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March 2024
2 | Thailand's lower house of parliament overwhelmingly approves a bill to legalize gay marriage. |
2 | Israeli Supreme Court orders government to stop funding religious schools that defy military enlistment. |
1 | Abortion activists in Croatia reflect the growing backsliding of abortion rights in the country. |
1 | More woes for Mike Lindell as the landlord for one of its warehouses, has evicted his company MyPillow for non-payment of the rent totalling $217,000. |
24 | Sam Bankman-Fried is sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for defrauding customers and investors in his failed crypto exchange FTX |
18 | The UN Special Rapporteur has released a report concluding that “reasonable grounds to believe the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met” |
16 | It has been revealed in an investigation that far-right Belgian politician Filip Dewinter has been literally kowtowing to China. |
13 | Joe Lieberman, former senator for Connecticut and Vice Presidential candidate for Al Gore, has died at the age of 82. Family says it was due to complications after a fall. |
8 | Bad news for over Easter as Norway is suffering a shortage of eggs, with many supermarkets in major cities like Oslo and Bergen egg-less. |
23 | The local Der Standard newspaper has revealed that police have been receiving a number of large gifts from the Russian embassy in Vienna. |
21 | The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland was hit by a container ship and collapsed into the Patapsco River. A search and rescue operation is currently underway to locate any survivors. |
29 | A California judge tosses Musk's SLAPP suit against Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a hate speech watchdog |
33 | The UN votes on a ceasefire in Gaza with the United States abstaining from the vote and thus allowing it to pass |
15 | More likelihood that the international jamboree of the Commonwealth Games is dead, after a possible saviour in Malaysia, has said no. |
35 | Drone footage shows unarmed Palestinians being deliberately killed by IDF drone in Khan Younis. |
39 | A large terrorist attack occurred inside of a Moscow music venue. The roof of the venue is ablaze and is currently collapsing from the explosives set off in the building. Update: 135 people died, over 150 were injured, and ISIS-K took responsibility for the attack. |
13 | In a shock to no one really, Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, also has cancer. |
17 | Scottish Parliament staff have been banned from wearing rainbow lanyards or any other queer memorabilia in order to ensure "impartiality" and "minimise the risk of perceived bias". |
26 | Marjorie Taylor Greene has officially filed a motion to vacate Mike Johnson from the Speaker of the House's chair. |
16 | Russia and China block American proposal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza at the UN security council. |
11 | A constitutional court has ruled that 16- & 17-year-old residents in Belgium must turn up to the polling booths in the upcoming European parliamentary elections, after the government expanded the suffrage to them. |
21 | The U.S. government is suing Apple for their monopoly on phones. The D.O.J. wants to restore competition and lower the prices that phones are sold at. |
14 | EU begins membership negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
11 | Far-right Martin Sellner banned from Germany. |
22 | A federal district court in Illinois has ruled that all residents, including undocumented migrants, have the “right to bear arms”.And some those on the right are going ape-shit. |
30 | Two Rankin County, Mississippi sheriff's deputies received stiff sentences for the racially-motivated torture of two Black men. Four other deputies await sentencing |
25 | Jackson, Mississippi police officer pleads guilty to forcing man to lick piss off his holding cell floor. |
11 | Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s first gay taoiseach (prime minister), has resigned both as taoiseach and leader of centre right Fine Gael party. |
16 | New York City mayor Eric Adams has been accused of sexual assault in a recent lawsuit. |
49 | The EPA finally bans chrysotile asbestos, the only form of asbestos that was still allowed. |
23 | Denmark plans to expand military conscription to also include women. Conscript service time will also be nearly tripled. |
36 | Austrian Neo-Nazi Martin Sellner was arrested by Swiss police while he was attempting to give a speech in Switzerland. |
36 | A backbench MP's Private Member's Bill to tighten regulation on private medical personnel medically transitioning young people failed to be heard in Parliament |
21 | Speaker of the House Mike Johnson claims that aid packages to both Ukraine and Israel will separately be brought to a vote in the coming weeks. He indicates that House Republicans have given up their ultimatum for a border security bill to pass first before any aid to Ukraine. Marjorie Taylor Greene previously indicated she would trigger a motion to vacate Johnson's speakership if he brought Ukraine aid to a floor vote, so this could get interesting quickly. |
26 | PornHub has blocked access to its site in Texas as a response to an age verification law. |
26 | India has blocked access to a CBC documentary about the death of Canadian citizen and Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, whom Canada believes to have been assassinated by the Indian government in 2023. |
27 | Australia has resumed its funding for UNRWA and has pledged to send more aid to the Gaza Strip. |
36 | The Polish culture ministry is removing any subsidies for publications of a religious character, say that Poland is a secular state. Last year, such subsidies cost 3.7 million PLN (€860 000) and were mainly aimed at PiS-linked Catholic publications. |
34 | Blood donation by men who have sex with men is now equal in Estonia. |
25 | The House has passed a bill (that received overwhelming support from both Democrats and Republicans) that'd either force TikTok's owner, ByteDance, to sell the app, or have the app banned in the U.S. |
-6 | Nex Benedict's death has been ruled a suicide. |
13 | A former Boeing whistleblower, John Barnett, has been found dead in a car park from an apparent suicide. |
42 | Parliament of Liechtenstein votes to legalise same-sex marriage. |
25 | Haiti's Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, is resigning due to the violence erupting in the country by gangs. |
27 | Geert Wilders has said he is unlikely to be the next prime minister of the Netherlands due to a lack of support from possible coalition partners. |
9 | Andrzej Duda said he would use his presidential veto to stop a bill that would allow over-the-counter sales of the morning after pill, saying it would be dangerous for children. He also says he would not support a public referendum on abortion, stating that "Abortion is deprivation of human life and if someone demands abortion they demand the right to kill". |
