Texas AG Ken Paxton sues EPIC to stop Muslim housing project
The East Plano Islamic Center has pitched a residential development, formerly called EPIC City, with more than 1,000 residential units, a mosque, a K-12 faith-based school and retail shops outside of Dallas. The project drew numerous state investigations earlier this year — some for unclear reasons — including one from Paxton, who said in March he was looking into potential violations of consumer protection laws.
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“The leaders behind EPIC City have engaged in a radical plot to destroy hundreds of acres of beautiful Texas land and line their own pockets,” Paxton said in a statement, vowing to stop the development. “I will relentlessly bring the full force of the law against anyone who thinks they can ignore the rules and hurt Texans.”
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues to stop Muslim housing project in North Texas
Paxton began investigating the East Plano Islamic Center in March for potential violations of consumer protection laws.Alejandro Serrano (The Texas Tribune)
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues EPIC to stop Muslim housing project
The East Plano Islamic Center has pitched a residential development, formerly called EPIC City, with more than 1,000 residential units, a mosque, a K-12 faith-based school and retail shops outside of Dallas. The project drew numerous state investigations earlier this year — some for unclear reasons — including one from Paxton, who said in March he was looking into potential violations of consumer protection laws.
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“The leaders behind EPIC City have engaged in a radical plot to destroy hundreds of acres of beautiful Texas land and line their own pockets,” Paxton said in a statement, vowing to stop the development. “I will relentlessly bring the full force of the law against anyone who thinks they can ignore the rules and hurt Texans.”
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues to stop Muslim housing project in North Texas
Paxton began investigating the East Plano Islamic Center in March for potential violations of consumer protection laws.Alejandro Serrano (The Texas Tribune)
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Immigrants approved for citizenship ‘plucked out’ of line moments before pledging allegiance: report
Immigrants were moments away from pledging allegiance to the United States in Boston — the final step of the long process to becoming a U.S. citizen — when government officials pulled them out of line, according to a new report.
The scene unfolded at Boston’s Faneuil Hall on Thursday, Dec. 4, according to the report from WGBH, a National Public Radio member station.
As people who were already approved to be naturalized — having completed the lengthy U.S. citizenship process — lined up to pledge allegiance, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials told them they could not continue due to their countries of origin, the outlet reported.
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Why fossil fuel influence in children's education is a democratic problem, not just a climate problem
Why fossil fuel influence in children's education is a democratic problem, not just a climate problem
Australia’s children deserve the truth about climate change. They deserve to learn science that is free from corporate spin, especially when it comes to industries driving the crisis that will shape the rest of their lives.thepoint.com.au
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Bulldozed, crushed and buried — fate of missing aid-seekers
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What Skwawkbox-Canary and other independent news outlets, together with local journalists and international activists have been reporting for months, has finally made it into the ‘mainstream’ media. A CNN ‘investigation‘ ‘revealed’ that the Israeli military bulldozed some of the bodies of aid-seekers slaughtered at so-called ‘aid’ stations into unmarked Gaza mass graves. Others were simply left […]By Skwawkbox
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Canada literally occupies unceded land right now.
And as I commented in another thread - I believe in response to your post - we can either collectively acknowledge the true and full cost of rectifying this situation, including fairly compensating those who are affected, or we can stick our heads in the sand and pretend that me and my kids, who were born in this country no differently than indigenous families and who know no other home, are expected to destroy our lives in service of the wrongs of the past.
If private property is affected, then the displaced people need to be fairly compensated. In general the impact on everyone needs to be considered in the calculus. I opened my eyes for the first time in this country, just like everyone else born here did, regardless of what atrocious actions were committed by those in the past. I have nowhere to go, this is my home as much as it is anyone else's.
If we don't acknowledge these facts willingly and openly i fear we will be forced to acknowledge them unwillingly.
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I'm going to talk about private land exclusively.
What happened in the past is the government appropriated the land, it seems at the very least unethically, and then sold it to private interests. Somewhere along the line an innocent citizen bought the land thinking it was freehold or otherwise was the owner's land to sell. It seems that now the land is being expropriated.
