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Speaking from experience: Taking a risk by calling things out can be a very isolating experience. Don't applaud people that do. Do as they did: Take a risk, speak up, call shit out.
Because the more people do so, the less risk everyone has to take. And eventually what was once daring to say has moved into the realm of ordinary again.
When it comes to President Donald Trump, the "worst is yet to come," according to an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign.
Based upon a memo issued by the Justice Department last month, Donald Trump's administration wants to ramp up efforts to purge the country not only of undocumented immigrants but also naturalized citizens.
Newspaper article today has people complaining that second hand cars they bought online are dodgy. Like, maybe don't buy a car you've never seen or taken for a test drive?
The New Republic reports members of the U.S. military are spending July 4 demanding answers about the consequences of following the orders of “Trump’s far-right authoritarian government.
You know what one of the crazies things about the US is?
A cop can pull you over on the side of the road and be like "Please take this breathalyzer test" and you can say "no" because that's your right.
But he can also say "please step out of the car" and if you say "no" then he'll beat your ass and claim you're resisting, because that's not your right.
So the word "please", in US legal parlance, has 2 meanings: 1. Would you please wave your right not to do this? 2. By my authority I am compelling you to do this.
And they won't tell you which one it is, or they may lie about which one it is, and if you do it and you had the right not to then it's assumed you waved that right.
Prévisions de COVID pour le Canada : JUN 28-JUL 11, 2025 CANADA MODÉRÉ (stable) Environ 1 personne sur 120 est infectée Par rapport au point le plus bas de la pandémie au Canada : -Infections ~5X 🔺 -COVID longue ~7X 🔺 -Hospitalisations ~5X 🔺 -Décès ~4X 🔺
Canadian COVID Forecast Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 CANADA MODERATE (no change) About 1 in every 120 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~5X higher -Long COVID ~7X higher -Hospitalizations ~5X higher -Deaths ~4X higher
Prévisions de COVID pour le Canada : JUN 28-JUL 11, 2025 CANADA MODÉRÉ (stable) Environ 1 personne sur 120 est infectée Par rapport au point le plus bas de la pandémie au Canada : -Infections ~5X 🔺 -COVID longue ~7X 🔺 -Hospitalisations ~5X 🔺 -Décès ~4X 🔺
Canadian COVID Forecast Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR MODERATE (no change) About 1 in every 118 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~4X higher -Long COVID ~6X higher -Hospitalizations ~5X higher -Deaths ~4X higher
Canadian COVID Forecast Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND MODERATE (no change) About 1 in every 120 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~5X higher -Long COVID ~6X higher -Hospitalizations ~5X higher -Deaths ~4X higher
Canadian COVID Forecast Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 NOVA SCOTIA MODERATE (no change) About 1 in every 110 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~5X higher -Long COVID ~7X higher -Hospitalizations ~5X higher -Deaths ~4X higher
Canadian COVID Forecast Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 NEW BRUNSWICK MODERATE (no change) About 1 in every 133 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~4X higher -Long COVID ~7X higher -Hospitalizations ~5X higher -Deaths ~4X higher
Canadian COVID Forecast Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 QUÉBEC MODERATE (no change) About 1 in every 115 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~5X higher -Long COVID ~7X higher -Hospitalizations ~5X higher -Deaths ~5X higher
Today in Labor History July 4, 1910: African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocked out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round, leading to race riots throughout the U.S. 11 separate riots occurred in NYC, alone. There were riots in 50 cities, including New York, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, and St. Louis. At least 20 people died in these riots. Johnson, who was also known as the Galveston Giant, became the first black World Heavyweight champion in 1908, which made him unpopular with the predominantly white audience of boxing. He held that title from 1908-1915 and quickly became the most famous black man of the era. The racism against him was so intense that many, including socialist writer Jack London, called for a Great White Hope to fight him and take away his title. Jeffries, a former heavyweight world champ, came out of retirement specifically to prove “that a white man is better than a Negro.” Johnson’s victory in this fight earned him $65,000 ($2.1 million in today’s dollars).
With his winnings, Johnson opened a multi-racial restaurant and nightclub, Club Deluxe, which he ran with his white wife. Because of this, the authorities arrested him for violating the Mann act (transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes). President Trump pardoned him in 2018, something Reagan, both Bushes and even Obama refused to do. Johnson fled the country to avoid arrest, but continued boxing abroad. Eventually he turned himself in and served time at Leavenworth Prison.
