The Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the โ€œblockbusterโ€ story alleging a letter Trump wrote to Epstein for his 50th birthday included some tawdry elements previously worked for Main Justice (his only prior reporting experience listed in his bio)

Main Justice was Glenn Simpsonโ€™s wifeโ€™s publication. Simpson founded Fusion GPS, which was paid by Hillary Clinton/the DNC (through Perkins Coie) to produce the Steele Dossier at the center of the Russian hoax against Trump
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ยซ VERT ยป, LE MEDIA OFFICIEL DU CAPITALISME VERT


-N. #Casaux

Belote, rebelote. Comme lโ€™an passรฉ, les petits gรฉnies de Vert, le mรฉdia qui annonce la couleur, dont la ligne รฉditoriale comprend la promotion des รฉnergies dites ยซ renouvelables ยป, ยซ propres ยป, ยซ vertes ยป, ยซ dรฉcarbonรฉes ยป, etc., relayent le discours du think tank #EmberEnergy (dans le texte associรฉ ร  l'image ci-jointe, ils รฉcrivent : ยซ Selon le dernier rapport du think thank Ember Energy, le photovoltaรฏque a assurรฉ 22,1% de la production (une hausse de 22% par rapport ร  juin 2024), juste devant le nuclรฉaire (21,8%), lโ€™รฉolien (15,8%), le gaz (14,4% du total) et lโ€™hydroรฉlectricitรฉ (12,8%). ยป Gรฉnial ! Rรฉjouissons-nous !)

Et voici ce que je soulignais lโ€™an dernier :

Quโ€™est-ce donc que ce think tank ? Le minimum nโ€™exigerait-il pas de savoir avec qui nous sommes ainsi censรฉโˆ™es nous rรฉjouir ? Les journalistes de Vert nโ€™en disent rien. Le site du think tank Ember explique : ยซ Nous sommes un groupe de rรฉflexion mondial sur lโ€™รฉnergie qui vise ร  accรฉlรฉrer la transition vers lโ€™รฉnergie propre grรขce ร  des donnรฉes et des politiques. ยป Mais encore ? Quel type dโ€™intรฉrรชts dรฉfend-il ? Le think tank se prรฉsente comme ยซ indรฉpendant ยป et ยซ ร  but non lucratif ยป. On connaรฎt la chanson. Mais quโ€™en est-il vraiment ? Pour le comprendre, jeter un ล“il au financement aide souvent. Le think tank Ember a รฉtรฉ crรฉรฉ par la baronne britannique Bryony Katherine Worthington, membre ร  vie de la Chambre des Lords. Dโ€™aprรจs ce qui est indiquรฉ sur son site, Ember est financรฉ par six organisations : la Quadrature Climate Foundation, la European Climate Foundation, le Sunrise Project, la ClimateWorks Foundation, Boundless Earth et la Sequoia Climate Foundation. Voyons donc.

La #QuadratureClimateFoundation ยซ est dirigรฉe par des milliardaires dont le fonds dรฉtient des participations dโ€™une valeur de 170 millions de dollars dans des entreprises du secteur des combustibles fossiles ยป, comme lโ€™explique un article du Guardian paru en juin 2023. La Quadrature Climate Foundation a ยซ รฉtรฉ crรฉรฉe par #QuadratureCapital, un fonds dโ€™investissement de plusieurs milliards dโ€™euros fondรฉ par les รฉnigmatiques milliardaires Greg #Skinner et Suneil #Setiya ยป. En outre, Greg Skinner a rรฉcemment acquis une participation de 50 % dans la compagnie dโ€™รฉnergie ยซ renouvelable ยป britannique Ethical Power Group, qui opรจre en #Europe et en #Nouvelle-Zรฉlande, est spรฉcialisรฉe dans la conception et lโ€™installation de centrales photovoltaรฏques et constitue un des plus grands installateurs de stockage par batteries du #Royaume-Uni. Le schรฉma est donc le suivant : des milliardaires qui dรฉtiennent toutes sortes dโ€™entreprises, y compris dans lโ€™industrie des fossiles et celle des #รฉnergies prรฉtendument ยซ #renouvelables ยป (ils sโ€™en foutent, du moment que รงa rapporte), financent des think tank โ€“ et aussi des ONG et bien dโ€™autres types dโ€™organisation โ€“ qui font la promotion des รฉnergies renouvelables. Et les mรฉdias relaient les ยซ bonnes nouvelles ยป communiquรฉes par lesdits think tank. Les mรฉdias comme Vert, mais aussi les mรฉdias de masse traditionnels. BFM TV, France 24, Libรฉration, Le Figaro, Ouest-France, Boursorama, RTBF, 20 minutes, Le Monde, etc., ont aussi cรฉlรฉbrรฉ la mรชme ยซ bonne nouvelle ยป, toujours en provenance du think tank Ember.

