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“Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile;
Quotation by William O. Douglas
"Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges.LibertyQuotes
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“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
(1858-1919) 26th US President
Quotation by Theodore Roosevelt
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." ~ Theodore RooseveltLibertyQuotes
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Israel's journalists stating the whole truth:
"Four countries of the British Commonwealth and Norway have made life easy for themselves. What Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip is not happening because of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. They aren't even the main culprits. Blaming them and only them is self-righteousness and hypocrisy.
Both the Gaza Strip and Israel are desperate now for international sanctions that will lead to an end to the slaughter in Gaza. We can't wait any longer, Mumbling like the five countries won't suffice. The slaughter will not stop without sanctions, and the slaughter cannot continue.
The sanctions must be directed at the entire government, from Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, to the least senior government minister. Sanctions should also target the military officers and the bureaucrats who are carrying out the slaughter in Gaza.
A majority of Israelis, as public opinion polls indicate, support the slaughter and are even waiting for the population transfer that is to come in its wake. Therefore, the pressure and the punishment must be directed at Israel in its entirety.
And we can't move on without a comic interlude: The leader of the "Israeli résistance," Benny Gantz, head of the National Unity party, sees the decision on the sanctions against Smotrich and Ben-Gvir as "a profound moral failure on the part of the world." Diplomats and decision-makers, do you get this? In Israel, all of us are now Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. All of us."
What would an ENSH*TTIFIED Linux distro look like?
Just for fun, I decided to try and imagine what a Linux distro would look like if it got hit by the enshittification stick that seems to affect every digital product of service these days.
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U.S. Expects Response to Israel to Be a 'Mass Casualty Event': Ominous Report | The Gateway Pundit | by Randy DeSoto, The Western Journal
American defense officials are worried that an Iranian response to an Israeli attack would come with a heavy death toll.The Western Journal (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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We in the UK woke up to the news that, overnight, the Israeli military had launched “targeted strikes” against Iran, specifically nuclear facilities for the enrichment of Uranium (alleg…OffGuardian
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8658; Für sofortigen Abschiebestopp in den Iran und ein Bleiberecht für Iraner*innen
8658; Wirtschaftsdialog zwischen der EAWU und den VAE findet am 26. Juni in Minsk statt
8658; Unruhen in Seattle: Proteste gegen Trumps Migrationspolitik weiten sich aus
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Für sofortigen Abschiebestopp in den Iran und ein Bleiberecht für Iraner*innen » LabourNet Germany
Dossier Verein iranischer Flüchtlinge in Berlin, PRO ASYL und Landesflüchtlingsräte fordern einen Abschiebestopp und Solidarität mit den Protestierenden im Iran: „Seit dem Tod der 22-jährigen Jîna Mahsa Amînî nach ihrer Festnahme durch die Sittenpoli…Mag (LabourNet Germany)
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"We witnessed something today only seen in dictatorial regimes. California Democratic Senator Alex Padilla exercised his First Amendment rights and fulfilled his constitutional obligations to ask a question of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem while in his home state. He was viciously manhandled, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed. This is fascism."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla #California
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Evening Roundup, June 12th
Featuring Jen Rubin, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Josh Levs, "The Tea" with April Ryan, Rep. Al Green, Kitty Eisele, Jean Kilbourne, Meredith Blake, and Carron J. PhillipsThe Contrarian
"What Noem was saying before Padilla spoke out is crucially important. "We are not going away,” she said. 'We are staying here to liberate this city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city.'"
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla
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"In other words, the Trump administration is vowing to get rid of the democratically elected government of California by using military force. That threat is the definition of a coup."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla
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Gavin Newsom didn't choose this fight, but now that he's in it, he's relearning an important lesson: fighting MAGA is a good look.
More Democrats should pay attention.
When is it legal for California cops to use tear gas or rubber bullets for crowd control? Here's a flowchart explainer from #afsc #americanfriendsservicecommittee afsc.org. Please share!
Network blackout in Gaza tightens noose around starving population, with Nora Barrows-Friedman
Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor, delivers the latest news from across the Gaza Strip. This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada's livestream on ...YouTube
Hearing Peter Thiel described as traditional conservative / arch-conservative at the keynote of #PubConf2025
(while mentioning his stances against democracy, women's rights, etc.):
Historian here, you can call him a fascist.
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Peter Thiel’s ‘Fresh and Strange’ Ideas Are Certainly the Latter
Peter Thiel is the latest pro-Trump luminary to take a conspiracist turn.Helen Lewis (The Atlantic)
In the lead-up to the No Kings Day protests tomorrow, I hope you all realize how outrageous the Trump gang's assault on liberty is.
On Thursday, the head of their Department of Homeland Security said this about the National Guard's presence in Los Angeles:
“We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city.”
So yes: she *admitted* their goal is not merely to crush protests, but to seize power from the governor of California and mayor of Los Angeles. Today a judge declared this illegal. They will keep trying.
After she said this, a senator in the room began asking a question. Her henchmen shoved him out of the room, told him to drop to his knees in a hallway, and handcuffed him!
This is fascism.
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Noem Says National Guard Occupation Is Meant To ‘Liberate’ LA From Its Mayor And Governor
Just before Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security press briefing, forced to the ground and then handcuffed for…Nicole Lafond (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Denmark’s Ministry of Digital Government is phasing out its use of Microsoft Office.. to switch to open source alternatives like LibreOffice instead.
Why? Because relying too heavily on a US tech giant for your nation’s digital infrastructure is starting to feel a bit... well, risky.
Denmark's relationship with the US is under strain, following Donald Trump's clearly stated ambition to seize control of Greenland, and recent reports of increased spying by the States on Greenland and Denmark.
As we head towards the weekend, follow @renewedresistance to keep up to date on the latest peaceful organising against Trump and Trumpism.
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(2) La masculinité gynéphontique - by Audrey A
Les féminicides par garçons adolescents ne relèvent pas de l'anecdotique. Ils forment les symptômes d'un phénomène exacerbé, l'incubation d'une haine des femmes suffisamment profonde et explicite pour pousser des adolescents à tuer des filles et des femmes. Une haine conditionnée et banalisée jusqu'à se transformer en passage à l'acte.
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La masculinité gynéphontique
Les adolescents qui tuent des filles et des femmesAudrey A (Perspectives cubi(s)tes)
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You’ve probably seen the Energy Star efficiency label on items like refrigerators, dishwashers and laptops.
Cutting the program will save the EPA about $32 MILLION a year.
Meanwhile, the program saves consumers about $15 BILLION a year in energy costs.
How Energy Star works:
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#environment #energy #sustainability #USPolitics
Energy Star, on the Trump administration’s target list, has a long history of helping consumers’ wallets and the planet
The small blue Energy Star label has become one of the most recognizable environmental certifications in the US.The Conversation
As @pluralistic says about technology, so it is with everything: Look not at what it does, but who it does it *for* & who it does it *to*.
In this example the business case is obvious - follow the money, as another saying goes. The puny 32M is irrelevant, so we'll turn our attention to the 15B: Who is going to be paying it, and to whom?
To the current power brokers the 15B isn't money saved, it's profits they feel was stolen from them & they want it back.
[Republication] "Israël est en train de créer des générations de terroristes qui n'auront de cesse de vouloir se venger"
#géopolitique #génocide #Israël #Gaza
L'analyse d'Éric Dénécé, mort hier dans des circonstances peu claires.
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[Republication] "Israël est en train de créer des générations de terroristes qui n'auront de cesse de vouloir se venger"
Comme en Ukraine, l'Occident multiplie avec la guerre au Proche Orient les erreurs stratégiques, mettait en garde en octobre le spécialiste du renseignement Eric Denécé, disparu le 11 juin 2025.Patricia Cerinsek (L'ÉCLAIREUR)
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Pourquoi le Danemark vire Microsoft Office et Windows pour LibreOffice et Linux
#politique #souveraineté #libre #opensource
On attend de voir quand même. Le gouvernement danois a un gros passif de serpillière US...
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Pourquoi le Danemark vire Microsoft Office et Windows pour LibreOffice et Linux - ZDNET
Avant que le gouvernement danois n'annonce sa décision, les plus grandes villes du Danemark, Copenhague et Aarhus, avaient déjà annoncé leur intention d'abandonner progressivement les logiciels et les services "cloud" de Microsoft. Voici pourquoi.Guillaume Serries (ZDNET)
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End Israeli Apartheid (@EndIsraeliApartheid@mastodon.social)
In a session next week, the European Parliament is expected to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza using the term "genocide" for the first time.Mastodon
#gaza #blackout
#IsraelTerroristState
@palestine
Just heard on Dropsite News that Israel has cut off Internet in Gaza. Sabotaged the fiber across the strip.
This is happening whilst all media is busy with Iran.
It's a dreadful development. No food, no water, no electricity, no medicines, no communication, no Internet
How's Israel allowed to get away with all of this..
İsrail’in İran’a saldırısı hakkında bilinenler
İsrail ordusunun İran’a düzenlediği hava saldırılarında hedef alınan bölgelerden hayatını kaybeden üst düzey isimlere kadar bilinen tüm detayları derledik.
for iran, capitulating to israel and the USA's demands isn't really an option. they won't stop until "regime change" is achieved which really means total destabilization, then ultimately becoming a puppet state or outright occupied territory of israel, like they are in process of taking over gaza right now.
iran could retaliate, and risk a nuclear strike from israel. israel can't defeat iran in a ground war so eventually all out war with iran would likely lead to iran being nuked.
iran's options aren't good. they could fold like syria, be destroyed like libya, or say screw it and launch everything at israel, and risk being nuked and possible US involvmenet.
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EXCLU BLAST / Expulsions, arrestations, descentes dans les hôtels, interrogatoires : au Caire, des tensions croissantes entre les autorités égyptiennes et les membres du convoi de la marche pour Gaza
#géopolitique #génocide #guerre #Gaza
Les pays arabes sont tous des dictatures pourrissantes au bord de l'effondrement, ils n'ont aucun état d'âme à sucer la bite des ricains et sacrifier les Palestiniens...
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EXCLU BLAST / Expulsions, arrestations, descentes dans les hôtels, interrogatoires : au Caire, des tensions croissantes entre les autorités égyptiennes et les membres du convoi de la marche pour Gaza
Alors que des milliers de citoyens venus de 52 pays s’apprêtent à entamer une marche pacifique de 48 km vers la bande de Gaza pour réclamer un couloir humanitaire, plusieurs dizaines de participants sont actuellement retenus, expulsés ou interrogés a…www.blast-info.fr
Banking giant Morgan Stanley says #Trump v. #Musk spat ‘likely planned strategy,’ updates their TSLA target, billions of dollars flow again.
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Banking giant says Trump v. Musk spat ‘likely planned strategy,’ updates TSLA target
Morgan Stanley has suggested that the public spat between Tesla's Elon Musk and President Donald Trump was a calculated move.Paul L. (Finbold - Finance in Bold)
Spyware from US-backed Israeli firm Paragon was used to target European journalists, raising concerns about abuse in democracies. Citizen Lab's analysis ties infections to Italy, as questions mount over state surveillance.
UN envoy addresses prisoners' issue, women's protests, opening roads in briefing to SC
NEW YORK, June 12 (YPA) - The UN Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, briefed on Thursday the Security Council (SC) on developments in Yemen, affirming the international consensus that a negotiated settlement is the best solution to end the conflict and abasheer (Yemen Press Agency)
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Do local communities have any right to object to the imposition of alien, or at least unfamiliar, cultures upon them? Is it always irrational and xenophobic to resent someone because of their apparent refusal to learn the language of the country in which they have chosen to live? Is it similarly unreasonable to object to the amount of local authority resources devoted towards easing that problem?And while it is both dangerous and unjust to make blanket assumptions about any nationality’s attitudes to women and sex, it is undeniable that certain cultures have, by western standards, an outdated view of women’s roles in society. Until relatively recently, it was decreed by our political masters that we should never cast aspersions on such attitudes and cultures, but such restrictions are no longer taken seriously, not after the grooming gangs scandal, or Kemi Badenoch’s warning that not all cultures are equally valid.
Politicians don't want to admit the truth about the Northern Ireland riots
Tensions between natives and Roma immigrants have been bubbling for some time. Pretending they don’t exist won’t make them go awayTom Harris (The Telegraph)
Kennedy’s HHS Sent Congress ‘Junk Science’ To Defend Vaccine Changes, Experts Say
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
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Kennedy’s HHS Sent Congress ‘Junk Science’ To Defend Vaccine Changes, Experts Say - KFF Health News
A look inside the Department of Health and Human Services document citing vaccine misinformation that could influence congressional perceptions.KFF Health News
Stephen Colbert Really Digs Into The Drama King
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Stephen Colbert Really Digs Into The Drama King
Man, I really needed that!Susie Madrak (Crooks and Liars)
Just Human: 05/12/2025
"United States v. Combs: Diddy on Trial Day 1-Jury Seated (May 12, 2025)"
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Military members at Fort Bragg boo Newsom, Biden and the press during an incendiary #Trump speech.
This is historically unusual as US Military are supposed to stay politically neutral.
Trump promises to bring back #Confederate names to military
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DiversityWatch (June 13, 2025)
Post 'DiversityWatch (June 13, 2025)' On Amerika.org realist conservative blogwww.amerika.org
Years ago, I suspected the new dishwasher detergent tablets and pods being heavily pushed were a ripoff. I put a tablet in a Ziploc bag and crushed it with a hammer, then measured the resultant powder: about 2 tablespoons (30 mL). That struck me as grossly excessive, in line with the "always fill all detergent cups to maximum for best results" instrux on detergent powder boxes (and then liquid/gel bottles).
So I bought a box of regular ol' normal ol' boring ol' dishwasher powder and started experimenting. 1 tablespoon (15 mL): dishes completely clean. 2 teaspoons (10 mL): dishes completely clean. Mind, I scrape off loose leavings, but almost no dishes get rinsed before they go in the dishwasher.
The math quickly showed that yup, the pods and powders are a complete scam. So for years now, we've had this what you see here under the sink, with a teaspoon measure in.
The dishes consistently get perfectly clean, but I've never liked that dishwasher-detergent smell they have after. It occurred to me the other night I'd stopped the experiment without inceeding 2 teaspoons, so I tried 1 teaspoon (5 mL — probably more like 6ish; I don't level off the teaspoon, just scoop-shake-dispense).
Result: dishes perfectly clean. They couldn't possibly be any cleaner, so all the marketing babble about the pods unlocking whole new levels of Ultra Platinum Extreme Clean are bulk wrap. And the dishes now come out smelling of…nothing.
I'm not gonna retire on the savings, but every bit helps. There's a whole lot less waste this way, in money and detergent and packaging and production. The powder comes in a recyclable-for-real paperboard box rather than a recyclable-nudge-wink-lol plastic tub.
As I've done this much schtick, I might's well make a complete job of it: Consumer Reports' latest test of dishwasher detergent doesn't include powders, they say, because most people buy pods and tablets. That's antithetical to CR's nominal mission; decades ago they'd've done my same math and experiments and recommended avoiding the scam and buying the powders they found to work well.
I'll need to edit that yellow label.
Elon lost the #conflict...
Source: reuters.com/world/us/musk-will…
#Musk #news #trump #WhiteHouse #government #president #politics #usa #dispute
Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Release Statement Following Israeli Military Strikes – “Zionist Regime Should Anticipate a Severe Punishment”
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Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Release Statement Following Israeli Military Strikes - "Zionist Regime Should Anticipate a Severe Punishment" | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
On Friday morning Israeli military forces attacked several locations in Iran including residential areas in the capital, Tehran.Jim Hoft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
nemo™ 🇺🇦 (@nemo@mas.to)
🚨 Cloudflare faces a massive global outage due to a third-party failure, disrupting thousands of websites and key services like Workers KV, AI, and authentication tools. Google Cloud also impacted. No data lost, no cyberattack.mas.to
I like this reply: mas.to/@ticho/1146760096734318…
So true.
ticho (@ticho@mas.to)
@nemo So, a third-party service has an outage because of a third-third-party. It's third parties all the way down, isn't it? Nobody does anything of their own anymore.mas.to
Tune into Pluralia Dialogos this week: World on Fire- US Civil War Danger as Israel Risks WW3
Sunday June 15 at 11am ET: Featuring Joaquin Flores, Garland Nixon and Martin SieffMatthew Ehret (Matt Ehret's Insights)
Flottille pour Gaza : la hargne de l’éditocratie - Acrimed | Action Critique Médias
#politique #médias #propagande #génocide #Gaza
Les merdias en roue libre fasciste et génocidaire.
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Flottille pour Gaza : la hargne de l'éditocratie
Criminalisation médiatique.Acrimed | Action Critique Médias
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Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver indicted on federal charges by #Trump admin over her attempt to check inside an #ICE facility in New Jersey. She plans to plead not guilty.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver indicted on federal charges over clash with law enforcement at ICE facility in New Jersey
Interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba said the Democratic lawmaker was indicted on three counts of interfering with law enforcement.Raquel Coronell Uribe (NBC News)
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Israel just changed how land ownership works in the West Bank. Here’s what that means.
The Israeli government has effectively legalized the annexation of over 60% of the West Bank, but no one’s talking about it. Here’s what this means for Palestinians.Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)
#outerworld #escapism #urban gardening #smartphonephotography
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Was just hanging up some washing, in between writing, and my mind drifted back to last month's surreal situation - when, out-of-the-blue, that politician took away my literary award. So bizarre and illogical that I needed to remind myself that it didn't just happen in my imagination.
As an author of odd literary fiction, I love developing characters that are satirical caricatures of the most ridiculous and/or worst kinds of people. I really need to hone my imaginative skills, as I could never have created a character so ridiculous and wrong as that particular politician. Or write a scene so unbelievably bizarre. And the word salad speech that he gave in parliament was pure comedy.
How can I be upset when the situation and 'villain' are so utterly ridiculous? One day, I will add a version of him to a novel. At the very least, it's what he deserves.
He would be a character with few lines, and an odd demise. Perhaps he's crushed by the books that he's ordered the state library to burn? He takes his last breath under the weight of Palestinian poetry, Aboriginal novels, and tomes of critical whiteness theory.
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