"As Naomi Klein writes in _Doppelganger_, the right lives in a 'mirror world' where child abuse is confined to largely imaginary children in nonexistent pizza parlor basements, while actual kids in Florida concentration camps, or border detention cages, or meat-packing plant night shifts, or living in hunger and without a home, are ignored." — @pluralistic
"Trump's lifelong strategy has been to race across a succession of rivers on the backs of alligators without losing a leg. He is the undisputed all-time historical champion of this bizarre sport, but no one can win that race forever, and your first loss is a career-ender." — @pluralistic
"This is as Rick Perlstein prophesied a year ago: these groups [Trump supporters] hate each other and the only way for some of them to get what they want is for others to be totally betrayed." — @pluralistic
Trump's attacks on Powell threaten the Fed's independence. Here's why it matters
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Marta hopes to lead Brazil to a Copa América Femenina title after coming out of retirement
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Black: It represents mourning and sadness over the injustice and persecution suffered by the Palestinian people. It symbolizes the darkness that surrounds the homeland and the silence that prevails over children's laughter;
White: Symbolizes peace and love, echoing the messages of the prophets. It reflects the desire for hearts free of hatred, as opposed to enemies who carry only malice;
Green: It represents goodness, growth, blessings, and hope for the future. It symbolizes Palestine's potential for prosperity and flourishing, with the expectation that the barren land will once again become fertile and joyful;
Red: signifies martyrdom, sacrifice and devotion. It is associated with the honor of giving one's life in defense of religion, family and country.
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All facts about the flag of Palestine in one place. The history of the flag, its colours and symbols. Download the current flag in svg or png.Oleh Hulinsky (FlagsDB)
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Theme song for when a British gentleman, accompanied by a Polish lady knight, several adventurous treasure hunters, and a few local Chinamen must slay the ravenous and evil dragon spirit of Gluttony, the final boss to his expedition to China. (Chinamen must learn to be gluttonous not for food but for opium and the other wonderous medical concoctions that His Majesty is delighted to sell to his new yellow friends at totally reasonable market prices. And they must learn this lesson by force, if need be. Indeed, the lesser yellow man often can understand no language BUT force! (Turns out knights are just as good at slaying eastern dragons as they are western. Even the girl knights seem to do almost half as decent as the men.))
Arknights Side Story - Such is the Joy of Our Reunion Original SoundtrackMonster Siren Records: https://monster-siren.hypergryph.com℗ Shanghai Hypergryph Net...YouTube
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Wow...Epstein has him on the defensive. A canny move against future trials? Perhaps--hope they all get along with better lives. Maybe he'll do something bizarre just to "own the libs" by pushing Medicare-for-All next. (Haha.) Of course queries: is this ALL of them? And where are they sent/can we believe this?
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In a massive prisoner swap deal, the Trump administration got over 200 Venezuelan migrants he deported to an infamous Salvadoran megaprison released in exchange for the Venezuelan government releasing 10 American citizens and permanent residents who …Matthew Chapman (Raw Story)
No wonder the more people understand how AI works, the less they like it. Unsurprisingly felon musskkk is actively opposed to empathy.
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The age of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed our interactions, but threatens human dignity on a worldwide scale, according to a study led by Charles Darwin University (CDU).Charles Darwin University (Phys.org)
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Texas picked to win SEC championship with Arch Manning at QB
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So people in our local community think its funny to now stalk peoples homes without a detective badge and actually certified or they choose to become an out of uniform kkkop to stalk people, how can society be accepting of this type of behaviour?!
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Venezuela releases jailed Americans in deal that also frees migrants deported to El Salvador by US
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Former President of the United States Barack Obama sits down with Michelle and Craig to answer a listener’s question about raising emotionally intelligent yo...YouTube
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""Crowds stood outside the Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice chanting “say it loud, say it clear, immigrants are welcome here.”The Friday morning rally organized by Juntos follows a string of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainments outside courthouses, including one at the Philadelphia justice center earlier this week, raising concerns among the community." inquirer
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Friday released an earth-shattering report detailing how federal agencies under the Obama administration...Jeff Charles (Townhall)
Protestival! Love the idea
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It’s fun! This one was everything that traditionally happens at a summer weekend gathering by the sea, but with real, community-level politics. If you walk along to the west end of Hastings seafron…Kay Green
Question 15: Guess who’s been our favorite IMO Podcast guest so far? 👉🏾 Barack ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmzXnbAMmOM&t=960s.www.facebook.com
„Die Wirklichkeit sieht inzwischen so aus, dass den Bürgern #Freiheiten entzogen und #Grundrechte nicht mehr wirksam ausgeübt werden. (…)
#Grundrechte werden unter den Vorbehalt eines ideologischen #Klimaschutzes gestellt, und der #Staat maßt sich an, diese #Grundrechte 'zuzuteilen'.
