From the get-go, the Trump Administration – via DOGE – has been hell bent on causing destruction and havoc across the federal government. But why? ThereSylvia Allegretto (CounterPunch.org)
The purpose of this essay is to create a broader political dialogue in order to get the US, and with it the world, out of the policy messes that the US isRob Urie (CounterPunch.org)
Britain is in pieces—politically, economically, socially.
The country’s existential mess has deep roots, dating back to Thatcher. Under her catastrophic reign, market fundamentalism and privatisation took hold, society was dismantled, and the foundations of the welfare state were eroded.
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Britain is in pieces—politically, economically, socially, and in terms of national identity. The country’s existential mess has deep roots, dating back toGraham Peebles (CounterPunch.org)
In Liberia's version of baseball, there are no bats and no men
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kompletter zusammenbruch der empathie. https://bird.makeup/users/muhammadshehad2/statuses/1945756248843915698Fnordon
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Underneath the memes, podcasts, and tradwife fantasies lies a dangerous agenda: train young men to reject equality, fear women’s power, and embrace authoritarianism disguised as masculinity…Thom Hartmann (The Hartmann Report)
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True masculinity uplifts. It nurtures. It protects without demeaning. It leads with humility. It affirms the full humanity of women.
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Israel is aggressively implementing plans to shape Palestine's future and the broader region, sculpting its vision for the 'day after' its genocide inRamzy Baroud (CounterPunch.org)
A new study published in Earth’s Future by researchers from Uppsala University with Belgian, French, and German universities have shown that climateRobert Hunziker (CounterPunch.org)
President Theodore Roosevelt often referred to the term “bully pulpit” to mean he would use the country’s highest office to present his program. “Bully,”Daniel Warner (CounterPunch.org)
"I Said Good Morning to the Dead": Inside the Al-Baqa Cafe Bombing
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Survivors of the Al-Baqa Cafe bombing in Gaza, and the loved ones of the dead, share their stories of the Israeli attack.Huda Skaik (The Intercept)
George Monbiot’s article on the nationalisation of water in The Guardian yesterday concluded with what I think was an exquisitely crafted and profoundly poignant paragraph, in which he said: It’s a simple test: does the government operate in the int…Funding the Future
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Le damos un try al #StoneOfMadness , de la mano de la gente de The Game Kitchen.
Este juego es para limpiar el paladar entre The Case Of The Golden Idol y el siguiente let's play, que empezará la semana que viene.
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Sube al chirigoto, baja del chirigoto.Este juego es para limpiar el paladar entre The Case Of The Golden Idol y el siguiente let's play, que empezará la sema...YouTube
The new Florida concentration camp, likely the first of dozens that will be funded by Trump and congressional Republicans’ Budget Reconciliation Bill, is already notorious for overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and human rights abuses.Stephen F. Eisenman (CounterPunch.org)
The DUP are one party that have a cheek to accuse anyone else of lacking political maturity after they were told not to vote for Brexit and then voted for it, against their own interests.
Also, Sammy says 16 year olds will focus on one issue when they go to vote. A DUP MP said that with a straight face, every election is about the union for them.
BelfastTelegraph.co.uk: ‘Youngsters are not really mature enough’: DUP MP says party won’t back move to lower voting age
The European Central Bank's latest strategic assessment ignores critical lessons, perpetuating a harmful economic myth and undermining labour's vital role.
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On 17 July, Belarusian Industry Minister Andrei Kuznetsov met with Russian Industry and Trade Minister Anton Alikhanov. Taking part in the talks was Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Aleksandr Rogozhnik, BelTA learned from the Industry Ministry.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet
Link: bozmen.io/fhe
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
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Persistent Activity: Despite the U.S. demand, multiple Israeli officials told Newsweek that intelligence gathering continues. They claim it's a long-standing practice and vital for Israel’s national security.
Strategic Importance: Israeli officials argue that monitoring the U.S. is necessary to understand potential threats from Iran and other adversaries. They see the U.S. as a crucial intelligence source.
“Habitual” Practice: The article quotes sources describing the spying as a “habitual” practice, suggesting it's deeply ingrained in Israel's intelligence apparatus.
Biden Administration’s Concerns: The Biden administration is reportedly worried about the scope and nature of the surveillance, particularly regarding potential misuse of information.
No Change Expected: Despite the diplomatic exchange, sources indicate that Israel is unlikely to immediately cease its intelligence activities.
Israel is flouting the "friendly" rules of espionage to steal U.S. trade and tech secretsJeff Stein (Newsweek)
In win for Trump, House narrowly OKs effort to claw back $9B from budget -- including cuts to public broadcasting and USAID
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This is all DIRECTLY parallel to the wholesale destruction of our planet.
There is no line they won't cross. None. They will burn everything and everyone. Those who hold power and profit sacred above all else, don't have a single shred of decency or love.