If it was never the government's land to sell, and the courts have ruled in that way, then the government needs to compensate the people to whom the land was sold.
This cost needs to be considered by the government when they negotiate with FN groups. It is the true and total cost of reconciliation. If it is excluded then it will cause enormous dissatisfaction with the entire exercise of reconciliation, and it will eventually destroy the program. If the goal is harmonious coexistence, this will be unachievable if some of the victims - and they are also victims - are pushed out and ignored.
My other adjacent point is that a full cost and schedule for reconciliation must be made clear to everyone, so that all stakeholders can understand the objective and agree on the end goal.
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Let’s be clear about what you are actually saying here. You are describing the privatization of stolen land as if it were a simple matter of unfortunate paperwork. The government did not simply unethically appropriate the land. The settlers orchestrated a campaign of displacement and genocide, then laundered the loot through property deeds to create a class of settlers whose innocence is built on that foundational violence. That citizen did not buy freehold land. They bought a fantasy, a clean title washed in the blood of the original people who were murdered or removed from it. The courts are not handing down philosophical rulings. They are finally, begrudgingly, acknowledging a truth that Indigenous people have never stopped stating which is that the land was never Canada's to sell.
Your entire argument hinges on the moral panic of the settler who feels cheated. But where is your panic for the people who were cheated of everything? You call for the government to compensate the buyer, to make the settler whole, but this just completes the cycle of colonial logic. It says the ultimate victim of theft is the one who ended up holding the stolen goods, not the people who were robbed in the first place. You call them also victims. They're not victims, they are the beneficiaries. Unwitting perhaps, but beneficiaries nonetheless of a system that granted them property through ethnic cleansing. Reconciliation priced on making those beneficiaries happy is not reconciliation. It is the perpetuation of the same power dynamic with a polite apology attached.
When you demand a full cost and schedule, you are talking about a budget for justice. You want to put a ceiling on what is owed. But true reconciliation isn't a government program you can sabotage with stakeholder dissatisfaction. It is the unfinished business of dismantling a colonial project. If the current property owner is compensated, that is a cost of doing business for a state that built itself on theft. It is not a debt owed to the public by Indigenous people. The goal is not harmonious coexistence built on a ledger that balances the comfort of settlers against the rights of nations. The goal is justice, and justice is inherently disruptive to the unjust peace that has existed here for centuries. You cannot put a timeline on decolonization. The only thing that needs to be made clear is that the era of pretending these lands were ever legitimately Canada's to give away is over.
You can wrap it in as many words as you want. What you are saying is that I, and others like me, who were born here just like you were, and just like indigenous people were have less of a claim to this country as their homeland. This is the basis that seems to allow you to justify taking away the lives of other people.
The goal can only be harmonious coexistence, or it will be doomed to fail. If your project is built on the destruction of the lives of others, then it will not succeed.
I will say again - I first opened my eyes in this country. It is my home and I know no other. I and FN peoples are the same in this regard. I am not special nor do I hold an exalted position over you, and neither do you over me. In the end I'm putting demands on the government to recognize the true and full cost of reconciliation. I'm not putting demands on FN people. I'm not sure why you feel aggrieved that I've identified another group that is being impacted by this project.
You are asking for people to sacrifice to right the wrongs of the past. I want to do this, and others do to. But if you treat them as lesser and don't try to understand the impacts on them, and you invoke academic concepts to justify why they should just 'suck it up', you're going to be unsuccessful. Eventually you have to live with these people. And like I said before, they are no different than you, no less and no more.
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This is not about wrapping anything in words. It's about confronting the central lie you are telling yourself. You are conflating birthplace with historical claim. Being born on stolen land does not grant you the same claim as the people from whom it was stolen. That is the brutal fact of colonial history. You opened your eyes here. But the people we displaced had their eyes open here for thousands of years before you had your epiphany. To pretend those two facts are equivalent is the foundation of the injustice.
