French lawmakers vote to tax American retirees who freely benefit from social security ⌘ Read more

Latvia’s parliament votes to quit global treaty protecting women ⌘ Read more

Poland votes to ban fur farming by 2033, with payouts for early closures ⌘ Read more

Poorer health linked to more votes for Reform UK, 2024 voting patterns suggest
Poorer health is linked to a higher proportion of votes for the populist right wing political party, Reform UK, indicates an analysis of the 2024 general election voting patterns in England, published online in the open access journal BMJ Open Respiratory Research. ⌘ Read more

Eurovision organisers postpone vote on Israel’s inclusion in contest next year
The European Broadcasting Union had previously announced it would hold a vote on Israel’s participation in November. ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Paradox - “Chat Control” update

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October 14th was supposed to be the day the European Council voted to mandate scanning of all private communications, encrypted or not.

The vote was pulled at the last minute.

Germany withdrew support, creating a blocking minority that blocked the Danish Presidency&aposs hope to g … ⌘ Read more

Met Police civilian staff vote to strike over pay
More than 6,000 Metropolitan Police staff are due to take industrial action in a dispute over pay. ⌘ Read more

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens
University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer. ⌘ Read more

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens
University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer. ⌘ Read more

What has been agreed and what happens next
Israel’s security cabinet are expected to meet at 17:00 Israel time (15:00 BST) to formally vote on the first phase of the plan. ⌘ Read more

What has been agreed and what happens next
Israel’s security cabinet are expected to meet at 17:00 Israel time (15:00 BST) to formally vote on the first phase of the plan. ⌘ Read more

What has been agreed - and what happens next
Israel’s war cabinet are expected to meet at 17:00 Israel time (15:00 BST) to formally vote on the first phase of the plan. ⌘ Read more

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net Yes, if Germany actually opposes this. But so far, there’s only one guy that said something on a press conference. He does speak for the “CDU” party, which is “in command” at the moment, but that’s about it. I don’t trust these people – not until I’ve actually seen them voting against Chat Control. 🥴

Trump open to invoking the Insurrection Act
Irie Sentner,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

Stephan: We are watching the military, ICE, and CBP Gestapo takeover of cities where Americans voted for Democrat control. In my opinion, this is all being done because Trump wants to frighten Americans into submission, and control the outcome of 2026 election so a submissive Republican majority retains control of Congress.

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Screensho … ⌘ Read more

Ian Kelling is the new FSF president
The Free Software Foundation has announced
the selection of Ian Kelling as the organization’s president.

Kelling, age forty-three, has held the role of a board member and a
voting member since March 2021. The board said of Kelling’s
confirmation: “His hands-on technical experience resulting from his
position as the organization’s senior systems administrator proved
invaluable for his work on the board of directors. … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Germany was listed as “opposing” on https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ for a while, now it’s back to “undecided”. According to netzpolitik.org, it’s still debated. Also according to that page, there could be an important vote on the EU level on October 13/14.

The green party and the (far) left are opposing this (at least in Germany). Sadly, Germany is leaning more right with every year … As for young people: The (far) left is the strongest party among young people, with the (far) right being the second strongest one. (https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2025-02-23-BT-DE/umfrage-alter.shtml) Is there cause for hope? I don’t know.

ProcessOne: Why Europe’s ‘Chat Control’ Proposal Will Cripple European Communication Industry While Failing to Protect Children

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On October 14th, the European Concil will vote on a regulation that … ⌘ Read more

What #TheLEFT had to say about #vonderleyen ’s #SOTU speech?

There are several news stories going around saying that there are two no-confidence votes to Von Der Leyen about to be submitted, saying little to nothing about them, and even filing them together as if they both want or mean the same.

