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  • 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

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

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  • It's not a matter of realization but action. "The guy with the enormous constellation of public and private allies plans to do The Big Illegal Thing" doesn't tell us how we're supposed to respond.

    There's a certain "well, people should just do something!!!" attitude that is divorced from reality. Everyone wants everyone else to "do something!!!" for them. Vanishingly few people know what is to be done.

  • I wonder when someone is gonna make a parody porn called "The Gooners" based on the 1980s movie "The Goonies"?

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  • Resurfaced video shows Trump accusing Obama of wanting war with Iran

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  • Are you arguing about the use of “resurfaced”

    It's a popular media gimmick. Turn old news into a new headline because you've got nothing better to talk about.

    The NYPost and WaTi play this game all the time

  • Resurfaced video shows Trump accusing Obama of wanting war with Iran

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  • The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them

  • 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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  • Not just women

  • 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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  • How about climate change? 20 years ago there was hope

    Twenty years ago, we invaded a country to steal it's oil while dismantling the nascent EV/Solar industry to protect fossil fuels

    We are here today precisely because things were worse twenty years ago

    You’ll fight in the water wars of 2040?

    Better fighting to preserve water tomorrow than bloody your hands fighting for oil yesterday

  • 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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  • They're clearly getting better for your employer

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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/
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    The Spread of Frugality

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    Campaign Closers

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    Musk Petition Signers Still Waiting for $47 Payments

    www.rollingstone.com /politics/politics-features/elon-musk-trump-47-petition-payment-voters-1235141313/
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    The Redcoats are Coming

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    Italy's Meloni tells Israel's Netanyahu attacks on UN peacekeepers are unacceptable

    www.reuters.com /world/italys-meloni-tells-israels-netanyahu-attacks-un-peacekeepers-are-unacceptable-2024-10-13/
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    Hot Takes Gom Jabbar

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    Based and Chin-pilled

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    US Department of Labor searches northwest Arkansas Tyson Foods plants over alleged child labor

    www.kark.com /news/state-news/us-department-of-labor-searches-northwest-arkansas-tyson-foods-plants-over-alleged-child-labor/
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    The Staggering Price You’re Paying for America’s Nuclear Makeover

    www.nytimes.com /interactive/2024/10/10/opinion/nuclear-weapons-us-price.html
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    Free Hotdogs

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    Biden and Netanyahu closer to consensus on Israel's plans to attack Iran

    www.axios.com /2024/10/10/biden-netanyahu-call-israel-attack-iran
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    Fatal police-action shootings in Fort Wayne reflect broader pattern, concerns continue

    www.journalgazette.net /local/police-fire/fatal-police-action-shootings-in-fort-wayne-reflect-broader-pattern-concerns-continue/article_f2e8ea8e-763e-11ef-a12e-5f524a7f4b22.html
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    Toyota Curbs DEI Policy After Activist Attack Over LGBTQ Support

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2024-10-03/toyota-curbs-dei-policy-after-activist-attack-over-lgbtq-support
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    US leaves Hurricane Helene survivors behind while funding Israel’s genocidal war

    peoplesdispatch.org /2024/10/03/us-leaves-hurricane-helene-survivors-behind-while-funding-israels-genocidal-war/
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    Senator tells Native American candidate to go back to where she came from, storms out of public event

    www.boisestatepublicradio.org /politics-government/2024-10-03/dan-foreman-racism-idaho-nez-perce-candidate-kendrick
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    A Russian company is bartering chickpeas for Pakistani rice as sanctions stop payments

    www.businessinsider.com /russia-barter-pakistan-mounting-sanctions-western-war-allies-international-trade-2024-10
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    Why the Biden Administration Is Shifting on Immigration

    www.nytimes.com /2024/10/04/briefing/biden-immigration-election.html
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    A school district in Pennsylvania approved nearly $9,000 ‘to cut windows into the ‘gender-identity’ student bathrooms so passerby can look inside’

    www.yorkdispatch.com /story/opinion/editorials/2024/10/02/bathrooms-with-a-view-cutting-windows-into-student-restrooms-is-a-new-level-of-weird/75479753007/
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    Donald Trump escalates tariff threat as he doubles down on protectionism: Ex-president’s latest broadside warns countries to stick with the dollar or face 100% levy

    www.ft.com /content/ac708b43-64ae-45b8-b60d-997e7904086a