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Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, an influential figure among the far right and longtime ally of Donald Trump who recently had a dramatic falling out with the United States president, has said she is quitting her seat in Congress.

Previously an icon of Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, Greene had a very public falling out with Trump, with the president announcing earlier this month that he was withdrawing all support for the congresswoman he described as “‘Wacky’ Marjorie”.

Greene has cited as a cause for her rift with Trump her outspoken advocacy for releasing the government’s files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump had dismissed the Epstein issue as a “Democrat hoax” and has struggled with uproar in his MAGA base over his U-turn on a pre-election promise to release government files on the case.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/37979843

The S Group has decided to temporarily stop purchasing products of Israeli origin, while respecting its legal commitments, the mega-retailer tells Yle.

In practice, the S Group product range has only included a small number of such items, as it has not sold fruit or vegetables of Israeli origin for some time.

Some individual products, such as home carbonation devices, will remain available until the current ranges sell out, S Group Chief Sustainability Officer Nina Elomaa told the public broadcaster by email on Wednesday.

The decision was made in September, she said, based on the European Commission proposal to suspend the trade-related parts of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.

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Media professionals are increasingly targeted by transnational repression (TNR), which is when authoritarian states carry out attacks beyond their national borders. These attacks can be physical, digital and psychological, as demonstrated by the credible threats to Iran International journalists across seven countries including G7 members Germany, UK, USA and Canada. The ongoing threats against Egyptian investigative journalist Basma Mostafa, who lives in Germany, have been described as ‘extremely worrying’. Authoritarian states also resort to legal means: Russian authorities impose prison sentences in absentia or issue arrest warrants for media professionals in exile, which severely restricts their mobility. Such measures are intended to suppress critical voices, intimidate exiled journalists and silence opposition figures.

RSF has been documenting these attacks for many years. In addition to Russia and Egypt, journalists from China, Belarus, Iran, Türkiye, Azerbaijan and Vietnam, and many other countries are affected. However, there are many unreported cases and insufficient data, which makes an effective response difficult.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53538485

Germany plans to treat the use of date rape drugs like the use of weapons in prosecutions as part of measures to ensure justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

“We classify date rape drugs, which are increasingly used as a widespread tool in crimes, as weapons. This creates the basis for significantly stricter prosecutions,” Alexander Dobrindt, the interior minister, said on Friday. “We are committed to clear consequences and consistent enforcement. Women should feel safe and be able to move freely everywhere.”

Nearly 54,000 women and girls were the victims of sexual offences in Germany in 2024 – an increase of 2.1% on the previous year – of which nearly 36% were victims of rape and sexual assault.

Voting system required three keys. One of them has been “irretrievably lost.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39128655

Based on my understanding (which isn't much, please mention any additional things I missed) Marx believed that the "proletariat" (the workers) were being abused by the "bourgeois" (the owners) in the capitalist system, and that the proletariat should seize control of the state and the means of production ("dictatorship of the proletariat"), and that the end goal was a stateless, classless society where everyone was equal, and that the state would "wither away".

As we all know, a perfect communist society was never achieved, and that the state never ended up withering away for any of them.

How would Marx react to the Soviet Union under Stalin and his purges, Khrushchev to his denouncing of Stalinism and brutal crushings of protests in the Warsaw Pact states, to Gorbachev and his "glasnost and perestroika" reforms?

How would Marx react to the communist states that took power in Latin America, Africa, and Asia? Would he be happy that a communist state was able to compete with the capitalist U.S. in terms of global dominance, twice (Soviet Union during the Cold War, PRC in the modern day)?

Note: I am neither procommunist or anticommunist. I think that some if Marx's ideas were quite good (everyone should be equal, classless society, etc.) but others not so much (history tells us what happens when there is a "dictatorship of the proletariat", the state never withers away like Marx imagines it would, as power corrupts all)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/55550318

The extent of dependence on the USA in the digital sector is currently being experienced by a French judge. Nicolas Guillou, one of six judges and three prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC), was sanctioned by the USA in August. He described his current situation as a digital time travel back to the 1990s, before the internet age, in a recent interview.

The reason for the US sanctions are the arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. They were indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the context of the destruction of the Gaza Strip. The USA condemned this decision by the court, whereupon the US Treasury Department sanctioned six judges and three prosecutors.

Digitally excluded from almost everything In Guillou's daily life, this means that he is excluded from digital life and much of what is considered standard today, he told the French newspaper Le Monde. All his accounts with US companies such as Amazon, Airbnb, or PayPal were immediately closed by the providers. Online bookings, such as through Expedia, are immediately canceled, even if they concern hotels in France. Participation in e-commerce is also practically no longer possible for him, as US companies always play a role in one way or another, and they are strictly forbidden to enter into any trade relationship with sanctioned individuals.

Like, would a skyscraper-style datacenter be practical? Or is just a matter of big, flat buildings being cheaper?