“Folks, this is the captain speaking, if there are any medical professionals on board, could you please make yourself known to the crew?”

What timing. Her first flight since becoming a doctor, and she was about to find herself in the hotseat. Still, she was confident in her abilities, so didn’t hesitate to stand. Was everything she’d learned about to be tested? Time would tell.

She tapped a flight attendant on the shoulder.

“Hi, I’m a doctor, can I help?”

“Oh thank you, please, this way.”

She was brought to row 9, where she was introduced to a gentleman in his late 50’s, who was clearly in some distress.”

“Sir, I’m Dr. Moss, what’s going on?” She asked, gently.

“I am…I have…” he struggled to speak.

“Ok, before you use up all your energy. Let me ask you this,” she said. “Do you have a copy of your insurance card?”

“Erm I er…”

“Wait, you do have insurance, right? I am in network for Anthem.”

At this point, the flight attendant interjected.

“Is that really relevant, at this moment in time?” He asked.

“You’re right. I’m so sorry,” she said. “I actually have the Stripe app on my phone, so we can just put a hold on your credit card for now until we figure out insurance on the ground.”

The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals.
-- Johann Most

#anarchism #quote #bot

Fatma Çıngı Kocadost : « Penser l’hétérosexualité au pluriel »
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"Entretien avec l'autrice de La promesse qu’on nous a faite.
L’article Fatma Çıngı Kocadost : « Penser l’hétérosexualité au pluriel » est apparu en premier sur BALLAST."

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« Tenir tête, fédérer, amorcer » - Entretien avec l'autrice de La promesse qu’on nous a faite.

^{Ballast (BALLAST)}

State Dept spokesman Matt Miller panics and refuses to comment on USAID funding of gain of function on Coronaviruses!

USAID is the CIA proxy that funds bioweapons research in Ukraine as well.
#minds minds.com/newsfeed/17922535620…

State Dept spokesman Matt Miller panics and refuses to comment on USAID funding of gain of function on Coronaviruses! USAID is the CIA proxy that funds bioweapons research in Ukraine as well. #minds | Minds

...mment on USAID funding of gain of function on Coronaviruses! USAID is the CIA proxy that funds bioweapons research in Ukraine as well. #minds. Subscribe to @barrybestt on Minds

^Minds

Kick US Troops Out of Oyster Bay, Out of the Philippines!

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the brazen US military takeover of the Oyster Bay in Palawan. The once peaceful community of small fishermen has now been overrun by US soldiers with their giant war arsenal.

The Oyster Bay now serves as a forward base for US imperialist provocations against China. It is just one of the latest in the long list of locations the Marcos regime has handed over to US armed forces, putting Filipino lives and livelihoods in even more danger.

Since 2020, the US has been quietly upgrading its facilities in Oyster Bay. Working with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the US developed the Oyster Bay Naval Detachment where it can dock, repair and resupply its naval warships. On March this year, the US Congress authorized the release of up to $5 million to complete repairs to the naval detachment so it could fully serve US manned and unmanned surface vehicles.

Hundreds of local fisherfolk have lost their sole source of livelihood as US warships and military exercises turn Oyster Bay’s waters into a toxic playground for US war games. Rich marine life and fragile coral reefs, the lifeblood of Palawan’s fisheries, are being destroyed. The environmental damage from US naval waste is both permanent and unacceptable.

Oyster Bay is now being used as a launchpad for so-called “freedom of navigation operations” of US military forces in the South China Sea. It serves the joint naval exercises being conducted by the US with Australia and Japan, in conjunction with operations from Subic Bay.

Oyster Bay now serves as a key node in the sprawling US military web across the Philippines—a network of military bases and facilities, ports, airfields, as well as storage facilities and factories for war. The recently announced plans to manufacture drones and produce ammunition in Aurora and Subic will further deepen US military entrenchment in the country.

The rapidly increasing US military presence in the Philippines is absolutely not about defending the country’s sovereignty. This is about turning the Philippines into a fortification for US imperialist hegemony and a springboard for the so-called Indo-Pacific Strategy, positioning the country as a key link in the US “first island chain” strategy to contain the growth of its imperialist rival China.

The Marcos regime’s gross subservience to US geopolitical strategy has allowed the US to drag the country into its hegemonic schemes and war plans. Marcos’ betrayal of the nation’s sovereignty has placed the country’s security in jeopardy. Regional security is under threat.

The Party firmly unites with the Filipino people in the fight against US imperialist aggression in the country. It is imperative that we raise our voices to make a powerful demand for the immediate dismantling of all US military bases, and the expulsion of all US forces from Oyster Bay, all of Palawan, and the entire Philippines. We must hold Marcos accountable and make him pay dearly for this betrayal.

The Filipino people must act now as nation’s sovereignty and future are at stake.

