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Majority-Black Town in Ohio Launches Armed Watch after Neo-#Nazi, #Klan Provocations

from #WorldOutlook
February 28, 2025

"On February 7, about a dozen masked men, some of them carrying AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, drove a U-Haul truck to a freeway overpass at Lincoln Heights’ edge. The men, dressed in black, shouted racist slurs and waived black flags with red swastikas on them. Enraged Lincoln Heights residents soon approached to counter protest. Local police who converged on the scene from the nearby town of #Evandale, across the highway, appeared cordial toward some of the white supremacists. As the crowd of Lincoln Heights residents swelled, the ultra rightists got back on their truck and drove off. Counter protesters burned the Nazi flags left behind."

world-outlook.com/2025/02/28/m

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#Cincinnati #Ohio #WaPo #BlackNews #WashingtonPost #BlackMastodon
#KuKluxKlan #Black #racism #FightRacism #news #politics

World-Outlook · Majority-Black Town in Ohio Launches Armed Watch after Neo-Nazi, Klan ProvocationsThis article reports on efforts by residents of Lincoln Heights, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, to defend themselves against provocations by neo-Nazi thugs and Ku Klux Klansmen by organizing counter-mobilizations and an armed watch. Nearly 83% of the town’s approximately 3,000 residents are African American. Lincoln Heights was the first self-governing Black community to be founded north of the Mason-Dixon line, which divided the Union from the Confederate South during the U.S. civil war.
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@rmblaber1956 The #WaPo is a piece of shit eh? She wasn't 'whisked away': she was abducted by non-uniformed thugs.

This is a police state now, which has rejected law. What a pity the fascism-supporting press is so craven. How fucking embarrassing to be a 'journalist' associated with this.

This is 1933.

#WaPo See all the tariffs Trump has enacted, threatened and canceled

President Donald #Trump began proposing new #tariffs within hours of being sworn into office. Sixty days later, his whirlwind of on-again, off-again tariffs shows no sign of slowing down.

Having trouble following the deluge? Scroll on for a day-by-day look at how Trump’s trade war has unfolded and where it stands now.

#GiftedArticle

wapo.st/3FChIXN

The Washington Post · Which tariffs Trump has enacted and when more could go into effectBy Alyssa Fowers, Leslie Shapiro, Amaya Verde

#WaPo We asked 5 #AI bots to write tough emails. One beat a human.

A panel of communications experts helped us test how well artificial intelligence tools ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, DeepSeek and Gemini write emails.

5. Microsoft #Copilot : 23 out of 100
4. OpenAI’s #ChatGPT : 43 out of 100
3. Google’s #Gemini : 44 out of 100
2. #DeepSeek : 45 out of 100
1. Anthropic’s #Claude : 50 out of 100

#GiftedArticle

wapo.st/3FFo34V

The Washington Post · We asked 5 AI bots to write tough emails. One beat a human.By Geoffrey A. Fowler

#WaPo headline: "Alexa is getting creepier. Take this one step to improve your privacy. #Amazon is ditching an option to opt out of sending #Alexa voice commands to the company. It highlights the growing hunger for our personal data in the #AI age."

The WaPo solution: Stop your Alexa device from saving your voice recordings.

The better solution: Get rid of Alexa entirely: Amazon will still be spying on you.

#US / Columbia Journalism School Faculty condemns Press Freedom threats, including detention of Gaza Genocide critics​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Columbia Journalism School faculty have issued a statement warning that press freedom in America is under threat, citing the detention without charges of graduate Mahmoud Khalil, deportation attempts against Palestinian journalist Mosab Abu Toha who reported on Gaza, and the administration's aggressive use of libel lawsuits against media organizations including #CBS, the #Pulitzer committee, and the Des Moines Register.

These actions create a climate of fear for 13 million green card holders and over one million international students who may now self-censor, alongside concerning developments like the Washington Post limiting editorial content and the administration hand-picking journalists for White House access.

The faculty calls for steadfast opposition to the intimidation, harassment, and detention of individuals based on their speech or journalism to protect First Amendment principles essential to democracy.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

journalism.columbia.edu/news/c

@academicchatter
@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide
#IsraelWarCrimes
#PressFreedom
#trumpism #neonazism
#WAPO #DeMoinsRegister
#israel #zionism

It's annoying to get marketing email (from Washington Post, which I have no desire to read any longer) with an "unsubscribe" link, but when you click that link, you get a page that says "You've already unsubscribed from this email". #WaPo

Why should I suffer the consequences of aluminum oxide pollution in the atmosphere from deorbited #starlink satellites when I don't need starlink? Sounds like a lack of "personal liberties and free markets" to me. I think #wapo and #bezos should write a stern opinion piece on that topic in their "two pillars" publication.