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Ahh so nice to be free of the Twitter tankies and not have to read justifications for authoritarianism by the most brain dead individuals in our society day in and day out

2 Israelis charged with using classified military information to place bets Two Israelis have been charged with using classified military information to place bets on how future events will unfold.

2 Israelis charged with using classified military information to place bets apnews.com/article/isra...

Reconstruction and Ruin Winter 2025

NEW: "Reconstruction and Ruin" the Winter 2025 Issue of Middle East Report is now live!

This issue captures the challenges facing ordinary people in the Middle East as the warfare politics of dispossession and division continue amidst efforts to rebuild urban landscapes.

dodged a 90chf fine last night because the train lady was just a normal human being & chose not to exercise power to punish me for what was ultimately a minor technical internet error I had rectified ~5min too late! 🙏 is this a sign that my luck is changing? probably not, but i'd like to pretend. 😂

Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"

www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...

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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

that whole island is such a massive scam, if only my many friends living there would all move somewhere else

lol I need a visa to go to London for 5 days now? Just any excuse to extort visitors for 22 bucks eh...I do not miss His Majesty's endless revenue generating schemes one bit. 😂🙄

UN faces 'imminent financial collapse', chief warns - ABC listen The United Nations says it will run out of money if countries, namely the United States, do not pay their annual dues which amount to billions of dollars. The organisation has long faced financial st...

I talked to @abcaustralia.bsky.social about the UN's funding woes.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

it's one thing to keep getting job rejections...but too many lately aren't even rejecting ME, instead they're just like "oops we cancelled the post entirely, nevermind."

seems like a bad sign tbh

Israel’s chemical spraying of farmland in Lebanon and Syria amounts to war crime, targets civilian survival Large-scale destruction of private property without specific military necessity amounts to a war crime and undermines food security

Just wondering is it legal to spray chemical defoliants on neighboring countries to destroy their crops? What if you have to interrupt a UN peacekeeping mission to do it? euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6...

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of former leader, killed in Libya Saif al-Islam Gaddafi had been considered the number two in Libya before the 2011 death of his father, Muammar Gaddafi.

Holy shit, Seif al-Islam was killed in Zintan today.

😂😂 warning received and heeded!!

I have never have any idea what show plays on what network, i don't have any subscriptions to anything so never even check...i've no idea what PureFlix even is, but i am sure you're right! 😂🤦🏻‍♀️ I was tricked by the title alone

I don't think it's a conspiracy theory that Epstein was in intel circles. Surely some people are engaged in such denialism erasing the victims, but i dont think everyone who acknowledges (or wants to know more about) the rather obvious links to foreign intelligence services is necessarily doing that

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Stop Swiss Complicity in Genocide Premiers soutiens - Erste Unterstützer·innen -  Primi sostenitori • Jean-Daniel Vigny Ancien resp. politique droits humains au DFAE Ehem. Verantwortlicher für Menschenrechtspolitik im EDA Ex resp...

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858.ma - An archive of resistance A unique collection featuring hundreds of hours of footage shot and collected in Egypt around the revolution now made available to the public for the first time.

Visit this carefully curated archive that hundreds of revolutionaries worked on of #jan25 858.ma - An archive of resistance #egypt share.google/iHdMl9xYqoMR...

Settler-only IDF units functioning as ‘vigilante militias’ in West Bank Exclusive: ‘Regional defence’ settler units are escalating violent displacement of Palestinians, Israeli reservists and activists say

“The settlers are the IDF, the IDF are settlers, there’s no pretense of a buffer.” After October 7, 2023, thousands of settlers joined regional Israeli military units. Formally under IDF command, they operate in practice as settler militias.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

a propos of nothing, i woke up this morning feeling pretty good about my stubborn refusal for decades to work in the emirates (or in ksa) for any reason. however lucrative it may have been, and regardless of how broke I am now, it's still best to resist social pressure and follow one's instincts. 🤷🏻‍♀️

baltimore is a great and fun town - yes, definitely use stavvy as a brilliant excuse to go check it out!

YouTube video by DnB Allstars Pete & Bas, Ragga Twins & Krucial - Call Me Back (Official Music Video)

thought about Pete & Bas for some reason, assumed they had stopped making silly music BUT NO! They're very much still out there having fun, mashallah 😂 youtu.be/Fy-O5RpjXaE?...

convinced no one under like 35 has any clue what the word "freestyle" means.

no, it doesn't mean "written, prepared, and fully rehearsed in advance" nor does it mean "performed in multiple takes until perfect." kindly stop exaggerating and/or lying to the world and to yourselves.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

if you aren't seeking to be ambushed by christian evangelical propaganda, don't watch that new series The Pendragon Cycle. In my naïve innocence, I thought it was standard fantasy fare about Merlin and Arthur etc., but nope. surprise! it's about jesus. 👎🏽

Belgium imposes arms embargo on Israel Foreign Ministry confirms decision to Anadolu, which aims to prevent transportation of arms, military goods to Israel - Anadolu Ajansı

Belgium joins Spain in banning aircraft carrying weapons and military equipment to Israel from using the country's airspace or making technical stops, making it the second EU state to do so after Slovenia.

Kash Patel’s FBI Is Making America Less Safe, Current and Former Employees Say Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.

the most extraordinary piece of reporting: a year inside the FBI (and yes there are implications here for British security- the Five Eyes bit is bonkers) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Forty years in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot The long read: In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still there

Forty years in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot

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