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Theft of the Commons

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Congress is making more than 250 million acres of public lands available for sale.

The Senate reconciliation package is a disturbing giveaway that will mandate the “disposal” of public lands across the western United States… to big oil and the opulent class.

#USA #Commons #Giveaway #OpulentClass #BigOil #TheftOfTheCommons #Fascism #Neoliberalism #Betrayal


Congress is making more than 250 million acres of public lands available for sale.

The Senate reconciliation package is a disturbing giveaway that will mandate the “disposal” of public lands across the western United States.
The Wilderness Society
#USA #fascism #neoliberalism #Commons #giveaway #BigOil #betrayal #opulentclass #theftofthecommons

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Number of Irish J1 students travelling to US drops by 25pc as social media vetting kicks in byteseu.com/1128155/ #Éire #Ireland #PoblachtNaHÉireann #RepublicOfIreland
Number of Irish J1 students travelling to US drops by 25pc as social media vetting kicks in

Number of Irish J1 students travelling to US drops by 25pc as social media vetting kicks in

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#Ireland #eire #poblachtnaheireann #republicofireland

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Pete Hegseth just repeated what I wrote 9 hours ago.

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Over the past two decades, the #UnitedStates has used sanctions, sabotage, cyberattacks and diplomatic negotiations to try to slow Iran’s long march to a #nuclear weapon.

At roughly 2:30AM Sunday in #Iran, #Trump unleashed a show of raw military might that each of his last 4 predecessors had deliberately avoided, for fear of plunging the #US into #war in the #MiddleEast.

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#MiddleEast #UnitedStates #iran #Trump #war #US #nuclear

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After days of declaring that he could not take the risk that the mullahs & generals of Tehran who had survived Israel’s strikes would make a final leap to a #nuclear weapon, #Trump ordered a fleet of B-2 bombers halfway around the world to drop the most powerful conventional bombs on the most critical sites in #Iran’s vast nuclear complexes.

The prime target was the deeply buried enrichment center at #Fordow, which #Israel was incapable of reaching.

#israel #iran #Trump #nuclear #Fordow
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For #Trump, the decision to attack the #nuclear infrastructure of a hostile nation represents the biggest — & potentially most dangerous — gamble of his second term.

He is betting that the #UnitedStates can repel whatever retaliation #Iran’s leadership orders against >40,000 American #troops spread over bases throughout the region. All are within range of Tehran’s missile fleet, even after eight days of relentless attacks by #Israel.

#UnitedStates #israel #iran #Trump #nuclear #troops
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And #Trump is betting that he can deter a vastly debilitated #Iran from using its familiar techniques — terrorism, hostage-taking & cyberattacks — as a more indirect line of attack to wreak revenge.

Most importantly, he is betting that he has destroyed Iran’s chances of ever reconstituting its #nuclear program. That is an ambitious goal: Iran has made clear that, if attacked, it would exit the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and take its vast program underground.

#iran #Trump #nuclear
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That is why #Trump focused so much attention on destroying #Fordow, the facility #Iran built in secret in the mid-2000s that was publicly exposed by President Barack #Obama in 2009. That is where Iran was producing almost all of the near-bomb-grade fuel that most alarmed the #UnitedStates & its allies.
#UnitedStates #iran #Trump #obama #Fordow
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#Trump’s aides were telling those allies on Sat night that DC’s sole mission was to destroy the #nuclear program. They described the complex strike as a limited, contained operation akin to the op that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011.

“They explicitly said this was not a declaration of war,” one senior European diplomat said late Saturday, describing his conversation with a high-ranking admin ofcl.

But, the diplomat added, bin Laden had killed 3,000 Americans. #Iran had yet to build a bomb.

#iran #Trump #nuclear

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In short, the admin is arguing that it was engaged in an act of pre-emption, seeking to terminate a threat, not the Iranian regime. But it is far from clear that the Iranians will perceive it that way. In a brief address from the White House on Saturday night, flanked by VP #JDVance, Secy of #State #MarcoRubio & #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth, #Trump threatened #Iran with more destruction if it does not bend to his demands.
#iran #Trump #defense #state #PeteHegseth #MarcoRubio #jdvance
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…In essence, #Trump was threatening to broaden his military partnership w/ #Israel, which has spent the last 8 days systematically targeting #Iran’s top military & nuclear leadership, killing them in their beds, their laboratories & their bunkers. The #UnitedStates initially separated itself from that operation. In the Trump admin’s first public statement about those strikes, #MarcoRubio emphasized that Israel took “unilateral action against Iran,” adding that the #US was “not involved.”
#UnitedStates #israel #iran #Trump #US #MarcoRubio
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But then, a few days ago, #Trump mused on his social media platform about the ability of the #UnitedStates to kill Iran’s 86-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali #Khamenei, anytime he wanted. And Saturday night, he made clear that the US was all in, & that contrary to Rubio’s statement, the country was now deeply involved.

Now, having set back #Iran’s enrichment capability, Trump is clearly hoping that he can seize on a remarkable moment of weakness….

