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Well, I'm a-runnin' down the road tryna loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
Four that wanna own me, two that wanna stone me
One says she's a friend of mine
Bernie Leadon, American guitarist, mandolinist, banjo player, and vocalist (Flying Burrito Brothers; Eagles) is 78
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Hungary: Majaโ€™s Statement on the End of Her Hunger Strike


Dear people, dear comrades and people who support me,

My name is Maja. Since June 5, I have been on hunger strike [ see here ; Ed. ]. I started it to protest my illegal and unredressed extradition from Germany to Hungary a year ago, the repressive persecution of anti-fascists, the dubious legal proceedings with a pre-determined outcome, my solitary confinement, which continues to this day, and the inhumane conditions of detention in Hungarian jails. Now, after almost six weeks, I have decided to suspend my hunger strike.

I donโ€™t want to continue abusing my health, because I feel that if I donโ€™t turn around now, it will soon be too late. So, it wouldnโ€™t do much good if my requests were met. I would be scarred for life, perhaps I already am. I never wanted to get to this point; I naively hoped that something as radical as the hunger strike would finally raise awareness among those in charge and all those who can change something, that they would take action, after a year of soothing statements, smiles, and ignorance.

Now, thereโ€™s not much left of me. My bodyโ€”a skeleton, with an intact, fighting, and living spirit. It smiles, searches the horizon for freedom and community, and refuses to accept the lack of justice. But Iโ€™m not ready to take the step toward imminent death. Of course, weโ€™re not sure; maybe there are still a few days, maybe a few weeks. But if I were to lose consciousness, I would be shifting the responsibility onto the people fighting alongside me, something Iโ€™m not ready to impose on anyone. The same would happen if I were subjected to force-feeding.

On July 1st, I was transferred to a prison hospital, 250 km from Budapest, because by then there were already serious concerns about the stability of my health. The new location is quieter than the jail in the big city, but just as isolated, if not more so. Contact with my family is also severely limited. My lawyer, always an indispensable support, now needs a whole day to visit me. During my hour-long walk in the courtyard, I donโ€™t meet any fellow inmates. I spend the remaining 23 hours in the cell, because there are no activities here. The loneliness is heartbreaking, homesickness fills the horizon. Medically, it is possible to get the body back on its feet in this place, but mental recovery seems impossible here. With the predictable return to Budapest, nothing will have changed, because there awaits me what made the hunger strike a necessity. Neither hospital nor prison in Hungary can be a solution.

My demands remain unchanged! I require a transfer back to Germany or house arrest and legal proceedings in accordance with the rule of law. I am determined not to remain silent and to protest, even in the future, for as long as necessary.

I am now ending my hunger strike so that no one is responsible for any long-term or permanent damage to my health. However, this does not absolve anyone of the responsibility to create humane detention conditions, free from pain and suffering, for everyone, to conduct independent judicial proceedings in accordance with the rule of law, whose sentence is not written in advance, and to guarantee the integrity of the detained person, to respect their dignity instead of despising and punishing them. If this does not happen, if my demands are still ignored, I am determined to resume my hunger strike.

I demand what is necessaryโ€”that I be able to be at home with my family, that I be able to develop through school, work, etc., that I be able to prepare for trial on an equal footing and no longer be buried alive in a cell. I am still waiting for a clear and honest word, an apology from those responsible for my extradition, as well as an offer of reparation. Even if it comes last, it is the most important thing to me.

Thank you to all those who spoke out, who stood by our side, and to those who have been there, courageously, for a long time, to those who firmly defend the need for anti-fascism, to those who support us, who sacrifice nights and days, who donate, and who are anchors. This diversity is called resistance and utopia at the same time. My thoughts constantly go out to my family and close comrades, knowing the pain they are experiencing and admiring their courage and self-sacrifice. My thanks are expressed today in words. But rest assured that the seed of solidarity with what is possible has fallen on fertile soil. Thus, I hope that not only I, but also many others have been able to unite courage and strength of will, in these last weeks, to look forward, hand in hand, never forgiving, but smiling.

With thoughts of solidarity. A presto, Iโ€™ll be in touch [ โ€œSee you soon, Iโ€™ll give you some newsโ€ in Italian ].

Maja


via: attaque Translated by Act for freedom now!

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Hungary: Majaโ€™s Statement on the End of Her Hunger Strike
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Police Claim 6 Guerrilla Cadres Killed In Skirmish With Security Personnel In Narayanpur District


Narayanpur District, July 18, 2025: At least six persons police claim to be cadres of the CPI (Maoist) were killed in a firefight with security personnel in the hilly forested terrain of Abujhmad region in Chhattisgarhโ€™s Narayanpur district, about 400 km south of Raipur, State Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) P. Sundarraj announced to the press today.