It might be useful to know exactly what the criticisms are, so here is a link to The Left’s comment to today’s speech. Read it in full, but here is my summary:

• “acts as the guardian of the interests of the most powerful, at the expense of democracy, justice, and the future of the planet”;

• Gaza: “The bare minimum is ending military cooperation and fully suspending the EU–Israel Association Agreement. This is genocide and we need to do everything to stop it”

• pushing the MERCOSUR deal (they are actually light on their criticism of this treaty, but I’ll leave my rant about ot on a another toot)

• the EU-US deal: “subjugation of European policy to the economic and military interests of the USA. You are sacrificing energy, digital policy, security, and climate protection on the altar of the hollow phrase of transatlantic partnership”

• “Europeans’ living standards are falling, jobs are lost, authoritarianism grows, and social systems are under pressure”

https://left.eu/the-last-state-of-the-union/

went to vote. got told i can’t vote because i’m not registered. handed a form to fill out that i later learn is not in english.

go home and find out the problem is widespread among young voters like me.

fuck this country.

South Korea’s new president vows to ‘restore democracy’
Reuters Editorial Staff,    -  Reuters

_Stephan: I am leading today’s SR with this story because it represents exactly how the population of a country can end a fascist authoritarian coup. First, millions go into the streets for nonviolent demonstrations, then citizens overwhelmingly vote for democracy. As Trump tries to stir up violence in the Los Angeles demonstrations so he can claim it is an insurrection and susp … ⌘ Read more

Nurses to vote on pay deal as potential strike looms
The ballot is being billed by representatives as the biggest single vote by the profession in the UK. ⌘ Read more

Nurses to vote on pay deal as potential strike looms
The ballot is being billed by representatives as the biggest single vote by the profession in the UK. ⌘ Read more

Nurses to vote on pay deal as potential strike looms
The ballot is being billed by representatives as the biggest single vote by the profession in the UK. ⌘ Read more

Live: The Classic 100: Piano countdown has begun but who will be #1?
Tens of thousands of Australians have cast their votes in the 2025 Classic 100: Piano. Join us as we countdown to #1. ⌘ Read more

House GOP ‘didn’t know’ what was in the spending bill when they voted: report
Krystina Alarcon Carroll,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The spineless, moral weaklings Republican Americans elected as their Congressional Representatives, as this report describes, did not even bother to read the Trump fascist bill designed to destroy healthcare in the United States and make the uber-rich even richer, before voting on it. I hope all you Repub … ⌘ Read more

Tasmanian premier forced out of the top job after marathon no-confidence debate
Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff has lost the no-confidence motion, with a majority of MPs voting against him, effectively costing him the job. ⌘ Read more

Trump urges Senate to postpone vote on Russia sanctions bill, Senator says ⌘ Read more

Liberal Party weighing up legal challenge in Sydney seat after 26-vote loss
Still not conceding defeat, the Liberal Party is weighing up whether to challenge Gisele Kapterian’s narrow loss in Bradfield in court. ⌘ Read more

South Korea’s new president has to mend rifts after months of chaos
Lee Jae-myung takes office on the back of the highest voting turnout in recent elections, which followed three different interim presidents, protests and legal battles that exposed rifts in one of Asia’s most successful democracies. ⌘ Read more

Tasmanian premier to face second day of no-confidence motion
Premier Jeremy Rockliff will remain in Tasmania’s top job for at least one more night, after a majority of MPs voted to continue debating a no-confidence motion in his leadership on Thursday. ⌘ Read more

Tasmanian MPs set to receive a pay rise, but they remain the lowest-paid
The Tasmanian Industrial Commission has determined a $30,000 increase to the base salary of state politicians, which will take effect from July — unless MPs vote against it. ⌘ Read more

Appeals Court Strips Voters’ Ability to File Voting Rights Act Lawsuits in 7 States
Andrew Garber,    -  Brennan Center for Justice

Stephan: Parts of the Judicial system are still honorable and law-abiding, parts are not. This is going to mean a lot as the 2026 election comes closer. Here is an example showing what I mean.

