The surprise announcement comes one day after Tillis opposed a massive bill for Trump's agenda in the Senate.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., announced Sunday that he would not run for re-election, one day after he drew Donald Trump’s ire for opposing the party’s sweeping domestic policy package.

The surprise decision opens up seat in battleground North Carolina that was already set to be one of the most hotly contested races of the 2026 midterms.

Republicans are now forced to scramble to find a replacement for Tillis in a race that is a top target for Democrats in next year's midterms.

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis won't seek re-election in North Carolina after drawing Trump's ire

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., announced Sunday that he would not run for re-election, one day after he opposed a sweeping bill for President Donald Trump's agenda.

^{Sahil Kapur (NBC News)}

L’égarement sioniste : le cas de Benny Morris

Ivan Segré
paru dans lundimatin#482, le 30 juin 2025
Appel à dons

Un entretien avec l’historien israélien Benny Morris est paru dans un journal allemand (Frankfurter Allgemeine) le 20 juin dernier. La Revue K en a publié une traduction française dans son édition du 25 juin

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. Morris y aborde successivement l’opération militaire israélienne en Iran (l’entretien est paru la veille de l’intervention nord-américaine), la guerre à Gaza, des points d’histoire relatifs à la situation en Palestine dans les années 1930-1948, enfin l’état politique de la question israélo-palestinienne. Ayant analysé précédemment dans LM le délire antisioniste d’Andreas Malm, je me propose ici d’analyser le délire sioniste de Benny Morris. Ainsi, l’état des lieux du délire antagonique sioniste/antisioniste sera provisoirement esquissé, à défaut d’en présenter un tableau clinique exhaustif.

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Space-based internet is remaking Earth’s orbit — and fueling a gold rush.

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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

Premise

FIAB Segrateciclabile is a local association, promoting cycling as a mean of transport, part of a national FIAB association. What follows is the translation of an Italian post where we share with members of the association why we opened an account on Mastodon (we already have Facebook an IG). I though it would be interesting to share in thos space, since I think this kind of associations should all be on the fediverse, as their values usually align much better than those of X, Facebook etc.

Why FIAB SegrateCiclabile opened an account on Mastodon

FIAB SegrateCiclabile recently opened an account on Mastodon @FIABSegrateCiclabile@mastodon.uno where we share events and news from our FIAB Ciclobby section.

What is Mastodon ?

Mastodon is a social network similar to Twitter, but with different principles. Users only see posts from those who follow, in chronological order, without ads. Unlike Twitter or Facebook, Mastodon is part of a larger network (called Fediverse) composed of many connected servers (called instances). Anyone can open one and be part of it, creating a decentralized environment. This means that no one can control everything, as it does with the big platforms.

What does Mastodon have in common with sustainable mobility?

Mastodon and the Fediverse share values with cycling and sustainable mobility, as they arise from grassroots with the aim of solving the structural problems of mainstream solutions.

Freedom and Inclusion

Unlike traditional social media, Mastodon does not require personal data to access content. It promotes an inclusive environment, where hate speech is not tolerated. FIAB is committed to a mobility accessible to all, not only to those who own a car, a driver’s license and the ability and the economic possibility of using it.

Community and Participation

Those who ride a bicycle have a deeper connection with their surroundings. The car isolates, while the bike favors genuine interactions. In the Fediverse, users can connect authentically, with no algorithms that manipulate their choices.

Democracy of the Spaces

The Fediverse represents a reaction to the commercialization of the Internet, giving control back to users. Likewise, FIAB fights to give public space back to people, not cars.

Conclusion

In an era dominated by large corporations, it is essential to enhance digital spaces like Mastodon. These instruments promote freedom of expression, inclusion and democracy, reflecting FIAB. We invite everyone to explore Mastodon and join a community that values genuine connections.

Freedom and democracy must exist in both physical and digital spaces.

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0630/1521026-israel-gaza/

Pour avancer la fermeture de notre salon principal sur Matrix le 22 juillet,

nous fermons les petits salons ce mercredi 2 juillet.

Nous vous invitons à le faire dès maintenant et ne plus attendre :
- Quittez les salons matrix
- inscrivez-vous sur zulip : jlailu.zulipchat.com/

Je sais que ce n'est pas facile de le faire mais c'est mieux de le faire maintenant dès la lecture de cette publi.

