🇺🇸 Obama’s WH Counsel legal advice: “I think the point is that if she was underage, she could not legally consent to engaging in prostitution.Lord Bebo (X (formerly Twitter))
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Ehud Barak also appears to disparage Jews who arrived from Arab and Muslim countries after the creation of Israel in 1948, saying Israel can now be 'selective'Elis Gjevori (Middle East Eye)
Returnees describe hours of interrogation, physical abuse and confiscation of personal belongings at the Rafah crossingMaha Hussaini (Middle East Eye)
I deleted most posts from yesterday. I got some DMs overnight that folks are harassing people from my replies (via DMs).
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More shrinkflation with grocery sizes
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Oh and today I opened can of Campbell's chicken soup. It was visibly smaller. I remember they used to be 16 oz then 12 now this one is 10.5 Oz yeah it's a joke. Just go out of business already, you're incompetence has destroyed an icon of the industry.
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The Labour government has announced new police powers to ban protests over pro-Gaza demonstrationsImran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
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The disgraced politician throws all that is wrong with our present system into sharp focus. We need a second chamber the public can trust, says Jenny Jones, a Green party peerJenny Jones (the Guardian)
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Modern life is a GILDED CAGE, and convenience is the lock
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Northern Flicker (top) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker(bottom) Both of these species are considered woodpeckers but the Northern Flicker prefers foraging on the ground for grubs and worms. The Flicker flew down and made a hole in the snow then proceeded to peck into the ground. It jumped out of the hole and then the Sapsucker flew down and looked around in the hole opportunistically hoping the Flicker had found something to eat. Then the Flicker turned around as if to say “What do you think you’re doing?!” This observation shows that even though sapsuckers prefer to peck on trees they will watch for opportunities elsewhere. Kinda interesting…
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When I need to use up paint to clear out a palette, I reach for Canson XL watercolor paper; no stress, just putting brush to page withour caring if it turns out well. I had a small palette with colbalt blue, quin purple, and Mayan Dark blue genuine; using a petals 10 and a round 6, I painted some leaves.
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Tην άδικη και αναιτιολόγητη απόλυσή του από την «Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών» καταγγέλλει ο δημοσιογράφος, Μάριος Διονέλλης, κάνοντας λόγο για «σαφή στοχοποίηση της νέας ιδιοκτησίας Μελισσανίδη αλλά και των "προθύμων" εντός…Θάνος Καμήλαλης (The Press Project - Ειδήσεις, Αναλύσεις, Ραδιόφωνο, Τηλεόραση)
Justin C. Key is one of the most exciting new science fiction writers of this decade and today, Harpercollins publishes his debut novel, *The Hospital at the End of the World*:
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Never change, Japan
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Trump escalates vs Harvard as NYT meddles; Dems ditch Clintons; live-streamed depos loom; Norway’s elite rocked; MAHA surges after Idaho win; Politico whines as ACIP prioritizes safety; more.Jeff Childers (☕️ Coffee & Covid 2025 🦠)
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BIRN Publishes 2026 Trends Report – ‘Populism in Central Europe: A Reprise’
This year's report examines five trends that will be driven by the populist revival in the region.
After suffering several setbacks over the past few years, populism – in various shades – is back in Central Europe, with all four of the Visegrad Group (V4) of countries having a populist in office during 2025.
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2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.
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A U-Haul truck was spotted at the Quality Learning Center in Minneapolis amid its closure.Brett T. (twitchy.com)
Sea Of Harmony
Sea of Japan - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org
Sea of Japan is the dominant term used in English for the sea. The sea is called Nihon kai (日本海, literally 'Japan Sea') in Japan, Rìběn hǎi (日本海, 'Japan Sea') or originally Jīng hǎi (鲸海, 'Whale Sea') in China,[2] Yaponskoye more (Японское море, 'Japanese Sea') in Russia, Chosŏn Tonghae (조선동해, literally 'Korean East Sea') in North Korea, and Donghae (동해, literally 'East Sea') in South Korea.
