I’ve got one case figured out for my War of Words exhibition next summer (though it’s the case that comes last) on the Revolution in memory. Featuring the manuscript of Paul Revere’s Ride, Douglass’s What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, a button dug up from the Battle of Bunker Hill (currently in Conservation) and a label from Houghton’s exhibition for the Bicentennial.

#PIX is the future of #money!
"I can’t help noticing that Pix is actually achieving what #cryptocurrency boosters claimed, falsely, to be able to deliver through the blockchain—low transaction costs and financial inclusion. Compare the 93% of Brazilians using Pix to the 2% of Americans who used cryptocurrency to buy something or make a payment in 2024.
Oh, and using Pix doesn’t create an incentive to kidnap people and torture them until they give up their crypto keys."

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/has…

When Trump's fixer Todd Blanche visits Epstein's partner-in-sex-trafficking Ghislaine Maxwell in prison to offer a get-out-of-jail free card, it's not because he's seeking the truth. It's because he knows the truth.

emptywheel.net/2025/07/22/trum…

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Good Morning! Happy to help!

Oh we had such high hopes for Mike! We even called him “Mr. Sparkle“ in our neck of the interwoods For a time. He was one of the last people we had to cross off the good guy list.

Like all the controlled opposition meddler-types, he gets quite a bit of the story correct, but not enough to get us out of the mental trap.

He is correct to doubt viral theory—it is an absolute mess of pseudoscience.

Unfortunately if you listen to Mike and repeat what he says, you will be mislead, especially if you take his message to be an endorsement of the ”NO VIRUS” position (the Baileys, Andrew Kaufman, Tom Cowan) which is also controlled opposition.

I watched this FINAL warning, and the dead giveaway here is his heavy promotion and endorsement of Sasha Latypova who is a certified controlled opposition meddler and nasty piece of work.

She is a former pharma big shot, like Yeadon. He is clearly trying to get OUT of this operation and pass his character’s script over to her. This is basically all you need as proof that he is not a good guy.

Edit: (h/t @OisinPage) The second dead giveaway that Mike is con-op is the conspicuous absence of the words ”Transfection / transformation”—words which lead you right to the heart of understanding the synthetic recombinant technologies behind the creation of all biologics (like mRNA jabs) and exposes the con behind virology at the same time. Mike knows how biologics are made and understands transformation / Transfection, but won’t teach it to his audience despite being Implored by @jjcouey for YEARS.

Any so-called truth teller should be educating their audience about the realities of synthetic recombinant DNA / RNA technologies. NOT confusing people or leading them to make fools of themselves when interacting on social media wirh “experts”.

Hope this helps!

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Acceptance at last? The US government’s unequivocal support for end-to-end encryption is likely to bring an end to the encryption debate.

element.io/blog/reality-bites-…

Interessantes Interview mit Katharina König-Preuss das man sich durchaus mal durchlesen kann, wenn verstehen will, wie eine Position pro israelischer Staat und Linkssein zusammenpasst.
Ich denke da wird einem dann eine Menge klar, vor allem wenn man es mit der realen Situation kontrastiert.

»"Eine Armee ist eine Armee ist eine Armee"«
>>Katharina König-Preuss erklärt, warum links der Mitte hart über Israel gestritten wird – und wann sie ihre Partei verlassen würde<<
nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192760.…

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Was dazu aufgeschrieben hat Yossi Bartal, dessen kurze Analyse dazu ich dazu empfehlen möchte bsky.app/profile/yossibartal.b…

>>Thread: Das Interview mit Katharina König-Preuß ist ein typisches Beispiel für die diskursive Strategie progressiver Israel-Unterstützer*innen angesichts des immer offensichtlicheren Genozids in Gaza und der fortschreitenden Faschisierung Israels. Diese Strategie umfasst drei Elemente:<

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Fragt man sich ab wann man nicht mehr so tun kann als müsste man sich nicht entscheiden.

Außerdem:

"Antisemitisch wird es dann, wenn jemand das Existenzrecht Israels infrage stellt oder an Israel Standards anlegt, die an andere Staaten nicht angelegt werden"

Also wenn man an Israel die Standards anlegen würde, die man z.B. an Russland anlegt, dann wäre das Land bereits isoliert.

