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08-11-1913 NEW ZEALAND: A general strike in launched in Auckland in sympathy with wharf workers, whose picket lines have been attacked by police.

08-11-1948 FRANCE: Various demonstrations in Nord-Pas de Calais bring together 50,000 workers, despite the bans.

Voting with your ears.

The national media isn’t going to mention this, so it’s up to the rest of us to do it.

Trump is milking every fucking dime he can out of his presidency.

Turkiye issues arrest warrant for Israel’s Netanyahu over Gaza genocide Turkiye accuses Israeli officials of 'genocide and crimes against humanity' over Israel's war on Gaza.

Turkiye issues arrest warrant for Israel’s Netanyahu over Gaza genocide aje.io/uedq77

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

In Israel, raping Palestinian prisoners is justified. Leaking the footage is betrayal The leak of a video exposing horrific abuse at Sde Teiman has shaken the country more than the crime itself

'They were not ashamed. They were emboldened. The message was unmistakable: in #Israel, even rape can be reframed as heroism when the victim is #Palestinian.'
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...

Trump: "I want my cabinet to behave like [Xi Jinping's staff]. I'm demanding that....I've never seen men so scared in their lives...JD doesn't behave like that. JD butts into conversations."

Serbia: Air traffic controllers union leaders sacked after strike Please support this LabourStart urgent action campaign and spread the word.

4,712 trade unionists from around the world have sent messasges of protest and solidarity. Will you join us? Let’s bring this up to 5,000 today! bit.ly/3LgXAxt

In the Canadian war cemetery at Ravenna in Italy there are so many Canadian and Sikh graves. The Sikhs were side by side with the Canadians in the brutal battles through Italy.
They have served with valour in our armed forces.

There’s a fascist official named Greg Bovino, a section chief for Customs and Border Protection. Folks in L.A. and Chicago know and recognize him, and we should, too. His illegal actions already caused one federal judge to haul him into a courtroom yesterday. And hoo boy. My write-up in the replies.

A tweet from Republicans Against Trump reads: “Where’s DOGE?” Below it, a retweeted post from the same account says: “The DHS bought two luxury Gulfstream private jets for Kristi Noem and other top officials at a cost of $172 million, per the New York Times.” Two images are shown: on the left, Kristi Noem wearing a “POLICE ICE” vest and a blue cap; on the right, the interior of a luxury private jet with cream-colored leather seats and wooden accents.

So much wasted on something so unworthy.

🐢 Teenage Mutant Nazi Turtles Peter Rothpletz on the GOP's latest racist group chat scandal, Trump demolishing the White House, Fox comparing Portland to Gaza, and the latest in Sudan.

"Young 'conservatives' have no conception of conservatism outside of the MAGA movement... They are utterly untethered to reasonable discourse...in a perpetual, hateful adolescence."

- Peter Rothpletz, with his first 'First Draft' newsletter for Zeteo:

CHRIS CHRISTIE (a Republican): “This is no longer the Department of Justice. What it is now is a Capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so.”

Derby disaster: Hapoel vs. Maccabi match called off amid stadium violence Derby match between Hapoel and Maccabi Tel Aviv at Bloomfield Stadium canceled due to pyrotechnics and fan violence.

The derby match between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv was canceled tonight due to widespread use of pyrotechnics and riots in the stands.

Are the Tel Aviv police antisemitic Sir Keir?

www.israelnationalnews.com/news/416487

there's zero chance this guy didnt do it

Four undocumented workers found at Calgary event centre construction site: CBSA Immigration officers found four undocumented workers after searching the construction site for Calgary’s new event centre, according to the Canada Border Services Agency.

Immigration enforcers carry out another workplace raid in......Calgary. #CBSA
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

YouTube video by Charlie Angus MAPLE MAGA'S MR. DESPICABLE

While the rest of us focus on fighting back against Donald Trump, Pierre Poilievre remains obsessed with Justin Trudeau. i think he was triggered by the Katy Perry/Justin on the yacht photo.
Poilievre has no policies or plan, he is using the extremist playbook.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFYU...

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

Q: "What does it say that POTUS over the weekend released a video of him pooping on the American people?"

Speaker Mike Johnson: "The president uses social media to make a point…He is using satire to make a point. He is not calling for the murder of his political opponents."

Who better to head up a predatory colonialist operation than that jackal #TonyBlair?

Surplus value's not enough for Ontario's capitalists. #Wagetheft

Trump hates America.

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

“Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”

Jack Bryan on Threads talks about how Frank Sinatra saved Don Rickles's life. Rickles said, "Some goons were beating me up. Frank comes over and says, 'Okay, guys, that's enough.'"
Bryan says--with some truth--that he remembered that anecdote when Trump hogged the credit for ending the war in Gaza.