Log in | Zulip

^Zulip

Hey, c/FalloutMods, rosahaj here. June is coming to a close, and with it, the month-long observance of Pride month with it. And so, what better topic is there to dedicate this month's megathread to than the modding community's very own Pride mods?

Fallout 4

• Elianora has long shown commitment to padding out the Fallout modding scene with pride mods, so why not paint the town red (yellow, green, etc) with Craftable Pride Flags?
• Scars tell stories, few pleasant. There is however, the notable exception of molding one's body fit for form, which you'll be able to display with Radbeetle's Top Surgery Scars Overlay?
• Admit it, the wasteland gets awfully lonely on those long, cold nights. Lone wanderers certainly not exempted, though they won't have to fret for long with Blahaj Emotional Support, where you'll get to fashion your very own companion to carry forth into the great unknown. Thanks to Herby247 you'll be granted the privilege of your very own blå-, or perhaps even... rosahaj?

Fallout: New Vegas

• Expiry dates be damned, if you're gonna live in the shithole that is post-war America, you're gonna do it as your authentic self! [HRT New Vegas - Immersive Gender Change by ProfMajkowski introduces a brand new, configurable, transitioning mechanic!
• Like Mick always says, 'a polite society is an armed society', and you'll be able to show any ne'er-do-wells exactly where you stand on community defense with kylemarshiku's Pride Arsenal. After all, nobody ever said progress was easy.

Fallout 3

• Fallout 3 hasn't seen the privilege of making the cut for these monthly posts before, but something would be amiss if I skipped Pope74220's Pride Flag you can beat people with. After all, you'll be spreading the love one way or another

As always, feel more than welcome to contribute your very own suggestions in the discussion of this post! And with that, dear readers, I bid you farewell.

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy 4th July in advance...I guess.)

A new community has been created on:
sh.itjust.works/c/saltycaramel…

On the original instance, there are plenty of comments on every post.

But on PieFed there are none:
piefed.social/c/saltycaramelap…

Is there any way to retrieve the comments so they can show up on PieFed?

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/trump-says-fox-interview-he-has-group-wealthy-people-buy-tiktok-2025-06-29/

Il panorama musicale di questo duemiladodici non brilla certo di nuove stelle se, dopo Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Patti Smith ora è il turno di Neli Young...
Nel bene o nel male comunque, se riescono a far parlare di sè, un motivo ci sarà, e, molto probabilmente, questo motivo è dato dalla non banalità dei loro dischi... Leggi e ascolta...

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2025-06-30 07:18:39

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana (2012)

Il panorama musicale di questo duemiladodici non brilla certo di nuove stelle se, dopo Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Patti Smith ora è il turno di Neli Young... Nel bene o nel male comunque, se riescono a far parlare di sè, un motivo ci sarà, e, molto probabilmente, questo motivo è dato dalla non banalità dei loro dischi. Dopo il bel “Le Noise” del 2010 in collaborazione con Daniel Lanois e dopo “A Treasure” (un bootleg) del 2011, questa volta Neil Young si fa aiutare dai suoi Crazy Horse (Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina e Poncho Sampedro) amici che non si vedevano in studio dai tempi di Greendale del 2003... artesuono.blogspot.com/2014/10…

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana (2012)

di Silvano Bottaro Il panorama musicale di questo duemiladodici non brilla certo di nuove stelle se, dopo Bruce Springsteen, Willie Ne...

^{Silvano Bottaro (Blogger)}

Want to hear a massive coincidence.

I was unaware of it but I found out in the protest

there's a Palestinian event in two weeks and Khaled Jumal will be there to talk about his involvement in the freedom flotilla.

He is the one who wrote that poem!!!!

Across Africa, cancer medications have been found to be substandard or counterfeit. That means people are being given medicine that may not work, or that could even cause them harm.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/dw.com/en/ne…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations

^{Matthew Ward Agius (Deutsche Welle)}

An Israeli air strike on a prison in the Iranian capital Tehran last week killed 71 people and injured many others, Iran said on Sunday.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/middleeastmo…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Israeli attack on Iranian prison killed 71 people: Spokesman

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^{Middle East Monitor}

China Customs said seafood products from 10 prefectures will still be banned from entering the country.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/straitstimes…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

China resumes qualified seafood imports from some Japanese regions

China Customs said seafood products from 10 prefectures will still be banned from entering the country. Read more at straitstimes.com.