Main article: Sea of Japan naming dispute
The naming of the sea is the subject of an ongoing dispute. Japan uses the name "Sea of Japan" and asserts that it has been the internationally accepted term since the early 19th century.[3] In contrast, South Korea contends that the "East Sea" was historically used before Japanese colonial rule,[4][5] and officially requests that it be used alongside "Sea of Japan". North Korea advocates for the name "East Sea of Korea".[6]
Limits of Oceans and Seas (S-23), published by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), had been using the name "Japan Sea" since it was first published in 1928. It has not been updated since 1953 and is not able to effectively serve as an international standard in today's digital environment. In 2020, the IHO decided to develop a new digital standard, S-130, to meet modern Geographic Information System (GIS) requirements and replace the geographic names in S-23 with unique identifiers for each maritime area in S-130.[7][8] The IHO Secretary-General stated that S-23, the previous version of the nautical chart made in 1953 will be kept publicly available simply to demonstrate the evolutionary process from the analogue to the digital era.[9]
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L’Amérique ne s’est pas construite malgré l’esclavage et l’extermination des autochtones, mais grâce à eux. Le génocide amérindien a vidé la terre ; la traite négrière l’a fait produire. Deux violences constitutives de la prospérité américaine.
Par Julien Chassereau
La traite transatlantique, un crime contre l’humanité
Entre le XVIe et le XIXe siècle, environ 12,5 millions d’Africains furent embarqués de force sur des navires négriers. Près de 2 millions moururent pendant la traversée – le « Middle Passage » –, entassés dans des cales enchaînés les uns aux autres, dans des espaces si étroits qu’ils ne pouvaient ni se tenir debout ni se retourner ; des espaces de moins d’un mètre cinquante de hauteur, parfois moins d’un mètre, pour des traversées de cinq semaines à six mois selon les conditions météorologiques. Les conditions sanitaires étaient si épouvantables que les épidémies (la dysenterie, appelée aussi « flux sanglant », le scorbut ou la variole) décimaient régulièrement les captifs. Les morts étaient alors jetés par-dessus bord. Parfois, les vivants aussi. En 1781, le capitaine du navire négrier Zong, voyant ses réserves d’eau diminuer et craignant de perdre sa « cargaison », fit jeter 140 esclaves à la mer. L’assurance couvrait les « pertes de cargaison » mais pas les morts de maladie. On sait également que beaucoup d’esclaves se suicidaient en se jetant à l’eau dès qu’ils en avaient l’occasion – un acte de résistance ultime que les négriers tentaient, cette fois, de prévenir en tendant des filets autour des navires. Le taux de mortalité pendant la traversée oscillait ainsi entre 14 et 20 %.
Plan du navire négrier Brookes, montrant l’entassement des hommes dans les entreponts
Ces chiffres, déjà vertigineux, ne représentent pourtant qu’une partie de la réalité. Ils ne comptabilisent pas ceux qui moururent lors des captures, des marches forcées vers les côtes, ou dans les « factoreries » (les comptoirs fortifiés où les captifs étaient parqués parfois des mois durant avant l’embarquement). Les historiens estiment que pour chaque Africain débarqué vivant aux Amériques, un ou deux autres périrent avant même de monter à bord.
Ce chiffre englobe l’ensemble des traites africaines. L’historienne Coquery-Vidrovitch retient en effet « l’hypothèse classique proposée par les spécialistes aujourd’hui », soit environ 12 millions de déportés via l’Atlantique, 6 millions à travers le Sahara et 4 millions via l’océan Indien. Pour la seule traite transatlantique, sur les 12,5 millions d’Africains embarqués de force, 10,7 millions survécurent à la traversée.
Carte du commerce triangulaire entre la Grande-Bretagne, ses colonies américaines et l’Afrique (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles)
Les États-Unis ne furent cependant pas les principaux destinataires de ce trafic. Sur les 10,7 millions d’esclaves débarqués aux Amériques, moins de 400 000 (environ 3,5 % du total) arrivèrent en Amérique du Nord. Le Brésil en reçut près de 5 millions, les Caraïbes britanniques et françaises plusieurs millions également.
Mais un fait démographique singulier distingue l’Amérique du Nord : la population esclave s’est accrue par reproduction naturelle plutôt que par importation constante. Les 400 000 Africains débarqués sur le sol américain devinrent, par ce sinistre mécanisme, 4 millions d’esclaves à la veille de la guerre de Sécession.
Cette multiplication par dix en deux siècles résulte d’une politique délibérée. Dès 1662, la Virginie avait décrété que le statut d’esclave se transmettait par la mère. Cette règle (contraire à la tradition anglaise qui transmettait le statut par le père) avait pour objectif précis de faire des femmes esclaves les instruments de reproduction du « cheptel ». Tout enfant né d’une femme esclave naissait en effet esclave, quel que soit le statut du père. Un planteur qui violait ses esclaves, une pratique systémique et largement documentée, voyait ainsi son « capital » augmenter à chaque naissance. Les enfants métis qu’il engendrait n’étaient pas ses héritiers mais sa propriété.