A combing operation was launched by a joint team of security forces in the Abujhmad region based on intelligence inputs about the presence of Maoist cadres in the area. An exchange of fire ensued on Friday afternoon and continued intermittently in the forest. Six bodies have been recovered so far from the encounter scene, the IGP stated in his report to the press, adding that the security forces have recovered one AK-47, a Self Loading rifle and other weapons, as well as explosives materials and items of daily use from the site of the gun battle.

The IGP concluded his remarks to the press by saying that as the search operation remains underway, further operational details could not to be shared, adding that there was however no report of any injury sustained by the security forces.

According to police officials, Abujhmad region in Narayanpur district, is among the seven Maoist-affected districts in Bastar Region, and is cited by police authorities as an epicenter of Maoist activity in south Chhattisgarh.

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Alain Santacreu - Towards a Transdisciplinary Anarchism
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3 Postscripts 3: The Maverick


First he snorted in irritation. His fur bristled like a surly and rebellious cat, disdainful of boxes and pyramids. Just like that, without even warning.

Then, for those who do not know, a kind of tender caress. Then the clawing, increasing in quantity and strength. And then, a whirlwhind of discontent. Before long, it was a runner. The fury of the wind was joined by a rain as if to tell the windstorm that it shared its rage. It threw men and leaves against the walls of the champas and, I swear, the foundations of the concrete pavilion creaked.

Wind and rain. Nowhere to turn. Better to be left in the middle of the fury than to risk the guillotine flight of the torn sheet metal as if defying the modest modesty of the galleries already cleaned, with paint and walls renovated.

But, strangely enough, the storm respected the periphery and concentrated in the center. There, where the skeleton of a pyramid rose not a few meters from the gravel.

As if to say: โ€œNo pyramids hereโ€.

And the blankets that simulated the walls of the pyramid, swelled with that mixture of wings and sails that at times resembled a wandering ship and at times a lost aircraft, with no land in sight, only with the certainty that below was the ground waiting without haste, as if saying โ€œjust right hereโ€.

We tried to talk to it, but, between the rain and the gale force winds, we barely managed to get it to let up long enough for the fellows who had climbed to the top to place the money sign to come down. Immediately, a strong, concentrated blowing blew the sails off and the blanket flew up the mountain.

โ€œThatโ€™s how ghosts are born,โ€ I thought.

We began to explain in a rushed manner that it was not to be left per se, but rather as an explanation of the policy. To reveal, that is. That there were no true or false gods. That, of itself, is going to be destroyed. Not only that one, but all the pyramids. Yes, in the whole and in the parts. Yes, in all the corners of the planet.

He slowly faded away, as if doubting our commitment.

He left later but not quickly, as if to say โ€œif the human being does not comply, we, the parts of the first mother, will complyโ€.

-*-

SubMoy checked the construction and said: โ€œItโ€™s not going to fall easyโ€.

A compa, as it were, made a nick in one of the crossbeams with his machete. He only muttered: โ€œItโ€™s going to fall, itโ€™s going to fall. It might delay, but it falls because it fallsโ€.

โ€œThe most difficult thing will be the central column, it is very solid,โ€ he added, โ€œwe will have to put a lot of strength, a lot of desire and not just a few of us, but manyโ€.

โ€œThat is: in common and organized,โ€ said a young painter. We all laughed, although we were still frightened by that irritated wind, who knows where it came from.

โ€œThat post is well rooted. Even if they knock it down, it will resprout. You have to pull it up to the roots,โ€ said an elderly woman, planted in jars in front of the wooden construction, as if defying it.

โ€œIt is the soul of the system,โ€ responded a companion to a girlโ€™s question about the central mast, โ€œthe private property of the land, of the machines, of the houses, of the people, of nature, of dreams and nightmares, of the skies and the seas, of what is seen and what is not seen, of the world, therefore. It is not only at the foundation of the system. It is also in our head, in our heart and in our history.โ€

โ€œBut how many are coming?โ€ they asked me.

โ€œA good many,โ€ I replied.

โ€œBut do they bring their will to fight?โ€ they insisted.

โ€œSaber,โ€ I said to myself, โ€œas SubMoy says: it remains to be seen.โ€

โ€œHey captain, is that thing going to be there all my life,โ€ a militia woman asked me.

โ€œNo, how do you think, itโ€™s for the Zapatista talk, why do you ask?โ€

โ€œBecause I think a soccer team is coming and that thing is in front of one of the goals, where our dining room is. So there will be neither game or food. The soccer game, whatever, but the food, wellโ€ฆโ€

The afternoon began to sprout from the trees. For an instant, the moon, the sun, the rain and the wind coincided, appearing before the mountain.

-*-

Is that going to be there forever?

Well, no, thatโ€™s why we are fighting. It might linger, but there are going to be more of us.

And in the wind followed the warning that the rain engraved on the earth:

โ€œIf the human being does not comply, we will comply, the parts of the first mother. The pyramid will fall.


-*-

Not far away in calendars and geographies, Palestine remained a tear of blood on the indifferent face of the worldโ€™s governments.

From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.