^{The Straits Times}

Easy, 2.9 mi out and back
407 ft elevation gain
Hiked 6/2/25

A massive waterfall awaits you at the end of this short hike with minimal effort to access. You’ll reach the falls at the upper stage and there is a short but steep drop from there with a middle viewpoint as well as a large creekside vantage from downstream a bit.

Wapta falls from the middle viewpoint shot at 1/3s. Chancellor peak/Aquila mountain in the distance.

Wapta Falls from the middle viewpoint shot at 1/320s.

The upper view of Wapta falls, showing that weird mound that’s built up just downstream.

Link to Bluesky post with short video

Originally adopted by the Council of Europe thirty years earlier, the twelve golden stars on a blue background became the 'logo' for the EU and its predecessor in 1985. #EuropeNews

European flag celebrates 40 years as symbol for EU and predecessor

^{Andreas Rogal (Euronews.com)}

The Israeli army said Sunday that it seized several individuals during raids in southern Syria and took them inside Israel for interrogation, Anadolu reports.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/middleeastmo…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Israel abducts several people from southern Syria for ‘interrogation’

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^{Middle East Monitor}

By Elis Gjevori
Published date: 28 June 2025 21:08 BST

"Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grave breaches of international law.

"This is a meticulously reported and important film examining evidence which supports allegations of grave breaches of international law by Israeli forces," said L. Compton, Channel 4's Head of News and Current Affairs. "It exemplifies Channel 4's commitment to brave and fearless journalism," she added.

Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC

Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grav…

^{Elis Gjevori (Middle East Eye)}

By Elis Gjevori
Published date: 28 June 2025 21:08 BST

"Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grave breaches of international law.

"This is a meticulously reported and important film examining evidence which supports allegations of grave breaches of international law by Israeli forces," said L. Compton, Channel 4's Head of News and Current Affairs. "It exemplifies Channel 4's commitment to brave and fearless journalism," she added.

Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC

Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grav…

^{Elis Gjevori (Middle East Eye)}

Founded as a paramilitary Zionist organization in 1923, Betar Worldwide has a prominent far-right chapter in the US that has aided the Trump administration’s deportation efforts by doxxing and agitating against pro-Palestine organizers.

The chat logs show its members, including individuals publicly affiliated with Betar US, discussing a range of plans and ideas: to protest at mosques, burn Qurans to provoke confrontations, and coordinate buying pepper spray, lasers, and other illicit devices to confront pro-Palestine protests in New York City.

In that same chat, others shared that they are collecting information on pro-Palestine activists to forward to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-medicaid-immigrant-84c1b09713cd973935788943703697bd

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/29/politics/andrew-cuomo-new-york-mayor-zohran-mamdani

Sanya Mansoor
June 27 2025, 10:05 a.m

"For months, environmental researcher Yaakov Garb has been using satellite data to analyze the design, location, and expansion of these facilities. Garb, a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, found in an analysis published earlier this month on Harvard Dataverse that most of Gaza’s population cannot access these centers in a safe and practical way. Doing so requires crossing the dangerous Netzarim Corridor, entering a buffer zone from which Israel has banned them from entering, or a long walk across a barren rubble field, while carrying a heavy box of food."

Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month

The U.S.-backed system for food aid in Gaza is a “tactical intervention in humanitarian wrapping,” per an Israeli professor.

^{Sanya Mansoor (The Intercept)}

soundcloud.com/africanowonline…

idk, not exactly news but not gossip either

tweet linky

Source (Bluesky)

It has sound.

In which we once more delve into the world of user interface design.

Autumn 2023

Three years ago, I wrote a rant about the problems of our current UI paradigm. The complaints I voiced were hardly new or unique, neither was the text what I'd consider my best writing. It was, honestly, mostly a way to blow off steam. It seems I struck a nerve, though, because it's proven to be one of the most popular texts I've published here. For some time, I've thought about writing a follow-up, and a recent resurgence in the text's popularity prompted me to finally do so.

[…]

What were we talking about?

Usability, as defined by Wikipedia, is "the capacity of a system to provide a condition for its users to perform the tasks safely, effectively, and efficiently while enjoying the experience." Its relation to software is further specified: "In software engineering, usability is the degree to which a software can be used by specified consumers to achieve quantified objectives with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a quantified context of use." […]

In short, usability is the ease with which a predetermined task can be accomplished. Consequently, "It looks fresh" isn't usability; it's aesthetics. Likewise, the lack of a specific program feature isn't the same as being able to use it as easily, efficiently and safely as possible. […]

[…]

https://datagubbe.se/usab2/