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The Justice Department is set to announce charges against Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver as early as today after she assaulted ICE agents at the Delaney Hall ICE facility last Friday.

Rep. McIver is expected to turn herself in this afternoon, the New Jersey Globe reported.

The New Jersey Globe reported:
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/b…


BREAKING: Justice Department to Announce Charges against Democrat Rep LaMonica McIver for Assaulting ICE Agents | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

          The Justice Department is set to announce charges against Democrat Rep.
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During the recent pandemic, leading science and medical journals appeared to preach the Covidian catechism of naturally emerging SARS-CoV-2, vaccines with no meaningful downside, mask effectiveness and President Trump's nonexistent bleach recommendation, while ignoring, slow-walking and actively suppressing contrary evidence and putting a scarlet letter on infidels.
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Science journals that peddled COVID catechism accused of lab-leak quid pro quo, misrepresentation

Ed Martin implies journal that published "Proximal Origin," covertly shaped by Fauci and Collins, may have committed fraud by hiding authors and paying to play. Science magazine hides full Bhattacharya interview, implies he lied.
Greg Piper (Just The News)

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has formally asked the Pentagon for 20,000 National Guard troops to help it with its mass deportation operations, a department official said Thursday.
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Department of Homeland Security asks for 20,000 National Guard troops to help with deportations

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin confirmed the request, stating the guards would "help carry out the President’s mandate from the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens."
Misty Severi (Just The News)

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Why Alphabet’s Parts May Be Worth More Than the Whole
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-05-16/why-alphabet-s-parts-may-be-worth-more-than-the-whole-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Why Alphabet’s Parts May Be Worth More Than the Whole

D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria says Alphabet would be more valuable if it was smaller. He writes: "The only way forward for Alphabet is a complete breakup that would allow investors to own the business they actually want.
Bloomberg

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday evening confirmed that the Secret Service and her department are investigating a recent social media post by former FBI Director James Comey, which appeared to call for a "hit" on President Donald Trump's life.
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Noem confirms DHS, Secret Service are investigating Comey social media post targeting Trump

The social media post, which Comey shared on Instagram but has since removed, showed the numbers "8647" etched in the sand at a beach. The numbers are perceived as a call to "86" the 47th president, which is used as a call sign for murder.
Misty Severi (Just The News)

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America’s air traffic control system is blinking red with warning after a midair collision, several harrowing outages, and a staffing shortage. Now Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is adding to the worries by revealing the Federal Aviation Administration is resorting to using eBay and 3D printers to replace parts for antiquated computer systems.
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As crisis grows at U.S. airports, feds are buying replacement parts on eBay or 3D printing them

The nation's airline traffic control system is blinking red with warning after a midair collision, several outages, a worker shortage and an antiquated computer system.
Steven Richards (Just The News)

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In the final days of President Donald Trump's excursion across the Middle East, Iran was clearly experiencing a serious case of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out.)
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Trump used his first foreign trip to further isolate Iran, and forced Tehran to blink

If Trump’s peace proposals and partnerships with Syria, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf nations congeal, it would mean unprecedented peace in the region and fewer American resources, lives and treasure expended there.
Amanda Head (Just The News)

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President Donald Trump is back in the White House following a historic victory in November, and Republicans hold majorities in both chambers of Congress. GOP voters are, predictably, feeling good about their political future, but Democrats are struggling. According to an Associated Press/NORC poll published this week, 55% of Republican voters are “optimistic” about the party’s future, up from 47% in July 2024.
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Poll: Dems ‘Pessimistic’ about Party’s Direction, GOP Has Bright Future

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A major new report is exposing Chinese spies infiltrating one of America’s top universities. The Stanford Review published an exposé last week, revealing that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has embedded spies at Stanford University as part of a far-reaching intelligence-gathering operation aimed at collecting low-level data on research — particularly in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence — and piecing together a far more significant whole.
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Big Trouble, Big China: CCP Spies Have Infiltrated American Universities

A major new report is exposing Chinese spies infiltrating one of America's top universities. The Stanford Review published an exposé last week, revealing that t
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16.05.2025 Offener Brief gegen eine Bezahlkarte


Diskriminierend und verfassungswidrig

Gegen "Digitalisierung ohne Nachzudenken" haben wir schon oft protestiert, aber wir sind auch gegen "Digitalisierung um anderen zu schaden". Letzteres ist das Ziel bei den Versuchen Geflüchtete zu zwingen bargeldlos mit einer "Bezahlkarte" ihren Lebensunterhalt zu bestreiten und ihnen die Nutzung von Bargeld zu verweigern.

