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Retail marijuana sales are coming to Virginia—and Governor-Elect Spanberger just hand-picked State Senator Adam Ebbin to make it happen. Pot shops could open statewide by November, and your local community won't be able to opt out.
We share 15 of the best new to us games we played in 2025. We also talk about all of the games we played over the holidays and wrap it up with a review of SETI from CGE.
THE “billionaires’ decade.” That is how charity Oxfam describes the 2020s, having published research pointing to the extreme — and accelerating — concentration of wealth in Britain and worldwide.
A new acronym for liberal white women is gaining traction online, and the New York Times is not happy. It published a piece Friday about the acronym AWFUL.
A general strike is called for January 23 in response to the campaign of kidnapping and murder that ICE is carrying out in the Twin Cities.
This is a powerful step forward for resistance. But in the 21st century, a general strike must assume new forms to succeed.
To understand the ways that the economy has shifted and how our strike tactics must also shift, we compare the last two general strikes that took place in the US—both of which, conveniently, occurred in Oakland, California—in 1946 and 2011:
When industrial workers are no longer the backbone of the economy, a general strike must begin outside the workplace as well as within it. That means interrupting the economy "from outside" via blockading and similar tactics.
The blockade of the Port of Oakland in 2011 offers an example of this.
Καλοί μου άνθρωποι, το πρόβλημα δεν είναι πόσο παράλογες είναι απαιτήσεις του Τραμπ, αλλά πόσο δουλοπρεπείς, εθελόδουλοι και ανίκανοι είναι οι Ευρωπαίοι.
The Israeli military and security service launched new operations in the West Bank targeting Hebron. Since October 2023, Israel has tightened its apartheid rule over the occupied territory and accelerated the process of expelling Palestinians from th…
Top Israeli officials defied a demand from the White House to reopen Gaza’s only border crossing with Egypt. On Sunday, the Israeli Security Cabinet voted against reopening the Rafah Border Crossing.
A professional protester known for harassing worshippers at Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s church in Washington, D.C., has emerged as a key figure in the disruption of Sunday’s service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.
🔥Breaking! Career Activist, William Kelly, Who Disrupted Minneapolis Worship Service Also Targeted Hegseth’s DC Church for last 6 months. Sending one churchgoer to the hospital. Terrified children..
The irony of the US using the fearmongering that the EU has been doing about Russia or China taking over Greenland to actually annex Greenland is delicious.
"If the ICE vehicles pull over, people flood the street. Crowds materialize seemingly out of nowhere. The honking and whistling amps up, becoming an unignorable wail, and more people stream out of their houses and businesses. When agents leave their cars they’re met with jeers, mostly variations on “Fuck you.” Usually someone starts throwing snowballs. Agents pull out pepper spray guns, threatening protesters who get too close. If there’s enough of a crowd, they use tear gas. Meanwhile they go about their barbaric business: they’ve pulled someone out of their car or home and are shoving them into a vehicle, handcuffed. Over the noise, an observer tries to ask the person being detained for their name and who they want contacted. Sometimes a detainee’s phone, keys, or a bag make it into an observer’s hands. Everyone is filming. The press is taking photos.
"Soon the agents are back in their vehicles. They pull risky maneuvers to move through the crowd and speed off. No more than six or seven minutes have elapsed, and another neighbor has been kidnapped. Observers are left to deal with the wreckage: tow an abandoned car, contact family, sometimes collect children. There are lawyers on call, local tow companies offering free services, mutual aid groups to support families after an abduction. Some observers stay behind to do this kind of coordination, and some get back in their cars or on their bikes and speed off again. If enough people get there fast enough, ICE might back off next time. At a minimum, their cruelty can’t go unchallenged."
What we’re doing now is this: The trainings have evolved into street medic workshops on protecting yourself from chemical weapons and lessons on digital security; there’s a meet-up to sew reinforced umbrellas as shields from mace and a collection spo…
Norway shared its full exchange with Donald Trump after the US president refused to rule out invading Greenland and is now weighing tariffs on allies including the United Kingdom
Happy MLK, Jr. Day, everyone. I think that most of you within the reach of this toot understand that he stood against capitalism and for the liberation all people, particularly the poor and working class—and that’s what made him a true threat to society. If this is news to you, I suggested moving from sterilized, out-of-context internet quotes to reading his books. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Was an important read for me. You can read it here for free: archive.org/details/wheredoweg…
60 years later, isn’t it tragic to realize that we clearly chose chaos over community? Honestly, MLK Day always depresses me. It’s a day when we pretend to honor a legacy that we actually have no clear memory of or respect for, and learned nothing from as a society.
I wasn’t able to access anything but the front matter and last page at that link but this seems to be the full text of a different edition of Chaos or Community hiskingdom.us/wp-content/uploa…
It might be common knowledge that guinea pigs need vitamin c supplements to prevent scurvy like humans but did you also know they're also the only other species that can operate a torrent program and they always seed their downloads
America's trade deficit plunges by half to the smallest in nearly 2 decades.- Chinese imports crashed- American exports grew- Tariff inflation was absorbed by exporters- Trillions of investment incomingInstead of importing Chinese junk we’re importin…
Michael Parenti is an American political scientist, historian, and cultural critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects. He has taught at American an...
🚨 UN OCHA reports that nearly 1.9 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are now living without adequate shelter, as Israel’s ongoing war has destroyed homes, displaced families, and forced civilians into makeshift tents and damaged buildings.
