Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
Meanwhile, Britain’s government and the police on Friday urged organizers of a planned pro-Palestinian protest in London this weekend to cancel or postpone the event.
Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestine people is driving up antisemitism world wide.
There’s more reason than ever to get on the streets and demand Netanyahu and his corrupt regimen to be brought to justice for their crimes against humanity.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/4/is-venezuela-the-big-cocaine-menace-trump-claims-it-to-be There’s some stuff about Venezuela’s tiny role in cocaine several sections in and some mentions of the lack of evidence for anything the regime is claiming.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/16/venezuela_miguel_tinker_salas This is the interview (I believe) that I heard on the radio that went over most of what I mentioned.
It’s important to note that NBC is peddling the regime’s lies in it’s headlines.
There’s been absolutely no evidence presented that the boat we attacked was associated with drugs, they’ve just completely invented a new cartel.
The routes that drugs take into the US and the leaders of groups responsible are all very well known and well studied. Something like 5% of coke comes in from Venezuela - they’re just not a major player at all.
if you want to call it some specific name
Yeah, that’s what I thought - they can regulate what you’re allowed to call it based on how you make it.
But they can’t ban all veal rotisserie, or outlaw cutting meat thicker than 5mm. Right?
The sparkling wine industry wasn’t crippled by not being called champagne and I don’t see how the german kebab industry would be crippled by not being called doner unless it was prepared in the doner style.
I don’t get it. Surely the german kebab industry could just change their signs to say german style kebab instead of doner?
Apart from hygiene, they can’t force you to make food a specific way, right? They can only regulate what you’re allowed to call it based on how it’s made. Anyone with more knowledge on the matter who can enlighten me?
How will I know that you’re a university lecturer if you don’t have this on your office door?
Blair’s think tank has been doing the planning for the whole gaza riviera bullshit.
He’s been working closely with kushner and the israelis. According to a democracy now interview with a former state department mid east expert who’s worked with blair in the past, this plan largely assumes that israel’s genocide is successful.
Blair is being appointed because he’s been planning exactly how to loot the ruins of gaza to profit trump’s family and netanyahu’s friends.
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You can say hoped, it’s okay.
I do love the idea of just referring to the entire cabinet of our current regime as russian businessmen.
Note that he acknowledges his decision is “not popular” - seems like opposing genocide is still a minority position in Israeli society. That doesn’t bode well for the Palestinians that Israel hasn’t killed yet.
Immortality has been the dream of autocrats for millennia. As soon as we see centralized oppressive regimes, we see leaders obsessed with immortality and their afterlife.
Death is the final equality and we’ll always see the most bloated parasitic elites trying to skirt their responsibility to die like it was their fair share of the tax burden.
Here’s the article without the link to reddit: https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/10/armenia-and-azerbaijan-move-closer-to-peace-pushing-russia-out-from-the-south-caucasus
It feels a little overblown to me. My understanding is that Russia spurned Armenia and gave their blessing to Azerbaijan’s defeat of Armenia. So it’s not too surprising that Armenia didn’t want Russia to broker the peace, and Azerbaijan didn’t need them - they won.
There are troubles in Russo-Armenian relations, but there’s no details of Azerbaijan distancing themselves from Russia. If anyone knows more, please let me know.
It’s not leaked, it’s intentionally published on an official substack.
The memo itself is just more lies from christian nationalists. This one is from a catholic who has previously called for ending democracy and having the church take over the state, pretending that he loves the democratic freedoms of places like Hungary and wants to protect them from the evil fascism of anyone left of Hitler.
led crowds in chants of “free, free Palestine” and “death, death to the IDF” [The BBC said:] “The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable … " [Starmer said:] “appalling hate speech.”
“Free Palestine” is not antisemitic. Criticism of a nation state’s armed forces is not antisemitic. Especially when those armed forces are objectively committing genocide.
That’s him, the one whose stated goals can be seen in every move the trump regime makes.
A lot of people do seem to think “bush looks good in comparison to trump”, ignoring the fact that the open corruption and rejection of reality under bush was an earlier iteration of our current fascist coup, an important stage in that same process.
Obama openly refusing to enforce the law against those bush era criminals (“I’m looking forward not backward”) was another important step towards fascism.
It’s worth remembering the bush era’s invade the hague act, committing the US to a military attack on the ICC if they prosecute any US personnel for the many war crimes we committed in full view of the world.
Sanctioning judges for acting on an allies’ war crimes is new, sure. But the US is an old hand at spitting in the face of international law to protect mass murderers from justice.
A substantial portion of the anthropocene extinction event is the Monsanto extinction event.
Domestic violence is within a family, especially spouses, femicide is “when women and girls are killed because of their gender”, to quote the article.
Prosecuting and jailing fascists for the crimes they commit is a requirement for fighting fascism. Here in the US I’m just not convinced yet that Dems are willing to break the taboo on jailing the rich.
J&J really pride themselves on being a family friendly company, which makes it extra damaging that they knowingly gave mothers and babies cancer for 50+ years.
As far back as the 50s their scientists showed that asbestos was present in their talc. Back when the story broken I read that some of their internal research even associated talc itself with cancer. In the 70s they lied to regulators, saying they hadn’t found any asbestos recently, they had of course. Even after most other companies stopped using actual talc in baby powder, J&J refused to change and insisted it was safe.