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""Trump and Co. are still light years behind brilliant statesmen like the genocidal Henry Kissinger, but they have an understanding of government equivalent to a frat bro red district congressman working alongside an experienced but mediocre Beltway-insider…" petergelderloos.substack.com/p…"
who is in power, what do they want, what are they actually accomplishingPeter Gelderloos (Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos)
Judge ruled in Trump’s favor in frivolous Pulitzer suit before Trump appointing him to federal judiciaryFreedom of the Press
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On July 17, 2025, the Russian State Duma passed a new law (Article 13.53) that makes it illegal to deliberately search for or access online content listed in the official Federal List of Extremist Materials, which includes Pussy Riot audiovisuals from their actions. Pussy Riot’s inclusion in this law demonstrates how artistic and political protest is equated with extremism.
Quit censoring people!
Pussy Riot is a feminist art collective that is widely known for their actions against Putin in 2012, imprisonment and further art & activismPussy Riot
My friend, look
around and you will see
that these
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And, my friend, look
around and you will see
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My friend, look around and you will see that these are dark times. And, my friend, look around and you will see that these are disastrous times. But, my friend, look at yourself and remember that t…LibrarianShipwreck
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"Don't miss In Contempt, our roundup of state repression, abolitionist news, and political prisoners. itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-5…"
In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates,...It's Going Down
Caitlin Clark is still having an impact on WNBA All-Star Game even though she won't play
https://apnews.com/article/wnba-allstar-game-caitlin-clark-d880cbead2660659ea5c3ee27553e5f0?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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LibreOffice slams Microsoft for locking in Office users w/ complex file formats
Link: neowin.net/news/libreoffice-ca…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Another day, another complaint about Microsoft from LibreOffice. This time, LibreOffice accuses Microsoft of intentionally using overly complex XML to define documents and lock in users.David Uzondu (Neowin)
Today in Labor History July 18, 1934: “The American Mercury” accepted Emma Goldman's article, "Communism: Bolshevist & Anarchist, A Comparison.” However, it was not until a year later that it was published, in a truncated form, as "There is No Communism in Russia." Goldman had been deported by the U.S. in 1919, during the Palmer raids, and sent to Russia, where she lived with her comrade, Alexander Berkman, for several years. She was initially supportive of the Bolsheviks, until Trotsky brutally crushed the Kronstadt rebellion, in 1921, slaughtering over 1,000 sailors and then executing over a thousand more. After this, she left the USSR and, in 1923, published a book about her experiences, “My Disillusionment in Russia.” H.L. Menken founded “The American Mercury,” in 1924, and published radical writers throughout the 1920s and ‘30s. A change of ownership in the 1940s led to a shift to the far right, including virulently antisemitic articles.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #EmmaGoldman #russia #soviet #ussr #communism #kronstadt #rebellion #massacre #writer #author #writer #books #journalism #magazine @bookstadon
So the poll ended and I forgot to talk about it.
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57% KDE Plasma.
43% GNOME.
I chuckle when I compare that against the hundreds of comments I get about how "everyone hates GNOME" every time I show it.
I chuckle because apparently a lot of you would use it if it were one of only two options.
RE: linuxmom.net/@vkc/114819462912…
Time for a poll. You can only choose one desktop environment and you have to use it everyday. Which one are you using: GNOME or KDE Plasma? NOTE: do not suggest something else.Veronica Explains' Mastodon (not to be confused with "Veronica Explains Mastodon", a video I might do)
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"Some much needed hope fuel - the latest from @cbmilstein. "When I posted the “call for submissions” for this humble project, many folks shared it for me. In doing so, one friend noted that it was another in my series of “hopeful” zines. Just to set the record straight (or queer), I’m not hopeful. This zine does not offer sugarcoated “hope” to somehow smooth over these utterly distasteful times. Ye"
Some much needed hope fuel - the latest from @cbmilstein."When I posted the “call for submissions” for this humble project, many folks shared it for me. In doing so, one friend noted that it was another in my series of “hopeful” zines. Just to set the record straight (or queer), I’m not hopeful. This zine does not offer sugarcoated “hope” to somehow smooth over these utterly distasteful times. Yet I believe strongly in cracks in the edifice of hierarchical power and the promise they hold, and that there are always cracks even under the worst conditions. This zine, then, is a small sampler of acts of solidarity that just might keep us safer under fascism in order to get more of us to the other side, toward a world without fascism."
