This is a break down of commits to each project per month. In most cases a review request is just a single commit, but this chart helps to see what projects are being worked on.
As you can see, Pidgin 3 activity continues to dominate everything else.
Cleaned up and modernize PurpleImage. We were looking to get rid of this, but GdkPixbuf is getting deprecated so we cleaned this up and backed it with GBytes as we'll be using it going forward.
Replaced Purple.Avatar with Purple.Image. With the above mentioned GdkPixbuf deprecations there isn't much need for this anymore as Purple.Image will handle everything we need.
Added an avatar-for-display property to Purple.ContactInfo. This is just like all the other -for-display functions, but for avatars.
Created Purple.Contacts. This is a simple collection of Purple.Contact instances which is used by the new Purple.ProtocolDirectory API.
Created Purple.ProtocolDirectory. This is currently just being used to search for users but in the future will include channels as well.
Added Purple.ConversationMembers.find_first_other. This is used to help find the ConversationMember for the non purple user in a direct message.
Don't show the presence icon in messages. This turned out to get really obnoxious over time.
Made the demo protocol plugin use the active presence. This is the first step in getting a status selector going.
Added default handlers to Purple.Account to manage the online state of conversations. These handlers will automatically mark all conversations for an account offline when the account disconnects as well as ask the protocol to refresh the conversation when the account comes back online.
Added a Purple.ContactInfo:badges property. This allows us to set badges at a global global as well as the existing conversation level.
Added vfuncs to Purple.Protocol for setting display names.
Added a Purple.Conversation::displayed. This is useful for protocols so that they can avoid syncing a conversation until the user is actually looking at it.
Removed all of the proxy code. Nearly all of our proxy stuff is supported by GProxyResolver so we didn't really need it anymore. We do still need to add back the preferences and account settings, but there isn't a large need for this right now.
Moved the saved-plugins preference to GSettings. This was the last user of the preferences API.
Removed the preferences API. Everything has been ported to GSettings now so this API was no longer necessary.
Removed Purple.ContactInfo:username. For protocols that still use usernames should be using the id field and this field was just making everything more confusing.
Deprecated ChangeLog.API. This was a very large and difficult to read list and most of the API changes are in the core documentation and separate articles are being written to make the changes easier to understand.
Renamed Attachment:inline to Attachment:is-inline to fix some compiler errors on Windows.
Ported everything to the birb string functions.
Releases
None
Future Plans
The account options API is in the process of being replaced by a new AccountSetting API.
The following items are still in the works from the last state of the bird.
Add persistence to the scheduler.
Add persistence to the contact manager, this needs to be done so we can fix some issues with direct messages being restored correctly.
Gary has started an out o#gplugin-plugin-library f tree protocol plugin to help figure out how the voice and video API will work.
As always, you can view the burn down chart for our next release here.
We're still planning on doing a 2.15.0 release, but we haven't moved forward on this at all this month.
Updates
Cleaned up the app data file.
Removed the auto package spec file.
Retrospective
We still need to finish up the build environment packages so we can upgrade GTK on windows and get that all into the installer. We also need to remember to update the spell checking dictionaries as we haven't done that in awhile.
Releases
None
Future Plans
Just the same as what was mentioned above.
#gplugin
GPlugin is our GObject based plugin library that is used in Pidgin 3.
Retrospective
No activity this month.
Updates
None
Releases
None
Future Plans
We're going to continue moving forward with the GLib.List -> Gio.ListModel changes and eventually have GPlugin.Manager implement Gio.ListModel.
Xeme is our XMPP integration library. It is the basis for both the Link Local Messaging (Bonjour) and XMPP protocols in Pidgin 3. It is still early in development and has not yet had a release.
Retrospective
No activity this month.
Updates
None
Releases
None
Future Plans
Everything! Seriously though, we're looking to get back to this in the near future.
Ibis
#ircv3-library is our IRCv3 integration library. It has seen a lot of active development as it is used in the IRCv3 protocol plugin in Pidgin 3.
We are nearing known feature completion on it and expect to do a 1.0 release in the near future.
Retrospective
No activity this month.
Updates
None
Releases
None
Future Plans
Continue working through the open issues and watching new IRCv3 specifications for things we should be including.
