[Foreignpolicy] Russia’s Next Opposition Will Not Be Liberal
Putin's War Is Breeding Russia's Next Opposition, But It Will Not Be Liberal
Army corruption and mass death are breeding new dissent—deep inside Vladimir Putin’s loyal core.Alexey Kovalev (Foreign Policy)
Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors
Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza
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Drones reportedly target Russian oil refinery in Ufa, more than 1,300 kilometers from Ukraine
Russian authorities had earlier declared a drone threat in the region and implemented emergency measures at Ufa airport.
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Drones reportedly target Russian oil refinery in Ufa, more than 1,300 kilometers from Ukraine
Russian authorities had earlier declared a drone threat in the region and implemented emergency measures at Ufa airport.Tania Myronyshena (The Kyiv Independent)
Turkish government drafts anti-LGBTQ+ laws threatening prison for trans people and same-sex couples
Turkey's government has revealed the draft of its 11th Judicial Reform Package, including a updated laws affecting the LGBTQ+ community.
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Young Taiwanese aren't so anti-China. That's a problem for the island's government
As China threatens Taiwan, a younger generation is less convinced of the danger
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Israel Is Still Holding at Least 115 Health Care Workers Hostage, Org Says
Israel has reportedly disappeared over 400 health care workers from Gaza and the West Bank in the last two years.
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In Europe, Apple's new MacBook Pro comes without a charger
Apple's new MacBook Pro comes with a charger in the box, though only in Europe.
In Europe, Apple's new MacBook Pro comes without a charger
You have a charger lying somewhere, don't you?Stan Schroeder (Mashable)
US | Trump’s military escalation against Venezuela repeats the Iraq War blueprint
With the suspension of dialogue between the US and Venezuela, the sighting of US B-52 bombers in Venezuelan airspace, and the further lethal US strikes in the Caribbean, the US seems to be accelerating its drive towards war with Venezuela
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State Data Reveals Just 0.5% of Florida ICE Detainees Are Gang-Affiliated
“The narrative that immigration enforcement is going after gang members in this country is a lie,” says one expert.
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Anti-Fascism Scholar Who Fled US After Death Threats Discusses MAGA’s Fascism
If we don’t organize and take action in the streets, says Mark Bray, “we’re going to end up somewhere really bad.”
Anti-Fascism Scholar Who Fled US After Death Threats Discusses MAGA’s Fascism
If we don’t organize and take action in the streets, says Mark Bray, “we’re going to end up somewhere really bad.”…Amy Goodman (Truthout)
European NATO allies pledge to buy more US weapons under PURL scheme for Ukraine
A further 10 allies have lined up to join NATO's newly established PURL initiative, created to purchase in-demand weapons systems from the US, amid a shortage in supplies.
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U.S. Drops Out of Top 10 in Passport Power. Here’s Why
The U.S. passport is now tied with Malaysia for 12th place following Trump's crackdown on legal and illegal immigration.
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Switzerland court rules 20 billion Credit bonds write-off unlawful
The Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland ruled on Tuesday that writing off 16.5 billion Swiss francs ($20.53 billion USD) in Credit Suisse bonds was unlawful, calling into question the government’s approach to handling banking crises.
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Switzerland court rules 20 billion Credit bonds write-off unlawful
The Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland ruled on Tuesday that writing off 16.5 billion Swiss francs ($20.53 billion USD) in Credit Suisse bonds was unlawful, calling into question the governme...Katherine Girguis | U. Ottawa Faculty of Law, CA (- JURIST - News)
Kamala Harris seethes as heckler calls her a ‘right-wing war criminal’
Kamala Harris has returned from the wilderness - not to criticise Trump or to apologise for her inaction on genocide, but to sell a book
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. 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.
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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)
Dr. Ahmed Muhanna of Gaza's Al-Awda Hospital released after 665 days of illegal imprisonment
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.
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US | Trump puts two B-52H strategic bombers in Venezuelan airspace
Flight tracking data shows two B-52H bombers in Venezuelan territory in a blatant act of international aggression by Trump
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Mexico | Energy Ministry sees 96% of private-sector energy investment going toward renewables
Mexico’s Energy Ministry estimates that almost all private-sector energy capacity investment in the 2025-2030 period will be in renewables.
