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Starmer and Trump discussed Palestine Action twice on calls before group’s terror ban, court hears
Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori is fighting the group’s terror ban: it will have a ‘dramatic, severe, widespread and potentially lifelong’ effect
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori is fighting the group’s terror ban: it will have a ‘dramatic, severe, widespread and potentially lifelong’ effect
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Starmer and Trump discussed Palestine Action twice before terror ban, court hears
Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori is fighting the group’s terror ban at the High Court, arguing it will have a ‘dramatic, severe, widespread and potentially lifelong’ effect
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Starmer and Trump discussed Palestine Action twice on calls before group’s terror ban, court hears
Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori is fighting the group’s terror ban: it will have a ‘dramatic, severe, widespread and potentially lifelong’ effect
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori is fighting the group’s terror ban: it will have a ‘dramatic, severe, widespread and potentially lifelong’ effect
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Increased toxicity from plastic pollution in a warmer climate is highly likely to be affecting whole ecosystems, with potentially disproportionate impacts on apex predators such as orcas.
Plastic pollution: a crisis requiring systemic change
Plastic pollution is worsened by warming climate and must be stemmed, researchers warn
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Increased toxicity from plastic pollution in a warmer climate is highly likely to be affecting whole ecosystems, with potentially disproportionate impacts on apex predators such as orcas.
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Delinking is gaining traction among some political movements in the global South. What is it, and how can it be achieved?
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/what-is-de...
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/what-is-de...
What is delinking?
A crucial strategy for transformation in the 21st century.
jasonhickel.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Delinking is gaining traction among some political movements in the global South. What is it, and how can it be achieved?
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/what-is-de...
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/what-is-de...
Not that easy to find the link, so if anyone is looking for ways to help, look here. The situation S. Thailand is dire
(fyi ฿2000 is about $62)
www.donationhub.or.th/project/142/...
(fyi ฿2000 is about $62)
www.donationhub.or.th/project/142/...
Projects - Flood Victim Relief Project.
www.donationhub.or.th
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Not that easy to find the link, so if anyone is looking for ways to help, look here. The situation S. Thailand is dire
(fyi ฿2000 is about $62)
www.donationhub.or.th/project/142/...
(fyi ฿2000 is about $62)
www.donationhub.or.th/project/142/...
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“The promise of a world-changing technology that isn’t here…companies are stealing every scrap of data they can find, throwing computer power at it, draining our aquifers of water, our national grids of electricity and all we have is some software that you can’t trust not to make things up.”
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“The promise of a world-changing technology that isn’t here…companies are stealing every scrap of data they can find, throwing computer power at it, draining our aquifers of water, our national grids of electricity and all we have is some software that you can’t trust not to make things up.”
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How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
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Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
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Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.
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Pure cruelty.
Officially, stores cannot give SNAP recipients preferential treatment absent a waiver, w waivers given to places encouraging healthy eating.
So obvs a rule aimed at preventing junk-food places from targeting SNAP.
This is … SO much not that.
And this enforcement is a CHOICE.
Officially, stores cannot give SNAP recipients preferential treatment absent a waiver, w waivers given to places encouraging healthy eating.
So obvs a rule aimed at preventing junk-food places from targeting SNAP.
This is … SO much not that.
And this enforcement is a CHOICE.
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Pure cruelty.
Officially, stores cannot give SNAP recipients preferential treatment absent a waiver, w waivers given to places encouraging healthy eating.
So obvs a rule aimed at preventing junk-food places from targeting SNAP.
This is … SO much not that.
And this enforcement is a CHOICE.
Officially, stores cannot give SNAP recipients preferential treatment absent a waiver, w waivers given to places encouraging healthy eating.
So obvs a rule aimed at preventing junk-food places from targeting SNAP.
This is … SO much not that.
And this enforcement is a CHOICE.
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NEWS: U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, is demanding that mega corporations answer for their part in Trump's demolition of the East Wing.
He sent demand letters to Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Google, HP, Meta & more.
Read the letter here: www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/u...
He sent demand letters to Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Google, HP, Meta & more.
Read the letter here: www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/u...
October 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
NEWS: U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, is demanding that mega corporations answer for their part in Trump's demolition of the East Wing.
He sent demand letters to Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Google, HP, Meta & more.
Read the letter here: www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/u...
He sent demand letters to Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Google, HP, Meta & more.
Read the letter here: www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/u...
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the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.
October 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.
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The US now has at least 7 vessels stationed off Venezeula, including 10,000 troops, two amphibious assault ships (pictured), a Nuclear Submarine, thousands of drones and Missile Destroyers.
It is expected that the US could strike at any time.
It is expected that the US could strike at any time.
October 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The US now has at least 7 vessels stationed off Venezeula, including 10,000 troops, two amphibious assault ships (pictured), a Nuclear Submarine, thousands of drones and Missile Destroyers.
It is expected that the US could strike at any time.
It is expected that the US could strike at any time.
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he’s a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power. And we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.” 🦄
October 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he’s a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power. And we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.” 🦄
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If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.
October 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.
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Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.
It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.
It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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These two things are of a piece, even if the motivations and details differ.
Trump’s justification for his authoritarian crackdown is an America that doesn’t exist.
@lizzieohreally.bsky.social
Trump’s justification for his authoritarian crackdown is an America that doesn’t exist.
@lizzieohreally.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
These two things are of a piece, even if the motivations and details differ.
Trump’s justification for his authoritarian crackdown is an America that doesn’t exist.
@lizzieohreally.bsky.social
Trump’s justification for his authoritarian crackdown is an America that doesn’t exist.
@lizzieohreally.bsky.social
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“I had to flat out tell [the Microsoft sales team] VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO”
October 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“I had to flat out tell [the Microsoft sales team] VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO”
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The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,
Like… it's kind of right there, no?
October 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,
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Not enough people talk like this to zionists, 2 years into a genocide. That's why I (and every Palestinian) still have assholes in my mentions accusing me of being antisemitic. By 1940 they held 11k German-Americans in internment camps in the U.S. because Germans in Germany committed genocide...
October 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Not enough people talk like this to zionists, 2 years into a genocide. That's why I (and every Palestinian) still have assholes in my mentions accusing me of being antisemitic. By 1940 they held 11k German-Americans in internment camps in the U.S. because Germans in Germany committed genocide...
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One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
🔗 www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
🔗 www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
www.404media.co
October 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.
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the marketing of this book is WILD once you see which Mitford it is
October 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
the marketing of this book is WILD once you see which Mitford it is