"The rich and powerful don’t care if you dye your hair or pierce your nose or kiss a member of the same sex or say Hail Satan. They don’t care if you support one mainstream political faction over the other, or if you yell empty words about anarchy and revolution that aren’t pointed toward any real material goals. They care very much, however, if you are undermining public consent for military and geopolitical agendas they’ve worked very hard to propagandize the public into accepting.
The establishment never dropped the hammer on Marilyn Manson. Lady Gaga never ran into trouble with the state for singing that gay people are Born This Way. Ozzy Osbourne is living in the lap of luxury with an estimated net worth of $220 million. But groups like Kneecap and Bob Vylan are being subjected to police investigations and visa revocations for taking a stand on Palestine.
Which, of course, is only going to make their position more popular among young people with a defiant streak in them."
i think "empire makes it clear who the enemy is, and it is them" makes more sense. rebellious music didn't go away, it just stopped being any degree of mainstream.
Today in Labor History July 4, 1977: The George Jackson Brigade planted a bomb at a power station in Olympia, Washington, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary. They were a revolutionary group founded in the mid-1970s, based in Seattle, named after George Jackson, a prisoner and Black Panther who was shot and killed during an alleged escape attempt at San Quentin Prison in 1971. The Brigade was composed of both communist and anarchist veterans of the women's liberation, LGBTQ and Black Nationalist movements.
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@MikeDunnAuthor And your proposal is what? Redistribute all that wealth equally? Equality of opportunity is a good thing, equality of outcome is not. Ask the Bolsheviks how that worked for them.
Speaking for myself I want a very progressive tax rate. More graduations on the tax table reaching as high as 99%. And I want that money to go into public works and welfare. I want this not only for humane reasons. bot more importantly I want it in order to preserve democracy! In other words, I would want those tax rates even if the collected taxes were not used for anything!
A clinic in Republican southwest Nebraska announced it’s closure this week due to anticipated Medicaid cuts from President Donald Trump’s new budget — approved by its own Republican lawmakers.
Dr. Anthony Fauci may have to testify about COVID-19 origins, Rand Paul wrote on X. RFK Jr. said a pandemic “truth commission" could investigate Fauci and others.
The Netherlands is about to introduce a new law that makes helping supposedly illegal migrants/refugees a criminal offence. So yes. The Netherlands is reintroducing the Nazi law that made hiding Anne Frank illegal. As a Dutchie I am ashamed, angry and powerless (as I live in Germany). Geert Wilders, and every single Dutchie who voted for his PVV, may you burn in hell.
“There has been a lot of discussion about the two laws this week, especially after the PVV managed to pass an amendment to tighten them even further. The amendment makes it a punishable offense to be undocumented in the Netherlands. That would also mean that anyone who offers help to undocumented people would be committing a crime.”
Seems to be a widespread phenomenon. As a US citizen I’m ashamed of the intentionally cruel, stupid directives and insane ideology of the Trump regime.
Whether we are actually powerless or it just seems that way is debatable.
we all know that Geert Wilders is a neo-nazi so what can you expect from him!? The SGP, far-right Christian Orthodox men-only party, and the BBB, the far-right farmers, tilted the balance. Don't forget the VVD (conservatives), the NATO leader Rutte has been their party leader for years, was also very delighted to help push the law. Let us not forget!
we should all become used to being criminals as a way of life, not just about this law, but about a range of laws and regulations targeting all sorts of minorities these days
criminality, as a way of life, is the only way to preserve both hope and self-respect in this world
It seems that to those of us who are in the U.S., which countries are following us into fascism is something rarely and barely reported.
Fleeing the U.S. appears to be no solution, if the country you go to is just another fascist wanna-be in denial.
I have NO plans to flee—so it's irrelevent to me—but outside of Canada, the average American yearning to be an activist for democracy has little to no knowledge of who and who is not an ally.
The white-as-white people of the fiords seem to be a natural fit for democracy, but now I know I know nearly nothing.
So the next ex-pat, looking for safe havens for the overwhelmed, will get no tips from me . . .
Vermieten Sie an einen ausländischen Mieter ohne Aufenthaltsgenehmigung? Wenn ja, dann ist Vorsicht geboten, denn der illegale Aufenthalt in Deutschland ist eine Straftat.
