One Thing Has Changed at Portland City Hall: The Socialists Are Setting the Agenda
One Thing Has Changed at Portland City Hall: The Socialists Are Setting the Agenda
For the first time in living memory, Portland in effect has two viable political parties—and the second one isn’t the Republicans.Willamette Week
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Review from Dec 22, 1877 - Edison demonstrates his 'talking phonograph' for the Scientific American
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Liberal media watchdog weighs shutting down as it ‘scrambles’ to fend off MAGA assault
Liberal media watchdog weighs shutting down as it ‘scrambles’ to fend off MAGA assault
The nonprofit media watchdog group Media Matters is reportedly considering shutting down, the New York Times reported Friday, as the nonprofit scrambles to fend off “legal assaults” from allies of President Donald Trump.Alexander Willis (Raw Story)
The US far right and Trumps allies are actively working to replace Europe’s head leaders with anti-EU anti democratic far right nationalistic leaders with the help of european allies
The great reset: the far rights detailed plan to dismantle the EU
Trump hardliners want a power shift in the EU with the help of European allies.
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There are increasing indications that the Trump movement is actively interfering with the political future of the European Union. In March, the most influential conservative think tank in Washington, the Heritage Foundation, invited conservative thinkers from Vienna and Budapest to present their plans for the EU during a workshop.
“It is right for the United States to be involved in the future of Europe,” Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation told Nieuwsuur. According to the prominent conservative thinker, Donald Trump is America's first eurosceptic president. “The United States has protected Europe for so long that European governments should respect America’s views.”
Polish and Hungarian think tanks published an ambitious plan in March to fundamentally reform and dismantle the EU from within. A Hungarian investigative journalist uncovered the project, titled The Great Reset. The proposal was quickly adopted by the Heritage Foundation, the intellectual force behind Project 2025, the ideological blueprint for Trump’s agenda.
Power Back to Nation States
The now-public roadmap includes proposals to strip power from the European Commission and the European Court of Justice. It also calls for renaming the EU to the “European Community of Nations.” Power, according to the document, should return to the individual nation states of Europe.
“These proposals essentially amount to the complete dismantling of the European Commission, which would be reduced to handling only trivial matters,” explains Szabolcs Panyi, the journalist who obtained the document.
Nieuwsuur also spoke with one of the Polish authors of the plan, Zbigniew Przybyłowski of the conservative Ordo Iuris Institute: “We are calling for the restoration of democracy, freedom, and the sovereignty of nations. You could call that a power shift.”
“It’s quite unusual for such an article to appear on the U.S. State Department’s website.”
– Lobbying expert Kenneth HaarU.S. Government Statement on Europe
In May of this year, a policy document appeared on the website of the U.S. State Department. In it, the American government raised alarm about the current state of Europe. The policy piece described Europe as having “degenerated into a hotbed of digital censorship, mass migration, and restrictions on religious freedom.” It criticized efforts to limit election participation, for example by labeling Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as “extremist.”
The document, titled The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, called for strengthening ties with far-right and ultraconservative allies in Europe, such as French politician Marine Le Pen, AfD leader Alice Weidel, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and Dutch PVV leader Geert Wilders. It is unclear whether the U.S. policy statement was influenced by the Polish-Hungarian Great Reset project.
“There has already been collaboration between the MAGA movement (Trump’s Make America Great Again campaign) and the European far-right,” says Danish lobby researcher Kenneth Haar. “But seeing such a document appear on the U.S. government’s official website is remarkable.”
“The Pro-European Candidate is a Disaster”
Haar points to the Conservative Political Action Conferences (CPAC) from the U.S., which have been held in Europe for the past three years. “These are very large conferences with hundreds of participants and prominent speakers, involving all major far-right parties in Europe.”
This also occurred recently during a tight race between two Polish presidential candidates. At a special CPAC conference in Poland, Trump’s former Homeland Security Secretary publicly called for a vote in favor of the eurosceptic candidate Karol Nawrocki. She labeled his pro-European opponent “a disaster.” Members of the Trump camp also expressed explicit support this year for Germany’s far-right AfD.
