Everglades National Park today. Image credit National Park Service and Erdman Video Systems, Inc. For more information nps.gov/ever/index.htm and nps.gov/ever/planyourvisit/wea… and #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #photography #everglades #publiclands #landscapephotography #summer #florida #clouds #thunderstorm
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@Crispius "The 13th Amendment in their constitution actually permits slavery for incarcerated persons"

NO IT DOES NOT.

It specifies:

"except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted"

This explicitly excludes the entire class of people they want to apply it to: those who have not been convicted or even accused of any crime, who are nominally being incarcerated pending non-criminal deportation action.

Of course they will try to apply this unconstitutionally. Mis-stating what the constitution says only helps them do that, though.

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@verita84 @Rock DJ #Gaming under #Linux is possible, but with some "restrictions", like waiting patiently for fixes in #WINE (I can play many games now). It currently has a memory leak, so games will crash with an OOM error. But for me, that isn't important to why I use Linux for 25 years now. Games aren't important at all. I can now play older games which didn't run on release but run now flawless under plain WINE (no Proton needed anymore for e.g. #Satisfactory under #HeroicGamesLauncher ).
in reply to Roland Häder🇩🇪

@roland
I've been gaming on Linux exclusively for the past three years and I have no doubt it will improve more with time but I am getting disillusioned with all the corporate and political meddling.
I will keep using it on desktop but am retreating to distros that annoy me least about Wayland, or have gay Marxist developers. I even want to ditch systemd but that will be a slower transition that I haven't committed to yet.
Gaming on windows again has been an extreme pleasure for me and my family, I forced them to use Linux and am grateful they humored me but the experience was sub optimal and there's less enthusiasm to keep dog fooding it.
I recommend Windows 11 LTSC IoT version for the cleanest and less buggered experience.

Oh, the #TuneTuesday theme is #180Degrees asking for songs that take a surprising turn and I was drawing a blank for the longest time and then I was like duh, this song takes like 4 turns.

Here's Shpongle's Around The World in a Tea Daze
song.link/i/5296665

#Music #Shpongle



A difficult but necessary post. The full report of the Dinah Project is out, showing systematic sexual violence by Hamas used on the 7 October massacres (and on hostages afterwards). The many incidents in six different locations suggest this was intentional, not incidental - sexual violence as a weapon.
Clear patterns of sexual violence emerge from the findings, including victims found partially or fully naked with their hands tied, sometimes to trees or poles; evidence of gang rape followed by executions; and severe genital violence. Sexual abuse also continued in captivity — released hostages reported forced nudity, physical and verbal sexual harassment, sexual attacks and threats of forced marriage.


More harrowing details in the piece: ynetnews.com/article/sjkasv5rx…

Sadly, this report was necessary. Too many people are denying sexual violence was part of these attacks, people who in other circumstances say #BelieveHer. Perhaps it complicates their simplistic 'good guys and bad guys' view of the world, clashing with the narrative of 7 October as an act of liberation.

Needless to say - except on social media - this doesn't justify the ongoing horrific death and destruction in Gaza. (And if that's what you thought I was getting at, please go away.)

#7October #Israel #Gaza #SexualViolence


Il y a un an, Julian Assange était libéré.
#journalisme #gaza #meurtres #presse #wikileaks #palestine

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They’re Calling It a ‘#Megabill’—But It’s Just a Cut to Basic #Survival #Safety Nets

Heads up: #Trump’s ‘megabill’ isn’t about growth—it’s gutting #SNAP, #Medicaid, #childcare credits, and more. For those #struggling to stay afloat, this hits hard. I pulled together a breakdown and resources that could help. Open to feedback and organizing tips from y’all. Read more here: Trump Megabill Breakdown: What Black & Low-Income Families Need to Know Now 🛑📢👩🏾‍👦

authenticallyash.net/trump-meg…

Trump Lashes Out at Reporter Over Jeffrey Epstein Question: 'Are You Still Talking About Epstein?!'

informationliberation.com/?id=…

Charles de Courson on X: "J’ai interrogé Éric Lombard sur les montages « CumCum » Pourquoi affaiblir une loi votée à une large majorité au profit des banques ? Ce dispositif coûte des milliards à l’État. Il est temps d’appliquer pleinement la volonté du Parlement et de faire primer l’intérêt général. https://t.co/dqbYF7vBx4" / X


#politique #corruption #banques #lacorde #guillotine2025
https://x.com/C_deCourson/status/1942622824356888866

DA: #Chelsea rapist threatened victim that he'd report her to #ICE if she went to police
universalhub.com/2025/da-chels…
#crime
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The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, issued the latest forced evacuation order for civilians living in nine areas in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Adraee said the army was expanding its operation in deep Khan Younis.

The evacuation threats put most of the city under evacuation threats, except some areas of Al-Mawasi. The so-called Israeli safe zones, including al-Mawasi, are constantly attacked despite the army forcing Palestinians to move to those areas.
t.me/QudsNen/174271

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19thnews.org/2025/07/black-wom…

I've seen the past exonerative tense before, but the present continuous exonerative tense is special!

"Black women's unemployment is rising."🤡

All by itself? Magically?

The entire US, Dem and GOP, is going on close to 24 months straight of being publicly and loudly anti-civil rights (anti-DEI).

"Black women are more likely to work in the departments targeted by DOGE."

is like saying,

"Harbor seals are more likely to be found swimming in the water that happens to be rushing into a great white shark's rapidly opening mouth."🤡

Dudes have been open and vocal about their desire to drive Black women out of leadership positions in the federal government, higher education, and private industry. That's their goal.

And yet, we still talk about these outcomes as if they're just an unfortunate side effect of generalized downturns.

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Zoom of interest: Ida B. Wells Media Defense Network
Date & Time Jul 11, 2025 07:00 PM (eastern-can click for your time zone)
Description "We are an ad hoc group of Pacifica Radio program producers and other community media advocates who have been meeting since January via Zoom to define a strategy and structure to take on the attacks on press freedom and political expression by the Trump Administration and its allies."

us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

M&S calls for mandatory ransomware reporting

The government should extend ransomware reporting mandates to businesses to help gather more intelligence and better support victims, says M&S chairman Archie Norman.

computerweekly.com/news/366627…

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@StockliRacer you're just lazy -- or don't know about archive.li....

Also, my synopsis is right there:

> You can't have race and class: you'll win neither contest/war. Battles aren't wars: race and identity have lost most of the hills they won from 2020-2024.

I share things across Buffer from when I am doing my reading. I don't really consider anyone actually reading anything I post, to be honest.

If someone paid me to newsshare, I would stop and translate everything through archive.li

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@StockliRacer besides, it's always me sharing this:

> You can't have race and class: you'll win neither contest/war. Battles aren't wars: race and identity have lost most of the hills they won from 2020-2024.

And the citation is just optional. I don't care if anyone clicks through, I only care if people read this far:

> The useful political lesson from Zohran Mamdani’s college application

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@StockliRacer because I love you:
Full Article Synopsis:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Zohran Mamdani’s old college app highlights how America’s rigid race boxes fail messy real identities. He checked “Black” and “Asian” because he’s Ugandan-born, Indian-heritage — but our system lumps “non-White” into crude buckets. The uproar shows how racial identity is policed, politicized, and still misunderstood.