La #EuropeanClimateFoundation est une des plus importantes fondations prรฉtendument ยซ philanthropique ยป dโ€™Europe, de type pass-through, cโ€™est-ร -dire spรฉcialisรฉe dans la redistribution de fonds en provenance dโ€™autres fondations. Parmi lesquelles on retrouve, entre autres, la William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (liรฉe ร  lโ€™entreprise dโ€™informatique #HP), la #BloombergFamilyFoundation, le #Rockefeller Brothers Fund, la #IKEA Foundation, ou encore la #ClimateWorks Foundation, elle aussi une fondation de type pass-through, financรฉe, entre autres, par la William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, mais aussi par la Fondation David et Lucile #Packard, le #Bezos Earth Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, la fondation #Ford et la IKEA Foundation.

La #SequoiaClimateFoundation (รฉgalement connue sous le nom de #SequoiaClimateFund) est une fondation trรจs discrรจte, qui ne divulgue que le minimum requis dโ€™informations, et qui est a priori une crรฉation du milliardaire californien C. Frederick #Taylor, lโ€™un des trois fondateurs du fonds spรฉculatif #TGS Management, dรฉcrit comme ยซ un fonds spรฉculatif quantitatif extrรชmement secret ยป. Un rapport de Bloomberg Businessweek a rรฉvรฉlรฉ en 2014 que les partenaires de TGS รฉtaient les donateurs dโ€™un groupe dโ€™organismes caritatifs qui dรฉtenaient des actifs combinรฉs de 9,7 milliards de dollars (12,8 milliards de dollars en 2024). A lโ€™รฉpoque, ce groupe รฉtait donc ยซ plus important que les fondations #Carnegie et #Rockefeller rรฉunies ยป et ยซ lโ€™un des plus grands pools de financement philanthropique aux ร‰tats-Unis ยป. Dโ€™aprรจs le rapport ยซ quelquโ€™un avait recouru ร  des mรฉthodes รฉlaborรฉes pour sโ€™assurer que personne ne dรฉcouvre lโ€™origine de cet argent, en utilisant des couches de filiales dโ€™entreprises pour obscurcir ses origines ยป, en utilisant des entreprises et des cabinets dโ€™avocats issus de plusieurs ร‰tats.

Les ressorts du #philanthrocapitalisme, qui sโ€™efforce dโ€™รชtre discret, sont largement inconnus du grand public. Peu de journalistes sโ€™intรฉressent au sujet, pourtant majeur. Le politologue Edouard #Morena sโ€™y est intรฉressรฉ dans son livre Fin du monde et petits fours. Les ultra-riches face ร  la crise climatique (La Dรฉcouverte, 2023). Il montre bien comment les #ultra-riches ont entrepris, il y a des annรฉes, dโ€™utiliser une partie de leur pognon pour orienter le mouvement รฉcologiste dans une direction qui ne menace pas leurs intรฉrรชts, et mรชme mieux encore, qui les favorise : la promotion des รฉnergies dites ยซ renouvelables ยป ou ยซ propres ยป et des technologies dites ยซ vertes ยป. Autrement dit, la promotion du #capitalisme vert. Dโ€™ailleurs, ce quโ€™on appelle le ยซ mouvement climat ยป est essentiellement une crรฉation dโ€™ONG largement financรฉes par des fondations privรฉes de milliardaires ou dโ€™entreprises multinationales ou des fonds รฉtatiques. La rรฉduction de lโ€™รฉcologie ร  la seule question climatique, ร  un taux de carbone atmosphรฉrique, permet plus facilement de prรฉsenter les รฉnergies dites ยซ renouvelables ยป ou ยซ propres ยป ou ยซ dรฉcarbonรฉes ยป et les technologies dites ยซ vertes ยป ou ยซ bas carbone ยป comme des ยซ solutions ยป. Plusieurs chapitres de mon livre Mensonges renouvelables et capitalisme dรฉcarbonรฉ : notes sur la rรฉcupรฉration du mouvement รฉcologiste (รฉditions Libre, 2024) sont consacrรฉs ร  ces questions.

