My wife called the Epstein debacle, Trump's Kobayashi Maru Test.
1) The base wanted all the Epstein info and prosecutions.
2) Bondi, Patel, and Bongino made promises to that effect.
3) The FBI had previously destroyed a lot of evidence.
4) Epstein was identified as an intel asset in the 2008 prosecution.
5) Involvement of intelligence services: CIA, MI-6, and Mossad made it a political grenade.
Trump's staff took a no-win situation and then further screwed it up in the worst possible way.
Israeli forces have been bombarding Palestinians across the Gaza Strip.One strike hit a house in Shati refugee camp - killing eight people.Nearly 100 Palesti...YouTube
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy made a startling claim in parliament on Tuesday. Speaking before the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, which scrutinises foreign policy, Lammy said that Israel had annexed land in the occupied West Bank in respo…Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
A new poll reveals that 75 per cent of Brits advocate for a wealth tax targeting the super rich. Understand the reasons behind this.Bill Curtis (The London Economic)
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The British government blocked a working group it set up to advise on a possible definition of Islamophobia from consulting the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), while the group consulted prominent figures and organisations themselves accused of Islam…Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
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Penny Pepper explores the impact of the watered-down Welfare Bill and questions the very notion of ‘work’ as a marker of human valuePenny Pepper (Byline Times)
EU Commission head Ursula von der Leyen is (finally) in some trouble. How much of a sweat does she need to break to survive?Yves Smith (naked capitalism)
The Home Office briefed the Times that Palestine Action could be funded by Iran, and then UK media kicked into action spreading the story.MARK CURTIS (Declassified Media ltd)
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Kommt darauf an. Schon als das Verfahren los ging, haben Experten gemeint, die Totalleugnung werden sie im Laufe der Zeit aufgeben müssen, weil die Richter*innen sonst denken, dass Israel sie für Vollidioten hält, und früher oder später auf die Verteidigungsstrategie umschwenken muss, dass zugegebenermaßen Kriegsverbrechen stattfinden, aber eben kein Völkermord im speziellen. Denn das Gericht ist nur und ausschließlich für letzteren zuständig.
Norman Tebbit, the combative Conservative politician and staunch ally of Margaret Thatcher, has died aged 94.Dorset Eye (Dorset Eye Ltd)
The group, Jewish Peaceniks, has "been curating events to oppose" Israel's genocide against Palestinians - particularly childrenEd Sykes (The Canary)
People on social media took apart the Sun's claim of a millionaire exodus, which it is worth noting is total nonsenseJames Wright (The Canary)
Two councillors took down Labour's majority on Cheshire West and Chester council - and the Canary spoke to one of themEd Sykes (The Canary)
David Powell's latest article on Freeports for the Canary shows what we can all do to oppose these corporate power grabsDavid Powell (The Canary)
If netanyahu really wants to create a 'humanitarian city' then why the fuck doesn't he just stop genociding #Gaza ?
Because he wants to turn #Rafah into a concentration camp, hidden from the outside world.
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The zone would initially house nearly 600,000 displaced Palestinians who were forced to flee to the Al-Mawasi area along the coast of southern Gaza. A screening will be done to ascertain that no one entering the humanitarian city is a member of HamasFP News Desk (Firstpost)
Which is precisely what #Gaza was supposed to be originally. A "concentration camp", *hidden* from the outside world. They even built a wall around it! #Israel will not stop with #Rafah, just like they didn't stop with #Gaza. Israel won't stop until every last #Palestinian is dead.
If netanyahu really wants to create a 'humanitarian city' then why the fuck doesn't he just stop genociding #Gaza ?Because he wants to turn #Rafah into a concentration camp, hidden from the outside world.
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Israel proposes 'humanitarian city' in Rafah to shelter over 2 million displaced Palestinians
The zone would initially house nearly 600,000 displaced Palestinians who were forced to flee to the Al-Mawasi area along the coast of southern Gaza. A screening will be done to ascertain that no one entering the humanitarian city is a member of HamasFP News Desk (Firstpost)
The media won't tell you, but UK justice is collapsing – deliberately. Find out how Cameron and Osborne's austerity gutted the system.Mike Sivier (Vox Political)
Μόλις είπε ο Γουότερς ότι κάποιος "καλός άνθρωπος" πήγε πέρσι, στα 80τόσα του, στο σπίτι του (!) να του "πει ευγενικά" να σταματήσει να ασχολείται με το ζήτημα της Παλαιστίνης και τον ακτιβισμό για να μην έχει κανένα ατύχημα. Υπέροχος κόσμος...