You keep talking about harmonious coexistence as the only goal. But you are demanding that this harmony be built on your terms, on the continued denial of the original crime. You want reconciliation to be a polite transaction that leaves your sense of home and ownership undisturbed. That's just perpetuation of a settlement that never ended. True coexistence begins with the uncomfortable truth that your homeland is built on the homeland of another, and that reality demands more than just a budgetary line item.
You say you are putting demands on the government, not on First Nations. But you are. Your demand is that the government prioritize compensating settlers as the true and full cost before anything else. You are framing settler dissatisfaction as the primary risk to the project. That is a direct demand on Indigenous people to wait, to accept less, to once again watch as the state manages the feelings of the beneficiaries before addressing the rights of the dispossessed. You have identified another impacted group, yes. But you have placed them at the front of the line for justice, ahead of the people who were robbed. That is why there is grievance.
No one is asking you to suck it up. You need you to wake up and understand that your personal connection to this land does not erase the collective, unbroken connection of the nations that were here first. The question is who has already sacrificed everything and who is now being asked to share a fraction of what was gained through that loss. You say we all must live together. We do. And living together means finally building a shared home where the foundation isn't the myth that we all started here with the same claim. We didn't. Justice starts when we stop pretending that we did.
Ah, the classic we're all just squatters on a rock defense. This is the intellectual equivalent of throwing a smoke bomb and hoping no one notices you're trying to justify a very specific and recent theft by invoking a vague, ahistorical free-for-all. Let's unpack your masterclass in bad faith.
First, the statement nobody has any claim to any land is a philosophical thought experiment for freshman ethics seminars, not a serious framework for modern justice. If you genuinely believed that, you wouldn't be paying a mortgage or respecting property lines. You'd be trying to plant a flag in your neighbor's backyard. But you don't. You only trot out this radical nihilism when it's time to dismiss Indigenous sovereignty, because applying it universally would immediately collapse the society you benefit from.
Then we get to the core of the argument, the whole they did it too school of history. Sure, conflict and displacement happened between pre colonial societies. To then equate that with the organized, state-sanctioned project of genocide, land theft, and cultural eradication enacted by European empires is so laughably dishonest it borders on parody. It's like saying a bar fight and the Normandy invasion are the same because both involve violence. The scale, intent, and lasting structural power are so fundamentally different that only someone desperate to avoid accountability would conflate them.
Your hypothetical about one tribe taking over if left alone is pure fantasy, a just-so story you've invented to make colonialism seem inevitable. It's not history. It's fan fiction for the apologist. You're judging real people who suffered a documented catastrophe against your imaginary scenario of what might have happened, and then using your own fiction to wash your hands of the real consequences. This is the ultimate colonial mindset, projecting your own violent assumptions onto other cultures to make their dispossession seem like a natural event rather than a deliberate crime.
The punchline, of course, is that this entire line of reasoning only ever flows one way. It's only ever used to undermine Indigenous claims. You never apply this nobody has a claim logic to the current title holder, the corporation, or the state. Their deed, derived directly from that original theft, is somehow treated as sacred. So your whole philosophy is a sham. The goal isn't to debate land claims. It's to freeze the current distribution of power, which you benefit from, by pretending all claims are equally invalid except, conveniently, the one that gives you your house. It's a shell game of morality where you get to keep the prize and call everyone else a hypocrite for wanting it back. 🤡
You didn't read, or chose not to understand, what I wrote, likely because you've decided who I am and have responsed to your own construct.
For one I never said it wasn't going to impact private property owners, nor did I say I diidn't expect it to. What I am saying is if you see this as a zero sum game and refuse to acknowledge the injustice and pain that will be caused to other parties in this process, and you refuse to demand (or at the very least actively obstruct) government recompense to other injured parties then I would caution that you are not headed in a constructive direction.
You're asking others to put aside their hate and move in a positive direction, but it doesn't sound like you're willing to do it. Thankfully I have hope that you are not representative.