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Right-wing candidate Karol Nawrocki wins Poland’s presidential election
The conservative candidate, who is backed by US President Donald Trump, has won Poland’s weekend presidential runoff election, according to the final vote count on Monday. ⌘ Read more

How the US became the biggest military emitter and stopped everyone finding out
Nina Lakhani,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Yet another story showing that the U.S. government just doesn’t get it, or more accurately, doesn’t want to get it, and neither do the majority of Americans who voted these cretins into office. Our technologies are destroying the Earth’s matrix of life, and the price for this greed and willful ignorance is goi … ⌘ Read more

Trump Is Weaponizing the Justice Department to Advance His Voter Suppression Plans
Ari Berman,  National Voting Rights Correspondent  -  Mother Jones

Stephan: I have been convinced since the Trump coup began last January that the MAGAt Republicans and their king were going to do everything they could to rig the 2026 election to keep themselves in power. And sure enough, they are.

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/0 … ⌘ Read more

President Trump’s approval rating: Here’s what latest opinion polls show
Kathryn Palmer,   Trending News Reporter  -  USA Today

_Stephan: The truth that corporate media doesn’t seem able or willing to touch is that the transformation of the United States into a fascist autocracy by Trump and his vellains is only happening because a small majority of Americans voted for it. Fascism never comes into power through violence; it is always voted into office by … ⌘ Read more

Welcome To The White Christian Nationalist Presidency
David Kurtz,  Editor-at-Large  -  TPM

_Stephan: In the United States, a strange affiliation has arisen amongst evangelical Christianity, White racism, and fascism. This is the core partnership of MAGAt world, and a historic distortion of Jesus’ teachings. These are the people who voted Trump into office, whose wellbeing will be most severely damaged.  Yet, they still support and kneel to Donald Trump. He, in turn, art … ⌘ Read more

Canada: Conservatives flip Liberal seat following judicial recount by just 12 votes ⌘ Read more

EU Council to discuss removal of Hungary’s voting rights in the European Union on May 27 ⌘ Read more

Federal Funds for Rural Health Care Are on the Chopping Block—Here’s What That Could Mean
Rita Rubin,  Staff Writer  -  Journal of the American Medical Association

_Stephan: When I look at the healthcare trends that are shaping America’s future what really stands out for me is the the MAGAt Red state rural voters who overwhelmingly voted for aspiring dictator Trump, did not really seem to understand that Trump cares nothing for the peas … ⌘ Read more

HIV Testing and Outreach Falter as Trump Funding Cuts Sweep the South
Amy Maxmen,  Research Staff, KFF  -  Kaiser Family Foundation | MedPage Today

_Stephan: As I have told you since before the 2024 election that started the Trump fascist coup, the people in the Red states who voted this utterly corrupt psychopath and his despicable minions into power are going to be the main ones paying the price for what Trump and his administration are going to do to … ⌘ Read more

Trump Posts AI-Generated Image of Himself as Pope, Days After Joking He’d Like to Be the Next Pontiff
Rebecca Schneid,  Reporter  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: When I tell you that Americans have voted into the office of the President an egomaniacal psychopath, here is some proof of that statement. Can you imagine John Kennedy, George Bush 41, Barack Obama or, in fact, any other president doing something like this? Neither can I … ⌘ Read more

‘You will be hunted’: Voting machine company reveals new death threats from Fox viewers
Carl Gibson,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / Alter Net

_Stephan: The longer this fascist coup goes on the more it impresses on me that this could only be happening to the United States because there are millions of Americans who are supporting aspiring dictator Trump, the Republicans and their coup. The problem we face as a country is ourselves. Surely you … ⌘ Read more

Honest Government Ad | How To Vote 2025 ⌘ Read more

@eapl.me@eapl.me I honestly believe you are overreacting here a little bit 🤣 I completely emphasize with you, it can be pretty tough to feel part of a community at times and run a project with a kind of “democracy” or “vote by committee”. But one thing that life has taught me about open source projects and especially decentralised ecosystems is that this doesn’t really work.

It isn’t that I’ve not considered all the other options on the table (which can still be), it’s just that I’ve made a decision as the project lead that largely helped trigger a rebirth of the use of Twtxt back in July 1 2020. There are good reasons not to change the threading model right now, as the changes being proposed are quite disruptive and don’t consider all the possible things that could go wrong.