President Donald Trump is preparing a massive U.S. troop withdrawal from Europe, planning to pull out up to 20,000 soldiers. The move comes just weeks after ...
On the 4th of July, NBC News reported that the U.S. Department of Defense under Secretary Pete Hegseth "held up a shipment of U.S. weapons for Ukraine this week over what officials said were concerns about its low stockpiles.
Microsoft Lays Off “Hundreds” Of Gaming Division Employees, Cancels Multiple Projects Including ‘Perfect Dark’ And ‘Everwild’
"Microsoft previously cut six-thousand jobs in May this year, hitting product and engineering-focused positions. Employees in the gaming division had been expecting layoffs ever since. Some outlets and social media posts have claimed Microsoft is attempting to re-open these positions later, and offer them to H-1B workers for cheaper pay.
Another case is the Perfect Dark reboot, which was already had troubled development and little progress. Not only is it cancelled, but one of its development studios, The Initiative, has shut down."
🇩🇪 Germany is considering the purchase of up to 2,500 GTK Boxer armored vehicles and 1,000 Leopard 2 tanks, following NATO’s request for Berlin to form seven new combat brigades over the next decade amid growing threats from Russia, Bloomberg reports.
The estimated cost of the program could reach €25 billion, making it one of the largest defense contracts in modern German history
SCOTUS allows the US government to deport to South Sudan eight men who have been under guard on an American military base on Djibouti. supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd…
Apparently #KierStarmer says he shares Trump's 'values' as Trump starts setting up a network of mass concentration camps and funds a new #Nazi style SS with more money than any other US law enforcement agency.
WTF planet is Starmer on?
He and #UKLabour are a malevolent force and need to be removed from power asap.
Firefighters from #Mexico have arrived to help fight wildfires in #Manitoba. We sincerely thank Mexico for its assistance and solidarity with Canada and Canadians. 👨🚒🔥
Jaerri McKinnon Mexico has it's tiny problems. Canada has it's tiny problems. But our middle floor apartment neighbor is keeping us both awake at night with it's crazies. You can come upstairs and. We'll jump on the floor together... Also, thank you for helping with the careless bonfire in the yard! ♥️
USA has been a shithole country for a LONG time. This is fucking ghastly. Now the killings will begin in earnest. I'll be quite surprised if I see another spring on this planet.
Counterinsurgency against U.S. social movements has evolved since the 1960s. What was once the exclusive domain of state agencies has now been privatized. This is seen perhaps most clearly in the ongoing campaign to neutralize the Palestine movement.
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Not a single evidence that there was a #Hamas operative on the scene, but #BBC whitewashing yet another #Zionist mass murder of innocent people by parroting Zionist press release.
The use of aerial bombs against a civilian target, regardless of who happened to be there, is a crime against humanity. Some seem to have forgotten that; the point of Picasso’s Guernica.
The world is going through a difficult time with many countries involved in direct or indirect war, right from Russia-Ukraine conflict to Israel-Iran-Hamas
En matière de modèle d’entreprise, les start-ups tiennent le haut du pavé. Pourtant, elles ne représentaient en 2023 qu’un chiffre d’affaires cumulé de 24,6 milliards d’euros, contre 9,4 milliards d’euros la même année pour les seules Scop, qui ont un volume d’établissements et d’emplois comparables.
Rappelons que dans une Scop (Société coopérative et participative), que ce soit une SA, une SARL ou une SAS, les salariés détiennent au moins 51 % du capital social et 65 % des droits de vote et le profit est équitablement réparti entre les salariés (par la participation et l’intéressement), les associés (via les dividendes) et l’entreprise (avec la mise en réserve obligatoire d’une partie des revenus).