61 | UN report reveals that more children are surviving today than ever before, with the global under-5 mortality rate dropping by 51 per cent since 2000. Several low and lower-middle-income countries have outpaced this decline. |
16 | Children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, NHS England has confirmed. |
33 | The Vatican announces resignation of Polish bishop Andrzej Dziuba, due to “negligence in handling sexual abuse against minors”. The case against him by the public prosecutor is still ongoing. |
42 | Romania has received an international arrest warrant from the UK for Andrew and Tristan Tate for allegations of sexual aggression. Lawyers revealed the reason they were arrested again came from Adin Ross revealing Andrew had told him they planned on fleeing Romania. |
50 | A legal settlement on Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law has been reached. The settlement allows that sexual orientation and gender identity may be discussed in classrooms as long as it isn't part of the class's formal instruction. This allows, for instance, for Gay-Straight Alliances to exist in schools, for teachers to openly identify themselves as gay or transgender, and for books with LGBT+ themes to be stocked in school libraries. |
19 | At Seattle’s Boeing Field, real-time video offers a rare glimpse of America’s troubled deportation flights. |
12 | Three top press agencies; PA, AFP & Reuters, have withdrawn a press photo released by Kate, the Princess of Wales’ office for Mothering Sunday, as it appears to be badly photoshopped. This has led to huge speculation about the welfare of Prince William’s family. |
-16 | Police from China will jointly patrol the streets of Hungary, alongside Hungarian police, according to a new agreement between the two countries. |
35 | Switzerland's parliament votes to transfer seized Russian assets to Ukraine as reparations. |
17 | US military ship is heading to Gaza to build a port to let more aid in. (Biden mentioned the plan to do so in his SOTU speech.) |
14 | Bill proposed in Missouri would charge teachers with a felony and force them to register as sex offenders if they were supportive of a transgender student who was socially transitioning. It defines social transition as "name, pronouns, and gender expression, such as clothing or haircuts". |
23 | Alaska's RCV voting system is under threat as Republicans have collected enough signatures to stick it on the November ballot for abolishment. The system which was introduced four years ago, and has led to the voting of moderates including Peltola and Murkowski over MAGA Republicans Tshibaka and Palin. |
35 | Self-reproducing RNA created in a laboratory for the first time (RNA world)[1] |
42 | Armenia is eyeing EU membership Yerevan's Foreign Minister says that Armenians "do have European aspirations" and the idea of submitting a membership application to join the bloc is being internally discussed. |
49 | Pentagon report finds no evidence of alien visits, hidden spacecraft: Claims about secret government programs reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology are based on “circular reporting” and hearsay, investigators found. |
39 | Arizona will use $30 million in federal COVID relief funds to wipe out up to $2 billion in medical debt for the state's residents. This follows similar initiatives in other states, and should impact up to one million Arizonans. |
61 | The Nato military alliance formally welcomes its 32nd member; Sweden, ending over 200 years of formal Swedish neutrality. |
17 | The UK's largest customer-owned financial institution the Nationwide Building Society has bid to take over the country's sixth largest bank Virgin Money. One interesting side note, once the take over is completed, it would be the first time a building society became an official banknote issuer, as the bank prints Clydesdale Scottish banknotes. |
34 | Strong wage growth gave Americans a $1,000 spending boost in 2023. When adjusted for inflation, wages have risen 0.8% over in 2023, according to the Treasury Department's recent research "The Purchasing Power of American Households." The growth is 0.2% percentage points higher than the average annual real wage growth in the 10 years before the pandemic. |
51 | A Norwegian court has banned state funding for Jehovah's Witnesses. |
22 | The US and Jordan have launched a continuing effort to airdrop humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip amid Israeli interference with land routes. Aid groups say airdrops can't keep up with the scale of the crisis, and the US and Jordan say they're exploring opening additional aid routes by sea. |
29 | Liberty University fined $14 million by the Department of Education for failing to inform its students about criminal incidents and dangerous situations such as gas leaks on campus. The university was also discouraging students from reporting crimes on campus. |
20 | TalkTV has said it's closing down its television channel and going online-only. |
17 | Euro-Med Monitor has confirmed Israel's "full involvement" in the Flour Massacre. |
38 | UN team says Hamas likely carried out sexual violence on 7 October attack. |
26 | Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court ruled that an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity committed by Venezuelan security forces under dictator Nicolás Maduro's rule during a crackdown on anti-government protests in 2017 may proceed. |
34 | France has voted overwhelmingly to make abortion a constitutional right. |
32 | Haiti declares state of emergency after prison break and gangs threaten takeover. |
41 | Nikki Haley has won her first Republican primary, beating Trump in the DC. |
32 | Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has died at age 84. |
30 | The biggest study of ‘greedflation’ yet looked at 1,300 corporations to find many of them were lying to you about inflation |
50 | High growth and unprecedent decline in inequality have combined to eliminate extreme poverty in India, which represented 50% of the population 30 years ago. The country should now graduate to a higher poverty line, which would provide an opportunity to redefine existing social protection programs in order to give greater support to the genuine poor. |
36 | France's Senate approves a bill to make abortion a constitutional right. |
6 | Elon Musk sues OpenAI. Musk essentially alleges that OpenAI breached contract as it reneged on a commitment to benefit humanity; he says they have turned into a "closed-source", de facto subsidiary of Microsoft and now pursue profit. |
32 | How Xi's 'thought eradication' led to China's Uyghur genocide |