@bender@twtxt.net Hehehe! :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I have to admit, I didn’t follow the topic very closely, but I was under the impression that there were more votes on location-based addressing. But maybe I’m completely wrong. Anyway. I don’t have the energy to be part of a fundamental debate.

Open Source PaaS Cozystack Becomes a CNCF Sandbox Project
On February 28, members of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee completed their voting and unanimously accepted Cozystack, a platform for building private clouds and PaaS, into the CNCF Sandbox. The project is currently undergoing the onboarding… ⌘ Read more

Debian Project Leader Election 2025 results
The Debian Project Leader election results
have been announced. Andreas
Tille has been re-elected and will serve another term through
April 2026. LWN looked at the election and\
candidates in early April. ⌘ Read more

A little-known federal agency is at the center of Trump’s executive order to overhaul US elections
CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: I told you despot Trump and his Republican Congressional servants were going to try and rig the 2026 election so they could not be voted out of office. Well, here it is. The United States is now, at best, a pseudo-democracy. We will definitely have an election in 2026, … ⌘ Read more

Editor’s Note – Is This What You Voted For
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

Stephan: EDITOR’S NOTE – IS THIS WHAT YOU VOTED FOR?

_The Founders didn’t agree about everything when they created the Constitution. But they did all agree about three things. They did not want a king. They did want a firewall between church and state. And they wanted the three branches of government they were creating to operate equally to preserve democracy. Now, 250 years later, psych … ⌘ Read more

‘Deep red rural America’ hurts most as Trump attacks on liberal programs backfire: report
Jennifer Bowers Bahney,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Just as I, and many others have predicted, MAGAt world is going to experience the worst effects of the Trump coup and dismantlement of the economy and government. And in many ways, MAGAt voters didn’t even think about that when they voted. Here is an example of what I mean. I think … ⌘ Read more

This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:

• Sharing small posts
  
• Sharing links
  
• Sharing media
  
• Having long conversations
  
• Voting on topics, opinions or decisions
  
• RSVPing to virtual or physical events

#poll:xyz123 Vote: None

💡 I had this crazy idea (or is it?) last night while thinking about Twtxt and Yarn.social 😅 There are two things I think that could be really useful additions to the yarnd UI/UX experience (for those that use it) and as “client” features (not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:

• Voting – a way to cast, collect a vote on a decision, topic or opinion.
  
• RSVP – a way to “rsvp” to a virtual (pr physical) event.
  

Both would use “plain text” on top of the way we already use Twtxt today and clients would render an appropriate UI/UX.

Open Source Initiative Hides Election Details, Others Fear “Political Retribution”
Last month, the Open Source Initiative held an election where the votes were tampered with in order to exclude “reform” candidates”. ⌘ Read more

Am I the only one that’s confused by the discussions, and then the voting we had on the whole threading model? 🤔 I’m not even sure what I voted for, but I know it wasn’t the one that won haha 🤣 (which I’m still very much against for based on an intuition, experience and lots of code writing lately).

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I give you not creating another file, but then I’d vote for commenting out DMs. See https://eapl.me/timeline/post/z5e2bna

It’s easier to find the DM in comments from your side, than asking all the client maintainers to add the regex =P
You can even use a Modified comment, such as
#! <DM content>
Or something like that

This approach is retro-compatible with current and older clients.

Patient Safety Network Abruptly Cut by Trump Administration
Jeremy Faust, MD, MS, MA,,   Editor-in-Chief   -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: American healthcare has been devastated by dictator Trump and his servants, and the Republicans in Congress have stood by and watched while they sucked their thumbs. The only chance we have of retaining a democracy in the United States, assuming the 2026 election is not rigged in advance, is to vote all Republicans in the House and t … ⌘ Read more

Polling shows growing number of Republicans identify with the MAGA movement
Ben Kamisar,    -  NBC News

Stephan: What you rarely hear anyone talking about is how many Germans supported Hitler for years after they voted him into office. You may find it hard to believe but that is exactly the same thing happening in the United States, Here are the facts.