Hiya is a new client abstraction library for mDNS. It was created to help make implementation of the Link Local Messaging protocol easier as we would have to abstract out the different platform implementations and by putting it in a library that abstraction can be used by other projects.
Seagull is a new library we created to make working with SQLite feel more like a GLIB/GNOME library and force usage of prepared statements with named parameters and other similar things.
Retrospective
No activity this month.
Updates
None
Releases
None
Future Plans
We have a few features to fill out yet and a few ideas that need a bit more time in the oven.
More specific details can be found in our open issues.
Traversity is a new library for traversing NATs. There are many different ways to traverse a NAT and the goal of Traversity is to hide that from developers who just need to traverse a NAT.
It is still early in development and has not yet had an official release.
retro-prpl is a new repository we've created on GitHub. This repository contains all of the abandoned protocols that have ever lived in our code base and is meant to make them easier to study and for people to use with services like Retro AIM Server, escargot, and NINA.
Retrospective
We realized that users can't necessarily point these protocol to different severs so we've been slowly correcting that.
Updates
Fixed some compiler warnings in libymsg.
Removed the default server from napster.
Releases
None
Future Plans
Right now we didn't add any support for protocol specific emojis because we completely forgot about them. Anyways we're looking at creating a custom emoji theme that will include everything for these retro protocols.
One Last Thing...
We've gotten a fair amount of feedback when it comes to the user interface direction of Pidgin 3. The feedback is that some people prefer the simplified user interface of Pidgin 2 which is more focused on one to one chats than multiple user chat rooms.
Due to this, Gary has been playing around with an additional GTK4 interface which will reproduce the Pidgin 2 look and feel. This is still very early in development, but as it's just another GTK4 user interface which we're all very well versed in, it should pick up steam quickly especially since it's cloning an existing design. However, we're waiting on the Account Setting API before we really move forward at the moment.
So that said, the only thing left to discuss is the name. As you might have guessed, we've spent a fair amount of time discussing this and I'm pleased to tell you that we're calling it Gaim 3. That's right, we're bringing the Gaim name back. We've talked to a lawyer and they believe we are in the clear when it comes to the old AOL trademark which has since expired.
We have created a #gaim category on our Discourse for additional discussion including some screen shots of what it looks like so far and Gaim 3 will be part of future State of the Birds!
Closing
We hope you all are enjoying the new format and if you have any questions of comments please leave them below!
On Monday, the company announced that free users globally will now be able to search and play any song they want or play a song shared by a friend or an artist they follow on social media.
You now have to sign in at the start, or go in limited "Guest" mode in which everything in settings has been cut out. So it automatically downloads to OneDrive for instance and you can't change it.
There is no Google prompt, only an AI prompt where the URL bar would be.
I'm using Firefox now, I can't get anything to work on Chrome.
The whole point of this lawsuit was to try and torpedo the Internet Archive. Would've been nice to know the explicit results from whatever settlement was reached. Was it for IA to just remove and ban the account that uploaded the works? I've no idea.
Either way, just the music labels making up numbers as usual to make the battle look unwinnable. Fucking pricks.
If you never pay for music, artists won't be able to make new music. Where possible buy as directly as possible from the artist, e.g., through bandcamp.
It's really not something i consider worth my time and attention. I know your liberal programmed virtues tell you that supporting artists under capitalism with your dollar-vote is the done thing, but i don't agree and won't be wasting any more of my time trying to reason you out of such a convoluted position on something that barely matters.
Looking for help here. I created a new Firefox profile and wanted to load the Bypass Paywalls Clean Add-on/Extension from the XPI file. So I did what I've always done and got the message displayed above.
Then I went into about:config and changed both xpinstall.whitelist.required and xpinstall.signatures.required to false. Fully exited and restarted the browser but still, no dice.
Anyone know how to fix this?
SOLUTION: go to extensions.blocklist.enabled and turn it to false
I don't understand why Mozilla is so smitten with this extension. They already removed it from AMO, why are policing it now. A tiny minority of folks use Firefox(as a percentage of market share) worldwide and only some part of it use this extension. Why go after it so hard?
