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Eurovision used to be a campy joy – but it has become a cynical way to whitewash war | Arwa Mahdawi The song contest continues with its mission of ‘unity and cultural exchange’ by rolling out the red carpet for Israel, even though at least four countries have pulled out in protest, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Eurovision used to be a campy joy – but it has become a cynical way to whitewash war | Arwa Mahdawi

RAM is ruining everything RAM-related price hikes are about to hit a bunch more devices.

Just three companies control 93 percent of the world's memory supply. Skyrocketing memory prices for us means record earnings for them. One is already shutting its consumer business entirely.

How RAM is ruining everything, by @emroth08.bsky.social:
www.theverge.com/report/83950...

Imagine looking at record profits, record executive pay, and record inequality, and concluding: yup… the minimum wage is the problem.

Why the Working Class? Workers are at the heart of the capitalist system. And that's why they are at the center of socialist politics.

Workers are at the heart of the capitalist system. And that's why they are at the center of socialist politics.

Here's the transcript. When I say ‘we had a convicted reality star’, you can add ‘who now rules as the most openly corrupt president in American history’ in your head.

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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

The Trump Administration seems to be handpicking deportees to test a new approach to mass deportation: sending people to nations where they had no ties, and to places that were not safe, and where they are subject to indefinite detention abroad. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YAjCKA

- Har forsøkt å svindle Norge Rødts Mimir Kristjansson mener Skatteetaten bør trappe opp kontrollvirksomheten av norske utflyttere.

Mímir Kristjánsson mener Skatteetaten bør trappe opp kontrollvirksomheten av norske utflyttere.

– De aller færreste har flyttet virksomheten sin til Sveits, de har bare flyttet sin egen postadresse.

The framing pushed by much of the media lately (claiming that the tax "penalises" national ownership), shows how the absurdly wealthly have too much power in society at large. Their views should not bleed into mainstream narratives this much, and journalists are failing to present counterarguments.

Also a reminder that "law" is in the interest of the wealthy and powerful -- a corporation or a state may cause death and disease through deforestation, pollution, war, or by funneling money to/through violent groups, but you and I are the ones who are arrested and imprisoned if we protest it.

The US sanitizing the swastika while the UK criminalizes the words "Palestine Action" (by severely misappropriating terrorism legislation) is a terrifying indicator of the road we're headed down.

🚨 If the proposed ban on using certain terms to describe #PlantBased products goes through, it would change the landscape of plant-based labelling significantly... creating confusion and damaging the needed shift to more #sustainable food systems.

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World's richest nations are pulling back from global development efforts, study shows Two dozen of the world's richest nations, including the United States and Japan, are pulling back from their global development push, a study published on Thursday shows, with many slashing aid budgets and cash funnelled through multilateral lenders.

World's richest nations are pulling back from global development efforts, study shows reut.rs/4oRbpl6

Moving tribute to Jamal Khashoggi, hired by @karenattiah.bsky.social to write for the Washington Post opinions section. She writes of warnings by Khashoggi about the Saudification of the US. The Washington Post is an example, extinguishing its global opinions section & Jamal Khashoggi Fellowship.

Amnesia, nostalgia, healing: Spain grapples with Franco legacy 50 years on Half a century has passed since Franco's dictatorship ended with his death, but some in Spain still valorise his rule.

Half a century has passed since Franco's dictatorship ended with his death, but some in Spain still valorise his rule.

French authorities charges X over Holocaust-denial comments by AI chatbot Grok On Monday, Elon Musk's social media AI chatbot posted in French that the gas chambers in Nazi death camps were designed for 'disinfection' against typhus, rather than for mass executions.

Fucking finally

Perhaps the rest of the EU will also consider doing something about the company literally weaponizing Nazism-as-a-service against European democracy

Why the military’s impact on climate change can no longer be ignored www.tni.org/en/publicati...

With the rate of the genocide in Gaza slightly reduced, Germany announces it feels able to start restocking Israel with the weapons it will need when it returns to committing genocide with full force.

This Is What Genocide Looks Like When Silicon Valley Writes the Brochure Corporate, tech oligarchs are providing the infrastructure for and profiting off genocide in Gaza. But accountability is closer than you think.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists took part in Cop30, investigation finds Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found. The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14% on last year’s summit in Baku – and larger than the delegation of the world’s 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to Cop30 in Belém, according to the joint investigation by DeSmog and the Guardian. Continue reading...

More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists took part in Cop30, investigation finds

Ukraine’s kill zone: How drones ended trench warfare Abandon ideas of World War I — drones have turned the front lines into a different kind of hellscape.

The fighting in Ukraine no longer resembles the trench warfare of World War I — instead, drones have erased the solid front line by creating a killing zone.

White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation

White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

Sheikh Hasina convicted of crimes against humanity – what we know Former prime minister sentenced to death by special tribunal for her role in bloody 2024 crackdown on protesters.

Former prime minister sentenced to death by special tribunal for her role in bloody 2024 crackdown on protesters.

Cop30: calls for new urgency to talks as studies show global warming may reach 2.5C – latest updates As the summit goes into its second week, complex issues with anxiety growing over conference outcomes President Lula da Silva of Brazil has called Cop30 the “Cop of truth”. For negotiators, it may become known as the Cop of roadmaps. Many countries are hoping to begin the process here of a roadmap to “transition away from fossil fuels”, the key promise made at Cop28 in 2023 but not followed up since then. Marina Silva, Brazil’s environment minister, in an interview with the Guardian, urged all countries to have the courage to address the issue, saying: “The map is an answer to our scientific knowledge [of the climate crisis]. It is an ethical answer.” Continue reading...

Cop30: calls for new urgency to talks as studies show global warming may reach 2.5C – latest updates

Rethinking Humanitarianism | Why emergency education saves lives On the podcast: Why disrupted schooling is the norm as climate change worsens, and the argument for prioritising education in an era of aid cuts.

🎓 One in seven of the world’s students had their education disrupted by climate disasters last year. One in six children live in a conflict zone.

On #RethinkingHumanitarianism, Faiza Hassan, director of @inee.org says aid should not be seen as charity, but as climate justice.

Indigenous activists storm COP30 climate summit in Brazil, demanding action Protest comes as Brazil's leader Lula says COP30 participants should be 'inspired' by Indigenous peoples.

Protest comes as Brazil's leader Lula says COP30 participants should be 'inspired' by Indigenous peoples.

Francesca Albanese: Why I'm accusing 63 nations of complicity in the Gaza genocide The UN’s top expert on Palestine accuses UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer of ‘enabling genocide’ in Gaza and calls out Germany and Italy for blocking EU action on Israel

Francesca Albanese: Why I'm accusing 63 nations of complicity in the Gaza genocide - https://www.middleeasteye.net/video/francesca-albanese-why-63-nations-complicit-gaza-genocide

New figures confirm: Global fossil co₂ emissions continue a persistent rise Global fossil co₂ emissions are projected to rise 1.1% in 2025, and are now 10% higher than in 2015, ten years since the Paris Agreement was adopted.

Global fossil co₂ emissions are projected to rise 1.1% in 2025, and are now 10% higher than in 2015, ten years since the Paris Agreement was adopted.

Iran's dual reality: As veil restrictions ease, political crackdown deepens On Tehran's bustling streets, signs of change are unmistakable. Women walk unveiled in jeans and sneakers, men and women linger together in cafés where Western music hums softly, and couples stroll hand-in-hand — subtle acts that chip away at the rigid social codes that have long defined the Islamic Republic.

Iran's dual reality: As veil restrictions ease, political crackdown deepens reut.rs/49OaSLN