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  • ‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 80 children reportedly killed in school bombing

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  • ‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 80 children reportedly killed in school bombing

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  • Stop. Posting. On. Reddit.

  • ‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 80 children reportedly killed in school bombing

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  • Another 30+ years of “terrorists”

    We were never going to hear the end of "Muslim Terrorist" rhetoric, because it was instrumental in justifying our dominion over the region.

    There isn't going to be another 9/11. We're well past the point of needing a causa belli for this kind of war. It'll just be ICE goons murdering parents in front of crying children and CNN talking heads explaining how we're safer because of it.

  • ‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 80 children reportedly killed in school bombing

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  • Gotta wonder how many Chuds will post "Iranians can wear bikinis again" before the bodies are even cold

  • Fixed it

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  • The best part of this will be Democrats falling over themselves to support the war today, then insisting they're the only anti-war party on the ballot tomorrow.

  • CNN preparing for takeover

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  • Start broadcasting in Hebrew, I guess?

  • CNN: Timing of US-Israel attack "bears symbolic meaning in Judaism" and fulfills "the mitzvah of remembering Amalek"

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  • Oh cool, we're going to get real weird with it. Can't wait for another holiday to celebrate the mass slaying at an orphanage

  • BREAKING NEWS - Israeli media reports Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leader of Iran, was killed inside his bunker

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  • Flip to what, though?

    Reza Pahlavi appears to be the current useful idiot of the West

  • Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments

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  • Highly lucrative fraud.

    So you know nobody is going to do anything about it

  • BREAKING NEWS - Israeli media reports Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leader of Iran, was killed inside his bunker

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  • Given the viciousness and the firepower both US and Israel can bring to bare, it's very possible they killed him.

    Also possible they're just announcing this to further domestic unrest. If Khamenei doesn't stick his head out to announce he's alive, it will be that much easier to flip generals or city leaders who think they'll need to surrender in order to survive.

    Videos in Farsi published on social media show some people cheering in Tehran

    "We'll be greeted as liberators"

    No shortage of people in Iran who hate the Ayatollah. But it's unlikely you'll find folks under active bombardment feeling in the mood to cheer at any news.

  • What is this "Contributing"?

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  • Me: "What an excellent project you've got going on here. I'd love to help."

    Admin 1: "This is an automated message. Please fill out this form and give us 10,000 details about yourself. Please provide evidence you're a Type S, Mark 12, Fibonacci Certified, Code Arch-magus. We will get back to you in 6-8 weeks if we notice you, but let's get real, probably never."

    Admin 2: "Hey, is that a reference to Tuscany in your bio? We don't serve Italians around here. Fuck off, dipshit."

    Admin 3: "This project hasn't been worked on in 18 months. I'm actually about to delete the whole codestack. But I hear there's a guy who only speaks Armenian doing something similar. Try reaching out to him."

  • Reddit decides to remove r/all

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  • Which defeats the whole point

    The modern model for Facebook is as digital flypaper. Trapping users in their ecosystem on the assumption the social network and the poor tech skills, plus the highly addictive algorithm, will keep them mired in psychological quicksand until all their vital essences are harvested.

    As disgusting as the site is, I still find myself peaking back in to reach out to an old friend or family member, because that's literally the only way I have to communicate. Incredibly frustrating.

  • visiting family back in switzerland for the weekend & airspace home gets closed🤪

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  • American women learning from Lysistrata and initiating a national transitioning of gender.

  • Current events dictate that I post this.

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  • I dont respect any abrahamic religion

    ~ Christopher Hitchens, explaining why we should invade Iraq

  • Current events dictate that I post this.

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  • You're going to get called a Chinese bot account for this

  • It Can Now be Plainly Said: Trump is Planning a November Coup d’État

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  • the vast majority of people are just carrying on

    They're surviving because that's all they believe they have the power to do.

    the entire last year should have been spent networking, organizing, planning

    All of this has been happening. We've had multiple protest marches, fund raisers, and relief efforts for vulnerable people in hostile states and counties.

    If you're not seeing it, you're not looking for it. But then this is part of the problem.

    There is no single national organization to rally around. At best you have some short lived movements - No Kings, BLM, Code Pink, Occupy Wall Street - that dissolve (or are dismantled) as soon as they emerge.

    Otherwise, you're organizing with a regional group - your local union chapter, an LGBTQ org, a political outfit like Palestine Action or the DSA or PSL - that's at best a few dozen, largely disconnected from one another.

    The closest thing to a general strike we've seen was the Minneapolis January 23 action, which lasted a day or two and never stretched beyond the city limits.