Le fond de lโ€™absurde, la perversion du capitalisme, lโ€™insupportable ironie de la situation, cโ€™est quโ€™un nouveau mรฉdia qui prรฉtend proposer une autre vision des choses, qui dรฉnonce rรฉguliรจrement ยซ les milliardaires ยป, dรฉfend en fait des idรฉes qui les arrangent trรจs bien. Le dรฉveloppement des technologies dites ยซ vertes ยป et des รฉnergies dites ยซ renouvelables ยป ou ยซ propres ยป ne changera rien ร  la catastrophe sociale et รฉcologique en cours. Au contraire, il ne fait que la prolonger. Une #รฉcologie digne de ce nom doit avoir pour objectif la disparition des infrastructures techno-industrielles, pas leur impossible et indรฉsirable verdissement.

Entrisme catholique dans lโ€™รฉducation : des effets bien concrets
contre-attaque.net/2025/07/18/โ€ฆ

"Macron brandit la menace musulmane, mais l'entrisme est dรฉjร  bien amorcรฉ dans les sphรจres du pouvoir : celui des catholiques intรฉgristes.
Lโ€™article Entrisme catholique dans lโ€™รฉducation : des effets bien concrets est apparu en premier sur Contre Attaque."

Thyroid Trouble: Why Standard Treatment Often Falls Short!

Why does standard thyroid therapy leave millions suffering? Thyroid trouble may be more complicated than most physicians believe.

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When Should You Take Your BP Pills? Morning or Bedtime?

A reader got better blood pressure control if he took his pills at night instead of in the morning. Should you take your BP pills before bed?

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MILANO NON E' UN MODELLO!
ALCUNE COSE DA FARE SUBITO

Dopo che il Modello Milano a trazione immobiliarista รจ finito all'onore delle cronache giudiziarie alcune semplici cose da fare immediatamente per segnare una discontinuitร  immediata.

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Surprising and Scary Gabapentin Side Effects

Doctors are prescribing gabapentin off-label for pain. Gabapentin side effects, such as dementia, can be serious. Stopping can be difficult.

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Why Is the Sugar Substitute Erythritol Risky?

The non-nutritive sweetener erythritol is popular, but is it safe? Studies show it increases the risk for cardiovascular complications.

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Welp. Time to get three cavities filled at the dentist. Even the office is twitchy about it because I guess I'm marked as difficult on their file. The thing is once my mouth is numb, everything is fine. The problem is I'm terrified of needles and it seems impossible for me to hide that fact so it becomes a whole ordeal. They have a newer dentist who is a very nice lady, but last time she sent me home because "I can't do this when you look like that I need your consent." Um. Lady. We're not having sex. Needles in your mouth sucks. You just gotta not care about me. We both know that I'm not going to die. I just have a problem with needles.

Alas, next time they sent in their more experienced old man dentist who does not care about me at all and all things considered it was rather swift.

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@FeartnTiredNasty. I had a couple out from over crowding when in primary school.

It might be worth your while asking your mum if she had any vitamin deficiency in pregnancy too, and speak to the dentist or the Dr...mind you, not sure how it all works over there...and ask them if you need to have a check re why this happens to you.

Kid does a hit and run and kills a cyclist in a stolen car.

I wanna slap the mother who had the unmitigated NERVE to name him 'Messiah.'

youtu.be/dwWgeQgujg0

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Woke Podcaster FROZEN After Jesse Lee ASKS The Forbidden Question - "Name One Black Accomplishment?" - YouTube

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'They (middle class blacks) ain't gonna accept you. You're too white."

usluck.com/593917/luigi-lineriโ€ฆ Luigi Lineri, the Italian collector who gathered and categorized stones from the Adige River in Northern Italy for over 50 years #OldSchool #OldSchoolCool

Loi Duplomb : l'extrรชme droite au service de l'agro-industrie
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"L'Assemblรฉe nationale a dรฉfinitivement adoptรฉ la proposition de loi Duplomb, en dรฉpit d'une mobilisation sans prรฉcรฉdent d'une partie du monde agricole et de la sociรฉtรฉ civile. Rรฉintroduction de pesticides, intensification programmรฉe de l'รฉlevage industriel : ce texte รฉcrit sous dictรฉe de la FNSEA est une aberration

Good Morning MINDS
Happy Friday....here's my 5:

I just want to make fun of politics. I am done being serious about it. I don't care anymore. There have been no significant arrests. I just don't care.

I wish someone would make the ultimate social media platform. Complete with blogging and the ability to reach all who follow you, not just a select few.

