two such cases. Ali Nasrati discovered, after receiving a barrage of abuse and death threats and being suspended from work, that an X account started in May was using his name and a photo stolen from his social media. Cynthia Rehberg, a school principal in Wisconsin, was misidentified by a conservative influencer from a Facebook post, after which her district received 800 voicemails calling for her firing. "Over 200,000 people think that I'm somebody that I'm not," Nastrati told Lorenz, referring to the number of views one of the X posts attacking him received. "I don't know if anybody's following me. I don't feel safe going into public areas. I don't know who's there. I don't know who is going to be able to recognize me or not, or who might do something. I'm constantly looking behind my back."
#News #Journalism #Media #CharlieKirk #OnlineBehavior #Doxxing
What happened to #CharlieKirk happens to dozens of innocent #people in #Gaza every day. Where’s the #media coverage? Where’s the #outrage?
When I see news with a link, but the link is to an article behind a paywall, it is still helpful because I then do a Google search or a Bing search for the same news. I often find more information about this news, sometimes from a television station or a foreign newspaper.
#FindingFreeContent #media #politics
It looks like CBS News will soon be as untrustworthy as Fox News:
Michael Grynbaum: "Changes continue at CBS News –– today it hired a new ombudsman with no newsroom experience and a long career in neocon and right-wing policy circles."
#media #mediabias #politics