jspeter9191 has added a photo to the pool:
In the morning at Maroubra, Sydney, Australia.
God will be with you.
In deze zomerserie vroeg team Haagse Zaken aan de redactie: welk cultuurobject heeft jouw politieke bewustzijn gevormd?
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WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump combineerde grappen met sneren tijdens het jaarlijkse Correspondents' Dinner in Washington. Het was de tweede keer dit jaar dat het evenement werd gehouden, nadat het in april was afgebroken toen een gewapende man probeerde door de beveiliging te breken en daarbij schoten loste. Onder anderen Trump werd geëvacueerd.
Trump wisselde vriendelijke grappen af met kritiek op wat hij de "fake news media" noemt. Ook haalde hij uit naar tegenstanders als de journalist Don Lemon ("het laagste IQ op de tv"), de progressieve politica Ilhan Omar ("die moet verdomme ons land uit") en beroemdheden als Bruce Springsteen en Jane Fonda.
"Dit is werkelijk de grootste groep mensen met het 'Trump-waanzinsyndroom' die ooit op één plek is samengebracht", zei hij tegen de gasten, bestaande uit vooral journalisten en politici. "Sommigen van jullie hebben geluk gehad dat ons vorige diner voortijdig werd afgebroken, want ik was van plan jullie hard aan te pakken."
Het evenement is bedoeld om de persvrijheid in de VS te eren. Voorvechters van persvrijheid bekritiseren de regering-Trump vanwege rechtszaken tegen mediaorganisaties, beperkingen van de toegang voor bepaalde journalisten en dreigementen met maatregelen tegen omroepen.
Part 1: The Smear Campaign and Part 2: The 'Lab Leak' Obsession. Both from Zeteo.
Previously on metafilter: Lab-Leak Payback Has Begun. While that article in the Atlantic doesn't discuss what actual evidence exists for the "Lab Leak Theory" of COVID-19, and instead discusses the choice to govern via threats from the DOJ versus crafting actual policy reforms, this Zeteo article is more straightforward: The pandemic did not start with a lab leak. Fauci did not cover anything up. Fauci did not abuse public health laws to lock anyone up at Joe Biden's behest. Fauci did not cover anything up, and my colleagues did not help him. Fauci did not manipulate the intelligence community or lie about the pandemic's origins. Tulsi Gabbard did that. Rand Paul is doing that now. He subpoenaed Fauci to testify before HSGAC on July 29, where he will try to turn these lies into truth by performatively repeating them. If we choose to tolerate the regime's lies, they will succeed in remaking reality into the Orwellian hell that is rapidly becoming normalized. American democracy depends on us recognizing that this is how it is being attacked.
Previously on metafilter: Lab-Leak Payback Has Begun. While that article in the Atlantic doesn't discuss what actual evidence exists for the "Lab Leak Theory" of COVID-19, and instead discusses the choice to govern via threats from the DOJ versus crafting actual policy reforms, this Zeteo article is more straightforward: The pandemic did not start with a lab leak. Fauci did not cover anything up. Fauci did not abuse public health laws to lock anyone up at Joe Biden's behest. Fauci did not cover anything up, and my colleagues did not help him. Fauci did not manipulate the intelligence community or lie about the pandemic's origins. Tulsi Gabbard did that. Rand Paul is doing that now. He subpoenaed Fauci to testify before HSGAC on July 29, where he will try to turn these lies into truth by performatively repeating them. If we choose to tolerate the regime's lies, they will succeed in remaking reality into the Orwellian hell that is rapidly becoming normalized. American democracy depends on us recognizing that this is how it is being attacked.
Instagram is banning videos filmed with Meta smart glasses that harass strangers in public, including prank videos targeting service workers and pickup-artist clips of women who may not realize they are being recorded. "If you're posting content that is taking advantage of people and harassing them, like a lot of these pickup line kind of videos that we've heard of and seen, then we're going to take the content down," said Instagram head Adam Mosseri in response to a question on his Instagram stories last week. "We don't want people to be surreptitiously taking videos of other people and harassing them and then posting them on our platform. So we're trying to fight that every way we can." Business Insider reports: It's unclear how many videos have been removed under this new policy. Business Insider found that two large accounts of pickup artists who filmed themselves approaching women in public while wearing the glasses had been deactivated. (Both previously had more than a million followers.)
A Meta spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider that these accounts were booted for violating the policy about posting harassing content that had been filmed with the glasses. Meta did not directly respond to questions about how this new policy is being enforced or what exactly constitutes a violation.
A Meta spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider that these accounts were booted for violating the policy about posting harassing content that had been filmed with the glasses. Meta did not directly respond to questions about how this new policy is being enforced or what exactly constitutes a violation.
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