“The Heritage Foundation and the entire MAGA alliance appear to be succeeding in uniting Europe’s far-right parties in a way those parties haven’t been able to achieve on their own,” Haar adds.
Nile Gardiner, Director of European Policy at the Heritage Foundation, sees signs of a shift already: “A wind of change is blowing through Europe, including the Netherlands. There’s growing distrust of the concentration of power among unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.”
Brussels Silent
The European Commission has yet to respond to the ambitions coming from Washington. But according to Hungarian journalist Panyi, Brussels should be paying close attention to the far-reaching American involvement in European politics.
“We see that two EU member states—Hungary and Poland—are trying to shape the future of the EU outside of official decision-making procedures. They are enlisting the help of the U.S. in the hope that Trump will put pressure on the European Commission. That’s a threat.”
Gardiner, on the other hand, sees it as an opportunity. “Europe works best when it is a collaboration between sovereign nation states. The EU, by contrast, is about concentrating political power in Brussels. In 20 to 30 years, the EU will look very different than it does today.”
Disclosure
For this report, Nieuwsuur investigated the plans of European and American think tanks regarding the political future of Europe. Nieuwsuur spoke with experts, MEPs, and journalists from France, the Netherlands, Czechia, Hungary, the UK, Germany, and Poland. We interviewed the following sources:
- Szabolcs Panyi, Hungarian investigative journalist, who uncovered The Great Reset project.
- Kenneth Haar, Danish researcher with the Corporate Europe Observatory, an independent organization tracking U.S. lobbying efforts in the EU.
- Zbigniew Przybyłowski, one of the drafters of The Great Reset, from the Polish Ordo Iuris Institute (privately funded). The project was co-published with the Hungarian Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), which is largely state-funded by the Hungarian government.
- Nile Gardiner, European Director of the Heritage Foundation, a major pillar of the Trump movement (financially independent). He also recently wrote about Trump’s euroscepticism.
The U.S. State Department declined to comment on Nieuwsuur's questions.
The European Commission has not yet responded. Any future statements will be added here.
They should focus on their own political system... We like democracy, F*** off
Renaming the EU, Dismantling the Commission: Polish, Hungarian Illiberals Seek U.S. Backing - VSquare.org
The Trump administration's most influential think tank, The Heritage Foundation, is receiving proposals from illiberal forces in Poland and Hungary on how to shape the future of the European Union.Szabolcs Panyi (VSquare.org)
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Hey it worked in the UK (Brexit), the US (Trump), getting close in Canada, so it makes sense.
Turned out to be crazy simple: just use military psychological operation techniques on the facebook data for your given area, prop up some dorkish podcasters and Xitters, give it between six months and a couple of years and and bada-bing. Democracy dead.
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Hey every European who has been telling Americans to stop sitting around and do something about all this:
Now's your chance! No more standing on the sidelines for you! Put up or shut up! Show us how it's done!
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says the asshole who says "Crickets lol".
Edit: to give context as to why you are an ignorant fool who tends to get outraged that nobody has replied to you yet, Europe is light years ahead of the U.S in government and policy.
everything you are saying is untrue.
I didn't say anything except point out Europe is far ahead of the US in policy and governance. You never said anything except "Crickets, Lol" hence i asked for elaboration.
Everything else in your comment is just "lol, lmao" or writing comments acting outraged or reacting sarcastically to others.
and calling me racist from our interaction in the past is just immature.
We voted and are struggling but at least we're holding the line.
How is it going for you?
They voted against it and are, under quite a lot pressure, not letting the far-right take control. In Canada we elected a party for the third time in a row, which basically never happens, in order to keep our Conservatives out of power(it was way too close and the Liberals are centrists so I’m still disappointed, but we didn’t elect the obvious fascist).
Ya’ll’re failing an open book test. Stay in your lane, buddy.
