what does this tell you that whitney webb is allowed to have an account on mastodon social? mastodon.social/@whitneywebb
she's obviously not threatening the globalist world order in any meaningful way.
this comports with my general impression of her. she definitely talks a lot, but never puts out anything of consequence.
Filled with nearly 6,700 pounds of supplies, science investigations, equipment, and food, the spacecraft arrived at the space station on April 22 afterNASA
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Horror: Illegal Accused of Stabbing Mother and Unborn Child to Death in South Carolina
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Pedro Mondragon-Ramirez, a 41-year-old illegal, is accused of stabbing a woman and her unborn baby to death during an argument.Margaret Flavin (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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Israeli authorities have compelled three Palestinian families in Occupied Jerusalem to demolish their homes—two in Sur Baher, south of the city, and one in Wadi al-Joz, near the Old City.The Palestinian Information Center
Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet
Link: agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/
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COLOMBO, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday reaffirmed his uen.people.cn
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Russian Rubikon's drones target and destroy Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs Rossa Primavera News from RussiaAvis Krane (Rossa Primavera International News)
I just stopped to look up what pilkunnussija means.
Absolutely wonderful post demonstrating why meeting people where they're at works and why it's such fun to be one of today's lucky 10,000
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@mtconleyuk@mastodonapp.uk @forrcaho@hachyderm.io @dctucker@mastodon.world No, this is 10,000,000% wrong.Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net
Lenin: The tsar's troops were victorious over the workers in Moscow. This victory has not enfeebled the vanquished, but has only welded them more closely together, deepened their hatred, and brought them closer to the practical tasks of a serious struggle. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- 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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Politics - PKK declares self-dissolution. A new era of peace in Türkiye? - the dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers’ PartyАлександр Сваранц (New Eastern Outlook)
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Outstanding from Lammy. Impossible to tolerate the moral oblivion into which Netanyahu has dragged Israel.
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Foreign Secretary David Lammy suspends UK-Israel trade negotiations and summons the Israeli ambassador over IDF actions in Gaza, which he says are "incompatible with the principles that underpin our bilateral relations" and an "affront to the values of the British people."
#Football / Are some European nations moving to ban Israeli sports teams?
As reported by Israeli right-wing populist Ynet, without disclosing sources, #Spain, Belgium and Scandinavian countries reportedly organizing to suspend #Israel from international sports competitions, similar to Russia/Belarus sanctions. Movement targets #FIFA, #UEFA, #FIBA and #Olympic federations following Spanish PM Sánchez calling Israel an "apartheid state" and French President Macron suggesting EU-Israel trade agreement review.
If implemented, Israeli teams would be barred from competing under national flag internationally. No confirmation from sports bodies yet.
@palestine
@israel
#gazagenocide
#SportsPolitics
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»Yair Golan issues a scathing denunciation of the government and the war in Gaza, saying that Israel is killing children in Gaza “as a hobby.”
“Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country,” the left-wing leader, a former IDF deputy chief of staff
“And a sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not give itself the aim of expelling populations”«
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Etwa das war leider auch das was bei ihm zu erwarten war.
Er hat spricht die israelische Armee frei davon Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit begangen zu haben, am Ende haben sie für ihn quasi nur Befehle befolgt, vielleicht ja noch nicht mal das.
Es ist eine Art der Kritik, die jede Selbstreflektion innerhalb der Armee, und jedes ethische Fundament innerhalb der Armee unmöglich macht, weil das eigene Handeln gar nicht reflektiert werden muss/soll.
TEHRAN, May 20 (MNA) – Iranian Ambassador to London Ali Mousavi held a meeting with the British security minister to discuss the bilateral relations between Iran and the United Kingdom.Mehr News Agency
It's always Follow The $$$ - killing children doesn't stop them because they have no conscience.
Doctors pimping shots; they don't care if it's safe & effective.