"Why aren’t Western feminists standing up for Iran’s women? Activists who never miss a chance to condemn microaggressions by white men are conspicuously silent as protesters bravely attempt to throw off the theocratic yolk, says Clarissa Hard in the Spectator. Here’s an excerpt.
As Iranians revolt against the brutal Islamic theocracy that has throttled their civilisation since 1979, striking images of young Persian women have been circulating online. They are lighting cigarettes by burning photographs of Ayatollah Khamenei. With their insouciant attitude, tumbles of curls, kohl-lined eyes and lolling fags, they could be on the cover of an Arcade Fire album.
These women have reignited the same spirit that sparked widespread protests across the country in September 2022, when Mahsa Amini died in custody following her arrest for disobeying the country’s modesty laws. In the aftermath of this, female protesters burnt their veils, cut their hair in public and chanted “Women, Life, Freedom”. Although the grievances of today’s protesters are much broader, with demands for the fall of the Islamic Republic, Iranian women are once again at the forefront of the unrest, demanding their liberation after decades of subjugation.
The bravery on display is breathtaking. In a devil-may-care act of defiance, young ladies are putting their lives on the line by smoking in public, discarding their hijabs and openly insulting the Supreme Leader’s image – a grave crime that could lead to prison, torture and even death. It is a raised middle finger – sometimes quite literally – to a regime intent on eviscerating women’s rights, suppressing dissent and enforcing Islamic governance, including blasphemy laws, the criminalisation of apostasy and mandatory hijabs.
One might expect choruses of violent assent from liberal women in the West, who make it their mission to dismantle the patriarchy one microaggression at a time. Western cities should be full of ardent feminists, cheering on the courage of their Iranian sisters in the face of vicious oppression. And yet their silence is conspicuous. While the women of Iran are taking back the streets, the women of Islington are tutting into their margaritas.
The Guardian has a weekly column called ‘The Week in Patriarchy’. Given the protests kicked off on December 28th, you might think Iran would have featured. Not yet. We have an article on domestic violence offenders in Tennessee and how Zohran Mamdani is “showing what ‘pro-family’ means”. The ‘Feminism’ tag on the Guardian’s website has contained no mention of Iran since the widespread protests began, either. The last entry lauds Brooklyn Beckham for setting an “important trend” by double-barrelling his surname.
Iran is believed to be the world’s number one executioner of women per capita. Surely the demonstrations would be a more important story in the British press? …
Westerner liberals seem uncomfortable conceding that Islamic regimes are far from feminist utopias or that political Islam is a threat to our own societies. The example of Iran since the revolution of 1979 shows that Islamic radicals can and will conquer once-thriving free countries. A secular monarchy can be transformed into a theocratic Islamic Republic, which implements strict Sharia-based laws, in a terrifyingly short period of time, aided and abetted by useful idiots.
A generation of activists has developed a reflexive anti-Westernism, which presents almost any foe of America, Israel or the West in general as virtuous. This can lead them to take the side of Islamists, rather than the people who suffer under Islamic rule. Confusion reigned supreme in Washington this week, for example, where anti-Khamenei Iranians clashed with a group of pro-Hamas white liberal women. As John Cleese remarked, it could be straight out of Monty Python." Archived: archive.ph/czbGu
WOW. New investigation reveals that employees of Chicago owe the city more than $23 MILLION in unpaid debt.
This debt includes: -$312k owed by the Dept. of Water Management -$364k owed by the Dept. of Street and Sanitation -$202k owed by Chicago Dept. of Transportation -$10 MILLION owed by Chicago Board of Education -$9 MILLION owed by Chicago Transit Authority
WOW. New investigation reveals that employees of Chicago owe the city more than $23 MILLION in unpaid debt.This debt includes:-$312k owed by the Dept. of Water Management-$364k owed by the Dept. of Street and Sanitation-$202k owed by Chicago Dept.
BREAKING: One of the anti-ICE protesters who stormed a church has been identified as Chauntyll Allen, a school board member for Saint Paul Public Schools (@SPPS_News).
This woman is in charge of your children's education.
It was a joy to participate in the annual symposium of the @Dutch_Reproducibility_Network today! Nice presentations and discussion and it was great to see many people again and meet new friends!
Two Hilton-franchise hotels in St. Paul closed because their staff were receiving threats for housing ICE and DHS agents.
Agents were informed that their reservations were cancelled, and they would need to find other lodging.
It’s important to know that: - ICE has detained 3 members of the Sioux Nation. - These hotels are both owned by the Minnesota band of Ojibwe. - Both hotels are unionized.
as the ice agents leave, give them an application to work as cleaning staff, remind them "all sorts of hotels and casinos need cleaning up" even after Congress defunds them and they have to explain a gap on their resume when the wind changes
US Border Patrol is installing 538 miles of buoys at the Southern Border
“They're about 4-6 foot in diameter according to Border Patrol headquarters and they will spin. So if you're in the water, you try to get on top, it's going to spin backwards.” x.com/WallStreetApes/status/20…?
First look: US Border Patrol is installing 538 miles of buoys at the Southern Border“They're about 4-6 foot in diameter according to Border Patrol headquarters and they will spin.
I mean, I expected it to be bad. Its made by Alex Kurtzman after all. But evem I didn't expect Star Trek: Starfleet Academy to be the laughable farce it turn...
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