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✊ The use of the fist as a salute by communists and antifascists is first evidenced in 1924, when it was adopted for the Communist Party of Germany's Roter Frontkämpferbund ("Alliance of Red Front-Fighters"). In reaction, the Nazi Party adopted the well-known Roman salute two years later. jstor.org/stable/27672022
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
Well, O.J. Simpson's lawyers stopped feuding this week finally. The Dream Team - F. Lee Bailey and Robert Shapiro - were able to put aside their differences, and express their admiration for each other…
BACK TO THE FUTURE was released 40 years ago today, July 3rd, 1985. It has become one of the most beloved movies of the 1980s, and the film that made Michael J. Fox a movie star. #OTD #80sHistory
TEHRAN, Jul. 03 (MNA) – Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense has announced the activation of the first group of American THAAD missile defense systems in the country.
Republicans just passed the most horrific and devastating piece of legislation in a generation, and establishment Democrats are spending their time attacking a fellow Democrat who doubled youth turnout and won the primary with historic numbers. Just Fantastic.
This is the saddest July 4 in my memory. The United States is plunging into vile right-wing dictatorship, in large part because once-vital institutions -- including Big Journalism -- have chosen to be quislings when courage was needed.
It's not too late to reverse our decline, but it's close.
@dangillmor@mastodon.social > Big Journalism -- have chosen to be quislings when courage was needed. They're all owned by billionaires now who are making bank with all the tax breaks and tax credits that we're all paying for. Frankly the best course of action is for every mainstream journalism outlet to die.
This is the saddest July 4 in my memory. The United States is plunging into vile right-wing dictatorship, in large part because once-vital institutions -- including Big Journalism -- have chosen to be quislings when courage was needed.
It's not too late to reverse our decline, but it's close.
The 15 ministers said that Israel's "strategic partnership, backing, and support of the U.S. and President Donald Trump" make this a "propitious time" to formally steal most of Palestine.
Reformatted my X201 #thinkpad and ran through my "suckless" #OpenBSD installer for the 7.7 release. Worked without issue (as is the running theme with OpenBSD!)
The US Military flight crews and support staff that bombed the Iranian Nuclear Installations will be at the White House tomorrow (7/4) when Trump signs the Big Beautiful Bill with Speaker Johnson.
Time = 5:30pm EST
B-2 Bombers will fly over the White House at this event.
@Faelyn @𝕥ℝ𝕠𝕃𝕃𝕚ℕ 𝕜𝕀𝕥𝕥𝔼𝕙 I agree with you. There isn't a lot I care for in the Islam religion, but I realize, like Christians and Jews and most other religions, there are extremists and there are rational people, the problem we run into is in all three cases it is always the extremists that come to power. I think Israel needs to be contained somehow, and I think a start would be to end US weapons and intelligence support, Problem is so many politicians here are owned by AIPAC and those not owned by AIPAC have been to Epstein Island and are blackmailed by Mossad, and probably the majority both.
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Hanoi, July 3 (Prensa Latina) Vietnam closed the first half of the year with a year-on-year economic growth preliminarily estimated at 7,31%, the highest achieved in nearly 20 years, Finance Minister Nguyen Van Thang announced here.
⚡ У Києві дуже багато прильотів, місто охопили страшенні пожежі. Повітря погане, столицю огорнув їдкий дим і гар, — підписники Times of Ukraine.
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The Pentagon has halted deliveries of some anti-aircraft missiles and other precision-guided munitions halfway to Ukraine, according to the Financial Times.
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The war of words between Trump and Musk erupted after the world’s richest man renewed his sharp criticisms of the One Big Beautiful Bill, calling it “utterly insane” and “political suicide.”…
@Mondoweiss 🇵🇸 97% of Israelis are Ashkenazi so no big surprise here. Let us continue our child sacrificing or else you'll die. Why does this us support this? AIPAC, Mossad, and politicians who can't keep their dick in their pants.
@Mondoweiss 🇵🇸 My numbers are the results of a recent genetic survey. I do not know the specifics of how large the sample size was or if it was regional or across the entire country but a country that size I wouldn't expect a huge discrepancy.
In June, the USA had only a little more than 6000 encounters with illegals at the border, and of those, there were zero let into the country. ZERO!!!
But remember when Biden & Harris were in charge, letting 200K illegals in every month, and Joe said that Congress needed to pass his bill? That there was nothing he could do to stop them from coming in unless Congress passed his law?
Well, I don’t recall Trump signing any immigration bill, but yet, they have stopped the illegals from coming in.
Yes. He fucked the border with executive actions, and he could have unfucked it with executive actions. He did what he wanted to do and made bullshit excuses about it.
I'm kind of surprised. I finished the first draft of Future Sepsis tonight.
Final word count is 67,912 words.
The original plan was for 60,000 words completed 1,000 per week starting in January and ending sometime in early 2026. Obviously I was able to have some very productive weeks.
