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After a long delay, people in a small part of France received an official order for certain vulnerable people should avoid drinking tap water, due to presence of PFAS in the water supply. The warning focused on babies, pregnant women and the immunocompromised. That decision is based on caution, which has some rational basis. But actually, no one knows how much harm

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[2/2] various PFAS are likely to do to those people, or to other people. We have reasons to think they might do harm, but we don't know. There are hundreds of different PFAS, and no one knows what effects each one might have. Collecting statistics on exposure to each one, and on the medical problems that develop at various exposure levels, is likely to take decades.

Acosta was the A.G. who let Epstein get off with a pat on hands fer 81 counts of child Molesting, trafficking,
money laundering...Who was that billionaire who gave Epstein the $46 million dollar mansion in the middle of Manhattan?
Instead of an Apology, Acosta Offers Epstein’s Victims Implicit Blame
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"The scenes are truly shocking – they resemble the horrors of judgment day. Sometimes within just half an hour we receive over 100 to 150 cases, ranging from severe injuries to deaths … About 95% of these injuries and deaths come from food distribution centres – what are referred to as the ‘American food distribution centres’”
Dr Mohammed Sakr

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide

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"Those with the clearest view are the ones bearing the brunt of such attacks. Whether it’s the sheriffs, police, or Border Patrol, “it was brutal violence,” said Ron Gochez, a community organizer, who was part of the protests. “What they didn’t think was going to happen was that the people would resist.” Over eight hours on Saturday, he said, after a battle with Border Patrol—“and it was a battle, because there were people throwing back tear gas, people throwing anything that they could to defend themselves and to defend the workers that were being surrounded”—the Border Patrol retreated. “And the hundreds of workers that were in the factories around them were able to escape,” Gochez recounted. “They were able to go to their cars and go home. That was only thanks to the resistance that allowed them to go home that night.” If any community was going to fight back without apology, it was this one."
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LIVE: Israel bombs Gaza refugee camp; Trump, Netanyahu meet for second time | Al Jazeera
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- Netanyahu says talks with Trump ‘focused efforts to free hostages’
- Rome Statute countries must explain why Netanyahu flights allowed in airspace: UN expert
- Death toll from Israel’s attacks on Gaza rises to 16
- France’s Macron calls for UK support on Gaza
- WATCH: Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza beg for action as Israeli strikes continue

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine

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The persecutor has ordered a sweeping campaign to try to cancel the citizenship of naturalized citizens. One of the possible grounds, lack of "good moral character", could be stretched out of

Palestine Action: Final Statement Before Proscription


DESPITE OUR COLLECTIVE EFFORTS TO STOP THE PROSCRIPTION OF PALESTINE ACTION, THE BAN WILL COME IN AT MIDNIGHT

In five years, we have managed to build a direct action movement which successfully disrupted and challenged the Israeli weapons industry. Through relentless actions and the willingness to sacrifice our liberty, we’ve forced shut three Israeli weapons factories, pressured over a dozen companies to cut ties with Elbit Systems and cost the Israeli weapons maker £billions in lost contracts. The most important victory is building an effective global movement in service of the Palestinian people.

It’s clear, we were too effective and the government had to impose the most draconian attack on civil liberties to please the pro-Israel lobby. They may be able to proscribe ‘Palestine Action’, but they can not stop direct action happening across the country in different forms. We are more than just a name, or a network, we are an idea that can never be stopped. To be clear, they can not proscribe the TACTIC of direct action for Palestine.

We are extremely grateful for all of the support we have received over the past few years, and the outpouring of solidarity since the intention to proscribe us was announced. This proscription CAN NOT go unchallenged, and we are pleased to see many who are adamant on resisting the ban through a campaign of civil disobedience.

Breaking unjust laws is a moral duty. Unaffiliated campaign groups, Defend Our Juries and ‘we do not comply’ (wedonotcomply.org), will lead on defiance of the ban and resist the extreme counter-terror laws imposed on all of us. It is a given that there will be resistance.

However, we are also aware that anyone, knowingly or mistakenly, could be committing a terrorist offence just by liking or sharing our social media posts, if they are a British national or are in the ‘United Kingdom’. This could lead to vulnerable communities being harassed and targeted by the state. Whilst we encourage and support a campaign of civil disobedience, all who take part must do so on an informed basis. That’s why our social media will be taken down. For clarity, Palestine Action is ONLY proscribed in Britain.

Many will be rightfully angry at the imposed proscription of Palestine Action. However, with repression always comes more resistance. This is a moment that the British state will likely come to regret. It’s a signal to all of us who are willing to resist, to make the ban unenforceable.

We must resist for our own rights and most importantly, for the Palestinian people facing a genocide. We are all Palestine Action isn’t just a slogan, it’s a state of resistance.

