joene 🏴🍉
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#Conservatives had accused #JimmyKimmel of mischaracterizing the #politics of the man accused of killing the #FarRight activist #CharlieKirk. #Trump’s chair of the #FCC had just warned #ABC of serious consequences, telling the network that “we can do this the easy or the hard way.” And a #Texas-based owner of many #ABCaffiliates was preparing to pull #Kimmel from its stations indefinitely.
#law #FirstAmendment #censorship #autocracy #authoritarianism #fascism #MafiaState #StochasticTerrorism
Nizar Kerkeni 🇹🇳 نزار القرقني
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Gaza City is now under a total #internet #blackout.
Israel has cut all connections as yet another tool to push residents out and murder with no coverage.
Only those with eSIMs can manage very limited access.
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #CeasefireNow
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@palestine@fedibird.com
Gaza City is now under a total #internet #blackout.
Israel has cut all connections as yet another tool to push residents out and murder with no coverage.
Only those with eSIMs can manage very limited access.
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #CeasefireNow
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@palestine@fedibird.com
In his bid for the Liberal Democratic Party presidency, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi has pledged to continue the work of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his predecessor, Fumio Kishida. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/18/japan/politics/hayashi-ldp/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #yoshimasahayashi #ldp #shigeruishiba #fumiokishida #sanaetakaichi
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi, 44, is best suited to be the next president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, according to an opinion poll by Jiji Press released Thursday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/18/japan/politics/jiji-poll-koizumi-most-favored-for-ldp-president/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #shinjirokoizumi #sanaetakaichi #ldp #surveys
Some of the most senior U.S. diplomats focused on Syria have been abruptly let go from their posts in recent days, sources have said, as Washington seeks to integrate Syrian Kurdish allies with Damascus. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/18/world/politics/us-diplomats-syria-damascus-policy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #syria #middleeast #us
As Trump chips away at Democracy we say together "No Kings."
Be there October 18th.
https://www.nokings.org/
Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a formal mutual defense pact, in a move that significantly strengthens a decadeslong security partnership amid heightened regional tensions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/18/world/politics/saudi-arabia-pakistan-defence-pact/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #saudiarabia #pakistan #defense
Tens of thousands of Russians have applied for political asylum in the U.S. since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but denials have risen in recent months, according to detainees, lawyers and rights groups. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/18/world/politics/us-jail-russia-dissident-deportation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #russia #us #humanrights
Stitching the Liberal Democratic Party back together again will be no easy task, no matter who wins the presidential race on Oct. 4. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/18/japan/politics/ldp-breakup/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #shigeruishiba
A former U.S. climate envoy says President Donald Trump is leading the world "in the wrong direction" on climate and weaponizing clean energy as a culture war issue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/18/world/politics/climate-envoy-trump-consensus-science/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #coal #oil #renewables #energy #pollution #us #donaldtrump #republicans #emissions #environment #cop30 #johnpodesta #joebiden
Nippon Ishin no Kai expelled three member lawmakers critical of its new leadership team who called on other member lawmakers to leave the party. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/18/japan/politics/nippon-ishin-expel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #nipponishinnokai
It's the million dollar question that may decide the fate of French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu: how to tax France's billionaires? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/18/world/politics/tax-rich-french-pm-budget/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #france #taxes #sebastienlecornu #emmanuelmacron
Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀
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Jimmy Kimmel gets cancelled.
For saying this - ""We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."
FCC Chair Brendan Carr had suggested ABC’s broadcast license was at risk from Kimmel’s statements.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/charlie-kirk-jimmy-kimmel-abc-disney.html
#Politics
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From George Orwell's 1984, published in 1949 -
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.
Power is not a means; it is an end.
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
To die hating them, that was freedom.
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength.”
Are we there yet? ☹️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
#Politics
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Jimmy Kimmel gets cancelled.
For saying this - ""We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."
FCC Chair Brendan Carr had suggested ABC’s broadcast license was at risk from Kimmel’s statements.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/charlie-kirk-jimmy-kimmel-abc-disney.html
#Politics
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Alex Akselrod
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AP: Army veteran who burned U.S. flag near White House pleads not guilty to federal charges
"...Carey, 54, of Arden, North Carolina, was arrested on Aug. 25 after he set fire to a flag in Lafayette Park, which the National Park Service oversees. Earlier that day, Trump signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute people for burning the American flag..... The Supreme Court has ruled that flag burning is a legitimate political expression protected by the Constitution...
.Carey said he served in the Army from 1989 to 2012 and was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
“I served this country for over 20 years, having taken an oath to upheld our Constitution. I did not take an oath to serve a dictator, a tyrant or a wannabe king,” he told reporters after the hearing."
AP: Army veteran who burned U.S. flag near White House pleads not guilty to federal charges
"...Carey, 54, of Arden, North Carolina, was arrested on Aug. 25 after he set fire to a flag in Lafayette Park, which the National Park Service oversees. Earlier that day, Trump signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute people for burning the American flag..... The Supreme Court has ruled that flag burning is a legitimate political expression protected by the Constitution...
.Carey said he served in the Army from 1989 to 2012 and was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
“I served this country for over 20 years, having taken an oath to upheld our Constitution. I did not take an oath to serve a dictator, a tyrant or a wannabe king,” he told reporters after the hearing."