Marine Le Pen was convicted and banned from participating in political office for mere embezzling.
Now your turn.
We will make PEDOPHILIA GREAT Worldwide!
-The GOP who is CURRENTLY Protecting Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell after they ran a DEEP STATE RICH PEOPLE CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING RING!
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Is this a warning? I hope most of you have spotted this sooner than this article seems to have, because this has been going on for quite a while.
There's even been articles uncovering far right groups financing influencers and youtubers as a way to sever through culture.
And I keep saying that "Gamergate" was the true opening of that avenue into the mainstream almost a decade and a half ago. That was the time to spot it. By the time that "kermit the frog impersonator" and the "no chin alpha" showed up on the public radar, the problem was already unfolding wide and around for a while.
And I have a suspicion that what started Gamergate was just some good old sport trolling that then turned into... well... the opening of the gates of hell.
Obviously that I have no way to confirm this.
But I still have some fun imagining those who were indeed just trolling for some dumb fun back then, now aged with their scruffy beard and hair greying, holding their knees in a fetal position muttering to themselves "What did I do?"- and yes, it's kind of fucked that I find that funny.
But I also keep saying the same thing over and over...
This is not just an American problem. This is everywhere.
If you disagree, I suggest you take a stroll through Europe...
You can start with Portugal, and the ridiculousness with the party Chega and its circus of followers, moving next to Spain with Vox and their own clown show, then France and don't tell me you haven't even heard of Marine Le Pen. Just take a look up from there to Britain with good old Brexit and the tumour Nigel Farage with the cancer that is Reform. What about Italy? Anyone thinking that Georgia Meloni snuck up on Europe must've been in a coma during the Berlusconi years, because the orange blob as president is just a terrible American remake of that Italian classic. And Germany, did it elude anyone the fact that AFD scored the second place in the elections and is even polling in first now, apparently? I could keep going, but we should stop before we get to the Balkans, right?
"Well, that's just Europe and the U.S. then."
What about Australia, with Peter Dutton and the crazy brand of fascism they have going down under? Or Canada and what the hell is even Pierre Polievre who was all set to win? Yes, these two did lose but not by much and the type of fuel they ran on is still there to burn.
This is a problem that is everywhere. And what creates this madness is that there are grifters who are willing to say whatever it takes, that take problems that affect almost everyone except the elite class, but then single their message across to a particular subset of the public which is too uneducated to understand the rest of the conversation that everyone is trying to have. And because the indignation is something that so many others can join in on when there's so much to feel angry towards, the menace spreads wider as a result of a compromise to meet the end they desire.
But this second wave of rage that joins in has the logic that if there's things that need fixing in one's household, the best is to burn the house down, apparently.
And the really sad part is none of this is new.
Socrates thought that elections were too important to be handed to a general public which was too ignorant to understand its functioning or its true value. And who was it that believed that there was a need for a lie to "deceive" the population into doing the decent thing? I can't remember which of them said that. (If you do, please do tell) But that was what many found religion to be the method to accomplish it. As ludicrous as that might sound.
It's just the same loop of the revolt of the idiots. "My pain is truer than yours" type of nonsense.
On and on.
But if anyone knows how to make the arrogant humble and the idiot know their idiocy, please do tell.
Because you would've made the greatest discovery in human history that would break this seemingly never-ending loop.
And who was it that believed that there was a need for a lie to “deceive” the population into doing the decent thing? I can’t remember which of them said that.
I was going to say it sounds like Vance when he was spreading lies about Haitians migrants eating dogs, but then I saw the decent bit of it.
As you hinted religion is a potential way to control a population into doing what you want as it is a way of controlling what is talked about (and how it is talked about) to manipulate people.
I think what has changed is that now the owners of the media and information landscape can use new technology and psychology to control the narrative better mostly to extract a bit more profit. It is more profitable to keep people scrolling or listening to ragebait on your platform or show than to do proper investigative journalism.