Social Media is BETTR with GETTR. BETTR community. BETTR technology. BETTR opportunity.GETTR - The Marketplace of Ideas
Doctors didn't question the Covid jabs, they were too busy pimping them. I, personally, don't give any of them a pass. Doctors are still jabbing pregnant women, babies, & giving 72 jabs to children from birth until adulthood.
And, yes, they're not practicing medicine. We're truly on our own.
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Show HN: 90s.dev - game maker that runs on the web
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Голос Кореи,Voice of Korea,Voz de Corea,صوت كوريا ,Stimme Koreas,공화국,vokwww.vok.rep.kp
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When I was laid off from my low-paying dream job at the time, at the end of 2022, most of my prior coworkers found new work within two months, whereas I was unemployed for most of 2023.
Then I worked from last summer until last month, and here we are again applying for jobs again.
Wouldn't it be nice if we had it like the EU where you couldn't be fired at the drop of a hat because you're disabled?
🔥WOW: Secretary Rubio just CALLED OUT Tim Kaine for complaining about White South African refugees
“You just don’t like the fact that they're White.”
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The latest Worldwide Embalmer White Fibrous Clot Survey — a multi-year investigation documenting the sudden and widespread appearance of anomalous clots in the deceased – has revealed a striking rise since COVID-19 vaccination. Nicolas Hulscher of the Courageous Discourse Substack has more.
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In one of the most serious condemnations of Israel's war from these countries, the leaders wrote that the denial of aid to Gazans 'risks breaching international humanitarian law' ■ A source told the Washington Post that 'Trump's people are letting Is…Liza Rozovsky (Haaretz)
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Ich bin zwar nicht der französische Philosoph Stéphane Hessel, aber ich sage: Empört euch! Nein, ich sage noch mehr: Radikalisiert euch! Radikalisiert euch angesichts der deutschen MülltrennungspraxisNiUS.de
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Die AfD ist die zweitstärkste Fraktion - und bekommt im Bundestag trotzdem einen viel zu kleinen Sitzungsaal zugewiesen. Ihre Abgeordneten klagen über Benachteiligung.Max Roland (Apollo News)
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Al Lewis: The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. It's not an accident. Never underestimate your opponent. Their fucking machine works twenty-four hours a day, man. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- 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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In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
Berlin-Wedding: 24-Jähriger geschlagen, weil er Christ istNiUS.de
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Ferhat Kurtay, Eşref Anyık, Mahmut Zengin
ve Necmi Öner: Kürt Ulusal Direnişinin 18 Mayıs’ı…
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12 Eylül Askeri Darbesini yapan Generallerin yegâne görevi Kürdistan’daki ulusal ve sınıfsal uyanışı ve Türkiye’deki sınıf mücadelesini boğmak değildi; düşüncenin de tasfiyesi planlanmıştı.
Devrimcileri hapsetmek, ezmek, fiziki olarak ortadan kaldırmak bir çare değildi, bunu onlar da biliyordu.
Kesin çözüm, ütopyayı ortadan kaldırmaktı, bu da ancak içeriden kuşatmayla mümkün olabilirdi. Bu bakımdan, bunun karşısında direnebilecek kadroların ezilmesi gerekiyordu. Mesela bu yapılmadan Öcalan yolu açılamaz, Kürdistan’ın Türkiyelileşmesi bir “siyasi zafer” olarak Kürtlere sunulamazdı.
Diyarbakır 5 No’lu Cezaevi, tasfiye planının 1 numaralı merkeziydi. Tutsakların bu saldırılara karşı koyacak tek silahları vardı, çıplak bedenlerinde vücut bulmuş olan iradeleri.
Onları acı ve ölümle tehdit eden düşman, ancak ölüm yenilgiye uğratılarak, bu silah düşmanın elinden alınarak yenilgiye uğratılabilirdi.
Mazlum Doğan’ın kendi canına kıyması tam da buydu: O, düşmana şu mesajı vermişti:
“Beni ölümle korkutamazsın, senin elinden o silahı alıp seni silahsız bırakıyorum.”
