An awesome Donald Trump story to share!!
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Another example of Trump’s generosity and kindness. Had you ever heard this story before? If not, why?
"In 1982, Trump hired a young poor Hispanic
man set to be homeless on Christmas."
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Biden, Harris thank major Democratic donors and urge them to stay engaged after tough loss to Trump
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris thanked deep-pocketed Democratic donors who raised record sums in last month’s election loss to President-elect Donald Trump.MORIAH BALINGIT (AP News)
The class line that divides this country has been revealed with undeniable clarity by this CEO killing.
Corporate media has been trying, and failing, to obscure this truth.
Now class consciousness is breaking through in fits and starts as we speak.
"Lines are not being drawn here so much as they’re being revealed. One of the roles of the Ben Shapiros of the world, of all right-wing propagandists, is to obfuscate class lines. They feed people hatred for many reasons, including their own prejudices, but the ultimate purpose they serve is getting people to buy into fascist beliefs, which requires abandoning your class in order to support the owning class and their oppressive efforts."
In the interests of balancing the media's obsession with Reform, here's the Green Party's response to today's announcement by Angela Rayner of a new phase in English devolution....
They suggest, it looks like Labour's devolution is a form that repeats the thrust of centralisation, but diversifies the centralised poles of political power.... a reasonable criticism of how this might well play out.
#greens #devolution #democracy
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Responding to measures contained within the government’s White Paper on English Devolution, which the government will announce today, Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay MP said: “Local democracy is in urgent need of reform but this White Paper does…Green Party
RFK Jr. Will Investigate Vaccine-Autism Link as HHS Secretary
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India already has 1.45 billion people. Why does it want more children?
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India, the world's most populous country, is seeing a debate about having more babies.Soutik Biswas (BBC News)
WHY? The University of Iowa Reportedly Paid MSNBC Host Joy Reid $55,000 for a Campus Speech
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The University of Iowa's decision to pay MSNBC's Joy Reid $55,000 for a speech has sparked controversy. Discover the details behind this hefty sum and the messages delivered.Mike LaChance (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Mayor Brandon Johnson Cancels Budget Meeting and Flees As Angry Chicagoans Call Him Out For Putting Illegals Ahead of Residents (Video)
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Tensions escalated as Mayor Brandon Johnson abruptly canceled a crucial budget meeting, fleeing from angry residents demanding accountability. Discover the full story behind this chaotic confrontation.Margaret Flavin (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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Nicotine in tobacco brings illness and death to millions of people. Yet nicotine in its pure form has the potential to be a valuable pharmaceutical agent. Nicotine fairly specifically binds to the cholinergic nicotinic gating site on cationic ion channels in receptors throughout the body. This action stimulates the release of a variety of neurotransmitters including especially catecholamines and serotonin
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has the potential to be a valuable pharmaceutical agent
Masters Of The Air - Camp Liberation
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A record number of ATMs exploded in Switzerland in 2024 Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector English (US) English (British) Generated with artificial intelligence.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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The committee’s 520-page #report, released on 2 December, offers no new direct #evidence of a lab leak, but summarizes a circumstantial case, including that the #Wuhan Institute of #Virology (WIV) used #NIAID money to conduct “gain-of-function” studies that modified distantly related #coronaviruses.
#china #news #science #accident #problem #corona #health #world #research
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According to S&P more than $2 trillion of commercial real estate mortgages will mature over the next two years.
The average interest rate on maturing loans is only 4.3%. The rate today has doubled, making refinancing challenging. Also, roughly $200 billion of these mortgages are on office properties where the underlying value has collapsed.
The size of the pool of distressed capital is much larger than the subprime mortgage market at its peak in 2005.
After 67 hours of play time and several more watching playthrough and tutorial videos of Oxygen Not Included (2019), I threw the towel again just before getting into space. Getting a near-sustainable base going was nerve-wracking enough, and I've sadly hit my cognitive limit regarding the planning involved in rocketry.
Despite this second abrupt ending, I'm still somewhat proud I finally managed to get to this stage of the game, but it did cost me pretty dearly IRL in terms of obsession-fueled late nights, and it confirmed to me that I'm definitely an implementor and not a designer.
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Check out the "Sat Dec 14: Daily Gospel" session in Hallow:
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Annie Wells and Meghan Gallacher both sat on the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee which approved a report entitled The Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in Scotland last year in October.
The report said it welcomed schemes which had been piloted and stated the committee “believes that an extension of the existing national concessionary scheme to include all asylum seekers would be transformative and supports the call for country-wide provision.”