The Captain
July 2025

Original text published at Enlace Zapatista on July 16th, 2025.
Translation by Schools for Chiapas.

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Anti-War Internationalist Assembly - From Gaza to Global Conflict
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"Author: Anti-War Internationalist AssemblyTitle: From Gaza to Global ConflictSubtitle: Capitalist War and Internationalist SolidarityDate: July 13th, 2025Source: Retrieved on 2025-07-18 from

Astounding vol. 24, no. 5 (January 1940)

Not familiar enough with factories/foundries/engineering plants to know if this is even science fiction, frankly. Beamy thing is sploding, good luck with that.

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Astounding vol. 27, no. 1 (March 1941)

It's a strong image, it has lots of motion and depth. Why are the ships shooting stuff out of the front though, they're slowing down? And why is the world's biggest land mine on the moon?

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Pinned because it has everything I love about these things: colour, lighting, angles, alien life forms, beautiful women in peril and a crashed spaceship.

The cover of Fantastic Story Magazine vol. 4, no. 3 (November 1952)

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Israeli Firm Tests Drone on Unarmed Palestinian in Gaza, Shares Footage on Twitter for Marketing networkdefenseofhumanitycuba.wโ€ฆ



Bare feet - thoughts..

I could write about war and death,
about the forgotten poor and the pains -
about power-hungry politicians
and all their hollow liesโ€”
But not today.

I rather just stand barefoot in a puddle,
indifferent to the world's noise and sorrow,
feeling only the soft rain
on this quiet day in July.

Ah, the sky weeps for everyone,
but today, it feels like it weeps for meโ€”
not out of grief,
but like a blessing,
brief and gentle,
like grace upon skin.

The puddle ripples beneath me,
cool against my feet,
as if the earth itself is sighing.

Clouds drift like slow thoughts overhead,
and the rain doesnโ€™t fallโ€”it lands,
like a secret - whispered to the leaves.

So I let the leaders lie,
let the missiles fly,
let the world keep shouting & cry.

Becourse
Today, I offer no outrage at all
Only silenceโ€”
Bare feet in a puddle,
at a rainy day in July.

TsL. 25
#mypoems


An air raid alert over a potential Russian shelling interrupted Kyivโ€™s annual music festival, prompting attendees to take shelter. But they kept their spirits high, singing together as they took cover. byteseu.com/1207228/ #Ukraine #ะฃะบั€ะฐั—ะฝะฐ

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Wow (I wonder if they're trying to entirely turn off tourism to the U.S., are just trying to torpedo the economy, or have no clue what they are doing)

CNBC: Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 โ€˜visa integrity feeโ€™ โ€” what to know

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Oh my goodness.
I wanted to let our grandson enjoy his birthday week without having to work at our house. He was hesitant but I told him we had everything under control.
Today, I grabbed the, too tall for me battery weedeater, and attacked the weeds around our raspberry patch like they were weasley politicians.
I worked until both batteries were depleted and my arms felt like jello.
What started out as a smaller project just kept getting bigger and bigger. This happens to me sometimes because I can't leave well enough, well enough.
Summer supervised the work and now she is directing the rest period.
I was going to resume when the batteries charged, but maybe not.
Tomorrow, is install the new front door day and I will need steady arms.
#Summer
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america is dead. like, i'm serious. how can you possibly regard the fucking hegemon as anything but a rogue state now? how can you trade or treaty with this mad king bullshit? even if dems take power and even if they do something with it, what, you think every trading partner in the world is just gonna forget that the settler might decide to self-mutilate in a moment of temporary insanity every four years? it's done. go home. nothing remains but the work of the new world.

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July 18, 2025 โ€“ PBS News Hour full episode

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I thought about doing a preliminary half year games of the year roundup but man it's not a huge list so far:
Lies of P: Overture (A fucking DLC)
AI Limit (A second fucking Soulslike lol you guys are gonna run me out of town at this rate)
Hundred Line
Tetris TGM4
Dead or Alive: Xtreme Venus Vacation
Gal Guardians 2 (scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel)

It's probably going to be very hard to argue COE33 escapes the list but I have yet to actually play it. SURELY it's good, right? I've seen enough of the writing and presentation to know both of those are really good. Maybe COE33 runs away with it?

The main point is that the strongest release with fewest weaknesses I have on this list is a DLC. I don't supposed anyone is hiding a Gravity Circuit tier indie game in their back pocket?

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I gave Citadel 1 a shot and I will give it to you: This is Hideous Destructor but only the good, cool, fun parts minus the gay slow autism impenetrable bullshit. Which is high praise to all of the two people who played HD. Great shooting.

But what I cannot get over is this is a deeply UGLY fucking game. The only thing that doesn't look ugly are the crying anime girl half-face gibs, which means the ugliness is both physical and spiritual. And also aural, those death screams feel like retarded comedy sound effects. I can't even be aroused looking down in such an unsexy state of mind. I will try the second one but I honestly don't think it can make the list.

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