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-15-at-7.17.08  … ⌘ Read more

I do think integrating things like Salty.im might actually be a good idea. I can also see a future where we integrate other things like todo.txt and calendar.txt. I’d even love to see decentralised forms of “plain text” voting too.

[$] Debian Project Leader election 2025 edition
Four candidates have stepped up to run in the 2025 Debian Project\
Leader (DPL) election. Andreas\
Tille, who is in his first term as DPL, is running again. Sruthi\
Chandran, Gianfranco\
Costamagna, and Julian Andres\
Klode are the o … ⌘ Read more

Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of voters
Alexis Anderson-Reed,  President of State Voices, a non-partisan organization   -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan:

_It should be clear to anyone with an IQ higher than their height in inches (78 is considered retarded) that the Trump MAGAt (formerly Republican) Party is doing everything in its power to create a pseudo-democracy. They do not want a fair all-citizens voting election. Here is … ⌘ Read more

Pam Bondi orders DOJ to drop case accusing Georgia of suppressing Black voters
David Edwards,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

Stephan: Pam Bondi, incomprehensibly the Attorney General of the United States looks to me like a Barbie doll and sounds about as competent as one. But she is an unfailingly loyal vassal of psychopath “monarch” Trump and is doing his bidding to destroy voting rights in the country. Here is the latest in that trend.

![](http … ⌘ Read more

thanks @prologic!
@bender the idea of the RFC was to reach an agreement on a difficult problem, receiving proposals, and the voting is a simple count to gauge the sentiment of “is this a problem worth to be fixed?, are we committed to implement a change in our clients?”

But that’s a fair point. What do the community expect? What do y’all expect?

For anyone following the proposals to improve replies and threads in twtxt, the voting period has started and will be open for a week.
https://eapl.me/rfc0001/

Please share the link with the twtxt community, and leave your vote on your preferred proposals, which will be used to gauge the perceived benefits.

Also, the conversation is open to discuss implementation concerns or anything aimed at making twtxt better.

Musk PAC offers voters $100 for signing petition against ‘activist judges’
Henry Redman,  Reporter  -  Wisconsin Examiner / Raw Story

_Stephan: It is apparently now legal in the United States for oligarchs to openly bribe American voters to vote for the candidate of their choice. Can this possibly be true? I am ashamed to tell you it is, and here is the factual proof.  Psychopath Trump’s Frankenstein co-president Musk, as this report describes, is openl … ⌘ Read more

@eapl.me@eapl.me Cool!

Proposal 3 (https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/18#issuecomment-19215) has the “advantage”, that you do not have to “mention” the original author if the thread slightly diverges. It seems to be a thing here that conversations are typically very flat instead of trees. Hence, and despite being a tree hugger, I voted for 3 being my favorite one, then 2, 1 and finally 4.

All proposals still need more work to clarify the details and edge cases in my opinion before they can be implemented.

@eapl.me@eapl.me Thank you for this!

I cast a test vote. Did it work? :-)

also I’ve made a draft of a voting page to receive preferences on each proposal
https://eapl.me/rfc0001/

Help me to play with it a bit and report any vulnerability or bug. Also any idea is welcome.

Trump pushes annexation of Greenland during meeting with NATO secretary
Brett Samuels,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Authoritarian psychopath Trump is modeling himself on Vladimir Putin and aggressively threatening the takeover of Greenland, territory belonging to another country, Denmark, just as Putin invaded Ukraine.  Just as happened in Germany, when the Nazis were voted into office and dismantled German democracy in less than two months, exa … ⌘ Read more

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a project on Hacker News with 1300 votes (every few days something comes up with 600).
https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs

DHS Official Explicitly Equates Protest to Terrorism in ‘Stunning’ Interview
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Your country is being taken away from you, I hope every American realizes that. It is happening because a small majority of us voted for it. After all, all of what is taking place day-by-day was completely spelled out in Project 2025. Aspiring dictator Trump doesn’t like opposition so he has his flying monkeys trying to … ⌘ Read more

