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It is a classic meme and I love it too, but I can't help myself: should be " . . . but you'll never be as cool as this Mongolian Shepard with his AK-74 . . ." Big ass compensator at the end of the barrel is the give away: AK-74 in 5.45x39mm (basically an AK-47 firing a necked down round for a smaller bullet with higher velocity, parallel to the western 5.56x45mm)
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Biciosxs, divendres, 25 de juliol, a les 18:00 CEST Biciosxs - Bikearka és un taller autogestionat d'autoreparació de bicicletes que funciona sense diners. El taller posa els coneixements, recanvis eines necessaries per tal que les usuàries puguin, elles
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Biciosxs - Bikearka és un taller autogestionat d'autoreparació de bicicletes que funciona sense diners. El taller posa els coneixements, recanvis eines necessaries per tal que les usuàries puguin, elles mateixes, aprendre i arreglar-se la seva bicicleta!

Chickenshit AI? lmao

'Google Gemini decided to call off a chess match against the ancient 1.19 MHz Atari 2600 console after a friendly pre-game reminder about what happened to ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot.'

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Laura Eisenhower, Great Granddaughter of President Eisenhower) Substack about her father.

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My father is 84 years old. He had leukemia and then came double-lung pneumonia. He was so close to death, the doctors discharged him to hospice with only a week or two to live. But I wasn’t ready to let go. And more importantly ~ neither was he. I was with him every day. I brought herbs. Green

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call it love, Spirit, the intelligence of the body when supported by truth. He was discharged home. He drives, goes to concerts, talks with me daily, & recently, when a new doctor’s suggestion could have set him back, he called me first. And then told his nurse: “I listen to my daughter now, not my doctors.” He sounds so good. So alive. This is not just a story of healing. This is proof of what’s possible ~ when we start returning to the wisdom of the Earth, the soul, & the ...

#Israel #ceasefire #negotiatins
@palestine

"Abu Ubaida, the spokesperson for Al-Qassam Brigades, warned Friday that Hamas will not return to the formula of partial prisoner exchanges or the “10 prisoners” proposal if Israel fails again in the current round of negotiations"
“They are not interested in their prisoners. They have already prepared their public to accept their death,” Abu Ubaida said
“To the world: silence is complicity.”

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New camera site in Redwood National and State Parks (View of Bald Hills and Redwood Creek watershed). Learn more about the park at nps.gov/redw/index.htm and home.nps.gov/redw/learn/nature… and #nps #nationalparks #ocean #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #coast #pacific #redwood #interpretation #cawx #california Image credit National Park Service and Redwood Parks Conservancy #summer #lookout #watershed #prairie #grassland #oak #woodland

We went on Camas Infoshop's podcast to talk about InterRebellium, the 2020 ShutDownCanada movement, and the role of anarchist media in pushing for liberation.

Listen here:

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"Save Gaza, free Palestine" (EN: English)

Source: instagram:@flyers_for_falastin

Original: gateway.ipfs.anarchiststickers…

Permalink: anarchiststickersarchive.org/s…

#anarchism #stickers #archive

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"As Naomi Klein writes in _Doppelganger_, the right lives in a 'mirror world' where child abuse is confined to largely imaginary children in nonexistent pizza parlor basements, while actual kids in Florida concentration camps, or border detention cages, or meat-packing plant night shifts, or living in hunger and without a home, are ignored." — @pluralistic

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Black: It represents mourning and sadness over the injustice and persecution suffered by the Palestinian people. It symbolizes the darkness that surrounds the homeland and the silence that prevails over children's laughter;
White: Symbolizes peace and love, echoing the messages of the prophets. It reflects the desire for hearts free of hatred, as opposed to enemies who carry only malice;
Green: It represents goodness, growth, blessings, and hope for the future. It symbolizes Palestine's potential for prosperity and flourishing, with the expectation that the barren land will once again become fertile and joyful;
Red: signifies martyrdom, sacrifice and devotion. It is associated with the honor of giving one's life in defense of religion, family and country.


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#PalestineAction

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Theme song for when a British gentleman, accompanied by a Polish lady knight, several adventurous treasure hunters, and a few local Chinamen must slay the ravenous and evil dragon spirit of Gluttony, the final boss to his expedition to China. (Chinamen must learn to be gluttonous not for food but for opium and the other wonderous medical concoctions that His Majesty is delighted to sell to his new yellow friends at totally reasonable market prices. And they must learn this lesson by force, if need be. Indeed, the lesser yellow man often can understand no language BUT force! (Turns out knights are just as good at slaying eastern dragons as they are western. Even the girl knights seem to do almost half as decent as the men.))

in reply to hazlin at rest

@hazlin a significant chunk of my playlist is just Arknights music. If nothing else the game is good at giving us a couple banger songs every month or so as well as lengthy stories about, say, food, reconnecting with lost family, and how sacrifice is both terrible for both victim and those left behind but also sometimes necessary, reflected across three different stories across the dozen or so different characters.

Hopped on my bicycle today and after a couple of spins around the parking lot I decided to head down the Greenbelt in town. I didn't fall over, but I was a bit shaky riding along as it's been about 45 years since I rode. A big fuck you to the Canadian geese that thought it was a good idea to stroll out into the path and just stand there blocking my way. I managed to do just under 6 miles, relatively flat, but it felt good, and I did have some jelly legs when I finished my ride.

