Trump orders colleges to prove they don't consider race in admissions
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Vice President JD Vance’s security detail had an Ohio river’s water level raised last weekend to accommodate a kayaking trip he and his family took for his 41st birthday.Julie Carr Smyth (ClickOrlando | Orlando, Florida News, Local Headlines | WKMG News 6")
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The backlash against Minns over the Bridge protest has gone beyond angry words. Caucus members are planning a motion to endorse the right to protest. At the heart of this anger lies a deeper question:
Where does Labor stand on democracy?
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State Labor's crackdown on protests and unwavering support for Israel raise deeper questions about the party's relationship with power and its democratic principles.Antoun Issa (Deepcut News)
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We placed my aunt at rest today at the Houston National Cemetery with full military honors provided by USMC volunteers.
It was a sight to see and she would have been proud.
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A psychologist once told me that there's actually a term for people who perceive the world and behave the way Elon Musk does.
They're called "assholes."
From the "Midwestern Doctor"
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Looking at autoimmune disorders - in brief, treating the symptoms doesn't help.... Things that do help include
- fixing the triggers like an allergy
- good diet & sleep, less stress can help
- sunlight & exercise help
and so on.
and the dangers of conventional rheumatologic approaches to diseaseA Midwestern Doctor (The Forgotten Side of Medicine)
Catharsis—the hardcore band whose new LP, "Hope against Hope," we released one week ago—will be performing in the Southeast this weekend:
8/8 Durham, NC: The Pinhook
8/9 Asheville, NC: Sly Grog
8/10 Atlanta, GA: Eyedrum
For information about the album and the shows:
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North Carolina's premier hardcore band, Catharsis, has recorded a new full-length album, "Hope Against Hope."CrimethInc.
I knew #cats could have their blood pressure taken, but it only just occurred me today to look up photos of it, and they are even better than I imagined.
Not only do they have tiny blood pressure cuffs, they can take their pressure either on their legs or on their TAILS‽
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Supposedly you can use sunlig!ht to cook food
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'At the centre of the resistance is the ETU, led by state secretary Troy Gray. He has publicly threatened to halt major infrastructure projects if hunting restrictions are introduced. The motive is political. Facing competition from the far right, the unions are weaponising cultural identity and positioning themselves as defenders of “access” against what they frame as green elitism. Their message to Labor is simple: side with us or lose working-class votes.'
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At this year’s Electrical Trades Union Victorian branch delegates conference at the Melbourne Convention Centre, the message from the stage was “Work Hard, Rest Hard, Play Harder”.Sarah Rees (The Saturday Paper)
Looking fwd to this fella MCing the Sky News' Islamophobia Summit.
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Ahead of his report into how to combat Islamophobia, special envoy Aftab Malik gave a series of private briefings to MPsDaanyal Saeed (Crikey)
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Attached: 1 image Someone has returned from the great hunt in the milkweed jungle. #cats #catsofmastodon #tortieMastodon @ SDF
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Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big
Link: eidel.io/exit-tax-leave-german…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Here’s an interesting take on Germany’s exit tax, which I have written about before: Leave Germany before your business gets big.Oliver Eidel (Oliver Eidel's Blog)
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I sense no appetite for a "works with fascists and billionaires" message. I sense a desperate thirst for a "fights fascists and billionaires" message. www.the-reframe.com/its/
We're going to have to be our own leaders now. The ones we hired are broken. Playing the Right Game - a series about directional alignment.A.R. Moxon (The Reframe)
TEHRAN, Aug. 07 (MNA) – Master of Persian miniature painting Mahmoud Farshchian, celebrated for revolutionizing traditional Iranian art, has fallen into a coma while hospitalized in the United States.Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (Mehr News Agency)
Israel intends to take control of all of Gaza: Netanyahu
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The prime minister of Israel has told Fox News that his country intends to fully take control of Gaza to 'liberate the people from the awful terror of Hamas'. Plus, Trump's tariffs on more than 90 countries have begun. The post Israel intends to take…
Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel intends to take full control of Gaza to 'liberate the people from the awful terror of Hamas'.Rich James (Crikey)
Yury Ushakov said that next week was designated as a guideline for the leaders' meetingTASS
Closure of Midwest-based newspaper chain leaves dozens of communities without a news source
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Please normalize "Marm Strong" in your everyday insults, and use it creatively in naming ppl after famous celebs with the last name Armstrong depending on the situation:
"You're a real Neil Marmstrong"
"Emily Marmstrong"
"Louis Marmstrong"
Keenan Allen returns to Chargers, feeling at home in new facility
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"Guardian investigation into the 72-hour attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on North Darfur’s Zamzam camp, the country’s largest for people displaced by the war, found repeated testimony of mass executions and large-scale abductions. Hundreds of civilians remain unaccounted for"
Assault on Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp may have killed more than 1,500 civilians | Global development | The Guardian
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Guardian investigation finds number killed in April attack by Rapid Support Forces far greater than current estimatesMark Townsend (The Guardian)
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I like Dead Can Dance because they tap into something deep in European consciousness.