Mazlum’un ölümü, tutsakları savunma hattından saldırı hattına taşımıştır; onun bayrağı Ferhat Kurtay, Eşref Anyık, Mahmut Zengin ve Necmi Öner tarafından devralındı: Onlar da bedenlerini ateşe vererek Mazlum Doğan’ın yaktığı ateşin alevlerinin bütün Kürdistan’a yayılmasını sağladılar. Tarih: 17 Mayıs 1982 idi.
Hayri Durmuş, Kemal Pir, Akif Yılmaz ve Ali Çiçek ise açlıkla açlığı yendiler.
Açlıktan bitap düşmüş bedenlerini düşmana siper ederek, Mazlum Doğan, Ferhat Kurtay ve yoldaşları tarafından kazanılan mevzide direndiler.
Düşman bir kez yenilgiye uğratılmış, tutsaklar ve onların nezdinde Kürt ulusal direnişi teslim alınmamış, Kürdistan’ın üzerini kaplayan gri bulutlar dağılmaya başlamıştı.
Ne var ki bu yeterli olmadı, dışarıdan kuşatan düşman yenilgiye uğratıldı ama düşmanın içeriden kuşatması önlenemedi ve bugünlere gelindi.
Sonuç ne olursa olsun, Ferhat Kurtay ve yoldaşlarının yaktıkları ateş gelecek kuşaklara yol göstermeye devam edecek.
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The Yemeni army says it has imposed a naval blockade on the Israeli-occupied Haifa port in response to the regime’s escalation of genocidal crimes in Gaza.PressTV
Welche Massnahme ergreift die Regierung?
Richtig, noch mehr davon einfliegen.
In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
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Just say no to SaaS, or Software as a Service, a cloud-based delivery model where users access software applications through the internet, typically on a subscription basis. You think it couldn't happen to you until one day through no fault of your own your cut off as these innocent Russians (please note the distinction, Russians, ordinary people, are NOT the government, of which the later is evil everywhere, be it the Russian government or some other government like that of the United States, or your local state or city government) found out the hard way:
pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/05…
Maybe try Super Tux (the best game EVER!) instead:
Or Super Tux Cart instead:
SuperTuxKart is a 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play.supertuxkart.net
Most other platforming games at something to the table or do something different. Sonic has you run into enemies. Kirby has you swallow them and copy their abilities.
SuperTux IS a clone. Even the enemies in the game function the same as the ones from Mario, just with different appearances. It's not a bad game per se. I played it before and enjoyed it. But it feels like most of these libre games don't bring anything new to the table and there is no reason to play them unless you are committed to only using 100% free/libre software.
My main point was to bring up that you don't need to only play FOSS games to avoid the bad business practices of the modern AAA industry.
Hmm, true, you could just not play games too. Playing proprietary (I don't mean assets, just code) games is just wrong. So many better things you could be doing with your time. I'm far from anal when it comes software freedom, but I also don't make excuses for gaming companies. I was mostly OK with what ID did back in the day for example with many games like doom with the release of source code, but licensed the art assets. If you wanted the full game you paid for a copy. The software though you could install for free and the source for that matter.
A majority of the American people view the economy as ‘strong’ for the first time since July of 2021, according to a new Harvard/Harris poll.
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A majority of the American people view the economy as ‘strong’ for the first time since July of 2021, according to a new Harvard/Harris poll.Mike LaChance (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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Caitlin Johnstone- When Biden finally dies there will be people falling all over themselves to sanctify his image and grieve him as a kind and beneficent leader, and ....thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
Musk recently stepped back from his Trump administration Special Government Employee role of leadership of DOGE to focus on his businesses, especially Tesla which was the target of violent attacks over his efforts to reform the federal government and rein in deficit spending.
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After spending about $260 million helping elect President Trump and Republicans last year, Elon Musk said Tuesday he does not plan on spending large amounts of money on elections, saying, “I think I’ve done enough,” but did not entirely rul…Kristinn Taylor (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
A brawl involving more than 300 youth broke out Saturday at a New Jersey mall, leading to seven arrests.