A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes
Jeremy Kohler,  Contributing Writer  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: If you are a woman and you live in the Red state, and maybe you voted for psychopath Trump and other MAGAt Republicans, you voted to put your personal health at risk. OB/GYN specialist physicians and nurses are fleeing your state, Trump and his DOGE Frankenstein have … ⌘ Read more

Trump admin cancels $21M promised for Arizona to buy food for kids and poor
Jim Small,  Reporter  -  Arizona Mirror | Raw Story

_Stephan: Do you get it yet? Psychopath Trump, his Frankenstein Musk, and their congressional flying monkeys don’t give a damn about the wellbeing of American children. They don’t even care if they get enough to eat. I don’t think I have a lot of readers who voted for Trump, but if you know someone who did voter for Trump, … ⌘ Read more

How hard will Trump’s immigration raids hit red states?
Myah Ward,    -  Politico

_Stephan: As this article describes all those farmers and herders, most of whom voted for MAGAts, are now going to face the economic crisis that will come from that decision. For years at our property in rural Tidewater Virginia, my family raised registered purebred Angus cattle, not for meat, but like a dog breeding operation, to improve the herd genetics.  It introduced me to a world I ha … ⌘ Read more

Dow falls by almost 900 points in market rout after Trump says he won’t rule out a recession
John Towfighi and Lucy Bayly,  Reporters  -  CNN

Stephan: I warned you it was going to happen, and two months into this nightmare it is happening. And “king” Trump is admitting the reality. All the men and women who voted for this psychopath I now expect to begin whining because of what is happening to their wellbeing.

![](https://www.schw … ⌘ Read more

Tariffs Could Raise US Car Prices by Up to $12,000
Keith Naughton,  Staff Writer  -  Transport Topics | Bloomberg

Stephan: You are about to get another gift from “king” Trump’s coup; the cost of buying a new car, by design, particularly an electric vehicle, is about to skyrocket. There will also be fewer vehicles to choose from. Aren’t you Republican voters happy? You voted for this.

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-03-at-4. … ⌘ Read more

Hey everyone!

About the idea of improving the “thread” extension, what if we set aside March 2025 to gather proposals and thoughts from everyone? We could then vote on them at the end of the month to see if the change and migration are worth it.

The voting could include client maintainers (and maybe even users too). That way, we get a good mix of perspectives before taking a decision in a decent timelapse.

What do you think? If this sounds good, we can start agreeing on this. Let me know your thoughts!

I like this syntax, you have my vote, although I’d change it a bit like
#<Alice https://example.com/twtxt.com#2024-12-18T14:18:26+01:00>

Hashes are not a problem on PHP, I dont know why it’s slow to calculate them from your side, but I agree with your points.

BTW, did you have the chance to read my proposal on twtxt 2.0? I shared a few ideas about possible improvements to discuss:
https://text.eapl.mx/a-few-ideas-for-a-next-twtxt-version
https://text.eapl.mx/reply-to-lyse-about-twtxt

Republicans and Elon Musk Are Also Causing a Constitutional Crisis in the States
Ari Berman,  National Voting Rights Correspondent  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: It isn’t getting much national. media attention but I want my readers to know that the Republicans in service to “king” Trump are trying to dismantle American democracy, not only at the federal level but at the state level as well. The Great Schism Trend I have been telling you about for y … ⌘ Read more

Several Republicans push impeachment bids against judges who’ve stood in Trump’s way
Steve Benen,  Producer Rachel Maddow Show  -  MSNBC

_Stephan: Republican members of Congress have recognized that the main block to the Trumpian coup is judges. So what are they doing? They are now trying to impeach those judges, as this report describes. If you are a Republican voter you voted to end the American democratic republic and replace it with a dic … ⌘ Read more

Apple Shareholders Vote to Continue Illegal DEI Practices
“Apple may need to make DEl changes in the future as the legal landscape evolves,” says Apple CEO Tim Cook. ⌘ Read more

