A kindergarten in China added lead to food, and over 200 children are affected
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“As global temperatures continue to rise, European cities are experiencing extreme heat for far longer than the traditional summer months…
“Cities never designed for heat now face new heat shocks and stresses””
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Prolonged hot weather is reshaping Europe’s cities, as temperatures above 32°C stretch into autumn.Euronews.com
Before Ubuntu, there was a Linux desktop called Mandrake Linux. Simple, stylish, and way ahead of its time. 🔥
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If you think North Korea is violent now, wait until they get a female leader.
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In North Korea, dictator Kim Jong Un has been making more public appearances with the person many believe will succeed him as supreme leader, his daughter...NBC (Yahoo News)
BBC | #Israel 's defence minister says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say.
One Israeli human rights lawyer condemned it as nothing less than an "operational plan for a crime against humanity".
"It is all about population transfer to the southern tip of the #Gaza Strip in preparation for deportation outside the strip,"
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Israel Katz tells Israeli media the so-called "humanitarian city" in Rafah will eventually house 2.1 million Palestinians.Ione Wells & David Gritten (BBC News)
Central Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital to run out of fuel within hours
It is one of the barely functional hospitals left in the central area, and this chronic shortage will have severe repercussions on the lives of many patients who are receiving treatment inside, and will lead to the potential suspension of a number of medical services, including kidney dialysis treatment.
The war in Gaza has "created a once-in-a-century opportunity to rebuild Gaza from first principles . . . as a secure, modern prosperous society."Nick Corbishley (naked capitalism)
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So, let us get this right: Labour thinks Palestine Action are terrorist - but it will also happily shake hands with actual terrorists?The Canary
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In Starmer's latest show of breathtaking wickedness, he's using the DWP PIP U-turn to hit other benefit claimants with miseryJames Wright (The Canary)
Anti-genocide campaigners receive warm welcome from delegates furious with Graham and cronies Some of the protesters outside Unite’s conference yesterday. Unite members lobbying the unionR…SKWAWKBOX
Greenwich council are trying to silence and blame a disabled woman who is simply requesting a healthy, safe environment to live inHG (The Canary)
Should journalists who persistently publish fake news face penalties? We examine the case of Sarah Vine and call for tougher standards.Mike Sivier (Vox Political)
ALEX JONES SAYS A DEAL WAS MADE WITH THE DEEP STATE CONCERNING EPSTEIN
( No Deals! )
====Bullhorn Barry📢 (Opinion / News)
According to Alex, the Deep State is supposedly going to roll over and let Trump do his thing—as long as he backs off the Epstein disclosures.
Yeah… no. That’s never going to happen.
You can’t make deals with devils.
Now, I’m not even saying I believe that claim—but IF there’s any truth to it—NO DEALS CAN BE MADE! Personally, I think what's happening is something else, but I don't think anyone knows for sure except for those on the inside.
ARRESTS, INDICTMENTS & CONVICTIONS!
Multiple Israeli women have testified to a joint Knesset committee, accusing senior figures of involvement in ritual abuse. One survivor said that her harrowing experience is only “a drop in the oc…SKWAWKBOX
A new joint report from Declassified UK and the National has exposed just how the media is complicit in hiding the truth about RAF AkrotiriEd Sykes (The Canary)
Harvested my first potatoes of the year. Extremely pleased with how many I've got especially given the tiny pot I grew them in!
A great example of why you do not need ideal conditions to have a go.
#gardening #potatoes #food @gardening #GrowYourOwn
Nearly 600 starving, helpless innocent civilians slaughtered trying to get food. But wait... did someone say 'Death to the IDF'..
Yemen's Houthi rebels attack a ship in the Red Sea after claiming they sunk another
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El Gobierno 🏛️🇪🇸 autoriza a Defensa a comprar tecnología a Israel 🇮🇱 para su plan de rearme
Alegan “la carencia de capacidad industrial” para abordar “avances urgentes” en sistemas antimisiles, guerra electrónica y sensores de última generación”.
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El Ejecutivo ha decidido permitir al Ministerio de Defensa adquirir tecnología militar israelí en el marco del plan de rearme, justificado por la carencia de…electomania (Electomanía)
Trying to explain "How Capitalism Works" without mentioning its disastrous structural flaws for the masses is just a cover-up, albeit an entertaining one, I must admit.
#Capitalism needs "suckers" on an individual level, all the way to colonies on an "empire" level.
