New today: Despite warnings from advocates like me about the dire consequences, Congressional Republicans have sought to dismantle core legal protections for detained immigrant children, fund strip searches of children as young as 12 years old by law enforcement officers, allow indefinite detention, and impose new barriers to children’s release.

texasobserver.org/republicans-…
#human rights

How Republicans Are Willfully Endangering Immigrant Kids

GOP lawmakers often claim they want to protect children, but their policy decisions tell a different story.

^{Trudy Taylor Smith (The Texas Observer)}

MASS ARRESTS HAVE BEGUN‼️

One leads to another … to another.

The DOJ has criminally charged 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals, in 50 federal districts and 12 State Attorneys General's Offices across the United States, for their alleged participation in various health care fraud schemes involving over $14.6B in intended loss. minds.com/newsfeed/17871708770…

MASS ARRESTS HAVE BEGUN‼️ One leads to another … to another. The DOJ has criminally charged 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals, in 50 federal districts and 12 ... | Minds

...her. The DOJ has criminally charged 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals, in 50 federal districts and 12 State Attorn...

^Minds

European Energy Prices Increase up to 500%

The UK’s lowest income households are among the most disproportionately affected by the cost of living crisis
Using data from the International Monetary Fund, we had compared the rise in the cost of living, based on projected figures taken in January 2021 and May 2022, across these select countries and the UK.

Here’s what it revealed about the UK compared to the rest of Europe:

greenmatch.co.uk/blog/energy-p…

Energy Prices in Europe: Latest Trends and Comparisons

See how energy prices and cost of living have changed in Europe compared to pre-crisis levels.

^{GreenMatch.co.uk}

WOAH 🚨 RFK Jr exposes “NONE of the vaccines that are administered to children during the first six months of life have ever been studied for autism.”

People need to go to prison

RFK Jr tells Tucker Carlson “There's a lot of people out there who say you, you know, this is part of the consensus. You'll see this on every mainstream, Anderson Cooper, Jake Tapper, all of these guys again and again that the link between autism vaccines has been debunked. Right. It's been studied. Those studies that I was talking about earlier, the epidemiological studies, they only looked at one vaccine, the MMR, and one ingredient, thimerosal. NONE OF THE VACCINES THAT ARE ADMINISTERED TO CHILDREN DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF LIFE HAVE EVER BEEN STUDIED FOR AUTISM.” minds.com/newsfeed/17871707564…

WOAH 🚨 RFK Jr exposes “NONE of the vaccines that are administered to children during the first six months of life have ever been studied for autism.” People need to go to prison RFK Jr tells Tucker Carlson “There's a lot of people out t... | Minds

...inistered to children during the first six months of life have ever been studied for autism.” People need to go to prison RFK Jr tells Tucker Carlson “There's a lot of people out there who say...

^Minds

_If there were no government, wouldn’t psychopaths or supervillains acquire nuclear weapons and either deploy them or use them for blackmail?_

Christopher Cook's answer:

Nuclear bombs are incredibly expensive. Fissile materials have to be mined and then enriched. Delivery technology must be invented, improved, built, and maintained. States can do this because they can steal your money through taxation or print it (and enrich themselves and their cronies in the process due to the Cantillon Effect).

In a condition of market anarchism, a private person must acquire this wealth through providing goods and services. He would have to be a successful businessman—offering things that people want, things that people feel would make their lives better—BEFORE he can get the wealth necessary to build even a small number of missiles/bombs.

So does our nuclear-mad psychopath intentionally seek success in business just so he can acquire the wealth needed to develop even a small arsenal? Maybe.

But then we must ask—what are his incentives to do so? Bloodlust? Lunacy? Again, maybe, but certainly not a common scenario.

Meanwhile, we know the perverse incentives of the state. We know that “War is the heath of the state.” War makes the state more powerful. War allows centralizers to centralize. War allows some to become fabulously wealthy making weapons. “Democracy” allows all of these costs to be passed on to the people. And the nationalism of the modern state allows authorities to convince people in their own lands that people in far-off lands are their bitter enemies. To sacrifice their wealth and treasure, to sacrifice themselves and their children to fight this far-off enemy. And if you are unwilling to fight, they can draft you and kill you if you refuse.

The private psychopath in a condition of market anarchism has none of these incentives and none of these abilities. The state, by contrast, has all of them. The state has a record of using nuclear weapons. The state can build and maintain a world-destroying number of them. The Japanese were suing for peace when “we” dropped Fat Man and Little Boy, just to show the USSR we meant business.

I am not saying that psychos will not exist in a condition of market anarchism, or that such a condition will be perfect. But when we compare that possibility to the current reality, how can we possibly prefer the current reality?

christophercook.substack.com/p…

Without Government, Will Psychopaths Nuke Us?

Answering reader questions on market anarchism

^{Christopher Cook (The Freedom Scale)}

Today in Labor History July 2, 1929: Augusto Sandino left for México to seek aid for his Nicaraguan rebels, fighting the U.S. occupation of his country. The rebellion lasted from 1927-1933. In 1934, he was assassinated by General Anastasio Somoza, who seized power in a 1936 coup d’etat, and who, along with his sons, ran the country as dictators until the Sandinista Revolution of 1979 ended their reign of terror. While in México, during early 1920s, Sandino participated in strikes led by the IWW. Inspired by the Wobblies, he returned to foment revolution in Nicaragua, adopting the IWW's black and red syndicalist colors in their Revolutionary Flag.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #sandino #Sandinista #Revolution #rebellion #occupation #imperialism #IWW #Nicaragua #mexico #dictator #anarchism

I want everyone to know that @Cosmic is smarter than his posts make him look.

He pretty much has to be.

The IDF does this to children every 🇮🇱day

🇬🇧British media pretends not to know

x.com/DoubleDownNews/status/19…

#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten
#SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon
#palestina #StopAIPAC #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide #IDFTerrorists #DismantleZionism

Israel Hayom: Over 12 days, countries including #SaudiArabia, #Jordan, #US, #France, and #Britain participated in "unprecedented cooperation" to counter Iranian drones.

Everyone went to protect the genocidal regime of #Israel, but no one does anything to end the #genocide.

#IranUnderAttack #StopIsrael #Shame #Military

Nice. Danes are protecting themselves against the grift that is "AI"

theguardian.com/technology/202…

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says

^{Miranda Bryant (The Guardian)}

.deb package: hopelessly outdated.
86MB AppImage for the app: does not exist for the current version.
Developers of the app: we don't support AppImage anymore, use Flatpak.
Flatpak: let me install ~1GB of libs you already have.

Truly, we live in best of possible worlds.

Μου έστειλαν ένα βίντεο ενός δικηγόρου ονόματι Καραγιαννακίδη, ο οποίος μιλώντας για το σκάνδαλο #ΟΠΕΚΕΠΕ είπε πως για τα έτη 23-24-25 που ακόμη δεν έχουν ελεγχθεί, το πρόστιμο υπολογίζεται σε 5.5ΔΙΣ ευρώ!!

Έλεγε ακόμη πως αρκετές ευρωπαϊκές χώρες ζητούν την μείωση των ευρωπαϊκών επιδοτήσεων στην Ελλάδα κατά 50%.

Αν επαληθευτούν οι δυό παραπάνω υποθέσεις, θα είναι τεράστιες, απερίγραπτες, οι επιπτώσεις, τόσο στους αγρότες, όσο και στους καταναλωτές

“He never left the hospital one moment since the war began and urged us to stay and provide humanitarian assistance. We don’t know what he did to deserve getting killed.”

(AP) #Gaza #Israel #warcrimes

apnews.com/article/israel-pale…

It's end of June, and #NuclearPowerPlant|s in #France already have to decrease their power output because the water in the rivers is too warm to provide proper cooling.

#NuclearPower is not a sustainable, reliable source of energy unless we manage to stop the #climatecatastrophe first (which, realistically, we won't, even though we have to).

Source: iwr.de/ticker/frankreichs-atom…

#fission #climatechange

Frankreichs Atomkraftwerke müssen Leistung drosseln: Hitzewelle im Mittelmeer - Wassertemperaturen mehr als 5 Grad über saisonalem Durchschnitt

^{Dr. Norbert Allnoch (IWR.de GmbH)}

The "Bizarre" Relations Between the Nazis and the #Zionists

youtube.com/watch?v=H5r03IaHpC…

The Bizarre Relations Between the Nazis and the Zionists

In the 1930s, the Nazi regime and some Zionist organizations had limited and controversial interactions. Despite Nazi antisemitism, both parties had overlapp...

^YouTube

MAJOR EXPLOSION & Fire at Fireworks Facility in Yolo County, California - YouTube

youtube.com/watch?v=YqYA3a8lF3…

MAJOR EXPLOSION & Fire at Fireworks Facility in Yolo County, California

🚨 LIVE BREAKING NEWS: A massive explosion and fire has erupted at a fireworks manufacturing facility in Yolo County, California, near Esparto. Oakdale Fire!...

^YouTube

CTI: Scattered Spider is going to be targeting insurance orgs.

Insurance orgs: immediately announce ongoing security incidents

CTI: Scattered Spider is now going to be targeting airlines.

Airlines: immediately announce ongoing security incidents

Y'all realize you're getting played, right? The whole "Scattered Spider is announcing their next targets" is just them announcing the current but not-yet-publicized engagements. I would assume it's to put pressure on negotiations but have nothing to back that up besides vibes.

Not Everyone With U.S. Citizenship Is Actually An American

freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/…

Check comments at the link above.

thefederalist.com/2025/07/02/n…

Not Everyone With U.S. Citizenship Is Actually An American

As we approach Independence Day, we should be honest about the forces that are dissolving our American nation.

^{John Daniel Davidson (The Federalist)}

Arrests Disrupted Clandestine PRC Ministry of State Security Intelligence Network Operating in the United States

freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/…

Check comments at the link above.

justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-dep…

Justice Department Charges Two Individuals with Acting as Agents of the PRC Government

Two nationals of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) made their initial appearances in federal court in Portland, Oregon, and Houston, Texas, yesterday to face charges issued out of the Northern District of California for acting as agents of the Gov…

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You don't like patents and/or copyrights because you believe that property can only rightfully be owned collectively and/or that the rightfullness of ownership depends on who you are, and/or by how much you already have (or don't have,) and/or by how high or low your social status might be.

I don't like patents, nor copyrights, because ownership is ethically justified SOLELY and EXCLUSIVELY by the fact that what is claimed as "property" is subject to rivalrous consumption:

Intellectual property is illegitimate because ideas and information are non-rivalrous and non-excludable by nature. Unlike physical goods, which are scarce and rivalrous (e.g., if I take your apple, you no longer have it), ideas can be shared infinitely without diminishing their availability. Intellectual property laws artificially create scarcity by granting monopolies, which distorts markets and restricts the free flow of knowledge.

Here's a comprehensive essay on the topic => cdn.mises.org/15_2_1.pdf

Gazans define steadfastness. They have bounced back before, and they will again.

'How Gaza became a rich canvas for Palestinian art' | The Independent

#Palestine #Gaza #genocide #art #soumoud

independent.co.uk/news/world/m…

#Pogrom in #Lvov
A Slaughter of #Jews in #Ukraine

Ukrainian mobs went on a rampage against #Jews. They stripped and beat Jewish women and men in the streets of Lvov. #Ukrainian nazi banterites supported by Germans killed about 4,000 Jews in #Lvov during this pogrom.
#US forces discovered this 8mm footage in SS barracks in Augsberg, Germany, after the war.

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content…

givehim15.com/post/july-2-2025
GH15 prayer for July 2, 2025
Prayer and America’s Constitution
Dutch Sheets

youtu.be/dU9F-NFbcZY