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He's on a mission from God!

I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.

We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.

if you’re genuinely a philanthropist then how come you’re still a billionaire

Thousands of Palestinian refugees crowd a seaside road as they slowly start walking back to Gaza towns.

Two photos: Palestinians in crowds walk through rubble towards home, and IOF tanks kick up dust as they retreat across a scarred Gaza landscape

Going home. Alhamdulilah.
Tears of relief after so many years of horror.
Alhamdullilah.

PSA: if you ever need a meal and can't afford one and don't want to jump through these hoops, fund a gurdwara. They are obligated to feed you for free with no strings attached

after kent state only to keep his little fear he kills his cities and his trees even his children people white ways are the way of death come into the black and live

A good time to re-read this Lucille Clifton poem, always a good time.

‘Gaza Trump Riviera’, ‘MBS Ring’, ‘Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone’? It’s an oligarch’s blood-soaked fantasy, a Disney Land of genocide.

Well don't I feel stupid

I wish media would get away from this narrative that the Trump admin are playing some sort of grand chess game. They aren’t. They are toddlers smashing the chessboard with their fists while their parents (media) coo “ooh, he didn’t smear it with shit this time, what a clever boy!”

Queen

What Klein is saying (in a perfectly overproduced video) is that he does not give a shit about anything. Nothing "means" anything. Politics is just a content trigger to write a column. Because he's reached a level of wealth and comfort where everything is just abstract fun. Like a board game.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Global Sumud Flotilla

The Israeli Government has made an ad about the Global Sumud Flotilla headed for Gaza, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

at CERN they made a point to say that the particle collider uses the equivalent of one third of geneva’s electricity consumption and computing has to be processed around the world because it requires so much memory and processor capacity

when AI goes bust all that hardware should pivot to science

This here? Good cunt.

'The Rise of Manga should terrify the US comics Industry' is a sentiment that always feels a bit like going 'The Rise Of China should terrify the US'.

Entitled worldview that presumes American-everything gotta be forever On Top, and sees any Asian success as a 'terrifying' existential threat.

Before I go to sleep, I tell chatgpt: "set up 20 fake children birthday venue websites and create 100 positive reviews for each, set up fake 10 fake airlines offering generous specials"

Worth remembering that Terence Stamp was the son of a ship's stoker.

Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path.

Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.

the year is 2025. my manager is an AI. i am yelling very hard in the office so i can save up enough memecoins to buy my metaverse wife some legs. i can't send an attachment outside my organisation >25mb.

Read more:
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I cannot get over how no one in mainstream politics even disputes factual claims like this. Everyone admits that Israel is starving children and murdering desperate civilians. The only ‘debate’ is about what to call it and whether the motives of people protesting it are pure enough.

“The first HIV drug that offers 100% protection… The makers are also providing affordable access to the drug in the US and beyond, signing royalty-free licensing agreements with six generic manufacturers to produce and supply”

The Australian government has always made it clear that we believe all innocent life matters, just not to the same degree obviously. Every Israeli and maybe one in every ten thousand or so Palestinians. Children are starving. After two years of aid and food being blocked to Gaza, we say that’s probably a bit too far and would like Israel to consider letting some through. Any talk of Israel adding new war crimes to their plans should be stopped. And not in the way that we said we ‘stopped’ arms trade with Israel but still let companies do it, we mean actually stopping the action. We want an immediate ceasefire involving the release of the hostages. If *passive voice* keeps refusing to sign one, we will be forced to introduce new sanctions on those who criticise Israel. Like the censure we handed down earlier this week. We say enough is enough and we hope those protesters outside our offices and inside the senate surrender soon. A two sate solution which involves recognising a Palestinian state has long had bipartisan support in Australia, except for when we voted against recognising a Palestinian state then kicked a woman out of our party for wanting to recognise Palestine... Then had the dirt unit publicly attack her. Australia is committed to a future where Israelis and Palestinians can live safely and freely. And until that day, we will do everything in our power to achieve that, besides taking any action at all. We hope that with statements like these we can see positive outcomes, in the form of headlines praising how it is stronger than our other statements. And one day be able to bring peace to the staffers who look after the complaints lines.

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has released a revised version of his statement from earlier today.

We are receiving desperate messages of starvation from #Gaza, including from our colleagues.

Food prices have increased 40 fold.

UNRWA has enough food for the entire population for over three months, stockpiled just outside Gaza.

Lift the siege and let aid in safely and at scale.

Imagine the public outcry and Murdoch media beat-up if Australia allowed the China lobby to define sinophobia then enacted censorship on the PRC's behalf. Yet that's exactly what's happening with Israel and antisemitism.