I don't care about history with respect to claims of homeland. This country is not more yours than mine. I don't expect you to buy my cultural heritage or ancestry, and you can't expect me to do it either. You don't have a magical connection to the land - you took your first breath here and so did I. With respect to native land, this is ours, not just yours. There is a broken contract that needs to be reconciled, but this does not dictate who has more of a right to live here. If you can't accept that then you are definitely going to gave a hard time, particularly since I'm broadly a supporter of reconciliation and you can't even find a way to connect with me.
Edit I also said nothing about prioritizing one claim over another, or one compensation over another. I ask that you seriously reflect on what you've assumed about me.
I directly addressed the points you were attempting to make. What you're saying is that you think your needs are more important than those of Indigenous people whose land you occupy. It's very clear what you're actually saying despite all the sophistry you're using. You are a supporter of reconciliation entirely on your terms, that's not what reconciliation is.
Your whole argument is inherently premised on prioritizing one claim over another. The fact that you don't even understand the implications of what you said yourself is frankly hilarious.
I never said prioritizing. I said both expropriation if appropriate, but also compensation to those who lost land. I said both.
You clearly think of all of the people like me as second class citizens, at least with respect to homeland. But generally, you do not consider the people on the other side to be equals with their own value and their own pain. You have made it clear in the way you insult me and call me a clown, and misinterpret what I say. I have not insulted you once.
You seem to believe that this is a zero sum game and we must lose so you can win. I will not be able to understand that position. It will only lead to worse outcomes.
I'm sorry we can't find a way to understand each other.
It's like you don't understand what the word implied means.
You clearly think of all of the people like me as second class citizens, at least with respect to homeland. But generally, you do not consider the people on the other side to be equals with their own value and their own pain. You have made it clear in the way you insult me and call me a clown, and misinterpret what I say. I have not insulted you once.
See, you're just doing projecting here because you very clearly see First Nations people as second class citizens whose rights are superseded by your own. Nobody is misinterpreting anything you said here.
You seem to believe that this is a zero sum game and we must lose so you can win. I will not be able to understand that position. It will only lead to worse outcomes.
More projecting, because nowhere did I say anything of the sort. You're just putting words in my mouth because you're unable to engage honestly with what's being said to you.
This is not going anywhere. I've made it clear that I don't think of anyone as second class, I never diminished FN claims, and I think I was abundantly clear about what I was asserting, so any implying that you see is entirely of your own making.
You don't trust me and you are obviously not willing to understand me. There's nothing here to discuss. I gave my honest and forthright concerns and you see it as an attack.
I've got enough stresses in my life. I don't need to create more online. Best of luck to you.
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Ukraine condemns Olympic diver Lyskun’s switch to Russia
Ukraine condemns Olympic diver Lyskun’s switch to Russia
Ukraine has condemned two-time Olympic diver Sofiia Lyskun’s switch to represent Russia amid the ongoing war and will try to strip her of awards.The Associated Press (CTVNews)
The federation said it will seek to strip Lyskun of all awards she won and will appeal to international sports institutions to apply competition restrictions on her.
Totally normal behavior form that federation/association
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Russian Forces Take Control of Rovnoye in DPR, Kucherovka in Kharkov
Russian Forces Take Control of Rovnoye in DPR, Kucherovka in Kharkov
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's Tsentr battlegroup has taken control of the settlement of Rovnoye, is eliminating Ukrainian troops in Dmitrov and are clearing Grishino in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.Sputnik International
ya nazi fucks
- Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
- Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: | transcript
- Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
- Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
- Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
- Internationalist 360°, 2022–2024: History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
- NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide
Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
The suspensions have more to do with political polarisation than genuine security concerns related to the invasion.Volodymyr Ishchenko (Al Jazeera)
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So man poor arguments
take the NY Times artile from 2024
The top court of the United Nations ruled on Friday that it would take up the question of whether Ukraine committed genocide in its Donetsk and Luhansk regions, an accusation at the heart of Russia’s argument for its 2022 full-scale invasion.
No convictions, just accusations from Russia
So many garbage articles and load of factual worpress sites lmfao
Putin is a fascist fuck and is closer to nazism than even the Ukranians holding literal swastika flags. if you see interviews with the ukranian 'nazi' then you would realize they are not brutal murders but want what's best for their country. Its about the national socalism, what got hitler in power in the first place before he became a meth addicted warmonger.
