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Google Calendar users noticed that references to Hispanic Heritage Month, Pride Month, Jewish American Heritage Month and Holocaust Remembrance Day had all disappeared.

The Calendar controversy followed decisions by Google and Apple to change the Gulf of Mexico’s name to Gulf of America in their map applications after Mr. Trump ordered the name change.

[–] gedaliyah 24 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

And cost the nation billions.

[–] gedaliyah 37 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Sounds like depression. If you have some savings, it might be worth it to see a therapist to find out.

Or find one thing in the world to make better.

[–] gedaliyah 12 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Not sure if this image is more forbidden in China or the USA

[–] gedaliyah 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Is that a lot?

[–] gedaliyah 2 points 22 hours ago

You should also be sure to check out [email protected], where you can find discussion and connect with devs.

There is a pinned post at the top that lists all of the active apps. iOS especially has a couple that have not received updates in a while, although they may be still useful.

On a larger screen, you might benefit from using a web app. There are several good ones with very active development.

[–] gedaliyah 50 points 23 hours ago (8 children)

I really enjoy how news organizations report on these cryptocurrency crashes as though that wasn't the original intent from the beginning.

[–] gedaliyah 3 points 1 day ago

Personally I think it's great that the administration is prioritizing keeping education accessible, and I'm certain that they won't be directly undermining that aim in the future. /s

[–] gedaliyah 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe something that links to the daily top post? Or if you're into AI, a summary of the most active discussion.

You could also choose a threshold instead of making it daily.

[–] gedaliyah 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some of the news and politics communities added an automatic comment to new posts that linked to fact checking information, and a big portion of the community lost their minds about it. A lot of people found it biased, obtrusive, or unnecessary, and it generated a lot of conflict between the people who liked it or felt neutral. It went through many iterations based on the feedback before being removed entirely.

The entire saga was fairly disruptive and everyone is glad it's over.

 

Nearly every Palestinian has a friend or family member who has been jailed by Israel, for militant attacks or lesser offenses such as rock-throwing, protesting or membership in a banned political group. Some are incarcerated for months or years without trial in what is known as administrative detention, which Israel says is needed to prevent attacks and avoid sharing sensitive intelligence.

Among those released on Saturday, 36 had been sentenced to life for their involvement in deadly attacks against Israelis. Only 12 of them have been allowed to return to their homes in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, where their families and supporters mobbed the Red Cross minibus, chanting “God is greatest” and cheering. Palestinian medics said four were taken straight to the hospital for urgent care.

Ahmed Barghouti was given a life sentence for dispatching assailants and suicide bombers to carry out attacks that killed Israeli civilians during the second intifada, or Palestinian uprising, in the early 2000s. As a commander in Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, an armed offshoot of President Mahmoud Abbas’ secular Fatah Party, he was also convicted of possession of firearms and attempted murder, according to the Israeli Justice Ministry.

Abu Shakhdam was sentenced to the equivalent of 18 life sentences over his involvement in Hamas attacks that killed dozens of Israelis during the second intifada.

Among the most infamous of those attacks was a suicide bombing that blew up two buses in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba in 2004, killing 16 Israelis, including a 4-year-old.

[–] gedaliyah 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hostages are taken from their homes or jobs with the express intent to threaten their lives, and exchange them for a political outcome.

Prisoners are apprehended in association with criminal activity, with intent to persue charges and criminal trial. They are held at designated prisons, which are subject to local and international monitoring.

We don't even know how many of the hostages are alive or dead.

This attempt at moral equivalence is repugnant.

 

The first of two vessels carrying 1,000 tons of a Chinese-made chemical that could be a key component in fuel for Iran’s military missile program has anchored outside the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas on Thursday, ship tracking data shows. It could be a signal that Iran’s missile production is back to business as usual after the devastating, and embarrassing, attacks by Israel on key factories last year.

The ship, Golbon, left the Chinese port of Taicang three weeks ago loaded with most of a 1,000-ton shipment of sodium perchlorate, the main precursor in the production of the solid propellant that powers Iran’s mid-range conventional missiles, according to two European intelligence sources.

The sodium perchlorate could allow for the production of sufficient propellant for some 260 solid rocket motors for Iran’s Kheibar Shekan missiles or 200 of the Haj Qasem ballistic missiles, according to the intelligence sources.

The shipment comes as Iran has suffered a series of regional setbacks with the collective defeat suffered by its allies: the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Hezbollah’s losses in Lebanon. Following Israel’s strike on Iran’s missile production facilities in October, some Western experts believed it could take at least a year before Iran could resume solid-propellant production. This delivery points to Iran being not far from – or that they could already be back to – the production of its missiles.

[–] gedaliyah 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In case anyone else has never heard of "MintPress News" - there's a good reason for that.

The Wikipedia page is a massive stream of examples where they've been caught fabricating stories for Putin, Assad, and Iran. They have a track record of making things up wholesale and recklessly endangering actual journalists. Take this example:

If you are wondering how Mnar Adely, an intern with no professional journalism experience, launches a massively well-funded site, maybe here is your answer:

No surprise when it comes to this being posted here, or that it is classified as "LOW Credibility," and repeatedly listed as "Deprecated" on Wikipedia because "the site publishes false or fabricated information."

[–] gedaliyah 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Jesus 👏 was 👏 a 👏 short 👏 king 👏

 

Three months after Missouri voters enshrined reproductive rights in the state Constitution, abortion remains unavailable as the state’s main provider fights legal hurdles to resume offering the procedure.

At the same time, opponents of abortion in the state Legislature, stung by the passage of Amendment 3 in November, have filed a raft of bills aimed at thwarting implementation of the measure or undercutting its goals while they try to find a unified strategy to prevent the return of abortion services.