Die Wirklichkeit sieht also so aus, dass die Regierenden sich über #Recht und #Gesetz hinwegsetzen, sei es bei der #Finanzpolitik, der #Klimapolitik, bei 'Rettungsschirmen' oder bei der Instrumentalisierung des Verfassungsschutzes zur politischen #Feindbekämpfung.
Sie lassen zu, dass es gesellschaftliche Gruppen gibt, die aus ideologischen Gründen das Recht brechen und andere Bürger politisch verfolgen.
Die Wirklichkeit sieht auch so aus, dass die #Demokratie in hohem Maße gefährdet ist, wenn einzelne Parteien für sich in Anspruch nehmen, dass nur sie demokratisch sind und dass diejenigen, die diese Positionen ablehnen, als #Rechtspopulisten und #Faschisten diffamiert und bekämpft werden.“
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""Fifteen protesters were arrested on the Roebling Bridge during a demonstration supporting Imam Ayman Soliman, facing felony rioting and misdemeanor charges.The protesters were demonstrating against the detention of Soliman, a former Cincinnati Children's chaplain, by ICE....A lawyer representing some protesters claims at least three were hospitalized."#Ohio cincinnati.com/story/news/2"
Um die russischen Einkünfte aus dem Export von Rohöl in Drittstaaten zu reduzieren, war ursprünglich geplant, den Preisdeckel für russisches Öl dauerhaft aufDeutschland
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""Trump and Co. are still light years behind brilliant statesmen like the genocidal Henry Kissinger, but they have an understanding of government equivalent to a frat bro red district congressman working alongside an experienced but mediocre Beltway-insider…" petergelderloos.substack.com/p…"
who is in power, what do they want, what are they actually accomplishingPeter Gelderloos (Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos)
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On July 17, 2025, the Russian State Duma passed a new law (Article 13.53) that makes it illegal to deliberately search for or access online content listed in the official Federal List of Extremist Materials, which includes Pussy Riot audiovisuals from their actions. Pussy Riot’s inclusion in this law demonstrates how artistic and political protest is equated with extremism.
Quit censoring people!
Pussy Riot is a feminist art collective that is widely known for their actions against Putin in 2012, imprisonment and further art & activismPussy Riot
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In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates,...It's Going Down
Caitlin Clark is still having an impact on WNBA All-Star Game even though she won't play
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Today in Labor History July 18, 1934: “The American Mercury” accepted Emma Goldman's article, "Communism: Bolshevist & Anarchist, A Comparison.” However, it was not until a year later that it was published, in a truncated form, as "There is No Communism in Russia." Goldman had been deported by the U.S. in 1919, during the Palmer raids, and sent to Russia, where she lived with her comrade, Alexander Berkman, for several years. She was initially supportive of the Bolsheviks, until Trotsky brutally crushed the Kronstadt rebellion, in 1921, slaughtering over 1,000 sailors and then executing over a thousand more. After this, she left the USSR and, in 1923, published a book about her experiences, “My Disillusionment in Russia.” H.L. Menken founded “The American Mercury,” in 1924, and published radical writers throughout the 1920s and ‘30s. A change of ownership in the 1940s led to a shift to the far right, including virulently antisemitic articles.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #EmmaGoldman #russia #soviet #ussr #communism #kronstadt #rebellion #massacre #writer #author #writer #books #journalism #magazine @bookstadon
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57% KDE Plasma.
43% GNOME.
I chuckle when I compare that against the hundreds of comments I get about how "everyone hates GNOME" every time I show it.
I chuckle because apparently a lot of you would use it if it were one of only two options.
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Time for a poll. You can only choose one desktop environment and you have to use it everyday. Which one are you using: GNOME or KDE Plasma? NOTE: do not suggest something else.Veronica Explains' Mastodon (not to be confused with "Veronica Explains Mastodon", a video I might do)
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"Some much needed hope fuel - the latest from @cbmilstein. "When I posted the “call for submissions” for this humble project, many folks shared it for me. In doing so, one friend noted that it was another in my series of “hopeful” zines. Just to set the record straight (or queer), I’m not hopeful. This zine does not offer sugarcoated “hope” to somehow smooth over these utterly distasteful times. Ye"
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The babies are up and galloping. Today's fun is leaping onto a footstool then leaping off it, pushing it further around the room each time. They rushed past Supervisor earlier, excited by the thought of brekky. She boofed up her tail, startled and has now retired to the safety of the bed.