Esclaves d’une plantation à Savannah (Géorgie) dans les années 1860
Ce système, qu’on appelle parfois l’« élevage d’esclaves » (slave breeding), fut pratiqué à grande échelle, particulièrement dans les États du Upper South (Virginie, Maryland, Kentucky) après l’interdiction de la traite transatlantique en 1808. Les femmes esclaves y étaient contraintes à des grossesses répétées. Des hommes considérés comme de bons « reproducteurs » étaient loués d’une plantation à l’autre. Et des annonces de vente vantaient la « fertilité » des femmes mises aux enchères.
Le cas de la grand-mère de Fannie Lou Hamer (militante des droits civiques), qui eut 23 enfants dont 20 étaient issus de viols par des hommes blancs, illustre tragiquement l’ampleur de cette violence sexuelle institutionnalisée.
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#FotoVorschlag 'Kirchen und Glocken' // 'Churches and bells'
Church, or spacecraft?
(It's a bit of a cheat, I think, because it's neither, this is technically a chapel.)
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White supremacy and Hindu nationalism have common roots going back to the 19th-century idea of the 'Aryan race'.Aadita Chaudhury (Al Jazeera)
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Ο Ράμα ξεπουλάει στους Τραμπ το καλύτερο ίσως φιλέτο της Αλβανικής Ριβιέρα.
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« Beaucoup refusent catégoriquement l’IA », face aux frondeurs, Mozilla déploie une solution inédite
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Mozilla Firefox introduit un « kill switch »
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Ce « kill switch » répond aux critiques des utilisateurs et s’appliquera à diverses options d'IA telles que les traductions et les chatbots.
Euh non ça répond pas aux critiques, nous on ne veut pas d'IA du tout et en tout cas pas par défaut.
Sous la pression d'une bonne partie de ses utilisateurs, Mozilla Firefox a décidé de mettre en place un « kill switch », capable de désactiver en un seul clic toutes les fonctionnalités d’intelligence artificielle intégrée dans son navigateur.Amine Baba Aissa (Numerama)
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Savitri Devi, a devotee of Aryanism, once seemed destined to fade into obscurity. Not any more.BBC News
#politique #surveillance #vieprivée
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Documentaire dédié à l'acceptation de la surveillance dans la population à travers l'argument "je n'ai rien à cacher". "Passionnant" (Inrocks), "Qui ouvre le...Deepdocs Films (YouTube)
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Noam chomsky is in the #epsteinfiles. Immediately, "how could this happen", "oh my god I'm so disappointed", "we don't get anything", "heartbroken".
Really?? Why was this white man on such a high pedestal in apparently "liberational" spaces.
This is very common aspect of leftist men spaces btw, there's a dismissal of the nuances of mysogeny, in favour of a linear understanding of #class and the need for efficiency of "action".
Was thinking a lot about why the whole Chomsky thing is not surprising but didn’t have the words, was glad to come across this thread. 👇🏻
Noam chomsky is in the #epsteinfiles. Immediately, "how could this happen", "oh my god I'm so disappointed", "we don't get anything", "heartbroken".Really?? Why was this white man on such a high pedestal in apparently "liberational" spaces.
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For two days in January, a narrow strip of coastline in southern Albania, popular with nudists as well as farmers grazing their livestock, was shut down by police tasked with securing the visit of some very high-profile visitors.
Ivanka Trump, daughter of US President Donald Trump, and her real estate developer husband, Jared Kushner, were the headliners among a group of businesspeople and architects who toured the area of Zvernec on January 21-22, just north of Vlora
Ivanka took photos and lit candles at the island monastery of St. Mary and dined in a Vlora restaurant with Albania’s prime minister, Edi Rama; several hours were reserved for the sandy beach of Porto Novo, a spot favoured by nudists and accessible only by all-terrain vehicle or on foot.
