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‘Politics should be kind of boring’: Sanders urges a peaceful path forward
“It’s time for all of us to take a deep breath, remember what this country is about, what political campaigns are about,” he said on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “And they’re about serious discussions of serious ideas as to how we address these serious problems facing this country.”
NPR
Trump Deserves Sympathy—but Not Support for His Candidacy
But this is about more than politics and public life. This country has too much gun violence and too many guns. Most of the victims are not famous, or powerful. With children in grade schools now forced to take part in active shooter drills, it is long past time for all of us to get serious about curbing gun violence.
The Nation
The 2024 Republican National Convention set to begin on heels of assassination attempt. Here’s what to know.
The four-day event kicks off on Monday, just two days after a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, grazing Trump’s ear. Rally attendee Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed, and two others, identified as 57-year-old David Dutch and 74-year-old James Copenhaver, were wounded. The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
CBS News
A look at past presidential assassination attempts in American history
Before Saturday’s apparent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, there have been multiple instances of political violence targeting U.S. presidents, former presidents and major party presidential candidates.
PBS
House moves to block Biden’s Title IX rule supporting LGBTQ+ students, assault victims
The GOP’s resolution, which has little chance of becoming law, passed the House a day after a federal judge refused to grant the Biden administration’s request to stay a hold of its Title IX rewrite.
USA Today
Texas judges prevent Biden administration from enforcing protections for LGBTQ+ students
The judges, Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo and Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, cited a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court decision saying that a ban against sex discrimination in the workplace contained in a different law, Title VII, which covers gay and transgender workers. They said that Title VII does not govern Title IX.
Latin Times
Old Rubio confidant accused of acting as Venezuela agent can go to RNC, judge says
Former U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, a Miami Republican who served two terms representing a South Florida congressional district, said that Rivera’s presence at next week’s convention, while carrying little actual significance for Rubio, is still a “minor distraction” at what could be a triumphant moment in Rubio’s political career.
“It’s a distraction and it could create an awkward situation,” Curbelo said. “That’s been the case for a long time.”
Miami Herald
The Supreme Court’s Chevron Decision Is Already Hurting Transgender Rights
Right-wing justices on the high court recently upended decades of federal administrative law — and the effects are already endangering rules meant to protect trans people.
Huffpost
California voters will get a chance to repeal Prop 8, the state’s notorious anti-gay law
In 2008 California voters outlawed same-sex marriage by passing Proposition 8, an infamous ballot measure largely funded by the Mormon Church. But voters just learned what ballot initiatives they’ll be voting on this November, and among them is Proposition 3, a law that would enshrine the right to same-sex marriage in the state Constitution, effectively undoing Prop 8.
LGBTQ Nation
The World
‘The street was a pool of blood’: Gaza witnesses one of most violent weeks since first months of war
After Israeli airstrikes on a school and a humanitarian zone, survivors and officials tell of a ‘daily vision of horror’
The Guardian
Hong Kong independent publisher explores ‘everyday’ solidarity with LGBTQ community
After experiencing London’s vibrant LGBTQ community during a 12-month artist residency, Beatrix Pang wanted to do something to encourage interactions and intersectionality within Hong Kong’s queer community.
Hong Kong Free Press
Russian Lawmakers Urge Sberbank to Remove Rainbow Unicorn from Kids’ Bank Cards Over ‘LGBT Symbols’
Russian lawmakers have called on the country’s largest lender Sberbank to remove a rainbow-colored unicorn from its bank cards for kids, saying that “rainbow symbols” are an attribute of the “international LGBT movement.”
The Moscow Times
Historic Japan court ruling allows trans woman to change gender without surgery
The Japanese Hiroshima High Court ruled last Tuesday that a transgender woman doesn’t have to get gender-affirming surgery to be legally recognized as a woman, marking a first in the country’s history.
LGBTQ Nation
Hamas says Gaza cease-fire talks haven’t paused and claims military chief survived Israeli strike
Hamas said Sunday that Gaza cease-fire talks continue and the group’s military commander was in good health, a day after the Israeli military targeted Mohammed Deif with a massive airstrike that local health officials said killed at least 90 people, including children.
AP News
German city bans ‘silent fox’ gesture in schools over similarity to far-right sign
The “silent fox” gesture – where the hand is posed to resemble an animal with upright ears (the little and forefinger) and a closed mouth (the middle fingers pressed against the thumb) – has long been seen as a useful teaching tool by educators in Germany and elsewhere. It signals to children that they should stop talking and listen to their teacher.
But authorities in the port city of Bremen say the symbol is “in danger of being mistaken” for the right-wing extremist “wolf salute”, from which it is indistinguishable.
The Guardian
First it was Japan — now the German navy is also stamping out floppy disks for good
Back in January 2024, the Japanese government said it would be taking action to abandon a decades-old practice of insisting businesses must submit supplementary data on floppies (or CD-Roms). Following that, in July 2024, Japan’s Digital Agency declared it had successfully abolished 1,034 regulations governing the use of floppy disks. Taro Kono, Japan’s Minister for Digital Transformation and the head of the Digital Agency, announced grandly, “We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28!”
Now, Augen Geradeaus reports the German Navy is looking to follow suit and replace the floppy drives used on its four Brandenburg class F123 frigates with a modern emulated solution. These anti-submarine frigates were commissioned between 1994 and 1996, when floppy disks were the height of storage. Diskette 1 floppy media can store between 242,944 bytes and 1.2MB (depending on the version) and is used in frigates’ data acquisition systems.
Techradar
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