18 | Putin warns risk of nuclear war if West sends troops to Ukraine, after Emmanuel Macron's proposals to send NATO troops to Ukraine. |
February 2024
24 | A British man has been arrested and put in a Qatari jail after being caught in a police sting operation against LGBT individuals using Grindr. His brother also reports that the authorities are refusing to give the necessary antiretroviral drugs he needs as he is HIV+. |
13 | Israeli soldiers opened fire on Gazans gathered around food aid trucks. At least dozens were killed, and hundreds injured. The aid trucks attempted to flee which caused more injuries. Hamas warned that the incident could endanger recent negotiations for a ceasefire. Update: There are some contradictory accounts about the exact events. Joe Biden's optimism about an upcoming ceasefire agreement appears to have withered in response to the incident. |
14 | Ghana’s parliament passed a bill that would put those identifying as LGBTQ+ in prison. |
24 | Apple has killed off its electric car project, saying there is a lack of profit in pursuing such an idea. |
23 | Active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force Aaron Bushnell self-immolated outside of the Israeli embassy in the U.S. as a form of protest. He died of his injuries. This is the second self-immolation in protest of the Israel-Hamas war. |
15 | South Korea defence chief reports that the DPRK has shipped approximately 6700 containers of munitions to Russia. Much of the exports were traded for food and he also reports that North Korea is prioritising exports over domestic arms manufacturing. |
26 | Police were called to a warehouse in Glasgow after a scammer created and charged £35 per head for a badly made Willy Wonka experience. The scammer used AI created text and pictures on its promotional website. |
39 | There were neo-Nazis openly identifying themselves as Nazis at CPAC, NBC reports. The report states they mingled with mainstream conservatives at the event, "discussed 'race science' and antisemitic conspiracy theories", and used racial slurs. A senior CPAC fellow condemned the attendees. |
16 | Joe Biden states he's hopeful for a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas by March 4, after Hamas reportedly softened its demands. Biden said: "My national security adviser tells me that we're close … it's not done yet." An anonymous Israeli official told CNN that Israel was "surprised" by Biden's optimism. |
15 | Somebody mailed Donald Trump Jr. "white powder" in an envelope alongside a death threat. Trump Jr. states this was the second such letter he received. According to authorities, they believed the powder substance was not deadly, but tests were "inconclusive". |
24 | Sunak has been told to tone down the new Criminal Justice bill over plans to criminalise homelessness, including arresting for smelliness and camping in doorways. |
44 | Sweden will officially become part of NATO. Hungary has approved their accession to the military alliance after some feet-dragging. |
44 | Mexico City, one of the world's largest cities, could run completely out of water within months. Residents are already facing severe water shortages, with many taps running entirely dry for most of any given day. |
11 | New law in Tennessee allows state officials to refuse to approve gay marriages. |
21 | Clarence Thomas hires Crystal Clanton as a law clerk, who has previously been accused of sending explicitly racist text messages including one that said "I hate black people". |
28 | Jury finds three longtime NRA executives, including its hardline former leader Wayne LaPierre, liable in a civil trial in which they were accused of misspending millions in donated money to fund lavish lifestyles. |
3 | A trans-exclusionary lesbian bar is opening up in London. Considering lesbians are more accepting of trans women than any other sexual orientation group, this looks like it'd turn into a TERF bar, full of straight women, rather than a lesbian bar. |
21 | Jack Posobiec, an actual crypto-Nazi who has put triple parentheses and "1488" in his tweets before, was a guest at CPAC. He used his speaking time at a panel hosted by Steve Bannon to call for the end of democracy. Elsewhere, he gave a speech on stage attacking immigrants and homeless people, adding "the West will rise again." |
30 | Vice News has evidently folded. |
15 | Far-right newspaper, Israel Hayom leaked the lyrics for Israel's Eurovision 2024 song "October Rain", which caused a lot of controversy, since it has references to the 7 October attacks from Hamas. Israeli broadcaster Kan confirmed to Reuters the translated text to be accurate. Kan also mentioned that they will withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest if the EBU disqualifies it. |
32 | German Bundestag votes on cannabis legalization, one of the ruling coalition's key election campaign promises. Update: The law was passed 407 - 226 (and four abstentions), legalizing controlled recreative use of cannabis by April this year. Bundestag English Source |
31 | Biden impeachment inquiry appears to be falling apart. According to the head of the inquiry himself, the "math keeps getting worse". |
28 | A trove of documents linked to China's surveillance state has leaked. Per AP: "They reveal, in detail, methods used by Chinese authorities [to] surveil dissidents overseas, hack other nations and promote pro-Beijing narratives on social media." |
17 | Some red states seek Medicaid cuts for low-income adults (usually with some exceptions, e.g. disabled or elderly people; nonetheless could impact hundreds of thousands of people) by implementing work requirements to receive assistance. It's hoped that a second Trump administration would be more favorable to this policy, as the Biden administration hasn't approved work requirement expansions the way that Trump's administration did in his first term. |
24 | A private company has successfully landed the first American spacecraft on the Moon since 1972. |
16 | DeSantis appears to backtrack some on Florida's law establishing a book-banning process, which he signed. |
41 | Virtually all of Alex Jones’ bankruptcy creditors, including those from Sandy Hook, have agreed to a plan to liquidate all of Jones' assets leaving him with virtually nothing. |
41 | A non-binary student was beaten to death in a school bathroom after being forced to use the girls'. The school suspended the student for the incident and didn't call for medical attention. They died in hospital the next day. The district was previously targeted by Libs of TikTok. |
31 | Russian police shut down a My Little Pony fan convention to investigate claims that there was "LGBT propaganda" as well as "horror and darkness". For whatever reason, the police were ultimately unable to find evidence of LGBT propaganda or horror/darkness. |
-14 | The Biden administration won't hold Israel to account for planned Rafah offensive that doesn't protect civilians. |