Fortunately, -although I have some doubts about stupidity-
both of these "characteristics" are beginning to disappear.
And this is precisely the path that capitalism will inevitably take.
the path of extinction
San Antonio City Council Candidate Calls For the Killing of ICE Agents – and the DHS is Already Tracking Him Down!… “We’ll See You Soon”
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A San Antonio City Council candidate called for the killing of ICE agents on Monday evening and the DHS is already tracking him down.Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Jessica Tarlov Shredded by Co-Hosts on ‘The Five’ for Suggesting ICE Detainees Are Being Sexually Abused by Federal Workers (VIDEO)
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Today on the popular FOX News panel show, The Five, liberal host Jessica Tarlov suggested that people being held in ICE detention centers are reporting sexual abuse by the workers at these facilities.Mike LaChance (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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Steve Bannon Goes There, Slams Ted Cruz on War Room: “Ted Cruz Was the Shill for Big Tech on the AI Bill, He Held MAGA Movement Hostage” (VIDEO)
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On Monday Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) attended the press briefing on the flooding disaster in Kerr County Texas this past weekend.Jim Hoft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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The EU presidency says Europe must rearm within 5 years. It's unclear how that could be done.
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Kremlin calls transportation minister's death 'tragic' but gives no clues about his apparent suicide
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🇸🇾 "New Syria" is burning. Charred bodies are being found on the coast. This is what the UK,US, Israel and Turkey with help from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the whole satanic alliance did to this beautiful country with 10,000 + of civilisation
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1/ American and British normalization of al-Qaeda in Syria reveals the true colour of the empire, stripped of the niceties.
And make no mistake—this isn’t a bug in the system; it is the system. 🧵
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@palestine @lebanon @yemen #tiktok #cdnpoli
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I think one of the reasons I tend to enjoy "retro-styled" games (eg. pixel art and possibly chiptune music) isn't really about nostalgia at all - there were no games like Eastward, Animal Well, Kingdom: Two Crowns, Stardew Valley or even Undertale when I was a kid with an Amiga. Playing them feels nothing like what playing games felt like when I was a kid with an Amiga either.
Rather, I think it's because pixel art and that sort of gameplay feels much more like a piece of artistic craftsmanship someone cared about. I get the same feeling from hand-drawn vector art (ranging from the simplistic-looking art in eg. Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included to the "cartoon you can play" style of eg. Spiritfarer). I only very rarely get this feeling out of modern 3D-rendered game art - for lack of a better term, that often feels a lot more "alienated", even when it's technically much better.
(Possibly I'm just better at judging pixel art than 3D rendering, which would be because I'm old. 😀 )
One 3-d rendered game that stands out for me is The Long Dark. Its art style borders on cartoony: it's 3-d, but highly stylized and not hyperrealistic. This video gives a sense of it. It's one of the few games I've played as an adult where I felt like I had an experience. I remember and still think about it from time to time.
Hyperrealistic 3-d game art tends to trigger unpleasant feelings in me. Usually either it's the uncanny valley, where everything feels creepy, or it's one I can't easily describe where I feel like I'm smelling cellophane the whole time (everything's too shiny) and just want to leave before I'm sick from it. It's disorienting, almost dizzying, and I can't suspend disbelief enough to enjoy the game a lot of the time (while also acknowledging some of these games are visually very impressive). I've had this reaction to modern digital television shows too. I'll admit that maybe I'm unusual, but anyway I have a kind of "alienated" response to this kind of game art too.
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Brazil’s most revered Indigenous leader, Raoni Metuktire, has said he believes that one of the former president Jair Bolsonaro’s goals while in office was to “exterminate” the country’s Indigenous peoples.
“He really wanted to exterminate us. But Indigenous peoples across Brazil united to resist his government,” he says, adding that “from now on, every president elected in Brazil must respect Indigenous peoples”
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Kayapó chief tells in memoir of seeing former president in his dreams and of warning Lula not to repeat past mistakesTiago Rogero (The Guardian)
@RichardJMurphy hits the nail on the head (as so often):
'if any political party wishes to truly succeed — not just scrape by, but build lasting loyalty and transform this country — it must make the promise that it will put people first, meet their needs from cradle to grave, and offer them freedom from fear'!
However, our political class seems quite some way from that agenda....
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I recorded a podcast with Tony Groves and Martin McMahon from the Echo Chamber Podcast in Ireland yesterday, which I do every few weeks or so. This is now published, but only for subscribers.Funding the Future
It’s made to order. First, eliminate the aid system after creating circumstances of enormous suffering. Then, kill, starve, vanquish and displace those in need of that aid. Finally: give the pretence of humanity by ensuring some aid to those whose suffering you created in the first place.
