www.theglobeandmail.com Protesters rally against Trump in New York, Washington and other cities across U.S.
Protests also planned outside Tesla car dealerships against billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk
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Opponents of President Donald Trump’s administration took to the streets of communities large and small across the U.S. on Saturday, decrying what they see as threats to the nation’s democratic ideals.
The disparate events ranged from a march through midtown Manhattan and a rally in front of the White House to a demonstration at a Massachusetts commemoration of “the shot heard ‘round the world” on April 19, 1775, marking the start of the Revolutionary War 250 years ago.
Why are other researchers skeptical?
For starters, there are questions about whether K2-18 b even has water — or a surface that could support life. Modelling studies of it and similar planets suggest that they are probably barren4,5. “A lifeless mini-Neptune scenario remains the most parsimonious explanation,” says Joshua Krissansen-Totton, a planetary scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Then there’s the issue of whether DMS or DMDS is actually present, or whether the signal is spurious. The measurement reported by the Cambridge team is “really pushing the limit of what JWST can do”, says Laura Kreidberg, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.
Schmidt and his colleagues recently re-analysed the 2023 claim from the Cambridge team and found no evidence of biosignature molecules in the data6. Schmidt says that the new observations are “pretty noisy, and any reported features could still just be statistical fluctuations”. The Cambridge researchers, however, say that there is just a 0.3% probability that the signal is due to chance.
Longest Ballot Protest targets Poilievre’s riding to push for electoral reform | Power & Politics
inv.nadeko.net Longest ballot protest targets Poilievre’s riding to push for electoral reform | Power & Politics
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is one of 91 candidates registered in the suburban Ottawa riding of Carleton. It's tied for the record of having the most candidates on the ballot with the 2024 byelection in the Montreal riding of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun. Most candidates are connected to an elector...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is one of 91 candidates registered in the suburban Ottawa riding of Carleton. It's tied for the record of having the most candidates on the ballot with the 2024 byelection in the Montreal riding of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun. Most candidates are connected to an electoral reform advocacy group called the Longest Ballot Committee. Mark Moutter, an independent candidate in the riding who is part of that initiative, joins Power & Politics to discuss why he’s put his name on this large ballot.
Lemmy custom interface. An example one is Tesseract.
Alternatively you can use Ublock filters.
A disturbance in the Fediverse. As if a million posts and comments cried out and were silenced.
Fake! There is no way a half dozen orcs moved in a circle without at least one of them either losing their balance or vomitting.
Assuming you don't have some naive belief like that militaries aren't necessarry you're essentially arguing for child soldiers. GG
I appreciate your energy, but there are communities out there specifically geared towards catering to this particular void and will garner less opposition. For example:
Ukraine President Zelenskiy accuses China of supplying Russia with weapons
Cross-posted from "Ukraine President Zelenskiy accuses China of supplying Russia with weapons" by @[email protected] in [email protected]
- Ukraine president says China providing artillery and gunpowder
- Zelenskiy also says Beijing helping make weapons in Russia
- Beijing accused of direct military aid for Russia for first time
- Russia waging a more than three-year-old invasion of Ukraine
(UK) Compilation of Protests Against the Supreme Court – What The Trans!?
Cross-posted from "(UK) Compilation of Protests Against the Supreme Court – What The Trans!?" by @[email protected] in [email protected]
With the news of the Supreme Court Ruling. There has been a large raft of protests that have been announced all over the country, and it is very difficult to keep track of all the events. We have compiled a list of all the protests we can find.
If only there had been some way to prevent this administration from being in charge.
AI chatbots can help treat mild mental illnesses.
No, they cannot and F you youtuber for saying they can.
kyivindependent.com Ukraine's central bank leaves key policy rate unchanged at 15.5%
"Considering the high level of uncertainty, which has only increased over past months, the NBU will respond flexibly to changes in the balance of risks to the price dynamics and inflation expectations," the central bank's statement read.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has kept the interest rate on hold at 15.5% after raising the key policy rate three times since the beginning of 2025, it announced on April 17.
This move will help maintain the sustainability of the forex market, keep inflation expectations under control, and gradually reduce inflation to the 5% target over the policy horizon, the NBU said.
