Dalai Lama, a global symbol of Tibetan culture and resistance, turns 90
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Gaza (Quds News Network)- Doctors in Gaza are sounding the alarm over a growing crisis threatening hundreds of babies, reported the Guardian. The strip is running out of infant formula as Israel contiEditing Team (Quds News Network)
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior commander of Saraya al-Quds resistance group, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, announced that nearly 40 Israeli occupation troops were killed or wounded in a coordinated resistance operation in eastern Ga…Tasnim News Agency
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Another war, another trip, another ask: Netanyahu returns to Washington
With Gaza still burning and corruption charges mounting, Israel’s prime minister arrives in D.C. looking for favors, not peace
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Peruvian lawmakers have introduced four bills to annul the decree that doubled President Boluarte’s salary, challenging its legitimacy and demanding accountability before Congress.teleSURenglish
Alleged arsonist charged over fire at Australian synagogue
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Les plaintes pour escroquerie sentimentale en ligne se multiplient ces dernières années. Ce fléau, nourri par la solitude et la fracture numérique, s’appuie sur des techniques de manipulation de plus en plus sophistiquées.Clara Lainé (Franceinfo)
Wasn’t he one of those idiotic intellectual masturbators who thought Thatcher was a fascist?
At the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Belarus drew attention to human rights violations in Ukraine and the persecution of ethnic Belarusians.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
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Interesting. The American Ayatollah, the Supreme Court, ruled in favor of those harmed by the US state violence system, which is often referred to as a justice system.
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In a term marked by rulings limiting immigrants’ rights, the court sided with several other people harmed by the criminal justice system.Rebecca McCray (The Marshall Project)
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) – Iran’s ambassador to China has lashed out at the United States and its allies, including the Israeli regime, for disregarding international laws and undermining the principles of cooperation.Mehr News Agency
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"Terminated #NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states."
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PS: It's not that #Trump officials feel more lenient toward blue-state scientists. It's that blue-state Attorneys General fight back in court. Sometimes resistance works.
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
NIH grant restoration process plays out over landscape splintered by DEI restrictions, court order that applies in the blue states that suedAnil Oza (STAT)
Thousands of voices unite in song at traditional choir festival celebrating Estonia's culture
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Israeli outlet Haaretz has published an article titled “Now I Understand Why Israel Is Denying Journalists Access to the Appalling Scene in Gaza” by French historian Jean-Pierre Filiu, who spent a month in Gaza after entering with a busload of French physicians.
#israel has banned journalists from #gaza in order to hide its war crimes, making doctors the de facto western reporters on the ground. And they’re all reporting the same thing about what they are seeing.
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The New Republic reports members of the U.S. military are spending July 4 demanding answers about the consequences of following the orders of “Trump’s far-right authoritarian government.Adam Lynch (Alternet.org)
Can you see circles or rectangles? And does the answer depend on where you grew up?
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We may believe we see the world exactly as it is – but as studies of optical illusions show, it’s far more complex than that, says cognitive and computational neuroscience professor Anil SethAnil Seth (The Guardian)
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La police néerlandaise se déclare officiellement opposée à une nouvelle législation en cours d'adoption qui vise à créer un délit d'aide aux personnes en situation irrégulière et à restreindre le droit d'asile. Sa présidente affirme que la police est là pour venir en aide aux personnes qui en ont besoin, et non pour leur faire la chasse.
Ça fait bizarre quand on lit ça.
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Die Polizei stehe für Rechtsstaatlichkeit, Sicherheit, Gleichheit und Menschenwürde, so die PolizeipräsidentinDER STANDARD
If you drive a #tesla, you're not only fascist supporting asshole, but also stupid and suicidal.
To paraphrase the Dean from Animal House:
"Being a stupid, suicidal, fascist asshole is no way to go through life son."