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Everyday Antifascism: 14 Ways That Solidarity Keeps Us Safer
Long-time anarchist author and organizer Cindy Milstein presents a collection of stories about everyday resistance to fascism. Print PDF HERE Read PDF HERE Coincidentally—or sadly—I’m finishing up...It's Going Down
Bob Vylan is antifascist!🏴🚩
All of you who sent it hard for the gig, we will see you on the streets!
#BristolAntifascists #BobVylan #Bristol #Antifa
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organizationen.odkb-csto.org
"In clearing the way for President Trump’s efforts to transform American government, the Supreme Court has issued a series of orders that often lacked a fundamental characteristic of most judicial work: an explanation of the court’s rationale.
~ Adam Liptak
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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"The three liberals agree on an overarching theme: They no longer see the Court playing by the old game of constitutional law. Their dissents suggest anything but an assumption of business as usual. The three liberal justices are writing about a majority unbound by law and its tiresome technicalities—about a majority that is no longer doing law as that term has come to be understood."
~ Aziz Huq
#SupremeCourt #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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Justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor aren’t merely disagreeing with the majority’s technical readings of the law.Aziz Huq (The Atlantic)
"As we approach this milestone [the 60th anniversary of the passing of the Voting Rights Act], we find ourselves not in a moment of reflection or rededication but in a state of legal free fall."
~ Maureen Edobor
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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The anniversary this year should have been an opportunity to celebrate a durable constitutional achievement.Maureen Edobor (Slate)
"The Supreme Court has scheduled arguments next term on Louisiana’s racially gerrymandered congressional map, and the court as early as next week may put on hold and set for argument a case in which the 8th Circuit held that private plaintiffs have no right to sue to enforce Section 2 of the act."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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"These pending decisions threaten to gut what remains of this once powerful statute, which has already been largely hollowed out by the Roberts court over the past decade-plus."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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Elie Mystal says that in giving Trump the power to decimate the Department of Education, the Supremes have once again crowned him king:
"That is not the power of a president, it’s the power of a dictator. More than granting Trump immunity, more than anything else this court has done, this ruling gives him the powers of a king."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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In ruling the president can decimate the Department of Education, the court took a key congressional power—and gave it to Trump.The Nation
"And the Republicans on the court did this while they were on vacation, in an emergency-docket ruling that didn’t even require them to explain themselves.
The Supreme Court is of no more use. It will not protect democracy, the rule of law, or even the constitutional order. The next Democratic president should use the powers granted to Trump to impound the court."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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"We are living through a time when Catholic identity is being hijacked by power. Through networks like Opus Dei, and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, far-right religious leaders have built an anti-democracy machine that frames cruelty as virtue and domination as divine will."
~ Shannon Vavich
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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"These forces, wealthy, secretive, and politically connected, have spent decades quietly embedding their ideology into American institutions.
Their goal is nothing short of a return to a feudalistic model of governance: hierarchy, submission, and clerical control. They speak of 'natural law' and 'order' but act out of ambition, not mercy."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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"The installation of six Supreme Court justices tied to this movement, largely orchestrated by Leonard Leo, is no coincidence. It is a calculated campaign to undo democracy in the name of Christ."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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The history that people concerned about the Supreme Court's destruction of democracy — destruction driven by theocratic ideas — need to know is the following:
When civil rights legislation was enacted by the Democrats in the 1960s, white evangelicals kicked and screamed. At this point, the US Catholic bishops allied themselves with white evangelicals.
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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That alliance has had fateful and lasting consequences. It led first to the formation of the Religious Right and eventually to MAGA and white Christian nationalism.
To make the Religious Right's crusade against the Democrats and human rights appear more morally acceptable than it was when it was born out of racism, the Catholic bishops focused on abortion.
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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White evangelicals, who had never said a peep about the abortion issue and couldn't care less about it, became gung-ho in the anti-abortion cause, with the U.S. Catholic bishops quietly engineering this response behind the scenes — and assisting Leonard Leo in the stacking the Supreme Court with hard-right Opus Dei-leaning Catholics.
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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The media have focused largely on white evangelicals as the big force intent on replacing democracy with theocracy, but behind the scenes, the U.S. Catholic bishops, who have done everything they can to make it appear their hands are not dirty, have pulled the strings, using white evangelicals while avoiding media scrutiny.
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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The resistance to breakthroughs in recognizing the rights of minority communities that began with civil rights legislation according rights to people of color has expanded to bitter resistance among both evangelicals and the U.S. Catholic bishops to rights for women and LGBTQ people. This resistance is at the heart of the determination to dismantle democracy.
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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Linda Chavez thinks that the decision of the "pro-life" Supreme Court's right-wing Catholic bloc to allow deportations to third-world countries should shock American consciences (the terms "pro-life" and "right-wing Catholic bloc" are my addition, not hers).
