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Two Sides Meet at A Table Reserved @ The Diriyah Palace in Riyadh
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and other U.S., Russian and Saudi officials in Riyadh, February 18, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool
At the Diriyah Palace in Riyadh, negotiations began without visible handshakes.
- However, no specifics on a possible meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin emerged from the gathering in Riyadh, the first high-level official Washington-Moscow talks since Ukraine's 2022 invasion.
Some European leaders, alarmed by Trump's overhaul of US
policy on Russia, fear Washington will make serious concessions to
Moscow and re-write the continent's security arrangement in a Cold
War-style deal between superpowers.
- On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed to "appoint respective high-level teams to begin working on a path to ending the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible", the State Department said.
Washington added the sides had also agreed to
"establish a consultation mechanism" to address "irritants" to Russia
and America's relationship, noting the sides would lay the groundwork
for future cooperation.
Russia offered less detail on the outcome of the talks, saying:
- "We discussed and outlined our principled positions, and agreed that separate teams of negotiators will be in touch on this topic in due course."
- "It is still difficult to talk about a specific date for a meeting between the two leaders," said Yuri Ushakov, Putin's foreign policy aide.
- "A lasting and long-term viable resolution is impossible without a comprehensive consideration of security issues on the continent," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday, responding to a question by AFP.
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How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left
One of the defining features of the social-justice orthodoxy that swept
through American culture between roughly the death of Trayvon Martin in
2012 to Hamas’s assault on Israel in 2023 was the policing of language.
Many advocates became obsessed with enforcing syntactical etiquette and
banishing certain words.
“Wokeness,” as it’s known, introduced the asymmetrical capitalization of the letter b in Black but not the w in white. It forced Romance languages like Spanish to submit to gender-neutral constructions such as Latinx.
It called for the display of pronouns in email signatures and
social-media bios. It replaced a slew of traditional words and phrases:
People were told to stop saying master bedroom, breastfeeding, manpower, and brown-bag lunch, and to start saying primary bedroom, chestfeeding, workforce, and sack lunch. At the extreme, it designated certain words—such as brave—beyond redemption. . .>>
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This was often a nuisance and sometimes a trap, causing the perpetual
sense that one might inadvertently offend and consequently
self-destruct. In certain industries and professions, wrongspeak had
tangible consequences.
- In 2018, Twitter introduced a policy against “dehumanizing language” and posts that “deadnamed” transgender users (or referred to them by their pre-transition names).
- Those who were judged to have violated the rules could be banned or suspended.
Donald Trump promised that his election would free Americans from ever
having to worry about saying the wrong thing again. He even signed an
executive order titled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.”
- But a few weeks into his administration, we hardly find ourselves enjoying a culture of free speech and tolerance for opposing views.
- Almost immediately, the president did the opposite of what he’d promised and put together his own linguistic proscriptions.
- Most of the banned words related to gender and diversity, and this time the rules had the force of the government behind them.
RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL CENSORSHIP
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Purpose. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, an amendment essential to the success of our Republic, enshrines the right of the American people to speak freely in the public square without Government interference. Over the last 4 years, the previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve. Under the guise of combatting “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation,” the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the Government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate. Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.
Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to: (a) secure the right of the American people to engage in constitutionally protected speech;
(b) ensure that no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen;
(c) ensure that no taxpayer resources are used to engage in or facilitate any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen; and
(d) identify and take appropriate action to correct past misconduct by the Federal Government related to censorship of protected speech.
Sec. 3. Ending Censorship of Protected Speech. (a) No Federal department, agency, entity, officer, employee, or agent may act or use any Federal resources in a manner contrary to section 2 of this order.
(b) The Attorney General, in consultation with the heads of executive departments and agencies, shall investigate the activities of the Federal Government over the last 4 years that are inconsistent with the purposes and policies of this order and prepare a report to be submitted to the President, through the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, with recommendations for appropriate remedial actions to be taken based on the findings of the report.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 20, 2025.
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