Senior #State Department official sought internal communications with #journalists, #European officials, & Trump #critics

#Trump appointee Darren Beattie requested records regarding a large list of high-profile names, organizations, & #RightWing buzzwords for a “#TwitterFiles” style document dump about alleged conservative censorship.

#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #privacy #InfoSec #democracy #RevengePolitics
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1115988/senior-state-department-official-sought-internal-communications-with-journalists-european-officials-and-trump-critics/

Ellisland, 1791

Dear Sir:

Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution…

—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic

https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/thou-pickle-herring-in-the-puppet

#Critics #AdventureGames #adventure #IndieDev #point&click
To the game critics it would be the same for the cook who just baked a cake and the critic tasted it and said "good, but could be better", cook says "it's better than the one you made" and the critic says "Wait, I didn't make one", and cook says "that's my point".
If you have only eaten the cake it and haven't made one, walk softly, for these things aren't developed for free.

The videos posted to Facebook all have the same look and feel: The subject looks directly at the camera, joins his hands in a sampeah – a #Cambodian gesture of respect – and apologizes.

Examples from last month – Cambodian #journalist Mech Dara and overseas #activist Hay Vanna – were just the latest additions to a long list of activists and #critics forced by #threats or legal action to recant and pledge their loyalty to the ruling #CambodianPeoplesParty (CPP).

Those are some of the most high-profile instances. Several other opposition activists told #RadioFreeAsia that they were forced to pledge allegiance to the ruling party to maintain the safety of their family or to avoid politically motivated criminal charges.

https://www.rfa.org/english/cambodia/2024/11/17/cambodia-opposition-defections/

#Colorado's #SupremeCourt dismisses #lawsuit against #baker #JackPhillips for refusing to make a cake for #AutumnScardina, a #trans #woman.

#Critics argue ruling gave Phillips a #proceduralpass for violating the state's #AntiDiscriminationAct.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Colorado #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.kunc.org/news/2024-10-08/colorados-supreme-court-dismisses-suit-against-baker-who-wouldnt-make-a-cake-for-transgender-woman

How #VicePresident and #DemocraticParty #Nominee for #President #KamalaHarris Is Creating a New #Majoritarian #Center.

#Economic #policies that are both broadly #popular and broadly #beneficial are defining a new center. It’s Harris’s #neoliberal #critics who are #extremists

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #DemocraticParty #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #Megathread

https://newrepublic.com/article/186863/kamala-harris-economic-policy-new-majoritarian-center

#Fascist #Florida #Governor #RonDeSantis goes #allin against #Florida's #abortionrights #amendment.

DeSantis' use of #state #resources to #oppose a #ballot #initiative in #Florida is #unusual, and #critics argue it #violates a #statute that #prohibits the state from "#influencing" a person's #vote.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #VoterSupression #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Misogyny #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2024/09/09/ron-desantis-amendment-4-abortion-rights-florida

The absence of any voice from "#radical" #feminist groups in the West about the #zionist regime's rapes of #Palestinian prisoners, both men and women, says a lot about their "#radicalism". https://todon.nl/@prolrage/112886796452786900
On the contrary, the Zionist feminist narrative ran from the very beginning to reproduce an emotional lie (which turned out to be a lie) about mass rapes in the settlements attacked by the Resistance forces. This proved to be a clever move to maintain racism against "Arabs" and also worked as a preventive measure to stop active solidarity with the massacred Palestinians and their Resistance.
This shows that "feminist" groups in the West are not equipped with the political tools to manage the basic propaganda tactics of the bourgeois, patriarchal system and remain in a sentimental analysis of reality - which ultimately makes them harmless and idle.
And of course we can see the deep #racism against Arabs...
#Palestine #Solidarity #FromTheRiverToTheSea #feminism #critics #capitalism #ClassWar