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TWO Tory MSPs have been called out for “flipflopping” on free bus travel for asylum seekers after sitting on a committee which pushed for the…Steph Brawn (The National)
President Trump was asked today during a lengthy press availability about the mystery of the drones appearing above New Jersey and New York.Sundance (The Last Refuge)
The older I get the less I care about the contradiction of being a humanist who enjoys playing #Christmas carols.
This would be my 9 lessons and carols
Silent Night
Reading from Kurt Vonnegut
Away in a Manger
All I Want For Christmas
Reading from Prof Alice Roberts
We Three Kings of Orient Are
Can’t Stop the Cavalry
Reading from Dr Seuss
Fairytale of New York (clean version)
You have moved to the suburbs
You have the right to a cool lesbian neighbor
If you do not have a cool lesbian neighbor one will be appointed to you
#Spendenaufruf für @Picasso
Gestern haben wir euch mitgeteilt, dass @Picasso im Hospiz verstorben ist.
Klaus war armutsbetroffen und für ihn ist eine Sozialbestattung vorgesehen.
Leider hinterlässt Klaus nichts, was auch nur teilweise die Kosten einer normalen Beisetzung abdeckt.
Die Familie würde sich auch über Kleinstspenden freuen und ihm ein Urnengrab auf dem nahegelegenen Friedhof ermöglichen.
Bitte spendet (wenn ihr könnt und mögt) und boostet fleißig!
I'm not sure anyone at Apple ever actually used Apple Music. My use case is the following:
- I start a radio, mixing songs I added to my library with related songs
- A song I don't have in my library plays, and I happen to like it enough to want to add the song to my library.
- Too bad, the song ended and the radio moved to the next song. The previous button is greyed out, there's no playlist page for this radio, and there's no Listening History available.
I'm absolutely confused by this behavior. Is it a licensing thing where songs can be played as part of a radio for cheaper than if they are presented in an actual playlist, even if it's automatically generated?
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Mysterious tablet with unknown language unearthed in Georgia.
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A basalt tablet inscribed with an enigmatic language has been unearthed near Lake Bashplemi in Georgia's Dmanisi region.Dario Radley (Archaeology News Online Magazine)
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The tech giant produced a Christmas ad for its shopping aggregator featuring self proclaimed ‘nonbinary’ TikTok influencer Cyrus Veyssi prancing around in women’s clothing, mincing on about skin creams.
We the People need to stop using Google, they're against everything we stand for so stop supporting them. There are lots of other search engines.
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Have they learned nothing?Steve Watson (Site Title)
PRRI has just published a post-election study with important findings about the role religion – specifically, white Christians – have played all along in empowering Trump. PRRI CEO Robert P. Jones summarizes three key takeaways from the study:
#Trump #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals
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PLUS, PLUS, 5 free books still available as part of my paid subscriber holiday book giveaway.Robert P. Jones (White Too Long by Robert P. Jones)
White Christians own this Trump presidency as they owned his 2016 Trump presidency. And whatever happens with this presidency, including promised massive cruelty to immigrants and LGBTQ people, they'll own every bit as much as they, a majority of them, owned (but refuse to admit) their defense of slavery, their support of Jim Crow barbarity, and their opposition to civil rights for people of color.
#Trump #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals
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3. "During the upcoming holiday season, nearly one in four Democratic voters say they will be spending less time with certain family members due to political differences.:
"Democratic voters (23%) are nearly five times as likely as Republican voters (5%) to say they will be spending less time with certain family members because of their political views.:
#Trump #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals
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Why the Syrian Druze community is requesting to become part of Israel
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Druze community leaders in southern Syria spoke in favor of being annexed to Israel’s Golan Heights, amid fears of retribution by al-Qaeda linked Sunni Islamic extremist rebels. Hated by most Musli…BARE NAKED ISLAM
More than five people a day were dying of an opioid overdose in Arizona.Daniel Greenfield (Frontpage Mag)
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Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
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📢 @Cosmic is giving away the farm this week!
If you are a poor and never had the cash or testicular fortitude to sign up for his financial news letter: he is giving away all the insights in his public feed!
Stop being dumb and start being rich today:
Based Senator Mike Lee Dunks All Over Warmongering RINO Liz Cheney With One of Her Old X Posts as Her Previous Tacky Words on J6 and Lee Come Back to Haunt Her
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Senator Mike Lee's sharp rebuttal of Liz Cheney's past remarks sheds light on the controversial FBI involvement during January 6. Discover the full story behind this political clash.Cullen Linebarger (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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"Do you think I reference dinosaurs too much when I write?" I asked.
