THIS is how to describe the vile fascist MAGA Murder Bill:

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The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.

Russia ‘will not back down’ on Ukraine war goals, Putin tells Trump
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Since launching in 2023, NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution mission, or TEMPO, has been measuring the quality of the air we breathe from 22,000 miles above the ground. June 19 marked the successful completion of TEMPO’s 20-month-long initial prime mission, and based on the quality of measurements to date, the mission has been extended […]

From today, Denmark takes over the EU presidency.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen began the term by inviting Zelenskyy to Aarhus, the capital of Jutland, where she said:

“We will strengthen Ukraine. We will weaken Russia. The former we will achieve by increasing the military aid […] The latter we will achieve with sanctions. We will increase the pressure on Russia.”

— With Trump running away, Ukraine could not dream of a better supporter than the Danish PM.

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"Kendine sürgün
bir garip kişiyim;
kutsallığı zincir gibi
parmağında çeviren.
umudu depremden,
aşkı külden
bekleyen benim
aranızda
yerim yok zaten.

heybesinde yılan
işaretleri,
baldıran zehiri
yüzüğünün içinde
ve yanında
kav taşıyan ben;
tekinsizim size göre
ibret için
yakılması gereken."

Metin Altıok

#SivasKatliamınıUnutma

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trump's Big Bloated Bill passed the house. it's still not entirely clear how much debt this is going to add, by the time everything gets sorted out. i would definitely prefer single-issue bills.

but as i've said before nothing gets done in govenrment without a bunch of little crony favors and pork to keep everyone happy. so if this is what they claim they need to deport 50 million illegals, we'll see how it turns out. that is a challenge

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A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular clusters like this one, called ESO 591-12 or Palomar 8, are spherical collections of tens of thousands to millions of stars tightly bound together by gravity. Globular clusters generally form early in the galaxies’ histories in regions rich […]

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 61 - "MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE: DO ALL ROADS LEAD TO OBAMA!?!" - PART 1 - EP.437

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"Let's not forget that Barack Obama is related to the George Bush family."

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Absolute Storm Ep 51 7/1/2025 9pm EST BBB|ICE|Alligators|MAHA|AOTW

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That's gotta be a different gene, bourbon and rye taste like bitter wood to me (because of tannins from the cask aging) instead of the boozy vanilla that many people claim it tastes like, yet (decent) vodka tastes completely neutral to me. But I do believe that some people perceive alcohol itself as bitter while others do not.

Do you dislike bitter flavors in general, like coffee, tea, or salad?

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Sake is meant to be sipped diluted.


Can you elaborate on that? I've never seen anything about people adding water or other mixers into their sake (except the rare case of sake cocktails, which are definitely not the default way of drinking sake).

That said, I usually add water when I drink sake, but I do that because that's what I do with most of my alcoholic beverages; I never got the impression that this is actually the normal way of drinking it.

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in reply to outhouseperilous

Yeah, just a few ml to take the edge off - it's not even about the alcohol for me (I happily sip 63% ABV rum if it's the good stuff), but about the unusual sake-specific flavor. I could probably sip a milder sake as-is, but we don't exactly have a huge amount of choice where I live.

Kinda sounds like it's just something you do, which isn't a bad thing in itself, but you wrote that as if it's the standard way to do it.

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I'm mostly working off magazine articles, blog posts and books like David Wondrich's "Imbibe!". Most of the time, a simple web search with terms like "how to drink [beverage]" will yield results. e.g. for single malt whisky you can easily find articles and lengthy forum discussions over how much, if any, water to add, and plenty of articles write about what temperature to drink sake at and how to make hot sake. Though it's always possible that something is fairly common in Japan that western bloggers are not aware of.

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The 911 "controlled demolition" BS is so tiresome...
I took the time to sum up the obvious to debunk this BS: NO EXPLOSIVES means NO EXPLOSIVES!

Absolutely none were required to bring down the WTC, once those jumbo jets hit them!

I have no idea how people think they would have held up. There's a mysterious belief in the infinite resistance of stuff that was excellent 1960s engineering, but not more.

