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Huckabee blames Europe for stalled Gaza talks, highlighting a growing Western divide
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Hundreds of historic tall ships sail into Amsterdam for a maritime festival
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'South Park' targets federal takeover of DC police in latest episode
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Iran's navy launches country's first military drill since 12-day war with Israel
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French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells
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Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4โฆ
Tiny French firm wants to keep a few bad cells from spoiling a lot of e-bikes.Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)
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Glen Schofield on His Potential New Game & Dead Space Creation
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Class, memory, and Jewish anti-Zionism
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"Jewish radicals have long challenged the state project built in our name ~ James Horton ~ Originally published 10 July 2025 In view of the modern genocide the Israeli state is undertaking against the Palestinian people, it may not seem advisable or desirable to look at oneโs own position in relation to it. It can
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Jewish radicals have long challenged the state project built in our name ~ James Horton ~ Originally published 10 July 2025 In view of the modern genocide the Israeli state is undertaking against the Palestinian people, it may not seem advisable or dโฆanarchy (Freedom Press)
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Announcing the 2025 Running Down the Walls in Brooklyn, NY
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"Announcing the 2025 Running Down the Walls event in Brooklyn, NY. For more Running Down the Walls events, go here. WHAT: Running Down the Walls โ 5k Run/Walk/Jog/Bike/Hang WHEN: 2:00-7:00pm, Sunday, September 21st, 2025 WHERE: Prospect Parkโ Lincoln Road/East Lake Drive, east of the Terrace Bridge (see the below map for exact location) COST:
Announcing the 2025 Running Down the Walls event in Brooklyn, NY. For more Running Down the Walls events, go here. WHAT:ย Running Down the Wallsย โ 5k Run/Walk/Jog/Bike/Hang WHEN: 2:00-7:00pm,...It's Going Down
July 14: we are building several multi-gigawatt compute clusters, the first is called Prometheus (cool myth, no lesson there) August 20: AI hiring freeze. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
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More than 20 people have died on Wednesday in a torrential spell of monsoon rain in Pakistan, where downpours have swept away entire villages over the last week, killing more than 400.AFP (IOL)
Browse millions of anime, manga, videos, hentai, and video game themed images on Gelbooru. Discover art with detailed tags. Contains explicit hentai content.Gelbooru
More than 700 UK business leaders, founders and professionals have signed a letter urging the government to prevent further acts of genocide by Israel in Gaza.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
Final Straw: Malik Muhammad Speaks from Snake River in Oregon
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"Long-running anarchist radio show and podcast, The Final Straw, speaks with political prisoner Malik Muhammad. This week, weโre sharing a recent interview with anarchist prisoner Malik Muhammad. Malik is 3 years into a 10 year concurrent federal and Oregon sentence for alleged use of molotov cocktails during the 2020 uprising and is currently
Long-running anarchist radio show and podcast,ย The Final Straw,ย speaks with political prisoner Malik Muhammad.ย This week, weโre sharing a recent interview with anarchist prisoner Malik Muhammad....It's Going Down
Dog whistling is all she's got. Pathetic.
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Kemiย Badenochย has called for more Conservative councils to launch legal challenges over asylum hotels as the Government faces a potential revoltโฆJames Walker (The National)
Jewish radicals have long challenged the state project built in our name ~ James Horton ~ Originally published 10 July 2025 In view of the modern genocide the Israeli state is undertaking against the Palestinian people, it may not seem advisable or dโฆanarchy (Freedom Press)
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Uganda agrees deal with US to take deported migrants if they don't have criminal records
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โMy Spirit will Never Surrenderโ: Message from Chris โBig Texโ as Fight Against Repression Continues
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"Update from Chris โBig Texโ G on ongoing fight against repression in Texas. Despite winning in court in 2024, Chris โBig Tex,โ continues to face legal repression, resulting from charges stemming from defense of a community event targeted by white supremacists. A recent
Update from Chris "Big Tex" G on ongoing fight against repression in Texas.ย Despite winning in court in 2024, Chris "Big Tex," continues to face legal repression, resulting from charges stemming...It's Going Down
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Confronting the Realities of Antisemitism and the Gaza Genocide
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"Many fellow Jews have accused me of stoking the fire of antisemitism and inciting anti-Jewish violence since I publicly joined the crescendoing chorus of genocide scholars, humanitarian organizations, politicians and prominent Israelis who use the word โgenocideโ to describe the actions of the Israeli government in response
Grand ceremony and parade mark 60 years of Chinese Communist Party rule in Tibet
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No One Left Behind: A Mid-Year Report from the Frontlines of Hope
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"Mutual Aid Disaster Relief reports on autonomous mutual aid organizing in the face of the growing climate crisis. We do not wait for help; we become it. Without permission, we build in the ashes, along the flood plains, and across the fault lines. Disasters keep coming, and we return again and again, not as saviors... Read Full
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief reports on autonomous mutual aid organizing in the face of the growing climate crisis.ย We do not wait for help; we become it. Without permission, we build in the ashes,...It's Going Down
The Double Standards of Genocidal Atrocities
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"In a commentary published on July 22 in the leading US newspaper, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens stated: โNo, Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza.โ Six weeks earlier, Holocaust and anti-Semitism researchers Norman J.W. Goda and Jeffrey Herf had already stated in an opinion piece in the Washington Post: โWhy itโs wrong to More
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Announcing the Denver Anarchist Zine Fest