🎥 How Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It
Cross-posted from "🎥 How Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It" by @[email protected] in [email protected]
Word of advice: When the publisher doesn't bother to fact check the proper spelling of the city name it literally announces its bias and intent.
Thanks for this. I also support the Green Party and was furious they failed to meet the requirements, but blamed it on pure incompetence. Your reasoning at least explains their failure in a way that makes sense and doesn't require them to be complete crayon eating buffoons.
I still feel like as an up and coming party you have one fucking job: meet the requirements to participate, so their failure still grates on my nerves but not so much now.
That one Beaker turning their back to the camera so as not to get recognized...
This is always clickbait. It's not aliens. It's never aliens. Even IF the detection of a chemical we previously believed only formed as a result of biotic processes is confirmed all this research can tell us is that there is likely conditions on other worlds where the abiotic formation of said chemical (in this case sulphur dioxide and disulphur dioxide) is possible.
Signals intelligence is a whole specialization, and if that isn't enough simple espionage will suffice. I'm not saying Russia will send a missile to the exact coords of someone controlling a drone from their home in Copenhagen. I'm saying simply the announcement that volunteers are engaging soldiers remotely from NATO cities might be considered 'proper' grounds for war which is why we haven't done so already (or if we have kept damn quiet for this reason).
This is technically feasible. IRC the US uses satellite comms to control predator drones across the globe from their mainland. There are 2 issues that immediately come to mind:
- Latency - Depends on the quality of the link between pilot and end point transmitter, and the increased risks for jamming/hacking, and
- Would be an act of war prompting probable orc military retaliation (along the lines of "they're controlling drones from apartments in Moscow so now apartments are fair game?" logic).
kyivindependent.com Former Kursk Oblast governor arrested for embezzlement in Ukraine border fortifications
Former Kursk Oblast Governor Alexei Smirnov and his deputy Alexei Dedov are accused of embezzling over a billion rubles ($12 million) from the budget allocated to the Kursk Oblast Development Corporation for the construction of fortifications on the border with Ukraine.
A Moscow court sent former Kursk Oblast Governor Alexei Smirnov to a two-month pre-trial detention center on April 16 in connection with a fraud case, the press service of Moscow courts reported.
Smirnov and his deputy Alexei Dedov are accused of embezzling over a billion rubles ($12 million) from the budget allocated to the Kursk Oblast Development Corporation for the construction of fortifications on the border with Ukraine.
Electoral reform keeps stalling in Canada, but advocate says it isn't dead
Rambout is one of 50 local campaigners for Fair Vote Canada. The non-profit advocacy group is pushing for electoral reform, in particular, a shift toward some form of proportional representation.
kyivindependent.com Russia arms 'kamikaze' drones with chemical weapons, Ukraine says
Russian forces have deployed Shahed-type "kamikaze" drones carrying toxic substances to attack Ukraine, the Center for Countering Disinformation at Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council said on April 16.
Russia has been intensifying its use of chemical agents on the battlefield in Ukraine, with Kyiv recording over 6,000 cases of use of munitions containing hazardous chemicals between February 2023 and 2025.
A capsule with CS gas, a riot control agent, has been found in one of the Russian drones, the center said, adding it had verified the information with Ukraine's security services and the State Emergency Service.
kyivindependent.com Denmark to send unarmed soldiers to Ukraine for drone warfare training
The courses, expected to begin as early as this summer, will take place at training centers in western Ukraine and will not involve direct combat.
The Danish Armed Forces plan to send unarmed troops to Ukraine for short-term training courses to study the country's drone warfare tactics, Major General Peter Boysen, Denmark's commander-in-chief, told state broadcaster TV 2 on April 16.
War in Ukraine: Kremlin-run media publishes — then deletes — video showing drone operators directing strikes in Ukraine from Moscow residential high-rise
theins.ru Kremlin-run media publishes — then deletes — video showing drone operators directing strikes in Ukraine from Moscow residential high-rise
On the morning of April 15, Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti published — and later deleted — two Telegram posts that appeared to show military drone operators directing strikes against Ukrainian territory from a makeshift control center located inside a residential high-rise in Moscow City,...
