Kamala Harris has returned from the wilderness - not to criticise Trump or to apologise for her inaction on genocide, but to sell a book

Kamala Harris seethes as heckler calls her ‘right-wing war criminal’

^{Willem Moore (The Canary)}

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Wednesday highlighting the devastation caused by illegal cattle ranching in the Brazilian Rainforest and its impact on indigenous peoples in Pará, Brazil. The organization calls on the federal government to remove the cattle ranches and restore affected communities, also urging JBS, the world’s largest meat-processing company, to take accountability for its role in deforestation.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/jurist.org/n…

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Brazil government urged to remove illegal cattle ranches devastating indigenous lands

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Wednesday highlighting the devastation caused by illegal cattle ranching in the Brazilian Rainforest and its impact on indigenous peoples in Pará, Brazil....

^{Sabine Haddad | New York Law School, US (- JURIST - News)}

Al-Awda Hospital director Ahmed Muhanna was released after almost two years of illegal imprisonment. Dozens of Palestinian health workers remain captives in Israeli jails.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/peoplesdispa…

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Flight tracking data shows two B-52H bombers in Venezuelan territory in a blatant act of international aggression by Trump

Archived version: archive.is/newest/thecanary.co…

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Trump puts two B-52H strategic bombers in Venezuelan airspace

^{Skwawkbox (The Canary)}

Mexico’s Energy Ministry estimates that almost all private-sector energy capacity investment in the 2025-2030 period will be in renewables.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/mexiconewsda…

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Energy Ministry: 96% of private sector energy investment will be in renewables

^{MND Staff (Mexico News Daily)}

"Yet, they never have the funds for healthcare coverage for all," said Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.

'So Much for America First': Trump Admin Says Argentina Bailout Doubling to $40 Billion

^{brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)}

Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won't fully roll out for several months

Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN

: Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won't fully roll out for several months

^{Connor Jones (The Register)}

I discovered this when I finally got desperate enough to try reseating the GPU, went to unplug the HDMI cable from it, and realized that the HDMI cable was in fact not plugged into the GPU

Anyway, I'm loving my new prebuilt PC

Feds target "affinity" groups, informant networks, the Tides Foundation, and more.

Inside the War on Antifa

^{Ken Klippenstein}

What would your browser history say about you? Whether you were getting things done this week or just collecting tabs, a new Firefox extension helps you reflect on your digital habits.

Fox Recap: A student-built tool that analyzes your browsing habits 

Fox Recap categorizes your browsing history, shows how much time you’re spending on different sites and turns that data into simple reports.

^{Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)}

The first portable “Xbox” fails to unify a messy world of competing PC gaming platforms.

ROG Xbox Ally X: The Ars Technica review

^{Kyle Orland (Ars Technica)}

cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/25018930

**What happens when love itself becomes a form of waste management? **

This is a portrait of the failure of distinction between what is wasted and what is “recyclable,” between love as pure gift and love as transaction.

Two armless mannequins kissing in a trashcan, this is not simply “trash art,” no, it is the purest materialization of the contemporary impasse of love under late capitalism.

Let’s begin with the obvious obscenity (yes ive been reading too much zizek): the kiss in the trashcan. It is not just that love here is “trash,” something thrown away — it is that love, when it is genuine, when it gives without expecting return, is structurally trash.

It cannot be recycled, cannot be reinserted into the symbolic economy of exchange. When you love, you lose an arm, because you give without measure. The armless mannequins embody this impossibility of holding, of possessing the Other. Their kiss, confined in a trashcan, is the remainder of a gesture that no longer belongs to the order of usefulness.

Like all true love, it is obscene in its uselessness.

But then — beside it — the recycling bin.
With trash and mannequin legs. The legs are crucial — they are the organs of movement. They are what allows the subject to go somewhere AND to return, to complete an exchange. To “give your legs,” in this sense, is to give only a part of yourself and to expect it to 're-enter circulation'. To give you productive value.

The recycling bin is thus the perfect allegory for consumerist love, where love and consumerist products are one and the same, where even intimacy is a system of return: you give in order to receive, you recycle your emotions, hoping they will come back in a purified form just as we expect from our products.

So love has been contaminated by waste — desire itself has become polluted.

Here “authentic giving” and “productive exchange” have disintegratedd. Even our attempts to “recycle love,” to make it sustainable, are revealed as obscene. The leg, detached from the mannequin’s body, is no longer a symbol of movement but a fetishized fragment, a commodity of desire without wholeness.

Thus, the entire scene performs the commodification of the gift. The trashcan kiss — pure, useless love — sits beside its own mirror: a recycling bin that pretends to restore value but only produces dismembered remains.

So in late capitalism, even our trash is asked to be productive, to “come back” as something new. Yet love, real love, cannot be recycled. It must remain a remainder, a waste — the excess that escapes every system.