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'So Much for America First': Trump Admin Says Argentina Bailout Doubling to $40 Billion
"Yet, they never have the funds for healthcare coverage for all," said Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.
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
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 monthsConnor Jones (The Register)
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NYC mayoral candidates set to face off in 1st debate of general election. Here's what to watch for.
NYC mayoral candidates set to face off in 1st debate of general election. Here's what to watch for.
NYC mayoral candidates Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa face off Thursday in their first debate of the general election.Renee Anderson (CBS New York)
Hi everyone, I spent the last 3 hours troubleshooting why my monitor kept blacking out only to discover I'd plugged the HDMI cable into the motherboard instead of the GPU
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
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Johnson & Johnson baby powder: Thousands sue company alleging it hid talcum powder cancer risks
Johnson & Johnson baby powder: Thousands sue company alleging it hid talcum powder cancer risks
The claim involves 3,000 people and focuses on internal memos and scientific reports, seen by the BBC.Chloe Hayward (BBC News)
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J&J really pride themselves on being a family friendly company, which makes it extra damaging that they knowingly gave mothers and babies cancer for 50+ years.
As far back as the 50s their scientists showed that asbestos was present in their talc. Back when the story broken I read that some of their internal research even associated talc itself with cancer. In the 70s they lied to regulators, saying they hadn't found any asbestos recently, they had of course. Even after most other companies stopped using actual talc in baby powder, J&J refused to change and insisted it was safe.
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Jeffrey Epstein - Peter Thiel connection
Jeffrey Epstein - Peter Thiel connection
Follow the money behind Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel connection with this relationship mapThe Democracy Labs
AI is the flying car of the mind: Irresistible, impractical
AI is the flying car of the mind: An irresistible idea nobody knows how to land or manage
Column: And which will crash, repeatedly, until users learn how to handle it safelyMark Pesce (The Register)
Inside the War on Antifa
Feds target "affinity" groups, informant networks, the Tides Foundation, and more.
Fox Recap: A student-built tool that analyzes your browsing habits | The Mozilla Blog
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)
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The third Reich was not in the name of God. The Church had to subjugate under the Nazis. Same with Stalin and the communists. They hated religion and I am pretty sure they committed quite a few atrocities in the USSR, Mao in China, Pol Pot in Cambodia ...
God is a convenient reason for atrocities but far from the only/most prevalent one.
Middle East and the spread of Islam.
Zimbabwe and Ghurukundi (I made a typo here somewhere).
Shaka and Mfecane.
Rwanda and Tutsi.
Just adding a few because you clearly need more thorough education if you can't name one in Africa by Africans.
The problem through the whole history, even between different christian Religions- the war of 30 years between catholic and protestants, 80 years between irish and british people.......
After the industrial revolution it has become worse, because the religion of money has also been added.
Trump getting that gluk gluk 9000
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Google email shows it ruled Israel’s ads claiming ‘There is food in Gaza’ aren’t misleading
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ROG Xbox Ally X: The Ars Technica review
The first portable “Xbox” fails to unify a messy world of competing PC gaming platforms.
Trashy Love
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.
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American B-52 bombers in the air near Venezuela
American B-52 bombers in the air near Venezuela
Multiple U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers were observed flying north of Los Roques, Venezuela, on Wednesday afternoon, as tensions between Washington and Caracas continued to build.Lisa West (UK Defence Journal)
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
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.”
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Dozens Remain Imprisoned in Egypt for Palestine Solidarity While Sisi is Hailed as a Gaza Ceasefire Broker
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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
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
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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
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in reply to Skiluros • • •Something to think about for people in the West who hope for a magical "Deus Ex Machina" type change in russian society.
Lets not forget that Gorbachev, widely perceived in the west as some sort of liberal reformer did not want to end russian occupation of independent countires that were part of the USSR and he supported the annexation of Crimea. Not to mention that the impetus for the end of USSR/Warsaw pact came from countries such as Poland, the Baltic nations and Ukraine, not from russia.
And what of current russians liberals? Reading Vladimir Kara-Murza's latest article in Washington Post would make you think that the issue is putin and not russian society:
And yet Kara-Murza, the darling of the west, also said the following (in an address for the French senate no less):
And this is a Western educated russian "liberal". Can you imagine what goes through the head of the vast majority of russians?
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Buryats Find It Easier to Kill Ukrainians
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