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Did he read the bit in Lord of The Rings where a creepy toxic guy filled the local ruler’s head with idiotic poison and wrecked everything in that kingdom until the king came to his senses and chucked the toxic creep out?

It is astonishingly ugly. People I once thought were decent are spouting delusional, baseless, vile stuff about what they "know" Mamdani believes and about what he's going to do. In NYC, this has turned into a real "Well, now we all know who we are" election. There'll be no bridging that rift.

WOW! The Washington Post obtained the rest of the body cam footage showing that the drunk-driving ICE agent promised to check if the arresting officer's partner was Haitian. "I’m going to run some checks when I get back." He added that he would have him deported if "not legit."

Disconnected: The Growing Class Divide in American Civic Life - The Survey Center on American Life Disconnected: Places and Spaces presents new survey findings that suggest Americans are less connected than ever before.

"Two institutions that were formerly crucial sources of civic connectedness for less educated Americans, unions and churches, are now more likely to serve college graduates."
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A new way to look at the problem Three tough truths about climate What I want everyone at COP30 to know. Bill profile picture By Bill Gates published 1 day ago

notes on gatesnotes, in a thread

"A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES

On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense

Israel ha matado a 104 personas en las últimas 15 horas, entre ellas 46 niños y niñas. Ha herido a cientos

También ha matado al periodista
Mohammed Al Munirawi y a su esposa

Desde el inicio del alto el fuego el 10 de octubre ha matado a 256 personas en Gaza y violado 125 veces el alto el fuego

Washington to Withdraw Hundreds of Troops from Romania’s Key NATO Base The US plans to reduce troop levels in Europe, leaving around 1,000 soldiers in Romania to support NATO's deterrent efforts, amid strategic reassessments.

🔴 The United States has informed Romania and its NATO allies that it will reduce the number of American troops stationed in Europe.
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

It’s hilarious how world leaders make so clear that they think Trump is an idiot and easily manipulated and he doesn’t realize it at all.

“Here little boy is the largest cookie in the whole world, made out of rare unicorns and dinosaurs.”

“Mientras él comía, la gente se ahogaba”. Unas mil personas se han concentrado a las puertas del restaurante El Ventorro, donde Carlos Mazón mantuvo una comida de casi cuatro horas durante la tarde de la dana tinyurl.com/4jnfs9ys

📹 Ferrán Bono

Bird flu strain has potential to spark pandemic warns WHO virologist "In principle, the H5N1 virus has everything it takes to trigger a pandemic," says virologist Klaus Stöhr in a report. Bird flu is currently spreading in Germany.

"In principle, the H5N1 virus has everything it takes to trigger a pandemic," says virologist Klaus Stöhr in a report. Bird flu is currently spreading in Germany.

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

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the core fascist proposition is that "your" country is being both endangered & contaminated by the non-white, the racially inferior, & sexual deviants. that effeminate elites & intellectuals are allowing this to happen. & that to survive you must surrender control to men of violence

this is an overtly fascist narrative - even the misreading of myth & literature is on brand

#AniversarioDANArtve | Rosa María Álvarez, de la Asociación Víctimas Mortales DANA-290: "Estamos heridas, dolidas, pero con la dignidad intacta. Todo lo contrario que la persona que aún ocupa la presidencia de la Generalitat"

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Siempre certero, Don Pedro.

One app, 60 men, 26 dates: my adventures in alt-right dating There’s no question that we’re living — and looking for love — in contentious times, where extreme political ideologies have all but divided parts of the dating pool. Or have they?

"Initially, Jared seemed soft-spoken, shy. Not like the kind of person who’d issue death threats. He clearly had no idea he was out with someone he once threatened to kill."
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Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology “Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...

"Listen, in some ways, I get it. When I came on the scene in 2001, I probably seemed pretty unsavory compared to the competitors. But that was when academic research happened in libraries and George W. Bush was considered the stupidest president."

Netanyahu Is Blowing Up the Gaza Ceasefire — and Trump Is the One Losing Face Netanyahu ordered airstrikes on Gaza on Tuesday, raising the question of whether the U.S. would hold him accountable for the ceasefire.

Breaking: Days after Trump officials toured the new U.S. base in Israel, the Israeli military launched strikes on Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 20 Palestinians.

U.S. Vice President Vance downplayed the strikes as "little skirmishes here and there."

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Trump Admin’s Racist Halo Memes Are ‘A New Level of Dehumanization of Immigrants’ "The White House just marked the end of the console wars; DHS is posting deep fried Halo memes. We are somewhere else entirely."

The Trump administration used a picture of Halo’s Master Chief to call for the destruction of immigrants. Something about seeing the stalwart hero of a beloved video game twisted into an anti-immigrant super soldier hit people pretty hard.

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“By keeping the House on indefinite hiatus — as well as sidelining its oversight authority— Republicans have…made our national legislature a nullity. They have, for all intents & purposes, dissolved Congress.
It is impossible to overstate the magnitude of this transformation of the American system.

tax the rich! or kill them, whatever’s easier

Transcript: JD Vance’s Speech At The Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award Event Read the full transcript of Vice President JD Vance’s keynote speech at The Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award Event, July 5, 2025. Listen to the audio version here: Opening Remarks and Gratitu...

In his speech, Vance, whose career was kickstarted by billionaire extremist, Peter Thiel, and who is connected with far-right fringe figures, offers a critique of "creedal nationalism" and suggests that immigrants and their offspring are somehow not quite American./6
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"Adiós al Hyundai Ioniq 5: Elon Musk lanza el Tesla Model Y, un coche con los paneles mal alineados, defectos en la pintura, fallos en los tiradores de las puertas, problemas de suspensión y que se estrella contra otros vehículos cuando su sistema de conducción autónoma está activado".

The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown.

The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.

Los límites del humor.

In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.

Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis

"It says the world’s addiction to fossil fuels also causes toxic air pollution, wildfires and the spread of diseases such as dengue fever, and millions each year are dying owing to the failure to tackle global heating."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

British Governments do not understand "soft power". See also restricting BBC Sounds to the UK (and the BBC making the BBC world channel visibly the cheapest of all the international channels)