It is also crucial that they are mannequins because mannequins embody the paradox of the human under capitalism — they are perfect imitations of people, yet utterly empty, subjects reduced to pure form without interiority. Their presence exposes love and desire as already commodified gestures, rehearsed poses of intimacy with no flesh, no vulnerability. When these hollow consumer objects attempt to love — armless, plastic, discarded — the act becomes tragic: even the symbols of consumption try to transcend their function, to feel something real. But precisely because they are mannequins, their kiss is doomed to remain a simulation — a love scene without life, revealing how the machinery of consumer desire has replaced the human capacity to feel with the glossy shell of it.

To love is not to circulate but to cease circulation — to accept loss without return, to dwell in the trashcan. It is there, among the discarded mannequins, that the only authentic intimacy survives.

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

By Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo
10/14/2025 01:15 PM EDT

Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.

They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.” Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37599095

Oct 15, 2025

“The pressure was enormous,” Mahmoud told Drop Site. “We had applied for approval to sail and received no official response—neither acceptance nor rejection. Then, the day before our press conference, the authorities warned that everyone present, including journalists, could be arrested.”

Despite ongoing government threats and intimidation, the organizing committee continued preparations for the Egyptian flotilla to set sail and link up with the GSF as they neared Egypt’s coastline. On September 21, the owner of the boat vanished—disappeared by Egypt’s security forces. A little over a week later, on September 29, three members of the flotilla committee were arrested near their headquarters in Cairo and held in an undisclosed location until their release this past Monday.

The flotilla episode revealed a pattern familiar to Egyptian activists: silence, then intimidation, then disappearance. “There is an invisible red line that no one can cross,” Mahmoud said. “And that line keeps moving closer every day.”

Peter Link

2025-10-16 01:26:10

Dozens Remain Imprisoned in Egypt for Palestine Solidarity While Sisi is Hailed as a Gaza Ceasefire Broker

Oct 15, 2025

“The pressure was enormous,” Mahmoud told Drop Site. “We had applied for approval to sail and received no official response—neither acceptance nor rejection. Then, the day before our press conference, the authorities warned that everyone present, including journalists, could be arrested.”

Despite ongoing government threats and intimidation, the organizing committee continued preparations for the Egyptian flotilla to set sail and link up with the GSF as they neared Egypt’s coastline. On September 21, the owner of the boat vanished—disappeared by Egypt’s security forces. A little over a week later, on September 29, three members of the flotilla committee were arrested near their headquarters in Cairo and held in an undisclosed location until their release this past Monday.

The flotilla episode revealed a pattern familiar to Egyptian activists: silence, then intimidation, then disappearance. “There is an invisible red line that no one can cross,” Mahmoud said. “And that line keeps moving closer every day.”

Dozens Remain Imprisoned in Egypt for Palestine Solidarity While Sisi is Hailed as a Gaza Ceasefire Broker

“Gaza used to unite Egyptians. Now it only reminds them of what they've lost—the right to speak, to gather, to demand anything."

^{Drop Site News}

Oct 15, 2025

“The pressure was enormous,” Mahmoud told Drop Site. “We had applied for approval to sail and received no official response—neither acceptance nor rejection. Then, the day before our press conference, the authorities warned that everyone present, including journalists, could be arrested.”

Despite ongoing government threats and intimidation, the organizing committee continued preparations for the Egyptian flotilla to set sail and link up with the GSF as they neared Egypt’s coastline. On September 21, the owner of the boat vanished—disappeared by Egypt’s security forces. A little over a week later, on September 29, three members of the flotilla committee were arrested near their headquarters in Cairo and held in an undisclosed location until their release this past Monday.

The flotilla episode revealed a pattern familiar to Egyptian activists: silence, then intimidation, then disappearance. “There is an invisible red line that no one can cross,” Mahmoud said. “And that line keeps moving closer every day.”

Dozens Remain Imprisoned in Egypt for Palestine Solidarity While Sisi is Hailed as a Gaza Ceasefire Broker

“Gaza used to unite Egyptians. Now it only reminds them of what they've lost—the right to speak, to gather, to demand anything."

^{Drop Site News}

Israeli and Arab military officials have come together for meetings and trainings, facilitated by U.S. Central Command, on regional threats, Iran and underground tunnels.

Arab states deepened military ties with Israel while denouncing Gaza war, leak reveals - ICIJ

^{David Kenner (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37599080

David Hearst
15 October 2025 18:59 BST | Last update: ~14:00 EDT

He revealed how dependent Israel has become on American arms, recalling how Netanyahu pleaded for weapons that Trump did not even know the US had.

He reminded Israel of how small it was and that it could not fight world opinion.