They are policing it today, tomorrow they may say uBlock Origin violates our policies as well. Sure, technically one might be able to install via changing about:config toggle but that's a bridge too far for most users.
It might seem I am making a huge mental jump for equating a paywall bypass extension to an adblocker extension, but in the eyes of corporations, both kind of users are equally loathed by them.
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France braces for a day of nationwide strikes and demonstrations on Thursday against a cost-cutting budget proposal opposed by a united front of unions. Outgoing Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said 80,000 police would be deployed, adding that the risk of disorder was “significant”. Road traffic, rail and air services are expected to be disrupted and many schools will be closed.
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The European Commission will propose speeding up the phase-out of Russian fossil imports, the European Union executive's head Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday after a call with U.S. President Donald Trump.
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The European Commission will propose speeding up the phase-out of Russian fossil imports, the European Union executive's head Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday after a call with U.S. President Donald Trump. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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The 250 American legislators spending a week in Israel for the “50 States, One Israel” conference have sparked backlash from across the political spectrum this week.
Depression is often linked to changes in facial expressions. However, the link between mild depression, known as subthreshold depression, and changes in facial expressions remains unclear. Now, researchers have investigated whether subthreshold depression shows changes in facial expressions in Japanese young adults using artificial intelligence. The findings reveal distinct muscle movement patterns related to depressive symptoms which may help detect depression early, paving the way for timely and preventative mental health care.
Artificial Intelligence Spots Hidden Signs of Depression in Students’ Facial Expressions
Depression is often linked to changes in facial expressions. However, the link between mild depression, known as subthreshold depression, and changes in facial expressions remains unclear. Now, researchers have investigated whether subthreshold depression shows changes in facial expressions in Japanese young adults using artificial intelligence. The findings reveal distinct muscle movement patterns related to depressive symptoms which may help detect depression early, paving the way for timely and preventative mental health care.
So how many of the 24 offenders are affiliated with the Democratic Party or any other mainstream reformist, progressive or leftist organisation? The answer is none. The only perpetrator arguably from the Left is Black nationalist Quintez Brown.
Trump not alone in falsely blaming others for his own evil.
Immediately after Kirk’s killing, Elon Musk tweeted, ‘The Left is the party of murder’.
The script written for Donald Trump which he read stiltedly straight after Charlie Kirk was shot declared assassinations in the USA were caused by “the radical Left”.
We’ve now heard the first official word about the murder of Charlie Kirk as part of the official charges brought against him today. I want to reiterate a point…
Less than 24 hours after Attorney General Pam Bondi attempted to make the case that the First Amendment has a carve-out that makes “hate speech” subject to prosecution, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor took a not-too-veiled shot at the Donald Tr…
Yeah I think this is a PR move to save face so that way if something comes up they can say they had nothing to do with it. Definitely sounds like a cease and desist letter
So, I made a post in a Lemmy group that I was using before moving to Piefed. I made it using my piefed account on piefed.ee.
It's now properly visible through lemmy.ee, but not visible on the actual instance where the group is located, nor on piefed.social. The image shows all three: piefed.ee first, then Sopuli, then piefed.social. As you can see, the topmost post is missing in the lower two screenshots.
I've tried refreshing Sopuli's view of the community and I've tried leaving the community and joining it. But, nothing.
It could be it has an effect that the "type" of post I chose on Piefed was "Link", because I wanted the post to include a link as is very common on Lemmy posts. But, that would be very weird, because it's indeed a type of post very common on Lemmy, so why would that be a problem when posted into a community on a Lemmy instance from within a Piefed instance?
So, I made a post in a Lemmy group that I was using before moving to Piefed. I made it using my piefed account on piefed.ee.
It's now properly visible through lemmy.ee, but not visible on the actual instance where the group is located, nor on piefed.social. The image shows all three: piefed.ee first, then Sopuli, then piefed.social. As you can see, the topmost post is missing in the lower two screenshots.
I've tried refreshing Sopuli's view of the community and I've tried leaving the community and joining it. But, nothing.
It could be it has an effect that the "type" of post I chose on Piefed was "Link", because I wanted the post to include a link as is very common on Lemmy posts. But, that would be very weird, because it's indeed a type of post very common on Lemmy, so why would that be a problem when posted into a community on a Lemmy instance from within a Piefed instance?
