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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/62554452

Trump reportedly wanted Dulles airport and Penn Station to be renamed after him in exchange for funding

A federal judge has reversed a freeze put on funds by Donald Trump for $16bn in enhanced rail links connecting New York and New Jersey amid reports that the US president wants major travel landmarks named after him in return for continued investment.

The Gateway Project will build a new commuter rail tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey under the Hudson River on the western side of New York City and repair a century-old tunnel used by more than 200,000 travelers and 425 trains daily.

The existing River tunnel was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and needs frequent emergency repairs that disrupt travel on the nation’s most heavily used passenger rail line.

Effective reddit advertisement and discussion on r/degoogle, r/buyfromEU, and a Canadian subreddit (forgot the name) boosted piefed.social and piefed.ca primarily. I'd like to see more of this if people know viable subreddits, and help spread the load too across many servers. Currently piefed.social has about 50%+ of all piefed users. This is too much long-term.

Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?

It snowed two weeks ago in New York. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing – a temperature science naturally dictates is necessary to melt snow and ice.

But science isn’t enough for some US political critics, however, who have instead blamed Zohran Mamdani, New York’s new socialist mayor, for the snow not having melted and still clogging up some of the city’s streets.

The New York Post, the rightwing tabloid and a frequent Mamdani critic, has led the charge. This week the newspaper claimed that “slushy streets” were “ruining travel for everyone”.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42859733

Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?

It snowed two weeks ago in New York. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing – a temperature science naturally dictates is necessary to melt snow and ice.

But science isn’t enough for some US political critics, however, who have instead blamed Zohran Mamdani, New York’s new socialist mayor, for the snow not having melted and still clogging up some of the city’s streets.

The New York Post, the rightwing tabloid and a frequent Mamdani critic, has led the charge. This week the newspaper claimed that “slushy streets” were “ruining travel for everyone”.

Several children have come down with serious complications like encephalitis and pneumonia, state health officials reported this week.

The ongoing measles outbreak in South Carolina is causing serious, even life-threatening, health issues for some unfortunate children.

This week, the South Carolina Department of Public Health issued its latest update on the outbreak. Officials detailed that at least 19 people in the state have been hospitalized for severe measles complications, including several children who developed brain swelling, or encephalitis, as a result of infection. There have been nearly 900 cases documented in the state since last October.

“These are complications we hope to prevent. And increasing vaccination coverage protects those who cannot be vaccinated like young infants, pregnant women, and those with weakened immune systems,” said state epidemiologist Linda Bell in a press conference held Thursday by the department.

The title may sound weird. I initially wrote it as "fuck over the billionaires". But it is not only billionaires, but also multi-millionaires and people who think themselves hierarchically superior.

So:

• Are you doing something to fuck over "the powerful"? If so, what?

Donald Trump received rare blowback from Republican lawmakers over a video posted to social media that included a racist image of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, depicted as primates.

Since Trump’s return to the White House, Republican lawmakers have treaded carefully when disagreeing with the president, often communicating their concerns in private for fear of suffering his wrath.

But the swift calls to remove the post, which also echoed false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, represented a rare moment of bipartisan backlash to Trump’s actions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

In the modern world YSK about resilience targetting and how it might contribute to feeling overwhelmed.

Resilience targeting is an attack on individual and community resilience during disasters through misinformation, confusion, and efforts to overwhelm, in order to prevent communities from recovering and keep them vulnerable.

You should also know about things that might help deal with those feelings...

https://archive.is/0jhxV

Hey yes I know I posted another meme already but I couldn't pick and wanted one for my transmasc homies too <3

also how do i post multiple images in one OP?

"For too long, this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class," Hegseth said. "Instead, too many of our officers came back looking too much like Harvard — heads full of globalist and radical ideologies that do not improve our fighting ranks."

In a separate post on X, Hegseth wrote, "Harvard is woke; The War Department is not."

I get that there is nuance to why people feel some admiration for a strongman figure, but why not take the mask off and bring back monarchy and aristocracy, if people are getting tired of democracy and want to be ruled? Like those defending the rich and don't want to raise taxes on them, in the hopes that they become rich themselves and would not vote against their own projected interest, do some people think they will become dictator themselves one day?

There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring the names of co-conspirators to censoring pictures of random women in a way that makes individuals look guiltier than they really are, forgetting to redact credentials that made it possible for all of Reddit to log into Epstein’s account and trample over all the evidence, and the complete ineptitude that resulted in most of the latest batch being corrupted thanks to incorrectly converted Quoted-Printable encoding artifacts, it’s safe to say that Pam Bondi’s DoJ did not put its best and brightest on this (admittedly gargantuan) undertaking. But the most damning evidence has all been thoroughly redacted… hasn’t it? Well, maybe not.

Youlag is a FreshRSS extension that allows you to browse your YouTube and article feeds through a modernized design that incorporates quality-of-life features.

Optimized for both watching videos and reading articles.

Why?

Stay connected with creators without a Google account by using RSS. Don't be tied to a specific platform and access your subscriptions from any device.

You can also use Youlag solely for its theme and quality of life features, ignoring any video feature.

Highlights v4.2.0

This update continues the trend of adding more customization and quality of life features.

• Curate your own "recommended" videos based on your Watch later, or Subscriptions, or the current author
• Video chapters/timestamp support, with prev/next buttons for skipping
• DeArrow support
  • Replace clickbait thumbnails to screencaps
  • Use less sensational titles (when available)
  • Display video length (when available)
• Compact view for browsing videos on mobile

...20+ more updates in the changelog

Other features

• Block incoming YouTube shorts
• Whitelist specific categories to use the video mode layout
• Use Invidious instance as video playback source
• Modernized interface for articles
• Activate mini player to follow across pages; read articles while keeping a floating video at the bottom

Find more details: https://github.com/civilblur/youlag

Picture of a tweet with the caption: "The International Olympic Committee had to ask fans not to boo the U.S. delegation led by JD Vance and Marco Rubio during the opening ceremony."

Over a picture of J.D. Vance putting his hand on his chess with a US Paralympic press background