Sudan siege ends in bloodbath despite pleas for mercy Evidence emerges of atrocities committed by the paramilitary RSF after it seized control of El Fasher

There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.

Diane Keaton, Miss Major, D'Angelo... Who gets to live a "long" life in America?

“And then it came, the realization that—at least in my mind—79 years old was so young for a famous rich white woman in America like Diane Keaton and that 78 years old was practically a miracle for a black trans woman like Miss Major.”

Demagogic president seizes money to pay standing army, arrogating to himself legislative power, while his cronies keep Congress out of session is honestly more or less exactly how the Founders thought this would end

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

A Chicago citizen confronts the hypocrisy of a fellow Hispanic man working for ICE, shaming him and making a powerful point by asking how his family ended up in the United States.

America is under threat but it isn’t dead yet.

Death be not proud. Or dignified.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

Screenshot of NYMag article, which reads: “All of this leads me to wonder: Has Brett Kavanaugh ever pulled up to a Home Depot to hire a day laborer to work on his backyard? Has he bought fresh-cut mangoes from a frutero? What about getting his car vacuumed and washed by an ensemble of workers? Does he leave a tip for the Central American hotel worker who cleans up his rooms? Has he gotten his hair cut by a Dominican barber? And can he imagine himself interacting with any of these workers, who may or may not be undocumented, during an ICE sweep that lands them in an unmarked vehicle, manned by masked agents of the state, subjecting them and their families to untold trauma until their release, which may not happen for days, if at all? Because I've done all of those things, and I can - and now I wonder if I might one day be swept up with them, too.”

A few questions about Brett Kavanaugh:

nymag.com/intelligence...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Welcome to CBS News with Bari Weiss; I’m Bari Weiss. The top story tonight is that my maverick opinions are being silenced by the woke left

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Trump Advisers Have Discussed a Job for Adams if He Quits Mayor’s Race

Today’s news confirms it: Cuomo is Trump’s choice for Mayor. The White House is considering jobs for Adams and Sliwa to clear the field.

New Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter who’s running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.

How Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rico Residency is Boosting the Economy Bad Bunny’s three-month concert series in San Juan is spurring a short-term surge in Puerto Rico’s economy.

Puerto Rico’s economy is getting a bump from Bad Bunny. The award-winning Puerto Rican artist’s three-month, 30-show concert series in San Juan is spurring a fan-fueled surge in the island’s economy at a time of year when tourism is usually slow.

I cannot accept this invitation, for I do not believe that the mean- ing of the Constitution was forever "fixed" at the Philadelphia Con- vention. Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the framers particularly profound. To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring sev- eral amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, that we hold as funda- mental today. When contemporary Americans cite "The Constitu- tion," they invoke a concept that is vastly different from what the framers barely began to construct two centuries ago

At an event commemorating the 200th birthday of the United States, a sitting Supreme Court Justice was invited to celebrate "the memory of the Founders and the document they drafted in Philadelphia."

Justice Thurgood Marshall declined

If the Democrats lose this messaging war, primary everyone. I want Dems to run who will make calling out pedophiles their ENTIRE platform. We have so much evidence, not the least of which is the President was buddies and business partners with the World's most famous pedophile.

Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts? Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes

An awesome story about how solar microgrids kept the power on during Puerto Rico's latest blackouts.

This is bottom-up, power-to-the-people shit. Get excited!

Standing Bear Network on FB They say his name is Pope Leo XIV, and that he is the first to come from the United States. But to us, the First Peoples of these lands the ones whose stories stretch back to the rivers, stars, and stones we do not judge leaders by their titles, but by their relationship to the truth. And so, we look closely. Before the white smoke rose in Rome, Robert Francis Prevost spent years in Peru, walking among Indigenous peoples in the Andes. He was a missionary there a man of the Church bringing his teachings into communities that already had their own ways of praying, healing, and knowing the land. Some say he offered education and support. Others know the weight that always follows when priests arrive with crosses in one hand and promises in the other. He is no stranger to our communities but by role. A missionary. To many of our ancestors, that meant more than faith. It meant the dismantling of language, the replacing of ceremony, the burning of sacred objects.

But this Pope, like the one before him, speaks of bridges. He says he wants to walk with the poor. To reach those forgotten. He says he respects the work of Pope Francis, who came to our lands, apologized for the Church's role in the genocide of residential schools, and asked for forgiveness even if the Doctrine of Discovery still hangs like a ghost in Vatican vaults. Pope Leo XIV brings with him the promise of continuity to build on what was started. But we do not need continuation. We need transformation. We need a Pope who will not just visit our territories, but return what was taken. We need more than apologies we need the Vatican to rescind the very doctrines that declared our lands empty and our lives disposable. We need our languages supported, our spiritual leaders respected, our sovereignty recognized not just in words, but in deeds.

If Pope Leo is truly listening, then let him hear this: We are still here. We have our own ways. We are not seeking salvation we are seeking respect, justice, and the restoration of what was stolen in the name off Christ. If he is to walk beside us, he must come not as a teacher, but as a guest. Not as a savior, but as a learner. Let the bridge he builds be made of truths finally spoken and foundations set not in Rome, but in the lands where our ancestors still whisper to us through the trees. Tapwe, Kanipawit Maskwa John Gonzalez Standing Bear Network

A good message from the Standing Bear Network on the election of Pope Leo XIV and the relationship and deeds between the Church and indigenous people.

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This cartoon was drawn by Bruce Mackinnon who is the editorial cartoonist at the Halifax Chronicle Herald. It was originally published in April 2017 but perfect sums up the current position. Trump is pictures with a small catapult firing a tiny pebble at Xi’s head. Xi stands firm as it bounces of his forehead as behind him is an enormous, industrial sized catapult with a huge boulder on it about to crush Trump

Perfect, from Bruce MacKinnon.

future historians debating whether dow jones, nasdaq, and S&P 500 were three separate gods of ancient America, or just three aspects of the same god

Good morning.
Listen, you have to just decide.

They are not taking the Black Smithsonian.

Resolve it in your spirit.

The thing about watching a JD Vance speech is that everyone knows he’s a little pig man. Everyone knows he exists to squeal for Trump‘s amusement. No one respects him and he clearly doesn’t respect himself.

Martin Niemoller: first they came for the socialists...

Dem consultants: our polls suggest we should also come for the socialists!!

tax wealth more. tax work less. #panacea

my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator

SKEET THREAD: There’s a lot I could say about this argument, but since in the end it all boils down to this paragraph, let me just address this.

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges.

This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman