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Wake up, New York! New Yorkers are struggling. Subway stations are dirty, crime is rising, and public schools are failing. The streets are littered, and entire communities remain forgotten. Mamdani’s budget priorities reflect none of that. Instead, they reflect the worldview of an activist who would rather fund symbolic causes than confront real problems.
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Mamdani Already Owes New Yorkers $1.3 BILLION | The Gateway Pundit | by Gregory Lyakhov

Mamdani has backed spending proposals that read more like activist wish lists than responsible fiscal policy.
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Excerpt: In 2022, Senator Graham voted with the Biden administration 70% of the time. He supported the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Graham has been one of the Republican Party's most consistent advocates for amnesty—so much so that critics labeled his approach "Grahamnesty." It's time to for South Carolina to FIRE Lindsey Graham.
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It's Time to FIRE Lindsey Graham | The Gateway Pundit | by Gregory Lyakhov

Lindsey Graham has had every opportunity to deliver for South Carolina. He failed. In 2026, Republican voters should hold him accountable.
Gregory Lyakhov (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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Peace in Motion: DRC, Rwanda Push Forward With Economic Integration, US State Dep't Says en.sputniknews.africa/20250802…

Peace in Motion: DRC, Rwanda Push Forward With Economic Integration, US State Dep't Says

The DRC and Rwanda initialed the Regional Economic Integration Framework Tenets — a requirement outlined in the peace agreement signed on June 27, the US State Department said in a statement.
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Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny

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Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny | TechCrunch

A surprising figure is celebrating Figma’s successful IPO: Lina Khan, former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, who said the offering demonstrates the value of "letting startups grow into independently successful businesses."
Anthony Ha (TechCrunch)

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Dead & Co. live today in San Fran

John Mayer does a good job. I was quite skeptical of him when he first joined Dead & Co. on tour...but he's stuck with it and grew. Thanks for the good tunes Mr. Mayer.

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Dead & Company 8/2/25 San Francisco, CA

Night two of Dead & Company’s three-night run in Golden Gate Park is getting started. 🌁 Order your livestream passes in 4K or HD and enjoy the full show: ht...
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Iran, Pakistan eye developing trade coop by creating joint FZ en.mehrnews.com/news/234982/Ir…

Iran, Pakistan eye developing trade coop by creating joint FZ

TEHRAN, Aug. 02 (MNA) – Secretary of the Supreme Council of Free and Special Economic Zones Reza Masroor says that Iran and Pakistan emphasized developing trade-economic cooperation by establishing a joint free zone.
Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (Mehr News Agency)

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Le Monde Uncovers “Black Year” for ICC Amid Pressure to Protect Israeli Officials from War Crimes Charges #Palestine qudsnen.co/le-monde-uncovers-b…

Le Monde Uncovers “Black Year” for ICC Amid Pressure to Protect Israeli Officials from War Crimes Charges

The Hague (Quds News Network)- A bombshell investigation by Le Monde has revealed the “black year” of the International Criminal Court (ICC), as the court faced unprecedented external threats in 2024.
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An Ode to the Aesthetic of Light in 1024 Pixels


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Car insurance sucks, but you'd be outraged if, almost three months after you'd had your vehicle repaired (paid for by insurance), the body shop told you that the insurance payment had been "adjusted" and that you needed to pay them more money.

And yet that's exactly what happened with my health insurance. I had lab tests done on May 8. I paid. And yesterday I got an invoice in the mail, asking me to pay the "adjustment."

It's time to burn the whole system to the ground.

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For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community.

PBS is now closing because Republicans hate education.
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropria…
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@GreenFire@mstdn.social [PBS](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS) IS NOT CLOSING! #PBS is owned by it's member stations, not the Corporation for Public Broadcasting/ #CPB. For crying out loud! #USPol #PublicBroadcasting ---

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For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community.

PBS is now closing because Republicans hate education.
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropria…
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George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@GreenFire@mstdn.socialCPB makes up, on average of, 15% of a local station's funding.

I have faith in PBS stations to (a) tighten the belt, and (b) come up with other sources of funding to make up for the deficit. At least until funding is restored.

It doesn't mean all will survive.

Some of the rural stations will most definitely die-off because CPB makes up far more than the 15% average of their funding, sometimes up to 80% for some rural stations.

And that's unfortunate.

But I have faith that the vast majority of PBS stations, and by extension PBS in-general, will survive this. Not unscathed. But will survive.

What CPB provided most of its funding to wasn't to PBS member stations.

It was to educational and cultural programs that were broadcasted on those PBS stations. So many favorite shows are going to end because there will be no more funding to continue them.

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Nearly 9 out of 10 Israeli military investigations into allegations of war crimes or abuses by its soldiers since the start of the war in Gaza have been closed without finding fault or left without resolution

Unresolved investigations include the killing of at least 112 Palestinians queueing for flour in Gaza City in Feb. 2024, Action on Armed Violence said & an airstrike that killed 45 in an inferno at a tented camp in Rafah in May 2024.
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Israel closes 88% of cases of alleged war crimes or abuse without charges – report

Conflict monitoring group Action on Armed Violence says Israel is seeking to create a ‘pattern of impunity’
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3 Nachschriften 3. IX.- Die Compañera, die schönste. Theaterstück in verschiedenen Akten mit Fußnoten. Vielstimmiger Monolog.
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"3 Nachschriften 3. IX.- Die Compañera, die schönste. Theaterstück in verschiedenen Akten mit Fußnoten. Vielstimmiger Monolog. Für den Lehrer in […]"


3 Nachschriften 3.  IX.- Die Compañera, die schönste. Theaterstück in verschiedenen Akten mit Fußnoten. Vielstimmiger Monolog.

3 Nachschriften 3.  IX.- Die Compañera, die schönste. Theaterstück in verschiedenen Akten mit Fußnoten. Vielstimmiger Monolog. Für den Lehrer in Zuneigung, hoffend, dass er sich bald von den B…
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At a Loss for Words: A flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)

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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.
Emily Hanford (APM Reports)

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Is the regional Zionist Project going to include occupation of Cyprus? thewallwillfall.org/2025/08/02…

Is the regional Zionist Project going to include occupation of Cyprus?

Cover image: Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiades (left), Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis (center), and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu hail the EastMed project. 2020 “Jews shouldn’t see…
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"What Was Israel Supposed To Do After October 7?" Is Asking The Wrong Question

A much more useful and interesting question is “What were Palestinians supposed to do in response to all of Israel’s abuses prior to October 7?”
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"What Was Israel Supposed To Do After October 7?" Is Asking The Wrong Question

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
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@scottdhansen we’re driving along and I say to the wife, there’s a deer, literally standing right next to the road.

Then about a half mile up the road, one starts walking out right in the middle of the lane. I hit the brakes and then the stupid thing just stops, standing broadside right in front of me. Luckily it decided to start walking again, or I would have needed evasive maneuvers. As it is I went from 60 down to about 15 in 2 seconds.

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On August 3 and the Days of Rage: Act, Mobilize and Escalate for Gaza and the Prisoners abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/206…

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On August 3 and the Days of Rage: Act, Mobilize and Escalate for Gaza and the Prisoners


“We call for active and massive participation on this national and global day in defense of our prisoners and our people in the Gaza Strip, to expose the brutal crimes of the occupation against them, and to support their rights and just cause….We look forward to making the 3 of August a pivotal day in all parts of Palestine, in the refugee camps and the diaspora, in our Arab and Islamic world, & among all the free people of the world, to support our people in Gaza and our free prisoners in the occupation’s prisons.” – Ismail Haniyeh, 29 July 2024

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins in the collective call for action on 3 August and throughout the first week of August, for days of rage and action in solidarity with Gaza, the prisoners, and the Palestinian people and their liberation, from the river to the sea. As the ongoing Zionist-imperialist genocide enters its 666th day of escalation — after over 77 years of a genocidal project being implanted in the region at the behest of imperialist powers — it is more urgent than ever for people around the world, especially in the heart of the imperial core, to organize, escalate, and answer the calls of the workers and students of Gaza, and of the heroic Palestinian resistance, for action to break the siege, liberate the prisoners and end the genocide.

The ongoing escalated genocide in Gaza is being carried out not only through bunker-buster bombs and artillery shells, but also through the massive use of the weapon of starvation against the Palestinian people. While the Zionist regime, with the full participation and complicity of the imperialist powers, has besieged Gaza for over 18 years, since 2 March 2025 it has almost entirely cut off entry of basic supplies and food, blocking access to the United Nations and internationally recognized food distribution projects like UNRWA and the World Food Program, initiating the US-Zionist death traps of the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” (actually a CIA-private military contractor joint project), and funding and arming collaborator gangs to attack and steal aid trucks whenever they do enter, particularly to UN facilities.

As a result of the Zionist siege, Gaza is currently facing a level 5 famine, entirely created by the Zionist military machine and its imperialist backers in the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, and fellow European Union powers. Over 1,000 Palestinians have been massacred at GHF “aid sites” — a mechanism to concentrate, surveil, abduct and ethnically cleanse Palestinians — while over 160 Palestinians, including 92 children, have been martyred due to starvation and malnutrition. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported that over 1,200 elder Palestinians have been martyred in the past 2 months due to the effects of starvation and lack of health care, due to the all-out assault and destruction of the Palestinian health system by the Zionist war machine. While U.S. “mediator” Steve Witkoff, who appeared on stage alongside lead Trump donor and far-right Zionist advocate Miriam Adelson to pledge his support for the genocidal entity, appears at the GHF “aid” site in Rafah for a photo opportunity, Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif revealed that occupation forces were using suppressors (silencers) to shoot aid seekers in order to reduce the visibility of the crime amid the media attention.

Far from an “honest broker,” Witkoff and the United States — which claims to be a mediator while directing and arming the genocide — have repeatedly used ceasefire negotiations to instead slander the Palestinian resistance while presenting a false image to the public of the world, which is increasingly outraged by the widely shared images and testimonies of genocide and engineered starvation. While repeatedly claiming that an agreement is “near,” these parties have instead repeatedly rejected any kind of dignified ceasefire and instead plotted more war crimes and crimes against humanity, including ongoing aggression targeting Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran, not to mention the massive outbreak of settler violence and military attacks throughout the West Bank of occupied Palestine.

At the same time, over 10,800 Palestinian prisoners — in addition to Lebanese and Syrian prisoners — are living the experience of engineered starvation and slow assassination inside the occupation prisons. Just days ago, Palestinian prisoners’ associations announced the martyrdom of Sayed Jamal Abu Rajab, the 75th identified Palestinian prisoner martyred inside the occupation prisons since 7 October 2023. The Palestinian prisoners are being subjected to extreme torture and abuse alongside malnutrition and denial of medical care, while the leadership of the prisoners’ movement have been held in complete isolation — and repeatedly beaten — for 22 months. In the prison camps like Sde Teiman and Anatot, Palestinians — especially from Gaza — are routinely subjected to sexual assault, physical violence and mass starvation. Palestinian prisoners are women and men, children and elders, from all political backgrounds — targeted as part of the ongoing assault on Palestinian existence and resistance.

Throughout the genocide, the heroic resistance, particularly the armed resistance, continue to confront the occupation and impose a cost upon the genocidaires with unparalleled bravery and commitment to the struggle. In every area of Gaza where the occupation claims that the resistance has been eliminated or defeated, a new operation emerges to prove that the opposite is true. In fact, the occupation has utterly failed to achieve its stated military objectives of freeing its prisoners or eradicating the resistance. It is instead seeking to rely on political and diplomatic power to achieve these goals, as the resistance in Gaza has blocked them on every occasion. Let us be clear — demands for a “demilitarized Palestinian ‘state’” or the “disarmament of the resistance,” whether in Palestine or Lebanon, are demands to continue the genocide without repercussions and achieve what they have failed to do on the battlefield. In fact, it is the weapons of the Resistance that are currently standing as the foremost shield of humanity in the face of a vicious death machine wielded by Zionism and imperialism.