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More than 300 youth ran wild at a New Jersey mall Saturday night, with seven being arrested. One police officer was injured.The Western Journal (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
I thought they were banned in the EU, but apparently it just means that you can't anonymously hold crypto. My mistake.
I think self custody is allowed and privacy coins aren't banned so much as exchanges and the like are being harassed and threatened into not supporting them. The later is certainly the case in the US.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is facing fierce backlash from conservatives after downplaying the chilling July 13th assassination attempt on President Donald J. Trump at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally — and none other than Trump’s former spokesperson, Liz Harrington, is leading the charge.
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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is facing fierce backlash from conservatives after downplaying the chilling July 13th assassination attempt on President Donald J.Jim Hᴏft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
One Republican in particular found himself in Trump's cross hairs: Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who has criticized the bill.
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Trump’s ’One Big, Beautiful Bill’ hangs in the balance, and with it, permanent tax cuts, extra border security funding, and other items supported by GOP voters.Amanda Head (Just The News)
Trump's full response to Walmart CFO John Rainey's warning was: "Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, 'EAT THE TARIFFS,' and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!"
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“We have always worked to keep our prices as low as possible and we won’t stop,” Walmart said.Natalia Mittelstadt (Just The News)
Russia's Tatarstan is interested in Belarus' expertise and knowledge in the forestry industry, BelTA learned from the press service of the Forestry Ministry of Belarus.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
White House Border Czar Tom Homan said Monday that he has gotten calls from progressives in liberal cities, requesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to be in blue cities to deal with illegal immigration.
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Homan served as the acting ICE director during President Donald Trump's first administration and is now the "border czar."Charlotte Hazard (Just The News)
The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation - Alfie KohnAlfie Kohn
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Another teacher who was delighted & "energized" once "the blinders had been removed" & he stopped trying to tweak the WAY he graded students (forget "standards-based" or "contract" grading) & finally stopped grading altogether: gradingforgrowth.com/p/why-i-n…
From a professor friend: Most people who complain about grade inflation "are tchrs who get poor student evals.; they attribute others' high ratings to grade inflation & explain their own poor ratings by claiming it's b/c they're tough graders"
A reflection on alternative grading practices in the humanitiesTimothy Budde (Grading for Growth)
The Biden Energy Department blasted out billions of dollars to bolster the U.S. energy grid shortly before last fall's election without adequate financial controls and staffing to properly protect taxpayers, an internal investigation has found.
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The IG report also found DOE office that oversees the funding lacked adequate staffing to properly manage the program.Kevin Killough (Just The News)
I'm starting to really like 'vibe coding'...
I've now had several clients come to me to take over projects that another agency was working on because the other agency started using generative AI. Apparently there was a real drop in product quality. I wonder why.
Basically vibe coding is making me money specifically because I'm not using it.
The Justice Department on Monday charged New Jersey Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver with assaulting and impeding law enforcement, for her actions during a protest outside a facility in Newark earlier this month.
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“No one is above the law — politicians or otherwise,” Habba said. “It is the job of this office to uphold justice impartially, regardless of who you are.”Misty Severi (Just The News)
Several doctors seem to be part of the developing consensus that former President Joe Biden’s advanced prostate cancer likely began several years ago — in the midst of his presidency — raising further concerns about an administration that fought against transparency in the decision-making and health concerns of its chief executive.
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The advanced prostate cancer Joe Biden has been diagnosed with often takes years to metastasize, making it “inconceivable” he did not have it while he was president.Steven Richards (Just The News)
Da ruft also ein Medium ein anderes Medium dazu auf, einem dort arbeitenden Journalisten die Kündigung nahe zu legen - ohne das hierfür auf inhaltlicher Ebene ausgeführt wird, welche konkreten Gründe wie bspw journalistisches Fehlverhalten so einen Schritt begründen sollten.