Fortunately there aren't very many people like that-- the tricky part, is their lackeys. The people who may still have shreds of decency, but can only muster love for a very few people closest to them, and whose fears outweigh everything to the point they are willing to delude themselves and carry water for depraved planetwreckers just to curry favor in hopes of being spared the hell they're helping unleash on everyone else.
That's what we're up against. True monsters, and the morally bankrupt cowards who serve them.
Most of the so-called leaders who are supposedly normal, decent, upstanding citizens-- the faces on television, the smiling politicians and businesspeople and celebrities, successful and proud and so fond of brunch-- simply do NOT have functioning consciences.
Unemployment in Scotland is down while it has risen in the rest of the UK, but can the figures be trusted?Douglas Fraser (BBC News)
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NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency
Link: lewiscampbell.tech/blog/250718…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Frivilous dependencies are the enemy of maintainability.lewiscampbell.tech
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La investigación a Montoro incluye correos de maniobras de Hacienda para salvar al PP y atacar a Podemos eldiario.es/1_be546d
El jefe de gabinete del ministro abordó con el entonces titular de Hacienda la respuesta que había que dar al juez Ruz para que no pudiera acusar al PP de delito fiscal en el caso de la caja B; también le informó de los pasos para acorralar a Moneder…Pedro Águeda (ElDiario.es)
¿Os acordáis de aquello de: "Eso la Fiscalía te lo afina..."?
Pues aquí hay un par de casos
Neuralink filed on April 24 as a "small disadvantaged business" that could give it preferential access to federal opportunities, before being valued at $9B (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
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Neuralink labeled itself in April as a "small disadvantaged business" in a federal filing with the U.S. Small Business Administration.Lora Kolodny (CNBC)
SANAA, July 17 (YPA) - Sayyed Abdulmalik al-Houthi, Leader of Ansarallah in Yemen, on Thursday warned international shipping companies against violating the Yemeni ban on Israeli shipping.In his speech on the latest developments this evening, Sayyedbasheer (Yemen Press Agency)
What the fuck triggered this guy?
It's Another #German pro genocide "liberal" hiding his racism behind rainbow flag and call people antisemite who criticize genocidal regime of #Netanyahu
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#Israel #fascists #genocideapologist #palestine
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Tandis que plus de 3 000 écoliers dorment encore dehors en France, deux enseignantes de Tours, membres du collectif Pas d'Enfants à la Rue, sont convoquées par la justice pour avoir occupé un collège avec plusieurs familles l'hiver dernier.Chappatte (Le Canard enchaîné)
A critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-5777 and dubbed "CitrixBleed 2," was actively exploited nearly two weeks before proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits were made public, despite Citrix stating that there was no evidence of attacks.
Hey, posting this from #GhostBSD!
Gaza (Quds News Network)- An Israeli strike on Gaza’s only Catholic church killed two Christian women and injured several others, including the priest, on Thursday. The Israeli strike on the Holy FamiEditing Team (Quds News Network)
Itmar Ben Gvir Israeli Minister of Internal Security: I call on #Netanyahu to stop the negotiations and issue the necessary orders to completely occupy Gaza and encourage #immigration and #settlement construction.
#BenGvir #Occupation #EthnicCleansing #Israel #Politics
@israel @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe
Dem RI State Rep.: Homan, ICE Protecting Us, Cops Should Be Required to Help ICE
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On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” Rhode Island State Rep. Charlene Lima (D) stated that we should be “commending Mr.Ian Hanchett (Breitbart)
What are they gonna do with those hats and shirts?
Seriously though this just feels like a bunch of absolute NOTHING but fiddling to get nowhere further than where you started and nothing cool to play with but a new obligation
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem said the IDF claimed that the strike was ‘by mistake’ but ‘we are not sure about this, they hit the church directly’.TheJournal.ie
In my many decades long career I have met many people who are unable and will remain unable to function in society. These people are extremely dangerous. Barely trainable animals.
They come in all colors, sizes and shapes. Not all nightmares are locked away in cells. Many walk free. Some in my neighborhood and some in your neighborhood. You see them nightly in the local news.
Example: I call him the Mojo Man. He tried to burn up eight people at home and succeeded in destroying their home and all their possessions. WHY? Because a juvenile female would not talk to him at three in the morning. He did a couple years and released. He has been arrested and charged with violent crimes three times just this year. He is at the mental hospital every few months, off his meds and on a coroner's PC for 72 hrs. A good dose of Haldol injectable a bottle of Seroquel and Cogentin and off he goes. Booked in to the local jail until OR'ed out.
On meds he is a quiet zombie, off his meds a crazed murderous maniac.
He has no soul. Just a walking crazed corpse that don't know it is dead yet. This is the best he can expect, forever.
