Valve has updated the Steam guidelines and now allows payment processors to decide what should and shouldn't be published on the platform.

This may put the final nail in the coffin for adult games and any games with queer content, whether sexually explicit or not. "Adult content" has no clear definition and can be arbitrarily applied to a lot of media which certain (powerful) organisations, including payment processors like Visa and Mastercard, aim to ban everywhere.

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Communique and Footage Released From Torching of Three Vehicles at Lovitt Technologies
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New execution date set for Texas man Robert Roberson in shaken baby syndrome case
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Reps. Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene Introduce Discharge Petition to Force Vote on Releasing Full Epstein Files

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Jill Biden aide invokes Fifth to decline testimony in Republican investigation
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“Israel” is Digging its Own Grave, and the Ongoing Zionist Massacres in Gaza Only Hasten the Defeat of the Occupation

In his response to questions received by the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, Khaled Barakat, member of the Executive Committee of the movement, said that “The genocide against the Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza Strip, ongoing for over 21 months—including bombardment, starvation, and destruction—has failed to achieve its military and political objectives for the Zionist entity. Instead, it has deepened its global isolation and fueled waves of popular and official anger against the occupation. “Israel” is now headed toward a phase of self-destruction following its economic and political degradation,” Barakat said. “Its utter moral bankruptcy is now clear to all, and no propaganda campaigns will be able to restore illusions about the nature of the Zionist project as an illegitimate racist, aggressive and expansionist regime.”

“The enemy army is facing a strong, unified Palestinian resistance, ready to fight for many years if necessary,” Barakat emphasized. “The Palestinian resistance forces continue to bravely confront the occupation army using flexible, creative and courageous combat tactics across various fronts. They affirm their ability to continue this prolonged battle with their united will that transcends division, which creates the greatest fear for the enemy, as it will not succeed in breaking the unity of the internal front in the Gaza Strip.”

Barakat affirmed that “The real negotiations are taking place through fire in Khan Younis, Jabalia, and Beit Hanoun. Our people trust their resistance, which is waging a political battle in Doha despite all the pressures imposed upon them. They know that their representatives of the resistance will never accept terms of surrender imposed by the U.S. and the Zionist entity and are certain their trust and steadfastness will be rewarded.”

“The battlefield dictates the terms, and no matter how intense the political and regional pressures become, the resistance holds the initiative and negotiates from a position of strength, readiness to fight and sacrifice, backed by broad popular support inside and outside Palestine,” Barakat said.

“The resistance insists that any agreement must include a complete withdrawal of occupation forces from Gaza, the lifting of the siege, and the release of hundreds of leaders and cadres from the prisons of the occupier. Liberation movements and solidarity forces with the Palestinian people must escalate their support for the resistance’s position both on the ground and in the ongoing negotiations,” he emphasized, calling on movements around the world to heighten their actions and organizing at a critical moment for the Palestinian people confronting genocide.

“The Zionist enemy wants to eliminate the captured Zionist prisoners while keeping resistance leaders and Palestinian prisoners with high sentences behind bars,” Barakat said, noting that ‘Israeli’ officials have little interest in actually releasing the prisoners held by the resistance. “Every prisoner exchange negotiation exposes the enemy’s duplicity and its attempt to impose humiliating conditions. But the resistance knows the value of its cards and insists on the release of top leaders and national symbols, rejecting any deal that does not reflect a balance of deterrence and the stature of the resistance.”

In the West Bank, Barakat noted, “Settler paramilitary gangs are sponsored and given free rein to run amok, invading, assaulting and killing Palestinians while stealing their land. These vicious settler paramilitaries are fully supported and backed by the ongoing arrest and assassination raids of the Zionist military, the closures imposed throughout the West Bank, and the destruction of the refugee camps of Jenin, Tulkarem and Nour Shams.”

“As this destruction continues, the Palestinian Authority continues to market itself as a solution to the Israelis for the ‘day after’ in Gaza, despite the reality that the Zionist officials have repeatedly dismissed them. The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah is rejected by our people; the next day in Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people, not to any forces that collaborate with the occupation. The aftermath of the PA’s security coordination with ‘Israel’ is seen in the escalating destruction in the West Bank, while the PA continues to imprison and arrest resistance fighters and suppress all movements to confront the occupation. ‘Removing pretexts’ for the occupation has led to nothing but encouragement for the settlers to escalate their crimes,” Barakat said.