The problem is the vast majority of media sources are controlled by elites who skew their messaging to the perceived whims of their owners which happen to predominately be far right. The population is forced to follow their lead as they have no easy way of influencing public opinion at scale.
(...) Yes, these two did lose, but not by much
I might be wrong on this one, but didn't Labor in Australia secure the biggest margin in recent times during last elections? Dutton lost there by A LOT.
But yeah, can't deny that otherwise, you're making good points. Right-wing is on the rise throughout the world, with populists leading the charge, selling simple solutions for complex problems
No, you're not wrong. Someone else has also corrected me.
Apparently Dutton even lost his sit.
So, good news on that front at least.
Is this a warning? I hope most of you have spotted this sooner than this article seems to have, because this has been going on for quite a while.
Thank you.
Yes, even before Trump 1.0.
The advent of smartphones & social media made everyone a journalist and camera person with instant global audience. On one hand that's a good thing, on the other the companies running the platforms have way too much authority over which content gets boosted, and factuality, truth, or peaceful + reasonable argument does not come into it. And they have been applying these algorithms and lack of moderation for so long, we now feel that it's normal, it's "just the way it is".
Not saying fascist crazies haven't always been a thing, but printed press and TV had rules and a buffer that filters out the worst stuff.
Not so social media... Let that machinery run for a decade, the savvy grifters rise through the ranks all the way into politics (that sweet lobby mulah) cheered on by way too many people drowning out any sort of reasonable discourse. Hell, reasonable discourse itself seems to be "socialist" nowadays.
This doesn't discount the rest of your points but in Australia Dutton lost by a landslide, and also lost his own seat, so he's out of parliament entirely.
We still have a lot of the racism and xenophobia issues fed by inequality and corporate interests, but Trump and his style is deeply unpopular here, which is partially why Dutton lost so badly.
Thank you for the correction and the very good news in just one go.
And I apologise if I misrepresented the Australian national identity in the process. That wasn't my intention. And it's always good to know that this brand of populism is unpopular in some countries.
Australian politician Gareth Ward found guilty of rape
A New South Wales (NSW) politician has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two young men in Australia.
A jury found Gareth Ward - who is still a sitting member of state parliament - guilty of three counts of indecent assault and one count of rape.
Both of the victims, who were aged 18 and 24, said they were assaulted at Ward's home after meeting the 44-year-old through political circles between 2013 and 2015.
Ward resigned as a state government minister and from the Liberal Party when the accusations emerged in 2021, but refused to leave parliament and was re-elected as the member for Kiama in 2023.
The jury deliberated for three days after hearing nine weeks of evidence in the NSW District Court.
The trial heard Ward had invited a drunk 18-year-old man to his home in 2013 and indecently assaulted him three times, despite his attempts to resist.
Two years later, he raped a political staffer after an event at parliament.
Australian politician Gareth Ward found guilty of rape
Ward, a sitting member of New South Wales parliament, assaulted two young men, a jury found.Tiffanie Turnbull (BBC News)
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I would imagine in America this guy would lose his job because of this. Not because there is accountability for raping young women in america, but because convicted rapist Garett Ward raped two MEN.
American “Christians” hate gay sex more than anything else, except for maybe trans folks playing sports.
Right winged politicians trying not to give you uncanny valley vibes.
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Venezuelan makeup artist returns home, describes torture during El Salvador detention
- Hernandez alleges torture, abuse in El Salvador's CECOT prison
- Trump used Alien Enemies Act for deportation, sparking legal battles
- Concerns for Hernandez's safety in Venezuela due to LGBTQ persecution
CAPACHO, Venezuela, July 23 (Reuters) - A makeup artist who became the face of more than 250 Venezuelan migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador's most notorious prison arrived home to his family on Wednesday after what he described as "an encounter with torture and death."
Andry Hernandez, 32, and the other detainees returned to Venezuela on Friday as part of a prisoner exchange, after spending four months in El Salvador's CECOT prison, where they and the Venezuelan government allege they were beaten, shot with rubber projectiles, held in dark cells, and served rotten food.