25 Countries, Including UK, Slam Israel Over Gaza Starvation and Forced Displacement #Palestine qudsnen.co/25-countries-includ…

Created with Human Intelligence

I’ve had a small badge in the footer of [my main] blog for quite some time now. It says “Written by Human, not AI” and points to the “No AI and ML use clause” page.
But I completely missed, probably because I don’t use Instagram, the hashtag #HiBadge2024 and the many creators and designers who offered their […]

didiermary.fr/likes/created-wi…

#AI #Design #IA

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Great protest and great victory in #Syros #Greece. Locals protesting against the genocide in #Palestine in response to the arrival of Israeli - owned cruiseship Crown Iris to the island, forcing it to leave the island.
Israeli tourists onboard were provocative, chanting. Some disembarked and tried to aggressively face the protesters, but were pulled back by security forces.
We cannot carry on with business as usual with the genocide ongoing.
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Israel's Depravity Will Always Find New Ways To Shock You

A doctor in Gaza named Nick Maynard reports that Israeli snipers are now shooting starving civilians in different body parts on different days, based on the injuries people show up with for treatment. There’s a head day, a leg day, a genitals day, etc.
caitlinjohnst.one/p/israels-de…

libertytree.ca/quotes/Thomas.P…

"He that would make his own liberty secure
must guard even his enemy from oppression;
for if he violates this duty
he establishes a precedent
that will reach to himself."

-- Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author
First Principles of Government, 1795

SYRIE. Images d’exécutions sommaires à Soueïda
kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2025/0…

"SYRIE – Sur les réseaux sociaux, on diffuse des vidéos montrant des exécutions sommaires perpétrées par des hommes armés qui seraient sous commandement de Damas dans la ville druze de Soueïda, rapporte l’agence kurde ANHA. Des vidéos partagées sur les réseaux sociaux montrent des hommes armés exécutant des civils druzes à Soueïda. Les auteurs seraient […]

The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble

Link: wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Indiana is sounding the alarm on data centers. Will the nation listen?

"The problem? They’re moving fast without transparency or accountability, and the financial fallout from soaring energy demand is going to land in the laps of Hoosiers who can least afford to pay more."

indianapolisrecorder.com/india…

libertytree.ca/quotes/Jamaica.…

"Express everything you like.
No word can hurt you. None.
No idea can hurt you.
Not being able to express an idea or word
will hurt you more. Like a bullet."

-- Jamaica Kincaid
[Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson] (1949- ) American novelist

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IRAN. Un père et fille kurde torturés pour qu’ils avouent être des espions d’Israël
kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2025/0…

"IRAN / ROJHILAT – Khedr Rasouli, ancien prisonnier politique, et Klara Rasouli, père et sœur de Karo Rasouli – membre important du Parti démocratique du Kurdistan iranien (KDP-I) – ont été arrêtés par les services de renseignement iraniens à Mahabad. Selon certaines informations, tous

The Trump-regime's anti-humanities and pro-genocide insanity continues with more culture war: "Trump to withdraw U.S. from UNESCO over alleged bias against Israel", because, they claim, it "supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes" like diversity and referring to occupied Palestinian territory (oPt, the actual established legal term) as "occupied".
npasyria.com/en/127567/
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Yes, of course, but it's still the case that the UN in the past used “oPT” in places where it otherwise used country names (e.g., indicator tables), but now uses (State of) Palestine instead.

Indeed that neither contradicts nor changes the fact that it also recognises the territory of the State of Palestine to be illegally occupied.

The point was more that Trump is trying to re-litigate old questions while everyone else has already moved on.

Canada: “We are prepared to issue as many empty statements as necessary to stop this genocide”

thebeaverton.com/2025/07/canad…

#canada #gaza #genocide #cdnpoli

Paris pourrait accueillir une réunion sur la Syrie
kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2025/0…

"SYRIE / ROJAVA – Des analystes ont déclaré à Al-Monitor que la rencontre entre l’envoyé américain en Syrie Tom Barrack et le commandant kurde des Forces démocratiques syriennes (FDS), Mazloum Abdi, à Amman a marqué une amélioration notable, suggérant que Paris pourrait accueillir une prochaine réunion avec la participation du président français

centrist dads doing more for gaza than the UK gov by wrapping the building opposite labour HQ with this graphic that the cowards can't ignore...
#gaza #palestine #protest #labourHQ #ledByDonkeys
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@SANKOFAB @palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten @blackmastodon participants in the #IsraelTerroristState actions are heinous criminals, who should hunted down & either brought to justice or have justice served upon them.
Furthermore #IsraelTerroristState is a #terroriststate & should be dismantled by force. With The WHOLE OF PALESTINE HANDED BACK TO THE ONLY RIGHTFUL OWNERS, THE #PALESTINIANS THEMSELVES

I just deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – and I'm a citizen

In 2025, social media has moved from self-expression to self-entrapment

theregister.com/2025/07/21/col…

Belgian police arrest Israeli soldiers accused of war crimes in Gaza en.reseauinternational.net/la-…

It happened a couple of weeks ago, but I have been busy moving things ahead. Here's some news! I got my Canadian citizenship certificate!

