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New York Times
6 hours ago
- Politics
- New York Times
Canada's Trump-Fueled Brain Gain
A year ago, when Timothy Snyder and his wife, Marci Shore, both prominent Yale historians, moved to Canada after being recruited to the University of Toronto, they thought it would be a fun adventure. 'I was trying to have a positive midlife crisis,' Professor Snyder said in an interview. By the time they had settled into their new home, the mood in the progressive academic circles that feted them back in New Haven, Conn., was rapidly darkening after the election of Donald J. Trump in November. The Trump administration has put U.S. colleges in its cross hairs, accusing some of cradling haters of America. It has launched policies that threaten to expel international students and jeopardize funding and academic freedoms. Professors Snyder and Shore, along with Jason Stanley, a Yale philosophy professor who also moved to Toronto, have in recent months become outspoken about the Trump administration. They published a widely shared New York Times video opinion piece titled, 'We Study Fascism, and We're Leaving the U.S.' At the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, they joined Brian Rathbun and Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, international relations professors who made a similar move last year from the University of Southern California. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
ABC News
a day ago
- Politics
- ABC News
How are online tools being used to track and resist fascism across the globe?
What are the online tools that fueled 'No Kings' and the Trump Resistance? From Signal to Reddit, people across the world are using tech tools to plan, analyse, and carry out political activism. We explore what those tools look like and how effective they are in preventing a bleak political future, including an explainer on the website 'Realtime Fascism' that uses AI to track fascism online. Also, Tesla's have been causing drama -- from phantom braking to a rise in Robotaxi issues. Will this stall the progress of automated vehicles in Australia? Plus, AI overviews have transformed the way we search for things online. What does this mean for old-school search engines and the sources we can trust? Plus why and how have 40,000 Cameras, from bird feeders to baby monitors, been exposed to the internet? GUESTS: Petra Stock, environment and science reporter for the Guardian Australia environment and science reporter for the Guardian Australia Charles Gretton, Director of Attention and Innovation, Integrated AI Network, and Associate Professor at ANU This episode of Download This Show was made on Gadigal land and in Naarm and on Ngunnawal country. Technical production by Allyse Simons.
The Guardian
18-06-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Trump overseeing a ‘fascist regime' says Brad Lander after arrest
Update: Date: 2025-06-18T08:51:50.000Z Title: Opening summary: Trump overseeing a 'fascist regime', says Lander Content: Brad Lander, New York City's comptroller and a mayoral candidate, has lashed out at Donald Trump and 'his fascist regime', after he was arrested on Tuesday by masked federal agents while visiting an immigration court and accompanying a person out of a courtroom. Posting on X, Lander wrote: We will all be worse off if we let Donald Trump and his fascist regime undermine the rule of law. Lander was arrested, according to video footage of the incident, as he and his staff walked with an immigrant – who he later identified as 'Edgardo' – who had their case dismissed pending appeal earlier in the day, per AMNY. Lander can be seen and heard in videos of the incident asking the immigration officials if they have a judicial warrant. Additional footage of the arrest shows Lander telling the officials: I'm not obstructing. I'm standing right here in the hallway. I asked to see the judicial warrant. In a statement to the Guardian, assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin from the Department of Homeland Security said Lander 'was arrested for assaulting law enforcement and impeding a federal officer'. Upon his release, Lander said he 'certainly did not' assault an officer. In an interview with CNN after his arrest, Lander said: All I was trying to do was the things I had done [in] the prior two weeks of just accompany people out to safety. That was my goal today. I sure did not go with any intention of getting arrested. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is expected to meet Pakistan's army chief, Asim Munir, for talks today. The meeting is expected to take place in the White House cabinet room at 1pm Washington time. It comes after India's prime minister Narendra Modi told Trump late on Tuesday that a ceasefire between India and Pakistan after a four-day conflict in May was achieved through talks between the two militaries and not US mediation. Trump had said last month that the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours agreed to a ceasefire after talks mediated by the US, and that the hostilities ended after he urged the countries to focus on trade instead of war. 'PM Modi told President Trump clearly that during this period, there was no talk at any stage on subjects like India-US trade deal or US mediation between India and Pakistan,' Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri said in a press statement, according to Reuters. More on both of these stories in a moment, but first, here are some other developments: Israel's war on Iran appeared to be approaching a pivotal moment on Tuesday night after five days of bombing and retaliatory Iranian missile strikes, as Donald Trump demanded 'unconditional surrender' from Tehran and weighed his military options. Trump convened a meeting of his national security team in the White House situation room after a day of febrile rhetoric in which the president gave sharply conflicting signals over whether US forces would participate directly in Israel's bombing campaign in Iran. An unlikely coalition of lawmakers has moved to prevent the president from involving US forces in the conflict without Congress's approval. Republican congressman Thomas Massie, whose libertarian-tinged politics have often put him at odds with Trump, joined several progressive Democrats to introduce in the House of Representatives a war powers resolution that would require a vote by Congress before Trump could attack Iran. Democrat Tim Kaine has introduced companion legislation in the Senate. 'Effective today, I am lifting the curfew in downtown Los Angeles,' the city's mayor, Karen Bass, said in a statement on Tuesday afternoon. A federal judge in Boston ruled that transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity during litigation that seeks to overturn Trump's executive order that US passports must conform to the sex citizens were assigned at birth. Ukrainian diplomats have been left frustrated – and in some cases embittered – at Donald Trump's refusal to make Ukraine a priority after Volodymyr Zelenskyy flew 5,000 miles to the G7 conference in Canada only for the US president to return home the night before the two leaders were due to meet. Trump said he needed to focus on the Israel-Iran conflict. Donald Trump has abandoned his brief immigration and customs enforcement (Ice) reprieve for farm and hotel workers, ordering the agency's raids in those sectors to resume after hardliners crushed a pause that lasted just four days. A federal appeals court in San Francisco heard arguments on Tuesday in Trump v Newsom, to determine whether the Trump administration must return control of the California national guard troops deployed to Los Angeles by Trump to the state's governor during protests over federal immigration raids. Bernie Sanders has endorsed the leftwing New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in the latest boost to his insurgent campaign.