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Thai PM says dispute with Cambodia could 'escalate into a state of war'
Thailand and Cambodia exchanged heavy artillery fire for a second day on Friday as their worst fighting in over a decade intensified and spread to new areas, despite international calls for a ceasefire.
At least 16 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in the escalating border battle.
Both sides have blamed each other for starting the conflict and on Friday ratcheted up the rhetoric, with Thailand accusing Cambodia of deliberately targeting civilians and Cambodia alleging Thailand was using cluster munitions, a controversial and widely condemned ordnance.
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Thai PM says dispute with Cambodia could 'escalate into a state of war'
Thailand and Cambodia exchanged heavy artillery fire for a second day on Friday as their worst fighting in over a decade intensified and spread to new areas, despite international calls for a ceasefire.At least 16 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in the escalating border battle.
Both sides have blamed each other for starting the conflict and on Friday ratcheted up the rhetoric, with Thailand accusing Cambodia of deliberately targeting civilians and Cambodia alleging Thailand was using cluster munitions, a controversial and widely condemned ordnance.
Thai PM says dispute with Cambodia could 'escalate into a state of war'
Thailand and Cambodia exchanged heavy artillery fire for a second day on Friday as their worst fighting in over a decade intensified and spread to new areas, despite international calls for a ceasefire.
At least 16 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in the escalating border battle.
Both sides have blamed each other for starting the conflict and on Friday ratcheted up the rhetoric, with Thailand accusing Cambodia of deliberately targeting civilians and Cambodia alleging Thailand was using cluster munitions, a controversial and widely condemned ordnance.
As far as I understand, it's still a bit unclear.
Thailand claims Cambodian troops were approaching a Thai border guard station and started firing towards the Thai soldiers, leading to the Thai soldiers firing back.
Cambodia claims the patrol was walking the regular route, and Thai soldiers suddenly opened fire towards them.
Obviously one (or both) is lying, and the situation escalated quickly.
AP News includes this overview:
The contesting claims stem largely from a 1907 map drawn under French colonial rule that was used to separate Cambodia from Thailand. Cambodia has been using the map as a reference to claim territory, while Thailand has argued the map is inaccurate.
Scientists in Barbados overturn hundreds of rocks to rediscover world's smallest-known snake
For nearly two decades, no one had spotted the world’s smallest-known snake.
Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados threadsnake had become extinct, but one sunny morning, Connor Blades lifted a rock in a tiny forest in the eastern Caribbean island and held his breath.
“After a year of searching, you begin to get a little pessimistic,” said Blades, project officer with the Ministry of Environment in Barbados.
The snake can fit comfortably on a coin, so it was able to elude scientists for almost 20 years. Too tiny to identify with the naked eye, Blades placed it in a small glass jar and added soil, substrate and leaf litter.
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Trump Hit by Devastating Proof Epstein Birthday Book Is Real
Trump Hit by Devastating Proof Epstein Birthday Book Is Real
New evidence is causing another headache for the president.Josephine Harvey (The Daily Beast)
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Mr. Trump’s name is listed among dozens of Mr. Epstein’s acquaintances who were asked to contribute birthday messages for the leather-bound book in 2003. The list, reviewed by The New York Times, includes well-known Epstein associates like Leslie H. Wexner, then the owner of Victoria’s Secret and other retailers; Alan C. Greenberg, who ran the doomed Wall Street firm Bear Stearns; and the physicist Murray Gell-Mann. Mr. Greenberg and Mr. Gell-Mann both have since died.
New evidence
Isn't this old evidence that no one seems to have cared about much until now?
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All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.
All rape is sexual, but not all sex is rape. Adults fucking children is rape. In this case, terminology matters.