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Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles.Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Arrested Again The abruptness, severity and theatrics behind the May 29 arrest of funk and trap music artist Me Poze do Rodo (Marlon Brendon Coelho Couto) downgrades Brazilian media even further, to the point of the story being published in the New Y…Julian Cola (CovertAction Magazine)
Harvard trying to choose the path that punishes people who oppose genocide while at the same time fighting off the Trump admin's attack on academic freedoms is a remarkable effort at squaring two completely adversarial roles.
Here's the commencement speech by Zehra Imam from Harvard Divinity School. The speech Harvard censored.
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In May, Harvard Divinity School refused to publish its commencement speech after a speaker went off-script to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza. The Intercept...YouTube
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I hate having "representatives" who support making trans people miserable and committing genocide overseas.
It fills me with so much rage having MAGA Nazi freaks be my "voice" in Congress.
Honestly, the entirety of the GOP is guilty of incitement to genocide.
Fuck the GOP to hell and back. May they get a fraction of the suffering they inflict on others. I am eager for the Washington Tribunal.
I am tempted to say a lot of angry and unwise things surrounding this subject. Here's what I will say:
I appreciate why the French and the Russian Revolutionaries treated reactionaries they way they did.
Tasmania: Covid hits state hospitals, causes holiday cancellations
"The Health Department confirmed cases of Covid at the Royal Hobart Hospital, Launceston General Hospital and North-West Regional Hospital but were unable to say how many patients had been infected"
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Thousands of developers are part of a new class action lawsuit against Valve over Steam’s pricing rules. Here’s what it means for indie devs.Ronny Fiksdahl (Fix Gaming Channel)
6 July 1939 | French Jewish girl, Huguette Gutmajnster, was born in Paris.
In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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- Israeli attacks kill 27 in Gaza today
- Thousands of families cut off from water in Gaza City
- Netanyahu dispatches negotiators to Qatar ahead of meeting with Trump
- WATCH: Israeli attack kills doctor and 3 of his children in Gaza
- Israeli attacks kill 17 across Gaza
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Latest attack comes as Netanyahu’s office said Israel would send a team to the Qatari capital, Doha, for truce talks.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
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What a bunch of horseshit - Taking a page from the Nazis by dehumanizing people calling them "alien"
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The European Union plans to create reserves of critically important minerals and cable repair kits in case of emergencies. The Financial Times (FT) newspaper writes about this with reference to the order of the European Commission.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
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The European Union's attempts to adopt another, already 18th package of anti-Russian sanctions have not yet been successful due to Slovakia's position.Магас (Военное обозрение)
Hundreds take to the streets to protest Starmer regime’s participation in Israel’s genocide in Gaza Hundreds of local people gathered and marched on Saturday through Camden in the heart…SKWAWKBOX
"Palestine is waiting for you to arrive. And you must be courageous enough to rise to the call because Palestine will keep showing up in your living rooms until you are ready to meet its gaze."
All major US institutions have betrayed the values America pretended to stand for.
Yet while institutions like Harvard act in cowardice, some who attended it, like Zehra Imam, still see the world with moral clarity and act with courage in service of truth & real justice.
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“I wanted to center Palestine,” a Harvard commencement speaker told The Intercept. Read and watch her speech.Akela Lacy (The Intercept)
Alright, I admit I use ChatGPT to figure out #homebrewing recipes, and was even IMPRESSED it offered a JSON file to import into my Brewfather…
… for just a second
ChatGPT is straight up just making shit up. It knows people that look for #homebrewing recipes use Brewfather; that it imports/exports JSON; but then just generates JSON that’s not even close to the correct format.