As things stand, the system of aid distribution in the Gaza Strip is intended to cause suffering and destruction to recipients.
On Tuesday, The Guardian published an opinion piece by Colombian President Gustavo Petro, in which he accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of orchestrating a "campaign of devastation" in Gaza and called on the international community to move beyond symbolic outrage toward concrete action in defense of international law.
Petro has emerged as one of the most outspoken world leaders condemning "Israel’s" war on Gaza.
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro, in a Guardian op-ed, accuses Netanyahu of genocide in Gaza and urges global action.Al Mayadeen English ('Condemn 'Israel' or be complicit in genocide', says Gustavo Petro)
Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick, 'Culpability,' delves into AI ethics
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📢 Message de Standing-together (Israël) diffusé sur #bluesky le (2025-07-08)
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Ca s'appelle un camp de concentration, et nous ne devons pas laisser cela arriver.
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It’s called a concentration camp, and we must not let it happen.
#ConcentrationCamp #CampDeConcentration #Gaza #Israel
Israel Katz said the plan, set for a proposed 60-day cease-fire, would relocate 600,000 Palestinians after security checks and bar them from leaving.Yaniv Kubovich (Haaretz)
Ils et elles n'ont pas de papiers mais veulent se sentir utiles en lançant une ferme maraîchère près de Rennes. Reportage 👉 basta.media/quand-un-collectif…
Ce groupe de demandeurs d’asile de Rennes a décidé de cultiver la terre sur une parcelle d'un hectare prêtée par un agriculteur. Leur récolte est destinée aux Restos du Coeur et à leur propre consommation.
Pour se sentir utile et recouvrer un peu d'autonomie, un groupe de demandeur·es d'asile de Rennes a décidé de cultiver la terre sur une parcelle prêtée par un agriculteur. Les récoltes sont en partie données aux Restos du cœur. Reportage.Nolwenn Weiler (Basta!)
Among the missing are three Nepal Police personnel, six Chinese nationals, and nine civilians.The Kathmandu Post
📢 The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), a Brussels-based legal advocacy group pursuing Israeli officials for alleged #warcrimes - announced this week that the ISR government has imposed sanctions on 50 individuals associated with the organization
🔹 Among those targeted are the foundation’s chairman, Diab Abu Jahjah, two of its co-founders, and three lawyers involved in its international legal campaigns
📰 Report: The Palestine Chronicle JUL-06
Amazon extends Prime Day discounts to 4 days as retailers weigh tariff-related price increases
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Trump’s ‘cuts and chaos’ to agencies are opposite of what’s needed for era of worsening weather disasters, experts sayNina Lakhani (The Guardian)
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"The makers of our constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of the rights
and the right most valued by civilized men."
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
(1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice
Source: Olmstead v. United States, 1928
In a whiplash reversal that has infuriated America-First conservatives, President Donald Trump now says the United States “has to” ship still more arms, missiles, and ammo to Ukraine — just days after the Pentagon froze deliveries because …Jim Hoft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
A look at the countries that received Trump's tariff letters
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Three charged after protest at Israeli-owned restaurant in Australia
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Trio charged with assault and other offences after incident at restaurant in Melbourne.Al Jazeera
that's kinda like saying OSI should write software.
IMO FSF's role is to be a steward and promoter of Free Software values and definition. For example, by giving well argumented opinions on which licenses satisfy the Free Software Definition, but also which software and hardware best fulfills the spirit of Free Software and which doesn't.
I agree it does a poor job at that, but that doesn't mean it should be doing something else.
Israeli occupation forces detained Nasser al-Lahham, Al Mayadeen’s bureau chief in occupied Palestine, in a pre-dawn incursion into his home in Beit Lahm, southern West Bank.
The Israeli security service, Shin Bet, was directly responsible for the detention, which specifically targeted al-Lahham’s personal broadcasting studio in search of electronic equipment and media devices linked to his journalistic work.
Encampment by encampment, Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem are asserting control over vast areas previously inhabited by Bedouin communities and livestock herders.
Roughly a month after the displacement of the “Mughayyir al-Deir” community east of Ramallah, and less than a week after the expulsion of “Arab al-Malihyat” the wave of expulsions has now reached occupied Jerusalem.