Ghislaine Handed DOJ 100 Names in Shameless Pardon Quid Pro Quo
Ghislaine Handed DOJ 100 Names in Shameless Pardon Quid Pro Quo
The convicted child sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate met with the deputy AG for two days of questioning.Sarah Ewall-Wice (The Daily Beast)
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Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, said after the meetings that his client was asked about maybe “100 different people” in connection with Epstein. He said she did not hold anything back.
She didnt list the names of offenders or anything like that. She just responded to their questions about 100 people.
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So anyone who even said hi to him at one time pretty much.
100 person list: 98 Democrats, a delivery guy, and a repair tech.
Public opinion always matters. Even kings needed their people on their side; why do you think they made up all that divine right bullshit and had the churches preach it so much?
Every country has the government that a sufficient number of people are willing to tolerate. Tyranny can only tip the scales, it cannot change the game. If a populace doesn't want to be ruled, it cannot be ruled. That's why fascism relies so heavily on the imposition of a hierarchy; because the people who aren't at the bottom will support the system that gives them someone else to tread on, while the rich and the powerful live it up at the top. But you always need to keep a significant sector of the population on your side. There always has to be an in group who benefit enough from the government to want to keep it.
Governments end when enough people want them to end. Democracy is just a way of doing it politely.
"Her lawyer said that the sit-downs this week were Maxwell’s first opportunity to answer questions about what happened."
I'm pretty sure that she was questioned by investigators during multiple investigations into Epstein over the years, including her own trial that sent her to jail.
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On Friday, Trump not only acknowledged that he is “allowed” to pardon Maxwell as president, but he also tried to scapegoat others as he denies he ever had a close relationship with Epstein.
“Donald J. Trump in no way knew about any of Jeffry’s illicit doings. In fact, he was a model, moral and honorable person - perhaps the most moral and honorable person in the history of the world, except for maybe Jesus. Jeffery used to come to me, tears in his eyes, and say I wish I could be as strong, powerful and moral as Donald. Any mention of him in any files were related to him going to church and praying.”
-Ghislaine Maxwell
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In this case specifically Trump has a huge conflict of interest, and she is probably pardoned for NOT mentioning Trump.
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No, it sounds worse. What good is the testimony of a "witness/convict" that you threaten and bribe? It's not, it's nothing. Well, if you put it together with the Epstein Files, that might be something. Which is what we already knew.
I think you knew it too, but maybe a few other readers didn't.
well if you put it together with the epstein files, that might be something
You do realize I was talking about the epstein files right? Seeing as I said "epstein file" in both sentences that I wrote.
Oh I see what you're saying. You're saying that you posted your comment in the wrong place and that you didn't actually care about the article mentioned above. Okay, in that case we agree.
Except even then we don't agree. If the idea is that they are going to release the files without one name, that means they're actually going to doctor the files, which makes them totally worthless.
Markus also said that she was asked about “every possible thing you could imagine–everything."
So logically that would mean she's revealed everything she knows about Trump.
Ghislaine Maxwell ‘Wants a Pardon’ From Trump According to Fox News’ David Spunt
Ghislaine Maxwell ‘Wants a Pardon’ From Trump According to Fox News’ David Spunt
Longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell is reportedly seeking a pardon from President Donald Trump, according to Fox News reporter David Spunt.Colby Hall (Mediaite)
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I know what will get people to shut up about Epstein! I'll release literally the only person in jail for his giant pedophila ring!
trump apparently...
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Ghislaine Maxwell Can’t Help But Notice Interview Room Covered In Plastic Sheeting
TALLAHASSEE, FL—Perplexed that the Department of Justice had chosen a setting with such strange decor to ask her about Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators, Ghislaine Maxwell confirmed Thursday that she couldn’t help but notice her interview room was co…The Onion Staff (The Onion)
She'll release info implicating dems but not any Republicans.
She'll be off'd as a liability and the message will be that dems did it.
It's a simpleton maneuver but it'll work because Trump's base is stupid.
Fucking DUH.
Give us a list without trumps name and get a pardon
This admin is simple minded. It doesn't take ChatGPT to noodle this out.