“The ‘Israeli’ enemy, backed by the Trump administration, has left our people with no other option than the path of resistance. In fact, the United States bears primary responsibility for the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip,” Barakat said. “From the launch of the ‘Deal of the Century’ to the complicity of successive U.S. administrations, Washington has played the most critical role in enabling ‘Israel’ to continue its crimes—not only through military aid but also through the political immunity imposed by U.S. imperialism, that prevents any real international accountability.”

“Every American missile dropped by Israeli warplanes on our people in Gaza causes a massacre. This Palestinian blood is on the hands of Trump and before him, Biden. And every American missile that does not explode is turned by the resistance into 100 explosive devices,” Barakat said. “While Gaza is being pounded by American ‘smart’ bombs, the resistance continues to recycle ammunition and turn it into tools of retaliation, reflecting a spirit of defiance and innovation in the face of the killing machine. This reality also exposes Washington’s complicity as a direct partner in the massacres.”

Barakat further noted that, “While U.S. imperialism has long sponsored and directed the Zionist project in the region in order to advance its goals and create a giant colonial military base in the heart of our region, the current U.S. position also reflects a level of complete submission on the part of the war criminal President Donald Trump, administration officials and members of Congress to Zionist lobby organizations and donors like Miriam Adelson.”

“Trump is merely a puppet in the hands of the Israeli lobby, manipulated by Zionist organizations as they please, reflecting a level of corruption that transcends even the traditional sponsorship of the Zionist entity. Today, U.S. political decision-making reflects imperialism in crisis and a flagrant disregard for even the interests of people in the United States, for the sole benefit of a colonial settler project imposed upon our region,” Barakat said.

“The United States and ‘Israel’ want to reshape the region under the slogan of a ‘New Middle East.’ But the truth is that the Middle East is changing in favor of the peoples, not the illegitimate regimes that Washington and Tel Aviv seek to entrench. Normalization with the Israeli enemy is now more distant than ever, despite all attempts to impose it with both hard and soft power alike,” Barakat said.

“The collapse of recent normalization projects and the rise of boycott and popular resistance movements—from the Gulf to the Maghreb—reflect a deep strategic shift in the consciousness of the peoples, who no longer accept that their region be managed by a disguised Zionist colonialism.”

In Lebanon, Barakat noted, “If Netanyahu’s claims about ‘humbling Hezbollah’ were true, why then is the U.S. State Department holding a meeting with 30 countries to discuss and coordinate to confront the growing capabilities of Hezbollah? This is the 14th such meeting since 2014. And why is northern Palestine still devoid of settlers to this day?”

“The glaring contradiction between the Zionist victory narrative and the facts on the ground reveals a crisis of confidence within the Israeli security establishment. Northern Palestine is militarily occupied but liberated from settlers by the deterrent power of Hezbollah and the ongoing confrontation on the Lebanese front, which gains more popular support with each new Zionist breach,” Barakat said.

Barakat further said that “Yemen’s military capabilities today are sufficient to burn all oil facilities in the region. Western companies sending ships to the ports of occupied Palestine must understand that Yemen is very serious about its anti-genocide blockade, and the positions and patience of the Yemeni people should not be tested. So long as this continues, a new phase of escalation is coming—and it will not be in Europe’s interest.”

“Sana’a is redrawing the boundaries of the struggle for sovereignty and liberation. What was once seen as a symbolic threat has become a field reality that disrupts the calculations of the West. If intransigence and Western support for the occupation continue, Yemen’s response will cross the seas, and Europe will pay the economic and political price for the crimes of imperialism,” Barakat said.

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3 Reasons Why Ken Paxton Will Deliver a Texas-Sized Ass Whooping to John Cornyn

Paxton, a grassroots favorite, has destroyed his establishment foes in the past and will be backed by the President on his way to Washington, but this won't stop lobbyists from wasting their millions.

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ICSPWI Call For Mobilization On The Occasion Of Martyrs’ Week 2025 In India

The ICSPWI (International Committee to Support the People’s War in India) calls on MLM organizations and parties, all communist organizations and parties, revolutionaries, progressives, and sincere democrats, to mobilize in support of the People’s War in India and its leading party, the Communist Party of India (Maoist), on the occasion of Martyrs’ Week 2025 (July 28th – August 3rd).