#UnitedStates #iran #Trump #Khamenei
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After #Israel’s fierce retaliation for the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attacks that killed over a thousand Israeli civilians, #Iran is suddenly bereft of its proxies, #Hamas & #Hezbollah. Its closest ally, #Syria’s Bashar al-#Assad, had to flee the country. And #Russia & #China, which formed a partnership of convenience with Iran, were nowhere to be seen after Israel attacked the country.
#Russia #syria #israel #iran #China #Assad #Hamas #Hezbollah
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That left only the #nuclear program as #Iran’s ultimate #defense. It was always more than just a scientific project — it was the symbol of Iranian resistance to the West, & the core of the leadership’s plan to hold on to power.
#iran #defense #nuclear
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Along with the repression of #dissent, the program had become the ultimate means of defense for the inheritors of the Iranian revolution that began in 1979. If the taking of 52 American hostages was #Iran’s way of standing up to a far larger, far more powerful adversary in 1979, the nuclear program has been the symbol of resistance for the last two decades.
#iran #dissent
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One day historians may well draw a line from those images of blindfolded Americans, who were held for 444 days, to the dropping of GBU-57 bunker-busting bombs on the mountainous redoubt called Fordo. They will likely ask whether the United States, its allies or the Iranians themselves could have played this differently.

And they will almost certainly ask whether #Trump’s gamble paid off.

#Trump
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His critics in #Congress were already questioning his approach. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top #Democrat on the #Intelligence Committee, said #Trump had acted “without consulting Congress, without a clear strategy, without regard to the consistent conclusions of the intelligence community” that #Iran had made no decision to take the final steps to a bomb.
#iran #Trump #democrat #congress #intelligence
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If #Iran finds itself unable to respond effectively, if the Ayatollah’s hold on power is now loosened, or if the country gives up its long-running nuclear ambitions, #Trump will doubtless claim that only he was willing to use America’s military reach to achieve a goal his last four predecessors deemed too risky.
#iran #Trump
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But there is another possibility. #Iran could slowly recover, its surviving #nuclear scientists could take their skills underground and the country could follow the pathway lit by #NorthKorea, with a race to build a bomb. Today, North Korea has 60 or more nuclear weapons by some intelligence estimates, an arsenal that likely makes it too powerful to attack.
#iran #NorthKorea #nuclear
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That, #Iran may conclude, is the only pathway to keep larger, hostile powers at bay, and to prevent the #UnitedStates and #Israel from carrying out an operation like the one that lit up the Iranian skies on Sunday morning.
#UnitedStates #israel #iran
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Or Iran can close down the Strait of Hormuz, through which much of the world's oil supply is shipped. (It may have already done so.) And that can be done with conventional military/naval equipment. That option has always been there, as a backup to whatever else might happen.
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Iran should learn from what happened to Ukraine, there are zero security guarantees if it gives up it nuclear goals
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he's betting he can blame Biden for anything that comes. This narrative has already been presented.
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And apparently US bombs are incapable of reaching them too, if reports from Iran are true. So we had this credible threat and now we don't.

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June 23/24/25/26, the Netherlands - Stop Pegida!
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"June 23/24/25/26, the Netherlands - Stop Pegida!Pegida voorman Edwin Wagensveld wil met zn zielige..."

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Once baby boomers start selling their houses, the Swiss real estate market could face a serious shake-up, says a demographer in Basel. In the United States, a so-called “silver tsunami” is also expected. Could this mean the younger generation will finally see a drop in house prices? byteseu.com/1128149/ #ConfédérationSuisse #ConfederazioneSvizzera #ConfederaziunSvizra #ConfoederatioHelvetica #SchweizerischeEidgenossenschaft #SwissConfederation #Switzerland
Once baby boomers start selling their houses, the Swiss real estate market could face a serious shake-up, says a demographer in Basel. In the United States, a so-called “silver tsunami” is also expected. Could this mean the younger generation will finally see a drop in house prices?

Once baby boomers start selling their houses, the Swiss real estate market could face a serious shake-up, says a demographer in Basel. In the United States, a so-called “silver tsunami” is also expected. Could this mean the younger generation will finally

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#Switzerland #confederationsuisse #confederazionesvizzera #confederaziunsvizra #confoederatiohelvetica #schweizerischeeidgenossenschaft #swissconfederation

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Pets 🙃 byteseu.com/1128146/ #Bulgaria #RepublicOfBulgaria #RepublikaBŭlgariya #България #РепубликаБългария
Pets 🙃

Pets 🙃

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#bulgaria #republicofbulgaria #republikabulgariya #българия #републикабългария

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Uspol meme

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I have a theory … byteseu.com/1128143/ #Romania
I have a theory ...

