[Serious] How did he actually lose that election?


In 2022, Chris Jones, a nuclear engineer, ran for Governor of Arkansas

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Jo…

He is an Arkansas native. He wrote an entire platform to improve Arkansas. He visited every single county in Arkansas. His opponent, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, barely campaigned.

Jones lost by double digits. She absolutely crushed him.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Ark…

How the fuck did that happen? What's the Arkansas culture like?

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A heads up...

I had to print a return label from Amazon; it's usually right in th email they send after beginning a return. This time it was a redirect, back to Amazon.

I printed it using a laptop, and a PC, just because there were a few glitches.

BUT, as soon as I did, both keyboard and mouse would not function on both my laptop nad PC. It took a few hours of sheer panic (were we hacked?) and a deep dive investigation, but we finally discovered that the settings on the mice were reversed.

Every time I go to a U.S.-run ‘aid’ center in Gaza, I know I might not come back #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/07/every-t…

A #Florida Cinema Showed a Documentary About #Palestine. Now, The Mayor Could Shut It Down.
motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
#fascism #usa #uscomplicity #zionists
Now tell us about the totalitarian regimes of the East.
in reply to Proletarian Rage

"We oppose the oppressive regime of Iran. The totalitarianism against opposition should be faced with sanctions and action to overthrown this repressive regime."

Welcome to the West ladies and gentlemen.
fed.brid.gy/r/bsky.app/profile…
#UK #PalestineAction #Solidarity #repression #TotalitArianism #PalestineSolidarity #FreePalestine

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Until recently, the accepted wisdom in Mexico was that Mexico’s economy is simply too integrated with the US and Canada’s and too dependent on the US for it to be able to join the BRICS.

Fast forward to today, and President Sheinbaum has just announced that her government will be participating as an observer in the 17th annual meeting of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro on July 6-7.

nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/th…

#brics #mexico

Concerns raised about council appointments, including 19-year-old overseeing children and family services

Reform UK’s local election wins have seen teenagers left in charge of vital public services, including a 19-year-old who is overseeing children and family services while still at university.

theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Things picked-up a little yesterday with two donations totaling $45, bringing our daily average up a little to $42.50. Still far below the the $81 per day we need to reach our goal of raising $2,500 this month. All we need is two donations a day for roughly $40 each to reach and maintain that average.

This brings our total, through the first four days of the month, up to $170

Progress Summary:
Total Raised: $170
Daily Average: $42.50
Total Donations: 4
Via GiveSendGo: 4
Via Cryptocurrency: 0
Via US Mail: 0

If you think that a world class central repository of pro-White resources, like: books & other texts, videos, podcasts, music, memes, and more is a worthy goal, please consider supporting us now: givesendgo.com/filehomerussweb…

The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937-2001) | Open Culture


#music #history #electronicmusic

openculture.com/2025/06/the-hi…

RT @yanisvaroufakis
"May constitute a war crime"? May? What will it take for the Western Press to get off the damned fence? Israel's war criminality has been established in fact long, long ago

theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

Tensions between Russia and Azerbaijan: another chapter in Russia’s saga in the Caucasus strategic-culture.su/news/2025…
in reply to Imhotep

Bit confused, what would they even do with a report of downvote? Doesn’t make sense.

Plus don’t even understand why someone cares so much about downvoting that they would message you and report it. The upvote/ downvote means seriously nothing. It’s “thin air”.

Put down your device and it has no impact on your live. Continue using Lemmy and it will have no impact on how you use Lemmy.

Kann es einen guten Grund geben Babynahrung zu blockieren?
Eine andere Antwort auf diese Frage als "Nein" lässt sich nur dann geben, wenn man palästinensische Menschen von Geburt an als unwertes Leben betrachtet.

»They’re skin and bones’: doctors in #Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula.
Doctors say #Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies« #genocide
theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

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GPS collars used to control farm animals may soon become allowed in Sweden.

sverigesradio.se/artikel/virtu…

Meanwhile, GPS thingys used to control humans have been in use for quite some time. 😉

So we can look forward to that soon, both farm animals and humans will be controlled in the same way.