Dies führt zu einer weiteren Stigmatisierung und Ausgrenzung - Menschenrechte müssen für alle gelten! Gegen die Bezahlkarte für Flüchtlinge sprechen ernstzunehmende grundsätzliche Bedenken sowie schwerwiegende Probleme bei der praktischen Umsetzung. Neben den Nachteilen für die Geflüchteten kommt auf die Kommunen ein beträchtlicher Verwaltungsaufwand und die Kosten für die Karten und technischen Geräte zu. Auch sind die Sozialämter bei Verlust oder Defekt der Bezahlkarte im jeweiligen Einzelfall gehalten, die Karte zu sperren und eine neue Karte auszugeben. Daraus kann sich eine Endlosschleife entwickeln.

In der Boulevardpresse wird das Modell mit rassistischen Motiven bejubelt, in der Praxis müssen die ausgebenden Kommunen jedoch eine Vielzahl an zusätzlichen Arbeiten bewältigen, wie Absprachen mit den Händlern der Umgebung über die Annahme der Karte, über die "Grenzen der Gültigkeit in einer Region", Erstattungen bei Rückgabe eines Artikels, u.s.w.
Diskriminierend und verfassungswidrig

Entscheidend ist für uns jedoch die eindeutige Verfassungswidrigkeit der Maßnahmen - auch aus unserem Eigeninteresse - denn wir wollen nicht irgendwann ebenfalls dazu gezwungen werden nur noch mit einer Karte bezahlen zu müssen. Geflüchtete Menschen sollen nun mit dieser Karte in ihrer Freiheit eingeschränkt werden, Verträge abzuschließen – egal ob Versicherungen, Telefonverträge, Online-Einkäufe oder das Deutschlandticket. Kein Bargeld oder eine Begrenzung des Barbetrags erschwert es den Betroffenen, in Geschäften oder auf Märkten einzukaufen, die keine (Debit-)Kartenzahlung bieten. Ihre Kinder werden diskriminiert, weil ihnen das Taschengeld für den Schulausflug oder die Schulkantine fehlt und von der Nutzung von Münzen für die Benutzung öffentlicher Toiletten sind sie alle ausgeschlossen. Über unsere auch nicht unwichtigen Datenschutzbedenken als Aktion Freiheit statt Angst e.V. wollen wir angesichts der genannten viel gravierenden Verletzungen ihrer Menschenwürde hier nicht auch noch reden.

Offener Brief an die Landesregierungen und Kommunen

Deshalb wollen wir alle Menschen ermutigen, sich ebenfalls gegenüber Ihrem Stadt-/Gemeinderat gegen die Einführung einer Bezahlkarte auszusprechen! Der Druck auf die kommunale Seite ist wichtig, weil diese sich mit dieser Unterstützung durch die Menschen vor Ort gegen ihren oben skizzierten Zusatzaufwand gegenüber der Landesregierung wehren kann.

Aktion Freiheit statt Angst e.V. ist jedenfalls Unterstützer des Offenen Briefs an den Berliner Senat und im unten angegebenen Link finden sich die Argumente und der Link zum Brief der Initiative gegen die Bezahlkarte, beispielhaft in NRW. Die Initiative gegen die Bezahlkarte ist auch in den anderen Bundesländern aktiv.

Mehr dazu bei frnrw.de/themen-a-z/sozialleis…
und der Berliner Offene Brief aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/…
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Tags: #Digitalisierung #Bezahlkarte #Soziales #Gleichberechtigung #Diskriminierung #Ungleichbehandlung #Grundrechte #Menschenrechte #Asyl #Flucht #Folter #Abschiebung #Migration

20250516 Offener Brief gegen eine Bezahlkarte

Für Freiheitsrechte, gegen Massen-Überwachung und Sicherheitswahn
www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org

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What’s more challenging than a party with deep divisions? A party with deep divisions running on no sleep. Thanks to a handful of committee overnighters, where members slogged through hundreds of amendments to the “one, big, beautiful bill,” Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) chamber is more than a little irritable.
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All-Nighters Bring the House One Step Closer to Trump’s Agenda

What's more challenging than a party with deep divisions? A party with deep divisions running on no sleep. Thanks to a handful of committee overnighters, where
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“Selective Maintenance”

The scaffolding stayed up
long after the workers stopped coming.
Paint chips collected like old promises
in the cracks no one claimed responsibility for.