Kubescape becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Kubescape as a CNCF incubating project.  Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security project designed to offer comprehensive security coverage throughout the entire development and deployment lifecycle…. ⌘ Read more

U.S. opposes Ukraine territorial integrity in UN vote
Gregory Walton/ Amélie Bottollier-Depois ,  Staff Writers  -  Agence France-Presses (France) | Raw Story

_Stephan: The Trump coup has now defined itself in a way that has stunned not just me but all the democracies of the world. The United States has aligned itself with dictator-ruled Russia rather than a Russia-invaded democracy, Ukraine. I don’t believe any geopolitically sophisticated American would have believed t … ⌘ Read more

Na, you’re spot on, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! The result is an expected, terrible disaster. It just seems the absolute catastrophy is delayed for another four years.

Even though I’m the last one who wouldn’t be glad about banning the nazis, I’m not a fan of banning parties in general. I believe that a healthy democracy has to withstand extremists. Whether it’s still healthy is debatable. To me it appeared that the failed attempts to ban NPD in the past actually helped them gain more supporters.

The big established parties are all bad traitors. I blame them and their actions to help raise AfD. They just give a fuck about the ordinary people, they’re only concerned about their private gain and power. I bet nothing will change, to the contrary, it will only get worse. The winners do have the chance to turn it for the better, but they just will not. No way, unfortunately.

But then, we must not forget that people are just dumb and stupid, too. Also, that won’t change. AfD won’t help these idiots either, but they still vote for them. I also don’t understand how there is still so much support for the other big parties left. Education is important. Very important. But I have the impression that we’re lacking it.

@bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net The outcome was to be expected but it’s still pretty catastrophic. Here’s an overview:

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East Germany is dominated by AfD. Bavaria is dominated by CSU (it’s always been that way, but this is still a conservative/right party). Black is CDU, the other conservative/right party.

The guy who’s probably going to be chancellor recently insulted the millions of people who did demonstrations for peace/anti-right. “Idiots”, “they’re nuts”, stuff like that. This was before the election. He already earned the nickname “Mini Trump”.

Both the right and the left got more votes this time, but the left only gained 3.87 percentage points while the right (CDU/CSU + AfD) gained 14.72:

Image

The Green party lost, SPD (“mid-left”) lost massively (worst result in their history). FDP also lost. These three were the previous government.

This isn’t looking good at all, especially when you think about what’s going to happen in the next 4 years. What will CDU (the winner) do? Will they be able to “turn the ship around”? Highly unlikely. They are responsible for the current situation (in large parts). They will continue to do business as usual. They will do anything but help poor/ordinary people. This means that AfD will only get stronger over the next 4 years.

Our only hope would be to ban AfD altogether. So far, nobody but non-profit organizations is willing to do that (for unknown reasons).

I don’t even know if banning the AfD would help (but it’s probably our best/only option). AfD politicians are nothing but spiteful, hateful, angry, similar to Trump/MAGA. If you’ve seen these people talk and still vote for them, then you must be absolutely filled with rage and hatred. Very concerning.

Correct me if I’m wrong, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org, @arne@uplegger.eu, @johanbove@johanbove.info.

Mass firings continue across nation’s health agencies
Adam Cancryn, Megan Messerly and David Lim,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: America’s already poor illness profit system is going to get much worse. I find it hard to believe that “king” Trump and the Republicans have such little concern for the people who voted them into office. It is going to be interesting, if tragic, to watch Trump voters face the reality of what they have done, as all the social systems that … ⌘ Read more

The GOP’s Taliban has a new message for women
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: As the MAGAt coup continues, as Thom Hartmann describes in this article, I think we are going to see an increasing trend to repress the voting capability of women and people of color. “king” Trump and the oligarchs who bought him his throne and control the government are largely genderists and White supremacy racists. They would prefer to have only ignorant White males voting because … ⌘ Read more