She was silent, like the p in pterodactyl, but it said everything.
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Donate We rely on donations from everyday people just like you to fund our strategic activism. Please make a recurring donation to our organization so we can continue to fight for your digital rights.Fight for the Future
Taking fight against rising seas to a whole new level
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Environment News: God made Earth, the saying goes, and the Dutch made the Netherlands.Mohita Tewari (Times Of India)
New article on our site: "Stuart DiNenno and 'Kinist' White Nationalism"
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On Saturday, August 17, 2024, three white nationalists held a demonstration in Dawsonville, Georgia. We discuss the leader of the small protest--Stuart DiNenno of Chamblee, Georgia--and the racist form of Christianity he promotes, "kinism." We also link DiNenno to harassment of Pride events in Burlington, North Carolina.
We are seeking information on the other two white nationists who demonstrated with DiNenno in Georgia, so please get in touch if you can help.
#antifascist #antifa #antiracist #Georgia #BurlingtonNC
Our next event: Catching Up with Shannon Curtis and Jamie Hill!
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Following their AMAZING Good To Me live performance on RFF, @shannoncurtis and @hilljam are back gathering support to fuel their joyous new covers album 80's Kids and a new touring show!
Please join in for a fun hangout. Optional but if you donate on stream Jamie takes 80s requests to sing with full passion into a hairbrush!
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Art pop recording artist & performer. Author of best-selling house concert how-to book. TEDx speaker. New single and video out now; new album in mid-June.Shannon (SHANNON CURTIS)
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BREAKING: 750+ musicians are now calling on major labels to drop their $621 million lawsuit against @internetarchive — a suit that could destroy the entire nonprofit.
Letter sign ons remain open until Wednesday at SaveTheArchive.com
Save Music, Save the Archive! 750+ musicians are speaking out to demand that major labels drop a lawsuit aimed to destroy the Internet Archive—and for their industry to take concrete actions to realign their actions with the interests of working arti…Fight for the Future
As they always do whenever artists organize to say "hey giant corporations with tons of $$ and PR, don't destroy the thing we love", industry titans are now responding.
Go ahead and read it if you can get past the paywall: billboard.com/pro/300-musician…
More than 300 musicians signed a letter denouncing the labels' lawsuit against the Internet Archive for offering free streams of old recordings. Why?Robert Levine (Billboard)
If you can't, it breaks down to:
"SCANDAL: a nonprofit devoted to preservation advocates for the right to preserve history and culture—and the right to access it"
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"We don't actually *mean* to destroy the Archive, it's just a suit!"
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"AI is scary"
You can tell from the subheader, where the author concedes that the Internet Archive does important work, that industry execs are on their back heel way more than last time, when they sued to destroy the right to own and preserve surveillance-free digital books.
So that feels good.
Reality: copyright is broken for most musicians.
It's mostly used by giant corporations to amass enough rights and power that they can generally successfully bludgeon musicians into saying whatever they want, or at least, suffering in silence.
New paper shines a light on the dysfunction of the music streaming ecosystem while proposing solutions to ensure a more equitable future.Meredith Filak Rose (Public Knowledge)
Then there's this weird mental gymnastics fearmongering thing about how other companies that aren't the Archive might use AI to replace musicians and somehow that justifies suing over old 78 records.
Um, no?
Finally, the author seems shocked that we would accuse labels of trying to destroy the whole @internetarchive when...their suit, if successful, would do just that.
LABELS: TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS.
YOU'RE 1000% SUING TO DESTROY #INTERNETARCHIVE.
And: 600+ musicians signing letter against labels' Internet Archive suit; existential copyright trolling in books+music; rising threats to fan privacy; does Spotify Wrapped know you're gay, too?Lia Holland (MUSIC x)
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I have had a great experience with #LinuxMint #Debian Edition
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I sometimes try different #Linux distros, but always end up with something deb-based. Because to me they are most easy to use and friendly. I like apt and those distros' defaults. As of today, my new favorive is Linux Mint.TechHub
"A Brief History of Equality" - Thomas Piketty
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality.share.libbyapp.com
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Israel plans to double population on occupied Golan, citing threats from Syria: Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a statement that the latest developments in Syria increased the threat to Israel, "despite the moderate image that the rebel leaders claim to present".
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DreamPondTX/Mark Price - Jingle Bells (Xmas at the Pond)
It’s that time of the year! Xmas songs will be posted until New Years Day.
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Enjoy at your own risk!
Ho Ho Ho!!! Recorded by Mark & KORG Pa4X.
Pa4X at the Pond.
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