Picture 1: ChatGPT JSON
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Energy giant SSE may keep Peterhead power station 10 years longer than planned, which critics fear could “blow an enormous hole” in the Scottish Government’s climate strategy.Paul Dobson (The Ferret)
Since 1963, when he photographed a fellow student being arrested, David Hoffman has turned his camera on rebels and rioters. His archive tells an alternative story of Britain, from Greenham Common to students marching on WhitehallDuncan Campbell (The Guardian)
Labour falls short on school funding
The government’s pay deal for teachers, while improved from their initial offer, still amounts to cuts to education
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The government's pay deal for teachers, while improved from their initial offer, still amounts to cuts to education On 22 May, the independent School Teacher Pay Review Body finally released its recommendation for a 4% pay increase for teachers, i…Counterfire
The origins of women’s oppression - why the oppression of women is not eternal or natural and is bound up with class exploitation
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Alex Snowdon explains why the oppression of women is not eternal or natural and is bound up with class exploitation Karl Marx and his close collaborator Frederick Engels, using insights from anthropologists, understood that human societies had not…Counterfire
#UK #government drops charges against #Kneecap
Kneecap will no longer face charges over a resurfaced #video where members chanted "Kill your local #MP!" at a 2023 gig, according to UK #police. Due to the statutory time limit of #prosecution expiring, the police could not continue the investigation, per The Independent.
This #indictment by the Counter-Terrorism unit was separate from the individual case against member #MoChara (#LiamÓgÓhAnnaidh)...
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The Irish rap group performed at Glastonbury on Saturday in one of the most talked-about shows of the weekendAthena Stavrou (The Independent)
Brazil has assumed the rotating presidency of the BRICS group at the 17th Leaders’ Summit to be held in Rio de Janeiro from July 6 to 7.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
Palestine solidarity was not confined to a couple of moments, but was a pervasive normality at the festival, in stark contrast to our media, reports
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Palestine solidarity was not confined to a couple of moments, but was a pervasive normality at the festival, in stark contrast to our media, reports Katherine Hajiyianni In the sun and sequin-soaked fields of Glastonbury Festival’s ‘most political…Counterfire
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FreeOffice isn't open source. It's available as a deb or an RPM, or a basic archive. No Flatpak, Snap or Appimage, though.
FreeOffice does word processing, creating spreadsheets, and presentations. FreeOffice aims to be as compatible with MS Office as can be. FreeOffice gives you a choice between the classic menubar + toolbar combo, and the ribbon interface that MS office uses.
In terms of Office compatibility, I tried a few complex templates, and there seem to be a few issues on word documents, with header images not being in the right place, and elements being moved where they don't belong.
FreeOffice is free of charge to download, but the free version does lack a few features.
You probably all know about Libreoffice. It has a word processor, a spreadsheet module, a presentation app, but also a flowchart /diagram editor that also doubles as a PDF editor, and a database module comparable to Microsoft Access.
It's completely open source, doesn't cost a dime, and is installable in virtually every way you'd ever want: deb, rpm, flatpak, snap, appimage, you name it.
LibreOffice is compatible with the opendocument format, but also with MS office formats. The compatibility with openXML formats, like docx, xlsx or pptx isn't 100% perfect though.
In terms of interface, LibreOffice is super customizable: not only can it pick up your GTK or Qt theme, but you can also change its icons in the settings, and change how the interface looks and feels. By default, it uses the older menubar + toolbar layout, but you can change that into a ribbon interface, a simplified ribbon, a grouped bar, a sidebar, basically you can do whatever you want, and customize each toolbar to add or remove what you want.
There's another open source office suite for Linux, and that's OnlyOffice. It only offers the 3 basic modules: word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. It's free to download and open source, and comes as a deb, an RPM, a flatpak, an appimage, or a snap package, so anyone can get it.
OnlyOffice supports the Microsoft OpenXML document format, as well as the opendocument format that Libreoffice defaults to, and the older proprietary office formats as well. Compatibility seems better than FreeOffice, and LibreOffice, at least with my test templates. It actually seems pretty much identical to how MS office renders the same document.
In terms of interface, Onlyoffice isn't as customizable as LibreOffice: you only get a ribbon interface, and you can't change what's displayed in each toolbar. The ribbon will use a dedicated color for each program, if you use the light theme, so they're still easy to differentiate. Onlyoffice also supports interface scaling, with factors ranging from 100% to 200% with 25% increments.