As for WTC 7, it had been burning for hours, with no sprinklers or anything. Then was shaken up by the horrendous shock of the WTC 1 & 2 collapsing, which damaged several buildings in the area so badly that they had to destroy them, in the aftermath. First, the penthouse fell into the inside of the building, showing that the internal structure had collapsed. Then the entire structure fell in on itself. Again, with ZERO evidence of explosives. So yes, logic dictates that it collapsed on its own.

Not that hard to believe.

Once you've eliminated the IMPOSSIBLE, you have to accept what remains, no matter how improbable.

People just WANT to blame it on the US government, even when the accusation is absurd: it didn't make any sense that the government would coordinate with terrorists to let them fly planes into the WTC after rigging the buildings with some magical, undetectable explosives that worked in reverse, i.e. top to bottom, starting exactly where the planes had hit, then exploding floor after floor with those magical explosives to ... do do what? Lower the resistance of each floor, which was already at virtually zero?

So how d the "controlled demolition" nutters think those explosives were installed? At what time? How did they avoid security?

Would have required hundreds of workers. No whistleblowers? A perfect government operation with no screw-ups and no records?

How did they hide the bombs and the cables?

What magic did they use?

The conspiracy idiots keep talking about thermite, which is NOT an explosive! Could NEVER have had the observed effect.

For what reason would they launch the controlled demolition? The airplanes were already entirely enough terrorism. The building collapse was totally not necessary.

It is infinitely much easier to just admit that the building collapsed under its own weight...

The ONLY objection I've seen is "I don't believe that's possible".

But we saw it happen!

There are so many things that seem totally impossible, but are real.

Get a gigantic pile of metal weighing 400 tons off the ground just by pushing a bit of air... that's absolutely impossible! Yet we got used to it.

But gigantic buildings collapsing after a catastrophic attack .. that's where they draw the line for their absolute disbelief and they need some MAGIC FAIRY DUST to destroy the building rather than ... it's own mass 🙄

It was only a matter of time before this happened.
This government is falling apart and it's all it's own fault for standing for nothing more than the Rich.

Did Labour really think all these MPs they kicked out or silenced would just sit around and take it without doing something themselves?

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#UKPOL #UKpolitics #ZarahSultana #JeremyCorbyn #Labour

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The 911 "controlled demolition" BS is so tiresome...
I took the time to sum up the obvious to debunk this BS: NO EXPLOSIVES means NO EXPLOSIVES!

Absolutely none were required to bring down the WTC, once those jumbo jets hit them!

I have no idea how people think they would have held up. There's a mysterious belief in the infinite resistance of stuff that was excellent 1960s engineering, but not more.

As for WTC 7, it had been burning for hours, with no sprinklers or anything. Then was shaken up by the horrendous shock of the WTC 1 & 2 collapsing, which damaged several buildings in the area so badly that they had to destroy them, in the aftermath. First, the penthouse fell into the inside of the building, showing that the internal structure had collapsed. Then the entire structure fell in on itself. Again, with ZERO evidence of explosives. So yes, logic dictates that it collapsed on its own.

Not that hard to believe.

Once you've eliminated the IMPOSSIBLE, you have to accept what remains, no matter how improbable.

People just WANT to blame it on the US government, even when the accusation is absurd: it didn't make any sense that the government would coordinate with terrorists to let them fly planes into the WTC after rigging the buildings with some magical, undetectable explosives that worked in reverse, i.e. top to bottom, starting exactly where the planes had hit, then exploding floor after floor with those magical explosives to ... do do what? Lower the resistance of each floor, which was already at virtually zero?

So how d the "controlled demolition" nutters think those explosives were installed? At what time? How did they avoid security?

Would have required hundreds of workers. No whistleblowers? A perfect government operation with no screw-ups and no records?

How did they hide the bombs and the cables?

What magic did they use?

The conspiracy idiots keep talking about thermite, which is NOT an explosive! Could NEVER have had the observed effect.

For what reason would they launch the controlled demolition? The airplanes were already entirely enough terrorism. The building collapse was totally not necessary.

It is infinitely much easier to just admit that the building collapsed under its own weight...

The ONLY objection I've seen is "I don't believe that's possible".

But we saw it happen!

There are so many things that seem totally impossible, but are real.

Get a gigantic pile of metal weighing 400 tons off the ground just by pushing a bit of air... that's absolutely impossible! Yet we got used to it.

But gigantic buildings collapsing after a catastrophic attack .. that's where they draw the line for their absolute disbelief and they need some MAGIC FAIRY DUST to destroy the building rather than ... it's own mass 🙄


This week i had a couple of conversations about #Gaza with well-meaning, nice people in which it transpired that they still knew virtually nothing about things that happened before Oct 7.

This factsheet, by the Independent Jewish Voice of Canada, gives a really good overview.

Let’s keep on sharing and informing others. So many here in Europe continue to know very little.

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AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening

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this is much needed

because I want them to succeed so badly I really really really wish they learn how to handle the media

both of them have their hearts in the right place but both are terrible on the media

is it fair? no. but democratic politics isn't, and hasn't been for 2000 years

Mamdani is someone they can learn a lot from imho

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After 47 years in the US, Ice took this Iranian mother from her yard. Her family just wants her home


Kaitlynn Milne says her mother is usually always up first thing in the morning, hours before the rest of the family. She enjoys being productive in the quiet hours around sunrise. It’s an especially optimal time to do yard work, when the rest of her New Orleans neighborhood still sleeps and she can count on peacefully completing chores.

Gardening and rearranging the shed is how an average morning would go for Mandonna “Donna” Kashanian, a 64-year-old Iranian mother, wife, home cook, parent-teacher association (PTA) member and lifelong community service volunteer.

“She always says: ‘I’ve already done most of my day before y’all even wake up,’ complaining at us,” said Kaitlynn, 32. It was always done with love, she says, as her mother adores taking care of others and would wake up every morning excited to do just that.

But the morning of Sunday, 22 June, didn’t go like every other morning. In the early hours, while her husband, Russell Milne, slept inside the house, Kashanian was approached in her yard by plainclothes men who identified themselves as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents.

@ruralgloom Thanks so much for the journey with your spoken word. I missed a chance to say how I wish I could have seen you and my Dearly Departed Dad at a pub one evening, and to take bets as to whether you'd get more than one story per hour as he grilled you for every minute detail of every tale ❤

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“We’re not an island of strangers; we’re an island that’s suffering. We need homes and lives we can actually afford, not rip-off bills we pay every month to a tiny elite bathing in cash. We need our money spent on public services, not forever wars.

“In 2029, the choice will be stark: socialism or barbarism.

“Billionaires already have three parties fighting for them. It’s time the rest of us had one.”

Zarah Sultana

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Weigel and his text-buddy (link below) are both chickenshits, but his text-buddy is right. The "groups" are in fact the party's Achilles' heel.

Keeping the occupants of the "Big Tent" distracted and divided and focused on lobbying instead of organizing is how establishment Dems and their veal pen friends protect capital. That is, roughly speaking, their role in the current political system. When they can no longer accomplish that, capital will abandon them, and they know it.

Broad-based solidarity movements threaten Dems every bit as much as they do the GOP.

That's why they freak out so hard when somebody like Mamdani (or Obama!) comes along.

It's why they let the GOP drive the news cycle with a never-ending stream of wedge issues that keep tearing at their coalition.

It's why they spend so much more time talking about what they're going to say than they spend actually saying anything.

It's why they love to do loopy means-tested triple-bank-shot monstrosities instead of picking a straightfoward way to improve people's lives and then organizing around it.

It's why rotating villains like Manchin and Sinema get offered the occasional carrot, but are never EVER threatened with the stick.

It's why the riggedness of the economy cannot possibly be acknowledged, and more generally why injustices can only ever be vague abstractions to be addressed in some glorious golden future, never today.

Because who knows when a particular injustice might serve as a rallying point.

Sigh...