He confirmed how he had arm-twisted Netanyahu into stopping the offensive on Gaza: “And I said, ‘Bibi, you’re gonna be remembered for this far more than if you kept this thing going, going, going, kill, kill, kill.”

Peter Link

2025-10-16 01:17:55

There's no white knight coming. Palestinians must seize this moment to reclaim their future

David Hearst
15 October 2025 18:59 BST | Last update: ~14:00 EDT

He revealed how dependent Israel has become on American arms, recalling how Netanyahu pleaded for weapons that Trump did not even know the US had.

He reminded Israel of how small it was and that it could not fight world opinion.

He confirmed how he had arm-twisted Netanyahu into stopping the offensive on Gaza: “And I said, ‘Bibi, you’re gonna be remembered for this far more than if you kept this thing going, going, going, kill, kill, kill.”

There's no white knight coming. Palestinians must seize this moment to reclaim their future

The theatrics of the Gaza ceasefire deal, led by Trump and backed by complicit Arab nations, will not lay the groundwork for genuine liberation

^{Middle East Eye}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37599080

David Hearst
15 October 2025 18:59 BST | Last update: ~14:00 EDT

He revealed how dependent Israel has become on American arms, recalling how Netanyahu pleaded for weapons that Trump did not even know the US had.

He reminded Israel of how small it was and that it could not fight world opinion.

He confirmed how he had arm-twisted Netanyahu into stopping the offensive on Gaza: “And I said, ‘Bibi, you’re gonna be remembered for this far more than if you kept this thing going, going, going, kill, kill, kill.”

Peter Link

2025-10-16 01:17:55

There's no white knight coming. Palestinians must seize this moment to reclaim their future

David Hearst
15 October 2025 18:59 BST | Last update: ~14:00 EDT

He revealed how dependent Israel has become on American arms, recalling how Netanyahu pleaded for weapons that Trump did not even know the US had.

He reminded Israel of how small it was and that it could not fight world opinion.

He confirmed how he had arm-twisted Netanyahu into stopping the offensive on Gaza: “And I said, ‘Bibi, you’re gonna be remembered for this far more than if you kept this thing going, going, going, kill, kill, kill.”

There's no white knight coming. Palestinians must seize this moment to reclaim their future

The theatrics of the Gaza ceasefire deal, led by Trump and backed by complicit Arab nations, will not lay the groundwork for genuine liberation

^{Middle East Eye}

David Hearst
15 October 2025 18:59 BST | Last update: ~14:00 EDT

He revealed how dependent Israel has become on American arms, recalling how Netanyahu pleaded for weapons that Trump did not even know the US had.

He reminded Israel of how small it was and that it could not fight world opinion.

He confirmed how he had arm-twisted Netanyahu into stopping the offensive on Gaza: “And I said, ‘Bibi, you’re gonna be remembered for this far more than if you kept this thing going, going, going, kill, kill, kill.”

There's no white knight coming. Palestinians must seize this moment to reclaim their future

The theatrics of the Gaza ceasefire deal, led by Trump and backed by complicit Arab nations, will not lay the groundwork for genuine liberation

^{Middle East Eye}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37598783

Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDT

Israel’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.

It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.

Peter Link

2025-10-16 01:12:28

Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts

Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDT

Israel’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.

It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.

Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts

To deliver real and lasting solidarity with Palestinians, we must transform our own societies from top to bottom

^{Middle East Eye}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37598783

Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDT

Israel’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.

It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.

Peter Link

2025-10-16 01:12:28

Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts

Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDT

Israel’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.

It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.

Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts

To deliver real and lasting solidarity with Palestinians, we must transform our own societies from top to bottom

^{Middle East Eye}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37598783

Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDT

Israel’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.

It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.

Peter Link

2025-10-16 01:12:28

Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts

Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDT

Israel’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.

It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.

Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts

To deliver real and lasting solidarity with Palestinians, we must transform our own societies from top to bottom

^{Middle East Eye}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37598783

Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDT

Israel’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.

It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.

Peter Link

2025-10-16 01:12:28

Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts

Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDT

Israel’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.

It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.

Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts

To deliver real and lasting solidarity with Palestinians, we must transform our own societies from top to bottom

^{Middle East Eye}

Sai Englert
15 October 2025 12:09 BST
Last update: ~ 07:00 EDT

Israel’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of #US hegemony, the extent of Israel's integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe.

It has also clarified much for previously less-informed people around the world: the genocidal character of Zionism, the cravenness of our own rulers, and the hypocrisy of international law - to name but a few.

Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts

To deliver real and lasting solidarity with Palestinians, we must transform our own societies from top to bottom

^{Middle East Eye}

https://apnews.com/article/trump-argentina-financing-economy-milei-billion-peso-fd38553ae03f4c33ce1288999469f7fb