“If in the West Bank the state uses settlers to ethnically cleanse Palestinians, inside Israel they are using organized crime groups” - Aida Touma-Suleiman, a Palestinian Israeli member of the Knesset.
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There’s a reason why even Dick Cheney didn’t do this.
Art nouveau mosaic in Molenbeek from 1909 with a peacock strolling along a yellow brick road through an archway of his own feathers. God bless laudanum.
Brussels Midi before it was wrecked to receive high-speed trains. It lost the restaurant, the tower and the dome of a thousand glass bricks. Design by Adrien & Yvan Blomme with Fernand Petit
Ernest Blerot, architect
Whatever the sector - businesses, courts, lawyers, media, military, parties, universities - the pattern is the same:
- the elites mainly collaborate
- the masses mainly stay passive
- and some everyday heroes resist
The Russians really thought they could roll into Ukraine with no resistance 4 years ago. The footage coming out of Ukraine in these days was quite something. The lost Russian soldiers asking for directions, Russian soldiers getting stuck in death traps, protests, helicopters falling out of the sky.
Tweet by fascist propagandist Chris Rufo: The Right's collective brain is getting melted in a vat of slop, conspiracy, and algorithm-chasing. An intelligent man will guard himself against all of it. https://x.com/christopherrufo/status/2026019868353671346
🚨🚨Biggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. 🧵
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The American mind cannot comprehend a country where neither the leading party nor its chief rival sit on the left
Just listened to the latest Sam Harris, with him describing Iran as a "more sophisticated culture than Iraq or Afghanistan". There is a part of my soul that shrieks in dismay every time I see the ghost of Samuel Huntington. It annoys me how mainstream & accepted his cultural determinism has become.
Why couldn't they make a modern bridge just on the side
a year is a long time in politics
When people say “race is a social construction” it can often seem abstract. The use of “Judeo-Christian” as a seemingly natural ethno-religious category—despite centuries of anti-Jewish expulsions, pogroms and mass killing—is a good example of a political project constructing identity to gain power.
He thought about it.
Across the EU external borders, truck drivers never used to have their passport stamped every time. Hence they could de factor circumvent the rules, which were not being applied strictly. Now they will start to be, and everyone is freaking out.
Gaza Resort vibes
Belgrade Tourism Fair: Ethnically cleansed Bosnian Serb entity proudly promotes as tourist destination Hotel Vilina Vlas, notorious 1992-95 war prison & camp where Bosniak women were tortured, gang-raped & murdered by Chetnik paramilitaries. Can you even imagine Hotel Auschwitz?
#CelebratingGenocide
I actually adore how ardently Labour cling to an incredibly 1980s position on drugs. It's wildly, comically unserious and antiscience, and yet apparently not a single MP of theirs disagrees.
And you can learn more about what's happened to Europe's broadcaster here.
It's a very sad situation.
So sad seeing euronews at these low levels
as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction
The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.
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Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
The Supreme Court:
I miss the internet when it wasn't so compartmentalized. Blog posts where people shared new music they were listening to, what they were up to, links to other sites, photos they took, just an idea they had or shower thoughts. Branding and work networking has degraded the internet
The Economist making itself look ridiculous again. 🤷♂️
you think China is into the idea of "civilizational state" because of some pre-existing tradition? everyone learnt from Huntington. Zhao Tingyang the guy who invented tianxia theory said in interview himself that he was originally a Kantian guy. Then he read Huntington and he thought oh no
If you read one thing this day, this week, let it be this, and think of the thousands of unsung heroes in this country, who are not only resisting this inhumane system, but also display true humanity. Love and respect to all of you. ❤️🙏
Pete Hegseth walking up some stairs to board a plane. He's wearing a mid-blue suit, tan dress shoes, and navy socks with small USA flags on them. The suit is slightly too small, the pants slim, and the inseam is a bit too short.
A dapper brown horse wearing a three-piece gray checked suit with a white shirt and blue necktie. He also has a grey flat cap. His inseam is too short, but he looks happy.
this is what your inseam looks like