Wow...Epstein has him on the defensive. A canny move against future trials? Perhaps--hope they all get along with better lives. Maybe he'll do something bizarre just to "own the libs" by pushing Medicare-for-All next. (Haha.) Of course queries: is this ALL of them? And where are they sent/can we believe this?

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No wonder the more people understand how AI works, the less they like it. Unsurprisingly felon musskkk is actively opposed to empathy.

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So people in our local community think its funny to now stalk peoples homes without a detective badge and actually certified or they choose to become an out of uniform kkkop to stalk people, how can society be accepting of this type of behaviour?!

#lutruwita #tasmania #tasgov #taspol #politas #australia #somerset #burnie #penguin #ulverstone #devonport #latrobe #launceston #hobart #snitches #gangstalking #fascism #extremism #farright #rightwing #bigots #hypocrites #nazis #neonazis #gestapo

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""Crowds stood outside the Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice chanting “say it loud, say it clear, immigrants are welcome here.”The Friday morning rally organized by Juntos follows a string of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainments outside courthouses, including one at the Philadelphia justice center earlier this week, raising concerns among the community." inquirer

„Die Wirklichkeit sieht inzwischen so aus, dass den Bürgern #Freiheiten entzogen und #Grundrechte nicht mehr wirksam ausgeübt werden. (…)
#Grundrechte werden unter den Vorbehalt eines ideologischen #Klimaschutzes gestellt, und der #Staat maßt sich an, diese #Grundrechte 'zuzuteilen'.

Die Wirklichkeit sieht also so aus, dass die Regierenden sich über #Recht und #Gesetz hinwegsetzen, sei es bei der #Finanzpolitik, der #Klimapolitik, bei 'Rettungsschirmen' oder bei der Instrumentalisierung des Verfassungsschutzes zur politischen #Feindbekämpfung.

Sie lassen zu, dass es gesellschaftliche Gruppen gibt, die aus ideologischen Gründen das Recht brechen und andere Bürger politisch verfolgen.

Die Wirklichkeit sieht auch so aus, dass die #Demokratie in hohem Maße gefährdet ist, wenn einzelne Parteien für sich in Anspruch nehmen, dass nur sie demokratisch sind und dass diejenigen, die diese Positionen ablehnen, als #Rechtspopulisten und #Faschisten diffamiert und bekämpft werden.“

Hans-Georg #Maaßen im Mai 2024 bei @AlexWallasch

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📢 7amleh, in collaboration with RNW Media, has released a new position paper titled: “Safeguarding Palestinian #digital rights in the #EU Policy Framework.”

🔹 The paper highlights how current EU policies fall short in protecting Palestinians online, often enabling censorship and discriminatory moderation in times of conflict

#palestine #law #policy

📑 PDF of the position paper embedded in the following link 👇🏽

7amleh.org/post/position-paper…

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""Fifteen protesters were arrested on the Roebling Bridge during a demonstration supporting Imam Ayman Soliman, facing felony rioting and misdemeanor charges.The protesters were demonstrating against the detention of Soliman, a former Cincinnati Children's chaplain, by ICE....A lawyer representing some protesters claims at least three were hospitalized."#Ohio cincinnati.com/story/news/2"

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Today, America First Legal (AFL) releasedexplosive new documents conclusively proving what AFL has known since day one: the infamous October 4 memo from Attorney General Garland labeling concerned parents as “domestic terrorists” was a political operation of weaponized government, not the normal, lawful execution of federal laws by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

in reply to YoungBlood

These never-before-seen documents—uncovered only because of AFL’s relentless efforts over the past three and a half years—expose not only the Biden White House’s involvement in pushing a weaponized DOJ, but also strong dissent from careers within the Department’s Civil Rights Division, who warned that there was no federal authority or legal basis to target these parents in the first place because their speech is protected by the First Amendment.

europesays.com/de/275817/ Ukraine-News: Frankreich will offenbar zusätzliche Piloten für die Ukraine ausbilden #AktuelleNachrichten #AktuelleNews #EU #Fico #Gasimport #Gazprom #Handelspartner #Headlines #Importverbot #Krieg #Malta #MDR #Nachrichten #News #Öl #Russia #RussianFederation #RussischeFöderation #Russland #Sachsen #SachsenAnhalt #Sanktionen #Schlagzeilen #Slowakei #Thüringen #Trump #Ukraine #USA #Welt

Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 16, 2025 As we hoped, we successfully climbed the 11-meter ramp (about 36 feet) and have arrived at the top of the ridge and the start of the main boxwork region. This means we’re moving into the next phase of the […]

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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…"

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.

pussyriot.love/

Quit censoring people!

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"Don't miss In Contempt, our roundup of state repression, abolitionist news, and political prisoners. itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-5…"

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…

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.

1462 responses.

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…

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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"

The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in an international conference on: "The fight against international terrorism: approaches and Russia's contribution" en.odkb-csto.org/news/news_odk…

"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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in reply to William Lindsey

"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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in reply to William Lindsey

"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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in reply to William Lindsey

"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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in reply to William Lindsey

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 reply to William Lindsey

"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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in reply to William Lindsey

"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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in reply to William Lindsey

"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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in reply to William Lindsey

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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in reply to William Lindsey

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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in reply to William Lindsey

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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in reply to William Lindsey

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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in reply to William Lindsey

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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in reply to William Lindsey

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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in reply to William Lindsey

"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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in reply to William Lindsey

"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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in reply to William Lindsey

"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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in reply to William Lindsey

More on Opus Dei. They sound like real creeps. And as always, follow the money.

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in reply to Frank

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.

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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.