Jake Larson death: World War II veteran and TikTok star dies aged 102
Jake Larson death: World War II veteran and TikTok star dies aged 102
Beloved D-Day veteran was known fondly on the Internet as ‘Papa Jake’Shahana Yasmin (The Independent)
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Alina Habba leaving behind angry staff and portraits of herself on the walls as job ends
Former Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba is all but certain to be headed for the door next week leaving behind portraits of herself on the walls and disgruntled staffers after her brief stint as a U.S. attorney comes to an end.
According to a report from the New York Times, her appointment as the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey on an interim basis began in "chaos" and is now drawing to a close, with employees looking forward to her departure while also considering leaving too.
Habba's appointment as a the U.S. attorney was derailed by both of New Jersey's Democratic Senators Cory Booker and Andy Kim, limiting her to a 120-day term in office.
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This is great news since she is unqualified even by Trump-staff-fingerpainting-on-the-Constitution standards, but:
Anyone know how/why Booker can limit her term, unless extended by the district courts? The OP article doesn't explain, and links to a paywalled NYT article.
How did a right wing populist party that began on YouTube win big in Japan’s recent election?
Its leader is a former supermarket manager who created his political party on YouTube in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic and campaigned on the Trumpian message “Japanese First.”
Now Japan’s burgeoning right-wing populist party Sanseito has emerged an unlikely winner in parliamentary elections this weekend.
Inspired by other populist right-wing groups that have sprung up in recent years, Sanseito bagged 14 seats in Japan’s upper house, according to public broadcaster NHK – a dramatic increase from the single seat it had occupied previously.
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The only ones offering any kind of hope for the future are snake-oil salesmen like this.
Russia launches deadly missile, drone attack at Ukraine
Russia on Monday launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine in an overnight attack, killing two people, wounding 15 and causing multiple fires in several parts of the country.
The attack came hours before French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot arrived in Kyiv for a two-day visit aimed at supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion.
Russian strikes hit Kyiv metro where hundreds were sheltering
Russia launched a wave of drones and missiles at Ukraine in an overnight attack on Monday, killing at least one person in Kyiv and hitting a metro station where hundreds of people were sheltering.
There were fires across the capital and at least six people were wounded. Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said rescuers and medics were working on sites in four districts.
Smoke engulfed Lukianivska metro station, in an area that Moscow has repeatedly targeted. The Kremlin has dramatically stepped up its aerial bombardment of Ukrainian towns and cities in recent months, with Kyiv frequently bombed.
Video shows people standing on an underground platform filled with swirling dust. One woman can be heard sobbing.
Max, a 32-year-old resident, told the Guardian: “My friend ran to the underground. He called me during the night and said he heard the strike. Part of the building and even the roof tumbled down the escalator. There was smoke billowing on the platform.
Zelenskyy accuses Russia of ‘assault on humanity’ after latest drone barrage
Germany vows to expedite delivery of Patriot systems as drone strikes Kyiv metro station sheltering civiliansLuke Harding (The Guardian)
Pope condemns Gaza war’s ‘barbarity’ as 93 reported killed by Israeli fire while waiting for food
Pope Leo XIV has condemned the “barbarity” of the war in Gaza and the “indiscriminate use of force” as Gaza’s civil defence agency said at least 93 Palestinians had been killed queueing for food and Israel issued fresh evacuation orders for areas packed with displaced people.
Gaza’s health ministry said scores were killed by Israeli fire while waiting for UN aid trucks entering through the northern Zikim crossing with Israel. It was one of the highest reported death tolls among repeated recent cases in which aid seekers have been killed by Israeli fire.
Pope condemns Gaza war’s ‘barbarity’ as 93 reported killed by Israeli fire while waiting for food
Israeli forces open fire on hungry Palestinians near Gaza City in one of bloodiest incidents involving aid seekersJennifer Rankin (The Guardian)
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Trump's Calendar Girls Party Had Only One Other Guest: Jeffrey Epstein
Trump's Calendar Girls Party Had Only 1 Other Guest: Jeffrey Epstein
As Trump faces pressure to release more information regarding Epstein, reports are coming out that the two men knew each other well.Paige Skinner (HuffPost)
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China’s Belt and Road investment and construction activity hits record
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/44410459
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Chinese construction contracts and investments in BRI members totalled $124bn over 176 deals in the first six months of the year, greater than the total of $122bn for the whole of 2024, according to a study by Australia’s Griffith University and the Green Finance & Development Center in Beijing.
Russian Photographer Gets 16 Years For Sharing Public Soviet Bunker Data
Russian Photographer Gets 16 Years For Sharing Public Soviet Bunker Data
Grigory Skvortsov sent an American journalist diagrams of a Soviet-era bunker included in a widely available book.RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities (RFE/RL)
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Naturalized Citizens Are Scared | To become Americans, we promised to defend the laws of the United States. What if defending them now puts our status at risk?