Was aber deutlich wird ist, dass nicht nur jede*r Bürger*in sich selbst ein Bild von der Arbeit des Journalisten Bax machen sollte.
Sondern dass diese mediale Markierung von der JA auch bei einer anderen Journalistin
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Journalistinnen und Journalisten können aufgrund der medialen Markierung und daraus resultierendem Druck von Medium und Publikum Belastungen ausgesetzt werden, die nicht in der Qualität ihrer Arbeit begründet sind.
An dieser Stelle sei nochmals verwiesen auf die folgende Prognose zum deutschen Nahost-Diskurs in Deutschland - sie stammt aus dem März dieses Jahres:
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1,825 likes, 25 comments - nadiazaboura on March 26, 2025: "Der März 2025 stellt eine Zäsur im deutschen Nahost-Diskurs dar.Instagram
Drei Fragen:
Welche Verantwortung übernehmen jetzt
1. die Medien der Markierten,
2. das Medienpublikum und
3. der deutsche Medienjournalismus?
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Sovereignty will always trump collective decision making, Ian Proud writes. Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A range of strategic factors help…Strategic Culture Foundation
Man Bungie really fucked up this time
>Announce new Game
>It's full of tranny shit
>Horrible character design with Even worse color use
>Artist comes out and shows proof that the few things that didnt look awful were plaguiarized from his work
>Bungie devs make a stream
>Get roasted to hell and back
>Dead eyes by the end of the stream
>Marathon announces delay
>Not Even journos are defending them
Man Bungie might be dead this time
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“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Notes on Va.
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one …LibertyQuotes
The genocide in Gaza is not an anomaly. It illustrates something fundamental about human nature and is a terrifying harbinger of where the world is headed.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
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Music to sleep by with scenes of what looks to me like southeast Asia. No spoken or written words.Nothing at all about Linux or Arch.
way to not get it.
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“Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.”
~ Robert D. Specht
Rand Corporation
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Malcolm X: The Israeli Zionists are convinced they have successfully camouflaged their new kind of colonialism. Their colonialism appears to be more "benevolent," more "philanthropic," a system with which they rule simply by getting their potential victims to accept their friendly offers of economic "aid," and other tempting gifts, that they dangle in front of the newly-independent African nations, whose economies are experiencing great difficulties. During the 19th century, when the masses here in Africa were largely illiterate it was easy for European imperialists to rule them with "force and fear," but in this present era of enlightenment the African masses are awakening, and it is impossible to hold them in check now with the antiquated methods of the 19th century. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- 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.
Ukraine's Zelensky behavior is similar to the behavior of a prostitute who was not paid enough for a night spent.Lucas Dumont (Oriental Review)
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“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
~ Cornelius Tacitus
(55-117 A.D.) Senator and historian of the Roman Empire
The Histories
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GH15 prayer for May 20, 2025
Notable Miracles that Bring Awakening!
Tim Sheets (excerpt from new book)
Today’s post was taken from my brother’s book that was just released, entitled Angel Armies: God’s Supernatural Enforcers. You can find it on Tim’s website: ...YouTube
Deep Learning Is Applied Topology
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The Palestinian Mujahedeen Movement considered the statements of the leader of the Israeli Democratic Party, Yair Golan, in which he acknowledged that "the enemy army kills children in the Gaza Strip as a hobby," further damning evidence that must ac…www.saba.ye
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Really enjoying my time so far on Expedition 33. It's been a while since I had a game where I felt drawn to finish it as soon as I can. Very good stuff.
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Reports are that today five trucks of food aid were allowed to enter Gaza, carrying baby food. No other trucks were permitted passage. The UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher called it a “drop in the ocean of what is urgently needed.Gretchen Small (EIR News)
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At 34, Torbjørn Pedersen embarked on a seemingly impossible journey that would take 10 years – and involve cerebral malaria and being held up at gunpoint. He reflects on the highs, the lows and the joy of getting married en routeRachel Dixon (The Guardian)
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