McMahon Hearing Shows Trump ‘Dead Set on Destroying Public Education’
Jessica Corbett,  Senior Editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Another MAGAt lackey testifies basically to her intent to destroy public education. It is part of the coup we are undergoing. It has not passed notice of the oligarchs that the less well-educated men and women are the more likely it is that they will vote for Republicans. That’s why they want to end public education. It not only … ⌘ Read more

Trump administration orders consumer protection agency to stop work, closes building
Christopher Rugaber,  Staff Writer  -  Federal News Network | Associated Press

_Stephan: Did you vote for Trump? Is you did you are reasonable and complicit in the end of all consumer protection against scams. Your bank has implemented new fees, your credit card corporations have done the same? You were deceived into paying money for some benefit you didn’t … ⌘ Read more

Is Arch Linux Woke? Looks like it: Forum Censors Mentions of “Lunduke”, Discord Goes on Lockdown
Following Arch Linux Discord voting to ban “links to X / Twitter” & death threats towards a journalist, all official Arch Linux channels begin mass censorship campaign. ⌘ Read more

Arch Linux Discord Voting to Ban Links to X / Twitter (Because “Nazis”)
Following Debian’s lead, the Arch community is preparing to take a stand against Elon Musk, Conservatives, & X. And they’re banning anyone who disagrees. ⌘ Read more

Tension sur le locatif, TVA sur les Airbnb : solutions aux dépens des propriétaires
Un article de Henry Bonner Sous la direction de François Bayrou, le gouvernement continue la plupart des mesures en cours de discussion depuis des mois, dont, bien évidemment, les hausses de taxes. L’Assemblée vote par exemple la mise en place de la TVA sur les Airbnb et les locations de tourisme. Les médias évoquent la […] ⌘ Read more

[ANN] MAGIC Monero Fund 2025 Election Results

ack-j and kowalabearhugs will serve 2-year terms. rottenwheel, Tacolopo, and XMRfamily will serve 1-year terms. Their terms will begin on January 31, 2025. We would like to thank all six committee candidates! We would like to thank everyone who voted!

Committee Members:
* ack-j
* kowalabearhugs
* rottenwheel
* Tacolopo
* XMRfamily

Link: [https://magicgrants.org/2025/01/21/Monero-Fund-2025-Election-Results.html](https://magicgrants.org/2025/01/21/Monero-Fund-2025 … ⌘ Read more

I agree 🙂, although it’s easy to lose comments over time and are not so grouped by topic, it’s not so easy to vote or make a survey about it…

I prefer a forum for that 😊

Apple Begs Shareholders to Let Them Continue Illegal DEl Policies
On February 25th, Apple Shareholders will vote on ending the company’s illegal DEl policies. ⌘ Read more

Americans are doubling down on the thing that hurts them the most
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: As he usually does Thom Hartmann has it spot on. All these issues will be familiar to regular SR readers. WHat I don’t understand is where is the civil nonviolent uprising such as got women the vote, ended the Viet Nam War, and achieved – if briefly – a new age of civil rights. Something is wrong with the psyche´ of the American people, and … ⌘ Read more

although I agree that it helps, I don’t see completely correct to leave the nick definition to the source .txt. It could be wrong from the start or outdated with the time.

I’d rather prefer to get it from the mentioned .txt nick metadata (could be cached for performance).
So my vote would to make it mandatory to follow @<name url> but only using that name/nick if the URL doesn’t contain another nick.
A main advantage is that when the destination URL changes the nick, it’ll be automagically updated in the thread view (as happens with some other microblogging platforms, following the Jakob’s Law)

RustCoder: AI-assisted Rust learning
Member post originally published on Second State’s blog by CNCF Ambassadors Vivian Hu, Product Manager at Second State, and Miley Fu, DevRel at Second State Rust has been voted the most beloved programming language by StackOverflow… ⌘ Read more

In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle
Matt Sledge,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

Stephan: It isn’t just Republicans that are corrupt whores serving the interest of the rich who bought them their seats instead of the poor fools who voted them into office. Kyrsten Sinema is a notable example making this point. Here’s why I say this.

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