The United Nations says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
As does Amnesty International
As does International Court of Justice
As does Israeli human rights org B'TSalem
As do hundreds of global humanitarian organizations
As do virtually every single global scholar on the Holocaust and genocide
If you're still denying the reality of this genocide, there are only two options
1. Either every global org is lying and are secretly Hamas, or
2. You're choosing the wrong side of history
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Yes. Harsh light of day will help. It will also cause chaos.
The pedophiles were not the ones paying. I still believe that #Epstein and #Maxwell could have been generating kompromat for #Russia. My guess is that is where Epstein’s money came from. They were gathering intelligence and applying leverage if needed. Their “customers” were people with knowledge, influence and prestige. I believe part of the issue of releasing the names is that it could reveal a massive breach of national security and foreign influence.
@meltedcheese I agree. Epstein was likely the source of a lot of kompromat, but it may not have been intentional. They were obviously careless. Sure they could dodge US authorities, but a state actor is a very different game, and none of them were set up for that.
If Russia was doing business with Trump, they knew about Epstein, and that’s a honey pot big bears can’t ignore.
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Today in Labor History September 16, 1945: 43,000 oil workers went on strike in 20 states. During WWII, most of the major unions collaborated with the U.S. war effort by enforcing labor “discipline” and preventing strikes. In exchange, the U.S. government supported closed shop policies under which employers at unionized companies agreed to hire only union members. While the closed shop gave unions more power within a particular company, the no-strike policy made that power virtually meaningless. When the war ended, inflation soared and veterans flooded the labor market. As a result, frustrated workers began a series of wildcat strikes. Many grew into national, union-supported strikes. In November 1945, 225,000 UAW members went on strike. In January 1946, 174,000 electric workers struck. That same month, 750,000 steel workers joined them. Then, in April, the coal strike began. 250,000 railroad workers struck in May. In total, 4.3 million workers went on strike. It was the closest the U.S. came to a national General Strike in the 20th century. And in December 1946, Oakland, California did have a General Strike, the last in U.S. history. Overall, it was the largest strike wave in U.S. history. In 1947, Congress responded to the strike wave by enacting the Taft-Hartley Act, restricting the powers and activities of labor unions and banning the General Strike. The act is still in force today and one the main reasons there hasn’t been a General Strike in the U.S. since 1945.
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Let me repeat that. He was Found Hanging From A Tree.
In Mississippi. In the state that lynched more Black people than ANY OTHER STATE IN THE COUNTRY. And police have the audacity to summarily conclude "no foul play."
It's just as horrific that we don't have a competent DOJ to independently investigate this. My God. Horrific. Just horrific.
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The dragon was curled up on its hoard.
A knight approached, unarmed and unhelmed.
"Greetings! I have a question about your hoard."
"If you try to steal it I will kill you."
"May I move it? With you still on it?"
The tiny dragon firmly gripped the golden tiara it laid on. "Carry it with pride."
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Book bans get headlines, but the bigger threat to books is hiding in plain sight: A handful of companies control how ebooks reach readers, and they can cut off access with a click. cjr.org/analysis/the-bigger-th…
New from @maria in Columbia Journalism Review:
"The Bigger Threat to Books Than Bans" cjr.org/analysis/the-bigger-th…
There's a bigger threat to books than bans.
Access to e-books relies entirely on private distributors that have the power to shut them off at any moment.Columbia Journalism Review
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DC police union head Gregg Pemberton has been cheerleading Trump's deployment of the military there.
He's also at the heart of the scandal behind the only judicial sanction of a DC prosecutor for hiding evidence, but you wouldn't know it from his media appearances:
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Tim Walz just announced his bid for reelection!✊🏽
Walz was among the first to call for a ceasefire, is pro public schools, pro labor, pro climate justice, pro gun safety, pro repro rights, raised corporate taxes, & passed free school lunch❤️
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Barely making the news cycle but the Trump DOJ has deleted a National Institute of Justice study showing that “white supremacist and far-right violence in the United States outpaces all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”😳 Per the Wayback Machine it was there on 9/12/25.
TAKE NOTE: Fascists erase violent history for one main reason—to repeat that history.
(Credit to Daniel Malmer, a PhD student studying online extremism at UNC-Chapel Hill, who first noticed the deletion.)
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Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield resigns, claiming parent company Unilever 'silenced' its campaigning
Honestly, is anyone surprised? Once it was sold to Unilever, that was it, its just another label.
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Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield resigns, claiming parent company Unilever 'silenced' its campaigning
Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of the Ben & Jerry's ice cream brand, has stepped down from the company he started 47 years ago citing a retreat from its campaigning spirit under parent company UnileverPatrick Smith (NBC News)
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The Washington Post Fires Its Last Black Opinion Columnist For Directly Quoting A Bigot
The Washington Post isn’t what it used to be. While the paper is still peppered with a few decent journalists trying to do good work, the outlet is being slowly strangled to death by billiona…Techdirt
Any how, we'll write more over on the blog about the details.
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Um... wut.
Via Kyle Cheney:
Kash Patel says the FBI has NO information that Jeffrey #Epstein trafficked minors to anyone other than himself.
SEN. KENNEDY: "Who, if anyone, did Epstein traffic these young women to?"
PATEL: "There is no credible information, none ... that he trafficked to other individuals."
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Turning Point USA is mass texting teenagers. My minor teen son is getting bombarded. Despite opting out of one text scam, TPUSA will text with another text scam.
They're going full grift ahead to raise money by targeting teens for their allowance money. An absurd attempt to grift and indoctrinate.
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William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)
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Activists in Morocco are demanding an investigation after well-known human rights leader, Sion Assidon, was found unconscious at his home under suspicious circumstances. Assidon is a leader of the Moroccan movement against normalization with Israel.
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GitHub - sk22/megalodon: Abandoned. Pink modification of the official Mastodon for Android app
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in reply to Qasim Rashid, Esq. • • •Yes.
A couple of web links if anyone's interested...
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in reply to Qasim Rashid, Esq. • • •You can add me to the list!
When I mentioned it months ago to friends, they all said, I supported Hamas. I don't. I never think populations, on the whole, are responsible for their leaders.
Look at the USA right now; we know we have a fascist leader, and yet at this time, no one is doing anything to stop him. FEAR WORKS!
JW
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Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast: UN report finds Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
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UN report finds Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
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in reply to Qasim Rashid, Esq. • • •Brokar
in reply to Qasim Rashid, Esq. • • •Finally they came to the same conclusion as the rest of the world a year ago.
But unless Palestine is globally acknowledged as a sovereign state nothing will change and more people will die by the hands of Israel because Israel won't stop.
And it's way too late to withhold weapon shipments now, the damage is done. 80% of the infrastructure is destroyed. So even if the IDF stopped now, there's nothing left for the Palestines to return to. No hospitals, no schools, nothing.