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Microsoft employee arrested at headquarters protest of Israel contracts
Microsoft employee arrested at headquarters protest of Israel contracts
18 people have been arrested in total
buff.ly
August 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Microsoft employee arrested at headquarters protest of Israel contracts
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Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts. The protest encampment started today, and it’s the biggest escalation of the protests at Microsoft so far www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts
It’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft.
www.theverge.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts. The protest encampment started today, and it’s the biggest escalation of the protests at Microsoft so far www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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The plan? Change none of Pete Buttigieg's policies but give him a beard and run him again in 2028
August 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The plan? Change none of Pete Buttigieg's policies but give him a beard and run him again in 2028
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“I never, ever, ever want to disappoint my fans, especially in Philadelphia,” he said, but added there was “absolutely no way” he would go against strikers who are “fighting for a living wage.”
“I hope, I hope, I hope the mayor and the city can make a deal. I hope it works out,” he said.
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“I hope, I hope, I hope the mayor and the city can make a deal. I hope it works out,” he said.
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LL Cool J, the hip-hop legend who was scheduled to co-headline the Wawa Welcome America concert Friday on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, announced Thursday night that he would not perform while the municipal workers’ strike was ongoing.
LL Cool J pulls out of Wawa Welcome America
“I’m not gonna cross a picket line and perform for money when people are hurting,” the rapper said on Instagram and X.
www.inquirer.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
“I never, ever, ever want to disappoint my fans, especially in Philadelphia,” he said, but added there was “absolutely no way” he would go against strikers who are “fighting for a living wage.”
“I hope, I hope, I hope the mayor and the city can make a deal. I hope it works out,” he said.
🔥🔥🔥
“I hope, I hope, I hope the mayor and the city can make a deal. I hope it works out,” he said.
🔥🔥🔥
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Microsoft/Xbox is a priority target for BDS boycotting. Do not purchase or promote Activision, Bethesda, Blizzard, or Mojang games.
www.bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...
www.bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...
Boycott Microsoft's Xbox
Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza – which is why Microsoft is a now pr...
www.bdsmovement.net
April 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Microsoft/Xbox is a priority target for BDS boycotting. Do not purchase or promote Activision, Bethesda, Blizzard, or Mojang games.
www.bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...
www.bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...
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Financial Times letters section, Apr 23, 2025
April 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Financial Times letters section, Apr 23, 2025
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“commonsense facts about sex and race”
April 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“commonsense facts about sex and race”
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BREAKING: An immigration judge just ruled that Mahmoud Khalil can be deported on the paltry evidence submitted by the government — a 2-page letter that *admits* Khalil's conduct was not unlawful, but says his beliefs undermine "core American interests"
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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules
The judge said the Trump administration’s evidence – a two-page letter from Secretary of State Marco Rubio – is sufficient to deport Khalil under an obscure legal provision.
zeteo.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
BREAKING: An immigration judge just ruled that Mahmoud Khalil can be deported on the paltry evidence submitted by the government — a 2-page letter that *admits* Khalil's conduct was not unlawful, but says his beliefs undermine "core American interests"
@delaneynolan.bsky.social
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Leaked World Bank memo instructs U.S.-based foreign employees to carry their papers on their person given “recent developments in immigration policy”
April 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Leaked World Bank memo instructs U.S.-based foreign employees to carry their papers on their person given “recent developments in immigration policy”
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Microsoft workers and their allies are gathering today in Redmond to protest Microsoft’s 50th anniversary and call for an end to the company’s selling of cloud services to the Israeli military.
April 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Microsoft workers and their allies are gathering today in Redmond to protest Microsoft’s 50th anniversary and call for an end to the company’s selling of cloud services to the Israeli military.
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JD Vance should be forced to resign over this. Just shameful, demonstrable open lying by the vice president right out in the open.
Yet again the Vice President of the United States JD Vance is blatantly lying.
The man is not a “convicted gang member” — he is a father of a disabled child married to a 🇺🇸 citizen, with no criminal record.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The man is not a “convicted gang member” — he is a father of a disabled child married to a 🇺🇸 citizen, with no criminal record.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
April 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
JD Vance should be forced to resign over this. Just shameful, demonstrable open lying by the vice president right out in the open.
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Nearly 1000 teachers, academics, and more are mounting an academic boycott of Columbia.