And Russians weren't much better than actual nazi's during WWII.
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How about real evidence like so...
nytimes.com/2025/10/22/world/e…
hrw.org/report/2023/11/09/tank…
abc.net.au/news/2022-04-06/20-…
globalnews.ca/news/9925644/rus…
aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/29/…
bbc.com/news/articles/cj0y45md…
hrw.org/news/2024/07/11/russia…
press.un.org/en/2024/sc15761.d…
reuters.com/world/europe/russi…
Russian Drones Hit Sumy Maternity Hospital After Ukraine Strikes Energy Facilities Inside Russia
Russian forces struck several sites across Ukraine, including a medical facility in the Ukrainian city of Sumy, after Kyiv carried out a massive drone attack on Russia's Belgorod region, knocking out power to thousands of homes.RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service (RFE/RL)
I am too lazy to point the arrow to the correct place, but you get the point
There is videos of Russians in ukrainian drab, Russia was supposed to take Prok 2 years ago and in the past month they claimed to have fully encircled and taken prok, which is still not entirely true.
Russia is a fucking joke of a country and Putin should be hung by his testicles
Ok, what about these??
Is this better or worse than holding a flag/having an ideology??
nytimes.com/2025/10/22/world/e…
hrw.org/report/2023/11/09/tank…
abc.net.au/news/2022-04-06/20-…
globalnews.ca/news/9925644/rus…
aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/29/…
bbc.com/news/articles/cj0y45md…
hrw.org/news/2024/07/11/russia…
press.un.org/en/2024/sc15761.d…
reuters.com/world/europe/russi…
Russian Drones Hit Sumy Maternity Hospital After Ukraine Strikes Energy Facilities Inside Russia
Russian forces struck several sites across Ukraine, including a medical facility in the Ukrainian city of Sumy, after Kyiv carried out a massive drone attack on Russia's Belgorod region, knocking out power to thousands of homes.RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service (RFE/RL)
BUT WHATABOUT THE SHELLING OF BERLIN.
Don't start a war if you don't want a war
holding a flag/having an ideology
You have fully transformed into a cryptofascist who complains about being disliked for "just a difference of opinion" (the opinion is that non-whites aren't human and must be enslaved or exterminated)
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the fuck are you talking about, Russia started the war in 2014 when they invaded Crimea.
Ive seen lots of interviews with these so called nazi and not a single one was about killing non arian people lmao
Go suck Putin again
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Wrong, Ukraine began ethnic cleansing of their russian-speaking minority in 2014 after the US coup
Ive seen lots of interviews with these so called nazi and not a single one was about killing non arian people lmao
"Well this Hitler guy was just talking about making Germany great again, not killing people, you're just making things up"
So-called nazis bruh they're doing the salute and waving the swastika, at this point you just don't want to believe your own eyes because it would mean you're wrong, and somehow being wrong is more uncomfortable for you than being a nazi.
You're not that much of a dipshit, nobody is. Purging anyone outside the "master race" is the nazi's whole thing. You just want to plug your ears and shut your eyes and keep cheering for the goose steppers for some suspicious-ass reason
go suck putin again
You fascists sure do love turning everything into weird homophobia, huh? Fuck outta here, loser. Your favorite seig heilers are losing the war, and no amount of desperate spin can change that.
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Wrong, Ukraine began ethnic cleansing of their russian-speaking minority in 2024 after the US coup
You mean 2014.
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Putin is the fascist here, look up the definition dumbass
Putin has invaded Georgia, Transnistria, threatens lithuiana and estonia and several other countries.
Russia can get fucked
Sincerly, A Canadian
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Hmm actually I think these are the fascists
Sincerely, a Canadian
A) Take that shit back to reddit
B) Your parliament gave a standing ovation to a member of the Waffen SS for his actions during the second world war
And which country Signed a deal to not invade so long as their neighbour gets rid of the nukes but does so anyways and then proceeds to attack a bunch of neighbouring countries...
