“The Sandiganbayan has dismissed the ill-gotten wealth case filed against the late president Ferdinand Marcos, his wife Imelda Marcos and their associates due to the failure of the prosecution "to prove its allegations by preponderance of evidence."
Is the Larry Gadon appointment a distraction?
#philippines #politics
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/874150/sandiganbayan-junks-ill-gotten-wealth-case-vs-marcos-sr-associates/story/
#politics
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On #Juneteenth weekend, Governor Greg Abbott vetoed a new registry that could have improved outcomes for sickle cell disease patients. The bill's sponsor called the move ”petty, bullshit #politics.”’
Our reporting fellow @sarahutch talks to one of the people the legislation could have helped: https://www.texasobserver.org/sickle-cell-registry-bill-veto-abbott/
#TXlege #Texas #GregAbbott #healthcare #BlackLivesMatter #racism #news #USpol
Life support runs out.
Rich folks pitched safety as waste.
Earth's their Titan, too.
#haiku #senryu #poem
#sustainability #safety #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #environment #politics #leadership
Loss of #fossil fuel assets would not impoverish general public, study finds
Research allays fears that rapid scaling back of production would hit people’s savings and pensions hard
#climate #politics #environment #capitalism
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/22/fossil-fuel-assets-loss-study
A Delaware city is set to give corporations the right to vote in elections
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/seaford-delaware-corporate-voting-llc-trust-elections/
#CBSNews #SeafordDE #CorporateVoting #ElectionRights #CorporateInterference #DemocracyUnderThreat #Politics #News
I keep hearing #journalists and pundits talking about the #Putin / #Prigozhin #coup and saying things like "Who could have seen this coming?"
May I suggest "Anyone over 50 who has spent any time following #Russian #politics at all" could safely have gambled the family farm on this coming?
My #Russia Coup folder has three subfolders, and that's just 1991, 1993 and 2023. And I still think there should be one for 1999.
Hire older journalists, you silly newspapers and TV shows.
The new leadership of the #Texas State Historical Association only wants our state's #education to reflect certain people's stories.
Looking to the words of writers like James Baldwin, history professor John R. Lundberg wants the tales we tell of our past to be inclusive of everyone:
https://www.texasobserver.org/tsha-texas-state-historical-association-history-attack/
#history #schools #TXlege #politics #USpol #racism #WhiteSupremacy #extremism #Republicans #academia #essays #books @bookstodon
I find myself mostly alienated from social media use until everyone else catches up and realises we desperately need a revolution and to leave the barbarism of capitalism behind us
Meanwhile in Germany, the German Supreme Court admonishes the German state governments that prison labor wages - which currently range between €1.37 and €2.30/hour - are too low.
#Germany #prison #PrisonReform #politics #SupremeCourt
https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Karlsruhe-beanstandet-niedrige-Loehne-fuer-Gefangene-article24203382.html
The British satirical magazine #PrivateEye attempts to capture the spirit of the nation...
#UK #politics #UKpol #JohnsonResigns #johnson #humour
We won!
The readers of the #Austin Chronicle selected the Texas Observer revival for an award in their annual Best of Austin feature, in the category of #Politics & #Media Wildcard! We are honored to be recognized for our efforts to save our magazine! 🤠https://www.austinchronicle.com/best-of-austin/year:2023/poll:readers/category:politics-and-media/3034902/
#JournoLife #journalism #nonprofit #awards #Texas #TexasNeedsAnObserver
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin.
Have just started this one.
#books #amreading #reading #kindle #literature #bookwyrm #booktoot #book #knihy #politics #usa #america #rightwing #extremism
@bookstodon
Last week: Journalists with #Gannett went on #strike for a day, demanding better pay and improved working conditions, including changes to corporate leadership. Organizers say it could be just the beginning of #labor action around the #media megacorp: https://www.texasobserver.org/gannett-strike-journalists-union-newsguild/
#journalism #JournoLife #workers #Austin #Dallas #Texas #politics #USpol #news #protest #activism
Just a friendly reminder, not all of us have the spoons or mental space to deal with US politics in all its horror (and maybe glory?).
I'm happy to use filters to curate my timeline, but when you get cute with putting asterisks in words you bypass filters. Just write the word, let us protect ourselves.
Because getting cute with partial censoring of words actually causes more harm than pretending to obfuscate a word.