Musk immediately throws Trump’s suck up attempt back in his face
Elon Musk rejected a peace offering from Donald Trump after the president revealed he was not planning to “destroy” the Tesla CEO’s empire.
In the midst of an on-again, off-again, explosive public feud that culminated in Musk dropping the bomb that “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files,” the president threw out a surprise olive branch.
Musk, who stepped down from a role in Trump’s administration overseeing DOGE, wasn’t buying it. He responded to Trump’s post by taking it apart bit by bit.
Musk Immediately Throws Trump’s Suck Up Attempt Back in His Face
The president had said he wants the Tesla CEO to “THRIVE.”Leigh Kimmins (The Daily Beast)
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That’s really fucking weird…
I know, right?!
You're right; we should only call Musk "pedo guy" using quotes, as that has been proven in court to be an acceptable insult for anyone, regardless of whether they've raped kids.
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Elon Musk wins defamation case over 'pedo guy' tweet about caver
Tesla's founder did not defame a UK caver who helped in the Thai cave rescue, a US jury finds.BBC News
One day inside the deportation machine at a federal immigration court in New York
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33670538
Photographs and text by Julius Constantine Motal
Fri 25 Jul 2025 12.00 EDT
A brother is torn from his sister. A father arrives for his immigration hearing with his family, only to find that they will be leaving without him. A woman, seemingly relieved after emerging from her hearing, finds that her life is about to change when she is apprehended by federal officials waiting just outside the door.These are just some of the moments that happened on a single day in the Jacob K Javits federal building at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, the largest federal immigration courthouse in Manhattan.
One day inside the deportation machine at a federal immigration court in New York
The Guardian observed a spate of detentions at a Manhattan courthouse on 16 July 2025, despite the fact that some of those detained had been granted follow-up hearingsJulius Constantine Motal (The Guardian)
FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn't Anti-Trump
FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn't Anti-Trump
FCC commissioner Brendan Carr says CBS will have a "bias monitor" who reports directly to the president of Paramount.Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
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Contact Restored with Gaza-Bound Aid Ship Handala Amid Fears of Israeli Attack
Contact Restored with Gaza-Bound Aid Ship Handala Amid Fears of Israeli Attack - Palestine Chronicle
Communications were restored early on Friday with the Handala, an aid vessel heading for Gaza, after a two-hour interruption.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Analysis: Trump’s Epstein claims keep falling apart | CNN Politics
Trump: *Lies*
Fact Check: *Shows trump is lying*
Repeat
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/25/politics/trump-epstein-claims-analysis
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I know I'll get some flak for this, but should the average person even need the ability to parse through this BS? Like every inch of this mess should've been settled decades ago in courtrooms with every one of Epsteins buddies sitting in a vaguely damp jail cell until trial. But due to abject corruption on all levels one of his degenerate profligate buddies is now sitting in the Whitehouse. Frankly speaking everyone involved with Epstein should've popped up dead in a ditch or should've been rotting in a prison cell.
Instead it's now being hashed in the court of public opinion which is frankly speaking a mess especially with how degraded common news media is. Humans are evolved to hunt and gather not analyze the bullshit info on a cavalcade of child rapists, while plenty of us have moved past such simple functions plenty haven't.
Note I think ignorance is a sin, but there are plenty of folks who simply want to do their job go home eat something tasty then vibe with their buddies in the garage. The problem is that due to propaganda and other trite those simple folks have been turned into a weapon.
But the question Trump raised is a good one. Indeed, why would someone misrepresent Epstein-related things? And why would a president do so repeatedly like this?
I can tell you why. Because he was never there. All the photos are fakes. They were fake even in the 90s, before anyone knew that Epstein was a child-predator. When there was no reason to frame Trump, people were already framing him. That's called a long-con!
I'm being facitious, of course. He was on the plane. They were pals. He wrote and drew the weird bday note. And he likely assaulted children, though that last one is alleged, to be clear. Don't sue me.
