in reply to Chromeratt

be it human bodies, ability to grow food or valuable shit under the ground, it's all about resources and the power gained by granting or denying access to them on the global market.

If countries were all small, there would be fewer centers of power and more collaboration. We'd still need something LIKE the UN to stop East Bumblefuck from invading West Bumblefuck, but there would be more coalitions because each political unit would have less power.

The son of Dr Marwan al-Sultan, the director of Gazaโ€™s Indonesian Hospital - one of the stripโ€™s largest hospitals - mourns his fatherโ€™s death.

Sultan was killed, along with his wife, sister, daughter and son-in-law, when a missile struck his home on Wednesday.

The doctor was the 70th healthcare worker killed in the past 50 days, according to Palestinian medical organization Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW). - MEE

#Gaza #IsraelWarCrimes

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Paramount's spineless decision to settle Trump's baseless and patently unconstitutional lawsuit "will be remembered as one of the most shameful capitulations by the press to a president in history," we said.

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The Big Death Bill has officially been passed. Despite claiming to want to โ€œMake America Healthy Again,โ€ hundreds of Republican Congressmembers willingly chose to kick millions of people off health insurance, close hundreds of hospitals, nursing homes, and reproductive health clinics, leave millions of families without enough food, and kill tens of thousands of people. This is the biggest assault on health in recent history.

[ WSB-TV: Marietta liquor store manager calls 911 on shoplifter, gets charged with armed robbery ]
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Marietta, Georgia liquor store owner calls police on shoplifter, gets arrested for armed robbery instead.

โ˜ฆ๏ธ Even his own family knew better.

> Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh ibn Ri'ab c.โ€‰588โ€“627 was a contemporary and first cousin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who apostatized from Islam by converting to Christianity following his migration to Abyssinia in around 615 CE.

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[Hebrew] ืื™ืœื ื” ื”ืžืจืžืŸ (ื ื•ืœื“ื” ื‘-15 ื‘ืกืคื˜ืžื‘ืจ 1944) ื”ื™ื ืขื•ืจื›ืช ืกืคืจื•ืชื™ืช, ืžืชืจื’ืžืช, ืžื—ื‘ืจืช ืกืคืจื™ ืขื™ื•ืŸ ื•ืคืขื™ืœืช ืฉืžืืœ ืจื“ื™ืงืœื™ืช ื™ืฉืจืืœื™ืช.

Translation

Ilana Hammerman (born September 15, 1944) is an Israeli literary editor, translator, author of non-fiction books, and ***radical left activist***.โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹

[French] Ilana Hammerman (en hรฉbreu: ืื™ืœื ื” ื”ืžืจืžืŸ) est traductrice et รฉcrivain israรฉlienne nรฉe ร  Haรฏfa le 15 septembre 1944. Elle a traduit en hรฉbreu, entre autres, Cรฉline, Camus, Flaubert, Nietzsche, Kafkaet Garcรญa Mรกrquez. Elle a publiรฉ plusieurs ouvrages sur la thรฉorie littรฉraire, notamment sur le national-socialisme et la littรฉrature allemande, et sur l'activitรฉ littรฉraire dans les territoires occupรฉs.

Translation

Ilana Hammerman (in Hebrew: ืื™ืœื ื” ื”ืžืจืžืŸ) is an Israeli translator and writer born in Haifa on September 15, 1944. She has translated into Hebrew, among others, Cรฉline, Camus, Flaubert, Nietzsche, Kafka, and Garcรญa Mรกrquez. She has published several works on literary theory, notably on National Socialism and German literature, and on literary activity in the occupied territories.โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹

[Dutch] Ilana Hammerman (Haifa, 1944) is een Israรซlischschrijfster en mensenrechtenactiviste.[1] Ze is vooral bekend van haar burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid tegenover de onderdrukking van de Palestijnen.

[2]Translation

Ilana Hammerman (Haifa, 1944) is an Israeli writer and human rights activist.[1] She is particularly known for her civil disobedience against the oppression of Palestinians.[2]

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TIL that I've been saying it wrong

link because it's a video worth watching

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis: "Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly" โ€” Bluesky


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in reply to Mitch Conner

Deportations haven't gone up and they won't go up. This bill has trillions of spending that's directly intended to crash the economy, and provisions that prevent states from defending themselves from the new Federal Government AI slop and Federally mandated identity management.

It's not going to do anything about illegal aliens and you're falling for the President of the United States of Israel's agenda.

in reply to djsumdog

Are you lying, stupid, or both?

>ICE Just Became The Top Funded Military in World as Trump Big Beautiful Bill Passes

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Yosemite Falls yesterday (Yosemite National Park). For more information nps.gov/yose/index.htm and nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/weaโ€ฆ and yosemite.org/ and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit Yosemite Conservancy and National Park Service #yosemite #cawx #summer #trees #california #sun #leaves #waterfall

A friend of mine, @ajn142, came up with a really interesting term: "parasocial media."

Social media is about socializing, but on many if not most "social" media platforms, we're seeing less and less actual socializing, with most engagement being reposting things others posted, without additional comment.

That ain't social, it's parasocial.

Avoid parasocial media. Go where people actually talk to you.

Judas Priest - War Pigs

A masterpiece covered by a legendary band.
#FuckTheMilitary #warmongers #military #militarism #music

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I also have a theory that dogs were bred with down ears to keep water from getting in them.

I canโ€™t think of a single water dog that has up ears. And of all the dogs that have down ears, almost all interact with water in some way like crossing streams to hunt. Or they have been bred down to miniature sizes from their original breed that was used with water. So the down ears have simply carried over like with the various sizes of poodles.

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Jolly Rancher

One of my hound friends once said about the German Shepherd:
"They've bred their asses off! How do they shit?"

Within the AKC, there are clubs for the different breeds, and these clubs maintain breeding standards. Some breeds, like poodles, have been inbred until their genetic line is so thin they are like the royalty of old Europe. They look weird and get epilepsy, bleeding disorders, and live short miserable lives. The AKC clubs for other breeds make an errort, while maintaining the breed, to avoid inbreeding and preserve as much of the gene pool as possible.

Border Collies and German Shepherds are two breeds that have been split into two groups: the old farm dogs, with shaggy outdoor coats and healthy herding instincts, and the show dogs with fluffy soft coats and no idea what to do outside the show ring.

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Multiple Palestinians were reported injured in another attack by Israeli occupation forces on Palestinians waiting for aid trucks near Al-Tahlia area east of Khan Younis, southern #Gaza Strip.

Update: In the latest toll, seven Palestinians were reported killed and many injured in another attack by Israeli occupation forces on Palestinians waiting for aid trucks near Al-Tahlia area east of #KhanYounis, southern Gaza Strip.
t.me/QudsNen/173375

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