You would think that News stations would go back to the Walter Cronkite days. Just deliver the News Headlines and some facts and let the viewer make their own decisions. Their viewership would go through the roof.

If today's music was so good, why do they keep using the Rock classics in commercials?

There is beer and Pizza at the end of my rainbow today.

Trumpโ€™s Agenda Could End Americaโ€™s Education Crisis

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Misplaced hope #1: Most court rulings halting Trump's authoritarianism are based on his having usurped Congressional authority. But a MAGA Supreme Court is reversing those rulings, approving his power grab. And a MAGA Congress is happy to hand over their power to him anyway.

Misplaced hope #2: MAGA's declining popularity means voters will rein them in? That assumes they'll allow free elections. To doubt this is no longer absurdly alarmist or just a matter for grim jokes: publicnotice.co/p/trump-coup-aโ€ฆ

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Science in Space July 2025 When astronauts began spending six months and more aboard the International Space Station, they started to notice changes in their vision. For example, many found that, as their mission progressed, they needed stronger reading glasses. Researchers studying this phenomenon identified swelling in the optic disc, which is where the optic [โ€ฆ]

His ascent, backed by elite networks, did not go unnoticed abroad. Israeli media frequently refer to Elsztain as โ€œSouth Americaโ€™s richest Jew.โ€ With respect to his connections to broader Jewry, Elsztainโ€™s relationship with Argentinaโ€™s Jewish community runs deep and spans several decades. He is the President of Chabad Argentina and serves as Chairman of the World Jewish Congress Governing Board.

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Le coup du pรจre Franรงois

"Le coup du pรจre Franรงois : dรฉtrousser les pauvres ร  la dรฉloyale.
Et oui, notre bon Bayrou entend faire porter les efforts du budget presque uniquement aux salariรฉs, aux retraitรฉs, aux assurรฉs sociaux et aux familles. A trop vouloir ponctionner la France qui se lรจve tรดt, il en oublie les entreprises โ€ฆ
Lโ€™article Le coup du pรจre Franรงois est apparu en premier sur Le Libertaire."

As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out - WeTransfer added the magic words "machine learning" to its ToS and users reacted predicta... - go.theregister.com/feed/www.thโ€ฆ

Newsom Sues Trump Admin For Canceling Funding For Californiaโ€™s Failed $130 Billion High Speed Train to Nowhere

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Kevin MacDonald (born January 24, 1944) is a professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach, best known for his use of evolutionary psychology to inform his study of the development of Jewish population as a "group evolutionary strategy." As part of this, MacDonald theorizes that Jewish features of higher-than-average verbal intelligence and ethnocentrism have eugenically evolved to enhance the ability of Jews to out-compete non-Jews for resources, resulting in their ability to undermine the power and self-confidence of the White majorities in Europe and America.

He has called for the establishment and defense of a European "ethnostate" in America and Europe in a speech while accepting an award from the . . . colchestercollection.com/authoโ€ฆ

The Colchester Collection is the Web's largest curated archive of pro-White books, with almost 1,800 of them in one of our 22 different catalogs.

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URGENT: Help Save 32 American Allies from Being Murdered by the Taliban

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FBI Director James Comeyโ€™s Daughter FIRED by DOJ, Key Player in Sealing EPSTEIN Files!

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ARTICLE 2: JUST IN: Senate Passes Trump-Backed Rescission Plan to Defund PBS, NPR and Slash Bloated Foreign Aid

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ARTICLE 4: Garland Favorito and VoterGA Appeal Inexplicable Dismissal of Curling vs. Raffensperger Election Ruling

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OpenAI Unveils โ€˜Agentโ€™ Feature That Can Control Your Computer and Perform Tasks Automatically

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If you need some joy in your day, this is my gift to you. Jon Batiste is a gem of a human being. He is also massively talented.

In this interview from 2023 with Chris Wallace, Jon talks about the limitations genres put on music. And THEN he genre hops through part of a Beethoven piece on the fly.

Itโ€™s so good. And Chrisโ€™ face is priceless. Heโ€™s almost giddy.

#JonBatiste #Music #Genres #Piano #Genius #ChrisWallace #Joy #GoodNews

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Taxation is obscene, you lose about 50% of your income.

The good side is nobody wants to kill you, imprison you, and ruin your life. So no cops with quotas, no SWATting (they just don't kick down doors over anonymous phone calls, actually kicking down doors AT ALL is extremely rare), no personal injury lawyers, no toxic food.

The bad side is that nobody wants to do anything, so when you need something done, it can be really painful. Like if you're paying someone and they still don't want to work.

