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joe•iuculano :mastodon:<p>Via the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Associated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Associated</span></a> Press @ 2:49pm ET, Mar 15, 2025</p><p>Tens of thousands of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Italians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Italians</span></a> joined a pro-Europe rally in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rome</span></a>’s city center Saturday, waving blue <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EuropeanUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanUnion</span></a> flags in a sign of support &amp; unity as a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>European</span></a> push for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/rearmament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rearmament</span></a> divides the country<br>...</p><p>The initiative was born in response to US President <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s destabilizing policies, which created an unprecedented rift between Europe &amp; the US, strained over the war in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> &amp; an ongoing tariff battle</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/italy-europe-rally-rome-rearm-defense-e14c1e3df35d9c328bb23644bd3adb75" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/italy-europ</span><span class="invisible">e-rally-rome-rearm-defense-e14c1e3df35d9c328bb23644bd3adb75</span></a></p>
joe•iuculano :mastodon:<p>Via the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Associated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Associated</span></a> Press @ 8:56pm ET on Dec 26, 2024</p><p>An <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/woman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woman</span></a> who says she was raped by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JayZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JayZ</span></a> and <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeanDiddyCombs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeanDiddyCombs</span></a> when she was 13 can proceed anonymously, for now, in her <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/lawsuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawsuit</span></a> against the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/rap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rap</span></a> moguls, a judge ruled Thursday.</p><p>In her written order, Judge <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AnalisaTorres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnalisaTorres</span></a> also chastised the lawyer representing Jay-Z for what she described as his combative motions and “inflammatory language” against the plaintiff’s lawyer, calling them inappropriate.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/rape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rape</span></a></p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/jayz-diddy-sexual-assault-vmas-f810e7e674d1baa7b6278dfc4279864b" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/jayz-diddy-</span><span class="invisible">sexual-assault-vmas-f810e7e674d1baa7b6278dfc4279864b</span></a></p>
joe•iuculano :mastodon:<p>Via the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Associated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Associated</span></a> Press @ 7:06pm ET on Dec 09, 2024</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BREAKING" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BREAKING</span></a>:</p><p>Man suspected of killing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedHealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedHealthcare</span></a> CEO, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LuigiMangione" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LuigiMangione</span></a>, is ordered held without <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bail</span></a> after a brief court appearance in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pennsylvania</span></a></p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/live/unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-updates-day-6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/live/unitedhealthca</span><span class="invisible">re-ceo-brian-thompson-updates-day-6</span></a></p>
joe•iuculano :mastodon:<p>Via the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Associated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Associated</span></a> Press @ 12:14am EDT on Aug 30, 2024</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> presidential nominee <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a>→scheduled 2 appear Fri @ the annual gathering of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MomsForLiberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MomsForLiberty</span></a>, a national nonprofit that has spearheaded efforts 2 get mentions of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a>+ identity &amp; structural racism out of K-12 classrooms<br>...</p><p>Yet <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> also will run the risk of alienating more moderate voters, many of whom see Moms for Liberty’s activism as too extreme to be legitimized by a presidential nominee</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-moms-for-liberty-election-2024-education-7b408b46f58c4ba6177f809c4d0b2fb2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/trump-moms-</span><span class="invisible">for-liberty-election-2024-education-7b408b46f58c4ba6177f809c4d0b2fb2</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Press Struggles To Explain How The GOP Killed A Popular Broadband Discount Program, Driving Millions Of Poor Americans Off The Internet</p><p>The FCC’s ✅Affordable Connectivity Program✅ ( <a href="https://c.im/tags/ACP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACP</span></a> ), <br>-- part of the 2021 <a href="https://c.im/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/bill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bill</span></a>, <br>-- provided&nbsp;23+ million&nbsp;low-income households a 👍$30 broadband discount every month. </p><p>But the roughly 60 million Americans benefiting from the program are now facing much higher broadband bills because <br>🆘key Republicans <br>— who routinely dole out billions of dollars on&nbsp;far&nbsp;dumber&nbsp;fare&nbsp;<br>—&nbsp;💥refused to fund a $4-$7 billion extension.</p><p>There were several last ditch efforts to fund the program but ♦️none were successful -- thanks largely to Trump loyalist and current House Speaker <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Johnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Johnson</span></a>, <br>♦️who refused to let any of those funding efforts get close to a vote.</p><p>The GOP killed this popular program. </p><p>Yet in two different stories this week, <br>both CNET and the Associated Press <br>❌fail to clearly communicate that to readers. </p><p>➡️At <a href="https://c.im/tags/CNET" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CNET</span></a>, the program simply “ran out of money”:</p><p>"In May, the $14.2 billion program officially ran out of money, leaving Jackson and 23 million households like hers with internet bills that were $30 to $75 higher than the month before."