20 | Xitter decided to suspend Alexey Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya's newly launched account after only one day of launch. After an outcry, it was restored 45 minutes later. |
18 | Martine Moïse, wife of former Haiti President Jovenel Moïse who was assasinated 3 years ago, has been indicted for his murder. |
13 | The UN appalled by reports of sexual violence committed against Palestinian women by the IDF |
-20 | Israel grants gas exploration license in areas considered to be within Palestine's maritime boundary |
26 | Alabama Supreme Court rules that frozen embryos are 'children' after fertility clinic patient accidently drops embryos on the floor. The fertility clinic is being sued for "wrongful death" . |
33 | Ukrainian forces withdrew from Avdiivka after a months-long Russian assault due to dwindling ammunition supplies, making this Russia's first major battlefield victory in months. President Biden blamed the stalling of US material aid due to Congressional inaction for Ukraine's defeat. |
32 | Georgia Republican senator Carden Summers knelt down to tell an 8-year-old girl he'd protect her. Then, after learning she was trans, backed away. |
17 | Another day, another mass shooting: this time at a Super Bowl parade in Kansas City, Missouri. |
27 | A transphobic woman has had her discrimination case against the National Women's Council of Ireland thrown out by a works tribunal after the organisation refused her entry to one of their meetings. |
33 | Trump fined $355 million and ordered to cease business in New York state for three years. |
25 | Piece of shit promotes AIDS denialism from delusional conman to an audience of millions. |
41 | Putin opposition leader Alexei Navalny dies in Russian prison. Reports claim he went for a walk, felt unwell and suddenly collapsed. |
32 | FBI informant who alleged the Bidens had taken money from Ukrainian energy company charged with lying to the FBI - "Smirnov, 43, was charged with making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious record." |
3 | After promising to make public healthcare data more accessible, Biden seems to be turning back on that promise. The newly proposed "reforms" will increase fees and decrease accessibility to "data used to support major healthcare reforms." |
40 | The Greek parliament has voted 176 to 76 to legalise same-sex marriage, becoming the 37th country to legalise equal marriage. It is also the 1st Orthodox Christian country to do so. |
5 | The UNRWA staff members accused by Israel of partaking in October 7th had been fired without due process, or as the head of the UNRWA said, "reverse due process." |
12 | "A Biden presidency is better than a Trump one", says Putin. |
-2 | Israel sent a handcuffed Palestinian man into a Gaza hospital to order an evacuation, and then shot him as he left. |
29 | Ukraine says it has sunk another warship, disabling a third of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet |
16 | The United Kingdom and Japan both entered a recession in the last quarter of 2023. Japan's recession means that Germany has now surpassed it and become the world's third-largest economy. |
19 | Russian government investigating language-learning app Duolingo for sentences referencing gay people's existence. This apparently constitutes "distribution of LGBT propaganda". |
6 | Federal judge rejects many copyright claims against LLM AI companies, allows a claim about "unfair competition" to proceed. Subject to appeal within the next month. |
18 | Bodycam footage shows a Florida police deputy wildly firing seventeen rounds because he thought an acorn falling on a nearby vehicle was a gunshot. Somehow, neither the acorn nor the person being fired at (who was in handcuffs) were injured. The deputy has now resigned. |
30 | Cybertruck owners are reporting that their stainless steel shells are already starting to rust, only a few months after getting their pickups. |
31 | Republican governor of Nebraska reverses course after meeting with students, will now take federal funding to feed schoolchildren during the summertime. Many states with Republican governors have rejected the funding so far. |
10 | Take #2! House of Representatives impeaches the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas. Vote was 214-213. |
-5 | Israeli Super Bowl ad sells Gaza war narrative to American audience. |
48 | Trump has said that he would encourage Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” to NATO countries he views as not spending enough on their own defense. |
33 | Hungarian president Katalin Novák and justice minister Judit Varga have resigned over their decision to pardon a man convicted of helping cover up sex abuse at an orphanage. |
27 | Despite the Pentagon claiming Tower 22, the base that was attacked in a recent drone strike in Jordan, was a "logistics" outpost, we now know it was actually a drone base. |
16 | Indonesia's military is planning to install dictator Prabowo Subianto, no matter the results of the next election. |
7 | Netanyahu has ordered Palestinians to evacuate Rafah, the city all the way to the south of Gaza that he previously said would be a safe zone. |
24 | Vice reports that the UK government has quietly closed down the English NHS LGBTQ diversity programme, which notably gives out rainbow lanyards and badges to staff. |
28 | Sinn Féin wants a referendum on Irish reunification by 2030. |
18 | Tucker Carlson interviewed Vladimir Putin. It was generally a sycophantic interview, although Putin making fun of Tucker for wanting to join the CIA, with Tucker not even laughing and staring at him blankly, clearly upset, was funny. |
53 | Biggest-ever study of trans Americans found that 94% of them are happier after social transition, and 98% are happier after physical transition. (PDF of the full "early insights" report here.) |
13 | Trump claims Jan. 6 was an insurrection caused by Nancy Pelosi. |
17 | The US Special Counsel's report on Joe Biden's handling of classified materials paints a portrait of An ‘Elderly Man With a Poor Memory’ |
9 | President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy appoints Oleksandr Syrskyi as new Commander-in-Chief, replacing Zaluzhny. |
15 | Former President of Chile Sebastián Piñera has died in a helicopter crash. |
7 | Right after the hottest year on record, Labour has ditched its £28 billion ($35 billion/€32 billion) green investment pledge. |
31 | For the first time ever, global warming has surpassed 1.5°C for an entire year. |
26 | Alternative for Germany's youth wing discussed placing Jews in ghettos and immigrants and foreigners (Muslims, Africans, Arabs) in labor camps without much food. They also discussed overthrowing the government and seeking volunteers "to shoot women and children." |
17 | Sunak asks Starmer the transphobic expression “What is a woman?”, despite knowing that murdered trans teen Brianna Ghey’s mother was sitting in the Visitors' Gallery during Prime Minister’s Questions. |
