Diogo Jota was driving above the speed limit when he crashed, Spanish police believe
https://apnews.com/article/diogo-jota-crash-spain-3b0570523b463f57c0b7fc23abe1a5ae?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Liberals are gutting workers’ rights with legal trickery while pretending to respect them. The tactics include bypassing unions, killing strikes through imposed arbitration, and, ‘Independent’ inquiries justifying wage cuts.

The goal is to crush union power under Carney’s ‘prosperity’ agenda.

Liberals frame labour fights as individual greed obscuring the class struggle. This is a slow-motion union bust on national scale.

canadiandimension.com/articles…

#canada #cdnpoli #liberals

How the Liberals are eroding workers’ Charter-protected rights

Prime Minister Mark Carney is presenting himself as a politician who has a vision of a new, more prosperous and sovereign Canada.

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[ ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos: Some former Texas county officials thought informal phone calls, not sirens, would be sufficient in a flood ]
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#Texas county commissioners played politics and now more than 100 people are dead.

Every single one of these commissioners should be arrested for involuntary manslaughter.

Some former Texas county officials thought informal phone calls, not sirens, would be sufficient in a flood

Some former Kerr County officials supported "river calling" for flood warnings.

^{Maia Rosenfeld (ABC News)}

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How did “imported antisemitism”, a far-right anti-immigrant buzz phrase, make it into the political mainstream? After all, Germans didn’t exactly need to import antisemitism. But this is the way we see it in Germany: if you haven’t committed genocide you can’t properly claim to be against it. I’m not making this up. You couldn’t make it up. Indeed, the political scientist Esra Özyürek discusses the belief in her excellent 2023 book Subcontractors of Guilt.

The thinking behind it is that because of our history, we teach the next generation to make sure it will never happen again. At school we studied the Holocaust every year. We didn’t learn to analyse antisemitism, but we learned to be very wary of it – or as the writer Max Czollek put it: “Today Germans know mainly one thing about Jews: that they killed them.”

Immigrants to Germany need to know a bit more than that if they want to become German citizens. They need to know when the state of Israel was founded, and who is allowed to become a member of one of the 40 Maccabi sports clubs. If you’re not born in Germany you have to prove you’re not antisemitic by learning facts about Jewish people.

But even if you were born here, like me, the statistics still refer to you as an immigrant if one of your parents comes from a different country. And as such, you are viewed with suspicion when it comes to the antisemitism you may have “imported”. During the last election, Merz suggested revoking German citizenship from dual nationals if they committed a crime. When asked if that meant, for example, getting on a bus without a ticket, he made it clear it related to antisemitism.

However, antisemitism is not a criminal offence in German law, so we see it everywhere. Jews have been arrested for holding up signs reading “Jews against genocide”. An Irish protester was arrested in Berlin for speaking Irish at a demonstration for Palestine because the authorities did not have an Irish translator present to check if they were “importing antisemitism” too. This has gone so far that the Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner has reprimanded Germany for criminalising protest against the war in Gaza – including curtailing the use of Arabic at protests. In the end Merz didn’t get his way, but he drove the message home: Germans like me with foreign heritage are Germans on trial.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Germany is ‘importing’ antisemitism, our leaders claim. Irony is not their strong point

Blaming migrants for the rise in anti-Jewish crimes shows a breathtaking lack of self-awareness , says author and academic Mithu Sanyal

^{Mithu Sanyal (The Guardian)}

Please ignore the dog & pony distraction around the #Nobel Peace Prize.

It's already been awarded to a war criminal (Kissinger), a genocide apologist (Aung San Suu Kyi), and a head of state who bombed many counties & assassinated people (Obama).

The whole thing is a performance of geopolitical hegemony, by elites, for elites. Nothing about what's happening around it recently is unusual.

There are real people with actual material needs that need your attention instead.

"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future…

#Cloudflare has at least made it's #AI #crawler blocking free for all users even if you're on the free plan. I enabled it for all of my domains last night. The switches to enable it are right on the overview page for your domain.

École des Bro-Arts

2025-07-07 17:33:23

"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future…

The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess

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Wisconsin Supreme Court clears the way for a conversion therapy ban to be enacted
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-conversion-therapy-ban-16fc23a14e15f1cfcf9c2dbb89cc0e9a?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Another hot summer day spent on extending the boat.

Life is great.

Put the measuring tape under the keel so I can check that everything is in line.

Boat is about 19 feet and when it is done it will be a 21 feeter

see @GummyNerds ?

still funny

Tax the rich...

independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli…

The six starkest warnings from OBR as report lays bare the perilous state of UK public finances

Here are the most stark warnings in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s report

^{Archie Mitchell (The Independent)}

At least 13 may have killed themselves over UK's Post Office wrongful convictions scandal
https://apnews.com/article/uk-post-office-scandal-suicide-horizon-software-70a6945a3acf945ea9d121425fdd028c?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Because of Two Rivers, WI, we can celebrate #NationalIceCreamSundaeDay.

wisconsinhistory.org/Records/A…

The Ice Cream Sundae | Wisconsin Historical Society

The Ice Cream Sundae

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File under: digital media literacy

The great @molly0xfff has a mini-thread up on Bluesky revealing how her Substack dashboard shows steady growth... despite the fact she stopped using that platform a year and a half ago: bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki/po…

Substack's "network effect" may be an illusion. More on this here: bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki/po…

I'm really happy I left SS for Ghost in January 2024 and I never looked back... and yes, the abbreviation is not that coincidental

🔗: news.elenarossini.com/this-is-…

This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like

Technological platforms are not neutral. If we truly want to resist the digital coup that is currently under way, we need to normalize the use of free, open source solutions.

^{Elena Rossini}

την καλύτερη μετάδοση του ποδοσφαιρ......εεεεε
του πόλεμου ήθελα να πω, την κάνει η ελληνορθόδοξη εκκλησία.

Γκουμουνια........θα πεθάνετε ολα απο το χέρι του Αρχαγγέλου Γαβριήλ.

ekklisiaonline.gr/nea/exontoth…

Pixelfed will never introduce ads. Ever.

Multiple acquisition offers this year? All declined. Another one last week? Also declined.

I built Pixelfed for the people, not shareholders.

That's why we're exploring Web Monetization - direct creator payments with zero privacy compromise.

I won't sell out now, or ever.

I love you too much, and am forever grateful for you helping me come out and become the dev I always dreamed of ❤️

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory

The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl…

(archive.ph/bYVVj)

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory

On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department…

^EUobserver

Plans by Israel’s defence minister to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp have been condemned by legal experts and academics, who described the scheme as a blueprint for “crimes against humanity”.

Israel Katz said he has ordered Israel’s military to prepare for establishing a camp, which he called a “humanitarian city”, on the ruins of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Haaretz.

thenational.scot/news/25296296…

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

What the NEA is doing is shocking; read this critical thread:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/194…

Thread by @DeAngelisCorey on Thread Reader App

@DeAngelisCorey: I just received a copy of the National Education Association's resolutions that they passed at their annual convention. They kept them private this year. The nation's largest teachers union adopted ...…

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The UN human rights office on Tuesday raised alarm over reported proposals that Israel is working with other countries, including the US, to potentially facilitate the so-called voluntary movement of Palestinians out of Gaza, warning that such plans could amount to forcible transfer under international law.

"This raises concerns with regard to forcible transfer," spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told reporters.

aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israe…

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Israeli plan on moving Gazans out raises concerns of forcible transfer, UN warns

Rights office says notion of 'voluntary' movement highly questionable under current conditions - Anadolu Ajansı

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