The blood shed by the Indian revolutionary martyrs who fell for the New Democratic Revolution in India, the first step towards Socialism and Communism, must be honored: it is the blood shed by our comrades who are ready for the ultimate sacrifice to free India from the semi-feudal and semi-colonial yoke and from bureaucratic capitalism in the service of imperialism.

India is not only the largest country in the world, with approximately 1.5 billion people, but it is also the country ruled by Modi’s Hindutva (fascism with Hindu characteristics) regime and the main bastion of Yankee imperialism as well as the main supporter of the Zionist regime in South Asia and the world.

The Indian revolution (Protracted People’s War) has been active since 1969. Over the decades, it has succeeded in liberating millions of proletarians, peasants, and tribal people from feudal and caste oppression in the areas where it spread, covering an area inhabited by over 50 million people from the far north of the Indian subcontinent to the southern states of Kerala and Karnataka.

The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is virtually the largest armed revolutionary party in absolute terms by number of comrades, mobilizing sectors of the masses through trade unions, women’s organizations, environmental organizations, and adivasis (tribals) and casteless groups. The PLGA numbers approximately 20,000 armed men, not counting local popular militias.

This great revolution is now entering a crucial phase: Modi’s Hindutva regime, through a brutal and genocidal military operation supported by imperialism and Zionism (using know-how and drones supplied directly by the Zionist Israeli state), Operation Kagaar, which involves tens of thousands of police, paramilitary forces, and the army, declares it will “defeat Maoism” in the country by April 2026.

As this deadline approaches, Operation Kagaar is intensifying: last May, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) himself, along with 27 other comrades and guerrillas, fell in combat after resisting a two-day encirclement by over 2,000 paramilitaries.

In recent months, hundreds of people, not only revolutionaries but also villagers and tribals, have been massacred during this military operation.

Indian civil society has called on the government to immediately stop this “war against the people” and accept the CPI (Maoist)’s proposal to initiate negotiations, but Modi’s Hindutva regime not only continues its course but also labels these activists “urban Maoists,” repressing them as well.

Fourteen years ago, on July 1st, Comrade Azad, a member of the party’s central committee and political bureau, was killed in a fake encounter. He was arrested and subsequently killed in cold blood.

A few months later, on November 24, 2011, Comrade Kishenji, a member of the party’s political bureau, was martyred in another fake encounter.

The martyrs of the Indian revolution are the best sons of the Indian people who sacrificed their lives not only for the liberation of India, but of the entire world, from exploitation, contributing to the World Proletarian Revolution.

Since October 7, 2023, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) has actively supported the Palestinian resistance, despite the difficulties it is experiencing, organizing support and propaganda actions in India.

It is therefore an internationalist duty to support this advanced revolutionary experience and remember its martyrs, who are also ours.

ICSPWI therefore calls for mobilization in all countries of the world on the occasion of the CPI (Maoist) Martyrs’ Week from July 28 to August 3, and in accordance with the specific objective and subjective conditions in each country, organizing:

• Actions and protests at Indian embassies and consulates
• Support meetings
• Propaganda actions in factories, workplaces, among struggling workers and peasants, in working-class neighborhoods, and in universities

The martyrs of the revolution are immortal!

The revolutionaries of the CPI (Maoist) are our comrades!

Comrades Basavaraj, Azad, and Kishenji, leaders of the new democratic revolution in India, will never be forgotten; their example will inspire future generations of revolutionaries!

Stop operation Kagaar! Immediate freedom for all political prisoners in India!

Long live the Communist Party of India (Maoist)!

Long Live the People’s War in India!

For more information and materials, contact: csgpindia@gmail.com

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ICSPWI Call For Mobilization On The Occasion Of Martyrs’ Week 2025 In India
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xAI's Grok is rated for kids age 12 and up in the iOS App Store, despite adding "companions"; one includes an NSFW "Bad Rudy" mode and the other becomes NSFW (Casey Newton/Platformer)

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Grok's new porn companion is rated for kids 12+ in the App Store

AI companions are arriving faster than platforms can build guardrails around them. Parents need to pay attention

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Cal Raleigh successful as 4 of 5 challenges reverse calls in first All-Star use of robot umpire
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“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.”

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Fatma Çıngı Kocadost : « Penser l’hétérosexualité au pluriel »
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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.
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...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

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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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What does "privately" mean?
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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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George Kittle's all-around excellence earns him the honor of top tight end in AP rankings
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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.

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”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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