Planning to edit in 3 passes using different techniques for each pass to catch different potential problems in the work, then I'll have to start all the legwork of getting it out there.
For anyone who goes "This dummy writes too much in his posts", just imagine -- I've been writing this much outside of my posts! 😛
Prime Minister of Senegal Ousmane Sonko met separately in Beijing on June 27 with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. Sonko was visiting China to attend the 2025 ‘Summer Davos’ in Tianjin.
Under the ordinance, the first of its kind in the state, new cell towers and antennas on Hawaii’s Big Island must be at least 600 feet away from homes and schools.
Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (R-VA) — who represents a swing district encompassing Virginia’s Eastern Shore and much of the Hampton Roads region — took to Thursday’s CBS Mornings Plus and calmly explained the facts behind the Big, Beautiful Bill, specif…
20,000 more rural homes currently under construction.
Total = 100,700 rural homes built or being built.
🇰🇵 DPRK Population (Estimate):
~25 million people
We’ll assume:
These homes are for rural areas only (not urban high-rises).
These are single-family or small-unit homes, likely modest, i.e., working-class style.
🧮 DPRK per capita housing construction:
100,700 homes / 25,000,000 people ≈ 1 home per 248 people
🔧 Step 2: Compare with USA (Working-Class Focus)
🇺🇸 U.S. Population:
~336 million (2025 est.)
🏗️ U.S. Annual Housing Construction:
According to U.S. Census data:
2023: ~1.45 million new housing units were started.
About 65–70% are single-family homes, the rest are multi-family.
A significant share are high-end homes or investment properties, not working-class housing.
🎯 Filter: Working-Class Style Homes
Assumptions:
Assume 50% of new homes are working-class homes.
(Removes many luxury homes, vacation homes, and speculative units.)
50% of 1.45 million = 725,000 working-class homes annually
🧮 U.S. per capita housing construction (working class):
725,000 homes / 336,000,000 people ≈ 1 home per 463 people
⚖️ Side-by-Side Comparison (Working-Class Homes Only)
Metric
DPRK
USA
Population
25 million
336 million
Working-class homes (recent project)
100,700 (est.)
725,000 (annual est.)
Per capita rate
1 per 248 people
1 per 463 people
Type of homes
Rural, modest
Mixed, filtered for WC
Scope
1–2 years project
Annual basis
🧠 Insight
On a per capita basis, the DPRK is currently building nearly twice as many working-class homes as the U.S. — 1 per 248 people vs. 1 per 463.
DPRK's campaign is state-directed, rural-focused, and ideological, aligning with their "Rural Revolution".
The U.S. system is market-driven, uneven, and often skewed toward urban and suburban developments, with working-class housing increasingly squeezed by:
Zoning laws
Rising material and labor costs
NIMBYism
Profit motive favoring luxury construction
🏁 Conclusion
The DPRK — despite sanctions, isolation, and limited resources — is currently outperforming the U.S. in building working-class homes per capita during this rural housing campaign.
The U.S., with a far larger economy, could do much better, but market distortions, speculation, and class dynamics reduce the actual rate of affordable housing production.
Let me know if you'd like this broken down by region (e.g., U.S. rural vs urban), or if you'd like a comparison over a decade.
@nanook Nigga shut the fuck up. We have had a deficit of homes in the USA at least since 2008. That the DPRK is beating us in building homes is a fucking embarrassment. That I am putting attention to this isn't something to tell me to leave for. I'm literally advocating for the USA to try harder in treating its citizens with respect by building more homes, while getting shit on by citizens like you who are blind and retarded "patriots". No idea if you are American but if you are, you are a fucking retard. Happy 4th you faggot.
@Sovereign I don't argue that we have, but I wouldn't accept a North Korean lifestyle to resolve it. If you can't have food to eat having a place to live is somewhat irrelevant.
@Sovereign Yea well nuff said I guess. People who won't learn history are destined to relive it and unfortunately the rest of us are destined to be dragged along for the ride.
If you think the left are losing their mind now, wait until the Dow hits 45,000 points AND the FED drops the prime rate by 1 basis point. The former may happen on Monday, and the later just may occur a week or so after.
BTW, as an update, I finally got a job. It's contract to perm, but I'm certain that I will get a full time permanent job by the end of the year... Now. I will have increased confidence if the FED comes through with at least two rate cuts (making the cost of money lower to corporations, so they will increase investment in talent).
Ex-Labour MP Zarah Sultana has announced she is resigning from the party, saying she will be founding a new party with her former leader Jeremy Corbyn. 🔥
Sultana, the Coventry South MP stripped of the Labour whip last year for backing a move to scrap the two-child benefit cap, said the new party would be formed with other independent MPs and activists, aiming to challenge a "broken" Westminster system.
My community does its Independence Day parade tonight, followed directly afterward by the fireworks. It’s nice not having to fight people for spots along the route and to be able to see the fireworks, though I do sort of miss it.
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