33 | Connecticut will cancel medical debt for 250,000 of its residents by purchasing rights to the debt for pennies on the dollar and forgiving it. The funds to do so come from the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. New Jersey, New York City, and other governments are reportedly looking at doing something similar. |
46 | Federal panel of judges rules that Trump does not have presidential immunity in January 6 case. |
22 | Jack Dorsey's Twitter clone Bluesky has scrapped its invite codes demands and it is now open to anyone to set up an account. |
34 | Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer. |
-2 | Hopes for Swedish accession to NATO have been dashed, after a Hungarian parliamentary vote didn't reach the quorum. |
40 | Russia's frozen assets are generating billions in interest, and the EU intends to divert this money as part of its aid package to Ukraine. |
44 | New Mexico man pleaded guilty to assisting a failed Republican candidate in committing drive-by shootings at Democrats' houses. |
25 | For the first time, an Irish nationalist will lead Northern Ireland's government. Northern Ireland's government resumes work after new deal, with symbolic shift placing the nationalist (pro-unification) leader first. |
15 | Florida's DeSantis government sues federal regulators over a rule preventing the state from removing a child's state health insurance for nonpayment. |
18 | The IDF claimed they found secret Hamas tunnels underneath a Gazan cemetery they destroyed. CNN discovered they lied. |
23 | Laurence Fox has lost his libel court case in which he was sued over calling two people paedophiles. The judge also ruled that it was not defamatory to call Fox a racist. He repeatedly defended racist statements as not racist throughout the case. |
33 | 2023 was the Republican National Committee's worst fundraising year since 2013. Adjusted for inflation, it was actually the worst since 1993. |
-15 | US military personnel in Iraq on standby for boots on the ground intervention in the Gaza war. |
37 | Bill that would have removed gender identity as a protected category from Iowa's civil rights law has been killed in subcommittee amid protest. |
54 | Some good news for Ukraine, Hungary finally caves and allows a €50 billion EU aid package for Ukraine to go through that Orbán previously threatened to veto. |
January 2024
21 | The Guardian has created a map of the scale of destruction in Gaza. |
21 | Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine sets into Gaza. |
36 | Michael Cassidy, who destroyed the Satanic Temple's display at the Iowa Capitol, is now being charged with a hate crime. |
30 | Armenia officially joins the International Criminal Court in a sign of the country becoming less aligned with Russia diplomatically. |
30 | Bill reintroduced in Rhode Island to provide free school lunches regardless of financial status. |
18 | U.S. House of Representatives passes an expansion of the child tax credit with broad bipartisan support (188 Democrats, 169 Republicans). The child tax credit benefits many lower-income families. Republicans were brought on board by way of renewing certain 2017 tax benefits for businesses. The bill also allocates funding for disaster relief. |
28 | A judge in Delaware has told Musk he cannot keep his compensation package of around $55 billion, as demanded by Tesla shareholders claiming that Tesla’s directors misled them. This also means that the Muskrat is no longer the world's richest man. |
14 | The DUP have provisionally agreed to a deal with the British government over conditions that it would end their boycott of the Northern Ireland Assembly. This would likely re-establish the Stormont executive by Saturday. |
6 | The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles quietly announced that they've banned changing gender markers on driver's licenses before the bill mandating this happens even passes. |
18 | Unconfirmed-and-denied report that Zelensky plans to replace his top general, Zaluzhny. If this comes to pass, the Financial Times (who have given credence to the claim of a planned replacement) states it would have a very poor effect on the army's morale since Zaluzhny has widespread support in Ukraine. |
26 | Ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets. |
18 | Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to ban disposable vapes in the UK. |
16 | Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka is under a formal parliamentary investigation, after media allegations that she is a Russian agent for the FSB. |
17 | Texas AG Ken Paxton seeks transgender records in Georgia as part of his wider probe Paxton, long under criminal investigation himself, continues to try to violate the law by trying to violate patient privacy (HIPAA) |
12 | Three U.S. soldiers have been killed by a drone strike in Jordan. Over 30 other soldiers have been injured. |
26 | Gangs, gunmen and cartels running amok. As terror grips the streets of Ecuador, even the armed forces live in fear. |
24 | A court in Hong Kong has ordered the indebted Chinese property developer Evergrand to liquidate, due to company's inability to sort out its debts of US$328 billion. |
25 | The International Court of Justice says it's "plausible" that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and issued orders demanding that Israel take measures to protect civilians and provide humanitarian aid. The ICJ made no demand for a cease-fire. The orders are legally binding, but not enforceable. |
14 | A court has ruled that Justin Trudeau freezing Freedom Convoy truckers' bank accounts was unreasonable and unjustified. |
12 | Multiple countries, such as the U.S., the U.K., Italy, and Germany, have stopped funding UNRWA, the U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestine. The U.N. has urged said countries to keep the funding flowing or else they'll have to roll-back aid given to Palestine. |
25 | Republican legislators from Ohio and Michigan discuss banning transgender medicine "for everyone" (i.e. including all adults) in leaked audio. |
20 | Missouri Republican proposes settling political differences in the state's Senate with armed dueling in the chamber. |
21 | Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spendings. |
15 | Non-binary goth-pop self-described witch Bambie Thug, has been chosen to represent Ireland in this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden. |
21 | Alabama has been widely criticised for executing Kenneth Eugene Smith using previously untested nitrogen hypoxia gas, as the execution took 22 minutes to kill him despite previous reassurances it would be quick. A witness said "What we saw was minutes of someone struggling for his life". |