Washington (AFP) – US President Donald Trump said Monday that he is bringing a $15 billion "defamation and libel lawsuit" against the New York Times.
"The New York Times has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops, NOW!" he wrote on his Truth Social platform, adding the lawsuit was being brought in Florida.
AFP has contacted the New York Times for comment.
Trump decried the newspaper as a "virtual 'mouthpiece' for the Radical Left Democrat Party" and accused it of lying about his "family, business, the America First Movement, MAGA, and our Nation as a whole."
He provided no evidence for his claims.
The news outlet reported last week that Trump had threatened legal action against it in relation to articles on a lewd birthday note given to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Republican president has denied authoring the note.
Trump has intensified his attacks on traditional media since his return to the White House, repeatedly badmouthing journalists critical of his administration, restricting access and bringing lawsuits.
He sued media magnate Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal for at least $10 billion in July after it published an article about his friendship with Epstein.
Paramount settled Trump's lawsuit over election coverage on CBS News' flagship show "60 Minutes" for $16 million the same month. He had alleged that the program deceptively edited an interview with his 2024 election rival, Kamala Harris, in her favor.
Well, they finally did it. A federal agency finally shattered the precarious base that upholds the edifice of prosecutions for child sex abuse material (CSAM) in America. That agency is the Federal…
It kind of makes sense in a fucked up way if the end goal here is to abolish 4th amendement via Supreme Court and this is just a vehicle that will develier it to their doorstep.
Ok… lo so che tutto sommato non freca a nessuno, e anche io forse mi sentirei meno peggio se non dovessi più fare questo tipo di post, ma… Mi si continua a rompere letteralmente ogni immaginabile cosa!!! E così, non solo proprio negli ultimi giorni per il WiiU è uscito uno spacc nuovissimo, che però […]
la spantofolanza autodistruggente porta alla fine di ogni momento (pantofole usurate malamente in 2 anni)
Ok… lo so che tutto sommato non freca a nessuno, e anche io forse mi sentirei meno peggio se non dovessi più fare questo tipo di post, ma… Mi si continua a rompere letteralmente ogni immaginabile cosa!!! E così, non solo proprio negli ultimi giorni per il WiiU è uscito uno spacc nuovissimo, che però ora non spiego, in quanto sarebbe un enorme deja-vu, ma ultimamente mi si è rotta anche una cosa completamente a caso, ossia la pantofola… Le pantofole, a dire il vero, ma dopo mesi in cui non ci ho prestato la minima attenzione ultimamente si sono consumate ad un livello non più ignorabile. 😳
Mannaggia a tutti gli spiriti della demolizione non autorizzata e del caos entropico!Livelli di distruzione così stupidi che fatico a credere che, in tutto il mondo, proprio e solo a me devono capitare di continuo. Pantofole non-so merdinose dell’unica azienda-che-non-nomino (e che ho censurato pure dalle foto, perché non voglio querele, grazie) che vende solo pantofole, eppure vende pantofole appunto merdose, spesso di cartone (o qualunque cosa sia quello strano materiale suppongo da 4 soldi che spero abbiano tutti in mente), che si rompono in appena un (1) anno di uso… Beh, queste qui sono un modello non di cartone, e infatti sono durate ben di più… due (2) anni, minchia che qualità. In ordine cronologico, più o meno, la caduta di questo paio di cosi si è avuta così: 💥
La parte di gomma sotto che si è parzialmente ben consumata (non completamente, e comunque tecnicamente da non considerarsi una rottura… è usura normale e penso non evitabile nemmeno con materiali di altissima fattura, ma va detto)
La copertura di stoffa interna (che ricopre il materiale duro tipo gomma) che si è parecchio consumata…
Prima tipo restringendosi di circa mezzo centimetro più in dentro (wtf?), almeno sulla parte esterna…
Poi staccandosi e piegandosi su sé stessa verso sinistra, nella parte più interna, per la pantofola destra…
E poi ancora, in qualche modo bucandosi proprio, nella zona più interna: per entrambe le pantofole, sono usciti buchi di dimensioni comparabili alle dita del piede, nella stoffa… e non ho idea di dove sia finita la materia che stava lì, fisicamente, in realtà
A causa dei pollicioni (si, lo so che si chiamano alluci, ma non mi piace, sembra un nome che ha a che fare con le malattie o con insetti disgustosi), si sono a tutti gli effetti aperti dei buchi nella parte alta delle pantofole…
Qualche mese fa uno nella destra, che ora è diventato così grande che il dito quasi ci esce fuori…
…E proprio ultimamente mi sa, perché non ci avevo fatto caso prima di poco fa, anche nella sinistra se ne sta facendo uno.