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I worked at the lodge in Yellowstone National Park that is named after him. It is built in the area where he used to camp when he was a kid.
STINGING INSECTS This is the time of year when wasps, yellow jackets, bumble bees and hornets become pests. What to do about them? [NOTICE: Never spray wasp and hornet killer inside the house (the stuff that shoots a 20' stream).chia.owly.net
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Sixteen media organisations and press freedom groups, including Al Jazeera Media Network and the Committee to Protect Journalists, have called for an end to Israel’s “forcedEditing Team (Quds News Network)
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She wrecked her US debut. LOL
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Israel's security cabinet approves plans to take over Gaza City @palestine
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Israel's security cabinet has approved the control of the northern Gaza City in another escalation to the war.Gavin Blackburn (Euronews.com)
Senior Hamas official accuses US envoy Witkoff of spoiling Gaza ceasefire efforts @oalestine
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Joint practices give coaches a better way to evaluate starters in more competitive environment
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One of them must have offered more concessions to the other.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
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This one goes out the Post War Liberal Consensus which is on it's last leg. #Soon
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Israel Is Beginning To Choke On Its Own Lies
This genocide is one nonstop insult to our intelligence. It’s actually degrading at this point. The lies Israel and its supporters have to pretend to believe are getting so ridiculous that supporting Israel is now an act of public humiliation and self-debasement.
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Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
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Administration asks Supreme Court to lift restrictions on Southern California immigration stops
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Trump defends the US economy with charts after job reports showed warning signs
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#UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression to Al Jazeera: The naval #blockade on the #Gaza Strip must be broken
- Infants in Gaza are dying in their mothers' arms due to food shortages
- The #famine in Gaza is man-made & everyone must act to end it
- We demand that the United Nations be allowed to bring food into the Strip
- We call upon the international community to pressure #Israel to open Gaza's borders
#Starvation #Genocide #foodasweapon
@palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml
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Chinese student sees documentary on Japan during the war and proceeds to scratch Japan off the map.
Shangdong University provides international students with study partners.
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we live in a world now of systems with multiple gigabytes of RAM. Multiple Multi-Gigahertz processing cores. SSDs with blazing I/O. Even in the face of moore's law, multi-core systems, and even ARM-based multi-core systems are still performing extremely well. All this, and even in spite of the business world's best effort, broadband has, in general, improved greatly.
So how is that, the way forward with web protocols is "my dogshit-performing JS framework has lead us to web servers that have to use UDP to perform at scale." and not "javascript was a language created in a handful of days, maybe we should re-visit that."
path dependence is rough
like... we're stuck with windows/linux/mac, and IP/DNS/DHCP.
could they be better?
should they be better?
congratulations, now, when someone pulls a package your app requires, it causes a fucking global outage.
Leftpad.js sends its regards.
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#protest
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in reply to Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷 • • •Anthony Scalise is a well-known right-wing extremist.
#AusPol
#protest
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in reply to Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷 • • •'Australia for Australians' is a common right-wing catch-cry @Tooden
The right-wing rally is probably a reaction to this one the previous Sunday.
The numbers will be interesting, as will the reactions of authorities.
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#MarchForHumanity
#protest
Ferdi Magellan
in reply to Drop Bear • • •@Tooden where’s Brisbane and Hobart?
#GazaGenocide #Palestine #Qldpol #PoliTas #Auspol
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Brisbane:
Raymond Park, Kangaroo Point
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
On August 24th the Story Bridge will be shutdown for Palestine.
Hobart:
10.30 am Sunday August 24
TAC - Crn Elizabeth and Patrick St.
11am march to Franklin Square
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#Palestine
#QldPol
#TasPol
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#Palestine
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in reply to Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷 • • •theguardian.com/australia-news…?
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#protest
We know the Sydney Harbour Bridge protest against the killing in Gaza was huge – but just how big was it?
Jordyn Beazley (The Guardian)Drop Bear
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#NationalSocialists
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#NationalSocialists
ABC News
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in reply to Drop Bear • • •Over 50 anti-protest laws have been passed in the last 2 decades, with new threats to protest rights facing communities in almost every state and territory. That’s why Australian Democracy Network has been running a national campaign to protect protest.
Download the declaration and/or sign the petition here:
australiandemocracy.org.au/pro…
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Declaration of our Right to Protest
australiandemocracy.org.auInsurgo Formica
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in reply to Drop Bear • • •It's not just Labor that has a democracy problem.
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