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this is real? what? there's a ben garrison cartoon with fucking *grothendieck* in it?
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
this is real? what? there's a ben garrison cartoon with fucking *grothendieck* in it?
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Weapons dealing and money laundering is the backbone of our economy. The UK is a gangster state.
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Weapons dealing and money laundering is the backbone of our economy. The UK is a gangster state.
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Thank you to everybody organizing, posting, marching or protesting on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Remember this:
Remember this:
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Thank you to everybody organizing, posting, marching or protesting on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Remember this:
Remember this:
Paul...[squints at photo]...Paul Mason?
Paul, in his Aston Martin gilet, 10 years from retirement, living in one of the most expensive houses in one of the best places in Britain, with savings and investments worth £2-4mil (excluding anything he has in tax-free ISAs), who has earned enough in his lifetime to pay “millions in taxes”…
8/
8/
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Paul...[squints at photo]...Paul Mason?
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Destroying Blue Sky for good with a 'still posts on Twitter' labeller.
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Destroying Blue Sky for good with a 'still posts on Twitter' labeller.
Photography as supposed hate crime.
The hate crime charge against Alexa Wilkinson for photographing vandalism of the New York Times building is a dangerous precedent, no matter what you think of Wilkinson.
Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime
Gatekeeping over hate crime charges misses the forest for the trees
freedom.press
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Photography as supposed hate crime.
The infamous liberal bias of the British Broadcasting Corporation strikes again?
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
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The infamous liberal bias of the British Broadcasting Corporation strikes again?
France seems to be the only country so far to have charged X with violating a law against Holocaust denial. (Even in Germany I believe X merely got hit with a lawsuit in 2023 brought by a couple of NGOs.)
they're expanding a probe to include the Holocaust denial
www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...
www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...
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.
www.lemonde.fr
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
France seems to be the only country so far to have charged X with violating a law against Holocaust denial. (Even in Germany I believe X merely got hit with a lawsuit in 2023 brought by a couple of NGOs.)
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Israeli forces carry out a strike near the coverage site of Al-Ghad TV crew in southern Lebanon 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
November 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Israeli forces carry out a strike near the coverage site of Al-Ghad TV crew in southern Lebanon 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Yow! "Using a difference-in-differences design and original archival work, I find that Confederate monuments reduced violence, acting as a substitute for performative violence in constructing a white supremacist social order. Effects are concentrated in counties where racial threat is higher."
Despite the grim topic, this is a very good paper: monuments that signal white supremacy can substitute performative violence and thus reduce it.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Political Symbols and Social Order: Confederate Monuments and Performative Violence in the Post-Reconstruction U.S. South | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Political Symbols and Social Order: Confederate Monuments and Performative Violence in the Post-Reconstruction U.S. South
www.cambridge.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Yow! "Using a difference-in-differences design and original archival work, I find that Confederate monuments reduced violence, acting as a substitute for performative violence in constructing a white supremacist social order. Effects are concentrated in counties where racial threat is higher."
For whoever wanted it in clicky-clicky interactive form.
Jeffrey Epstein's email dump, imitating its original Gmail format.
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
For whoever wanted it in clicky-clicky interactive form.
It shall go lower.
Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 15-17 November 2025
Approve: 11% (-2 from 8-10 Nov)
Disapprove: 69% (-1)
Net: -58 (-1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Approve: 11% (-2 from 8-10 Nov)
Disapprove: 69% (-1)
Net: -58 (-1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It shall go lower.
And yet the Reactionary In Chief is also an affordability-crisis denier like Stancil.
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
And yet the Reactionary In Chief is also an affordability-crisis denier like Stancil.
"An autopsy report [...] showed Ge was found tied with a bedsheet, with linens around his wrists and ankles in what the report described as a "hog-tied" position. The medical examiner noted that there had been other [...] incidents of people who had hung themselves having done something similar" 🤨
"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"An autopsy report [...] showed Ge was found tied with a bedsheet, with linens around his wrists and ankles in what the report described as a "hog-tied" position. The medical examiner noted that there had been other [...] incidents of people who had hung themselves having done something similar" 🤨
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“Keira's assessment in 2024, …concluded that she did not have "sufficient parental competencies to care for the newborn independently".