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In 45' join Brian Eno, Ken Loach, Roger Waters, Frank Barat & myself for a LIVE discussion of the Julian Assange case (1700 GMT, 18.00CET) yanisvaroufakis…
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Viena no mīļākajām lietām, ko man patīk skatīties, ir kad kāds anormāli talantīgs vai ģeniāls cilvēks sastopas ar kādu vēl ģeniālāku cilvēku un to novērtē. Šis ir vienkārši episki, Dream Theater bundzinieks Mike Portnoy cenšas iemācīties Tool (Danny Carey) dziesmu Pneuma:
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Vic Firth Signature Artist Danny Carey performs "Pneuma" by Tool from their latest album 'Fear Inoculum' in Boston, MA!Live Sound Engineer - Alan "Nobby" Hop...YouTube
"The Intercept found a gulf between how the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office presented the operation to the public and what actually happened. Rather than serving existing criminal warrants, local authorities conducted traffic stops, arrested people without licenses, and sent information about the detainees to DHS. Only then, after the men were in custody, did the federal agency issue warrants for their arrest."
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Georgia authorities said their goal was to serve warrants for crimes against children. They swept people up and got immigration detainers later.Schuyler Mitchell (The Intercept)
I’m going to tell you a story that represents my best explanation for how America has fallen into this depressing condition. It’s a story that draws heavily on the thinking of Alasdair MacIntyre, the great moral philosopher, who died in May at age 94. It’s a story that tries to explain how Western culture evolved to the point where millions of us—and not just Republicans and Trump supporters—have been left unable to make basic moral judgments.
Why Do So Many People Think That Trump Is Good?
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I think I understand you, but that's not what the essay seems to be talking about.
The author seems to be trying to suggest that the Enlightenment brought about a form of secular thinking that "thinned" morality to the point where people don't have a strong enough guiding belief system to prevent them from doing bad things.
However it seems to me the average MAGA person is a "fundamental" "Christian" of some sort. (I use quotes around those words because there are many variations and they may not all mean the same thing as traditional Christianity). They claim to have extremely strong "god"-linked morals, right down to many being "right-to-lifers" and bible pushers.
Meanwhile what seems to have actually happened in the USA is that all these "fundamental" "Christian" MAGA people have chosen to ignore each and every immoral thing (based on their own "Christian" morals!) that Trump has done and continues to do.
So I think the essay misses the mark entirely. It doesn't answer the question at all.
I don't even think that they believe "Trump is Good" -- they just like the smarmy arse, as if he is one of them.
Now part of that is probably due to what some call "celebrity culture", which may actually be a fallout of the distant past Enlightenment.
How it's all connected, I'm not sure, but the essay doesn't answer that either.
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#Environment #FossilFuels #RenewableEnergy #Remewables
Shanxi produces more coal than India. How will it survive in China’s clean energy future?Amy Hawkins (The Guardian)
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☠️ Mardi 8 juillet : Jour noir pour la biodiversité avec le vote de la Loi Duplomb.
Par petites logiques électoralistes ou grandes ambitions démesurées, une majorité de député•e•s ont choisi un avenir bien sombre en ré-introduisant des pratiques agricoles d'un autre temps...
Cher•e•s député•e•s de "Renaissance", du RN, du Modem, d'Horizons et du groupe LIOT : on ne vous oublie pas !
#loiduplomb = #LoiPesticides
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Good point! Maybe it's their guilty pleasure/kink then — when no one's watching they bring some intricate shoes home, put them in a bowl on the table and sit there staring じーーー
And they keep the TV on just in case. So if someone comes in suddenly they'd get distracted and not sound the alarm for the anti-shoe-at-home patrol 🥴
"If you don't start using AI you're going to be left behind."
Nope, we're going to leave your ass behind. We'll keep automating with testable, repeatable, infrastructure-as-code. Our repos will be well documented by engineers, well organized, and easy to understand. We'll keep honing our skills while you generate copious slop. Oh, and take your poorly veiled threat and and shove it way back up your ass where it belongs. </rant>
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Fascism comes in many flavors; the German Nazi version of the 1930s is the worse.
Why would anyone expect that the American version of fascism would unfold like the German or the Italian? It is unfolding more like Austria under Orban as the Republican Party promised.
Smith makes the utilitarian argument that it's bad for social justice to call our system fascism. That may be true but it would be more beneficial to hear how whatever is happening to our country now can be reversed and defeated.