She writes,
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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The fate that likely awaits those deported to South Sudan violates the Constitution’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishmentLinda Chavez (The UnPopulist)
"On July 3, the Supreme Court handed down its final order vacating the lower court’s preliminary injunction and paving the way for their removal to South Sudan—due process, to determine whether this violates U.S. and international law barring torture, be damned."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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"The prisoners were on the ground in Juba, the South Sudanese capital, one day later.
We have no way of knowing what will happen to these men now. The Trump administration claims it received assurances that they would not be tortured. But it has not disclosed what provisions it has taken, if any, to ensure that South Sudan’s government makes good on those assurances."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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"U.S. border czar Tom Homan told Politico last week that once the U.S. deports an individual to a place like South Sudan, it doesn’t track their ongoing status or even what country they’ll be in a week later."
Speaking of "pro-life" Catholics, that's Homan's self-description, too.
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #corruption #democracy #RuleofLaw #Constitution #Catholic #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #OpusDei
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More on Opus Dei. They sound like real creeps. And as always, follow the money.
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After a five-year-long investigation into the Work of God, financial journalist Gareth Gore accuses the organization of holding Spain’s sixth-largest bank hostage, while exploiting and mistreating members.Natalia Junquera (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
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Justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor aren’t merely disagreeing with the majority’s technical readings of the law.Aziz Huq (The Atlantic)
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Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions
Link: tazj.in/blog/trying-guix
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The babies are up and galloping. Today's fun is leaping onto a footstool then leaping off it, pushing it further around the room each time. They rushed past Supervisor earlier, excited by the thought of brekky. She boofed up her tail, startled and has now retired to the safety of the bed.
I have to go into the office today, hopefully no tufts of fur on the floor when I get home.
Got home from work and sat with my tabby friend on the couch for a cuddle time. Supervisor giving me evil eye from the cat post because she feels if I am home, regardless of time, it's now dinner time. It was not quite dinner time so I had a sit.
Now they've all had dinner and the kittens are filled with joy and energy and are back to the mad sprints and chasey. From the dent in my bed I'd say Supervisor spent most of her day there.
Some much needed hope fuel - the latest from @cbmilstein.
"When I posted the “call for submissions” for this humble project, many folks shared it for me. In doing so, one friend noted that it was another in my series of “hopeful” zines. Just to set the record straight (or queer), I’m not hopeful. This zine does not offer sugarcoated “hope” to somehow smooth over these utterly distasteful times. Yet I believe strongly in cracks in the edifice of hierarchical power and the promise they hold, and that there are always cracks even under the worst conditions. This zine, then, is a small sampler of acts of solidarity that just might keep us safer under fascism in order to get more of us to the other side, toward a world without fascism."
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Long-time anarchist author and organizer Cindy Milstein presents a collection of stories about everyday resistance to fascism. Print PDF HERE Read PDF HERE Coincidentally—or sadly—I’m finishing up...It's Going Down
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The Real Head of ‘Jews for Zohran’ is a Sri Lankan Pro-Hamas Marxist
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CBC goes in hard with the OSINT, identifying key white supremacists in Ontario, Canada + where they train and what parks they frequent:
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#antifa, #osint, #ns-13, #secondsons, #hammerbjj, #amazingfitness, #brandonlapointe, #alexvriend, #robprimerano, #johnwrightsoccercomplex, #myrtlepark, #gagepark
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The Internet Archive is thrilled to host Chuck Tingle and his upcoming novel Lucky Day, for a book talk presented by The Booksmith! We can\'t wait to see you there, […]\nblog.archive.org
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1015 words (4095 total) on The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to AI (a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) #DailyWords
Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!
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Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly …clarionwriteathon.com
Coldplay's jumbotron captures — what exactly? The internet has its theories
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“we are revolutionaries and insurrectionists because we do not just want to improve existing institutions but to destroy them completely, abolishing every form of domination by man over man, and every kind of parasitism on human labour”
― Errico Malatesta
"Labor creates all wealth" (EN: English)
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"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."
Frederick Douglass
Israel nennt den Beschuss der einzigen katholischen Kirche in Gaza ein Versehen. Doch handelt es sich keineswegs um einen Einzelfall.Jörg Tiedjen (junge Welt)
Aldous Huxley ~ Slavery by consent You're being made to enjoy your servitude.From Aldous Huxley - Speech at UC Berkeley, The Ultimate Revolution 1962 Aldous...YouTube
18 July 1910 | A Pole, Marian Wojciechowski, was born in Warsaw. A carpenter.
In #Auschwitz from 24 July 1941.