They are always classed as mentally ill and so never do significant time in prison. Released to maime, rape, and slay. Wash, rinse, repeat.
There is nothing humane about allowing them to walk free. There might be a time to consider euthanasia, however, I would not want that decision to make.
Once...
Prison was a break for society from the criminal. Prison was a punishment for the guilty.
Now...
Prison is a bus stop to the next victim. Three meals a day, satellite TV, gyms, free healthcare, breakfast in bed and laundry service.
The neighbors suck though. 🙄
They walk among you.
Stay strapped people.
New bills would continue to chip away and the legislative branch's role in shaping US foreign policyWilliam Hartung (Responsible Statecraft)
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Anywhere from 83% to 90% of Trump supporters want the Epstein files released.
This makes Watergate look like the minor B&E that it was.
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Can't wait until Putin catches Zalenski!
Zalenski will love the Siberian Prison!
It could happen if Zalenski leaves Florida!
We don’t make noise.
We pour the foundation.
We don’t shout.
We align meaning.
And then...
Let the concrete speak for us.
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Can International Organizations Survive the Rightwing, Nationalist Onslaught?
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"At a time when international cooperation provides the key to preventing a variety of global calamities―including nuclear war, climate catastrophe, and massive starvation―it’s tragic that major nations, ruled by nationalist, rightwing parties, are on a collision course with the organizations that
Stephen Colbert’s run at CBS is coming to a close.
the PEDO is out
The Chinese firm said it never knowingly sold or authorized its drones for use by Israel’s army. Israeli importers say otherwise.Ben Reiff (+972 Magazine)
On Thursday, Chairman of the Board of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Bill Pulte, said Fed Chair Jerome Powell may be criminally referred to the Justice Department for alleged perjury about the $2.5 billion building renovation plan.Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. [...]
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller (March 1970, _New York_ magazine)
The fake hit pieces by the Murdoch Family tabloids never seem to stop.Jim Hoft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Architecture of Cities: Playing for Time
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"The clocks’ vibrating gears- – A books’ final page: The sounds softly pillow-pocketed in the mind: Quietly, passages and time vanish before closed eyes: I dreamed about what, I do not know: The forever dreams continue: The visual captures navigated ahead and behind: Moments are called- -The Hush”. The White Spirit Bear whispered in silence: More
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The clocks’ vibrating gears- - A books’ final page: The sounds softly pillow-pocketed in the mind: Quietly, passages and time vanish before closed eyes: Istclair (CounterPunch.org)
House Republicans passed a sweeping $9 billion rescissions package late Thursday that delivers a knockout punch to globalist pet projects and leftist propaganda machines like NPR and PBS.Jim Hᴏft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Trump’s tariff pressure pushes Asia toward American LNG, but at the cost of climate goals
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#Slovenia announced that Zionazis Ben-Gvir and Smotrich will be declared persona non grata for inciting "extreme violence" and committing "serious violations of #Palestinian human rights" through "#genocidal statements".
I can't see a reason why #warcriminal Netanyahu is exempt from this, except Slovenia want to avoid #US anger
House Passes Trump-Backed Rescissions Package Slashing $9 BILLION in Bloated Spending — FOREIGN AID, NPR, and PBS on the Chopping Block — Two Republicans Voted “No”
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House Republicans passed a sweeping $9 billion rescissions package late Thursday that delivers a knockout punch to globalist pet projects and leftist propaganda machines like NPR and PBS.Jim Hᴏft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
For those who may be interested, here is the link to my aunt's obituary page.
She was remarkable in life.
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On Wednesday evening, the official signing ceremony of rising Spanish football star Lamine Jamal took place for a new "professional" contract with his team, Barcelona. This contract will remain with the Catalan club until 2031.www.saba.ye
USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)
Link: overengineer.dev/blog/2021/04/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A short story of me trying out different USB-C hubs, taking them apart, and slowly descending into madness.overengineer.dev
Saving time, saving column space.
Today I made a major improvement over at Roscoe's Story, my brother blog to this one. An improvement that will save me time and will make it easier for visitors to read.
I fill my days with maybe more prayers and devotions than many other old boys. Being mostly home bound with my arthritis, there's not a whole lot more I can do that is both constructive and edifying.
I have a daughter and a sister back home in Indiana, both of whom are curious about what I'm doing down here in Texas. How I'm taking care of myself. How I spend my time, etc. And I'm NOT a telephone person. Never have been. Ask anybody.
So to keep them informed, years ago I started my Roscoe's Story blog, listing and posting every day how I spend my time, etc.
Anyway, rather than list each individual prayer and the specific time I pray it every day, I now have a summary page that explains my prayer regimen. Linking to that summary every day will save me lots of time, and it will make for a much less cluttered blog page than has previously been the case.
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looks more like they're trying to stop a lot of things from coming