Keira says the questions she was asked included: "Who is Mother Teresa?" and "How long does it take for the sun's rays to reach the Earth?
Keira says the questions she was asked included: "Who is Mother Teresa?" and "How long does it take for the sun's rays to reach the Earth?
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests, known as FKUs, on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
“Keira's assessment in 2024, …concluded that she did not have "sufficient parental competencies to care for the newborn independently".
Keira says the questions she was asked included: "Who is Mother Teresa?" and "How long does it take for the sun's rays to reach the Earth?
Keira says the questions she was asked included: "Who is Mother Teresa?" and "How long does it take for the sun's rays to reach the Earth?
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Thousands of Gazans Disabled by Genocide Still Can’t Access Treatment truthout.org/articles/tho...
Thousands of Gazans Disabled by Genocide Still Can’t Access Treatment
Shrapnel from a tank shell lodged near a nerve in my hand in 2024. It remains there, a reminder of what I have endured.
truthout.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Thousands of Gazans Disabled by Genocide Still Can’t Access Treatment truthout.org/articles/tho...
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These students' bravery should be a model for all of us: refuse to comply with the MAGA regime's white supremacist agenda.
www.wistv.com/2025/11/18/o...
www.wistv.com/2025/11/18/o...
Over 30,000 Charlotte students absent from school in protest of ICE operation, reports say
Over 30,000 Charlotte students were absent on Monday, according to school officials.
www.wistv.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
These students' bravery should be a model for all of us: refuse to comply with the MAGA regime's white supremacist agenda.
www.wistv.com/2025/11/18/o...
www.wistv.com/2025/11/18/o...
/r/JoeRogan banned discussion of politics.
Which turns out to ban discussion of 46% of the latest episode of Joe Rogan's show.
Which turns out to ban discussion of 46% of the latest episode of Joe Rogan's show.
Haha the thread is even better.
Here’s Taekwondo Joes show that day.
And all the banned parts that aren’t allowed to be discussed 😂
Here’s Taekwondo Joes show that day.
And all the banned parts that aren’t allowed to be discussed 😂
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
/r/JoeRogan banned discussion of politics.
Which turns out to ban discussion of 46% of the latest episode of Joe Rogan's show.
Which turns out to ban discussion of 46% of the latest episode of Joe Rogan's show.
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Prediction: not only is Bluesky's federation not "there yet", it'll never get "there". B'sky federation's substantially a hoax; the official moderation "service" will remain mandatory on the official Bluesky node/network, and network effects mean the official node/network shall continue to dominate.
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Prediction: not only is Bluesky's federation not "there yet", it'll never get "there". B'sky federation's substantially a hoax; the official moderation "service" will remain mandatory on the official Bluesky node/network, and network effects mean the official node/network shall continue to dominate.
Wait, what happened to the Shriner?
When I was watching XPlay, this Mountain Dew ad came on where this guy forcefemmes transgenderizes his homie.
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Wait, what happened to the Shriner?
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Ladies and gentlemen...The War on Christmas.
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Ladies and gentlemen...The War on Christmas.
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On the one-year anniversary of being jailed for vandalising an Israeli arms factory, political prisoner Aleks Herbich writes that state repression has only strengthened her commitment to the Palestinian cause tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/pale...
Palestine Solidarity Behind Bars
On the one-year anniversary of being jailed for vandalising an Israeli arms factory, political prisoner Aleks Herbich writes that state repression has only strengthened her commitment to the Palestini...
tribunemag.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
On the one-year anniversary of being jailed for vandalising an Israeli arms factory, political prisoner Aleks Herbich writes that state repression has only strengthened her commitment to the Palestinian cause tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/pale...
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM