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The comments of Ramirez have clearly struck a nerve on both sides. For my part, I am very proud of both my Irish-Sicilian background. My Sicilian grandparents came to this country at the turn of the century. They were deeply proud of their heritage but always insisted that their children identify as Americans first and foremost.
Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez (D., Ill.) is locked into a fierce fight with the White House over controversial remarks at the second annual Panamerican Congress held in Mexico, including declaring, “…
Google has released security updates to address multiple security flaws in Android, including fixes for two Qualcomm bugs that were flagged as actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities include CVE-2025-21479 (CVSS score: 8.6) and CVE-2025-27038 (CVSS score: 7.5), both of which were disclosed alongside CVE-2025-21480 (CVSS score: 8.6), by the chipmaker back in June 2025. CVE-2025-21479 posted by pod_feeder
In der Nacht zum Mittwoch wechseln sich Wolken und Sonne ab, im Süden ist es gering bewölkt. An der Küste gibt es noch einzelne Schauer. Die Temperaturen sinken auf 15 Grad an der See und 9 Grad im Harzvorland. Im Binnenland lässt der Wind nach und weht aus westlicher Richtung. An der See bleibt es frisch mit starken bis stürmischen Böen. /LL
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A lot of people don’t know that Ghislaine Maxwell’s dad, Robert Maxwell, played a pivotal role in setting up the system for how science research gets publish...
This is really interesting, but also quite a big deal because it means if you care enough to do ANY kind of honest research, you're really likely to just bang into undiscovered things by accident, because the whole scientific community is chasing their tails so nobody is really asking any questions (except of course "how do I get published")...
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Gold prices fell on Sunday, affected by profit-taking after the sharp rise in the previous session following the release of weaker-than-expected US jobs data, which reinforced expectations of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut in …
Great from @pluralistic on why my individual efforts to remove myself from Big Tech's clutches won't achieve anything, and why we need systematic responses, not individual ones. pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/uns…
Microsoft's AI-fueled 4 trillion valuation highlights the massive impact of the AI bubble on the US economy. AI investments are now acting as a private sector stimulus, contributing more to US economic growth than consumer spending. However, a clear and sustainable business model remains elusive. In many ways, the current AI boom mirrors the dynamics of the dot-com era.
I know you don't agree with my anti-AI stance, but this kinda proves my point. If AI is a bubble (it is), then the market pushes for AI in everything, and everything dependent on AI will cause an economic bloodbath when it pops. An Anti-AI model may be the only foil against a worse outcome.
@Sh4d0w_H34rt O think it's important to separate the tech from the capitalist industry using it. Meanwhile, an economic crash was already in the works even without AI. All the bubble did was postpone what was already inevitable.
It's also informative to see how this tech is being integrated into Chinese economy for contrast.
A friend just sent me this article about losing a spouse.
"You think you're prepared. you go in with boxes and garbage bags. You tell yourself you’ll be strong. You think, “It’s just stuff.”
But then you open a drawer. And their handwriting is still on a notepad. Their scent still clings to the sleeves of that sweater you begged them to throw out every winter. Their shoes are still lined up by the door like they might be back any minute.
You find yourself sitting on the floor, holding a shirt to your face, trying to memorize a smell you know is already fading. You whisper “I’m sorry” to objects you tuck away in boxes. You fold things neatly like you’re still trying to take care of them. You pause before tossing something out, because what if that was their favorite?
No one tells you how loud the silence is when their closet door creaks open.
No one tells you how heavy an empty coat can feel in your hands. No one tells you that cleaning out a space can shatter you all over again.
It’s not just cleaning. It’s letting go of little pieces you were never ready to lose. It’s closing a drawer for the last time and feeling like you’re betraying them. It’s packing up the life you shared, while your heart silently begs, please don’t make me.
Because deep down, you’re not just packing away their things —
Columbia University's recent suspension and expulsion of more than 70 students for a Palestine demonstration is the latest sign the school's crackdown on activism is not simply about campus conduct, but appeasing political pressure from Washington.
Columbia University’s recent suspension and expulsion of more than 70 students for a Palestine demonstration is the latest sign the school’s crackdown on activism is not simply about campus conduct, but appeasing political pressure from Washington.
Mark Mansour notes that the overt, unabashed gerrymandering proposed by Texas Republicans is designed, by their own admission, to "enhance the political efficacy” of GOP votes.
What this is really about is enhancing the political efficacy of WHITE RURAL voters. As Mansour says, it's "a chilling disenfranchisement of millions of voters—especially Black, Latino, and Asian Americans."
As Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman show in their important 2024 study White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy, no demographic group is so catered to politically and has so much unmerited and outsized clout as white rural voters. They write:
“No group was ever dealt a better electoral hand than rural White Americans."
The inflated power of rural White voters confers upon them an unusual ability to force state and national governments to cater to their preferences and grievances. Herein lies the danger: precisely because they wield inflated power, rural Whites’ increasingly tenuous commitments to democratic norms and traditions are magnified across the U.S. political system in many of the same ways their preferences have been for two centuries” (p. 63).
"Partisan gerrymandering is legal because the US Supreme Court declared in 2019 that it is too difficult for federal judges to ensure that congressional districts are fairly drawn. (A demonstrably false claim.)"
"Having washed its hands of voter suppression like a modern-day Pontius Pilate, the Supreme Court relinquished control of congressional districting to a patchwork of inconsistent, flawed, and (sometimes) corrupt state legislatures. Chaos ensued."
“Trump knows he can’t win the upcoming mid-term elections, so he is trying to rig them. And the way he is trying to do it is to dismantle the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as we know it. He is trying, for example to try and dismantle Hispanic and African-American opportunity districts."
Billy Begala explains how the Republican gerrymandering proposal wants to "carve up Texas like a Christmas ham," disenfranchising Black and Hispanic voters and privileging rural white ones.
At Trump’s command, the Texas GOP’s redistricting maps strip voting power away from Black Texans and are an insult to us all — regardless of partisan stripes.
Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesperson has announced that Moscow is prepared to increase collaboration with BRICS countries to combat the pressure of illegal US sanctions.
Trump said if oil drops another $10 per barrel, it could force Russia to end the war against Ukraine. He also promised to raise tariffs on India within a day.
Talk about powerful: Rachel Maddow last night on how "we're beyond waiting and seeing now":
"Whether you're looking at small scale local stories or the biggest picture stories about what's happening in our country, the story is the same and it is now an undeniable thing. We have crossed a line. we are in a place we did not want to be, but we are there."
Rachel Maddow points out that the thing most Americans were dreading has come to pass, and the United States has changed profoundly in only six months of aut...
"Whether you're looking at small scale local stories or the biggest picture stories about what's happening in our country, the story is the same and it is now an undeniable thing. We have crossed a line. We are in a place we did not want to be, but we are there. The thing we were all warning about for the last few years is not coming. It is here. We are in it."
"We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country. and it sounds melodramatic to say it, i know, but just go with that for a minute, right? Think. Think in melodramatic terms. Think in cinematic terms. Imagine the cartoon level caricature of what you think a dictatorship looks like."
Reminds me of how, at my writing group last month, one of the members talked about how gross it was that there were people lining up to get autographs from Dean Cain. You know, because he’s MAGA and so the people getting the autographs were probably also pieces of shit. I’m sure if I said anything anti-liberal they’d kick me right out for being “political.” But that dipshit going off about Republicans? A-OK.
Transition vegane, je remplace le lait entier par le lait d'avoine barista de Oatly dans les céréales et j'ai trouvé une glace Ben&Jerry's "Chocolate fudge brownie" vegane ! #AspirantVegan #GoVegan #Vegan
Bon, le lait d'avoine est au moins 1 euros plus cher que le lait, donc j'en prendrais moins. Et la glace fait 15 euros le kilo versus dix balles pour la version pas vegane. Passer vegane, ça coûte plus cher sur un paquet de truc. Surtout si on cuisine pas.
tiens, ça y est, le râpé vegan Nourish est arrivé dans mon supermarché local. Toujours pas de végétariens ni vegans dans la famille, mais c'est bon à savoir quand on a des potes qui viennent manger. J'ai failli en prendre pour tester mais la petite a soufflé en regardant le plafond 😒
TEHRAN — Protests condemning Israel’s devastating war and deliberate starvation campaign in Gaza continue to sweep across the globe, as activists, politicians, and ordinary citizens demand an end to the violence and immediate humanitarian aid.
In 2019, the American Ayatollah (the Supreme Court) said that it was totally fine to gerrymander, as gerrymandered maps could not be reviewed by federal courts (Rucho v. Common Cause).
Now, with a slim majority, Texas Republicans are gerrymandering on racial lines to disempower voters because they cannot win elections on merits. As a result, Texas Democrats have fled the state, denying the governing body of quorum.
This is "American Democracy" failing spectacularly.
Texas Republicans are trying to redraw congressional districts to pick up five additional U.S. House seats. Democrats face financial and political risk in their bid to block the GOP plan.
The problem with having a system of governance where rigged popularity contests determine who controls the apparatus of the state is that you have a system of governance where rigged popularity contests determine who controls the apparatus of the state.
Anyone in the FA fam suffer from gout? Anyone of you know of any natural remoidies to take? My wife was been in pain for the past 5 days and she went to the ER yesterday. The Er dock determined it was that. No breakage in her right foot. Still waiting on the damn ensurance to approve the med she needs. God I hope i don't get it. Having Arther is bad enough. Glad its not sever though.
What’s the truth about lectins, and how can you safely enjoy foods like tomatoes and bell peppers? Barbara O'Neill explains how proper preparation of these f...
I have been unemployed for over a year, hustling here and there while trying to find something long term in the current hell that is the tech industry. My cat has kidney problems and I need help to cover vet bills amounting to around 500€.
A line that crosses a border multiple times (like Bihać 🇧🇦 - Knin 🇭🇷) is listed only once, and there is a new category of markers called Transit Markers that simply shows the border crossings, with a different icon, and there are 35 such Transit Markers
If there is a junction somewhere along the way (as there is Hagenwerder 🇩🇪 - Krzewina Zgorzelecka 🇵🇱 - Hirschfelde 🇩🇪) then those are still counted separately
Active line, no passenger service - visited by 🚆 (3) Active line, no passenger service - visited by 🚲 (44) Active line, no passenger service - visited by 🚌🚙 (13)
Active line, no passenger service - visited total (70)
Active line, no passenger service - not yet visited (4)
Arriving at Mulhouse (but NOT at Basel) they warn you to not open the doors before the train stops. But you can’t open the doors as they’re centrally locked. All of this is just SNCF covering itself, legally. It’s basically “if you push the button too soon it’s you liable not us”
Ok, I checked. In TGV Lyria anyway they’ve got no problem with you locking your bag to a luggage rack (note this is one SBB Lyria train manager’s opinion - don’t consider it a hard rule!)
And his SNCF counterpart was excellent and friendly and acknowledged it is a design problem (racks badly placed)
Meanwhile about the #CrossBorderRail train into Vatican City: I emailed the museum who offered the train as part of a tour, asking if the suspension was temporary or permanent. The answer… doesn’t answer! 🤷♂️
I was surprised about that a few weeks ago when I wanted to get a reservation for the TGV to Lille. I really had to visit the next boutique to get a reservation. Funniest thing was that the self-booking booths in the boutiques have the same booking system, which makes this even more ridiculous
Before trainwide door locking was a thing (because there was no cable connecting the carriages), there was a thing called "wagenautarke Türsicherung", which locks the carriage doors when it is moving faster than 5km/h.
I do not know the internal SNCF procedures but I would guess that this maybe is a historical remnant because there are still carriages with this technique (or the trainwide locking is broken).
Hah! I missed you in Basel by a few days, I was there on Saturday. I traveled Nancy - Strasbourg - Basel - Milano - Bari (and further by boat to Igoumenitsa), inspired by your trip reports.
this whole project was really insightful to watch. thanks a lot for your work. given how much room for improvement there is for an issue that is so well aligned with european integration in general the level of neglect by EU and member states is disturbing at least.
Thanks a lot John for all the work you’ve been doing! I really enjoyed your posts here on mastodon. There is a lot of work to be done in terms of cross border train lines in Europe and I hope the day will come where things will actually improve on a larger scale.
There used to run some trains from there to the Papal gardens, but since the beginning of this year this is gone. Maybe forever. Deo volente (how ironic) it will return so us mortals can go on a pilgrimage for this international railway line.
Good that this train gets a top score; it's a 10 hour journey. The terrain should be interesting, Maybe a few piccies? Fingers crossed for a successful connection.
Congrats on completing this huge journey! It was very fun to read your updates every day for the past weeks. Hope you have a good time off in France now!
Invest the time to listen to these podcasts; then do your own research if you want to know what is going on because it isn't what is being reported. Per DJT: "We Have It All"
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In this explosive episode of Global Defense War, host John Michael Chambers is joined by an elite panel of military and intelligence experts—Derek Johnson, Riccardo Bosi, Michael Jaco, Josh Reid, and
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It's incredible how many foolish and half baked ideas #bitcoin saves us from. The discipline in rational thinking it forces you to adopt due to opportunity cost is wonderful.
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