August 3 and the first week of August take on an even more significant meaning when we recall that the call to action for August 3 in 2024 was the final public statement and call to action of the martyred Palestinian leader, Ismail Haniyeh, Abu al-Abed, the leader of Hamas and a national leader of the Palestinian people, who was assassinated by the occupation in Tehran, Iran, on 31 July, only two days later, alongside his companion, Waseem Abu Shaban. This assassination was, like the genocide itself, a coordinated attack with the participation of the U.S.; on the same day, the Zionists assassinated Lebanese resistance leader Fouad Shukr of Hezbollah, while the U.S. bombed Iraq, targeting four leaders of the Iraqi resistance.

He was renowned for his high level of principle and commitment to Palestinian liberation and national unity, and for his rejection of the unjust and unacceptable conditions placed upon the Palestinian people — indeed, the attempt to bargain Palestinian lives for basic rights and dignity. As he declared, “The fortresses will not fall, the strongholds will not be breached, they will not snatch our positions from us, and we will not recognize ‘Israel.’” Throughout generations of struggle, the Palestinian people have made clear that the martyrdom of their leaders will not hold back their struggle; as we mark 3 August one year later, we must also make that clear internationally, and make Haniyeh’s last call to the public one that resonates through the years, for action and solidarity.

Those principles are perhaps more urgent than ever, with the Palestinian cause facing multiple forms of attack: of course, the genocide and starvation regime imposed by the US-European-Zionist aggression on Gaza and throughout Palestine, the taking of nearly 100 martyrs daily, the horrific war crimes against the population. However, the proclamations of Britain, France, Canada and other directly complicit imperialist nations (as well as of Saudi Arabia and complicit Arab reactionary regimes) about “recognition of a Palestinian ‘state’” (without actual control over land, borders and trade; without sovereignty or self-determination; ‘demilitarized’ and serving as a security arm of the Zionist regime; without the right to return of Palestinian refugees; and with the elimination of the resistance) are not about recognizing Palestinian rights but instead about a new project to liquidate those rights. In fact, these statements come as a new report reveals ongoing and widespread Canadian arms trade with “Israel” and as Britain declares Palestine Action a “terrorist” organization for confronting Zionist arms factories.

If any of these states actually seek to support Palestinian rights, the first steps that they can and must take are to impose a two-way, full arms embargo on the Zionist regime; expel ‘Israeli’ ambassadors and close their own embassies; end the criminalization of Palestinian resistance and Palestine solidarity organizations as ‘terrorists’; immediately send trucks and observers, and accompany those trucks to demand the immediate entry of aid to Gaza through the Rafah crossing with no interference or role for the Zionist genocidaires — not to mention the moral obligation to actively support the Palestinian resistance. They are instead aiming to pacify the outrage among their populations about the ongoing genocide, cover up their own complicity and protect the future of the Zionist project rather than recognizing the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people — without conditions — to full self-determination and sovereignty, not to mention return and liberation, on their entire national soil.

This moment has also highlighted the complicity of reactionary Arab regimes that have engaged in normalization with the Zionist project, from Camp David to Wadi Araba to the “Abraham Accords,” in the continuing genocide. From Egypt refusing to open the Rafah crossing to enter goods and international journalists due to the dictates of the U.S. and the Zionist entity, to Jordan criminalizing support for the resistance and even protest while shooting down drones from Yemen and Iran, to the United Arab Emirates creating a “land bridge” to evade the Yemeni blockade of the port of “Eilat” (Umm al-Rashrash), these reactionary regimes are now facing real pressure about their active complicity in the siege, starvation and genocide of Gaza at the behest of the imperialist powers. Meanwhile, in Syria, despite the government’s repeated assurances of its interest in “peace” and normalization, the occupation continues to invade, take over territory and abduct Syrians.