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It's not just "lazy" in the sense that an American would think of it, it's a whole culture unto itself.

The French don't grovel. Everybody knows that whatever they're paid half is going out the window, so as a result, customer service is hilarious. But if they can see that you're in a tight spot, they'll help you out, because they do care about you as a human being. It's just that whether or not you're paying them doesn't really have an impact on how much they want to help you out.

The French wear you down, until you become one of them...

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Another thing about the French is they are experts at not following rules. The French are absolute masters at implicitly negotiating with one another what is and is not an acceptable thing to be doing, with astonishingly little regard for the letter of the law.

America has nothing comparable to this, America has mostly the German concept of enforcing every stupid little rule to the full extent possible, with no regard for the lives of everyone around, or indeed even the reason the rule was implemented in the first place. America also has the Scotts-Irish Borderer concept of breaking every rule possible, and starting a fight with anyone who suggests otherwise, but there's no analogue to the French concept of gracefully breaking the letter of the law while remaining within the spirit and being a good neighbor.

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There are different ways to do it. If you're marrying, you can marry a woman from any country in the EU, I recommend looking in Romania.

There are also other ways to get residency. There might even be a special thing for digital nomads now, IDK.

Never been to SEA but it always gave me a weird "cool for vacation, but not to live" vibe, but I guess it works for some people...

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@baskin :kafeneio:๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

nope, posts will not be deleted. In any case, it is a good practice to autodelete your posts (mine are deleted after some months). Microbloging social media are ephemeral. If you want an archive, create a proper blog. There are also settings to keep any of them in your preferences.


This is the kind of preachy and hectoring response that puts people off!

And it does not even address the point of discussion; it is just you feeling smug about your own decision to auto-delete your own posts, and showing contempt for the people who do not.

The point of my posts was to show that moving to a different instance may not solve the problems @{rzeta0@todon.eu} was facing on mastodon.social, and may even create new problems.

Posts not getting transferred when you move accounts is a design flaw of Mastodon, whether or not they are set to auto-delete; and the reluctance of Mastodon evangelists like you to even acknowledge the problem is harmful to Mastodon itself.

And thatโ€™s only one of the problems of Mastodon, and of ActivityPub as a whole.

Here are some others:


  • A profile redirect, that you and many others are tomtoming about, is still at the mercy of the administrator of the current instance. A malicious admin can simply block it.
  • There is no way out for a user if the current instance shuts down.


In this context, the irony is that Mike Macgirvinโ€™s Nomad protocol existed and was being used in production before ActivityPub was released, and before Mastodon was even born. The Nomad protocol allows each account to have multiple channels, the channel is what participates on the Fediverse. But hereโ€™s the feature relevant to our discussion: a user can open an account on another Nomad-protocol-based instance and can clone the channel from the original instance there. You can choose to post from the original channel or the clone channel, the post gets mirrored on the other one. Connections are also identical on both. So essentially a channel and its one or more clones exist simultaneously. If one of the instance shuts down or bans the user, all the posts and connections and blogs and everything else on the channel are still there on the clone, and the channel can continue functioning as it always did.

The above feature is called nomadic identity.

ActivityPub chose NOT to incorporate Nomadic Identity in its original implementation. But recently, Mike Macgirvin even ported nomadic identity to ActivityPub.

Those who are so keen to dish out advice about moving to another instance should at least spend some time learning about nomadic identity, and checking out Fedi software that supports nomadic identity [Hubzilla, (streams), Forte].


  • But even if some of the fedi software has nomadic identity, the entire fediverse has the major problem of search being entirely local. An instance (call it instance 1) becomes aware of a post on another instance only if someone on the instance 1 follows the poster, or boosts or likes the post. This effectively invisiblizes the global south, and also invisiblizes the low-visibility topics even from the global north. In other words, most of the fediverse remains invisible to most of the fediverse, by design.


@baskin :kafeneio:๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ, you have a Palestinian flag in your profile, so I assume the ongoing holocaust of Palestinians enrages you as much as it enrages me and @{rzeta0@todon.eu} and many other people. And I presume you also care about the fediverse. In that case, try to understand the drawbacks of the fedi, accept them, and organize and agitate for it to be better.

At present, the dominant force on the Fediverse is a tiny liberal Western elite virtue-signalling to each other. The Fedi is entirely irrelevant in the larger sociopolitical context. If you care about the fedi, try to make it a catalyst for genuine sociopolitical change in the world out there.

@Fou @{rzeta0@todon.eu}

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