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signs of cats who are running for cat mayor of somerville, massachusetts

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named hermes squirmies

a pink sign for a cat running for cat mayor named beatrix. her slogan is “no kings, only princesses”

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named Luna. her slogan is “pro zoomies, chaos, and attention”

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

Indian authorities in Kashmir ban books by eminent writers and scholars Indian authorities have banned 25 books in Kashmir saying they promoted a "false narrative" and "secessionism."

Indian authorities in Kashmir have banned 25 books, including those by Arundhati Roy and Sumantra Bose, that they say "excite secessionism" and are "endangering sovereignty and integrity of India.”

If the centre doesn't hold in the UK then, same as in the US, the populist right will likely take over.

This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like In a post-American world, greed and nihilism are destroying Sudan.

Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak.Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

I should post more on here. I still want to see if I can get up to being blocked by 1000 people. So that I can feel like I’ve achieved something with my life.

Oh god, I know this site is filled with self-righteous moralists, but Elon-Twitter has been getting seriously dumb of late. I feel it may be giving me irreparable cognitive damage.

From a deeply humane and extremely knowledgeable author.

Russia has also declared war on literature. Look at what’s happening and be warned | Anna Aslanyan Books – on LGBT themes or Ukraine – are Moscow’s target this time. And there as elsewhere, self-censorship is amplifying oppressors’ work, says journalist Anna Aslanyan

"Three of them – Pavel Ivanov, Dmitry Protopopov and Artyom Vakhlyaev – were charged with 'organising activities of an extremist organisation', that is, distributing LGBTQ+-themed books. They remain under house arrest and face up to 12 years in prison."

Finally, our impenetrable Euro red-tape works to our advantage.

This is very reminiscent of those paintings which showed Assad and Saddam and Stalin and Mao poring over a map in the middle of an army with New York burning on the horizon.

Pro Pals denied the horrors of 10/7.

And now the super-Pro-Israelis are denying the horrors of starvation in Gaza.

I don't want anything to do with either group.

my has wife asked me to stop my running Werner Herzog commentary during our Donkey Kong Bananza playthru

And spare me the rationalisations. I've heard them all.

I'm absolutely willing to accept Hamas steals food meant for aid. But that will not absolve Israel under Netanyahu of blame if Gaza just starts starving to death.

Terrible images of starvation coming out of Gaza.

I felt Israel was justified in going after Hamas. But this cannot be justified.

I think many Israelis are also horrified.

What tweet were you replying to? Seems like a MAGA account reposting a NYPost article or something?

That seems nuts.

Boom!

www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Tick tick tick tick tick…

And they’re certainly not a peace movement.

FWIW I think much of what Israel has been doing in Gaza is profoundly troubling, but the Pro-Pal movement is a coalition of dumbasses. They’re just not very smart people. And they wear their ignorance with pride.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
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“In 2018 Connolly joined Clare Daly, Mick Wallace and Maureen O’Sullivan as well as members of the Ireland PSC on a visit to Syria. While there, Clare Daly criticised "Israeli, Saudi, American and Turkish interference" in Syria, but did not criticise the Assad govt nor Russian influence.”

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UPenn to ban transgender athletes, ending civil rights case focused on swimmer Lia Thomas The University of Pennsylvania will bar transgender women from its women’s sports teams and restore records to cisgender athletes, resolving a federal Title IX case centered on swimmer Lia Thomas

Having biological men compete as women was always indefensible.

Trans activists were never going to win this one, because it violates people’s sense of fairness.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

The almost universal praise I see for Bob Vylan on this site just confirms for me that Bluesky is not a good place.

BlueSky needs to read this.

“The polarization of this issue in America has been deeply unhelpful for getting liberals to accept the sketchiness of the evidence base.”

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

"In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal: The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials." -- www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Did you read the piece? Trans activists have been making claims which are not supported by the science.

The British commissioned a scientific review which found the evidence was lacking for many activist claims.

The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine How the left ended up disbelieving the science

The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine

Helen Lewis

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What has happened to Gaza is terrible but it is not a genocide.

Also, it was stared by Hamas. And people like Vylan who promote more hatred and who romanticise violence would just condemn Palestinians to more years of suffering in the name of ‘liberation’.

A genuine peace movement is one which rejects violence by people on all sides, not one which endlessly romanticises it if it’s done against the ‘oppressor class’

The Pro-Pal movement is not a genuine peace movement.