Go spred your bullshit propaganda elsewhere
Putin is the fascist.
Ukraine at least follows geneva conventions regarding POWs (not killing surrendered soldiers, fair treatment, no torture, etc) unlike Russia which attacks civilians (apartments, hospitals, schools, grocery stores, etc), killing their own for not going on suicide missions, Russian commanders stealing money from the ones sent on suicide missions.
You can spout Russian talking points that have 0 evidence, but there is lots of evidence showing Ukraine is on the right sode of history.
Slava Ukraine, Crimea is Ukraine
the irony of you braying about everybody who disagrees with you being a fascist and then finishing with a literal fascist slogan is just 🤌
mronline.org/2022/11/07/the-hi…
The History of Fascism in Ukraine Part I: The Origins of the OUN 1917-1941 - MR Online
Once believed to be an anachronistic Cold War relic, the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) has emerged as the most successful post-war fascist group.Editor (MR Online)
How is attacking hospitals and schools not nazism?? Putin is a greatan for having his military kill children and the sick....
nytimes.com/2025/10/22/world/e…
hrw.org/report/2023/11/09/tank…
abc.net.au/news/2022-04-06/20-…
globalnews.ca/news/9925644/rus…
aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/29/…
bbc.com/news/articles/cj0y45md…
hrw.org/news/2024/07/11/russia…
press.un.org/en/2024/sc15761.d…
reuters.com/world/europe/russi…
Russian Drones Hit Sumy Maternity Hospital After Ukraine Strikes Energy Facilities Inside Russia
Russian forces struck several sites across Ukraine, including a medical facility in the Ukrainian city of Sumy, after Kyiv carried out a massive drone attack on Russia's Belgorod region, knocking out power to thousands of homes.RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service (RFE/RL)
How is war not nazism??
Damn maybe you are that much of a dipshit, never say never
So what you're saying is that every single participant in WW2 was nazis? Oops, all nazis? Come on lmao
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That is not what I said.
Attacking civilians is an act of terrorism, not war.
I have no clue what the fuck you're on about, stop trying to make stupid arguments by putting words in my mouth.
I am pointing out the acts of Putin are fascism.
Fascism and Hitlers Nazism are one in the same. Military dictatorships that use fear and propaganda to control the population along with military expansionism.
Youre a terrible propagandist
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this is about the russian forces capturing rovnoye, not the ukrainians
Japan Pleads for US Backing as It Ramps Up Militaristic Urge Against China
Japan Pleads for US Backing as It Ramps Up Militaristic Urge Against China
Japanese officials believe the US hasn’t shown enough support after PM Sanae Takaichi declared a Chinese “attack” on Taiwan would trigger Japan’s military involvement, the FT reports.Sputnik International
there is a spectre haunting the fediverse
Yeaaaahhhh, I can't back you on that one. There's a difference between being an imperfect leftist and being a CIA plant. Like Hasan, Ryan Grim, Krystal Ball? Flawed, but genuine. Mamdani literally hasn't even stepped foot in office yet but at least he freaks out fascists.
I'll give you AOCIA and Plattner, and it's Bernie's time for the nursing home.
As I initially checked the Wikipedia article for Uyghur Genocide it took me about 1 minute to find that the article had his name spread all over it and the sources it cited. He works for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which is funded by the USA.
Every source you check eventually circles back to him. There is also not really any video or photo evidence, compare this to the terabytes of videos of the gaza genocide. There is like 1 or 2 picture that shows a prison and curled up inmates, this doesnt look good but still better than Guantanamo or the El Salvadorian prisons.
China accuses the USA of funding terrorists in that region, which also lacks good sources but given the USA track record of funding separatists for regime change for example in 1953 Iran "coup d'état" and the USA listing China as their enemy number 1 e.g. in their newest national security strategy paper, it doesnt seem too far fetched.
Yes this doesnt mean there cant be possibly any wrong-doing on the Chinese side but the evidence for that is scarce at best and manufactured at worst.
The one China policy is also a direct result from China winning WW2 against Japan, Japan used to colonize Taiwan and genocided the Chinese. Imagine questioning other results from WW2 like Polands indepence.
