The bank came under an intense public campaign for its relationship with CoreCivic and GEO who demanded that Citizens cut ties with the two companies. At least two city councils in New Jersey — Montclair and Jersey City — have voted to withdraw their money from Citizens if they did not cut ties with the private prison operators.

“Today’s announcement that Citizens Bank will exit its current lending relationships with private prison giants CoreCivic and The GEO Group is an important victory for the people who refused to let a major bank finance human suffering brought on by ICE detention activities of the current federal administration,” said the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition, in a statement.

Later on they said they did this out of business reasons not because of public pressure so the headline isn't true cause and effect. It's possible they just didn't want to say the protests were effective publically.

My interpretation The administration wants to label antifata as a foreign terrorist organization. This would add legal teeth to stop anti fascists. Any organization that this administration thinks is anti nazi or anti fascist could legally be shutdown if this goes through.

The supreme court just green lighted the ability for trump to fire the heads of independent agencies. Some news outlets saying this type of power hasn't been seen since kings.

This is the supreme court again rewriting history and killing one of their own decisions.

I like the part about no new spending is needed. Should we translate that to we will divert people looking into measles and covid to this?

I got this from reddit. In one of the comments I found this about Washington state: Governor Bob Ferguson signed into law a bill that restricts out-of-state military forces from entering Washington. House Bill 1321....

I suggest we write our local governments to enact the same type of law before it is too late.

We just had this happen and NBC broke this about an outbreak from Nov 2024. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236 and you have the lead in baby food https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2025/04/15/target-recall-baby-food-lead/83105523007/

Good luck everyone

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28122713

We need more resistance like this, from the article:

With a new law in effect that limits what flags governments across Idaho can display, the City of Boise currently isn’t complying.

BoiseDev first reported on Monday that the city was continuing to fly the “Progress Pride” flag outside of Boise City Hall. That flag includes five horizontal stripes in rainbow colors, as well as a chevron featuring colors associated with representation for the Trans community, and black and brown stripes for people of color.

We need more resistance like this, from the article:

With a new law in effect that limits what flags governments across Idaho can display, the City of Boise currently isn’t complying.

BoiseDev first reported on Monday that the city was continuing to fly the “Progress Pride” flag outside of Boise City Hall. That flag includes five horizontal stripes in rainbow colors, as well as a chevron featuring colors associated with representation for the Trans community, and black and brown stripes for people of color.

The after school satan club is making inroads in the US thanks to the supreme court and in particular Clarence Thomas. There are now 4 states (CA, OH, CT, and PA with KS as a proposal) with active clubs where kids can learn unfiltered science and other subjects I'm sure.

Hopefully the new year will bring many more thanks to the SC and we can have better educated kids.

Maybe the motto should be join the After School Satan club and play games and learn things the schools are too afraid to teach. Also kudos to whoever dreamed up the name.

I thought only Florida would be dumb enough to have prageru be part of the curriculum. Apparently I was wrong and NH just approved it.

I was wondering if there's a TST equivalent to prageru or if there's something in the works? I know TST has gotten involved in some school clubs where religious stuff was mixed into public schools and thought this might be the next step.

I just just tried to reply to two comments. One using connect and I got a 502. The other using the web browser and it is still waiting. We will see if a new post will work I guess.