Naturalized Citizens Are Scared
To become Americans, we promised to defend the laws of the United States. What if defending them now puts our status at risk?Chris Feliciano Arnold (The Atlantic)
What do you do?
There are countries that have active programs for Immigration of scientists from the USA.
In the EU, most of the countries at least, you don't need to look behind you.
There is a problem with illegal migrants / middle easterns here with low income that cause issues (speaking from experience), but overall is pretty safe.
Good luck
If it helps:
Researches have some speedups due to trump
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
For rest, you have instructions here.
home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/poli…
Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US
EU will spend over $500 million to recruit researchers and scientists.WIRED (Ars Technica)
Like, I was just going grocery shopping the other day and had an unmarked van behind me for what felt like an awkwardly long time. I immediately started formulating escape plans. I drove an extra long route to the store just to make sure I wasn’t being followed. Once I parked I sat in my car an extra few minutes to observe if any other suspicious vehicles also parked and if anybody got out. I made sure to message my wife that I parked, that I was on my way into the store, that I was 25%/50%/75% done getting items, that I was checking out, that I was back in the car and headed home.These are not thoughts I should have to have. It sucks.
jesus fucking christ. i am sorry this is happening to you or anyone else.
Every day my wife goes to work, I worry about her workplace being raided and my never seeing or hearing from her again.
I also worry that I might drive in the middle of it, and have to get involved. I should not have to have plans about how to rescue my wife from kidnapping at work.
An Accuser’s Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files
A former Jeffrey Epstein employee said that she told the F.B.I. in 1996 and 2006 about what she considered a troubling encounter with Donald J. Trump.
If you kill him, you make a martyr of him. That also leads to president couch-fucker. Of course the world would be better off if he'd never been born, but we can't do anything about that.
I'd rather he be painfully humiliated. Mutilate his genitals with garden shears in one of his oval office press conference tirades, live on TV. Added benefit of him never raping a child or writer or wife again.
A guy who rapes children may have been close friends with another guy who rapes children.
Shocking!
Epstein Victim Twice Named Trump to Law Enforcement
Epstein Victim Twice Urged FBI to Investigate Trump
The disgraced financier’s former employee recalled an alleged incident in which Trump stared at her bare legs.Emell Derra Adolphus (The Daily Beast)
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Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold
Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold
Energy startup Marathon Fusion claims to have found a scalable way to turn mercury into gold, but they still have much to prove.Gayoung Lee (Gizmodo)
so, out of curiosity, how many of those GBU-whoseiwhatsits designed to penetrate back doors... does trump have left?
Bet by next monday... that number goes down again.
Trump faces a revolt from his MAGA base over the Epstein files
Blames Hillary, Obama and Biden for the Epstein Files, which also don't exist.
I love that he's getting torched by his own.
Trump faces a revolt from his MAGA base over the Epstein files
The Epstein files — and calls for Attorney General Pam Bondi to be fired — dominated a conservative conference in Tampa this weekend.Matt Dixon (NBC News)
Democrats’ Project 2029 Is Doubling Down on Failure
Democrats’ Project 2029 Is Doubling Down on Failure
The Democrats' Project 2029 takes up the unique strategy of getting the very people who drove their party into the disastrous rut it is now stuck in to come up with the ideas that will get it out.jacobin.com
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in reply to xc2215x • • •Here's what the DNC chair (the literal Democratic establishment) is actually saying about Mamdani:
... show moreHere's what the DNC chair (the literal Democratic establishment) is actually saying about Mamdani:
pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chai…
Please don't let billionaires trick you into disengaging from the party now that billionaires aren't in control of it.
DNC chair on the path to winning back voters and lessons Democrats can learn from Mamdani
Amna Nawaz (PBS News)VivianRixia
in reply to xc2215x • • •Bonesince1997
in reply to xc2215x • • •givesomefucks
in reply to Bonesince1997 • • •The party is supporting him for fucks sake...
pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chai…
Stop treating random shitty neoliberals as "the party" when their wing was just kicked out of the DNC.
The people you want to "punish" were voted out of leadership in the last DNC election, by the voting members of the DNC....
8 months ago I'd be right beside you saying the same thing, but that already happened 6 months ago.
Like, how do so many people pretend to care about this stuff but just don't have any fucking idea what's happening?
Edit:
I know I sounded frustrated, but there's no reason to pile down votes on OP. My frustration is really with MSM media ignoring it.
Because of that, lots of people are unaware of the recent (and seriously historic, this has been 50 years in the making, 80 depending on when you start the clock).
And the wealthy will fight
... show moreThe party is supporting him for fucks sake...
pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chai…
Stop treating random shitty neoliberals as "the party" when their wing was just kicked out of the DNC.
