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https://tech.lgbt/@ellyqw/117348978818962523

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/53152091

Following an anonymous complaint in February, OSHA inspected the plant and fined Smithfield Foods $9,931.60 after observing workers’ exposure to “amputation hazards.” This was preceded by serious citations in 2021, 2023, and 2025.

Working in a slaughterhouse is extremely dangerous. In the US, there are approximately two amputations per week, primarily due to the industry’s poor working conditions and excessively fast pace.

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As reported by KWQC, the leaders also acknowledged “community concerns” over a backlog of rendering material – animal waste, internal organs, and decaying meat – being stored outside the plant, causing a strong, unpleasant smell in the city.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/53333005

A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.
Sept. 25, 2026

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Three Different Court Orders Violated The Trump administration was found in contempt of court Friday for wrongfully deporting a Salvadoran...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52447554

That was disturbing news to Angelica Jadunandan, who moved to New York from Florida with her two young daughters three years ago. Her older daughter, who is eight, is transgender, and Angelica wanted to move them to a safe blue state—somewhere her family’s medical care would not be called into question. New York is a self-declared “sanctuary state” for trans people. It seemed like a good option.

Iraqi Airways has resumed flights between Najaf al-Ashraf airport and Iranian airports after being suspended on Friday over US sanctions, according to Iraq’s state news agency.

The announcement comes after hundreds protested against the suspension earlier today.

Four Iraqi airports, including Baghdad, Najaf, Erbil and Sulaimaniyah, halted all flights to and from Iran on Friday, days after the US announced new aviation sanctions on any global company that does business with Iranian airlines.

On Saturday, the office of Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi said Baghdad was working to secure US exemptions for Iran flights to resume “on humanitarian grounds related to medical treatment, education, religious visits and the interests of civilians”.

On Monday evening, Iraq’s ambassador to Iran, Yasser Abdulzahra Al Hajjaj, said that people in Iraq could expect flights to resume “within 24 hours”, according to Iraqi media.

I was really tired and bored at work yesterday so I came up with this idea of what everyone's shirts combined would look like and this is it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_RAF_Fairford_arrests

https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/news/update-on-raf-fairford-investigation-1600-28-september-2026/

Bo French, who is running to lead a state agency, has in the past posted controversial and racist statements online

Bo French, a Texas Republican running to lead a powerful state agency, has a history of making controversial social media posts, including calling for the public execution of Democratic leaders, according to a recent investigation from CNN’s KFile team.

French, who is running to lead Texas’s railroad commission, has recently faced criticism from members of his own party after making a racist post on social media. Powerful Republicans, including the Texas senator John Cornyn, said they would not support French in the upcoming election.

But the latest spat over French’s social media has led to a deeper look at his online history. In a review of old posts from social media accounts that seemingly belonged to French, CNN’s KFile team found that the Texas Republican repeatedly called for public executions of opponents.

In 2020, French used a now-suspended X account to seemingly call for the execution of former president Barack Obama and other Obama administration officials that he believed had disseminated false information about Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1430688/mongodb-ceo-resigns-to-join-meta

Hacker News.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1430453/aoc-ai-systems-want-us-to-be-dependent-and-outsource-our-cognition-to-a-machine-and-they

AI needs 2 things. It needs capital-intensive resources. But it also needs an uneducated population that cannot think, that is not educated, that relies on it so that they can sell cognition back to us.

Bailey, who oversaw some of Trump’s election crackdown investigations, to resign about a year after assuming role

Bailey, a hardline conservative and former attorney general of Missouri, began serving in the unusual co-deputy director position with former deputy Dan Bongino, a podcaster who had no formal FBI experience, in September 2025.

Since Bongino left the FBI in January, Bailey has been serving as co-deputy director with Christopher Raia, a former FBI special agent and New York field office official. It is unclear whether Trump plans to pick another deputy director to serve alongside Raia.

In his role at the FBI, Bailey had been overseeing some of Trump’s election-related investigations, including one related to 2020 ballots in Georgia. He was present in January when FBI agents executed a search warrant at an election office in Fulton county and seized ballots among other materials from the 2020 presidential election.

Though Bailey said he was leaving to spend more time with family, a New York Times report indicated that Bailey and Raia had somewhat of a contentious relationship with Patel and went long stretches without speaking to each other.

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