Now we come to another non open source office suite, WPS Office. You get a word processor, a spreadsheet module, and a presentation module, and you also get a PDF viewer. It offers deb and RPM packages, and it's also available on flathub, and as a snap.
In terms of compatibility, WPS opens older office docs, newer office docs, as well as their own format. Compatibility seems good, at least with openXML formats, although a little bit less perfect than OnlyOffice. It should be good enough for most people.
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A new party to the left of Labour is highly welcome, but it will need to be rooted in the social movements, organised democratically and prepared to resist attacks
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A new party to the left of Labour is highly welcome, but it will need to be rooted in the social movements, organised democratically and prepared to resist attacks, argues Michael Lavalette On Thursday evening this week (3 July), the internet and …Counterfire
🚨100s of ppl have already been killed across the US in storms incl deadly tornadoes -many of which were inaccurately forecasted. We're entering peak hurricane season. Meteorologist Vagasky: “The world’s example for weather svcs is being destroyed.”
After severe flooding in non-evacuated areas in TX -TX officials are blaming their failure to act on a faulty forecast by Trump’s gutted #NWS.
#FEMA will be called upon -Trump said repeatedly that he wants to abolish.
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Experts warned for months about cuts to NWS and NOAARon Filipkowski (Meidas+)
Trump's weakened NWS,🚨warnings from May & June:
"Staff vacancies hit Texas weather offices as they brace for a busy hurricane season.
In Houston, 44% of #NWS positions are vacant."
“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,” wrote 5 former NWS directors from both Democratic & Republican admins in an open letter on May 2nd."
#Climate #TrumpRegime #FEMA #Protest #USPol
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Houston’s National Weather Service office has lost its head meteorologist amid a federal requirement to cut 10% of NOAA’s staff.Alejandra Martinez (The Texas Tribune)
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“ #CrytpoAlchemist and #Aliencarvings: Shocking #New #Discoveries in #Tula, #Mexico!”
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> While storms are already hitting northern Italy with severe rainfalls. the Mediterranean today, July 5, has reached its highest values of SST daily anomaly in these months, with areas (purple) over +7 °C off the coast of France,up to +7.7°C #climateemergency. Data CMEMS
Millions of Muslims in Iran and across the world are commemorating Tasu’a, a day before the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hossein (AS), the third Shia Imam and the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).PressTV
under hitler's days, the "autistic" kids were just creative, artistic, curious, and difficult to settle down. Half a century later, its having a strong interest in tech at a young age, and also being troublemakers.
Both hitler and modern american fascists seem interested in making lists of them, too. I wonder why?
Closing hospitals to fund concentration camps.
That’s it. That’s what it boils down to.
People actually help up signs "Mass deportations now" during Trump's ralleys.
They cannot claim that they did not know what they voted for.
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The convention celebrated Trump’s vision of immigration as a disease. The GOP idea of a cure would mean I, and millions of others, would not existJeff Yang (The Guardian)
On the other platform I am still discussing with those who did not go and vote, because of what Biden and Harris did against Gaza.
I can understand that people are angry at Biden and Harris for their policies with respect to Gaza, but allowing Trump into office does not solve that issue.
@ABScientist
in the absense of a candidate who meets the very _minimum_ of requirements, which Harris very much did not, revolutionary action is the only solution, crime is the path everyone must choose, conspiracy and sabotage of state institutions involved in unethical activity is the only path
anything else is complicitness. If Harris had won and continued the genocide, everyone who voted for her would've had blood on their hands and be complicit in the mass murder as well
@amici
So they would have blood on their hands either way?
- Vote for Harris and the genocide continues
- Do not vote and Trump wins and the genocide continues
With Trump you get the added bonus that anyone in the US who looks foreign will be placed in prisons and concentration camps.
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you're not supposed to vote, when you vote you vote for the most heinous of violence - the election system itself has lost all legitimacy
you're supposed to actively resist and undermine the state in its unethical affairs, that's the only correct avenue in that situation
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if you need to empower someone to commit mass murder in order to get government handouts, then fuck you, fuck so hard, you're awful, awful human being
that's not a price worth paying, NEVER, NEVER, EVER
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It looks like dual/parallel power, building new systems in the shadow of the old. It looks like direct action, mutual aid, and labor organizing. Community councils, horizontal power structures instead of hierarchical leadership-- which the system would only co-opt, sabotage, or assassinate anyway. The Fred Hamptons and MLKs of today get nipped in the bud, they're dead or in jail or got smart enough to stay low, the surveillance runs that deep today so now instead of waiting around for figureheads to follow we ALL have to be leaders in every small way we can manage.
Learn to see and think and live a completely different kind of world, see power and cooperation and organizing in totally new ways. That's the revolution we need now.
The nuts and bolts of it are being worked out in corners of places like Rojava and Myanmar and Chiapas and the Phillipines and those spots in the US where bookstores are getting lifesaving aid to hurricane victims faster than this broken government can.
Fuck this handbasket we're riding in. It may have "bus" painted on the side in rainbow letters and it's got Buddy Jesus for a hood ornament but make no mistake this is an orphan-crushing planetwrecking war machine that was never built to take us anywhere good. Quit feeding it.
Fuck this entire kayfabe good cop / bad cop prisoner dilemma trolley problem, it's not a choice it's a Saw movie. The trolley just keeps going in a loop and the assholes tying people to the tracks will only keep getting away with it if we don't find options better than that rigged goddamned lever that we only pull every few years anyway. There's actual work to be done. Things that CAN be done.
@johnstonphilip @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist Again, nobody here has advocated against voting. Just saying if you want leftist politics you have you vote leftist. In the absence of a candidate who meets THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS for those of us who care, there is no other option. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. The Democratic Party holds views that were considered conservative when I was a child and the conservative party is fully fascist. As a trans person, hearing both sides abandon me politically, I have been left with no choice.
Like, yeah, vote. Just remember these are the people who regularly turn on many of us the moment they lose or stay in power too long. Nancy Pelosi chides children who protest near her and after Harris lost many Dems went mask off in their lust for abandoning trans, race and labor issues.
Voting for most Dems supported by the party is a vote for the status quo, which kills babies.
@johnstonphilip @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist I won't claim to know your politics better than you, but provided the liberal party is in coalition with the left party, I don't see how the conservative party is granted any wins here. You seem to have higher voter turnout on average, indicating you are engaging voters better than here in the US. You seem to be faring better than the US as global fascism encroaches, tho I know it's a low bar. Seems like appearing to side with conservatives over being in coalition with the left is seen as bad and pushes the liberal party left.
Like, I don't know if you think we don't get conservative laws shoved down our throat down here by voting Democrat, I gotta tell you abortion had many chances to get codified in a Dem majority and presidency and didn't. It got overturned while Dems were in power and they did nothing to protect it. We can't even get widely popular health care without Dems reaching across the aisle to Republicans
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The reality of first past the post voting is, the spoiler effect is a WEAPON for voter suppression that makes a mockery of democracy.
Note the same good cop / bad cop "lesser" evil strategy is what's being used in the US and in Canada and in the UK and Australia etc etc-- it IS a game alright, the sadistic neoliberal playbook that's designed to keep ratcheting everyone steadily to the right.
The Labour, Democratic, and NDP parties etc are all controlled opposition that exist to absorb activist energy into the dead-end honeypot trap of false reforms that never allow fundamental change. They pretend they're here to help, but they would rather FEED us to the monsters they are paid to pretend to fight, and LOSE ON PURPOSE, than let us push any legislation that would seriously threaten their sugar daddies. The Democratic Party deliberately helped elevate Trump to a serious candidate in the first place. On purpose. There is nothing "lesser" about the kind of evil that toys with overt fascism as cover for more sustainable and sophisticated oppression.
