Texas’s San Antonio airport will get a 420lb autonomous security robot ( www.theguardian.com )
John Oliver offers to pay Clarence Thomas $1m a year if he resigns from supreme court ( www.theguardian.com )
The late-night talkshow host John Oliver has offered to pay Clarence Thomas $1m annually – as well as give him a $2m tour bus – if the Republican judge resigns from the US supreme court....
Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says poll ( www.theguardian.com )
Two Proud Boys members get lengthy prison terms for Capitol attack ( www.theguardian.com )
Two members of the far-right Proud Boys militia group who took part in the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol with the intention of keeping Donald Trump in the White House were sentenced to lengthy prison terms on Friday....
Crystal Mason: Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquitted ( www.theguardian.com )
Sanders warns Biden: address working-class fears or risk losing to demagogue ( www.theguardian.com )
"We’ve got to see the White House move more aggressively on healthcare, on housing, on tax reform, on the high cost of prescription drugs,” Sanders said. “If we can get the president to move in that direction, he will win; if not, he’s going to lose.”...
State guard set up by DeSantis is being trained as personal militia, veterans say ( www.theguardian.com )
Veterans resign as force established as civilian disaster relief becomes ‘militaristic’ and ‘abusive’
Hollywood actors’ union recommends strike as talks deadline passes ( www.theguardian.com )
The US supreme court has hijacked American democracy ( www.theguardian.com )
The court has vastly overextended its own power and flaunted its corruption. It will take a political movement to stop them
William Shatner: ‘Good science fiction is humanity, moved into a different milieu’ ( www.theguardian.com )
‘Joe the Plumber’, who challenged Obama on taxes in 2008, dies aged 49 ( www.theguardian.com )
Select quotes follow:...
‘He’s an insider’: Ramaswamy’s deep ties to rightwing kingpins revealed ( www.theguardian.com )
(The subtitle and first three paragraphs follow, but it’s worthwhile reading the entire article.)...
US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network ( www.theguardian.com )
Revealed: Charles Haywood, creator of the Society for American Civic Renewal, has said he might serve as ‘warlord’ at the head of an ‘armed patronage network’
‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation ( www.theguardian.com )
‘Scary’: public-school textbooks the latest target as US book bans intensify ( www.theguardian.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15589190...
Take it from a former banker: the budget is for ordinary people. The mega-rich look on and laugh ( www.theguardian.com )
‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars ( www.theguardian.com )
In the environs of Phoenix, Arizona, on a 17-acre site that once contained a car body shop and some largely derelict buildings, an unusual experiment has emerged that invites Americans to live in a way that is rare outside of fleeting experiences of college, Disneyland or trips to Europe: a walkable, human-scale community devoid...
Framing men as the ‘villains’ in relationships also frames them as unable to change ( www.theguardian.com )
Though I don’t think this terminology is used, this article is primarily about heteropessimism and it’s effects on relationships from both sides.
‘Project 2025’: plan to dismantle US climate policy for next Republican president ( www.theguardian.com )
Texas Republican vows to pass bill on Ten Commandments in public schools ( www.theguardian.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16793518
Biden accused of betrayal of Khashoggi over push to deepen Saudi ties ( www.theguardian.com )
The charge, from human rights campaigners and some Democrats, follows the fifth anniversary of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of Saudi regime agents and comes amid mounting criticism of a proposed new defence treaty between Washington and Riyadh that could result in Saudi Arabia granting official recognition to...
US anti-abortion activist who kept fetal remains convicted of blockading clinic ( www.theguardian.com )
Lauren Handy, the anti-abortion activist who kept five fetuses in her Washington DC home, was on Tuesday found guilty of breaking federal law by blockading an abortion clinic....
Ohio Republicans accused of trying to mislead voters with abortion ballot wording ( www.theguardian.com )
Abortion rights advocates in Ohio filed a lawsuit on Monday, claiming that state Republican leaders are trying to confuse voters on a ballot measure about access to reproductive healthcare....
Report finds YouTube more popular than TikTok for young book buyers ( www.theguardian.com )
‘Moscow Marjorie’: Republican accuses Marjorie Taylor Greene of irresponsible Ukraine rhetoric ( www.theguardian.com )
The far-right Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is ungovernable and should be known as “Moscow Marjorie”, said a former Republican colleague in the US House, accusing Greene of “getting her talking points from the Kremlin” when opposing new federal aid for Ukraine....