  • ‘One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok’: Alarm grows over Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

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  • FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr labeled TikTok a "clear and present danger" to US national security, urging its removal from app stores due to concerns over data access by China. Citing reports of ByteDance personnel in Beijing accessing sensitive American user data, Carr argued the app acts as a surveillance tool

  • ‘One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok’: Alarm grows over Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

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  • Back when radio/TV were just getting started, the FCC created a set of rules to make sure that the public would be well informed.

    This is revisionist.

    The FCC created a set of rules to manage a broadcasting cartel. Changes in technology shifted the domain of ownership from the production companies to the telecommunication companies and eventually the data center companies.

    But we started as a cartel. We're still a cartel. The FCC has done nothing to change that (and made many moves to entrench it - the forced sale of TikTok being only the latest).

    As soon as Reagan took office he started ‘deregulating’ the media. By 1996, the Fairness Doctrine was dead.

    The Fairness Doctrine was an enrichment of the two party system. Reagan simply took the next logical step and made it a one party system.

  • A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling’

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  • You could have said this about nuclear war 40 years ago, or the Holocaust 40 years before that.

    As it stands, a few online gooners swearing they'll never make babies with their Canadian girlfriends is a moot point.

    But the "I've made the logical decision to choose not to have children" line is largely cope in a society where people who do want kids struggle so hard

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    The Executive Chairman of the LA Times is an RFK Jr loving quack.

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    Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents Explore Seeking Trump Pardon for Son

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2025-01-30/sam-bankman-fried-s-parents-explore-seeking-trump-pardon-for-son
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    Preparing for the Worst: Americans are steeling themselves for the federal government to storm into their communities

    prospect.org /justice/2025-01-27-preparing-for-the-worst-immigration-deportation/
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    ICE agents denied entry to South Side elementary school: Chicago Public Schools

    abc7chicago.com /post/us-immigration-customs-enforcement-agents-denied-entry-hamline-elementary-school-back-yards-cps-officials/15833738/
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    New York Times rejects Quaker ad for calling Israel’s actions “genocide”

    afsc.org /newsroom/new-york-times-rejects-quaker-ad-calling-israels-actions-genocide
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    A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

    www.propublica.org /article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole
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    Pregnant Kentucky woman cited for street camping while in labor

    www.lpm.org /news/2024-12-19/pregnant-kentucky-woman-cited-for-street-camping-while-in-labor
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    Mexico Country Outlook 2025 | Baker Institute

    www.bakerinstitute.org /research/mexico-country-outlook-2025
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    South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol declares emergency martial law - live updates

    www.bbc.com /news/live/cn38321180et
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    China bans exports to US of gallium, germanium, antimony in response to chip sanctions

    apnews.com /article/china-us-tech-semiconductor-chip-gallium-6b4216551e200fb719caa6a6cc67e2a4
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    Illinois Students Who Protested Gaza Genocide Are Facing Felony Mob Charges

    truthout.org /articles/illinois-students-who-protested-gaza-genocide-are-facing-felony-mob-charges/
  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Better Luck Next Time

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    Tucker Carlson claims hurricanes hitting US 'probably because of abortion'

    www.the-express.com /news/politics/153627/tucker-carlson-abortion-hurricanes-election-day
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    Elon Musk lawyer says $1 mln voter giveaway winners are not random

    www.reuters.com /legal/judge-weighs-challenge-elon-musks-1-million-voter-giveaway-2024-11-04/
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    Idaho Public Health Department Barred From Giving COVID Vaccine— Experts say it's a first

    www.medpagetoday.com /infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/112712
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    "It is so disastrous": MAGA men are freaking out that wives may be secretly voting for Kamala Harris

    www.salon.com /2024/10/31/it-is-so-disastrous-maga-men-are-freaking-out-that-wives-may-be-secretly-voting-for-kamala-harris/
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    U.S. inundated with claims that American arms killed Gaza civilians

    www.washingtonpost.com /national-security/2024/10/30/us-weapons-israel-gaza-civilian-deaths/
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    Election Fraud Conspiracy Theories Are Already Thriving Online

    www.wired.com /story/election-fraud-conspiracies-flooding-social-media/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams

    gizmodo.com /elon-musk-fans-are-losing-so-much-money-to-crypto-scams-2000515413
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    Texas is abdicating safety to private toll road operators

    www.dallasnews.com /opinion/editorials/2024/10/28/texas-is-abdicating-safety-to-private-toll-road-operators/