This is all designed to keep people clinging to the ankles of their preferred oppressor in the belief that there is no escape, and turning on our neighbors who dare to fight back. That's why 3rd parties are scapegoated and reviled, to keep the Overton Window parked firmly in the authoritarian right and fool everyone into thinking this neoliberal bullshit is the best we can hope for because all we see around us is people grudgingly resigned to shit like "pragmatic" genocide apologism and nothing genuinely good to believe in.
Thing is the world is burning. Look at the supposedly liberal parties investing in police instead of public health, and that's all you need to know to tell where they really stand and what they're going to do to us as the collapse gets worse. Everywhere, and I mean everywhere, will end up looking like Gaza unless we overhaul this whole situation.
Sure, fine, vote, whatever. Just don't spend more than maybe 1% of your time and energy on that little checkbox vs more effective things. Build community, locally-- mutual aid is much, much more than passing money to those who need it. It's unionization, cooperatives, community supported agriculture and citizen air monitoring and food banks and rent strikes and support groups and repair cafes and libraries. Look for real leadership in those places, not the dog and pony reality TV show of political offices. Figure out how to help keep your town from descending into mindless gang warfare as we increasingly lose our healthcare, housing, supply chains, and peace of mind.
@violetmadder @johnstonphilip @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist Absolutely! Dockworkers unions deciding to strike to oppose weapons transfers or directly giving money to Gazans seeking assistance has done far more to help than anything the government has done. We need to act now in whatever ways we can. And that doesn't mean talking about voting/elections all day, that's for sure.
Plant some food and share with your neighbors! Start organizing at work and among fellow renters, join the local unions or start to talk to people about starting one. Start shopping more at coops and not at chains. Organize forest defense and do whatever else you can think of that needs to be done! And please help people who are struggling to pay rent or eat, or who are stuck in an abusive situation (be it a home situation or work/boss situation) to have some stablility in their lives. That is what we even have government for in the first place, right? If they won't, we need to.
@redpy5 @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist I mostly just don’t understand how, if you understand first past the post, why you’d vote for a 3rd party (on the left OR the right for that matter).
I get that it disgusts you ethically, it does for me as well, but it’s a game and the rules are already decided. I’m just playing the game to make the world a little better, instead of a lot worse.
@ABScientist 🤔 They're calling for "mass deportations" from the lands their ancestors stole from indigenous peoples they mass-murdered?
Sounds quite cringy, dumb-brazen & max ignorant & unaware of own national history. 😎👈🇺🇸
indyradio
in reply to indyradio • • •Τίτλοι 2 Ιουλίου 2025 από το Democracy Now!
«Δεν θα δεχτούμε αυτόν τον εκφοβισμό»
ΝΤΟΝΑΛΝΤ ΤΡΑΜΠ: «Λοιπόν, τότε, θα πρέπει να τον συλλάβουμε. Κοιτάξτε, δεν χρειαζόμαστε κομμουνιστή σε αυτή τη χώρα, αλλά αν έχουμε έναν, θα τον παρακολουθώ πολύ προσεκτικά εκ μέρους του έθνους....»
Τρομοκρατιστής ✭
in reply to indyradio • • •indyradio
in reply to Τρομοκρατιστής ✭ • • •Δεν θα δεχτούμε αυτόν τον εκφοβισμό.
Spartacus
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indyradio
in reply to Spartacus • • •@IAmSpartacus @tromo
We've been through this with his dad - his dad's lawyer was the lawyer who represented Joe McCarthy,
Fuck those people.
Been there, done that. Exposed their crown jewels.
Spartacus
in reply to indyradio • • •They will swallow whatever Washington commands sooner or later.
@tromo
indyradio
in reply to Spartacus • • •@IAmSpartacus @tromo
there are dimwits with more money than brains who buy an organization that elects them.
Some are dumb as rocks. I have some really funny stories. Thank you for reminding me. I will use them soon. I met these "leaders" personally.
Shit for brains. as you said.
First, I had to catch up on the headlines, and I have a network I am building - almost ready 😎