COLLECTIVELY, WE WILL RESIST AND ULTIMATELY, WE WILL WIN

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#palAction #palestine #proscription #resistance #Solidarity #uk

#gaza #PalestineAction
@palestine

Palestine Action's final statement before proscription
Couple of excerpts:

"In five years, we have managed to build a direct action movement which successfully disrupted and challenged the Israeli weapons industry"
"...we were too effective and the government had to impose the most draconian attack on civil liberties to please the pro-Israel lobby"

Groups "Defend Our Juries and ‘we do not comply’ (wedonotcomply.org) still resisting

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Sometimes I have to remind myself that although humans are smart enough to have made the Internet and fancy gadgets and nuclear weapons, many, many people still believe there's a white bearded deity in the clouds who will make everything good once his hippie son turns everyone who ate his flesh once a week into zombies, so they can all do the Macerena in the sky for the rest of time-- and all simply because the reality of death and injustice are too much to bear honestly.

What a species!

More than 100 people died in floods in Texas and our emergency management agency, FEMA, is being de-funded so that very expensive concentration camps-- which also flood--can be built.

For those in Texas? The Federal government had prayers.

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Labour’s plans for the #NHS risk another privatisation disaster

More than a risk, i think, with Starmer and Streeting involved

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#Anonymous: Epstein, Trump, Israel & Mossad #OpEpsteinFiles #ReleaseEpsteinFiles
#OpDeathEaters #3E youtube.com/watch?v=5n0MaExq1I…

#Autonomía vs caciquismo: En la Sierra #Mazateca, el pueblo de Flores Magón resiste 10 años de ataques.

¿Por qué el poder teme a la libre determinación? ✊

👉 avispa.org/?p=120238 🐝

#oaxaca #OaxacaDeJuarez #OaxacaLoTieneTodo #mexico #FelizMartes #PueblosOriginarios #ddhh #ClaudiaSheinbaum #latinoamerica #americalatina #resistencia #feminismo #feminismos #ezln #zapatistas #mujeres #mujeresindígenas

"Professor Ralph Wilde of University College London, an international law expert, unequivocally condemned Israel’s Gaza displacement plans as illegal under multiple legal frameworks.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, he asserted that Israel’s occupation itself violates Palestinian self-determination rights, rendering all associated actions, including forced transfers, unlawful." @DrALJONES

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#IsraelTerroristState #Gaza #InternationalLaw #WeAreAllPalestinians

Il Collettivo #Anonymous Italia ha condotto operazioni di protesta contro la decisione del governo Giapponese di scaricare in mare le acque reflue di Fukushima. #OpFukushima.
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"Detainees at the 'Alligator Alcatraz' concentration camp in the Florida Everglades say they are enduring inhumane conditions, including inadequate and maggot-infested food, inability to bathe, flooding, and denial of religious practice, CBS News Miami reported Tuesday."

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#Florida #USpol #immigration

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Philly Mayor Cherelle Parker's administration airs sabotage allegations & demands "order" be restored while refusing to agree to raises demanded by the only majority-Black municipal union in the city.

Read UR's new story from the historic #DC33 strike: unicornriot.ninja/2025/sanitat…

📹 ¿Te perdiste la Conferencia de Prensa sobre el Balance a 6 meses de la Sentencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos sobre el caso de Desaparición Forzada Antonio González Méndez?Acá la puedes ver ➡️ archive.org/details/250612-bal…
🔗 Consulta también el balance completo: 𝙎𝙞𝙣 𝙑𝙚𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙙 𝙣𝙞 𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖 📲 frayba.org.mx/balance-6-meses-…

Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicisation of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these preventable diseases.

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Help us continue providing an unfiltered, nonprofit platform for diverse communities, storytellers & media makers.

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Hey, please stop repeating the misinformation that corps are legally required to maximize profits or your shareholders can sue you. It's propaganda promoted by a handful of huge fund managers because they'd *like that* to be true.

Even SCOTUS agrees “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.” (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby)

Firefox is fine. The people running it are not • The Register

Money is the problem. Not too little, but too much. Where there's wealth, there's a natural human desire to make more wealth. Ever since Firefox 1.0 in 2004, Firefox has never had to compete. It's been attached like a mosquito to an artery to the Google cash firehose. The Reg noted it in 2007, and it made more the next year. We were dubious when Firefox turned five.
And as for that money — remember back in 2018? That's when Google dropped "Don't be evil" as its motto.
Mozilla's leadership is directionless and flailing because it's never had to do, or be, anything else. It's never needed to know how to make a profit, because it never had to make a profit. It's no wonder it has no real direction or vision or clue: it never needed them. It's role-playing being a business.


This is a good summary of all the good they have done and also how they repeatedly throw out the baby but keep the bathwater.

And this interesting bit.

Mozilla is, sadly, far from alone in having faltering leadership. Around the industry, tech execs who couldn't tell an LLM bot from an MLM scheme if their lives depended on it are investing in AI. It's not just cool, it's a cult now. This isn't hyperbole. The phenomenon has a name – it's called TESCREAL, and it is without exaggeration on its way to becoming a religion.


#Mozilla #Firefox #TESCREAL

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#way back
In only a moment we both will be old
We won't even notice the world turning cold
And so, in these moments with sunlight above
Ed Ames would be 98
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#haze
Purple haze all in my eyes
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blowin', blow my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?
"Mitch" Mitchell, British drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience) would be 78
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Rolling Stone - Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot goes full Nazi, calls itself ‘MechaHitler’ rollingstone.com/culture/cultu…

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