Neanderthals were not ‘hypercarnivores’ and feasted on maggots, scientists say
Researchers believe humans’ closest relatives may have stored meat from their kills for months before eating it
For hungry Neanderthals, there was more on the menu than wild mammals, roasted pigeon, seafood and plants. Chemical signatures in the ancient bones point to a nutritious and somewhat inevitable side dish: handfuls of fresh maggots.
The theory from US researchers undermines previous thinking that Neanderthals were “hypercarnivores” who stood at the top of the food chain with cave lions, sabre-toothed tigers and other beasts that consumed impressive quantities of meat.
Rather than feasting on endless mammoth steaks, they stored their kills for months, the scientists believe, favouring the fatty parts over lean meat, and the maggots that riddled the putrefying carcasses.
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“The only reason this is surprising is that it contradicts what we westerners think of as food,”
Buried fermented shark, fermented herring, Italian maggot cheese etc etc.
"We westerners" amounts to Kraft eating Americans in this article
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“We westerners” amounts to Kraft eating Americans in this article.
True. American corporations are taking over America.“We westerners” amounts to Kraft-eating Americans in this article.
True. Americans tend to have very bland palettes.
I had to re-read that sentence.
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So they were farming maggots?
We could have a bit of yummy meat today and then its gone, or we could leave it and have maggots for months.
Pretty smart, if gross.
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The trick must surely lie in the preparation. We aren't Neanderthals and cook our food, and I'm sure we can find a way to make maggots or other insect larvae appetizing. As you mentioned, they are highly nutritious.
bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-5…
Eating insects: Testing out the delicacy in DR Congo
Insects can be an eco-friendly alternative to meat and have long been part of DR Congo's cuisine.www.bbc.com
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favouring the fatty parts over lean meat, and the maggots that riddled the putrefying carcasses.
The next new diet fads are going to be really interesting:
"Bruh! You gotta try the latest True Paleo(TM) diet..."
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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33668110
Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targetsClare Considine
Fri 25 Jul 2025 13.19 EDT
Video footage of the incident captured by Laynez-Ambrosio... appears to show a group of officers in tactical gear working together to violently detain the three men*, two of whom are undocumented. They appear to use a stun gun on one man, put another in a chokehold and can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio: “You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.” Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.”
The video begins after the van has been pulled over and the border patrol had arrived. A female officer can be heard asking, in Spanish, whether anyone is in the country illegally. One of Laynez-Ambrosio’s friends answers that he is undocumented.
Everyone should know their rights. Don't talk to cops. Don't even open the windows enough to let them talk to passengers.
US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans
- U.S. diplomatic cable asked if non-white racial minorities are eligible
- Trump official said in email that the program was intended for whites
- State Department says program is open to Afrikaners and all racial minorities
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I was going to tell one of those "two white guys and a black guy" jokes from my youth here with immigration in place of St. Peter administering one final test, but that's a lot of fucking work to tell a joke that has been in circulation for 50 years. So I go to look it up to copy/paste and I find out the joke is based on actual Jim Crow laws preventing black people from voting with literacy tests.
Anyway, the punchline is "Spell chrysanthemum." I'm sure you can work backward to figure out the rest of the joke and how it relates.
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wweek.com/news/city/2025/02/22…
Councilor Kanal’s Proposed Tweaks to Police Accountability Board Inflame Police Union
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in reply to LovingHippieCat • • •This is quite a new change for us. Decades of the most incompetent politicians makes me very cynical that the new regime will be any better. Usually we get a very progressive bill to vote on, one i usually agree with and want to vote for but is clear there is no system in place or even real plan to support the bill if it passes. See our recent failures in drug decriminalization and gun control. Both things I believe in, but decriminalization passed and was a complete failure and the gun control measure was so poorly thought out that it will be a decade before a reasonable measure will be proposed again. Don't even mention Wapato prison. Plenty of good intentions but absolutely squandered by incompetence.
Writing all that it still sounds better than a red state.
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