(they say it’s unsafe
but only for some)

Hallways dimmed by policy
light bulbs never replaced —
one floor at a time
became too inconvenient to inspect.

Vacant units appear in clusters
like bruises
spreading across the map.

“Uninhabitable,”
they write,
in bold type and disappearing ink.

(the rent was too high
until it wasn’t
until no one you knew could reach it)

Mailboxes sealed.
Elevators whisper a different name
on their way down.

There is no memo about removal,
just an absence —
of noise,
of shoes outside the door,
of stories in the stairwell.

(the lights stay on
but not for you)

A new listing appears
with curated ivy and imported stone.
The rent floats in rare air
untroubled by living wages.

They'll say it’s revitalization,
a revival.
A clean slate —
but only certain hands
are allowed to write the next chapter.

(you were always temporary
they just hadn’t told you yet)

TsL. 25
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Tony Langmach

Ich danke dir von ganzem Herzen für deine Fürsorge und deine Gedanken, lieber Freund.@aga. 🫶🙏
In ganz Dänemark ist alles teurer geworden, sowohl die Wohnung als auch die Lebensmittel usw..
Es gab bereits eine Reihe von schriftlichen Beschwerden und auch viele Treffen mit der Wohnungsbaugesellschaft (in der ich wohne), bei denen sich die Leute beschwert haben.
Bis jetzt hat es leider nicht geholfen 🤬😓.

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The nation’s leading abortion business “failed in attempting to rewrite the science of human development,” as a state Supreme Court ruled that the term “fetal heartbeat” legally protects unborn children from abortion at six weeks.
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‘Clear and Decisive Victory’: South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds ‘Heartbeat Law’

The nation's leading abortion business "failed in attempting to rewrite the science of human development," as a state Supreme Court ruled that the term "fetal h
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« Quand quelqu'un se sent en droit de demander à un Palestinien de condamner les horreurs et les crimes du #7octobre – après des décennies d'occupation brutale , de dépossession , de massacres successifs , de tortures et d'humiliations – je cesse de le prendre au sérieux . L'autorité morale ne vient pas d'une mémoire sélective .»


Francesca #ALBANESE , rapporteuse spéciale des Nations Unies pour les territoires palestiniens occupés.

#Israel #Israël #genocide #Gaza #Cisjordanie #Palestine

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Ollama violating llama.cpp license for over a year

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ollama doesn't distribute notice licenses in its release artifacts · Issue #3185 · ollama/ollama

What is the issue? ollama uses projects like llama.cpp as a statically linked dependency. The terms of the MIT license require that it distribute the copyright notice in both source and binary form...
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shortstories

Basically employees get taxed, then the government pays their employer to do various jobs which violate the constituition for the government to do but it gets claimed that it is ok because a private sector corporation is doing it under free trade and free market capitalism which is a anti fascist anti communist system instead of evil socialism

Basically the poor employees are taxed to pay the rich CEOs to pay their employees to violate each others rights

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Washington Floats Revival of NATO-Russia Council as Trump-Backed Peace Push Gains Momentum

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Washington Floats Revival of NATO-Russia Council as Trump-Backed Peace Push Gains Momentum | The Gateway Pundit | by Robert Semonsen

            In a striking turn of events that signals a possible recalibration of US foreign policy priorities, Washington has quietly proposed restarting long-dormant security talks with Moscow through the NATO-Russia Council (NRC), according to rep…
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Either Palestine… or Fire[hell], Generation After Generation: PFLP


In the face of the renewed Nakba… we resist, we unite, and we move toward return and liberation.

To the masses of our steadfast people in the homeland and diaspora…
To the free people of our Arab nation…
To the free people of the world everywhere…

On May 15th, we mark the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, our open wound that has not healed, and a painful turning point in human history, when zionist gangs, with the full support of colonial powers, committed one of the most horrific crimes of the modern era: the systematic ethnic cleansing of our Palestinian people, their displacement, the destruction of hundreds of cities and villages, and the planting of a racist settler entity on the ruins of our homeland.

