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A Possible Strategy for Stopping War on Venezuela www.commondreams.org/opinion/stra...
A Possible Strategy for Stopping War on Venezuela | Common Dreams
Critics of state violence become most dangerous when they directly jeopardize the state’s capacity to inflict violence. The most common and tangible way that happens is when soldiers refuse to kill.
www.commondreams.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A Possible Strategy for Stopping War on Venezuela www.commondreams.org/opinion/stra...
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The UK is "especially vulnerable", according to Matt Western.
MPs Express Fear Over Trump's 'Chilling' Threats To European Elections
The UK is "especially vulnerable", according to Matt Western.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The UK is "especially vulnerable", according to Matt Western.
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11 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Trans and NB young adult 13-24 whose pronouns were respected were 31% less likely to try to commit suicide in past year. 23%who said no one respects theirs had attempted suicide in past year verse just 10% who said almost everyone respects theirs.
Transgender and nonbinary youth whose pronouns are respected attempt suicide less: report
"It's about effort, and just attempting to be respectful and kind to people," lead author Steven Hobaica tells The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
11 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Trans and NB young adult 13-24 whose pronouns were respected were 31% less likely to try to commit suicide in past year. 23%who said no one respects theirs had attempted suicide in past year verse just 10% who said almost everyone respects theirs.
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America in 1894 “resonates in this second Gilded Age”, writes a history professor in a guest essay. “Yet these two eras are not doppelgangers—they have distinct and important differences”
The Gilded Age holds lessons for today, says Richard White
The professor of American history at Stanford University considers what might come next, in a guest essay for The World Ahead 2026
econ.st
December 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
America in 1894 “resonates in this second Gilded Age”, writes a history professor in a guest essay. “Yet these two eras are not doppelgangers—they have distinct and important differences”
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A wave of AI-powered children’s toys has hit shelves this holiday season, claiming to rely on sophisticated chatbots to animate interactive robots and stuffed animals that can converse with kids.
AI-powered kids’ toys talk about sex, geopolitics and how to light a match, tests show
New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.
nbcnews.to
December 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A wave of AI-powered children’s toys has hit shelves this holiday season, claiming to rely on sophisticated chatbots to animate interactive robots and stuffed animals that can converse with kids.
🎯 Israel Registered as Foreign Agents to Geo-Fence and Target These 523 American Churches with Non-Stop Propaganda. Here are the Official Documents and the List of Churches.
www.thenorthstar.com/p/israel-reg...
www.thenorthstar.com/p/israel-reg...
🎯 Israel Registered as Foreign Agents to Geo-Fence and Target These 523 American Churches with Non-Stop Propaganda. Here are the Official Documents and the List of Churches.
In a normal society you would not be hearing this from me, but from CNN and The NY Times, but they are all bought and paid for.
www.thenorthstar.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🎯 Israel Registered as Foreign Agents to Geo-Fence and Target These 523 American Churches with Non-Stop Propaganda. Here are the Official Documents and the List of Churches.
www.thenorthstar.com/p/israel-reg...
www.thenorthstar.com/p/israel-reg...
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"History tells us weak opposition never stops an encroaching regime.Legal processes, procedural delays, and hand-wringing don’t work when the people in power are already bending the system to their will.
What does work? Organized, community-driven,relentless resistance."
youtu.be/SZ-MkxHzpUE?...
What does work? Organized, community-driven,relentless resistance."
youtu.be/SZ-MkxHzpUE?...
The Constitution Is Already Burning—Stop Pretending We’re “Approaching” a Crisis
YouTube video by Tad Stoermer
youtu.be
February 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"History tells us weak opposition never stops an encroaching regime.Legal processes, procedural delays, and hand-wringing don’t work when the people in power are already bending the system to their will.
What does work? Organized, community-driven,relentless resistance."
youtu.be/SZ-MkxHzpUE?...
What does work? Organized, community-driven,relentless resistance."
youtu.be/SZ-MkxHzpUE?...
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Who else has tears running down their face?? Never fucking thought we'd be here. #resist
#fuckmaga #fucknazis #fdt
#fuckmaga #fucknazis #fdt
During the US governors ball, the US Army Choir surrounded the MAGA leadership and sang: "Do
You Hear The People Sing"
The oligarchs didn’t even realize they were being protested. #3E #USprotest #EndOligarchy
You Hear The People Sing"
The oligarchs didn’t even realize they were being protested. #3E #USprotest #EndOligarchy
February 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Who else has tears running down their face?? Never fucking thought we'd be here. #resist
#fuckmaga #fucknazis #fdt
#fuckmaga #fucknazis #fdt
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All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.
February 25, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Seems fair enough.
February 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Seems fair enough.
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“This is an unprecedented overstep in authority, but instead of coming from Republicans, it’s coming from a Democrat in one of the bluest states in the country. They’re the ones that are supposed to be fighting to protect academic freedom. This is a tremendous abdication of that responsibility.”