Salazars portugal, or Franco's Spain are better examples than either Italy or Germany.
Although he the US do have the German/Russian love of concentration camps and Gulags.
I love how smart these AI technologies are. They understand that "bigger" for cities can be ambiguous, refer to either the population or the area. It's also great that it's showing the sources in the upper corner, and displaying the basic facts.
Small minus on consistency and correctness, but other than that, really a great answer.
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Exactly my question.
A 'click-to-cancel' rule, intended to make cancelling subscriptions easier, is blocked
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#Shariah #ShariahLaw #Islam #SafiyyahAlly
Dr. Safiyyah Ally unpacks the truth behind one of the most misunderstood concepts in modern discourse: Shariah law. Far from the fear-fueled headlines and po...YouTube
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This is a good post. She makes a lot of good points and clarifies some important things. The part about the actual translation of the term unveiled some details that I wasn't aware of previously.
Some things were off, however. The notion that legal interpretation 'evolves' isn't quite right. It is more the case that it adapts.
Unfortunately, she does make a significant error in stating that the Shari'ah and Islam are not a threat to democracy (Liberal Democracy, Republicanism, etc.). It most assuredly is. So in this, I agree more with Islam's apparent 'detractors' or critics than I do with the presenter here.
Overall, though, she does quite an adroit job of revealing Islamic jurisprudence and its ethical framework to those who are interested in the topic.
Another day, another story of toxic sludge cover up…admire the Guardian’s tenacity on this story.
We need head’s to roll…these obscenely powerful water company bosses, Environment Agency stooges and scientifically illiterate government ministers need to be held accountable for mass poisoning.
It’s time their actions were recognised as criminal. Otherwise what will change?
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Regulator and government accused of colluding with water industry to dump potentially toxic waste without oversightRachel Salvidge (The Guardian)
#Labour have created the legislation to criminalise these water company bosses for polluting our rivers…
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But did they bother to include provision for polluting our farmland?
And maybe bodies other than the Environment Agency and Ofwat need to be able to level charges at the senior management of water companies…because it looks like they’ve all been colluding for some time.
New laws in force today mark the toughest sentencing powers against law-breaking water executives in history.Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (GOV.UK)
Elin Royles, Carolyn Rowe and Rachel Minto explore the need to take account of the different positions of the devolved governments in order to realise the aims of the May 2025 UK-EU summit.Muirinkeating (UK in a changing Europe)
It's not surprising, but sobering and alarming:
After members of the new German gvmt cast doubts on 🇩🇪's climate target, claiming it is too strict, chancellor Merz was asked today in the Parliament's Questioning Time (by the Greens) whether he can unequivocally declare that 🇩🇪 stands by it constitutionally mandated target of climate neutrality in 2045. Merz absolutely could not get himself to say that. Instead he gave answers that I cannot find satisfactory:
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1) He declared that 🇩🇪 stands behind intl. agreements but avoided the question on the 🇩🇪 target
2) launched into the denialist trope that 🇩🇪 has just 1% of ppl & 2% of emissions, so its efforts make barely a diff (wow - the EU, US & China cause half of all emissions)
3) welcomed reducing emissions abroad rather than at home (used for fake reductions)
4) promoted the trope that climate policies can't be allowed to cause "deindustrialization" (sugg. that's what it leads to; the opposite is true)
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European court finds Russia committed violations in Ukraine and was behind downing of Flight MH17
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The average life expectancy of Chinese residents is now 79 years. 🎉
...ça va bien se passer: du Covid 19 au Traité de l'OMS.
A 48 minutes, Corinne #Lalo donne des détails sur l'OMS et le nouveau traité pandémique mouture 2 adopté
#médecine #santé #totalitarisme #OMS #RSI #pandémie #couillonavirus #covid #covid-19 #pharmacovigilance #vaccinovigilance
Cécile et ses 5 invités reviennent sur l'événement tout récent de Padoue, en Italie et creusent la thématique gravissime du Traité de l'OMS.🎙️ Nouveau dans ...YouTube
Ex-South Korean leader Yoon appears in Seoul court for hearing on possible arrest warrant
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phosh 0.48.0 is out 🚀📱:
We have some new features, quality of life improvements, under the hood work and 🐛 fixes, check out the full release notes at phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.48.0… for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵
🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.
#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile
Le gouvernement Macron a voté, avec la droite et l’extrême-droite, POUR la loi Duplomb à l’Assemblée nationale.
Au gouvernement Macron, vous êtes la honte du pays.