The amendment guaranteed the right to abortion up to the point of fetal viability, which it defined as the stage at which, in the judgment of a treating physician, a fetus could survive outside the womb without extraordinary medical measures. While the amendment allowed the state legislature to regulate abortion after viability, it required that any such regulations not interfere with abortions necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant person.

After the amendment took effect in December, Planned Parenthood said it was ready to begin providing abortions at three locations across the state but that it felt limited by Missouri’s ban and other regulations targeting abortion providers, which are designed to make it harder for clinics to operate. It sued.

 

Critics say a Trump administration order calls into question the United States’ global standing and reliability.

President Trump’s executive order freezing most U.S. foreign aid for 90 days has thrown into turmoil programs that fight starvation and deadly diseases, run clinical trials and seek to provide shelter for millions of displaced people across the globe.

The U.S. Agency for International Development, or U.S.A.I.D., is the main government organization that provides humanitarian aid, such as food, medical assistance and disaster relief. It has been hit the hardest by the freeze.

Mr. Trump has accused the agency of rampant corruption and fraud, without providing evidence. The billionaire Elon Musk, who has been given the task of cutting federal budgets and programs, boasted online of “feeding U.S.A.I.D. into the wood chipper.”

The Trump administration ordered thousands of the agency’s workers to return to the United States from overseas, put them on indefinite administrative leave and shifted oversight of the agency to the State Department.

 

See also: Hamas' armed wing says it will delay hostage release scheduled for Saturday By Reuters

CAIRO, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Hamas' armed wing will delay the release of more Israeli hostages planned for Saturday until further notice, according to a statement by the group's spokesperson on Telegram.


A spokesperson for the militant group Hamas said Monday that it would delay the release of the next group of Israeli hostages scheduled for this Saturday, imperiling a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

The hostage-for-prisoner exchanges are part of a six-week ceasefire between Israel and Hamas now in its fourth week. In a statement, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the Hamas announcement "is a complete violation of the ceasefire agreement and the hostage release deal."

He added that he had asked the country's military "to prepare at the highest level of readiness for any possible scenario in Gaza and to ensure the protection of Israeli communities."

At the end of the first phase of the deal, 33 Israeli hostages would've been freed in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.

The next stage of the deal is expected to see additional hostages released for prisoners and a further withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza.

 

Police told the owners of the stores, specializing in Arabic and English books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the history of Jerusalem, that they were suspected of disturbing public order. Their lawyer says police likely pivoted once they realized they would not get approval for incitement charges.

 

Reports say the Hamas demanded information from the hostages using brutal physical force. 'Only before my release did my captors remove the chains, forcing me to learn to walk again' one hostage told his family.

Hostages Ohad Ben-Ami, Or Levy, and Eli Sharabi, who were released from Gaza on Saturday, endured severe torture under Hamas captivity, including physical and psychological abuse.

 

Charles Lindbergh was a hero for his feats of aviation but ultimately lost that goodwill once he started pushing bigoted conspiracies to keep America from fighting Hitler.

Lindbergh would spend the years leading up to World War II actively campaigning to “protect the white race” and for the U.S. to maintain strict neutrality toward Nazi Germany. He even flew to Germany to receive a medal in person from Hermann Göring, the infamous commander of Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe, on behalf of Adolph Hitler himself.

According to the unpublished galleys of American historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., some Republicans even urged Lindbergh to run for President against Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940 to keep America out of the war.

This dark night for the American soul became the subject of Philip Roth’s 2004 novel, The Plot Against America. Now an HBO series of the same name, the story explores an alternate future where Lindbergh does challenge Roosevelt and wins Presidency — with disastrous consequences.

 

Some who left the country in successive waves of emigration have felt drawn back to aid recovery efforts after the bloody and destructive war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Visitors at the Lebanese Diaspora Village, a culture hub in Batroun, Lebanon, that aims to help overseas citizens stay connected with their country.

“Lebanon was going into an apocalyptic phase,” Mr. Al Kadiri, 40, said on a recent morning in the outskirts of Beirut. “Going back was the only best option.”

Lebanon’s large and influential diaspora — estimated at nearly three times the size of the country’s population of 5.7 million — has been trickling back, hoping to offer physical and financial support for a country devastated by one of the bloodiest wars in decades in the Mediterranean nation.

 

The collapse of U.S.A.I.D. at the hands of President Trump and Elon Musk is already leaving gaping holes in vital health care and other services that millions of Africans rely on for their survival.

For decades, sub-Saharan Africa was a singular focus of American foreign aid. The continent received over $8 billion a year, money that was used to feed starving children, supply lifesaving drugs and provide wartime humanitarian assistance.

In a few short weeks, President Trump and the South African-born billionaire Elon Musk have burned much of that work to the ground, vowing to completely gut the U.S. Agency for International Development.

“CLOSE IT DOWN!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media on Friday, accusing the agency of unspecified corruption and fraud.

A federal judge on Friday halted, for now, some elements of Mr. Trump’s attempt to shutter the agency. But the speed and shock of the administration’s actions have already led to confusion, fear and even paranoia at U.S.A.I.D. offices across Africa, a top recipient of agency funding. Workers were being fired or furloughed en masse.

As the true scale of the fallout comes into view, African governments are wondering how to fill gaping holes left in vital services, like health care and education, that until recent weeks were funded by the United States. Aid groups and United Nations bodies that feed the starving or house refugees have seen their budgets slashed in half, or worse.

By far the greatest price is being paid by ordinary Africans, millions of whom rely on American aid for their survival. But the consequences are also reverberating across an aid sector that, for better or worse, has been a pillar of Western engagement with Africa for over six decades. With the collapse of U.S.A.I.D., that entire model is badly shaken.

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