Infine, la goccia che ha fatto traboccare il vaso: si è, in qualche misura a me non troppo ovvia, rotto il cosino di metallo che aggancia la linguetta orizzontale della pantofola sinistra, che ha tipo iniziato a non stare più fermo bene, quindi facendo completamente uscire la linguetta, e allentando in modo terribile la pantofola.
Tutto ciò è veramente da manicomio… Ed è proprio per questo che, almeno l’ultimo danno, stasera l’ho sistemato… con la colla a caldo, come nessuna persona normale farebbe per delle pantofole. Non è il massimo, forse la tenuta ora è leggermente più stretta di come fosse prima che si rompesse, ma si va avanti. Tutto il resto, ovviamente, non ci sta versi di acconciarlo, e si vede che relativamente a breve farò bene a comprarlo, uno stramaledetto paio di nuove pantofole… Però boh, se queste fanno schifo, quali cavolo dovrei comprare? Considerato che il negozio locale è mal fornito… o spero nel fatto che cercando a settembre, anziché facendo tardi come al solito e arrivando quindi a fine novembre, si trovi effettivamente qualcosa… o sennò dove cazzo devo cercare, su AliExpress??? 💔
P.S., ecco un fatto pantofoliaco non particolarmente divertente, ma importante per la lore: queste pantofole le ho da letteralmente quasi 2 anni, nel senso di 2 anni di uso ininterrotto… perché sono tecnicamente invernali, ma non sono davvero pesanti, e quindi è successo che per questi 2 anni le ho usate anche per tutta l’estate…yikes. Questo perché verso l’estate scorsa ho cercato ciabatte estive che non fossero di plastica (quelle le uso al mare, ma in casa non gradisco), ma non le ho trovate, mentre quest’estate… da un lato la cosa mi è sfuggita di mente, visto anche come l’estate stessa mi è un po’ scivolata dalle mani, ma dall’altro lato mi ero semi-rassegnata a fare come l’anno precedente. Quindi, ok, c’è sicuramente anche questo da tenere in conto per l’usura… però che tremendicità assoluta comunque!!! 🥴
Sabha,6, getting ready to walk to school from her house on the borders eastern Gaza strip, where she and her family are still living in tents after Israeli war in Gaza. 2009. (by Eman Mohammed) | W…
In the days following the murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk, his friends and allies have called for revenge against all kinds of groups, including trans people and the so-called radical left, even as the motivations of the alleged shooter, who was reportedly raised in a Republican household, remain far from clear. Now, some of those same rightwing figures are homing in on another target: colleges and universities, which they blame for radicalizing both the alleged shooter and, more broadly, people they accuse of celebrating Kirk’s death.
“These universities should not receive a single American tax dollar.”
Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah man who is accused of shooting Kirk, reportedly attended just one semester of college at Utah State University in 2021. He later enrolled at a technical college, where he was a third-year electrical apprentice. Those facts make it clear that traditional higher education factually could not have played a meaningful role in what led him to allegedly shoot Kirk. But that logic hasn’t mattered to figures like MAGA activist and Trump confidante Laura Loomer, who tweeted on Sunday that it was “time to defund American universities. You don’t need to go to college. Charlie Kirk didn’t go to college.” (At 18, Kirk dropped out of an Illinois community college after one semester to dedicate his time to activism, with funding from Turning Point co-founder Bill Montgomery; after high school, Kirk unsuccessfully applied to West Point.)
In her tweet, Loomer tagged Harmeet Dhillon, an Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, who responded, “I’m on it. And all the other haters at our American funded schools.”