Columbia "is colluding with the current U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize protest," they say.
Signers include Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill, Ruha Benjamin.
Columbia "is colluding with the current U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize protest," they say.
Signers include Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill, Ruha Benjamin.
March 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Nearly 1000 teachers, academics, and more are mounting an academic boycott of Columbia.
Columbia "is colluding with the current U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize protest," they say.
Signers include Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill, Ruha Benjamin.
Columbia "is colluding with the current U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize protest," they say.
Signers include Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill, Ruha Benjamin.
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Today is the 10-year anniversary of the U.S.-backed war on Yemen.
While much of the media is focused on a leaked national security group chat, the victims of U.S. warfare on Yemen are gravely overlooked.
While much of the media is focused on a leaked national security group chat, the victims of U.S. warfare on Yemen are gravely overlooked.
March 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Today is the 10-year anniversary of the U.S.-backed war on Yemen.
While much of the media is focused on a leaked national security group chat, the victims of U.S. warfare on Yemen are gravely overlooked.
While much of the media is focused on a leaked national security group chat, the victims of U.S. warfare on Yemen are gravely overlooked.
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Dear journalists: stop giving this administration the benefit of the doubt. Stop using old editorial standards and practices and norms. Assume that everything they say from the get-go is a lie because it always, always, is.
March 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Dear journalists: stop giving this administration the benefit of the doubt. Stop using old editorial standards and practices and norms. Assume that everything they say from the get-go is a lie because it always, always, is.
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BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
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World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.
March 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.
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So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
www.lemonde.fr
March 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Reps. Jayapal, Raskin and Scanlon are circulating the following letter about Mahmoud Khalil (leaked to me) among congressional colleagues, source says. Draft unambiguously condemns the arrest, saying it's based on an "obsolete Cold War-era" law
March 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Reps. Jayapal, Raskin and Scanlon are circulating the following letter about Mahmoud Khalil (leaked to me) among congressional colleagues, source says. Draft unambiguously condemns the arrest, saying it's based on an "obsolete Cold War-era" law
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PEOPLE OF BLUESKY! Ahhhhhh, it smells good here. Behold a trailer for season 2 of Poker Face! It’s gonna be a good one. May 8th on the almighty Peacock!
March 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
PEOPLE OF BLUESKY! Ahhhhhh, it smells good here. Behold a trailer for season 2 of Poker Face! It’s gonna be a good one. May 8th on the almighty Peacock!
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Donald Trump is back to using "Palestinian" as a slur and invoking the trope that someone cannot be Jewish unless they are — according to him — sufficiently in support of the Israeli government
Donald Trump: "Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I am concerned. He has become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He is not Jewish anymore. He is a Palestinian."
March 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Donald Trump is back to using "Palestinian" as a slur and invoking the trope that someone cannot be Jewish unless they are — according to him — sufficiently in support of the Israeli government
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I was someone praising Newsom for having some fighting spirit in him last year - eg vs DeSantis - but can’t really take him seriously after this, especially as he seems not to have pushed back on Kirk on a number of issues.
March 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I was someone praising Newsom for having some fighting spirit in him last year - eg vs DeSantis - but can’t really take him seriously after this, especially as he seems not to have pushed back on Kirk on a number of issues.
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NEW: Former Washington Post Chief Marty Baron unloads on Jeff Bezos amid his censorious takeover of the Opinion section.
"It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump…Blue Origin is wholly dependent on the US government. Trump can just decide that they’re not going to get any contracts."
@zeteo.com
"It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump…Blue Origin is wholly dependent on the US government. Trump can just decide that they’re not going to get any contracts."
@zeteo.com
'Craven. He's Fearful of Trump': Marty Baron Slams Jeff Bezos' Censorship of Post Opinion Section
EXCLUSIVE: The acclaimed ex-Washington Post editor on billionaire media barons and growing threats to the free press.
zeteo.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
NEW: Former Washington Post Chief Marty Baron unloads on Jeff Bezos amid his censorious takeover of the Opinion section.
"It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump…Blue Origin is wholly dependent on the US government. Trump can just decide that they’re not going to get any contracts."
@zeteo.com
"It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump…Blue Origin is wholly dependent on the US government. Trump can just decide that they’re not going to get any contracts."
@zeteo.com
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Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
February 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know