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#asia #colonialism #imperialism #philippines #resistance

What does "privately" mean?
RT: hell.twtr.plus/objects/404a960…

The Spectator Index

2025-07-15 09:50:17

BREAKING: Trump has privately encouraged Ukraine to 'step up deep strikes on Russian territory' and asked Zelensky if 'he could strike Moscow', according to Financial Times report.

“Reform #Capitalism: Tax the Rich”
Well, let’s see what “reform” means, but we’ll analyze it with an example.
#Slavery.
Towards the end of slavery in #US, in the North there were two trends.
The #revolutionary one that called for the complete abolition of slavery and then there were the “reformers”.
What did they demand?
Better food and better clothing for the slaves.
But there would still be slaves.
So?
Are you still in favor of the petty-bourgeois reform of Capitalism?

#classwar

Kick US Troops Out of Oyster Bay, Out of the Philippines!
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"The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the brazen US military takeover of the Oyster Bay in Palawan. The once peaceful community of small fishermen…"

‘A family of traitors’: Trump’s Brazil tariffs ultimatum backfires on Bolsonaro | #Brazil | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

"US president’s attempt to help his rightwing ally avoid jail has sparked wave of anger and given boost to rival Lula"

#Bolsonaro

‘A family of traitors’: Trump’s Brazil tariffs ultimatum backfires on Bolsonaro

^{Tom Phillips (The Guardian)}

George Kittle's all-around excellence earns him the honor of top tight end in AP rankings
https://apnews.com/article/nfl-top-players-tight-ends-984f2384f8f2c07f4809beabdbf8f66f?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Sports @sports-AssociatedPress

Καθάρματα, αλήτες 🤬

ο υφυπουργός Παιδείας Κωνσταντίνος Βλάσης αποκάλυψε ότι η αφαίρεση κειμένου μου για τα παιδιά της Γάζας από αναγνωστικό βιβλίο της Γ’ Γυμνασίου έγινε ύστερα από παρέμβαση του Κεντρικού Ισραηλιτικού Συμβουλίου.

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Το Ισραηλιτικό Συμβούλιο ξαναγράφει τα βιβλία στα ελληνικά σχολεία - INFO-WAR

Ο Υφυπουργός Παιδείας K. Βλάσης αποκάλυψε ότι το κείμενο του Π. Παπακωνσταντίνου για τη Γάζα αφαιρέθηκε από το βιβλίο της Γ' Γυμνασίου έπειτα από παρέμβαση του Κεντρικού Ισραηλιτικού Συμβουλίου.

^{Ioanna (INFO-WAR)}

”The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

-George Orwell, 1984

Deadly Massachusetts fire highlights the minimal regulations that govern assisted-living facilities
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Ellen Ullman's "Close to the Machine."; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/07/16/bea…

#Pluralistic

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Tribes in North Dakota yesterday appealed to the Supreme Court, after a lower court said they couldn’t challenge state maps under the Voting Rights Act.

Bolts covered that ruling, which risks making the VRA a “law without a way to enforce it,” in June: boltsmag.org/voting-rights-act…

“A Law Without a Way to Enforce It” - Bolts

In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native groups face a triple threat on voting rights: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to enforcing it, and a funding crunch depleting their work.

^{Daniel Nichanian (Bolts)}

"The Guardian view on the children of Gaza: when 17,000 die, it’s more than a mistake"

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

It's breathtaking how Israel's apologists find a way to ignore the obvious.

#Genocide #Gaza #Fascism

The Guardian view on the children of Gaza: when 17,000 die, it’s more than a mistake

Editorial: Israel’s military blamed the deaths of six Palestinian children on Sunday on a technical error. But a staggering toll continues to mount

^{Editorial (The Guardian)}

The Atlantic: Trump Now Personifies What MAGA Opposes

For the first time, the president finds himself at odds with his own movement.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Trump Now Personifies What MAGA Opposes

^{Peter Wehner (The Atlantic)}

MARS.EXE → COM (2021)

Link: chaos.if.uj.edu.pl/~wojtek/MAR…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Capitol Police Detain Man After Bow and Arrow, Empty Holster Observed in Car Near Security Barrier

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Capitol Police Detain Man After Bow and Arrow, Empty Holster Observed in Car Near Security Barrier | The Gateway Pundit | by Kristinn Taylor

          A man was detained Wednesday morning near the Capitol after police spotted a vehicle with a tricycle on its roof with a bow and arrow and empty holster inside near a security barrier located at 200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, according to repo…

^{Kristinn Taylor (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)}

*Close To the Machine* is Ellen Ullman's classic memoir of writing software in Silicon Valley at the start of the dotcom bubble; it was originally published in 1997 and reprinted in 2022 for the 25 annniversary by Farrar, Straus and Giroux's MCD books:

mcdbooks.com/books/close-to-th…

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