I have a theory …

It was the first thought when I saw Daniel David
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#romania

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a store saying "WE BUY MEN USED 29 AND UP"

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Ukraine destroys 80% of Russian drones despite air defense missile shortage, Syrskyi says byteseu.com/1128140/ #Ukraine #Україна
Ukraine destroys 80% of Russian drones despite air defense missile shortage, Syrskyi says

Ukraine destroys 80% of Russian drones despite air defense missile shortage, Syrskyi says

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#ukraine #Україна

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What was that thing about fucking around again? mstdn.social/@990000/114727246…

@990000@mstdn.social (@990000@mstdn.social)

Attached: 1 image Fun. https://bsky.app/profile/newseye.bsky.social/post/3ls75oteuxs2r
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PhreakByte the Octopus
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a certain administration might hope this will increase a certain administration oil export ?
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a fish named dog ✡️♾️
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maybe we'll start switching away from oil? I thought it happened last time there was a big oil crisis. The start of a switch, at least.

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Bij het congres van GroenLinks-PvdA. Er is echt iets mis met deze ‘brede volkspartij’ chrisaalberts.nl/2025/06/22/af…

Afwijkende meningen bij GroenLinks-PvdA niet toegestaan - Chris Aalberts

Het moet een feestelijke dag worden. GroenLinks en PvdA komen samen in NBC in Nieuwegein voor een gezamenlijk partijcongres. Het is al vroeg druk.
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Er der nogen der kender til et dansk brugerforum for NextCloud. Jeg har flyttet alt mit private cloud til en NextCloud og er nu igang med at finde et godt setup til væres spejdergruppe. Det kunne være fedt at udveksle tanker med ligesindede. #nextcloud #itfrihedskæmper #spejder #forening #foss
#NextCloud #foss #itfrihedskæmper #spejder #forening
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jeg er selv ikke tilhængere af at dele support forums op på den måde. Det udtynder bare antallet af mennesker der kan hjælpe hinanden. Det giver kun mening hvis der er stor forskel eller en stor sprogbarrier. Det tror jeg ikke er tilfældet i denne situation. Bedre er et sted og tags til at navigere efter andre med samme udfordring. Synes du ikke den officielle forum virker godt? Jeg er glad for den.
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@duncan_lithgow hvilke forum tænker du på? Jeg er sådan set bare nysgerrig efter god sparring.
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Average Millionaire Communist from Chisinau from the interwar period byteseu.com/1128138/ #Moldova #RepublicOfMoldova #RepublicaMoldova
Average Millionaire Communist from Chisinau from the interwar period

Average Millionaire Communist from Chisinau from the interwar period

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#Moldova #republicamoldova #republicofmoldova

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Tax the Bitch - Ethical Revolution

[Read on Ethical Revolution] A poll of more than 15,000 people across 13 nations has been conducted on behalf of Oxfam and @greenpeace, resulting in a whopping 81% of people believing that governments should tax oil, gas and coal corporations for the…
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#climatechange #FossilFuels #ClimateAction @Greenpeace International

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Der feine Herr #Dackel hat ein neues Wasserdings! 😆🤪😂
Sonst ist er so ein Draufgänger, aber bei solchen Sachen… gaaaanz vorsichtig… man könnte ja komplett nass werden 🤭😆😎
Das Teil kann man an den Gartenschlauch anschließen, dann kommen aus dem Rand so dünne Wasserstrahlen… in der Mitte steht ein umgedrehter Blumentopf mit Leckerlies 😜😉
#dachshund #dogs #dogsofmastodon #dachshund #hunde #SausageDog
#dogsofmastodon #dogs #Hunde #Dachshund #dackel #SausageDog
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Das Video zeigt einen braunen Hund mit langen Ohren, der in einem blau-weiß-gelben Wasserbecken spielt. Das Becken hat einen aufgestellten, umgekehrten Topf in der Mitte, aus dem Wasser spritzt und kleine Wellen erzeugt. Der Hund steht im Wasser und leckt und spielt mit dem Wasser, das aus dem Topf spritzt. Seine Pfoten sind nass, und er scheint sich sehr zu amüsieren. Der Hintergrund besteht aus einem grünen Rasen und Büschen, was darauf hindeutet, dass das Video im Freien aufgenommen wurde. Der Hund bewegt sich leicht hin und her, während er mit dem Wasser interagiert, und seine Pfoten und sein Fell sind nass von dem Spiel.

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Hundreds of Voice of America reporters fired as Trump guts outlet (Max Matza/BBC)

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Voice of America: Hundreds of reporters fired as Trump guts outlet

The majority of VOA - some 85% of the workforce - has been laid off since Trump ordered it dismantled.
Max Matza (BBC News)

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June 23, London - We are all Palestine Action!
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"June 23, London - We are all Palestine Action!"

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Vance says U.S. 'not at war with Iran, we're at war with Iran's nuclear program' (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)

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Vance says U.S. 'not at war with Iran, we're at war with Iran's nuclear program'

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that the U.S. is not at war with Iran, but with Tehran's nuclear weapons program, and declined to confirm with 100% confidence that the country’s nuclear sites had been completely destroyed
Megan Lebowitz (NBC News)
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