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Watan-Encampment by encampment, Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem are asserting control over vast areas previously inhabited by Bedouin communities and livestock herders. RoughlWatan News (Watan)
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732 likes, 51 comments - kumiko.143 on July 6, 2025: "History will remember this. The blood of Gaza is not forgotten.Instagram
A BBC journalist was left fuming as the corporation was found to have ignored the scandal of British spy planes being deployed over Gaza.
The National, in conjunction with the investigative website Declassified UK, this week published an expose of the failure of the mainstream media to look into RAF planes being deployed over the besieged territory.
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CIA agent is the head of BBC middle east coverage. https://mastodon.world/@Captain_Jack_Sparrow/113789695471420229 "Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC’s Middle East desk, formerly worked for the U.S.Todon.nl
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"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should…
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.LibertyQuotes
This is a war crime. Israel just bombed a prison ward where trans people were kept locked up. Hundreds of trans people exterminated. There is no rational explanation for this.
Israel called the bombing "symbolic".
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
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Mozilla's management is a bug, not a feature
<- by me on @theregister
Opinion: Mozilla's management is a bug, not a featureLiam Proven (The Register)
The nation state system, Western conceptions of property rights, and the theater we call "rule of law" are all reaching their logical ends.
They were all just Colonialism 2.0 and the whole inane system is slowly being crushed under its own weight.
We need a detailed proposal for what a post-nation state could look like.
Particular attention must be paid to how systems that sustain civilization can be picked up & transformed with as little damage as possible as the systems of yesterday perish.
This might sound unhinged to many; after all, imagination around other systems, other ways of being, and other types of civilizations, other ways of doing trade and sustaining life, those are all things we are taught not to think about or take seriously, and communities who practice alternatives are have always been ignored when possible, or met with violence.
The most unhinged systems are the ones we exist in today, normalized because we are just fish in the waters of our suicidal system.
Olivier #Marleix, membre du parti Les Républicains (LR), est décédé tragiquement le 7 juillet #2025 à l’âge de 54 ans.
En 2017, il a présidé une commission d’enquête parlementaire sur la vente de la branche énergie d’ #Alstom à #GeneralElectric, dénonçant une possible perte de souveraineté industrielle. Il a saisi le parquet de Paris en 2019 et a reçu le «prix éthique» d’ #Anticor en 2020 pour ce travail.
Gaulliste convaincu, il critiquait régulièrement la #politique d’Emmanuel #Macron, notamment sur la faillite du pays et la désindustrialisation.
Olivier Marleix est mort aujourd’hui à son domicile d’Anet. Selon plusieurs sources, il se serait suicidé, une information confirmée par le procureur de Chartres.
Juste après la mort d'Eric #Denecé qui avait lancé un rapport d'alerte sur la vente d’Alstom, maintenant c'est celle du Député Olivier #Marleix qui avait fait saisir le Parquet national financier sur la même affaire.
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Le député LR de la deuxième circonscription d'Eure-et-Loir, Olivier Marleix a été retrouvé mort, pendu ce lundi 7 juillet dans sa maison à Anet, commune dont il a été le maire de 2008 à 2017. C'est son ancienne première adjointe...Marine Rondonnier (France 3 Centre-Val de Loire)
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“The rights enumerated in this Bill of Rights shall not be construed to limit other rights of the people not therein expressed.”
~ Virginia Declaration of Rights
similar provisions can be found in more than 20 States' Bills of Rights
"The rights enumerated in this Bill of Rights shall not be construed to limit other rights of the people not therein expressed." ~ Virginia Declaration of RightsLibertyQuotes
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen:
‘Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize.’
A recent series of worldwide studies finds that ugly anti-immigrant prejudice isn't inevitable just because
immigration increases. "Inclusive legal and socioeconomic integration policies that render immigrants more equal to natives...reduce xenophobia among natives": researchgate.net/publication/3…
BTW, I found those studies in my review of social science research offering possible solutions to tribalism: "Heterogenius: Why and How to Stop Dividing People into Us and Them" - alfiekohn.org/blogs/diversity/
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Pettis Norman dies at 86 leaving NFL stunned by the silence around his true cause of death
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NFL News: Former Dallas Cowboys player Pettis Norman is no more. He died at 86. Norman passed away peacefully at his home. His family was with him. He played foTOI Sports Desk (The Times Of India)
Avengers: Doomsday was originally set to be released next May, but was recently pushed back to December. As disappointed as many fans were by the news, mostUnited Kingdom
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