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Houseplants are such a barometer of self care, although the flower pictured here is one I made from paper.
I have a weekly alert to water the houseplants, but it’s usually just a backup to remind me if I’ve been preoccupied. If I’ve been taking time for myself, I’ll water when they catch my attention by loosing their alertness, like a drooping ficus leaf or a leaning peace lily spike.
This week both the plants and I have been thirsty, despite the break from the heat. I’m noticing I’m drinking more water, even though I’ve been avoiding going out during the hottest part of the day. Are you staying hydrated?
Despite the bright hues, this color combination feels cooling to me. The green section below the “flower” unravels. I hid gifts inside the paper heliconia as I glued the spathes together. #bloomscrolling #color #fediart #houseplants
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#Bible #knowledge #pseudo-scripture
The blurred boundary between canonical and non-canonical texts.Biblical Historical Context
"It began with #ICE raids at parishes. It might end with padlocks on hosp doors.
Trump-Vance assault: on the #CatholicChurch:🚨moved from intimidation to destruction.
It’s about criminalizing the Church’s mission.
New funding levels would give IMM #detention: ~entire fed prison system. And Catholic hospitals are left holding the bill—until they can’t.
The bishops are trying to fight back. Cardinal McElroy denounced: leg."
T/V: fake Christians, so...
#Immigrants #USPol lettersfromleo.substack.com/p/…
First, it was Catholic Charities. Then, Catholic Relief Services. Now, it’s Catholic hospitals they're trying to shutter.Christopher Hale (Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics)
Israeli military used 500lb bomb in strike on Gaza cafe, fragments reveal
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> Exclusive: Experts say use of heavy munition in Monday’s strike that killed dozens may constitute a war crime
Please read about the #BDS #boycotts if you haven’t already!
I know, as #anticapitalist we’re not likely to be the biggest #consumers, and that many of these #companies targeted for #boycott, #divestment, and #sanctions, are not #consumer brands anyway.
But, the #Palestinian BDS National Committee has identified list of companies that support #Israel and which profit off the #genocide in #Gaza!
More #information and #specifics here: bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-B…
Ending the complicity of states, corporations, and institutions in Israel’s ongoing, live-streamed genocide against 2.BDS Movement
You have 80 minutes to prepare.
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Nationals slugger James Wood joins Ronald Acuña Jr., Cal Raleigh as participants in Home Run Derby
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I very much admire Lara Logan. She is a fine journalist with keen instincts, but I have mixed feelings about the cleavage-revealing wardrobe she favors for her appearances and interviews.
One would dismiss her credentials at their peril if they base their opinion on how she dresses, and maybe that's a strategy on her part.
But I find it curious....
@Phil - you can thank me later for being the straight man for whatever you're going to say...
It was awful beyond belief. Thankful for cleavage loving men like you to stand up for actual women who’ve survived horrific crimes like Logan did. Loving cleavage comes with that “manly” territory. I believe this is how God designed men and women.
I would kill a man for doing that and experience great joy over the privilage.
In a recent interview with The Times, Scarlett Johansson shared her thoughts on her career and the problems she's had with The Male Gaze. I know, right? It's...YouTube
What to know about buying electric vehicles after the federal tax incentives end
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Considering what the BBC has said today about their broadcast of Bob Vylan from Glastonbury, I can only assume that in future if any musical artist makes a political statement the broadcast will immediately be cut.
And that, chums, is simple authoritarian censorship.
