It's time to say goodbye, thank you to everybody who has helped and been supportive.

Critics condemn decision by education board aligned with hard-right Ron DeSantis to block access to college system

Immigration advocates in Florida have decried a “cruel and harmful” new rule by education officials aligned with hard-right Republican governor Ron DeSantis to ban undocumented students from state colleges and universities.

The Florida board of education voted on Tuesday to bar access to its 28 state-funded institutions to anybody not a US citizen or “lawfully present” in the country. It follows Florida’s move last year to strip discounted in-state tuition rates for certain immigrant students.

Opponents on Wednesday assailed the new directive, which some analysts estimate could cost Florida up to $15m annually in lost tuition and other fees. They also questioned if it was legal, given that it was approved by DeSantis’s hand-picked board of seven, instead of the elected state legislature.

The political right hates AI a little less than the left, but not by super much, and some forces from the emerging America First movement are getting ready to protest AI's invasiveness and capacity for manipulation. The org is called Humans First, and they're trying to have a 50501-style nationwide protest about it on July 18th. If both sides cooperate on this one, good things can actually happen, so this should get talked about. A lot. https://www.humansfirst.com/

Tirana (Albania) (AFP) – Violent clashes erupted between police and demonstrators outside Albania's parliament on Thursday, as protests sparked by a resort development linked to US President Donald Trump's family threatened to escalate.

Protests began in late May against the planned construction of a luxury hotel linked to Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner in a nature reserve in Zvernec, on Albania's southwestern coast.

For the second time this week, crowds gathered outside parliament to confront lawmakers and block entry to the building.

Lines of riot police pushed them back, leading to clashes and arrests, according to AFP journalists at the scene.

Police used tear gas, pepper spray and water cannon to break up the crowd, and some protesters tried to push through lines of officers.

Nine officers were injured by objects thrown by protesters, police said, but did not confirm arrest numbers.

Local media reported that as many as 20 had been detained.

People were also seen smashing the windows of an empty police car in a nearby street as the crowd was pushed away from area.

On Tuesday, six people were arrested when demonstrators threw eggs at lawmakers' cars.

The violence is a marked contrast to the overwhelmingly peaceful daily gatherings that have drawn thousands to the streets since the movement began.

The planned resort was first unveiled in 2024, but the latest wave of protests began after barbed-wire fencing and bulldozers appeared on beaches in late May.

Opposition to the project has become a flashpoint for anger over perceived corruption, with protesters calling for Prime Minister Edi Rama to step down over what they describe as a lack of transparency.

I hadn't played in a few years and just had an urge to do another run the other night.

Was very pleased to see the dev statement on the loading screen regarding A.I. use. They didn't mince words about it either.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, following Russia's massive attack on Ukraine, has said he expects a positive response from US President Donald Trump on licences for the production of Patriot missiles.

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You bought the hardware. Now you’ll need to subscribe for “expanded access” to the most advanced features.

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“Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend ...

Consultants tied to Donald Trump may have engaged in financial fraud, tricking donors who wanted to support the nation’s bipartisan 250th anniversary organizer into sending their money instead to a rival group set up by his administration, according to a report released Thursday by House Democrats.

The report draws in part on interviews by Democratic staffers of the House Committee on Natural Resources. Those interviews suggest that donors seeking to celebrate America fell for a bait-and-switch that, if true, could have violated various criminal statutes.

Donors who were intending to contribute funds to America250, a bipartisan committee created by Congress, were instead given the banking and routing numbers for a different but similarly named group, Freedom 250, the Democratic report says.

Groat and Stanley would be proud.

S4:E19 - Hard Time

Thanks to u/negativenull for the template!