"American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press.

Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal operations, said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous and irresponsible practices. They said the security staff hired were often unqualified, unvetted, heavily armed and seemed to have an open license to do whatever they wished.

They said their colleagues regularly lobbed stun grenades and pepper spray in the direction of the Palestinians. One contractor said bullets were fired in all directions — in the air, into the ground and at times toward the Palestinians, recalling at least one instance where he thought someone had been hit.

“There are innocent people being hurt. Badly. Needlessly,” the contractor said."

apnews.com/article/palestinian…

#USA #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #HumanRights #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

The attempts by law enforcement & governments to subvert end-to-end encryption are ongoing. The European Commission is going to spend a year thinking about their new "Roadmap for law enforcement access to data", and they are (genuinely) asking for people to join their expert group to help. Here I urge you to join that group (also because I can't): berthub.eu/articles/posts/poss…

The Trump Admin Isn't a Deviation From American History. Just Ask Indigenous People | Teen Vogue teenvogue.com/story/trump-admi…

There’s roughly 565 billionaires in the United States, the most anywhere in the world. Their $ value is somewhere in the $6 trillion range.

If Uncle Sam taxed them just one penny on the dollar, the annual tax would be about $60 billion dollars.

They wouldn’t miss it.

Once a person earns $1B, then they are automatically taxed a billionaire tax $0.01.
No loopholes! They can pay other taxes too. The $0.01 tax stays.

It’s the least they can do for society. $60B a year can help so many people!

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in reply to CopterDoctor

Fuck that, let's tax billionaires 90%. That's still less than the highest tax rate in US history.

Want to cut down the deficit?

Tax the churches and the billionaires.

Maybe America will wake up to that fact before I die and I'm well past middle-age.

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<<The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030>>

But of course they do. After all it's a fuckin' Soviet Union 2.0. You peasants don't mind, since you have nothing to hide, right?

techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-…

I guess this is what happens when your platform doesn't give you a lot of room to write your posts, you're forced to come up with weird solutions.


wasn't expecting to have an ActivityPub UI dream but just woke up from a sequence in which I was able to generate a new blog post (not a note) in response to a note -- like a longform reply that automatically posted to the blog itself. thought this was neat.

so for each note, you'd have the option to reply as a note or reply as a new post.

@index@activitypub.ghost.org


in reply to shironeko

@shironeko Here’s a piece from 2019 related to Booking.com.

mondoweiss.net/2019/01/examine…

More here: mondoweiss.net/tag/booking-com…

Man I had the most craziest dream last night that came out of the blue from nowhere. Dreamt I was in the hospital for some reason.

In Japan.

And I only speak and understand maybe 5-10 words of Japanese.

It was every bit as crazy as you'd think.

I just like woke up. And I was in a hospital room. In Japan.

And there was a vending machine in the room too. (Not one of those kinky or beer vending machines, but a normal one.)

Very strange.
#dreams

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MSF: Access to healthcare in Sudan 'almost impossible' as attacks on healthcare facilities increase newsfeed.facilit8.network/TLlN… #Sudan #Healthcare #HumanRights #MSF #HumanitarianCrisis

Πολύ ενδιαφέρον σχετικά με τις διαχρονικές σχέσεις Ισραήλ - Κούρδων:

PKK's Abdullah Ocalan: 'No Israeli dominance through Kurds' | Middle East Eye
middleeasteye.net/news/pkks-oc…

Never forget this moment when a stupid woman tried to provoke a reaction from Pro Palestine and antigenocide students. Crying "I'm not afraid" while she has the word "jew" wrote with ink in her tShirt.
NOBODY CARED ABOUT HER.
#ziopathland #deathtotheidf #HateTheIDF

share.upscrolled.com/en/post/5…

More Russian POWs Exchanged Under Istanbul Agreements sputnikglobe.com/20250704/more…

#zionistsnotwelcome

Πώς οι Ισραηλινοί αλλάζουν τον χάρτη της Θεσσαλονίκης

news247.gr/magazine/reportage/…

Μια συγκεκριμένη εταιρεία, εδώ και τέσσερα χρόνια αγοράζει και ανακαινίζει ολόκληρες οικοδομές, για να τις εκμεταλλευτεί κυρίως ως AirBnB.

Η εταιρεία συγκροτήθηκε το 2021 και απέκτησε νέα νομική μορφή το 2023. Μέχρι σήμερα έχει αγοράσει και ανακαινίσει άλλες 15 πολυκατοικίες και οικόπεδα στη Θεσσαλονίκη.

Η φάμπρικα των ισραηλινών projects έχει ως εξής. Ένας μεσάζοντας που γνωρίζει την αγορά ακινήτων, συστήνει ένα crowdfunding και διακινεί την πρόταση σε επενδυτές. Αν θέλεις να αγοράσεις, βάζεις κεφάλαιο στο ποτ, και έπειτα η εταιρεία διαχειρίζεται τα ακίνητα με μια ελάχιστη εγγυημένη απόδοση.

Bank-phishing: KBC.be

Hoe het in België zit weet ik niet, maar in NL: "Schade bankhelpdeskfraude in meeste gevallen NIET vergoed door bank" (security.nl/posting/894602/Sch…).

KBC biedt een verzekering tegen dat soort fraude, maar ik zou de kleine lettertjes heel goed lezen voordat u daar geld aan uitgeeft: kbc.be/particulieren/nl/verzek….

Terug naar phishing: vraag uzelf altijd als éérste af of de websitenaam (ook bekend als domeinnaam) écht van de organisatie is die in de webpagina (en vaak aan een bericht aan u) werd gesuggereerd. Hoe u websitenamen moet interpreteren beschreef ik in infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat….

De phishing-website waarvan ik hieronder screenshots toon, is waarschijnlijk van dezelfde criminelen als de Proximus.be nepsite die ik gisteren beschreef (in infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat…).

De screenshot links is gemaakt direct na openen, rechts na het drukken op "Vraag nu aan".

Of u, na invullen, met Itsme (*) moet authenticeren weet ik niet, maar als u zo'n pagina invult weten cybercriminelen veel van u en is de kans groot dat zij u gaan bellen. Zij doen zich dan voor als bankmedewerker of politieagent en vertellen bijvoorbeeld dat criminelen toegang tot uw rekening proberen te krijgen, en vragen u of u recentelijk vertrouwelijke persoons- en bank-gegevens heeft ingevuld op een website.

En dat heeft u; helaas klinkt daarom zo'n verhaal van de beller voor veel mensen geloofwaardig. En zodra nette mensen zich schuldig voelen omdat zij zich realiseren dat zij iets onverstandigs hebben gedaan, zijn zij veel gevoeliger voor manipulatie.

(*) M.b.t. Itsme, uit security.nl/posting/895012/Bel… van vandaag:
"Belgische banken waarschuwen klanten voor social engineering, waarbij oplichters transacties via online identificatie-app itsme goedgekeurd proberen te krijgen."

#Phishing #NepSites #NepWebsites #Oplichting #CyberCrime #Bewustzijn #Awareness #SecurityAwareness #BeveiligingsBewustzijn #NepVanEchtKunnenOnderscheiden #EchtVanNepKunnenOnderscheiden #BankHelpdeskFraude #KBC #België #Vlaanderen #InternetBankieren #Authenticatie #Impersonatie

“Depression and anxiety sufferers to lose sickness benefits in welfare reforms”

They are not ‘reforms’ they are spiteful, nasty punishments of the vulnerable.

thelondoneconomic.com/lifestyl…

in reply to Michael

This needs #AltText. Let me #Alt4You.

Blue text on a bill posted on lamp post says:
"Can't afford food? Blame billionaires, not immigrants.
In 2023, grocery stores doubled their profits.
It's not because of inflation! Inflation went up only 7%, but prices went up almost 11.5%.
It would take 340 years for a grocery worker to earn what Golden Weston burns, CEO of Loblaws and no frills, profits in a year.

Don't let them distract you with racism."

#racism
#immigrants

in reply to Stéphane

Sur le sujet de la Rand :
diaspora-fr.org/posts/935fbe80…