Trump to put additional 25% import taxes on India, bringing combined tariffs to 50%
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No end to parliamentary chaos in Tassie despite Rockliff’s return
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Liberal Jeremy Rockliff was reappointed as Tasmanian premier yesterday — but the state's Labor leader Dean Winter has hinted at another no-confidence vote. Meanwhile, Trump has slapped extra tariffs on India for its use of Russian oil. The post No end to…
Liberal Jeremy Rockliff was reappointed as Tasmanian premier yesterday — but Dean Winter has hinted at another no-confidence vote.Rich James (Crikey)
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This week’s student dispatch from the collapsing citadel of American academia announced the Trump administration has forced Ivies Columbia and Brown to cough up their most highly guarded data: every applicant’s grades, test scores, and race. It’s like the Ivy League’s version of a TSA cavity search. The universities also had to promise —cross their hearts and hope to lose funding— that they will stop using race or even sneaky race proxies in admissions.
Merit was in the news again. Yesterday, the Times —crying in its blackberry Ripple— ran another unintentionally encouraging story, headlined, “Columbia andJeff Childers (Flopping Aces)
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Medical community heartbroken after fatal plane crash on Navajo Nation
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro participated this Tuesday, August 5, in the closing ceremony of the International Seminar: Bicentennial of Bolivia 1825-2025, an event commemorating the 200th anniversary of Bolivia's independence.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
FDA flags problems with two Boston Scientific heart devices tied to injuries and deaths
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ICE seems to have become the chosen employer of Proud Boyz and the rest of the wannabe SS groups.
"Where Have the Proud Boys Gone?"
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The Trump administration has left them with little to do.Ali Breland (The Atlantic)
Ruwaida Amer speaks about how she struggles to write or even walk because of the starvation. Jon Elmer reports on the continued high casualties of Israelis in Gaza. And Ali Abunimah on the distraction of recognizing a Palestinian state.The Electronic Intifada
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Please everyone, have a look at the Maushaj crochet mini plush that my mom made after the real in-game Squeakross model!!!
Ever want to try Ken Thompson’s Space Travel? Check out icm.museum/?st to play it in the browser
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Temperatures up to 119F/48.3C in Arizona with some monthly records for August highest temperatures broken or tied:
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Ohio State's QB competition between Julian Sayin and Lincoln Kienholz remains too close to call
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Where DID the #IDF learn its #genocide shit anyway? Wonder wonder...
The U.S.Cavalry under Colonel J M Chivington attacked the Cheyenne and Arapaho at Sand Creek, Colorado on October 29 1864. They massacred over five hundred unarmed men, women and children. After their 'victory', they scalped and mutilated the bodies, cutting off the females' genitalia and attaching them to their hats and saddles. The bodies were left to rot... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Cre… @palestine
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“I find it grotesquely ironic that the party that claims to adore the Founders and the nation's Founding Principles would have been summarily dismissed as traitors and assholes by the nation's actual founders.” - Mindy Fischer
Trump once hailed mRNA vaccines as a 'medical miracle.' Now RFK Jr. is halting advancement
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The Swiss press continues to comment on Donald Trump's introduction of 39 percent tariffs on goods from Switzerland. This is one of the highest tariffs for European countries, and this alone is outraging the Swiss elite and the public.novosti2 (Военное обозрение)
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"An investigation by FBI and Army Counterintelligence Command has resulted in the arrest of active serviceman Taylor Adam Lee, 22, of El Paso, Texas, on charges of ‘attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary" - Russia.
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An investigation FBI and the Army Counterintelligence Command has resulted in the arrest of active serviceman Taylor Adam Lee, 22, of El Paso, Texas, on charges of ‘attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign advers…Paul Serran (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroTyler Durden (www.zerohedge.com)
The Global Scareware Scam You’ve Probably Clicked: Inside VexTrio’s Global Ad Fraud
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Have you seen any pop-up ads lately? At Black Hat 2025, security researchers exposed how a shadowy group uses fake alerts and other scams to exploit online ad systems and target unsuspecting users.Kim Key (PCMag)
I still sometimes think about the time when BadEmpanada hate-watched my second ever Youtube video on stream and said shit like "I hate that word [comrade]" and "I fucking hate furries" and "Of course I only do this for the money, you think I'm just doing this for the messaging?" and "Who the fuck is this guy" before clicking my channel and realizing I was literally just starting out and was actually not against him at all and quietly closing the video while his gormless fans tossed TwitchBucks™ at him the entire time
Dude is smart and well-researched and right almost 100% of the time. He's also an absolute shithead and I still can't look at him the same way.