Since my mom was born in Canada, the process was very fast. The effective date is retroactively... the day I was born! It was extra fast since I wrote a letter saying I was transgender and would really appreciate it expedited. They did a 5 month process in two weeks!

Western Left silent as hundreds of Druze murdered

Western Left silent as hundreds of Druze murdered

The left, which love repeating rumors of starvation in Gaza and killing of Palestinians, are completely silent when it comes to the murder of the Druze minority in Syria by Iran backed Islamists.

"The Druze are an indigenous, Arab minority in the Levant. Like Jews, unless attacked, they are a people who overwhelmingly live in peace within their respective countries (mainly Lebanon, Israel, and Syria). Druze are being targeted in large part because they are a significant, non-Islamic minority – one of the last – in Syria."

spectator.com.au/2025/07/weste…

@israel @palestine @iran @syria @lebanon @blackmastodon

Druze people being protected by members of the Israeli Defence Forces.
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@jimmybuffettfanaccount @Morghur @Curvin @Shadowbroker2135 if you embrace "real" "raw stuff" then you are a twitch streaming egirl who does not need to do makeup or her hair. The v in vtuber stands for virtual for a reason. This is just the western trend of having no standards or even civilizational ability to apply standards to any behavior combined with everyone's internalized stereotype of a deranged fan with no sense of reality that they project on EVERYTHING that is not coated with a thick veneer of disgusting irony. The entire value of the vtuber puppet show is that with the masquerade, a woman can stop being self-conscious and actually be charming. It is why doxxing a chuuba should have the same death penalty littering in a park ought to. Westerners are fucking stupid in this regard and will shout "you go girl" to the most repulsive behavior the way japs will do the same for femdom and abusive behavior.

Naturally if you properly apply these standards, the amount of vtubers that pass in EN and Jap can be counted on two hands, which is also why so many people get these answers wrong.

This is a trailer for a brilliant documentary film called 'Unrest' (2017) that explains what it's like living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)/CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). I've kind of given up trying to explain to people what it's like suffering from this condition because they either don't understand it or simply don't believe me. But if you are a sufferer yourself or know someone with this condition, you'll get a lot out of watching this film or it will give you a good idea what it's like. minds.com/newsfeed/17943224150…

« La question kurde reste au cœur de tous les défis »
kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2025/0…

"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Avant une réunion du Conseil du DEM, le coprésident kurde du Parti, Tuncer Bakırhan a appelé à une réponse politique rapide et sérieuse aux récents signaux de paix du PKK. En marge d’une réunion du conseil du parti à Ankara, Tuncer Bakırhan, membre du DEM, a appelé à une réorientation politique […]
L’article « La question

'Prior to the home sec's decision to proscribe Palestine Action, no organisation... has ever been proscribed solely on the basis that they carry out actions which cause serious damage to property' Good piece on legal Qs surrounding Palestine Action ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/08/n...

Nour Haidar: Home Secretary vs...

In the Sixties young Germans asked their parents how they could have let that happen what everybody knew but only few people tried to fight - the annihilation of German and European Jews in extermination camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau or Treblinka. They often excused themselves answering that they couldn't know for sure what fate awaited their Jewish neighbours after being deported.

Today it's even less credible if people evade into alleging not to know what the Palestinians in Gaza have to endure. Today we have comments in legacy media whose authors openly talk about a genocide happening and people dying by hunger due to the systematic cutting off of life saving ressources.

Will the governments who support Israel in ignoring basic human rights and international law one day held accountable? Western Germany had a lot of Nazis personally responsible for the Holocaust and NS-fascism who not only got off the hook of criminal persecution but who were rewarded for their past as NS-functionaries with high positions in the administrative apparatus and legal institutions of the Bundesrepublik. They could enjoy their pensions while communists who were fighting the Nazis got nothing and were politically repressed even by being jailed again.

Politicians and companies complicit with this genocide will pobably not be prosecuted either - there will be another war or catastrophe even worse than today in whose shadow all will be lost and forgotten ...

"I want to be clear – what is being done to Palestinians in Gaza is barbaric and entirely preventable. I cannot believe we have come to a point where the world is watching as the people of Gaza are forced to endure starvation and gunfire, all while food and medical aid sits across the border just miles away from them."

#Gaza #genocide

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Also, appealing to the conscience of Israel's leaders is a category mistake. bird.makeup/users/provisionali…


We’re way past the point where strongly worded statements are meaningful.

Starving people can’t eat words.bird.makeup/users/robertfife/s…

@robertfife@bird.makeup:

The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and