The people you want to "punish" were voted out of leadership in the last DNC election, by the voting members of the DNC....
8 months ago I'd be right beside you saying the same thing, but that already happened 6 months ago.
Like, how do so many people pretend to care about this stuff but just don't have any fucking idea what's happening?
Edit:
I know I sounded frustrated, but there's no reason to pile down votes on OP. My frustration is really with MSM media ignoring it.
Because of that, lots of people are unaware of the recent (and seriously historic, this has been 50 years in the making, 80 depending on when you start the clock).
And the wealthy will fight tooth and nail to prevent the people from solidifying their grasp on the Dem party again. Lying and misrepresenting events via the news organization they have all bought up isn't the worse they're going to do, if we can't handle this we won't be able to handle the real fuckery in the next presidential primary. The DNC will stay fair, so the wealthy will do everything they can to depress Dem primary turnout.
Now more than ever people need to take initiative and pay attention.
When someone isn't, and they get called out; upvote that shit so others see it.
DNC chair on the path to winning back voters and lessons Democrats can learn from Mamdani
Amna Nawaz (PBS News)orclev
in reply to givesomefucks • • •I think the problem is the way political parties are structured in the US. At the end of the day the thing that actually matters with a party is how its members behave in their respective offices. It's how senators and congressmen vote, what bills the president champions and vetoes. For party officers people judge by what they can see and that's mostly which candidates are receiving support and which aren't.
So what are people seeing? They're seeing the same politicians in office today as 6 months ago, voting the same way they always have, and many prominent Democrat politicians attacking Mamdani. Sure they can't have changed who's in office without an election happening, but that's kind of the point, until that happens those people are the DNC to most people. In order to change that perception those politicians would need to be publicly kicked out of the party. Until people no longer see "Senator X (D) from Y" making headlines they are the DNC to most people.
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in reply to orclev • • •This is so important I erased everything else I had typed...
We will not see billionaire owned media side with the current DNC or the people
We can not wait for something we know won't happen.
It's why I spend so much time explaining this same thing over and over again. We have to tell each other instead of hoping a billionaire will tell us how to get rid of billionaires.
thanks AV
in reply to givesomefucks • • •I respect your efforts and understand you are doing this in good faith with a belief that change can in fact come from within the democratic party but I'm going to tell you that the democratic party is, foundationally, a capitalist, imperialist political project. You will never direct them away from the worst of their crimes because that is fundamentally what they exist to protect. No matter what you believe may change within the party leadership et al the party proper cannot and will not become what you are envisioning.
The platform you believe in is actually already the green party platform (if anyone would have bothered reading it) and I'd argue moving democratic party voters to the greens is a more viable strategy to achieve your aims than trying to force the democratic party itself to completely reject and invert its core ideology.
In my opinion we need to be doing much more than trying to organize behind electoral parties, but if thats what you believe is the solution then I want you to actually have the best chance to succeed in your goals. That pathway would be
... show moreI respect your efforts and understand you are doing this in good faith with a belief that change can in fact come from within the democratic party but I'm going to tell you that the democratic party is, foundationally, a capitalist, imperialist political project. You will never direct them away from the worst of their crimes because that is fundamentally what they exist to protect. No matter what you believe may change within the party leadership et al the party proper cannot and will not become what you are envisioning.
The platform you believe in is actually already the green party platform (if anyone would have bothered reading it) and I'd argue moving democratic party voters to the greens is a more viable strategy to achieve your aims than trying to force the democratic party itself to completely reject and invert its core ideology.
In my opinion we need to be doing much more than trying to organize behind electoral parties, but if thats what you believe is the solution then I want you to actually have the best chance to succeed in your goals. That pathway would be to invigorate the green party nationally and using that platform as a rallying call for the "democrats" who you believe are just waiting and hoping and fighting tirelessly for a socialist/in-any-way-left-leaning democratic party.
The dnc at this point should dissolve, allow all these "centrist and conservative democrats" to declare themselves republicans already, and actually give a space for some kind of even vaguely left party in america to take its place. The greens are the party you think the democrats should be, and I'd bet if you argued for them you'd have a whole lot more people who would be receptive and even give you a blank slate as far as their perception of the greens which you can help shape by being a representative of progressive empathy based politics. It saves you a ton of strife and headache while doing basically twice as much to expedite your desire political outcomes. There you will also have the benefit of not having to rebuild the party in your image, because the influx of support would be so large the new members would basically be able to lead the party in whatever direction they saw fit.
Genuinely. I'm trying to do more grassroots community organizing but if youre trying to do electoral politics within the current political climate you're making your job much harder trying to convince both the dnc and just regular people that the democratic party will ever be different. At least consider splitting your efforts between both parties and see which one seems more responsive and interested in your ideas.