The Nakba represented a pivotal moment in the history of our people, a profound revelation of the nature of the zionist project as a racist, colonialist, and uprooting tool aimed at erasing Palestinian national identity and existence, seizing land, and displacing the Palestinian people. Since that moment, the chapters of the Nakba have not ceased, but have continued in renewed forms of killing, massacres, expulsion, discrimination, impoverishment, and siege.

Today, the Nakba is being replayed in a more bloody and barbaric form in the Gaza Strip, where our people are subjected to a genocide war unprecedented in modern history. The occupation machine is carrying out the most heinous forms of killing, destruction, starvation, and displacement. Hospitals, schools, and displacement camps are being bombed amidst a stifling siege, international complicity, international silence, and direct American partnership.

On this painful anniversary, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, while commemorating the steadfastness of our people across the homeland and in exile, from Gaza to the West Bank, from Al-Quds to the 1948 territories, and from the diaspora camps to forced exile, affirms the following:

First: Our conflict with the zionist entity is a comprehensive, historic struggle that will only be resolved by achieving our people’s full national rights, at the heart of which are the right of return, self-determination, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on all Palestinian soil with Al-Quds as its capital. The Palestinian cause will remain the core of the Arab-zionist conflict until the roots of the Nakba are eradicated and the occupation ends.

Second: The true response to the Nakba and its repercussions is to build a unified resistance front and formulate a comprehensive national strategy that embraces resistance in all its forms, with armed struggle at its forefront. This strategy reaffirms the PLO as a comprehensive and unified national framework, based on partnership and democracy and in accordance with national consensus decisions. This strategy aims to block the path to monopolization and hegemony, harness the energies of our people wherever they reside, and enable them to express their will to resist the occupation until liberation and return.

Third: In light of these ongoing chapters of crime, the top priority today is to stop the genocide war against our people in the Gaza Strip, end their suffering, break the siege, begin reconstruction, and embark on a political path based on the inalienable national rights of our people.

Fourth: We warn against attempts to impose renewed “Nakba” under the guise of expansionist colonialist liquidation projects such as the “Abraham Accords,” a “New Middle East,” and other dubious schemes aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause.

Fifth: Confronting attempts to liquidate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is of paramount importance in light of zionist-American plans aimed at erasing the refugee issue and the right of return.Targeting UNRWA in Gaza—through the destruction of its facilities and staff, the closure of its institutions in Al-Quds, and the prevention of its operations in the West Bank is part of a systematic plan to liquidate the refugee issue.

Sixth: We renew our call for complete liberation from the Oslo Accords and its consequences, ending the PA’s obligations resulting from them, halting security coordination and all forms of persecution of the resistance, reversing all dangerous and arbitrary decisions regarding allocations for the families of martyrs, prisoners, the wounded, and the freed, severing all forms of dependence on American-zionist projects, and moving towards building a unified arena of struggle that expresses the free will of the Palestinian people.

Seventh: The masses of our nation, its intellectuals, and its vital forces must rise up to support our struggle and confront the genocide war against our people. They must reject all forms of normalization with the zionist enemy, and confront the project of neo-colonial hegemony and plans to fragment the region.

Eighth: We salute with reverence the steadfastness of the brotherly Yemeni people, who have faced aggression and blockade for years. Today, they continue—through their courageous positions and popular and official initiatives—to provide support for our cause and affirm our unity of destiny and struggle by imposing new deterrent equations that extend deep into the zionist entity in support of Gaza. We also salute the valiant Lebanese resistance, which has been and continues to be a solid supporter of our people and resistance, a partner in the battle to defend Palestine, and a confirmation of the cohesion of the resistance fronts in the face of the zionist project.

Ninth: We highly appreciate the cries of solidarity that have risen from the streets and universities of Washington, London, Madrid, Brussels, Johannesburg, and all the capitals and cities of the world in support of Gaza, in rejection of the aggression, and in support of our people’s just rights. The rise of international solidarity constitutes an advanced front in the battle to stop the war, break the siege, expose the crimes of the occupation, and hold it accountable at the international level.

🔻The masses of our people… O sons of our Arab nation… O free people of the world…

On the anniversary of the Nakba, we renew our pledge to our people, to the souls of our martyrs, to our prisoners, and to our wounded, that the Popular Front will remain a voice of truth, a shield of resistance, a guardian of national principles, and a staunch defender of the right of return, which is neither forfeited nor negotiable. As the wise George Habash said: “We cannot guarantee the future of our generations while the zionist disease remains on Arab land.”