I have to go into the office today, hopefully no tufts of fur on the floor when I get home.
Got home from work and sat with my tabby friend on the couch for a cuddle time. Supervisor giving me evil eye from the cat post because she feels if I am home, regardless of time, it's now dinner time. It was not quite dinner time so I had a sit.
Now they've all had dinner and the kittens are filled with joy and energy and are back to the mad sprints and chasey. From the dent in my bed I'd say Supervisor spent most of her day there.
The Real Head of ‘Jews for Zohran’ is a Sri Lankan Pro-Hamas Marxist
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CBC goes in hard with the OSINT, identifying key white supremacists in Ontario, Canada + where they train and what parks they frequent:
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#antifa, #osint, #ns-13, #secondsons, #hammerbjj, #amazingfitness, #brandonlapointe, #alexvriend, #robprimerano, #johnwrightsoccercomplex, #myrtlepark, #gagepark
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The Internet Archive is thrilled to host Chuck Tingle and his upcoming novel Lucky Day, for a book talk presented by The Booksmith! We can\'t wait to see you there, […]\nblog.archive.org
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1015 words (4095 total) on The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to AI (a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) #DailyWords
Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!
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Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly …clarionwriteathon.com
Coldplay's jumbotron captures — what exactly? The internet has its theories
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“we are revolutionaries and insurrectionists because we do not just want to improve existing institutions but to destroy them completely, abolishing every form of domination by man over man, and every kind of parasitism on human labour”
― Errico Malatesta
18 July 1910 | A Pole, Marian Wojciechowski, was born in Warsaw. A carpenter.
In #Auschwitz from 24 July 1941.
No. 18662
He perished in the camp on 31 May 1942.
The head of the Canadian Army has temporarily removed the commanding officer of the Cameron Highlanders in Ottawa after discovering a Facebook group withUnited States
James Gunn’s new Superman movie, which draws an analogy between Israel and the villainous country of Boravia, demonstrates how Israel's idealized image in American culture has been shattered by the widespread acknowledgment of Palestinian oppression.
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#Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Superman
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James Gunn’s new Superman movie, which draws an analogy between Israel and the villainous country of Boravia, demonstrates how Israel’s idealized image in American culture has been shattered by the widespread acknowledgment of Palestinian oppression.Mitchell Plitnick (Mondoweiss)
I’m just sayin’ 🤷🏻♂️
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@arrrg I can see what you mean about the ratio, but the focus should be on actions being terrible, rather than who they’re done to. It doesn’t save anyone there to add victims anywhere else.
I’m sure you know this and I wouldn’t even speak to it, except there is a thread of thought rn among mostly young folks that if “we” (really, the more-vulnerable closer to home) just suffer enough from our own rulers, we’ll finally be moved to stop them, and it smells like accelerationism.
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Hint: That's not his wife.
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Internet transfixed by canoodling couple who, instead of waving, look horrified and quickly break apartRory Carroll (The Guardian)
One of the largest and most complex public parks in Toronto is set to open on Saturday, a project 18 years in the making.United States
Trump’s pivot from aid to trade leaves Africa wary as it faces tariffs and uncertainty
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#kill the #cop in your head!!!
#classwar #emancipation #liberation #antifa #antiauthority #anarchy
Did the Manga take a brake from the main story like the anime did with this movie?
Trump signs new stablecoin regulations into law, a major milestone for crypto industry
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Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel briefly to his hometown of Fort Smith next week before meeting with Indigenous leaders in Inuvik on July 24.
A new MintPress investigation reveals that Apple has quietly hired dozens of operatives from Israel’s elite spying outfit, Unit 8200.Alan Macleod (MintPress News)
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Deutschlands betreute Demokratie: Wie Staat, Polizei und Geheimdienst die Bürger an der Hand nehmenEric Gujer (eg) (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
The official spokesperson for Hamas's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, announced on Friday that the Palestinian group repeatedly offered to release all the captives held in Gaza at once, as part of a comprehensive ceasefire deal, but Israel rejected …MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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![Alt text: An image of Mark Ruffalo (a man with a silver beard and hair, talking into a microphone), with a smaller image of Joe Rogan in the upper right corner, wearing headphones and in front of a microphone).
Text: Dear Joe Rogan, It’s a little late now to pretend like Project 2025 didn’t exist and wasn’t the playbook all 1] g e ; that 11 int. You were warned repeatedly, yet you helped get him elected and helped let this happen. MARK RUFFALO](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/8090620 "Alt text: An image of Mark Ruffalo (a man with a silver beard and hair, talking into a microphone), with a smaller image of Joe Rogan in the upper right corner, wearing headphones and in front of a microphone).
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