#bbc #censorship #ukpol #fascism
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“You are killing our people and our forests, and our friends and our medicines. We cannot continue to survive… unless we stop this.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Ontario #COO
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Ray Owl was awoken in the middle of the night by a spirit, an old man. ‘Wake up!’ Ray got out of his bed and sat in his kitchen in the middle of the night.Windspeaker.com
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Black person visits Africa to escape America's racism and regrets it
#modyspeaks Entitled Black Americans are quickly realizing that America is the best country in the world for bkavk people.Support the channel (if you like): ...YouTube
#antireport
Τι συνέβη έξω από το νέο κυλικείο της Νομικής με την "εργαζόμενη" του ΕΜΠ Γεωργία Τύρου , που τελικά έχει τρία κυλικεία
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Πέμπτη (3/7), δεύτερη μέρα ανοίγματος του χώρου, ήμασταν και πάλι εκεί. Αυτή τη φορά το μαγαζάκι άδειο, με τρείς ΔΑΠίτες που δεν έμειναν και πολύ. Φωνάζοντας συνθήματα προσεγγίσαμε τον χώρο και ανοίξαμε το πανό μας μπροστά στην είσοδο. Αυτό δεν άρεσε πολύ στους κυλικιάρχες, που μας έβγαζαν βίντεο, έπαιρναν συνεχώς τηλέφωνα και μας επιτέθηκαν επανειλλημένα. Πολλές φορές προσπάθησαν να αρπάξουν το πανό, και η Γεωργία Τύρου, ούσα εκπαιδευμένη άλλωστε στις επιθέσεις, με το μένος της μία φορά σχεδόν τα κατάφερε, ενώ χρειάστηκε η επέμβαση του θυρωρού για να ηρεμήσει και να εμποδίσει τα χειρότερα... Παρόλα αυτά αργότερα ο συνέταιρός της δεν δίστασε να ρίξει χλέπες στον συγκεντρωμένο κόσμο.
...φάνηκε ξεκάθαρα ότι στρατηγική τους ήταν να προβοκάρουν για να προκαλέσουν ένταση ώστε να μπορούν να εδραιώσουν την παρουσία τους μέσω της θυματοποίησής τους και προκαλώντας την λύπηση προς το πρόσωπό τους διασπείροντας ψεύδη. Ξέροντας τον τρόπο που λειτουργούν και πώς στήνουν ψευδείς δικογραφίες τραβήξαμε και δικά μας βίντεο, στα οποία φαίνεται ότι τα αφεντικἁ-φίλοι-των-πρυτάνεων ξαναεπιτέθηκαν σε φοιτητά και σε αγωνιζόμενο κόσμο μέσα σε πανεπιστήμιο.
Αναδημοσιευση από βίντεο και κείμενο που μας στάλθηκε: "Αυτή τη τριπλέτα διαπλεκόμενων συμφερόντων (Κράτος- Αφεντικά- Κομματικοί στρατοί/φιλήσυχοι πολίτες) μ...YouTube
Fears those without immigration details on computer systems could become undocumented as Home Office digitises recordsDiane Taylor (The Guardian)
Israel’s attack on a Gaza café on Monday killed dozens of Palestinians and injured many more.Stephen Prager (Truthout)
Tune into party.radiofreefedi.net for #storytelling with @ruralgloom right now!
This event is part of Radio Free Fedi Fest 2025 - check out the above link for a schedule of future live streams.
#gaza #genocide #journalists
#IsraelWarCrimes
@palestine
The genocide in Gaza "coincides with a ban on international media and a calculated extermination campaign to assassinate the limited number of people left to document and expose Israel’s atrocities"
"In Gaza and the West Bank, Israeli soldiers consistently threaten journalists and their families"
“As Palestinian journalists, we can’t separate ourselves from Gaza or the struggles that we lived"
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Palestinian journalists live through the same brutal conditions they cover — and describe a pattern of direct targeting by Israeli forces.Neha Madhira (The Intercept)
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Medicaid, food aid recipients worry about safety net cuts in bill sent to Trump
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EPA puts on leave 139 employees who spoke out against policies under Trump
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China could be about to attempt a landmark satellite refuelling test.
Tracking images show Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 within extremely close range, suggesting docking then refuelling and servicing could be next.
Takeaways as Congress sends tax and spending cuts bill to Trump's desk
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Acabo de ver la imagen más horrible del genocidio en GAZA. Y llevo casi dos años viendo imágenes horribles desde Gaza
El cuerpecito carbonizado de un bebé acurrucado entre los bracitos de otro niño también asesinado por #IsraelTerroristState
Y luego quieren que una frase como DEATH TO THE IDF me haga sentir mal. Y quieren que me importe una mierda que se inventen antisemitismo donde no lo hay. Y que no me cague en todos los muertos de los Sionistas monstruosos.
PUTO USRAEL Y LOS DEMONIOS QUE LES APOYAN.
#GazaGenocide
Edito: acabo de enterarme que esta entre los brazos de su padre,no un niño. Terrible.
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President Trump is finally getting his “big, beautiful” bill.Ryan King (New York Post)
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AOC:
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase.
