Donald Trump has rejected the notion that Elon Musk should be given access to top-secret U.S. plans for a potential war with China, and denied a report that such a briefing had been planned to be held at the Pentagon. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/22/world/politics/trump-denies-musk-china-briefing-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #elonmusk #china #defense

Hamas said on Friday it was reviewing a U.S. proposal to restore the Gaza ceasefire as Israel intensified a military onslaught to press the Palestinian militant group to free remaining Israeli hostages. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/22/world/politics/hamas-us-truce-proposal-study/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #israel #hamas #israelhamaswar

Japan, China and South Korea's top diplomats hold talks in Tokyo on Saturday, aiming to bolster cooperation at a time when U.S. trade tariffs are looming over the region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/22/japan/politics/tokyo-trilateral-meeting/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #china #southkorea #chinajapanrelations #southkoreajapanrelations

Political anger is breaking our social networks. A political scientist explains how avoiding neighbors, friends and family with opposing views leads to further misunderstanding: https://theconversation.com/avoiding-your-neighbor-because-of-how-they-voted-democracy-needs-to-you-talk-to-them-instead-250376
Betsy Sinclair, Washington University in St. Louis #politics

A team of troops in black with combative shields and helmets blitzed into the shower area looking like servicemen in an army on the battlefield. The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. The smell of burning flesh filled the air.
https://www.texasobserver.org/an-inside-look-at-taser-use-in-texas-prison/

NBC News: No evidence of coordinated vandalism of Teslas despite Musk and Trump claims https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/tesla-vandalism-not-coordinated-trump-musk-claims-rcna197369

We should talk more about how the dominant approach of #capitalist #economists to controlling #inflation is to periodically throw hundreds of thousands of people out of #work & into misery. This is what passes for " #economic stability" & it is madness.

So it goes without saying, but let's say it anyway: the concentration of attacks on #trans people isn't because trans people are the only people fascists hate (although they absolutely do hate them). It's because they're the people they think non #fascists are least likely to defend.

Earlier, from Francesca D'Annunzio: Texas law enforcement agencies and others around the nation are reviving a long-dead "task force" program that led to racial profiling in the past. https://www.texasobserver.org/local-state-police-ice-287g-task-force/

Featured story: Last month, we revealed the owner of GlomarResponder, an overtly racist X account. It belongs to #ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, a key prosecutor for the agency. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/

#ICYMI, Ben Sargent on our looming Constitutional Crisis ...

More from Ben and Loon Star State: https://www.texasobserver.org/topics/loon-star-state/

'Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.'

- David Hume

An election will be called most likely Sunday! Just a reminder when you send an NDP’er to the House of Commons we work and WIN for people! Our team of NDP MP’s used our power to win meaningful benefits for people. We are ready to do it again. #politics #canada #election

“Friends, we indicated that if we had the House, the Senate and the presidency, there were certain things that we would do. Well in 2021, we had the House, the Senate, and the presidency.”

During his #Austin visit on Wednesday, Congressman Al Green was sharply critical of the failures of the #Democrats and called for mass protest in Washington, D.C. in response to #Trump and #DOGE's attack of vital social services and government agencies. https://austinfreepress.org/no-capitulation/

New today from me at Austin Free Press: Congressman Al Green visited #Austin on Wednesday afternoon, to talk about getting kicked out of the House and censured for protesting Donald #Trump.

He called for millions of people to march on Washington, D.C. to protest cuts to vital services, #DOGE, and our current constitutional crisis. https://austinfreepress.org/no-capitulation/

I am now seeing commercials for Jesus on MSNBC.

It was unsettling seeing them during college football games, but this seems to confirm that the US is rapidly descending into an information environment that prioritizes beliefs & faith over facts & truth.

The former is much easier for the powerful to rob blind than the latter.

Halifax musicians say U.S. traffic stop led to drug search, questions about allegiance
A Halifax-based folk music duo say police who pulled them over on a highway in the U.S. Midwest earlier this month accused them of having drugs in their rental car and questioned them about their allegiance in a strange interaction that lasted nearly an h...
#music #law #politics #Halifax #US #Midwest
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-musicians-pulled-over-asked-canada-or-us-1.7488950?cmp=rss