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Despite the tariffs imposed by the United States, the global economy demonstrated resilience in the first half of 2025. This was stated by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in the context of the new US tariffs.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
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We have introduced Record support in Jakarta EE 11. In this post, we will discuss another Java language feature — Virtual Thread support in Jakarta EE 11. Java 21 introduces Virtual Threads, a…Hantsy (ITNEXT)
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Portland! Revolutionary films under the stars are coming your way!
Come check out a screening of InterRebellium 01. The Estallido Social Sunday August 17th in Wally Park
Happy Black August for all those who celebrate!
We're starting things off this month with the video essay 'On the Black Leadership and Other White Myths' by the We Still Outside Collective, released during the height of the George Floyd uprising in 2020.
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Damn and I was going to buy all those carbon credits
Net Zero has just taken a major hammering in a bombshell US report that trashes dodgy climate models and highlights the upside of CO₂ – but as Chris Morrison points out, the mainstream media are barely touching it.Chris Morrison (The Daily Sceptic)
When some one says you're "difficult to work with"
What they normally mean is that you're difficult to take advantage of.
Does this mark a genuine transformation in the Western political order, or is it merely a tactical maneuver to repair damaged credibility?PEIMAN SALEHI (Oriental Review)
I would never donate my Pets to a Zoo for fodder to a predator.
My neighbors Cat - maybe!
😂 🤣 Just kidding!
What does one do when God says 'I'm here for the shotcoins sell all the bitcoins!!'
Tough choice right there.
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#goodcomment responding to my mention of the estimated 8 million children a year we lose to trafficking (to 'philes & 'vores) putting the minuscule numbers of measles infections.
JayCee_11 @digitteknohippie yeah, did you see the “Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025” in California? Basically legalizes kidnapping and giving kidnapped kids to traffickers
#FamilyPreparednessPlan >:-S
are we ready to end this whole crooked monstrous show yet?
Or did you take too many shots of aluminium to be able to care any more?
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responding to my mention of the estimated 8 million children a year we lose to trafficking (to 'philes & 'vores), putting the minuscule numbers of measles infections into context.
meh. y'get the gist anyway. that just gnawed at me once i saw it. had to say.
UCLA says Trump administration has frozen $584 million in grants, threatening research
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XRP storms into the spotlight as Galaxy Digital anchors it in a $3.56 billion portfolio, backed by a $97 million Ripple equity stake, signaling massive institutional conviction.Kevin Helms (Bitcoin News)
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Free Speech Wins: Judge Sides with Elon Musk and X, Strikes Down California Law Restricting Election Parody Videos
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In a win for free speech, a federal judge on Tuesday struck down California’s law on AI-generated election parody videos. The lawsuit was filed from Elon Musk, his X platform, the Babylon Bee, and video platform Rumble.Lucas Nolan (Breitbart)
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The Sudanese Communist Party expresses its rejection of an illegitimate parallel government, alongside the illegitimate Port Sudan government, more than three years after the outbreak of a war that has devastated and torn the country apart.Wahid Ben Ali (International Peoples' Assembly)
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There’s a very good reason Scotland did not privatise water 🏴
“Since water was sold off to private hands in England and Wales in 1989, companies have racked up at least £64 billion in debt, paid at least £78 billion in dividends to shareholders, and chronically under-invested in vital infrastructure. The results are toxic—literally. Raw sewage is regularly discharged into rivers and seas.”
Sharing a blistering letter in the Guardian, Feargal Sharkey went further - calling out successive governments over their liesSteve Topple (The Canary)
Another Dank Bowl! Radioactive wasps, deliberating juries and 3 musical numbers make this one a special treat from @DuhLaurien and I to your ears!
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Trump administration ends age cap for ICE positions in major recruitment drive
Homeland Security announced an end to age restrictions for ICE officers amid 830% surge in assaults on agents and expanded deportation operations.
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YoungBlood
in reply to YoungBlood • • •The Times’ hysterical, over-the-top reaction was that President Trump was personally “destroying diversity” by enforcing race-neutral policies. The rest of us thought, well isn’t that the POINT?
Far from being proud of their diversity schemes, the Ivies have long hidden the statistical byproducts of their murky, secretive, rigged admissions programs.
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in reply to YoungBlood • • •Oh, they trumpet their outsized minority populations from gothic towers, but have clung to their internal data on scores and GPAs more tightly than a hobo clinging to his final fifth of Jack Daniels amidst a “mostly peaceful” BLM protest.
They were wise to hide that data. The numbers betray the narrative. The moment you stack GPAs and SATs side-by-side with race and admission rates, the curtain falls off the “holistic” wizard.
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