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January 29, 2023

Ukraine to boycott Paris 2024 if terrorist war-criminal states athletes are allowed in.

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1619392906326069249


Ukraine will boycott the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris if athletes from the Russian Federation and Belarus are allowed to participate in them, even in neutral status.
January 25, 2023

On edit: Link to bootleg version self-delete by myself.

It was about The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell 1/24/23 - MSNBC Trump News.

Waiting for the MSNBC YouTube highlights then.

January 23, 2023

Davos economic forum exposes fake right-wing populists - The Mehdi Hasan Show



As the world’s richest and most powerful meet in Davos, we know the damage these elites have inflicted on the world. But there’s one well-connected, billionaire-courting Ivy League lawyer who’s trying to take his fake-populist roadshow from the Florida governor’s mansion to the White House — and Mehdi is here to expose his hypocrisy. New York Times economic correspondent Peter Goodman and Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast join him to discuss. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc

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January 9, 2023

Seattle schools sue tech giants over social media harm

(Missed the LBN Forum deadline)

AP News

Seattle schools sue tech giants over social media harm

SEATTLE (AP) — The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth.

Seattle Public Schools filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court. The 91-page complaint says the social media companies have created a public nuisance by targeting their products to children.

It blames them for worsening mental health and behavioral disorders including anxiety, depression, disordered eating and cyberbullying; making it more difficult to educate students; and forcing schools to take steps such as hiring additional mental health professionals, developing lesson plans about the effects of social media, and providing additional training to teachers.

“Defendants have successfully exploited the vulnerable brains of youth, hooking tens of millions of students across the country into positive feedback loops of excessive use and abuse of Defendants’ social media platforms,” the complaint said. “Worse, the content Defendants curate and direct to youth is too often harmful and exploitive ....”





Make 'em pay the costs of their unlimited greed.

January 9, 2023

Bolsonaro has been holed up thousands of miles away in Florida.

Source: New York Times

Before departing Brazil, the former president had urged his supporters to avoid violence.

When his supporters stormed Brazil’s Congress and presidential offices on Sunday to protest what they falsely claim was a stolen election, Jair Bolsonaro was believed to be thousands of miles away.

Facing various investigations from his time in office, Mr. Bolsonaro flew to Florida in late December with plans to stay for at least a month. He has been in Orlando, living in a rented house owned by a professional mixed-martial-arts fighter a few miles from Disney World.

Mr. Bolsonaro has long questioned the reliability of Brazil’s election systems — without evidence — and he refused to concede unequivocally when he lost in October to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took office on Jan. 1.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/world/americas/bolsonaro-florida-brazil-protests.html



Looks like Fascism is the menu du jour...

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