23 | China is pressing for Iran to "rein in" the Houthis' in the Red Sea, according to a report. Iran allegedly backs the Houthis financially, although they deny this. Some recent attacks on ships in the area: a British oil tanker caught fire and an American warship was targeted. |
18 | Big companies including SpaceX, Starbucks and Trader Joe's are attempting to undermine the National Labor Relations Board (which protects workers' rights) via the courts. Effort is supported by the Federalist Society. Now, Trader Joe's argues that the NLRB is "unconstitutional". |
35 | A report by a progressive think tank claims that more than half of recent inflation in the US for consumer products is accounted for by corporate profits, that is, essentially price-gouging. |
27 | Trump ordered to pay $83m for defaming E Jean Carroll. |
15 | Saudi Arabia allows its first alcohol sales in 72 years, though only for purchase by non-Muslim diplomats. |
19 | The ICJ has found that South Africa's case against Israel holds merit. They only ordered Israel to not advocate or commit genocide, though, and didn't order them to stop the war. |
18 | Trump’s White House clinic improperly handed out narcotics, report finds The drugs included fentanyl, hydrocodone, morphine, oxycodone and Provigil, and were given to unauthorized people. Elective surgeries were also given to unauthorized and anonymized people. |
21 | More and more states are pushing bills designed to exclude trans and nonbinary people from legal recognition in public life. |
29 | More gen. Z Americans identify as queer than as Republicans. |
24 | Trump briefly testifies in court, also interrupts court proceedings to claim he has never met E. Jean Carroll and doesn't know who she is. (He was previously found liable for defamation and sexual abuse against her.) While leaving the courtroom he said "It's not America. Not America. This is not America." |
14 | Texan governor Greg Abbott defies Supreme Court ruling, declares "the federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States" and claims Texan law "supersedes" federal law. Several Republican state governors and House Speaker Mike Johnson have voiced support for Abbott. |
29 | Utah may no longer be majority Mormon. This new estimate argues that the Mormon Church overestimates its faithful by counting anyone who has been baptized by the church as a Mormon. |
11 | Houthis vow to continue attacking cargo ships in the Red Sea. US and UK issue sanctions against Houthi leaders. |
17 | American GDP grew faster than expected in the last quarter of 2023. |
18 | Japanese court sentences a man to death for a July 2019 arson attack at an anime studio that killed 36 people. |
19 | Over 9,000 children and teenagers estimated to have been molested in the Protestant Church in Germany since 1946, according to a study commissioned by the church itself. |
6 | Florida has proposed a bill that would both mandate health insurance plans cover conversion therapy and ban trans people from updating their gender on their driver's licenses. |
24 | Both Danone and Nestlé are worried about the increasing trend among hoteliers and restaurateurs to replace bottled water with filtered tap water in refillable glass bottles in their hotels and restaurants. |
13 | West Virginia passes laws arming school teachers, restricting transgender people from using restrooms aligned with their gender presentation, and allowing people to sue libraries for stocking books they find offensive. |
26 | A new study in Scotland has found that no cases of cervical cancer have been detected in young women who have been fully-vaccinated as part of the HPV immunisation programme. |
36 | Germany introduces "a draft law to prevent demonstrators from approaching or harassing visitors within a 100-meter (320 ft) radius of abortion clinics and family planning centers. Posters or flyers aimed at intimidating women will also be banned." Proposed penalty is "a fine of up to €5,000 ($5,445)." |
21 | North Korea has actually demolished the reunification monument as they said they would, based on satellite analysis. New propaganda was also released by the North, depicting a tank crushing South Koreans. Missiles were fired from the west coast, where the Koreas have had a maritime border dispute recently. There is some speculation the North could be preparing for war. However, not all experts believe war is imminent, with some viewing this as just an increase in saber rattling. |
45 | After millennia of wreaking havoc on African countries, malaria finally has a vaccine. Its first inoculations are performed in Cameroon. |
44 | Portugal bans conversion therapy. |
5 | "Libs of TikTok" creator appointed to key advisory committee in Oklahoma that oversees what books are allowed in public libraries. Raichik has no known qualifications as an educator or librarian, and is from New York. She previously posted videos about school officials in the state, highlighting that a few of them cross-dress in their free time. |
15 | Alabama is going to execute someone via nitrogen gas in 2 days. Update: He died after minutes of thrashing around and heavy breathing. |
33 | Turkish parliament approves Sweden's NATO membership. |
33 | Ron DeSantis vetoed a bill that'd use Floridians' taxpayer money to fund Trump's legal bills, angering Trump supporters. |
17 | Kentucky anti-crime bill, which has at least 52 cosponsors, would authorize use of deadly force against homeless people under some circumstances. |
11 | The US just expanded its territory by a million square kilometers. |
18 | Supreme Court narrowly sides with Biden administration, allowing razor wire installed on the border by the Texan government to be removed. John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett sided with the court's liberals on the case. |
10 | NYC mayor Eric Adams vetoes solitary confinement ban. |
32 | An estimated 1.4 million people in Germany demonstrated against the far-right from Friday to Sunday. |
22 | Growing Oct. 7 ‘truther’ groups say Hamas massacre was a false flag: In city council hearings, protests and online, a growing movement with ties to Holocaust denial is effacing history in real-time. Here's a non-paywall version |
23 | Ohio pastor jailed for housing the homeless in freezing weather. Turns out, those charges were justified. |
11 | The Innocence Project takes up the case of Scott Peterson. |
30 | Study suggests the number of bigfoot sightings in an area is strongly correlated with the size of the local black bear population. (Link to paper.) |
12 | "The World Economic Forum edges away from the left", says Semafor. Reportedly the WEF would like a better reputation with the right-wing. The new Argentinian president Javier Milei also gave a speech for them, welcomed by Klaus Schwab who stated Milei would "bring Argentina back to the rule of law". |
6 | Supreme Court may challenge sentencing of January 6 rioters. |
18 | The feds release the Uvalde report |