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"Announcing the Denver Anarchist Zine Fest on August 31st. For more info, go here. Please join us in the mile-high, sanctuary city that is aching for liberation. On this day we wish to foster conversations and activities that promote: healing, appreciation, awareness, preparedness, and relationships unique and common to all of our struggles. There will... Read Full Article"
Announcing the Denver Anarchist Zine Fest on August 31st. For more info, go here.ย Please join us in the mile-high, sanctuary city that is aching for liberation. On this day we wish to foster...It's Going Down
From throwing his military under the bus to his expanded โGreater Israelโ vision, the prime minister has observers worried that even worse policies will followStavroula Pabst (Responsible Statecraft)
Ukraine expects clarity soon on security guarantees from US and other allies
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Quick Thoughts on the Economy: Slowing Growth Until the Stock Market Crash
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"GDP grew at a 1.2 percent annual rate in the first half of the year โ that is down sharply from its 2.5 percent rate in 2024. It is not hard to identify the culprits: uncertainty created by Trumpโs tariff threats, the loss of workers due mass deportation, and government cutbacks in a wide range of More
GDP grew at a 1.2 percent annual rate in the first half of the yearย โ that is down sharply from its 2.5 percent rate in 2024. It is not hard to identifyDean Baker (CounterPunch.org)
Colombelles (Calvados): cutting the fiber to the campus of the military-industrial complex (France)
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"Colombelles: arson attack on Effiscience technology campus Indymedia Lille, June 2025 On a weekend marked by the widening scope of warfare in the Middle East, and by the Paris Air Show, we have decided to disrupt activity at the Effiscience technology
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The self-styled communists of the RCP have decided that social democracy is no longer a corpse, but has risen Lazarus-like from the dead.Robert Clough (Revolutionary Communist Group)
Atomic Bill and the Payment Due
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"Can a play influence public perception of our shared atomic history enough to shift the conversation away from a presumed nuclear โrenaissanceโ and into a more critical, life-protective examination of what this technology is and could do to us all? Playwright and podcaster Libbe HaLevy believes it can. She spent 13 years researching and writing that More
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Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts
Link: petapixel.com/2025/08/20/home-โฆ
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4โฆ
A customer has sued Home Depot, claiming it's been secretly using facial recognition tech on customers with cameras at self-checkout kiosks.Pesala Bandara (PetaPixel)
Whatโs up with CA?
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ย ย ย ย ย ย Bed Bath and Beyondโs Executive Chairman Marcus Lemonis announced on Wednesday that the company is closing all retail stores in Governor Newsomโs California.Jim Hoft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
In and out burger moved to TN, Musk moved Tesla to TX. They want to end gas cars in 5 years but can't supply power. They've ruined that state forever.
Letter writing + Talk with Toby Shone for the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners โ BASE Bristol (UK)
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"Sunday 31 August 2025 BASE Bristol โ Easton โ 14 Robertson Road โ BS5 6JY 18:00 Food 19:00 Talk The International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners[1] takes place every year between 23-30 August to
Lethal Nonsense: Antisemitism, Codes of Conduct, and the Bendigo Writers Festival
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"Write, but do not offend. Speak and comment, but do not divide. Observe cruelties, barbarities and murder, yet refrain from having an opinion. This is the constipating, stifling regime being put in place via suggested codes of conduct for organisers of writer events in Australia. The
Write, but do not offend. Speak and comment, but do not divide.ย Observe cruelties, barbarities and murder, yet refrain from having an opinion.ย This isBinoy Kampmark (CounterPunch.org)
International Week of Solidarity with Imprisoned Anarchists 2025 Porto Alegre,Brazil
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"International Week of Solidarity with Imprisoned Anarchists 2025 Porto Alegre. Saturday, August 23, 3 p.m., Utopia e Luta, Borges staircase, historic center 4 p.m. Discussion circle: From the multiple expressions of struggle for the liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920s
Private Sector Assumes Control of Haitian State as DC Lobbying Picks up Pace
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"On August 7, Laurent Saint-Cyr, the one-time head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Haiti, was sworn in as president of the Transitional Presidential Council (TPC). He is set to lead the council through the end of its mandate in February 2026. With the position of prime minister held by fellow
I never really understood the French Huguenot thing, though I know the term and that they were suppressed with several Inquisitions.
The French Reformation gave us the Huguenots or French Calvinism. The Huguenot movement, though, is often not understood. This video tells the story of the H...YouTube
My state history classes in junior high touched on it because the French settled parts of my state.
Jefferson bought them out and that's where our history stopped caring about the French.
I watched an interesting war film set during the 30 Years War in Germany. The Last Valley (early 70s)
The Peace of Westphalia isnt recognized by Jews and Muslims, and therefore that peace is over.
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The IDF says the plan will be presented to the cabinet on Thursday as operations begin on the outskirts of the city โ Israel's defense minister said he approved a plan to 'accommodate' Gaza City residents to be transferred to southern Gaza โ Hostage โฆYaniv Kubovich (Haaretz)
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Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter releases September 19, but you can play the prologue now and transfer your progress when your preorder arrives.Steven Petite (GameSpot)
A Socialist New York City?
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"What if Zohran Mamdani, the Social Democratic candidate, wins the November 4th general election and becomes New Yorkโs next mayor? Pres. Donald Trump has threatened to intervene in the mayoral race in opposition to Mamdani and will likely continue to call him a โCommunist Lunatic.โ Heโs warned, โโฆ we have tremendous power at the White More
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GERS, which stands for โgovernment expenditure and revenue Scotlandโ, is usually published at this time every year.Ferret Journalists (The Ferret)
Fading away into himself. If it was literally anyone else I'd have sympathy. This greedy fascist, court adjudicated rapist and convicted felon deserves none. That's just the stuff we DEFINITELY know about. Release the Epstein Files UNREDACTED.
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