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Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>I wonder how much of this Poilievre would be on board with.</p><p>'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts </p><p>❝<br>It defines segregated facilities as work areas, restaurants, drinking fountains, transportation, housing and more — and it says you can't segregate based on "race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin."</p><p>Several federal agencies, including the departments of Defense, Commerce and Homeland Security, have notified staff who oversee federal contracts that they should start instituting these changes. <br>❞</p><p><a href="https://www.tpr.org/economy-and-labor/2025-03-18/segregated-facilities-are-no-longer-explicitly-banned-in-federal-contracts" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tpr.org/economy-and-labor/2025</span><span class="invisible">-03-18/segregated-facilities-are-no-longer-explicitly-banned-in-federal-contracts</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhatCenturyIsThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhatCenturyIsThis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirplaneOrTimeMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirplaneOrTimeMachine</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SmudgeTheInsultCat</span></a></span> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@mathew" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mathew</span></a></span> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirplaneOrTimeMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirplaneOrTimeMachine</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>Today's episode of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirplaneOrTimeMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirplaneOrTimeMachine</span></a> is brought to you by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@crockett" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>crockett</span></a></span></p><p>❝<br>The Royal Navy is ending its century-old tradition of having Chinese servants on warships amid fears that they could be forced to spy for Beijing.</p><p>Hundreds of Chinese laundrymen have worked on Britain’s warships since the 1930s, with most hired from Hong Kong to wash and press sailor’s uniforms and officers’ white tablecloths.<br>❞</p><p>and </p><p>❝<br>Nepalese Gurkhas will replace them due to fears that Beijing could threaten the servants’ families in China to make those on board ships pass on Royal Navy secrets, The Sun has reported.<br>❞</p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/navy-to-replace-chinese-servants-for-security-reasons-s6z2xdz7v" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thetimes.co.uk/article/navy-to</span><span class="invisible">-replace-chinese-servants-for-security-reasons-s6z2xdz7v</span></a></p><p>For non-subscribers<br><a href="https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Farticle%2Fnavy-to-replace-chinese-servants-for-security-reasons-s6z2xdz7v" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2F</span><span class="invisible">www.thetimes.co.uk%2Farticle%2Fnavy-to-replace-chinese-servants-for-security-reasons-s6z2xdz7v</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhatCenturyIsThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhatCenturyIsThis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThatsRacist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThatsRacist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RacistAF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RacistAF</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirplaneOrTimeMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirplaneOrTimeMachine</span></a> </p><p>Tasers, taunts, torment: How 6 White officers subjected 2 Black men to hours of grueling violence, and then tried to cover it up </p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/us/mississippi-white-officers-torture-black-men-federal-charge/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2023/08/13/us/mississi</span><span class="invisible">ppi-white-officers-torture-black-men-federal-charge/index.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceDontKeepUsSafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceDontKeepUsSafe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MississippiGoddamn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MississippiGoddamn</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckThePolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FuckThePolice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YesAllCops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YesAllCops</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukeThePolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NukeThePolice</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄‍🟫<p>❝<br>Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban for people convicted of certain crimes, a relic of the State’s 1890 Jim Crow laws, violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled Friday morning.</p><p>U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James L. Dennis, writing for a 2-1 majority of a three-judge panel, said in the ruling this morning that “Plaintiffs are entitled to prevail on their claim that, as applied to their class, disenfranchisement for life under Section 241 is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment within the meaning of the Eighth Amendment.”<br>❞</p><p><a href="https://www.mississippifreepress.org/35243/mississippis-lifetime-felony-voting-ban-unconstitutional-appeals-court-rules" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mississippifreepress.org/35243</span><span class="invisible">/mississippis-lifetime-felony-voting-ban-unconstitutional-appeals-court-rules</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mississippi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mississippi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JimCrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JimCrow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OneStepForward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OneStepForward</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirplaneOrTimeMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirplaneOrTimeMachine</span></a></p>