27 | Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit! The Bundestag has voted 382 to 234 with 23 abstentions to change the law to reduce the period for naturalisation from eight to five years, and to allow all individuals to hold multiple nationalities, not just EU citizens. |
35 | Hundreds of millionaires, billionaires urge politicians at Davos to tax their wealth. Warning that taxing the richest is needed to prevent societal degradation, while politicians are reluctant, at The World Economic Forum on Wednesday. |
26 | Footage shows two North Korean teens sentenced to 12 years hard labor for... watching K-Drama. |
26 | Biden administration proposes a new rule via the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would cut bank overdraft fees more than half. The rule is under review but could go into effect as soon as 2025. |
22 | Oklahoma Republican proposes banning furries from schools and using animal control services to retrieve said students. |
14 | Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says war could continue into 2025. |
17 | Iran and Pakistan launch airstrikes against targets within each other's borders. Allegedly they were both targeting Baluchi separatists, but neither country is happy with the airspace violation by the other. |
15 | Kentucky Republican proposes an amendment legalizing incest with cousins, then claims he proposed it by accident. |
17 | Northern Ireland is having one its biggest one-day public sector strikes in over 50 years over employee pay-rises, and indirectly, the lack of a functioning government due to the DUP not supporting the NI Assembly. |
22 | Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists Right wing activist Christopher Rufo, credited with helping oust school’s first Black president, touted critic associated with ‘scientific racists’ |
26 | The Supreme Court will decide whether cities are legally allowed to criminalize homeless camps and their residents whenever there are no beds left in local shelters. It will be decided whether this is cruel and unusual punishment, which is forbidden by the US Constitution. A lower court previously ruled that it was. |
23 | Fortunes of world's richest 5 men doubled since 2020 as billions became poorer. "We're witnessing the beginnings of a decade of division, with billions of people shouldering the economic shockwaves of pandemic, inflation and war, while billionaires' fortunes boom." – Oxfam |
24 | Workplace wellness programs have little benefit, study finds. Except for charity work, wellness interventions apparently did nothing. "Employers concerned about workers’ mental health would do better to focus on “core organizational practices” like schedules, pay and performance reviews." |
23 | China's state banks reportedly tightening enforcement of US sanctions on Russian clients. |
19 | Some bored House Republicans want another Speaker again... Marjorie Taylor Greene, especially, keeps threatening to boot Mike Johnson. |
15 | Kim Jong-un has said that unification of the Korean peninsula is no longer possible, and that the ROK government is the “primary enemy" of the DPRK. Agencies to cooperate with the ROK will be abolished and a monument in Pyongyang to reunification demolished. |
17 | The fifteen year non-residency ban for British voters has been scrapped. Now all British voters no matter where they live in world and for how long they live aboard, can vote in British parliamentary elections. |
34 | Human Rights Watch releases a report criticizing the "severe" erosion of human rights by the United Kingdom's government, including (e.g.) erosion of the right to protest and the right to seek asylum. |
24 | A federal lawsuit is advancing against a Florida school district for withholding certain books from library shelves. Plaintiffs allege that over 1,600 books were suspended and that this even included five dictionaries, eight encyclopedias, The Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley's Believe it or Not!, and biographies for many well-known celebrities or historical figures. |
17 | Burma's Rebel Alliance signs ceasefire with ruling military junta |
24 | Israel bombed an Al Jazeera journalist, and blocked evacuation efforts as he bled to death. |
12 | Biden says US does not support Taiwan’s independence following election |
37 | Fox News has canceled all advertising from MyPillow. Insiders says it because the company hasn't paid its advertising bills since last August, however Lindell says he has been "canceled". |
27 | Bill O'Reilly's books suspended from shelves in a Florida school district under a law he supported. He isn't happy. Also, he still supports the law. |
15 | Mississippi joins other mostly-conservative states in rejecting federal funding for a children's summer food program. "The other states that have opted out include Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont and Wyoming." (Second source.) |
30 | OpenAI quietly deletes their ban on using ChatGPT for "military and warfare". |
15 | Hundreds gather to heil Hitler in Italy. |
16 | Indiana files bill removing transgender recognition. This comes after over 510 anti-LGBTQ+ bills were filed in the US in 2023 alone, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. |
15 | The U.S. and the U.K. have bombed Yemen, specifically many Houthi-controlled areas. |
12 | The Australian government has decided to abandon plans in the near future for a referendum on changing its constitutional status, and abandon Charles III as King. This is due to earlier failed Voice referendum and polling indicates no consensus. |
26 | The FDA is warning that vaccination rates are falling to record lows and in 10 states they are below the tipping point for safety. They are asking doctors and even pharmacists to encourage vaccines. |
19 | Politicians from AfD met far-right extremists (notably the identitarian leader Martin Sellner) to discuss mass ethnic cleansing ‘masterplan’. According to the Correctiv investigation (German text), one of the ideas floated by Sellner on how to execute this "re-migration" included deportations to an unnamed state in northern Africa that would provide space for up to 20 million people. (Soundsfamiliar...) |
15 | Ohio Republicans have overridden Governor DeWine's veto on a youth gender-affirming care ban. Good luck, Ohio. |
22 | German politicians formerly with the far-left "Die Linke" officially split to form a "left-wing conservative" party. |
26 | Fun at Chabad Lubavitch HQ. Hasidic students who believe the deceased Lubavitch rabbi is the messiah and still alive dug an unauthorized tunnel into and throughout the building, which is run by non-messianic Chabadniks. Why? Because the deceased rabbi once said he wanted the building to be bigger. So they did some unauthorized expanding. It also seems they were trying to get to a closed-off mikveh (spiritual bath) the rabbi used. The building owners (Chabad leadership) tried to seal the tunnel with cement, and the police showed up to help. Then a riot broke out. |