Also the british used to occupy Tibet and looking at other british occupations like Palestine or Sudan (with Egypt) it gets pretty clear that they left nothing but chaos. So given all this history it, to me, seems justified that China wants to keep their country together and looking at satellite pictures from Xinjiang we dont see rivers of blood like in Sudan or thousands of pictures of child amputees like in Palestine.
Its really convenient how in the West every separatist movement like Catalonia in Spain or the Reichsbürger in Germany is immediately not valid, why all separatist movements of the Wests "adversaries" are immediately legit.
A new Ohio marijuana law could mean legal risks for users
A new Ohio marijuana law could mean legal risks for users
The Ohio Senate is set to vote next week on legislation marijuana advocates call a "recriminalization."Jake Zuckerman (Signal Cleveland)
Why I Think the AI Bubble Will Not Burst
Why I Think the AI Bubble Will Not Burst
Last year, I bought an Nvidia GPU for self-hosting AI tools. I'm not a gamer, and I would've never bought this thing if it weren't for AI.Donald (Donald's Blog)
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Hard disagree, at some point investors are going to start asking these AI companies when they will be done burning cash and when the profits will start rolling in. Arguably OpenAI is already starting to see these concerns. If the US gets a new government at some stage there might be enough political will to draw a line in the sand with NVidia and tell them to stop manipulating markets. Finally there may be some pushback against datacenters literally killing the areas they are built in. What we are seeing is a fraud against the world originating from a group of hyper rich arseholes that may last a surprisingly long time, but eventually they will need to pay the piper.
I did have someone tell me this has all the hallmarks of the space race. We are going to see enormous amounts of efforts and resources thrown into AI only for these pioneers to realise there is no clear way to monetise at which point all that energy will be redirected, until then China keeps on egging the US on to make them increasingly commit more and more of their economy to a concept that is going to be a lead anchor on the country left holding the bag.
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Unlike the dot-com bubble era, where regular people invested in many shady companies that essentially robbed them, these AI investors know what they're doing. I'm not seeing any kind of deception here.
Lol. Lmao even
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GP Abu Dhabi, l'analisi: Norris campione, ERA ORA! E grazie a un superbo Max
GP Abu Dhabi, l'analisi: Norris campione, ERA ORA! E grazie a un superbo Max
Pino Allievi analizza l'andamento del Gran Premio di Abu Dhabi, ultima gara del mondiale 2025 di Formula 1 che ha incoronato Lando NorrisPino Allievi (FormulaPassion.it)
Maybe one for the drivers and one for the cameras? I see that the top one has a big FIA logo on it, but I don't know if that matters.
Thinking about it, I remember that the official weaver was actress Ana De Armas and maybe UAE wouldn't like a woman doing something (it's an Islamic country after all).
Hegseth Defends Boat Bombings as New Details Further Undermine Administration's Justifications
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1217…
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday defended the Trump administration's policy of bombing suspected drug-trafficking vessels even as new details further undermined the administration's stated justifications for the policy.
According to the Guardian, Hegseth told a gathering at the Ronald Reagan presidential library that the boat bombings, which so far have killed at least 87 people, are necessary to protect Americans from illegal drugs being shipped to the US.
"If you’re working for a designated terrorist organization and you bring drugs to this country in a boat, we will find you and we will sink you," Hegseth said. "Let there be no doubt about it."
However, leaked details about a classified briefing delivered to lawmakers last week by Adm. Frank Bradley about a September 2 boat strike cast new doubts on Hegseth's justifications.
CNN reported on Friday that Bradley told lawmakers that the boat taken out by the September 2 attack was not even headed toward the US, but was going "to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname," a small nation in the northeast of South America.
While Bradley acknowledged that the boat was not heading toward the US, he told lawmakers that the strike on it was justified because the drugs it was carrying could have theoretically wound up in the US at some point.
Additionally, NBC News reported on Saturday that Bradley told lawmakers that Hegseth had ordered all 11 men who were on the boat targeted by the September 2 strike to be killed because "they were on an internal list of narco-terrorists who US intelligence and military officials determined could be lethally targeted."
