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Congress Quietly Kills Military “Right to Repair,” Allowing Corporations to Cash In on Fixing Broken Products Both chambers included Pentagon budget provisions for a right to repair, but they died after defense industry meetings on Capitol Hill.

Both chambers included Pentagon budget provisions for a right to repair, but they died after defense industry meetings on Capitol Hill.

Punished for bleeding: How periods in prison become a trap Many incarcerated women and trans people are forced to choose between maintaining their dignity and health — or facing penalties.

"Across the country, incarcerated women, trans and nonbinary people are punished for having periods."

"[A]t least six types of prison policies used to punish menstruating people."

"The quality of products provided or available for purchase is [..] poor."
#Texas #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration

How to Test New York’s Algorithmic Pricing Law | TechPolicy.Press New York’s ADPA exposes algorithmic pricing. Stephanie T. Nguyen discusses how these disclosures could reveal fairness issues and potential consumer impacts.

NY’s new law requires companies to disclose when algorithms set prices. Though it doesn’t stop surveillance pricing, its real power may be giving researchers and watchdogs new ways to investigate algorithmic harms, argues Stephanie T. Nguyen, Fmr. Chief Technologist at the Federal Trade Commission.

Anti-genocide activists with Disarm Genocide rallied outside ILA headquarters in NJ as part of an international day of action to demand longshoremen leadership stop shipping weapons to Israel.

“This is just the beginning,” founder Chris Smalls says. “We will escalate. And we will be back.”

H. Rap Brown, one of the most vocal leaders of the Black Power movement, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. He was 82. https://cnn.it/4rfElF3

I had the pleasure of seeing The Time last Fall in Detroit and they sweat funk out of every pore. RIP to an absolute legend 💜

Notice Mamdani charmed Trump on live TV without backing down on any stances. He didn't water himself down, he didn't even take back calling Trump a fascist. Moderates would say butter him up, or try to appear more right-wing. Voters can see through that—and evidently so does he!

Don’t forget Marco Rubio. He’s pushing for a regime change in Venezuela to replace Maduro with María Corina Machado for Western powers to exploit oil and rare Earth minerals.

Anticompetitive Acquiescence in AI Content Licensing - ProMarket Large AI firms like OpenAI and Amazon are licensing content to train their models that they might otherwise have been able to access for free under the fair use doctrine. Mark A. Lemley and Jacob Noti...

@jnvictor.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in ProMarket on the curious phenomenon of AI companies signing copyright licensing agreements that undermine their fair use defenses, and the potential anticompetitive effects of the practice

www.promarket.org/2025/11/18/a...

Beyond just oil, Venezuela has Rare Earth Minerals, which are used in the advanced military equipment, consumer electronics, and are essential for building the hardware that powers AI. Trump went all in on AI and the stock market is solely being propped up by the overvalued tech companies

The Israeli government is punishing a sexual assault whistleblower, & embracing the alleged abusive soldiers, @premthakker.bsky.social explains.

Israel's top military prosecutor is being viciously targeted for leaking footage of Israeli soldiers allegedly sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

Palestinian woman Umm Zuhri Shweiki was forcibly expelled from her home in occupied East Jerusalem by Israeli forces, who seized and emptied her house before handing it to Israeli settlers.

Families in Jabalia Camp are living amid the rubble of their destroyed homes.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

🌊 It’s a Blue Wave, Baby! Peter Rothpletz on Zohran Mamdani’s historic win, the Democrats’ electoral sweep, and Graham Platner’s viral response to the passing of Dick Cheney.

“The youngest New York mayor in more than a century. The city’s first Muslim mayor, first South Asian mayor, first mayor born in Africa.”

In First Draft from Zeteo, ⁦‪Peter Rothpletz ‬⁩on a historic night for Mamdani, for Dems, for NYC, for America:

I have a pair of their older generation glasses I bought back in early 2023. Nowadays, I’m opposed to buying any smart tech Meta puts out and am actively trying to build my own smart glasses using open source hardware and software.

Smooth like butter 🧈❤️

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

The people of Detroit have spoken and elected Mary Sheffield as the next mayor! She has served the city as a city council member since 2013 and will be Detroit’s first woman to hold the office of mayor!! ✊🏾❤️

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums.

He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.

How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

Jury selection begins in the trial of D.C.'s 'sandwich guy' Sean Dunn went viral this summer for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent.

NEW: Jury selection begins in the trial of sandwich guy today. The prosecutors are accusing him of "throwing a meat sandwich" at "point-blank range."

POINT-BLANK RANGE 💀 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

This is a huge loss as @teenvogue.com has had exceptional political coverage. May their talented journalists find new homes in independent media as corporate journalism continues to cave to the pressure of this garbage administration ❤️