12 | Gunmen have stormed an Ecuadorian TV studio live on air. |
28 | State of emergency declared in Ecuador after a drug lord escapes from prison. UPDATE: as the situation in Ecuador deteriorates even more, president Daniel Noboa declares that the country is now now in a state of "internal armed conflict" |
28 | South Korea’s National Assembly has voted 280 to 0 with two abstentions, to ban the dog meat trade including breeding, slaughtering and selling, from 2027. Individuals who break the law would be subject to a fine of ₩30 million (US$23,000) or three years in prison. |
29 | Florida GOP chairman ousted over rape allegations. |
14 | Netanyahu has asked the UAE to pay "unemployment" stipends to Palestinians who lost their jobs in Israel during the current conflict. UAE's president Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed said basically "nah". |
16 | Tanya Chutkan, the judge overseeing Trump's federal election interference case, was swatted. |
15 | Plans by NASA to scatter human ashes on the Moon have irritated the Navajo Nation, after claiming that the celestial lunar being is sacred and such actions desecrates it. |
30 | Ancient indigenous songlines match long sunken landscape off Australia's coast |
20 | China's spy balloons are back. This time they're over Taiwan. |
32 | The NRA is shrinking in every sense. Its membership, assets, and political support are declining. It most recently had a $22 million deficit. |
32 | Neptune is almost the exact same color as Uranus, actually. |
20 | Catholic preschools sue Colorado over nondiscrimination law, because they may have to admit students whose parents "identify as gay or lesbian". |
27 | UN says global food prices declined relative to record highs in December 2022, except for rice and sugar. |
20 | Lukashenko gives himself lifetime immunity from criminal prosecution. |
20 | Javier Milei's labor reforms blocked by Argentinian court. |
-3 | Congress would like a raise, please! |
20 | DAESH claims responsibility for an attack at Soleimani's memorial service that killed almost a hundred people. |
29 | Elon Musk's SpaceX accused by US labor agency of illegally firing workers for criticizing Musk. |
34 | John Kirby, representing the White House, says that South Africa's genocide case against Israel is "meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever". Reminder that South Africa's suit is 84 pages long, and directly cites Israel's own leaders. |
16 | Only 5 days into the year, 125 anti-trans bills have been filed in the U.S., more than double the pace of 2023. |
35 | A new study has found that possibly up to 17,000 people died collectively in France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and the U.S. from taking hydroxychloroquine during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
14 | Labour have finished their investigation of Rosie Duffield's denial that trans people were targeted by Nazis—Holocaust denial—and concluded she did nothing wrong. |
4 | Former Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been released on parole after 11 years in jail. Pistorius was earlier convicted for murdering his then girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at their home, was given a sentence of 13 years and 5 months. |
36 | Bernie Sanders calls on Congress to reject unconditioned aid to Israel, citing Gaza war. Salon points out Sanders briefly once lived in Israel himself. |
20 | Some Ohio Republicans introduce a bill to strip the judicial branch's authority to interpret law if it's about abortion. Americans who have taken a middle-school civics class may realize that is very much not how this works. |
13 | Russia is forcibly conscripting Ukrainians in illegally held territory |
18 | The Democrats in the House Oversight Committee released a report accusing Donald Trump of having received at least $7.8 million in foreign payments during his presidency. |
24 | Ethiopia has signed a deal with unrecognized country of Somaliland, which is internationally recognised as part of Somalia, giving the land-locked country access to the Red Sea by leasing one of Somaliland’s ports. In return Ethiopia would recognise Somaliland as an independent country. |
22 | Trump reportedly plans to argue in court that January 6 was an FBI and Antifa plot and the 2020 election was stolen with help from Hezbollah and China. |
32 | Half of Russian citizens want the Ukraine war to end in 2024. |
22 | Hundreds of court documents about Jeffrey Epstein's associates released, more to come later UPDATE: More documents released |
16 | Russia accidentally bombs own village, vows to rebuild homes. |
23 | It all changes in Canada, a New Brunswick MP has tabled a private member's bill to make the oath to the Crown optional for MPs and senators. While last month, Québécois deputies voted unanimously for a motion to remove the position of Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, once the latest governor has finished her term. |
8 | Over one hundred people dead from explosions in Iran near Soleimani's tomb. |
31 | The Polish justice minister has ordered an investigation after a right-wing TV commentator has suggested housing migrants in old Nazi concentration camps such as Auschwitz. |
29 | Falling interest in linear cable news in general and ousting of Tucker Carlson, has led to the worst ratings for Fox News for a decade. While at the same time MSNBC’s viewership has grown. |
28 | A federal judge has ruled that Kim Davis must pay $260,000 in legal costs for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite ruling by the Supreme Court. |
28 | Israel is withdrawing several thousand troops from Gaza. Also, the Israeli Supreme Court has struck down major parts of Netanyahu's planned overhaul of the judicial system. |
20 | An airstrike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut has killed Saleh al-Arouri, one of the founders of Hamas' military wing. Israel has not claimed responsibility, but let's be honest, we all know they're the prime suspects for a reason. |
17 | According to the Azeri government, the self-proclaimed "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" has been officially dissolved and ceases to exist. |
17 | In his New Year's address, Czech President Petr Pavel calls on the country to make preparations to replace the koruna with the euro. |
17 | The founder of the American Family Association, Donald Wildmon, has died. |
21 | South Africa files genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. |
3 | China-Taiwan 'reunification' will 'surely' happen says Chinese dictator Xi Jinping. |
40 | Walt Disney's 1928 short animated film Steamboat Willie and the earliest version of Mickey Mouse that appears in it finally fall into the public domain. Can you spot it on Walt Disney's RW article? |