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DHS denies tying FEMA funds to Israel stance At least 34 states passed anti-BDS laws between 2014 and 2023.

The Trump administration appears to have changed a policy that previously stated that states and cities that boycott Israeli companies could be ineligible for disaster relief funds.

L’Inde et l’Afrique du Sud remontées contre les taxes douanières de Trump Le président sud-africain Cyril Ramaphosa a déploré ce lundi 4 août des taxes douanières américaines «très punitives». L’Inde est également menacée par les taxes en raison des achats de pétrole russe.

Le président sud-africain Cyril Ramaphosa a déploré lundi 4 août des taxes douanières américaines «très punitives».

L’Inde est également menacée par les taxes en raison des achats de pétrole russe.

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Trump’s Tax Bill Expands Farm Subsidies. Not All Farmers Will Benefit.

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YouTube video by Katie Halper Trump “More Spooked” Than Ever by Epstein List –Lt Col Daniel Davis

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Prof. Rashid Khalidi Slams “Crushing Repression” at Columbia, Cancels Course over Trump Settlement Rashid Khalidi, the renowned Edward Said professor emeritus of modern Arab studies at Columbia University, says he is withdrawing from teaching his fall course after the school has agreed to pay a $200...

Prof. Rashid Khalidi Slams "Crushing Repression" at Columbia, Cancels Course over Trump Settlement

Torture at CECOT: Venezuelan Men Freed from Salvadoran Prison Describe Brutal Beatings, Humiliation A new investigation reveals the months of physical and mental abuse Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration endured inside a Salvadoran prison. The men describe beatings, medical neglect and...

Torture at CECOT: Venezuelan Men Freed from Salvadoran Mega-Prison Describe Brutal Beatings, Humiliation

Intertitle from 1912 film ‘The County Fair’ which reads “Somerset folks were so honest that a two-armed man passed the plate in church and burglars were as scarce as hens teeth.”

The County Fair (1912). #SilentFilm

A view over the busy Roman landscape south of Great Chesters Fort. In the upper middle of the shot is Barcombe Hill in shadow but hidden below in the valley is Vindolanda fort. #Hadrianswall #romanroads #archaeology

The National Trust had a very successful day with events at Ambleside Roman Fort this Sunday and great to see such an interested turnout to take the guided tours. I hope there will be more and possibly see a bath house dig? @NationalTrust.org.uk @Nattrustarch.bsky.social #LakeDistrict

hās-ness, f.n: hoarseness. (HOSS-ness / ˈhaːs-nɛs)
#OldEnglish #WOTD

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

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Illustration of a small boy in a red and white striped T-shirt holding a buttercup under the chin of a little girl who obligingly tips her head back

Buttercups - the way to find out if your friend likes butter.

(Treasure Magazine, 1963)
Artist: Clive Uptton

Police warn of mass arrests if Palestine Action protest goes ahead Hundreds could join weekend rally in support of proscribed group as 300 UK Jewish figures urge PM to lift ban

Police warn of mass arrests if Palestine Action protest goes ahead www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Happiness on Earth A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

They Came From Planet Happiness
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‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective.”

The voters aren’t aware that being tough with “the groups” is supposed to show big and bad they are.

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Liberal elites are often so convinced their own beliefs are unrepresentative of The Masses that they reflexively want to make concessions to illiberal policies that are, actually, not at all popular among The Masses

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

i think i disagree with the idea that the ferritor should have been allowed to follow his own path during his schooling, neglecting assignments and being coddled for his apparent genius. i think, in fact, that this was the problem. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...

The civil service can not recover from this without legal and criminal consequences for Trump, Musk and Republican members of Congress who let it happen.

A couple “good” election cycles won’t cut it.

They've replaced one of the locks on the crypt door at St. Mary's, but they still keep finding it open. I don't know if it's down to a ghost whose good at lock picking or someone morbid with a skeleton key, either way it makes me nervous every time I walk passed. – Annabel Growcott #VOH

The bottom of the steps of the Ashcourt Docks foot tunnel is ghost anticipation. You try to remember at which of 126 steps you're meant to hear someone invisible climbing just behind you. The number 34 comes to mind and despite yourself, an unwanted countdown to haunting begins. – #MattAdams, 1982

"Who is the unnamed local MP? It’s Richard Tice, deputy leader of Reform and partner of… Isabel Oakeshott. So why doesn’t Oakeshott name him? Because it would undermine a column that isn’t merely a piece of right-wing commentary but outright Reform propaganda bankrolled by the Telegraph."

The man who just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because their numbers supposedly weren’t accurate just claimed that he lowered drug prices in America by 1500%.

“I will use my full extradition authority to demand the return to Texas of any potential out-of-state felons.”

I love this all day! #Project2029

Re the Hatch Act, they literally staged the 2020 Republican convention from the White House. Like physically there, at the White House. When anyone said "Isn't that the biggest Hatch Act violation in history?" they said "Go to hell, we do whatever we want."

Suppressing the Black Vote was a big part of Trump’s victory in 2016. Watch how he narrowly flipped Wisconsin by suppressing the Black vote in Milwaukee.

After his 1939 appearance in 'The Day of the Locust'?

‘The story of our language is the story of us: Will the Australian National Dictionary Centre go bung?’ by Amanda Laugesen and Frank Bongiorno The proposed abolition of the Australian National Dictionary Centre represents a significant retreat from the Australian National University’s long-standing commitment to supporting a national public ...

www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c... It's only words, but words are all we've got... #SaveOurDictionary @ouranu.bsky.social

Mapping the Grim | black shucks and spectral black dogs | public archaeology Mapping the grim, black shucks and spectral black dogs, wild hunts, werewolves, and grims geolocated across the British Isles and even a few further afield. As featured on Charlie Cooper's Myth Countr...

As it's Black Shuck day, here's that Shuck map. It's ten years old, and like all these mapping projects makes me miss Jess Macdonald – aka Jessikart, more than ever – partner in daft shit for 15 years.

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