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"One of the biggest corporate donors to the populist Reform U.K. party has sold almost $2 million worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier of Moscow’s blacklisted state weapons agency, documents show"

nytimes.com/2025/03/28/world/e

Nigel Farage at an event for his populist Reform U.K. party in Britain last year. The British aerospace manufacturer H.R. Smith Group donated to the party soon after he was announced as Reform’s leader.
The New York Times · Major Reform U.K. Donor Sold Weapons Parts to Russian SupplierBy Jane Bradley
#ReformUK#Sanctions#UKPolitics
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Texas Arrests Midwife and Associate on Charges of Providing Abortions

The two arrests in greater Houston appear to be the first time health care providers have been charged with violating abortion bans in their state since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.

From #NYT #NewYorkTimes
By J. David Goodman

Reporting from Houston

March 17, 2025

A midwife and an associate have been arrested and charged with illegally performing abortions in greater Houston, according to court records and the Texas attorney general, apparently the first criminal arrests of abortion providers since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/poli

#AbortionIsAWomansRight
#news #press #USPolitics #US #politics #WomensRights #ReproductiveFreedomForAll

Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement that a midwife had been “charged with the illegal performance of an abortion, a second-degree felony, as well as practicing medicine without a license.”
The New York Times · Texas Midwife Charged in Abortion CaseBy J. David Goodman
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This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare

Opinion [re arrest of #MahmoudKhalil]
Michelle Goldberg
March 10, 2025

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]

"“This seems like one of the biggest threats, if not the biggest threats to First Amendment freedoms in 50 years,” said Brian Hauss, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union. “It’s a direct attempt to punish speech because of the viewpoint it espouses.”"

nytimes.com/2025/03/10/opinion

#ACLU #DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#media #news #press @palestine

A gate closing off the College Walk on the Columbia campus.
The New York Times · Opinion | This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red ScareBy Michelle Goldberg
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