Fox News
17-06-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
WATCH: Protesters at DC parade justify violent tactics 'as long as they don't hurt anyone'
Protesters outside Saturday's military parade in the nation's capital did not explicitly condemn the violent tactics used at anti-Trump protests across the country in recent days, with at least one saying he "fully support[s]" the recent tactics used by protesters in Los Angeles, such as throwing rocks. "I'm following my constitutional rights, I'm out here just simply saying what I want to feel. No one here is being violent. As you can see, there's been no conflict," said a college-aged protester who declined to identify himself but spoke to Fox News Digital. "But you're not worried about being conflated with those who are doing violence?" the activist was asked. "I mean if they want to violate the Constitution, that's on them. I can't worry about that," the protester responded. "I mean, maybe I should [be worried], but I believe in this Constitution, I'm going to live by it, I'm going to support my First Amendment." A separate protester in attendance outside Saturday's parade said he "fully supported" those activists who "want to throw rocks" as long as they don't hurt anyone in the process. "Honestly – they have a right to be angry. They have a right to do what they feel like they need to do to stop this issue, to stop fascism," he said. "And, honestly, I fully support that. I fully support if they're angry and they want to go out and they want to throw rocks. As long as they don't hurt anyone, you know, I can understand, I can honestly do." The anti-Trump protests that coincided with the military parade in D.C. on Saturday saw a few isolated incidents of violence but appeared mostly peaceful. However, the weekend was preceded by violent riots in Los Angeles that spread to other cities like New York and Chicago – reminiscent of the anti-police protests following the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd in the summer of 2020. Protesters in Los Angeles threw rocks at law enforcement and several fires across the city erupted amid the chaos. There were reports of damage to federal buildings, including both immigration and non-immigration-related offices, that included graffiti threatening the lives of federal officials. At least one community care office for veterans, run by the Department of Veterans Affairs, was forced to shut down and cancel hundreds of appointments amid the violence. Many were arrested for clashing with police and the reverberations of the rioting have resulted in other tense clashes between police and activists across the country. While no deaths have been directly attributed to political violence at recent protests across the country, including Los Angeles, fatalities have occurred at some protests around the country. In Utah, an innocent bystander was shot by a man who had been a part of the protest's peacekeeping team, according to reports, while in Los Angeles a man was found dead outside a looted T-Mobile store amid the anti-ICE chaos, according to reports. The peaceful protesters in D.C. suggested they were not in favor of any violence, but they did signal that they understood why protests in recent days across the country have been so intense that they lead to violence against police officers, property and sometimes more. "I mean, I personally won't do that, but I can understand after all of this, like, people are fed up. People are fed up with how the government has been treating people," a protester told Fox News Digital Saturday. "The Republicans, the people in Congress, they do not care about people here, and so I can understand why people are that angry to do something like that, so, yeah, I fully understand." "I think it's wrong to create violence, but, like, he said, I mean I think people have been angry for a long time," a second protester added, noting he thinks Trump is the reason to blame for all the aggressive tactics, like throwing rocks, setting fires and vandalism. "What Trump is doing, he knows the polarization and the anger he's causing, so this is all part of his game plan. The National Guard in L.A., he caused that. He said go out there without Newsom saying anything. I mean, he knows what he's doing, he wants to cause a rise out of people." Another protester present Saturday, who spoke to Fox News Digital, said she believed "being abrasive" is against the interests of those seeking to make change but that "history has proven that sometimes aggression is needed." "All respect to them, I think that they are doing what they think is right, but I think being very abrasive is against our interests, actually. I think it drives away a lot of people, it doesn't really foster the conversations that we need," a protester who identified herself as Sophie said. "I don't think being aggressive is the way to go, but I think history has proven that sometimes aggression is needed, so, but I don't want to be abrasive."
The Guardian
16-06-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Chelsea v LAFC: Club World Cup
Update: Date: 2025-06-16T18:00:24.000Z Title: Preamble Content: It's hard to know what to feel here, isn't it? On the one hand, a confected competition, staged for impure reasons, by men of questionable character, in a country undergoing a fascist takeover, skewing domestic competitive balance yet further, while players trudge through yet more games; on the other hand, FOOTBALL. LAFC did not qualify for this competition automatically, by winning the Concacaf Champions League; rather, they won a play-in after León, former Concacaf Champions League winners, were disqualified for infringing club ownership structure rules. But here they are so here we are, the fifth-best side in the Western Conference, we'll never sing that. Facing them we have none other than the reigning Conference League champions – who, in fairness, did actually win the Champions League to make it into this tournament. And Chelsea are, in various ways, a prime example of the vain, venal, narcissistic decadence it represents … but how exciting might it be if, suddenly, they click? Kick-off: 3pm local, 8pm BST
