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A radical legal ideology nurtured our era of economic inequality | Aeon Ideas https://prismo.xyz/posts/ba714b83-569b-4e00-9f51-6b583ceffdd4

Sudan’s Military Is Killing Pro-Democracy Protesters. Trump Doesn’t Care — but We Should.

After the ousting of dictator Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese military has cracked down and killed at least 100 civil rights protesters.

The post Sudan’s Military Is Killing Pro-Democracy Protesters. Trump Doesn’t Care — but We Should. appeared first on The Intercept.

An Invitation You Can’t Refuse: How Rep. Steny Hoyer Makes Sure AIPAC’s Israel Junket Is Well Attended

Pressure on freshmen in Congress to sign up for Steny Hoyer’s Israeli adventure has intensified as AIPAC is determined to prove its continued relevance.

The post An Invitation You Can’t Refuse: How Rep. Steny Hoyer Makes Sure AIPAC’s Israel Junket Is Well Attended appeared first on The Intercept.

U.N. Concludes That Saudi Arabia Needs to Be Held Accoutable for Khashoggi. Here’s Why That Won’t Happen.

As long as the U.S. stands firmly by Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom won’t face justice — or restrain itself.

The post U.N. Concludes That Saudi Arabia Needs to Be Held Accoutable for Khashoggi. Here’s Why That Won’t Happen. appeared first on The Intercept.

#ManjaroPhone might be the first Arch-based Linux distribution for smartphones, promising to their users the same "enjoyable simplicity" they delivered on desktops.

https://tuxphones.com/manjaro-phone-plasma-mobile-smartphone-distro-arch/

#Critical #Firefox #vulnerability fixed in 67.0.3 - #Fedora Magazine

https://fedoramagazine.org/critical-firefox-vulnerability-fixed-in-67-0-3/

#GNU #Linux

Yes, the UAW Lost Again in Chattanooga. But a Rank-and-File Movement Could Win.

It was a bad sign. On the day voting began at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the shift change suddenly turned blue.

Throngs of workers were passing through the factory turnstiles in both directions, as the day shift ended and the night shift began. On the preceding days, handfuls of union supporters in bright green shirts were there to hand out flyers and banter with their co-workers.

New Footage Shows Just How Alarmingly Fast an Arctic Island Is Crumbling Into the Sea
https://earther.gizmodo.com/new-footage-shows-just-how-alarmingly-fast-an-arctic-is-1835523016 #climatechange #climatecrisis

The Librem 5 smartphone team has been hard at work, and we want to update you all on our software progress.

Including: LibHandy, Calls, Encrypted messaging, patches going upstream, Mesa, Documentation, and... Quake II. Seriously.

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-june-software-update/

Joe Biden’s White Privilege

On Tuesday night, former Vice President Joe Biden told a room full of wealthy New York donors about the good old days. When he first arrived in the Senate in the 1970s, Biden recalled, he joined a Democratic caucus that included staunch segregationists, such as Herman Talmadge of Georgia and James Eastland of Mississippi. “He […]

Endorsements Pouring in for Insurgent Queens DA Candidate

Within 24 hours, Tiffany Cabán earned endorsements from the New York Times and leading presidential candidates Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

The post Endorsements Pouring in for Insurgent Queens DA Candidate appeared first on The Intercept.

#Himalayan #glacier #melting doubled since #2000, spy #satellites show | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/19/himalayan-glacier-melting-doubled-since-2000-scientists-reveal

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

Ta-Nehisi Coates Delivers Searing History Lesson After Mitch McConnell Rejects Reparations

Ta-Nehisi Coates, the celebrated and influential author of “The Case of Reparations,” on Wednesday directly challenged remarks made by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) the day earlier, during which the Republican leader came out against reparations arguing that “none of us currently living are responsible” for slavery. “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 […]

Canada's Climate Emergency Declaration Is Just Empty Words
https://earther.gizmodo.com/canadas-climate-emergency-declaration-is-just-empty-wor-1835630454 #climatechange #climatecrisis

We Need to Talk About These Weird “New York Times” Presidential Candidate Interviews

A week out from the first Democratic presidential debates, the New York Times interviewed 21 of the 24 candidates—but not Joe Biden—and asked all of them the same 18 questions. It’s a pretty fun concept, which, if not quite a substantive alternative to a debate, succeeds in illustrating just how weird and boring presidential candidates—and […]

Fatty fish without environmental pollutants protect against type 2 diabetes

If the fatty fish we eat were free of environmental pollutants, it would reduce our risk of developing type 2 diabetes. However, the pollutants in the fish have the opposite effect and appears to eliminate the protective effect from fatty fish intake. This has been shown by researchers using innovative methods that could be used to address several questions about food and health in future studies.

As we approach the release of the Librem 5 smartphone (Q3 of 2019), we're going to take a look at 1 application (or game, or feature) running on the Librem 5 Development Kit every single day.

Starting with something fun:

Day 1 - AisleRiot Solitaire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFRbOvZvxM

Census Case Could Cement John Roberts’ Legacy of Upholding White Power

In 1997, Duane Buck, a 34-year-old African American man, was convicted of double murder in Texas. At the trial, a court-appointed psychologist called as a witness by Buck’s lawyer testified that Buck was more likely to commit future violent crimes because he was black. “Race. Black: Increased probability,” the expert report said. Influenced by this […]

The Los Angeles County DA Has Put 22 People on Death Row. Not One of Them Was White.

In Los Angeles County, only people of color have been sentenced to death in the last seven years. In a new report titled “The California Death Penalty Is Discriminatory, Unfair, and Officially Suspended: So Why Does Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey Still Seek to Use It?” the American Civil Liberties Union details how Lacey, […]