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Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence

This is the best researched article I've seen about the events surrounding Charlie Kirk's death

That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.

And then he died in a school shooting

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

What would Mr Rogers think of all this?

This is not a very promising sign given Bluesky’s ToS changes

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ramadan. Ramadan is 75 years old and has had a fascinating life- he owned several businesses and even lived in China for a while. He lost everything. He has 10 children, although a daughter was killed. He’s helping a large extended family.

My son's smile carries me through the hardest days.

We’ve lost homes, belongings, and so much more — but I won’t let my children lose hope.🕊

Every act of kindness helps me protect their innocence and rebuild what was stolen.❤️

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Sally Rooney: “I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper–but that would now be illegal. The present UK Gov has willingly stripped its own citizens of basic rights & freedoms, including the right to express & read dissenting opinions, in order to protect its relationship with Israel.”

The EU is planning on doing something similar to the UK's "Online Safety Act". Mullvad writes about it here, but in what seems to be an attempt to appear moderate does not quite get across how dystopian this legislation actually is.
mullvad.net/en/chatcontr...

The included comic however, does.

YouTube video by Accursed Farms Stop Killing Games: Wrap up

If you're in the EU or UK, there's still stuff you can do

Another exhausting day in the hospital, but I feel proud. I am very happy with what I do, even though it is very little. We will continue our work until the last moment in the service of our people. Please do not forget us. We still need your support.
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imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?

Gaza extermination: Hasan should have turned three. Instead, he starved to death Israel is using starvation as a weapon of genocide in Gaza. The death of one child is not an accident, but the death of many is a crime the world has allowed

“Israel is using starvation as a weapon of genocide in Gaza. The death of one child is not an accident, but the death of many is a crime the world has allowed.” www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...

If the worst you can say about a bad person is to comment on how "deformed" they are, then you're not really arguing against what they stand for. What you *are* doing is shaming people for visible differences they might have, which is ironically something that he would likely approve of

Video games used to work until technology couldn't support them anymore, but that's not the case anymore. If you live in the EU and want to take a stand for consumer rights against planned obsolescence in gaming, please consider signing the petition at www.stopkillinggames.com.

Two density plots comparing age distributions. Top graph shows Republican senators (peak around age 70) vs. registered Republican voters (more evenly distributed, median age 57). Bottom graph shows Democratic senators (peak around age 70) vs. registered Democratic voters (more evenly distributed, median age 50). Vertical lines mark where half of each population falls. Democratic senators have a much larger age gap from their voters than Republicans do.

The Democratic Party’s age problem isn’t just bad, it’s much worse than Republicans’. Half of registered Democratic voters are under 50, yet half their senators are over 67. Despite claiming to represent the future, party leadership systematically blocks younger voices from gaining power.

From the @crabmuseum in Margate...
1/ "Today the Supreme Court voted to exclude a group of persecuted people from equality legislation. Their ruling centred on the word "biology", with the judge stating that biological sex is "assumed to be self-explanatory and to require no further explanation."

YouTube video by Jessie Gender The Stories Fascism Fears Most

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams" -- Willy Wonka

Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed At the heart of all Trump administration policies is ‘soft eugenics’ thinking – the idea that if you take away life-saving services, then only the strong will survive

Great article on the eugenics ideas at the core of the MAHA, MAGA, and DOGE projects.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

YouTube video by Thought Slime Fascists will waste your time.

Fascists hate this perfect response

youtu.be/tZzwO2B9b64

YouTube video by More Perfect Union Who's Really Calling the Shots in the Trump Administration

Illegally fired FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya has cases in progress addressing unethical behavior in 2 lawsuits against Amazon, and one case each for X and Meta. Firing him and the only other Democrat FTC Commissioner is a blatant carte blanche for megacorps to trample human rights

I’m suing Trump (Orr v. Trump) over his transphobic passport policy. See yall in Boston 🫡 #trans #lgbtq #passport #trending #fyp #fypシ #transmenoftiktok #transrightsarehumanrights @ErinInTheMorning ... TikTok video by Lazarus 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉

What you can do to help trans people in the US

Two reasons to suspend cooperation:

1. Do you trust the US with information you share with it?

2. Do you trust the quality of information you'd get from the US?

It's hard to imagine a strong affirmative answer to either.