Cross-posted from "War in Ukraine: Kremlin-run media publishes — then deletes — video showing drone operators directing strikes in Ukraine from Moscow residential high-rise" by @[email protected] in [email protected]
On the morning of April 15, Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti published — and later deleted — two Telegram posts that appeared to show military drone operators directing strikes against Ukrainian territory from a makeshift control center located inside a residential high-rise in Moscow City, the Russian capital’s business district.
The first post claimed that a “combat FPV drone, controlled from Moscow, struck an Armed Forces of Ukraine target in Chasiv Yar at an ultra-long distance for the first time.” The second post said the UAV, piloted remotely from Moscow, had been launched by the drone unit of the Espan
Greens held back some candidates despite giving full slate to debates commission
The party isn't running nominees in over 100 ridings, and Green Party Co-Leader Jonathan Pedneault told Radio-Canada last week that some of this was deliberate. He said his party made a "strategic decision" not to run candidates in ridings where they think Conservatives would likely win
Pedneault told CBC News that some candidates and volunteers "faced intimidation" from constituents, which contributed to the party's candidate shortage.
Multiple people hit by speeding car on pedestrian-only walkway at Toronto
www.thestar.com Driver may have targeted victim as four hurt in hit-and-run on pedestrian walkway at Toronto Metropolitan University
Police posted on X that they had received multiple reports for pedestrians hit by a driver of a vehicle on Nelson Mandela Walk — a pedestrian-only street that runs north-south near Yonge and Gerrard Streets.
US Derails G-7 Condemnation of Russian Missile Strike on Ukraine
Cross-posted from "US Derails G-7 Condemnation of Russian Missile Strike on Ukraine" by @[email protected] in [email protected]
Perfect. I'll be using this from now on, thank you.
www.theguardian.com Birmingham bin workers reject deal to end strike
Unite leader says ‘partial deal on pay protection for a few’ was overwhelmingly rejected in vote, as rubbish piles up
Cross-posted from "Birmingham bin workers reject deal to end strike" by @[email protected] in [email protected]
Poilievre says he'd pass a law that overrides a Charter right. That would be a first for a PM
On Monday, Poilievre promised to use the notwithstanding clause to impose consecutive life sentences on multiple murderers. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2022 that imposing consecutive life sentences violates an offender's Charter rights.
"One of the last remaining restraining or constraining conventions about the notwithstanding [clause] is that no federal government has used it. Now we have someone enthusiastically proposing that. That's major," said Axworthy, who is now chair of public policy at the University of Toronto's Massey College.
Palestinian activist arrested by ICE while expecting U.S. citizenship interview
A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University was arrested Monday at a Vermont immigration office where he expected to be interviewed about finalizing his U.S. citizenship, his attorneys said.
kyivindependent.com In first such ruling, Russian soldier reportedly jailed for 15 years for surrendering to Ukraine
The case marks the first known conviction in Russia for voluntary surrender during the full-scale war against Ukraine.
A Russian court has sentenced Roman Ivanishin, a soldier from Sakhalin, to 15 years in a maximum security prison for surrendering to Ukrainian forces, Russian pro-state media outlet Kommersant reported on April 15, citing an undisclosed source.
The case marks the first known conviction in Russia for voluntary surrender during the full-scale war against Ukraine.
kyivindependent.com Ukraine has liberated Dniproenerhiia village in Donetsk Oblast, commander claims
"I have been in command of the tactical group for two months. During this period, we managed to reduce personnel losses by 20%, regain control of the village of Dniproenerhiia, and improve the tactical situation in two critical areas," Lieutenant General Serhii Naiev said.
Ukrainian forces have recaptured the village of Dniproenerhiia in Donetsk Oblast's Volnovakha district and advanced in two key front-line sectors in the past two months, Lieutenant General Serhii Naiev, commander of the Vuhledar tactical group, reported on April 15.
"I have been in command of the tactical group for two months. During this period, we managed to reduce personnel losses by 20%, regain control of the village of Dniproenerhiia, and improve the tactical situation in two critical areas," Naiev wrote on Telegram.
5 speed cameras are coming to Windsor. Here's how to find out where they'll go
City administration said these cameras need to be leased from an approved vendor, which will cost around $1.3 million each year.
Staff expect fines levied under the program will cover its operating costs.
That works out to ~$712 in fines per day per camera. That seems a ridiculous expectation and lease cost tbh.