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      Pornhub prepared to block Florida if child safety law takes effect

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 2 days ago - 15:33

    Pornhub prepared to block Florida if child safety law takes effect

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    This week, Florida made headlines after passing HB 3, a law banning children under 14 from accessing social media without parental consent.

    Much less attention was given to another requirement under the law obligating "pornographic or sexually explicit websites" to "use age verification to prevent minors from accessing sites that are inappropriate for children," as Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis explained the law in a statement .

    But Pornhub's parent company, Aylo, has taken notice, with a spokesperson confirming to Ars that "we are aware of the passage into law of HB 3 in Florida, which unfortunately fails to protect minors online."

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      Cows in Texas and Kansas test positive for highly pathogenic bird flu

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 3 days ago - 22:50

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    Wild migratory birds likely spread a deadly strain of bird flu to dairy cows in Texas and Kansas, state and federal officials announced this week.

    It is believed to be the first time the virus, a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), has been found in cows in the US. Last week, officials in Minnesota confirmed finding an HPAI case in a young goat , marking the first time the virus has been found in a domestic ruminant in the US.

    According to the Associated Press , officials with the Texas Animal Health Commission confirmed the flu virus is the Type A H5N1 strain, which has been ravaging bird populations around the globe for several years . The explosive, ongoing spread of the virus has led to many spillover events into mammals, making epidemiologists anxious that the virus could adapt to spread widely in humans.

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      Man changes name to Literally Anybody Else and announces US presidential run

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 4 days ago - 16:41

    Texas man says he is unsatisfied with Donald Trump and Joe Biden and says new name ‘isn’t a person, it’s a rally cry’

    A Texas man has legally changed his name to Literally Anybody Else and announced he is running for US president in the 2024 election .

    Formerly known as Dustin Ebey, the 35-year-old is a US army veteran and seventh-grade math teacher in the suburbs of Dallas, and now has a Texas driver’s license to prove his name change.

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      ‘It was like we’d signed up for a cult’: the weird, wild world of Butthole Surfers

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 4 days ago - 14:47

    The surviving members of the Texan psychedelic art rock noise band recall the drugs, fires, fights, scabies, dumpster-diving, naked dancing and primal screaming of their early days

    Nudity, raging fires, belching smoke, blinding strobes, nightmare-inducing surgical videos, fights and firearms: these are some of the things you may have encountered at a Butthole Surfers show while being pummelled by a squealing cacophony of acid-fried psychedelic noise-rock, as a man tripping wildly in his underpants screams at you through a megaphone.

    “People would be running out of our shows throwing up,” says Paul Leary, the band’s guitarist. “We were punishing these poor souls.”

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      ‘Havoc and harm’: prospect of migrant law sows fear in Texas border town

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 21 March - 17:29

    Residents and activists say no one is safe if law allowing police to arrest people for suspected illegal entry goes into effect

    At the Sweet Co coffee shop in downtown Brownsville, the last city at the eastern end of the Texas border before you reach the ocean and Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket base or cross into Mexico, the vibe was chill but the mood was chilly.

    Customers were as downcast as the wet weather outside on Wednesday, the day of a court hearing after contrasting legal rulings were made about a new law that will affect people in Brownsville, whether new migrants, US citizens, undocumented residents or others.

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      Texas border law allowing police to arrest migrants blocked hours after supreme court allows it – live

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 20 March - 13:22 · 1 minute

    Appeals court blocks sweeping arrest powers for Texas police, ending – for now – what could have sparked confusion along US border

    Good morning, US politics blog readers. It was only a few hours ago when the supreme court cleared the way for a potential upending of US immigration enforcement by allowing a Texas law that gave state police the power to arrest people suspected of crossing the border illegally to go into effect. But hours after the top court’s Tuesday afternoon order, a federal appeals court once again blocked the law – at least for now. The decision prevents what could have become a confusing and unprecedented situation from playing out in the massive, Republican-governed state along the border with Mexico. Texas’s police would have been able to arrest people suspected of being in the country illegally – a task reserved for federal law enforcement.

    Texas enacted its law as Republicans nationwide attack Joe Biden over the surge in undocumented migrants that has played out since he took office. In Congress, the GOP continues to demand the president support tougher border policies, though they blocked a compromise that would impose those and approve new aid for Ukraine and Israel. The White House views the Texas law as “harmful and unconstitutional”, and the legal wrangling over it is unlikely to end anytime soon.

    Congress is working on a final batch of government spending bills ahead of a Friday deadline to pass them and prevent a partial government shutdown. Party leaders yesterday announced a deal on the funding, but it still needs to be approved by the full Senate and House of Representatives.

    Benjamin Netanyahu , the Israeli prime minister, will reportedly address Senate Republicans at their lunch. Last week, the chamber’s Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer , called for new elections to be held.

    The Federal Reserve will decide whether or not to keep interest rates at their high level when their regular policy meeting concludes at 2pm ET.

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      World’s top fossil-fuel bosses deride efforts to move away from oil and gas

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 20 March - 13:00

    Executives at Texas summit claim clean-energy transition is failing and say world should ‘abandon the fantasy’ of fossil-fuel phaseout

    The bosses of the world’s leading oil and gas companies have poured scorn on efforts to move away from fossil fuels, complaining that a “visibly failing” transition to clean energy was being pushed forward at an “unrealistic pace”.

    The oil executives, gathered at the industry’s annual Cera Week conference in Houston, Texas, have taken turns this week to denounce calls for a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, despite widespread acknowledgment within the industry, as well as scientists and governments, of the need to radically reduce planet-heating emissions to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis.

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      Texas immigration law: appeals court freezes order allowing prosecution of migrants

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 20 March - 04:44

    Move comes hours after supreme court allowed strict law known as SB4 to take effect, giving state police powers to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the border illegally

    A federal appeals court has issued an order that prevents Texas from arresting migrants suspected of entering the US illegally, hours after the supreme court allowed the strict new immigration law to take effect.

    The decision by the 5th US circuit court of appeals comes weeks after a panel on the same court cleared the way for Texas to enforce the law, known as SB4, by putting a pause on a lower judge’s injunction.

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      US supreme court rejects Biden request to block Texas migrant law

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 19 March - 18:48

    Law allowing state authorities to arrest people suspected of crossing US-Mexico border can proceed pending court challenge

    The US supreme court on Tuesday declined to block a Republican-backed Texas law allowing state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of crossing the US-Mexico border illegally, rejecting a request by President Joe Biden’s administration.

    The administration had asked the justices to freeze a judicial order allowing the Texas law to take effect while the US government’s challenge to the statute proceeds in the lower courts. The administration has argued that the law violates the US constitution and federal law by interfering with the US government’s power to regulate immigration.

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