Dhillon is one of the Trump-appointed officials who has been deeply involved in the push to try to expose, embarrass, or fire anyone speaking ill of Kirk or seeming to celebrate his murder. She praised actions taken against faculty members at Clemson University, where one person has been fired and two instructors suspended after making what the university called “inappropriate” remarks about Kirk following his death.
Dhillon called Clemson’s actions “a good start,” adding, “Federal funding for higher education is a privilege, NOT a right. The government is not obligated to fund vile garbage with our tax dollars.”
This general line of argument—that federal funding should be pulled from universities whose employees say things Trump and his allies don’t like—has animated the administration’s long-standing attacks on higher education. But since Kirk’s death, it’s been widely repeated in a new context. Take Representative Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who issued a press release on Monday calling on the Department of Education to cut off “every dime of federal funding to any elementary, secondary, or post-secondary school who refuses to remove or discipline staff who glorify or justify political violence.”
“This is why these universities should not receive a single American tax dollar,” tweeted Lara Logan, a former CBS journalist turned conspiracy theorist, while reposting a report about a University of Michigan professor accused of celebrating Kirk’s death. “They preach hatred of this country, which is Marxist doctrine. It is helping to destroy this country from within—wake up.”
Other figures, like Federalist editor-in-chief Molly Hemingway, called for what could credibly be described as affirmative action to make schools more conservative. “All public universities should be required to have minimum 50% of their staff be conservative professors by spring 2026,” she tweeted. “In each department.” When a journalist on the site asked if she supported affirmative action, Hemingway responded, “No, I want to remove the left-wing oppression that has destroyed American universities.”
Beyond calls to defund colleges and universities, other figures have said that such institutions need more surveillance and campus activism from conservative students. The group includes longtime sting video maker James O’Keefe, who said his company O’Keefe Media Group “will be distributing hidden cameras nationwide to those who are witness to abuse in their school and who are willing to expose it.” O’Keefe added that he would host a livestream this week “where we will put campus corruption on blast and issuing a clear call to action: it’s time to rip the rot out of America’s education system.”
American higher education has long been depicted on the right as a hotbed of Marxism. Yet Kirk’s organization Turning Point USA itself could not have been created without institutes of higher learning; it was explicitly created to promote conservative views in high school, college, and university campuses—and it has thrived on many. Kirk himself said earlier this year that he thought his messaging was working, tweeting that he felt college students were becoming more conservative, even if the institutions themselves remained more liberal.
The right’s renewed pledge to attack universities is just one piece of what the White House has said will be a government-wide push to dismantle “radical” organizations following Kirk’s murder, which Trump has repeatedly blamed on the “radical left.” In practice, this appears to mean threatening left-leaning organizations with defunding and investigation. Speaking on Monday as a guest host of Kirk’s podcast, Vice President JD Vance also threatened to “go after the NGO network that foments, facilitates and engages in violence.”
In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race
The nationwide, bipartisan movement to eliminate so-called "junk fees" for renters has reached Massachusetts, where landlords are now forced to share the total price of what they are renting out with a future tenant before asking for any personal information.
Massachusetts is only the latest in a series of states which have introduced similar legislation against hidden fees in the rental market in recent years, including California and Colorado, as Americans struggle with a housing affordability crisis.
A study by the National Consumer Law Center found that junk fees cost American tenants hundreds of millions of dollars a year, disproportionately impacting the lowest-income and marginalized renting households, who spend a higher share of their wages on these hidden costs.
According to U.S. Census Bureau data, over 21 million renter households—the equivalent of about half of all renter households—spent more than 30 percent of their monthly income on rent in 2023, enough to be considered cost-burdened.
The nationwide, bipartisan movement to eliminate or limit so-called rental "junk fees" is growing, as lawmakers try to offer relief to struggling tenants.
The federal government on Wednesday proposed rescinding a Bureau of Land Management rule that allows the department to consider conservation as part of its multi-pronged approach to federal land management.
The change comes as the Trump administration continues pushing for increased resource utilization of public lands, including through logging and mining.
The proposal drew immediate reactions — with political leaders praising the reversal as helpful to energy production but conservation groups decrying it as another harm to public lands access.
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