#Rama #Albania #Trump #Environment #Balkans
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The US president’s son-in-law wants to build a tourism development in southern Albania, but residents of the unspoilt strip around Zvernec say a dispute over ownership of the land is being ignored.Vladimir Karaj (Balkan Insight)
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Christina Applegate makes a rare appearance amid her battle with MS to reunite with her 'Married With Children' co-stars in LA. The actress joined TV mom and...Entertainment Tonight (YouTube)
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Cairn, a game about climbing a mountain, is the best video game I've played in years.
Took me 15 hours to beat over the past week, it's a really solid character piece with great writing, voice acting, soundtrack, sound design and gameplay.
It gets insanely difficult the longer you go on.. but it feels fair at the same time.
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We are excited to announce The Secret Lives of Zombie Wives, a witty new horror novel from Of Monsters and Mainframes author Barbara Truelove! Prepare to eat brains live on stream with @tornightfire in Winter 2027 🧠
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Today in Labor History February 4, 1900: Jacques Prévert was born (1900-1977). Prevert was a poet, surrealist and libertarian socialist who glorified the spirit of rebellion & revolt.
Excerpt from “Song in the Blood”
There are great puddles of blood on the world
Where’s it going all this spilled blood
Murder’s blood. . . war’s blood. . .
Misery’s blood. . .
And the blood of men tortured in prisons. . .
The blood of children calmly tortured by their papa
And their mama. . .
And the blood of men whose heads bleed in
Padded cells
And the roofer’s blood
When the roofer slips and falls from the roof
The Minister of War:
I continue.
A destroyed hospital: ten, a hundred -
and I am modest -
can be rebuilt
And, the project adopted unanimously,
night has fallen,
the hospital was blown up with a few scraps of the neighborhood around.
Day breaks over the city
where the laughter dwindles, dissipates and disappears.
Everything becomes serious again.
Life, like the stock market, resumes its course
and general mobilization continues as normal.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #prévert #Ferlinghetti #antiwar #socialism #poetry #Poet #surrealism #rebellion #books #revolt @bookstadon
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Today in Labor History February 4, 1899: A U.S. sentry shot Filipino soldiers, leading to the Battle of Manila, the first and largest battle of the Philippine-American war. 55 Americans and 238 Filipinos died in the battle. The war, as a whole, was essentially a revolt against the U.S. occupation. After 14 years, the Americans were in control and the Philippines had become a de facto territory of the U.S. Up to 6,000 Americans and 12,000-20,000 Filipinos died in the war. However, as many as 1 million civilians died from famine and disease during the genocidal U.S. occupation. The Manila correspondent for the Philadelphia Ledger wrote in 1901, “Our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men, women, children, prisoners and captives, active insurgents and suspected people from lads of ten up.”
Mark Twain wrote the following: “I have read carefully the treaty of Paris and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem… And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #philippines #filipino #imperialism #warcrimes #genocide #insurgency #independence #occupation #revolt
Today in Labor History February 4, 1869: Labor leader and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) co-founder William D. "Big Bill" Haywood was born. Haywood started mining at age nine. He became secretary-treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in 1900 and co-founded the IWW in 1905. He was a WFM organizer during the Colorado Labor Wars (1903-1904), in which 33 miners were killed.
At the IWW’s first convention (1905), he said, “We are here to confederate the workers of this country into a working-class movement that shall have for its purpose the emancipation of the working-class from the slave bondage of capitalism. The aims and objects of this organization shall be to put the working-class in possession of the economic power, the means of life, in control of the machinery of production and distribution, without regard to capitalist masters.” With the IWW, he came up with the propaganda ploy of sending workers’ kids out of town, for their own safety, during the Lawrence Textile Strike (1912), leading to a media backlash against the mill owners and the ultimate victory for the workers.
In 1907, he was falsely charged with the bombing murder of former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg, but was acquitted with the counsel of Clarence Darrow. The WFM dismissed him in 1918 because of his radicalism. That same year, the Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (future first commissioner of Major League Baseball) convicted him of violating the Alien and Sedition acts during the first Red Scare for his antiwar activism. They sentenced him to 20 years in prison. However, he jumped bail and fled to the Soviet Union, where he died in 1928 from heart failure and alcoholism. His ashes were split between the Kremlin Wall Mausoleum and the Haymarket Martyrs Monument in Chicago.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #bigbillhaywood #IWW #WFM #haymarket #union #strike #capitalism #antiwar #socialism #sabotage #Soviet #communism #sabotage #GeneralStrike #mlb #kremlin
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“Kirchen und Glocken” / Churches and bells
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“Kirchen und Glocken” / Churches and bells
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