Folks asking for sources other than NY post, Inside Higher Ed article was published yesterday, link below.
February 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“This is an unprecedented overstep in authority, but instead of coming from Republicans, it’s coming from a Democrat in one of the bluest states in the country. They’re the ones that are supposed to be fighting to protect academic freedom. This is a tremendous abdication of that responsibility.”
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"The [Neo-Nazi] agitators wore body armor, carried AR-15 rifles and waved swastika flags. They arrived as children were being let out from class at Lincoln Heights Elementary School and marched just blocks away."
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Neo-Nazis targeted a majority-Black town. Locals launched an armed watch.
Residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, have organized armed guards after a neo-Nazi march and the spread of Ku Klux Klan leaflets rocked the Cincinnati suburb.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"The [Neo-Nazi] agitators wore body armor, carried AR-15 rifles and waved swastika flags. They arrived as children were being let out from class at Lincoln Heights Elementary School and marched just blocks away."
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Good morning
be the change
be the light
eat some chocolate
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be the change
be the light
eat some chocolate
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February 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Good morning
be the change
be the light
eat some chocolate
🔥
be the change
be the light
eat some chocolate
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Many have correctly noted that forced transfer/deportation is a war crime & crime against humanity.
On “voluntariness,” it bears emphasizing that the forced nature of transfer can be established where the perpetrators take advantage of a coercive environment that precludes genuine choice.
On “voluntariness,” it bears emphasizing that the forced nature of transfer can be established where the perpetrators take advantage of a coercive environment that precludes genuine choice.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the army to prepare a plan to allow the ‘voluntary departure’ of residents from the Gaza strip, Israeli media reported reut.rs/3WO40qw
Israel's defense minister orders army to prepare for Gaza residents' departure, media reports
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered the army on Thursday to prepare a plan to allow the "voluntary departure" of residents from the Gaza strip, Israeli media reported.
reut.rs
February 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Many have correctly noted that forced transfer/deportation is a war crime & crime against humanity.
On “voluntariness,” it bears emphasizing that the forced nature of transfer can be established where the perpetrators take advantage of a coercive environment that precludes genuine choice.
On “voluntariness,” it bears emphasizing that the forced nature of transfer can be established where the perpetrators take advantage of a coercive environment that precludes genuine choice.
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Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
February 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
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Judith Butler on Trump‘s sadism and the fascist passions animating it
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Judith Butler on Trump‘s sadism and the fascist passions animating it
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
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To the surprise of no one.
Unlocked | Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has pledged to implement policies that align with the Israeli government if he becomes prime minister.
Israel happy to wait for potential Conservative government, says former Canadian envoy
'I do hope that some of the policies will change, and the sooner the better,' Israeli Ambassador to Canada Iddo Moed says of Ottawa's approach to his country.
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January 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
To the surprise of no one.
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To once again push back on the "what about Sudan" response to outrage over Gaza, one reason the USG did not act more forcefully early on to curtail Emirati support for the RSF was concern that such actions against the UAE would jeopardize the Abraham Accords.
www.wsj.com/opinion/a-ge...
www.wsj.com/opinion/a-ge...
Opinion | A Genocide Ignored in Sudan
Civilians killed by ‘the color of their skin,’ as the world vilifies Israel.
www.wsj.com
January 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
To once again push back on the "what about Sudan" response to outrage over Gaza, one reason the USG did not act more forcefully early on to curtail Emirati support for the RSF was concern that such actions against the UAE would jeopardize the Abraham Accords.
www.wsj.com/opinion/a-ge...
www.wsj.com/opinion/a-ge...
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With the Biden administration’s recent determination that a genocide is ongoing in Sudan, Yonah Diamond and Mutasim Ali Ahmed call for suspension of arms sales to the UAE, which they write is a “consequential actor … driving conflict and atrocities” in #Sudan.
www.justsecurity.org/106305/genoc...
www.justsecurity.org/106305/genoc...
The US Sudan Genocide Determination Requires the Suspension of Arms Sales to the UAE
In light of the US determination of genocide in Sudan, a call to halt arms sales to UAE, which is supporting an armed group int he conflict.
www.justsecurity.org
January 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
With the Biden administration’s recent determination that a genocide is ongoing in Sudan, Yonah Diamond and Mutasim Ali Ahmed call for suspension of arms sales to the UAE, which they write is a “consequential actor … driving conflict and atrocities” in #Sudan.
www.justsecurity.org/106305/genoc...
www.justsecurity.org/106305/genoc...
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when RAND corporation released their report on neo-medievalism I don't think they were expecting it to be this medieval
January 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
when RAND corporation released their report on neo-medievalism I don't think they were expecting it to be this medieval
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Syria’s new leadership faces an economy devastated by war and sanctions, with inflation and a decimated currency.
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January 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Syria’s new leadership faces an economy devastated by war and sanctions, with inflation and a decimated currency.
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