This isn't useful information anymore, really. The so-called "sixth" duopoly has already failed. The Democratic and Republican Parties as we've known them all these years are both terminal and close to the end. Whatever happens next will be different enough to require a different response.

It's just that the system is so big and ponderous that even at the astonishingly rapid rate thing are going, it will take at another cycle or two to actually collapse.

But it's still worth mentioning, as a reminder that one way and another "the groups" represent most of the country.

Ordinary people could quickly and easily destroy either or both of the parties, if they managed to reach an agreement about how to do it.

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ICE Fires Back After LA Mayor Demands Agents ‘Go Home’

" “We would like the ICE raids to stop. We would like the array of federal officials or civilians dressed as federal officials to go home,” Bass said

“...I’m sure there is an upcoming diplomatic trip to Ghana,” said Emily Covington, assistant director for ICE’s Office of Public Affairs.

“ICE isn’t going anywhere and will...do what Mayor Bass has utterly failed to do—protect the citizens of [LA],” Covington added"

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Joe Rogan Slams Trump Immigration Raids as ‘Insane’

Rogan, a vocal supporter of Trump, appeared visibly frustrated while discussing the increased frequency of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.

“There’s two things that are insane,” Rogan said. “One is the targeting of migrant workers. Not cartel members, not gang members, not drug dealers. Just construction workers.”

“Showing up in construction sites, raiding them. Gardeners. Like, really?”

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@meowski If you saw the robots of the Boston Dynamics projects or something like that, remember that all of those were terminated.

Simply too costly to manufacture and maintain. Wheels are cheaper than pneumatic muscles. Their "horse-like" replacement for example was terminated because the army found out that mules would be cheaper.

Their humanoid robot was simply too complex.

Would need major advances in artificial muscles before anything like that becomes viable, and even then would also need to be cheaper.

Robotics is not like electronics

Πετάνε GWh ΑΠΕ αλλά κρατάνε τις τιμές στα ύψη ληστεύοντας την κοινωνία.

Σύμφωνα με έκθεση του «Green Tank» που δημοσιεύθηκε χθες, από τις αρχές του έτους έως και την 1 Ιουνίου απορρίφθηκαν συνολικά 975 GWh (γιγαβατώρες) ΑΠΕ ξεπερνώντας τις περικοπές για ολόκληρο το 2024 (899 GWh).

Αθροιστικά το πρώτο πεντάμηνο του 2025, απορρίφθηκε το 8,9% της συνολικής παραγωγής από ανανεώσιμες πηγές.

in reply to Fou

Παράγουμε πολύ περισσότερη ενέργεια απ ότι καταναλώνουμε αλλά οι τιμές βζιιιιιιιιιιιιιν ⬇️

Με σχετικά υψηλούς ρυθμούς συνεχίστηκε το «ψαλίδι» στις ΑΠΕ και τον Ιούνιο σε αντίθεση με προηγούμενα έτη που τα καλοκαίρια, λόγω της αυξημένης ενεργειακής ζήτησης, οι περικοπές μηδενίζονταν.

Αιτία η ολοένα και μεγαλύτερη διείσδυση «πράσινης» ενέργειας, κυρίως ηλιακής, στο ενεργειακό μείγμα.

Αν μάλιστα η υπερπαραγωγή ΑΠΕ συνδυαστεί και με περιορισμένες εξαγωγές τότε ο «κόφτης» είναι δεδομένος.

in reply to Fou

Εδώ λοιπόν φαίνεται πόσο άχρηστοι είναι οι άριστοι ή πόσο οσφυοκάμπτες στους ολιγάρχες.

Εγκαθιστούν συνεχώς ΑΠΕ για να φάνε τις επιδοτήσεις και να αδειάζουν τα πορτοφόλια μας, χωρίς σχεδιασμό, χωρίς αποθηκευτικές μονάδες, χωρίς συμφωνίες εξαγωγής ρεύματος.

Μυτιληναίε φίλε, σε έκανε ο Κούλης μάγκα, υποκλίνομαι

Macron's man-wife is like @Owl .... she gotta take some calming tea or something and CHILL!

🤣

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