In contrast, at the same time, every day, in Lebanon, resisters and people of the South are targeted for assassinations in rampant ceasefire violations while the U.S. demands the disarmament of the Resistance, while Yemen continues its massive popular mobilization for Palestine alongside and fully integrated with the actions of its armed forces to actively intervene to bring an end to the genocide and cut off its supply lines in an example that should serve as a challenge to all.

This 3 August — and every day from now — must be a time for action, but also a time for escalation. 22 months, 666 days of genocide, amid rampant engineered starvation, the deliberate promotion of disease, and the mass murder of Palestinian children, adults and elders, men and women, in schools, mosques, churches, refugee camps and residential buildings.

We join the call of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement:

Let the first week of August become Days of Rage everywhere—especially in North America and Europe.

We call upon the masses of our Palestinian people, the allies and supporters of the resistance, and all anti-colonial forces around the world to raise their voices loud and clear, take to the streets, besiege Zionist embassies, and turn every public square and city into a point of direct confrontation, until the siege is broken and the aggression is ended.

We must stand up for the martyrs, and for the imprisoned martyrs that the occupation continues to jail after death, and witness for them. Stand up for the wounded, for the health care workers fighting to save lives under the bombs. Stand up for the heroic resistance fighting every day for a free Palestine. Stand up for the prisoners, confronting the occupier daily behind bars, holding fast to freedom.

  • Confront the arms factories that trade with the occupation or are owned directly by occupation companies — like Elbit Systems — with blockades and direct action. Shut down the economy of genocide.
  • Besiege the embassies of the occupation and its complicit imperialist partners. Shut them down and make it impossible for them to carry out their genocidal business.
  • Shut down streets, government buildings and institutions of the imperial core. The genocide is an emergency. Every day, Palestinians are being massacred and it is clear that the imperialist states will not exert pressure for the genocide to end unless their own interests are on the line directly.
  • Continue the escalations at the embassies of complicit Arab reactionary regimes. These regimes must be concerned about their own futures in order to create counter-pressure to the Zionists and imperialists.

Wherever you are, organize, escalate and act. Ramp up our organizing and our mobilization, be louder, more visible, and create a greater obstruction for the business of the war machine. It is clear that the genocide will not end so long as its perpetrators enjoy impunity; if we cannot rely or wait for the courts, we must impose popular accountability through action.

The Palestinian resistance is today on the front lines defending Gaza, Palestine, the Arab nation, the Islamic world, and all of humanity. Our actions must live up to the example they set every day, to end the human-made famine, end the starvation, end the genocide — and fight for a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

source: Samidoun

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Report - Arms Embargo Now

Canada’s secret arms trade with Israel, exposed: This hard-hitting report exposes the damning data—hundreds of shipments, hundreds of thousands of bullets—and the Canadian government’s web of lies that has been concealing its role in arming genocide …
Arms Embargo Now

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I'm stuck in paralysis again... Is taking so much extra time to learn 3D in a different engine over 2D in RPG Maker that I already know so much about worth it? I could be developing my next game RIGHT NOW but instead I'm learning something else and it is making me really antsy. Maybe I'm too worried about time. Maybe I should just stay dedicated to RPG Maker and build on experience I already have. I don't know man. Thoughts?

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Living in the #US is #crazy cause one of your #neighbors can be someone who literally #participated in a #genocide and it's completely normal and if you express #dissent or #concern about it everyone acts like you've kicked a puppy
And that neighbor gets #discounts at every #restaurant for it
Genuine #nation of #hitlers

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"some #people really be like

noooooo I don’t want the lab #diamond I need to be able to #SMELL the #suffering on them otherwise it’s just not the same"

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