Not trying to bring down your efforts, I'm not even saying this article isn't evidence of some minor reflection in the party, I just want to help you avoid fighting these battles over the issue and give another potential outlet for your work. I believe you have good political instincts and want whats best for people, and I want you to have the best chance at achieving your goals expeditiously.
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in reply to thanks AV • • •There's ~400 people that vote for chair, and if a Dem be ones president they just vote for who the president said to.
That means if Ken lets a fair primary and AOC runs...
Shed likely pick the next chair, then the next cuz you know she'd get re-elected.
That's almost a decade. During which time some of those ~400 are going to be replaced and while slow it's been trending left and this would accelerate it.
But as long as a good D keeps winning, they can keep naming chairs, and thus control of the entire political apparatus
... show moreThis is the absolute worst time since FDR's super major
There's ~400 people that vote for chair, and if a Dem be ones president they just vote for who the president said to.
That means if Ken lets a fair primary and AOC runs...
Shed likely pick the next chair, then the next cuz you know she'd get re-elected.
That's almost a decade. During which time some of those ~400 are going to be replaced and while slow it's been trending left and this would accelerate it.
But as long as a good D keeps winning, they can keep naming chairs, and thus control of the entire political apparatus
This is the absolute worst time since FDR's super majorities to dissolve the party. Before we can do that we need to change the system that gives so much power to the parties.
The party is a weapon and we've finally got it by the handle and the pointy end aimed at the shitty people.
We can't break it when we're literally fighting fascism and parties are insanely powerful.
First we squash the modern Republican party, then when we have the overwhelming supermajority under a D, we can change the system.
We can't skip the part where parties aren't necessary before dismantling our own party. And to do that we need a progressive super majority.
It's gonna take a couple elections.
thanks AV
in reply to givesomefucks • • •Again I respect your optimism but hanging your hat on AOC becoming president and doing anything to change the party is patently disconnected from reality. I dont think youre grappling with the core issues within the democratic party, and need to accept that your perception of "good" democrats are in reality corporatist progressives with no intent on creating any sort of positive change. They are entrenched in power, and their goals are to further entrench their power.
AOC has proven herself to be the exact same partisan dem as anyone else in congress. Bernie before her was an opportunist and the dnc used him in the 2016 primary to be able to run a "socialist" for president and then have him drop out and go "socialism says Hillary Clinton is a-ok!" So all the progressives and actually principled political masses would be sheep herded into the democratic party to be strangled and completely disengaged from political action. I can share some videos with you about the structure and purpose of the party including its "left" wing if you want to seriously engage with the historical
... show moreAgain I respect your optimism but hanging your hat on AOC becoming president and doing anything to change the party is patently disconnected from reality. I dont think youre grappling with the core issues within the democratic party, and need to accept that your perception of "good" democrats are in reality corporatist progressives with no intent on creating any sort of positive change. They are entrenched in power, and their goals are to further entrench their power.
AOC has proven herself to be the exact same partisan dem as anyone else in congress. Bernie before her was an opportunist and the dnc used him in the 2016 primary to be able to run a "socialist" for president and then have him drop out and go "socialism says Hillary Clinton is a-ok!" So all the progressives and actually principled political masses would be sheep herded into the democratic party to be strangled and completely disengaged from political action. I can share some videos with you about the structure and purpose of the party including its "left" wing if you want to seriously engage with the historical analysis and what the party actually stands for. There's no home for you there bro, I'm trying to save you from yourself. This will kill you if you let it.
Genuinely take a single day to go and participate in a green party meeting in your area. Give yourself the freedom to decide who actually represents your vision for the future today. If you think its worse than the dems and they're even less willing to be receptive to you and your ideas then by all means go back to stumping for the party that has openly despised you and everyone you align with for our entire lives. I think you could at least do both things, and see which one bears fruit first.
Again, not trying to be mean or derisive I just genuinely dont believe that fighting for this is good for your mental health. Spread your cards out so that you dont have a complete depersonalisation after the party takes ten years from you and continues funding genocides and wars for imperial extraction of foreign resources. If not greens find dsa or something in your local area. Just go see how something else feels and compare it to this breathless defense of a trillion dollar entrenched systemic evil. You can advocate for better from the dnc while also having no illusions about the actual odds of that happening and simultaneously doing a higher percentage action.
I appreciate the opportunity to talk candidly about this, and I hope youre not taking these comments as attacks on you or your character. You sound like you care and I dont want someone like you to be taken advantage of. You have a drive to create real change and I want your efforts to be directed somewhere that your energy will actually result in real world outcomes instead of being fought against within a party which does not intend to represent you. I hope this finds you well, and wish you the best of luck on whatever you decide to pursue. Just giving some options for you.