Greetings to our resistant people in all arenas.
Greetings to our male and female prisoners in the occupation’s prisons.

Glory and immortality to the martyrs… and we will inevitably be victorious.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
May 14, 2025

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Amusant : à la télé guignolo premier s'est amusé à name-drop un chercheur, Gabriel Zucman.


Et ce dernier prends le temps de lui répondre. Pour lui dire que, évidemment, il n'a rien compris.
(Faire la différence en ses opinions biaisées et les faits scientifiques, c'est toujours difficile à comprendre pour un taliban libéral comme Macron)

#Politique
#Economie
#Zucman
#Macron
#TalibansLibéraux
#TaxerLesRiches

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Attached: 1 video Amusant : à la télé guignolo premier s'est amusé à name-drop un chercheur, Gabriel Zucman. Et ce dernier prends le temps de lui répondre. Pour lui dire que, évidemment, il n'a rien compris.
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Américo DA SILVA

Le bidule a un peu trop sorti le bout de son nez, Macron commence par dire que ça ne peut pas marcher juste avant de lancer la campagne médiatique, pour finir par tordre le bras s'il le faut des sénateurs récalcitrants.
Le problème peut éventuellement venir des grandes fortunes eux-mêmes, pouvant craindre une crispation générale, amenant à en prendre beaucoup plus...

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ARM chips from AMD & Nvidia!

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The Friday Checkout — ARM chips from AMD & Nvidia!

This week leaks say AMD and Nvidia are both expected to launch new Windows on ARM chips at CES and Computex respectively, Google announced big updates to Android, including material design expressive, and they also teased the Pixel glasses.
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نكتة القرن: ترامب رجل سلام.. رفع الحصار عن سورية بعد التطبيع.. والتريليونات مقابل حماية وهمية thealtworld.substack.com/p/023

نكتة القرن: ترامب رجل سلام.. رفع الحصار عن سورية بعد التطبيع.. والتريليونات مقابل حماية وهمية

Abdel Bair Atwan
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Gesellschaft - SOS Kinderdörfer warnen vor weltweit immer mehr Repressalien gegen Transgender-Personen


Mit der weltweiten Zunahme der Zahl autoritärer Regime verschärft sich laut der Hilfsorganisation SOS-Kinderdörfer in vielen Ländern die Rechtslage für Transgender-Personen.
Gesellschaft - SOS Kinderdörfer warnen vor weltweit immer mehr Repressalien gegen Transgender-Personen

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Horace: In adversity, remember to keep an even mind. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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Trump’s Middle East theatricals were all about putting Bibi in his place strategic-culture.su/news/2025…

Trump’s Middle East theatricals were all about putting Bibi in his place

Trump is literally taking control of U.S. foreign policy in the region and pushing back Israel’s attempts to bomb its way to peace. Join us…
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Macron VS Pedro Sanchez (Espagne) et Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brésil), au sujet du génocide à Gaza


Macron au sujet du génocide à Gaza : "C’est pas à un responsable politique d’employer ces termes, c’est aux historiens en temps voulu. C’est pas à un président de la République de dire si c’est un génocide ou pas."

Pedro Sanchez ( #Espagne) : "Nous ne commerçons pas avec un état génocidaire."

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ( #Brésil): "Il faut mettre fin au #génocide dans la bande de #Gaza."

Tom #Fletcher, chef de l'humanitaire de l' #ONU interpelle le Conseil de sécurité.
"Pour ceux qui sont tués ou réduits au silence, allez vous agir de façon décisive pour empêcher un génocide et s’assurer que le droit humanitaire international soit respecté?"


#France #politique #pipolitique #macronie #macron
#Israel #US-Israel #US-Israel-terrorism #Google #Microsoft #genocide #Gaza #WestBank #Cisjordanie #Palestine

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[Update: Done ✅]

Fellow EU citizens, please join me in signing this petition in favour of an EU-wide ban of conversion therapy, a medieval practice that needs to be outlawed.

This petition has made immense gains in the last few days and we’re not far off the goal, but it’s only two more days, so please join, it takes less than a minute: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…


European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !
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Trump’s ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’ Game With Iran southfront.press/trumps-good-c…

Trump's 'Good Cop, Bad Cop' Game With Iran

Until just a few weeks ago, a US attack on Iran seemed almost like a done deal. This isn't exactly out of the ordinary for Republican governments, as they tend to be more aggressive toward Tehran, and the Trump administration is no different in that …
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Imagine If Gaza Was Jewish And The People Bombing It Were Muslims


#Gaza #genocide

If Gaza was populated by Jews and the people massacring its inhabitants were Muslims, nobody would have any trouble calling this thing what it is. The words “genocide” and “Holocaust” would’ve been appearing in the news every single day for the last 19 months.


caitlinjohnst.one/p/imagine-if…


Imagine If Gaza Was Jewish And The People Bombing It Were Muslims

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)

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Wenn Nazis und ihre Steigbügelhalter bei Sanktionen gegen dich klatschen, hat man alles richtig gemacht.

Die Nazi-Fraktion auf FB kennt natürlich nur eine Form des Anstands: anständige Kleidung. Jede andere Form von Anstand ist ihnen völlig unbekannt.

fr.de/politik/baskenmuetze-fue…


Baskenmütze führt zum Rauswurf

Die Abgeordneten müssen sich im Bundestag an eine Reihe von Regeln halten. Das hat jetzt auch ein Parlamentarier der Linken festgestellt.
www.fr.de

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Quoting Amy Spitalnick of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs on how the Trump administration’s focus on “combating antisemitism” undermines Jewish safety by fostering fear and selective enforcement:

[…] "The ways in which the administration is exploiting the Jewish community's legitimate fears and concerns about antisemitism is ultimately undermining Jewish safety."

Spitalnick argues that the administration uses #antisemitism as a pretext to justify actions such as deporting pro-Palestinian student protesters and cutting funding to universities, while ignoring or downplaying antisemitic ties within its own ranks, such as key figures such as Paul Ingrassia, Rachel Cauley, and Ed Martin, who have affiliations with antisemitic or extremist ideologies.

npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-53872…

H/t @Peter_Link

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide
#IsraelWarCrimes
#ihra
#OatemealQuotes

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“A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house.... The law will of necessity have inquisical features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies…

Quotation by Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr.

"A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house....
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Many people in Gaza have shared what they believed to be their final message yesterday, as Israel's siege intensified following the decision in parliament to take over the entire Gaza strip, as well as demonstrations surrounding May 15th occurring, the Nakba remembrance day.

Current numbers say that 143 people were killed by Israeli airstrikes in yesterday's attacks alone, with dozens still missing under the rubble of destroyed buildings.

The Nakba, an ethnic cleansing that launched 1947 by predecessors of the IDF, “only” violently displaced 750.000 people.

The currently ongoing Gaza genocide has already displaced over 1.900.000 people, and killed 53.000 people (lowest estimate), whilst the largest offensive has yet to start.

I wonder how many Palestinians will be murdered for daring to remember the current genocide.

Many Screenshots from Twitter sharing the following messages: Motasem A. Dalloul: We're being eliminated now Osama Abu Rabee: Intense escalation in Gaza right now... consecutive airstrikes are hitting the city from all directions. Mosab Abu Toha: Breaking breaking: Israel is insanely bombing Gaza. Friends there tell me. Stop the hell!!! Zinah: It's hell tonight. Gaza's sky is bleeding red! What the hell are these new bombs using?! Mosab Abu Toha: Our families are in danger. Every... Stop stop stop. Shame on you!!!! Mhammedziad: Pray for me and for my family please the situation is so bad we're so scared. Tamer Nahed: We're being eliminated now, we will never forgive you. The bombing never stops, they've gone crazy!!! Can anyone hear us!!!! Afif Aqrabawi: Israel is raining hell on Gaza right now! Families are being bombed relentless while starving. Children are dying in the dark. No food, no water, no way out. Non-stop massacres unfolding in real time. Sarah: I swear the bombing is crazy tonight it's worse than yesterday idk what's wrong with them !!!!

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If you are using generative "#AI" at work, you'll likely be looked down upon by your colleagues. No surprises in the results of this study.

What is both exhilarating and surprising are the euphemisms the paper uses.

In all experimental setups, participants were expressly told it was all about "generative [sic] AI tools".

The paper concludes, though:

"The experiments reported in this research support our core prediction that individuals expect and receive a social evaluation penalty for receiving assistance from AI."

Funny how they're paraphrasing bullshit generation as "receiving assistance", and keep glorifying #GenAI expressly as "productivity-enhancing tools", yielding "productivity gains". Both praises appear in a myriad of places, throughout the paper.

Ironically, that paper in itself demonstrates why such adulation receives well-deserved contempt.

pnas.org/doi/suppl/10.1073/pna…

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“[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Church charities lose their mission when the government provides food, shelter and income to the poor. And the non-poor no longer feel pressed to provide aid to those in need, be they aged parents or their unfortunate neighbors—“compassion” having become …

Quotation by Mona Charen

"[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
LibertyQuotes

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Gaza’s Graveyard of Illusions: How Israel’s Narrative Collides with Military Failure #Palestine ramzybaroud.net/gazas-graveyar…

Gaza's Graveyard of Illusions: How Israel's Narrative Collides with Military Failure - Politics For The People

Israel has clearly failed to secure any genuine or lasting victory, and the obvious solution is for Israel to be reined in and held accountable for its crimes in Gaza and throughout Palestine.
admin (Politics For The People)

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“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.”

~ Edmund Burke
(1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker
April 3, 1777, letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol

Quotation by Edmund Burke

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts." ~ Edmund Burke
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Microsoft entzieht einem Staatsanwalt des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs den Zugriff auf dessen E-Mails.

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Microsoft kappt einer Universität in China (!) den Zugang zu deren Cloud-Dienste.

Also, nur mal so aus Neugierde:
Liebe Unternehmen, Einrichtungen, Institute, Universitäten, ... in Deutschland:
Fühlt ihr euch noch wohl, wenn ihr in eurer IT-Landschaft weiterhin auf Produkte aus dem Hause Microsoft setzt?
Oder überhaupt auf irgendeine Software "Made in USA"?

Ja, ganz sicher?

social.anoxinon.de/@RoedigerRG/114507201227166306

#Microsoft#UnplugTrump#UnplugUSA#ITsecurity#CyberSecurity

RoedigerRG (@RoedigerRG@social.anoxinon.de)

#Microsoft abruptly cuts Microsoft 365 services – including OneDrive, OneNote, and SharePoint to Chinese university, genomics firm https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3305889/microsoft-abruptly-cuts-services-chinese-university-genomics-firm
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Horace: As money grows, care follows it and the hunger for more. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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Tomorrow's #SNL (50th Season Finale too) is going to be so fucking epic I can't wait. #ColinJost is getting roasted so bad and the Joke Swap with #MichaelChe is going to be borderline illegal it's going to be so BRUTAL! And with #ScarlettJohannsan hosting... holy fuck. BRING IT ON!

BRING. IT. ON!!!! Can't wait.

youtu.be/_3AL6oiXKkY


Scarlett Johansson Thinks the Season Finale Will Be Bigger Than the SNL50 Anniversary Special

Scarlett Johansson is hosting Saturday Night Live with musical guest Bad Bunny on May 17, 2025.Saturday Night Live. Stream now on Peacock: https://pck.tv/3n1...
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xianc78

@beardalaxy @LukeAlmighty How is it retarded? It would actually be beneficial for some children to be sold. Children who live in poverty can live a better life if their mothers sold them and the mothers will receive compensation for doing so.

mises.org/mises-daily/children…


Children and Rights

The absolute right to run away is the child's ultimate expression of his right of self-ownership, regardless of age.
Murray N. Rothbard (Mises Institute)

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"Beyond comprehension"

ORG has responded to the government's plans to rely on the deeply flawed eVisa scheme to carry out immigration raids and deport people.

As ORG's @sarahalsherif says, "with the use of technology, automated decision-making and AI, we can expect to see a Windrush scandal on steroids."

Read the full story ➡️ computerweekly.com/news/366623…

Write to your MP to say NO ➡️ action.openrightsgroup.org/wri…

#eVisa #immigration #ukpolitics #ukpol #migrants


UK government outlines plan to surveil migrants with eVisa data

Electronic visa data and biometric technologies will be used by the UK’s immigration enforcement authorities to surveil migrants living in the country and to ‘tighten control of the border’, attracting strong criticism from migrant support groups
Sebastian Klovig Skelton (ComputerWeekly.com)

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Grok's white genocide fixation caused by 'unauthorized modification'

Link: theverge.com/news/668220/grok-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Grok’s white genocide fixation caused by ‘unauthorized modification’

Elon Musk’s xAI says it’s working to improve transparency and reliability after a rogue employee modified Grok to talk nonstop about South Africa.
Dominic Preston (The Verge)
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