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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters Investment bank had previously planned for such information from New York workers to be voluntary

and so it begins…or spreads

“This system operates in a similar fashion to Apple’s Face ID option on iPhones, where the Silicon Valley company cannot access customers’ facial data.”

Nigerian Modernism, curated by Osei Bonsu at the Tate Modern, gets the attention it deserves - The Africa Report.com The first major exhibition to focus on modern art in Nigeria opens at London’s Tate Modern. Curator Osei Bonsu speaks to The Africa Report on the importance of bringing African artists to the fore.

www.theafricareport.com/394298/niger...

Walls of the cave direct you to a small bright opening in which a cold mountain spring falls to bright turquoise water. Along with Denali Mountain and Bryce Canyon, this is the most majestic place I’ve ever been. My teeth rattling even as I could stand in only waist deep water kept me from fully enjoying it,, but no chance I was missing this just for some discomfort. It seemed to get progressively colder tho so this is about as close as I got. In later days I’ll post a shot looking back thru the caves. The video I took is really the best indicator of the beauty here but I dunno if I can post that here or not. I may try in the comments later today.

In the Samaria Gorge on the island of Crete, Greece, lies a very deep cave with a continual cold spring waterfall. To reach it, you have to swim about 100 meters in 10 degree (C) water. I spent time thinking about hypothermia I was so cold. Nice payoff tho.

Pic of the day

#photography

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

Obviously if this blackmailing bully is given a Nobel Peace Prize (for what), the whole notion of “peace”’is distorted and the Nobel becomes moot and meaningless

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

“Twitter is no different from Boeing or those military companies,” Ahmed told me. “They care about making money. Twitter and Facebook are not champions or models for human rights. These people are nothing but money-grubbers.”

Not such a great idea really since it’s destabilising the entire world which will include whatever locale wherein you reside.

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton The Blair-Trump fantasy for postwar Gaza shows the former PM still thinks that free enterprise can solve all the world’s ills, says associate editor at the New Left Review Oliver Eagleton

Blair has now joined forces with the pre-eminent reality-creator, Donald Trump, to draft a hallucinatory 20-point plan for Gaza. It aims to turn the devastated Strip into what seems to resemble a colonial protectorate… overseen by an international “board of peace” with Trump himself as chair.

Kristi Noem compares antifa to MS-13, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamic State Homeland security secretary calls loosely affiliated network of anti-fascist street activists ‘just as dangerous’

All of the witnesses who spoke during the roundtable were conservative influencers or partisan rightwing journalists, who all claimed that antifa was a terror organization without presenting any evidence.

The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together

For NWSL and WNBA players’ unions, collective actions have been key to their successes in wholly different sports

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

”children’s names appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims”

Arresting people in the middle of the night, breaking down doors, zip-tying children masked up like this, dressed like this, is peak authoritarianism

Absolutely

Absolutely

Um, no. Plus, it’s Hegseth being shamed, not the hillbillies. Plus, these soldiers need to stand tf down. They’re really that willing and gung-ho to follow the direction of a narcissistic egomaniacal man-baby for real? No one is able to think independently while in uniform?

How the US funded Israel’s wars on Gaza, Lebanon, Iran Twin reports from the Costs of War Project find the US has backed Israel with more than $21bn since October 2023.

…without significant financial backing, of more than $21bn since October 2023, US weapons and money, Israel wouldn’t have been able to sustain its genocidal war on Gaza, start a war with Iran, or repeatedly bomb Yemen.

Pam Bondi spars with Democratic senator over Epstein ‘client list’ and national guard deployments in tense hearing – live Illinois senator Dick Durbin grills Trump’s attorney general on the Epstein investigation and Bondi tells him ‘national guard is on the way’ to Chicago

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Venezuela on edge over Trump regime change whispers: ‘If it does happen we are ready’ Allies of President Nicolás Maduro vow to resist any military intervention but experts suspect Venezuela’s leaders were rattled by Trump’s decision to bomb Iran

“They think they’re the owners of the world,” Carmen Meléndez complained of the Trump administration and its pressure campaign against Venezuela’s government. “But if they dare [to invade] we’ll be waiting for them here.”

There it is

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

Why does the supreme court keep bending the knee to Trump? | Steven Greenhouse As a new term begins, the justices have continually failed to provide a check on presidential power – with disastrous consequences

“The supreme court has pulled the rug out from under the lower federal courts, and it has done so deliberately and knowingly,” Luttig said, adding that the court is “acquiescing in and accommodating the president’s lawlessness”.

How two blonde suburban moms gave Democrats an answer to the rightwing media ecosystem Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan’s podcast I’ve Had It has risen up the charts and created a community with ‘a brand of fuck-you politics’

“You want to go low, we’re gonna go lower,” Welch said. “The integrity politics of being perfect as a liberal needs to stop, and we need to bully the shit out of these guys, because they respond to it.”

The thing I respect about Greta Thunberg is that she understands most people in the Western world don’t give a shit about atrocities until someone white is affected.

So she’s doing what needs to be done to keep up the pressure.

If more white folks followed that example, we’d all be fine.

If you were wondering about Gov Newsom's troll game, he's still at it...🤭😅🤣

YouTube video by BritBox Richard and Hyacinth’s Nautical Buffet Suffers a Setback | Keeping Up Appearances

MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE SCENE IN THE ENTIRE SERIES OF "KEEPING UP APPEARANCES":

"WELL TRY A BIT HARDER!"

"It seems my nautical buffet has suffered a set-back."

It wasn't just the lines that were hilarious, Dame Patricia Routledge made EVERY word count. THE BEST. RIP 👸
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Meiselas: So if this 17 trillion he keeps talking about exists, what account is it in? Did he steal the 17 trillion?

Subramanyam: I’d love to see his math on that. I’d love to know why it’s not being returned to the American people if that’s the case.

‘I use cannabis as medicine’: the US basketball player facing execution in Indonesia over $400 of gummies Unlike his fellow basketball player Brittney Griner, Jarred Shaw has received scant attention after being arrested for a drugs offence overseas

It’s so much easier to criminalise drugs, and users, than to interrogate why it is that so many people wanna check out of life momentarily. Although, this is not the case when you have a health condition marijuana can help ease its symptoms.