En 2022, l’ensemble du mouvement coopératif cumulait même 381 milliards d’euros de chiffres d’affaires. Les coopératives représentaient 40 % du chiffre d’affaires de l’agroalimentaire, 30 % du commerce de détail et 60 % de la banque de dépôt. Elles ont également un fort ancrage territorial, dont témoigne la présence en région (hors Île-de-France) de 77 % des sièges des 100 premières coopératives. La newsletter d'Alternatives Économiques
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Dans ces conditions, devons-nous encore croire à nos mythes, pouvons-nous encore accorder quelque crédit à la « start-up nation » incantée par nos élites ? Car dans la réalité, les coopératives structurent bien plus la production, la distribution et le crédit, et cela en développant les emplois et les territoires. Plébiscite
Une récente étude menée par Audirep auprès d’un panel de plus de 5 000 Français, en partenariat avec la Fédération nationale des caisses d’épargne, vient battre en brèche les représentations dominantes. A l’instar du décalage croissant entre l’offre politique et les préoccupations des citoyens que souligne Vincent Tiberj, il en ressort un décalage marqué entre l’offre économique libérale (la recherche de rentabilité arrive en tête des valeurs dominantes perçues de la société) et les attentes des citoyens qui relèvent bien davantage du lien social (respect, égalité, entraide et solidarité).
Les attentes sont plus fortes chez les femmes, les séniors, les catégories les plus populaires et dans les zones rurales
Quand on les interroge sur la propriété, 56 % des Français considèrent que les entreprises doivent être détenues par les salariés, loin devant les dirigeants fondateurs, les investisseurs ou les clients. Dans un contexte où la sociologie a mis à l’agenda la « question du travail », marquée par la dégradation de ses conditions et des modes de management verticaux, ce chiffre interpelle. Les attentes sont d’ailleurs plus fortes chez les femmes, les séniors, les catégories les plus populaires et dans les zones rurales.
Les personnes interrogées estiment en effet que cela permettrait un renforcement de la culture d’entreprise, une redistribution équitable, une répartition équilibrée du pouvoir et une vision à long terme axée sur la responsabilité sociétale et environnementale, mais aussi une meilleure attractivité/fidélisation des collaborateurs et des rémunérations plus élevées.
Il n’y a que sur la capacité à financer son développement que leur opinion est plus contrastée, ce qui n’est pas étonnant compte tenu de l’iniquité de traitement dans l’accès au financement que subissent les coopératives, y compris auprès de la Banque publique d’investissement (BPI). Un modèle d’avenir
Concernant les besoins insuffisamment couverts en France auxquels les coopératives pourraient offrir des solutions efficaces, c’est l’aidance 1, c’est-à-dire l’aide aux personnes âgées et dépendantes, qui arrive en tête. Un autre signal de l’importance des recompositions du travail qui exige de nouveaux arrangements entre la sphère économique et la sphère domestique. L’alimentation et le logement la suivent de près, soit deux des principaux postes de dépenses des ménages.
Les personnes interrogées établissent un lien étroit entre l’offre coopérative et les besoins sociaux
Les personnes interrogées établissent donc un lien étroit entre l’offre coopérative et les besoins sociaux. Si on les suit, les coopératives peuvent aussi répondre aux défis de la transition juste, qui consiste pour l’Organisation internationale du travail (OIT) à « rendre l’économie plus verte d’une manière qui soit aussi équitable et inclusive que possible pour toutes les personnes concernées, en créant des opportunités de travail décent et en ne laissant personne de côté ». Ils considèrent en effet très majoritairement (plus de 80 %) qu’elles peuvent apporter des solutions efficaces aux enjeux environnementaux et de travail/emploi.
Enfin, ils sont nombreux à vouloir s’engager dans les modèles coopératifs. 51 % se disent prêts à prendre des parts sociales dans une coopérative et à y donner de leur temps. Ce chiffre monte même à plus de 60 % pour les jeunes de 18-34 ans, ce qui témoigne du potentiel des modèles coopératifs pour l’avenir. 63 % des salariés seraient prêts à acquérir des parts dans leur entreprise et 67 % des artisans, commerçants et professions libérales à rejoindre une coopérative d’activité et d’emploi 2.
Dans le domaine des loisirs, alors que le débat sur les limites du « foot business » et les expériences d’actionnariat populaire prennent de l’ampleur, ils sont 44 % à se dire prêts à donner du temps régulièrement pour participer à la gouvernance d’un grand club sportif.
Loin d’être des survivances du passé, les coopératives apparaissent donc bien coordonnées avec les attentes des citoyens. Dans un contexte de retour des enjeux de souveraineté économique, qu’ils concernent l’autonomie stratégique de la France ou l’extension de la démocratie à l’entreprise, les modèles coopératifs sont un atout majeur dont les pouvoirs publics seraient bien inspirés de se saisir.
@Emmanuel Florac Good luck with that. What happens when corporations only miniscule fractions of the population because of attitudes such as this? Will the unemployed now beg the governments to nationalize those corporations next?
Is it a wonder why corporations are beginning to take over governments now? Here's a thought, if indeed, employees want to own their corporations, then they should buy stock in those companies or start their own enterprises and see how they fare. Sometimes the unintended consequences of actions bring to bear, ones most fearful imaginings.
@Carter Braxton interestingly Trump has shown that the government still can make corporations move. Corporations are taking over because the governments have been captured by corporate interests... Democracy anyone ?
@Emmanuel Florac I don't like pure democracies and neither do you. In pure democracies, minority opinions and groups take a back seat to the will of the majority. I prefer, what is referred to as a representative republic, but I think I know what you mean when you say it.
Heifetz made it his iconic encore piece. Although I feel this recording isn't his best, was made a bit late in his career, and he maybe was a bit jaded about doing it yet again, you can still appreciate the mastery. When I was a kid I would lie under my mother's piano listening to Heifetz playing the Bach unaccompanied stuff on the old LP.
Listen about 25 seconds in to hear him play a melody line sounding as though that were the only thing he was playing despite all the stuff going on around it. Listen for variety of volume and tonal quality in different sections. IMO he distinguishes the effects better than anyone else before or since.
Heifetz' playing was unique in many ways. I have read interviews with famous violinists who said that when listening to recordings of other top violinists playing they were not really sure who it was but with Heifetz there was never any mistake.
Here is a more contemporary and perhaps more accessible version by the wonderful Hilary Hahn. Where Heifetz frequently played Bach at what most performers would consider high speed, Hahn's rendition is probably slower than average.
If you have 16:47 available do yourself a favor. It'll grow in you as it goes.
Johann Sebastian Bach - Partita for solo violin Nº 2 in D minor, BWV 1004. 1720. Chaconne. Hilary Hahn, Violin, 1997.In 1999, Hahn said that she played Bach ...
Und der Witz ist ja, dass Grüne und SPD Israel schon derart skrupellos gedeckt haben, unter Bruch sowohl nationaler Gesetze als auch Völkerrecht, dass Deutschland unter ihrer Führung buchstäblich dafür vor Gericht steht.
Aber diesen Fanatikern ist es nie genug. Das war noch so sehr zu wenig Enthusiasmus für tote palästinensische Babys, dass er sie abstrafen und Merz wählen "musste". Israelunterstützung 2025 ist eine lupenreine Sekte. bird.makeup/users/keremschambe…
Es ist nicht leicht, unter Linken zu Israel zu stehen. Mein Freundeskreis ist geschrumpft, ich meide Diskussionen über Nahost. In meiner Verzweiflung habe ich sogar Friedrich Merz gewählt. Bekenntnisse eines Israel-Verstehers
Der deutschsprachige Raum ist so absurd, was Palästina und den "nahen Osten" angeht, jedes mal, wenn ich etwas über den "nahen Osten" (auch von "links" leider) höre, muss ich mich mental vorbereiten. Sowohl in den medien, wie auch zwischenpersönlich.
Italy: Anti-Anarchist Police Operation in Massarosa
At dawn on Wednesday, June 25 in Massarosa (in the province of Lucca), there was a search at the home of an anarchist, in connection with the investigation carried out by the Bologna prosecutor’s office for the burning of two railway police cars, which took place in Rimini on April 20, 2023 (see here). The action was carried out in solidarity with Chilean anarchists Monica and Francisco, who were soon to be tried for several bombings in Santiago, Chile, and with Alfredo Cospito, who had just ended a six-month hunger strike.
The charges are articles 423 (arson), 270 bis para. 1 (subversive association with the purpose of terrorism), 110 (participation in a crime or misdemeanor) and 635 (damage). Fifteen anarchists, from different regions of Italy, are under investigation. The next day, the police showed up, still at dawn, at the home of another anarchist for a search in connection with some tags that had appeared in the Massa court during one of the hearings of the Scripta Scelera trial under art. 639 of the Penal Code (slight damage and defilement).
À l’aube du mercredi 25 juin, il y a eu, à Massarosa (dans la province de Lucca) une perquisition chez un anarchiste, en relation avec l’enquête menée par le parquet de Bologne pour l’incendie de deux voitures de la police ferroviaire, qui a eu lieu …
hope Fable gets canceled too
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