No. 18662
He perished in the camp on 31 May 1942.
Das Landgericht Berlin II verhandelt eine Anzeige gegen den jW-Autor Jakob Reimann, wird voraussichtlich gegen ihn urteilen und ist an Gegebenheiten des Nahostkonflikts nicht interessiert.Niki Uhlmann (junge Welt)
Helga Baumgarten schreibt in ihrer jüngsten Kolumne über die israelischen Siedlungspläne für das Gebiet »E 1« in der besetzten Westbank.Helga Baumgarten (junge Welt)
The head of the Canadian Army has temporarily removed the commanding officer of the Cameron Highlanders in Ottawa after discovering a Facebook group withUnited States
Another day, another complaint about Microsoft from LibreOffice. This time, LibreOffice accuses Microsoft of intentionally using overly complex XML to define documents and lock in users.David Uzondu (Neowin)
James Gunn’s new Superman movie, which draws an analogy between Israel and the villainous country of Boravia, demonstrates how Israel's idealized image in American culture has been shattered by the widespread acknowledgment of Palestinian oppression.
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#Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Superman
@palestine @israel
James Gunn’s new Superman movie, which draws an analogy between Israel and the villainous country of Boravia, demonstrates how Israel’s idealized image in American culture has been shattered by the widespread acknowledgment of Palestinian oppression.Mitchell Plitnick (Mondoweiss)
Russian hackers are exploring ways to inject propaganda into the training data of generative AI modelsJohn Thornhill (Financial Times)
I’m just sayin’ 🤷🏻♂️
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Lefty Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was among those to help fuel an alleged hoax that claimed ICE had kidnapped an illegal immigrant mom and then tried to force her to self-deport.
Bass spread the claims in a newly resurfaced social media post — just weeks before the migrant, Yuriana Julia “Juli” Pelaez Calderon, was accused of staging the abduction as part of an elaborate scam.
“She’s a mother from LA — taken out of her car on her way to work, and then held in a warehouse as officers hoped she would ‘self-deport.’ No hearing. Just fear. This doesn’t make anyone safer,” Bass posted on X on July 1.
Fraudsters helping fraudsters….😡
ATB feat. Olive ~ You're Not Alone
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#np #Nowplaying
To listen/follow the Trance Top 100 playlist on Spotify, check https://ArmadaMusic.lnk.to/TranceTop1000"You're Not Alone" is a song written by Tim Kellett an...YouTube
@arrrg I can see what you mean about the ratio, but the focus should be on actions being terrible, rather than who they’re done to. It doesn’t save anyone there to add victims anywhere else.
I’m sure you know this and I wouldn’t even speak to it, except there is a thread of thought rn among mostly young folks that if “we” (really, the more-vulnerable closer to home) just suffer enough from our own rulers, we’ll finally be moved to stop them, and it smells like accelerationism.
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TEHRAN – The Israeli occupation regime’s deadly shelling of Gaza’s Catholic church has sparked widespread condemnation.Tehran Times
DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results
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DuckDuckGo's new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.Aisha Malik (TechCrunch)
"Central antifa" (EN: English)
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One of the largest and most complex public parks in Toronto is set to open on Saturday, a project 18 years in the making.United States
Trump’s pivot from aid to trade leaves Africa wary as it faces tariffs and uncertainty
https://apnews.com/article/trump-africa-tariffs-trade-aid-minerals-usaid-711a10e1b2ec83d025d77859e7ae3952?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.Mother Jones
#kill the #cop in your head!!!
#classwar #emancipation #liberation #antifa #antiauthority #anarchy
Did the Manga take a brake from the main story like the anime did with this movie?
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![Alt text: An image of Mark Ruffalo (a man with a silver beard and hair, talking into a microphone), with a smaller image of Joe Rogan in the upper right corner, wearing headphones and in front of a microphone).
Text: Dear Joe Rogan, It’s a little late now to pretend like Project 2025 didn’t exist and wasn’t the playbook all 1] g e ; that 11 int. You were warned repeatedly, yet you helped get him elected and helped let this happen. MARK RUFFALO](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/8090620 "Alt text: An image of Mark Ruffalo (a man with a silver beard and hair, talking into a microphone), with a smaller image of Joe Rogan in the upper right corner, wearing headphones and in front of a microphone).
Text: Dear Joe Rogan, It’s a little late now to pretend like Project 2025 didn’t exist and wasn’t the playbook all 1] g e ; that 11 int. You were warned repeatedly, yet you helped get him elected and helped let this happen. MARK RUFFALO")
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