Experts scrambling to understand losses in hives across the country are finally identifying the culprits. And the damage to farmed bees is a sign of trouble for wild bees tooPhoebe Weston (The Guardian)
Merck spends $10 billion for Verona, gaining access to its COPD medication
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I was messing with x86 real mode assembly programming in my teens, but I've never went that far. And when it comes to MBR… I once wanted to change the order of partitions in the partition table — most don't care what order they have, so I didn't know where to look, nowadays you can easily export the partition table with gdisk, edit the file and recreate the partition table with different order — again with gdisk. But at the time partitioning software was very limited so I wrote a C program that rearranged them 😅
It's not that it's complex, but why bother? Sure, UEFI has its shortcomings, but having this higher level of abstraction — at least having a concept of partitions at this boot stage, being able to work with files… I think it's good!
I recently received an email that at first glance appeared to be a well-crafted phishing message, warning that my Microsoft Entra ID was going to expire in a month if I didn't make a purchase. The only piece of information in the message was my supposed Entra ID.
After checking with Microsoft it appears this automated message is legitimate, and it is in reference to a Microsoft Teams trial account I created for a day and then abandoned. But apart from the Entra ID, which isn't mentioned in any prior communications from Microsoft, there is zero context for the user.
How hard would it be for Microsoft to include just a tiny bit more information in each message? Like, "Hey, this message is about an account created 5 years ago, for Teams" or something. Otherwise these marketing messages train users to fall for phishing scams.
this video is bullshit this kike is ranting about mostly just people supporting trans rights and then one, ONE guy who is a convicted sex offender which sure call it bad but he was convicted he served his time i dont see how its relevant here it's just more kike chud grifter bullshit complaining about "degeneracy" of shit like, grouped among pedos, anybody lgbt, or shit like that, fucking nazi and he's ending the video by implying that anybody who disagrees with him or criticizes him for saying the linux community is a degenerate disgusting criminal haven for pedophilic sex crime must be a pedophile child rapist themselves i wish i could bash this fucking kikes jew skull in go back to talking about linux you hebrew piece of shit 109 countries just wasn't enough expelling wasn't enough i hope you die you probably hate autistic people too not just trannies fuck you nigger 🖕
Does the world of Linux and Open Source welcome and protect rapists, pedophiles, and general degenerates?More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/YouTube
The H1 2025 issue of the ESET Threat Report reviews the key trends and developments that shaped the threat landscape from November 2024 to May 2025welivesecurity.com
A list that will make your skin crawl.MeidasTouch Network (Meidas+)
Kemalizm Faşizmdir, Atatürk’ün Alevi kurumlarında yeri yoktur.Alevi (Devrimci Aleviler Birligi)
Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) guarantees the right to life for individuals, not for states.
The Nuremberg Trials' adjudicated that no group can deny another's right to life and self-determination.
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#Palestine #Gaza
today i learned that the average person has no clue what is going on on their computer and just clicks on stuff until it works, no understanding of how an operating system works whatsoever
i thought they would at least know what a driver or a binary is
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Der Unfallatlas zeigt auf der Stadtautobahn Warnemünde stadtauswärts keinen Unfallschwerpunkt.
Komischerweise steht da aber stadtauswärts gerne mal ein Blitzer.
Attached: 1 video Wo passieren in meinem Wohnort die meisten #Verkehrsunfälle? Wer waren die Unfallbeteiligten? Das und mehr zeigt der interaktive #Unfallatlas. Die zugrunde liegenden Daten können auch als #OpenData heruntergeladen werden.social.bund.de
i'm just a teenage dirtbag oh ohhh
(for 6 more days)
Karma has a sense of humor...
"‘Defund the police’ activist goes viral after begging for help when everything she owned was stolen in San Francisco: ‘The cops didn’t do s—!’"
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She slammed the police when they did not immediately locate her possessions just hours after she reported them stolen.Jared Downing (New York Post)
How about we just start firing FBI employees until the Epstein evidence is put on a public server. Start at the top and just keep going until we have one of 3 outcomes:
1. The evidence is public
2. Admission the evidence was destroyed
3. The entire FBI is gone
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The 5 best vehicles for campers, according to Edmunds
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What people are saying
Commenters mourn the loss of "Comrade Bee," who died after being swallowed by a billionaire during a polo match. Many praise the bee's sacrifice, likening it to a heroic act against the wealthy elite. Others lament the loss of a valuable pollinator and express admiration for the bee's apparent targeting of the billionaire.
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