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Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was dragged from her vehicle after an ICE agent shattered its window during President Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, attended the president’s speech on Tuesday night at the invitation of Ms. Omar. As Mr. Trump was speaking, Ms. Rahman was seen being escorted from the gallery above the House floor by Capitol Police officers. She could be heard shouting for someone to call Ms. Omar, and that all she had done was stand up.

Ms. Rahman, 43, Ms. Omar and the U.S. Capitol Police said in separate statements that Ms. Rahman had been charged with unlawful conduct by disrupting Congress. The misdemeanor charge is punishable with a fine of up to $500 and up to six months in prison.

Ms. Rahman — who is disabled and has autism, according to a written statement she provided to Congress earlier this month — told Democracy Now in an interview that the arrest aggravated injuries that she had sustained when federal agents dragged her from her vehicle last month while she was headed to an appointment for a traumatic brain injury.

The title makes it sound like the allegations were brought through official channels

Zhou addressed the audience in Mandarin, asking for his supporters to come to a council meeting today to oppose a motion on social housing scheduled to be heard by the city’s policy and governance standing committee.

The motion […] would build “drug houses” for “drug users,” Zhou said.

In a translation of the video commissioned by The Tyee, Zhou then said:

“I can also tell everybody that the non-ABC councillor is themself a drug user. Before Christmas, they openly dispensed drugs on the streets.”

Zhou does not name the specific councillor, and The Tyee’s translator noted that it is unclear whether Zhou is referring to one or multiple councillors.

“This video has now been shared thousands of times online. That scale matters. When statements like this spread widely, they shape how people understand city policy and how they view elected officials,” said Bligh, who alleged Zhou labelled her an “extremist” in the video for her motion calling for a staff report on the impact of Vancouver pausing all new social housing projects.

Nearly four hours after Fry, Maloney, Bligh and Orr’s press conference, Zhou issued a written public statement apologizing for the remarks he made about the councillors in the video that were “based on incorrect information.”

“I am retracting my statement, and I’ve taken down the video. I fully support the pause of net new supportive housing, and I do believe that there are significant issues around how many facilities operate,” his statement reads.

Taking down the video limits the spread, but does nothing to undo the damage. The bare minimum for intentionally spreading disinformation should be to release a followup video statement on the same platform and leaving it up, with hope that some of the same viewers will see it. Inflammatory disinformation is much more likely to go viral so even that won’t undo the damage of the original action.

Sim declined to comment on the video when he passed reporters on his way into an in-camera council meeting Tuesday afternoon.

But in a statement emailed to The Tyee, Sim thanked Zhou for “acknowledging his mistake and taking responsibility for sharing information that was not accurate.”

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In short: it is bad to help any regime do collective punishment on a group of people.

Or the reaction videos where the original video plays in the corner while the person points, nods, and makes faces

Some places already ban physical ads. There are better sources than these but this is what I found so far:

• https://medium.com/@Kyoto_After_Tokyo/kyoto-banned-outdoor-ads-what-it-gained-was-deeper-than-silence-c1ba8d8b40eb

• https://blog.wego.com/what-happens-when-a-megacity-bans-ads/

Digital ads would be harder to get rid of. At the individual level, it’s relatively easy to disable an adblocker if something breaks. That’s harder to do if you block it city wide.

A PSA campaign might work better to get people to turn on adblockers

Looks like an arrest gone wrong

Four cartel members were killed at the scene, while another three died while being flown to Mexico City, among them El Mencho.

I’ve seen discussion about whether political pressure was the cause of how they went about it

I should clarify, I meant to ask if the main thing it’s doing is taking care of the IP addresses/browser trackers

What they’re doing is helpful, but I believe it’s limited to sending them queries and having them contact the LLM provider on our behalf. If there is any personal information in the queries we send (ex. Passwords, secrets, names), those are passed along to the provider.

As opposed to something like Confer (which isn’t out yet), where the provider can’t see anything

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/signal-creator-moxie-marlinspike-wants-to-do-for-ai-what-he-did-for-messaging/

It would be best to ask on !meta@lemmy.ml

Lemmy in general

Lemmy software doesn’t block VPNs, this is done by individual instances as a way to handle bots / attacks.

Your instance blocks VPN & Tor users: https://lemmy.world/post/11967676

Some more details

“I really thought this was just going to be something more organized, but it’s obviously not,” DeMario said about Trump’s deportations. “They just blanket everybody.”

DeMario said Alcantu moved to the U.S. from Cuba 25 years ago through a Visa Lottery, a State Department program. They didn’t think her immigration status would be a problem, and he voted for Trump.

DeMario said Alcantu had a minor run-in with the law during a traffic stop, and as a result of the case, she received a deportation order in 2008.

“They go through her purse, and then they dump the purse out, and three Xanax pills fall out,” DeMario said.

I should have included the tag, I made it up 😄

Fun fact, the ketchup chips in Canada were inspired by these

/s

most depictions of magic carpet flights have the carpet move very erratically because they have a mind of their own

That might be a good thing. If you fall, the carpet will rush down to catch you

Thanks! I’ve added this to the post, the community sidebar, and under the Ontario topic on Piefed.ca

Thanks! I’ve added it in this post, the community sidebar, and under the Finance/Shopping topic on piefed.ca

The article mentions tribal superstitions and lack of healthcare

Such cases are often reported from areas inhabited by disadvantaged tribal communities, where superstition is rife and a non-existent public health system leads to dependence on quacks for medical advice.

The murders in Jharkhand occurred in the Kudsai hamlet, a remote tribal settlement of around 50 mud houses located 250km (155.3 miles) from the state capital, Ranchi.

The violence appears to have been triggered by recent incidents in the village, including rumours of sudden cattle deaths and the illness and death of a local man named Pustun Birua.

His wife Jano Birua says she consulted an informal healthcare provider - common in villages where no doctors are available - when he began suffering from anxiety and fainting spells. He told her that her husband was not suffering from any physical illness.

Asked why she did not take him to a hospital, she said: “We are poor people, so it wasn’t possible to take him that far.”

Meanwhile, rumours spread that Jyoti Sinku was practising witchcraft and was responsible for the man’s illness.

Pustun Birua died on Tuesday evening. That night, according to Jyoti’s husband Kolhan Sinku who is in hospital, a mob of about a dozen people, including five women, stormed their home and set fire to his wife and child.

Recalling the horror from his hospital bed, he said: “I pleaded with folded hands to have the matter resolved in the village council but the attackers didn’t listen to me.”

Based on the testimonies of Kolhan Sinku and another family member, the district police have registered a complaint of murder and criminal conspiracy.

Police say four men have been arrested and a special police team has been set up to track down other members of the mob.

They added that they would organise programmes in rural areas to raise awareness against superstitions.

Details:

Messages between the two James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic High School teachers were found on a student athletics Instagram account, according to advocacy group Parents of Black Children, and included a racist slur and an anti-Black meme.

The group accused school officials of not taking immediate action after a student who had access to the Instagram account screenshotted the exchange and notified the school’s principal.

Thank you for taking care of that, and sorry for the delay on my end! I’ve had a busy week, and I’ve been slowly going through the DMs/replies in my queue

UBlock helps to stop that script.

Would that be by default, or do I need to enable something specific

They actually start producing in April, but as there’s a non-zero chance the pine nuts from April are from felled trees, I avoid it. The species is critically endangered; eating some nuts is not a big deal, but falling the tree is.

Good to know! I’d hate for these to suddenly become a fad and then endanger the tree even more. Knowing about the issue ahead of time means that people might check for it when buying it