It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play.
And people are disappearing.
Republican donors and Florida's hurricane know-how helped build 'Alligator Alcatraz' so quickly
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So @owa asked Apple some questions, and @brucelawson has the receipts. Spoiler: Cupertino assumes it can keep the web good and dead, and will spend any amount to keep it that way:
California's largest blaze explodes in size as dry, hot weather raises wildfire risk statewide
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Including the Bob Vylan Glastonbury scandal and the BBC refusing to air a film on doctors in Gaza… that they commissioned.Mehdi Hasan (Zeteo)
I want to write. I want to write something so clear, and so true, that even as you are reading it, they are your words, and not mine, melting into your heart. I want to write about joy, and faith, …Cece Writes
Several people I respect recently made similar observations to the effect that there is the security community, and then there's the security industry, which are frequently two VERY different things with somewhat misaligned goals and incentives. Seems like there's a lot of truth to explore there.
From my various provocations on LinkedIn the past six months, it's become clear the latter is largely content to sit quietly or even cheer as this administration makes a public mockery of everything their industry claims to stand for. I suspect this may have something to do with tons of security firms suddenly recasting themselves as AI-focused companies.
Am I way off base or too idealistic or simplistic here, or just jaded? I've been trying to identify the real source of my malaise over attending security industry events over the past few months, and I think this dynamic is a big part of it.
I don't know about you (and others), but in my experience nowadays, when someone says they're in Security/in the Security Industry, they really mean they're in Compliance, which...I think explains the state of the industry, in more ways than one.
The guts of infosec and "security" have effectively diverged, I think.
Personally, I lay this at the feet of the "business" parasites who co-opted otherwise honest business ventures and relationships in search of capital.
We worked closely with Compliance but at my last job (electric utility) security was a distinctive and separate organization from Compliance.
Hell, Compliance would audit us on a quarterly basis.
If this is such a great bill for the American people, why is Trump going to sign it when Americans are distracted by the 4th of July holiday?Jason Easley (PoliticusUSA)
"Jamie Raskin's Preamble to the Big Ugly Bill and Trump didn't like it”, DailyKos
“Mr. Speaker, I found a Preamble to this Big Ugly Bill. We the billionaires, and our King, in order to deform and sicken our Union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our peoples defenses, undermine our general welfare, and reserve to ourselves and our posterity staggering debt servitude for eternity, do herby instruct the Republicans in Congress to strip 17 million people of their healthcare, increase copays, premiums and deductibles for everyone else, cut 42 million people off of nutritional assistance, increase the national debt by 4 trillion dollars, trash renewable energy systems, increase our electric bills for the carbon kings, all to weaken and destroy the Constitution of the people of these United States of America. Please include this Preamble in the legislative record. I yield back.”
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Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland took the Big Ugly Bill to task Wednesday night. He was angry about the bill, so he "found" a preamble to it that he read aloud on the House floor. It went like this: Clip on Bryan Tyler Cohen's Instagram of Raskin's...Daily Kos
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Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche.Verso
Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. was arrested and will be deported, federal officials say
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The House Democratic campaign arm (DCCC) has promised to let every voter in battleground states know what Republicans did to them with the reconciliation bill.Jason Easley (PoliticusUSA)
Latin America’s top human rights court says states have duty to act on climate crisis
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What's in Trump's big bill that passed Congress and will soon become law
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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.
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In case somebody doesn't really grasp yet the industrial, political and cleverly organised way this #genocide takes shape.
The son of Dr Marwan al-Sultan, the director of Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital - one of the strip’s largest hospitals - mourns his father’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
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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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Journalists and others said the payment will embolden attacks by Trump and his allies on news outlets. Some called the settlement a stain on the proud legacy of CBS News.Meg James (Los Angeles Times)
Now if only that will translate in people getting out to vote for their opponents in the next election.
It won't, of course, because Americans are stupid as fuck.
But one can hope.
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Marietta police said that in a “bizarre turn of events,” a liquor store manager who called 911 over an alleged shop lifter was arrested for armed robbery—at his own store!WSBTV.com News Staff (WSB-TV Channel 2 - Atlanta)
> Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh ibn Ri'ab c. 588–627 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.
The House passed President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" on Thursday, sending the cruel legislation to Dear Leader's desk.Daily Kos
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