</p><p>➡️Over at the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Associated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Associated</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Press</span></a>, the program vaguely died because “Congress” didn’t fund it:</p><p>"The Affordable Connectivity Program,&nbsp;part of a broader effort pushed by the administration&nbsp;to bring affordable internet to every home and business in the country, was not renewed by Congress and ran out of funding earlier this year."</p><p>🆘The GOP killed this program. <br>-- The GOP alone. </p><p>🔸The cuts heavily harm the GOP’s own constituents. </p><p>🔸Nearly half of the folks on the ACP program rolls were military families. </p><p>🔸Countless ACP participants live in Southern states where broadband access is spotty and expensive thanks to the GOP’s own policies. </p><p>🆘 Republicans killed a popular program heavily used by Republicans and only made necessary in the first place due to failed Republican telecom policies. </p><p>🔥They killed it because they didn’t want Democrats and Biden to enjoy credit for a popular program during an election season. </p><p>⚠️But neither outlet wants to make the GOP’s fault clear to readers lest they somehow offend Republican readers, sources, event sponsors, or advertisers. </p><p>It’s part of a general fecklessness that has expanded across the mainstream ad-based U.S. press, </p><p>and it results in <a href="https://c.im/tags/feckless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feckless</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/coverage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coverage</span></a> where the ❌GOP never has to truly own its broadly unpopular policy decisions</p><p><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/28/press-struggles-to-explain-how-the-gop-killed-a-popular-broadband-discount-program-driving-millions-of-poor-americans-off-the-internet/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">techdirt.com/2024/08/28/press-</span><span class="invisible">struggles-to-explain-how-the-gop-killed-a-popular-broadband-discount-program-driving-millions-of-poor-americans-off-the-internet/</span></a></p>
Manni_P :mastolove:<p><a href="https://www.endocrine.org/topics/edc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">endocrine.org/topics/edc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> vs <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Patent6630507" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patent6630507</span></a></p><p><a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Cannabis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cannabis</span></a> as <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/antioxidants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antioxidants</span></a> and <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/neuroprotectants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neuroprotectants</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/weedmob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weedmob</span></a><br>Feb 2, 2001 - The United States as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services</p><p>Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/treatment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>treatment</span></a> and <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/prophylaxis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prophylaxis</span></a> of wide variety of <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/oxidation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oxidation</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/associated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>associated</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/diseases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diseases</span></a>, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory autoimmune diseases.</p>
Nando161<p>I know where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/you" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>you</span></a> live, who you are <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/associated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>associated</span></a> with, what you do in your <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/existential" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>existential</span></a> crisis you call a "life", you are nothing but a sad fuck. </p><p>Cry more about it, they're all laughing at you.</p>
PhoenixSerenity<p>(“The <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/results" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>results</span></a> largely supported the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/hypotheses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypotheses</span></a> , as <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/hostile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hostile</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/sexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sexism</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/symbolic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>symbolic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> were both <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/associated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>associated</span></a> with greater <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/dislike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dislike</span></a> of newer <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/characters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>characters</span></a> .”<br>The <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/researchers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>researchers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/recruited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recruited</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/SelfProfessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfProfessed</span></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/StarWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarWars</span></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/fans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fans</span></a> from various online fan hangouts – subreddits devoted to memes and ships, for example – and sent them <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/questionnaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>questionnaires</span></a> about their experience within the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/fandom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fandom</span></a> .)</p><p><a href="https://www.iflscience.com/sexist-racist-abuse-against-star-wars-actors-fueled-by-sexism-and-racism-study-reveals-68011" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">iflscience.com/sexist-racist-a</span><span class="invisible">buse-against-star-wars-actors-fueled-by-sexism-and-racism-study-reveals-68011</span></a></p>