This is relevant because the US military launched a second strike during the September 2 operation to kill two men who had survived the initial strike on their vessel, which many legal experts consider to be either a war crime or an act of murder under domestic law.
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, watched video of the September 2 double-tap attack last week, and he described the footage as “one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service.”
“Any American who sees the video that I saw will see its military attacking shipwrecked sailors,” Himes explained. “Now, there’s a whole set of contextual items that the admiral explained. Yes, they were carrying drugs. They were not in position to continue their mission in any way... People will someday see this video and they will see that that video shows, if you don’t have the broader context, an attack on shipwrecked sailors.”
While there has been much discussion about the legality of the September 2 double-tap strike in recent days, some critics have warned that fixating on this particular aspect of the administration's policy risks taking the focus off the illegality of the boat-bombing campaign as a whole.
Daphne Eviatar, director for security and human rights for Amnesty International USA, said on Friday that the entire boat-bombing campaign has been "illegal under both domestic and international law."
"All of them constitute murder because none of the victims, whether or not they were smuggling illegal narcotics, posed an imminent threat to life," she said. "Congress must take action now to stop the US military from murdering more people in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific."
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'All of Them Constitute Murder,' Amnesty Says of Trump Boat Bombings
"Congress must take action now to stop the US military from murdering more people in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific."brad-reed (Common Dreams)
In New Orleans and across U.S., anger over ICE raids sparks a 2nd American Revolution
Everyday folks are rising up to resist immigration raids with whistles, car chases, and noisy protests. Revolution is in the air.
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Billionaire Palantir Co-Founder Pushes Return of Public Hangings as Part of 'Masculine Leadership' Initiative
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1218…
Venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, a co-founder of data platform company Palantir, is calling for the return of public hangings as part of a broader push to restore what he describes as "masculine leadership" to the US.
In a statement posted on X Friday, Lonsdale said that he supported changing the so-called "three strikes" anti-crime law to ensure that anyone who is convicted of three violent crimes gets publicly executed, rather than simply sent to prison for life.
"If I’m in charge later, we won’t just have a three strikes law," he wrote. "We will quickly try and hang men after three violent crimes. And yes, we will do it in public to deter others."
Lonsdale then added that "our society needs balance," and said that "it's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable."
Lonsdale's views on public hangings being necessary to restore "masculine leadership" drew swift criticism.
Gil Durán, a journalist who documents the increasingly authoritarian politics of Silicon Valley in his newsletter "The Nerd Reich," argued in a Saturday post that Lonsdale's call for public hangings showed that US tech elites are "entering a more dangerous and desperate phase of radicalization."
"For months, Peter Thiel guru Curtis Yarvin has been squawking about the need for more severe measures to cement Trump's authoritarian rule," Durán explained. "Peter Thiel is ranting about the Antichrist in a global tour. And now Lonsdale—a Thiel protégé—is fantasizing about a future in which he will have the power to unleash state violence at mass scale."
Taulby Edmondson, an adjunct professor of history, religion, and culture at Virginia Tech, wrote in a post on Bluesky that the rhetoric Lonsdale uses to justify the return of public hangings has even darker intonations than calls for state-backed violence.
"A point of nuance here: 'masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable' is how lynch mobs are described, not state-sanctioned executions," he observed.
Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll argued that Lonsdale's remarks were symbolic of a kind of performative masculinity that has infected US culture.
"Immaturity masquerading as strength is the defining personal characteristic of our age," he wrote.
Tech entrepreneur Anil Dash warned Lonsdale that his call for public hangings could have unintended consequences for members of the Silicon Valley elite.
"Well, Joe, Mark Zuckerberg has sole control over Facebook, which directly enabled the Rohingya genocide," he wrote. "So let’s have the conversation."
And Columbia Journalism School professor Bill Grueskin noted that Lonsdale has been a major backer of the University of Austin, an unaccredited liberal arts college that has been pitched as an alternative to left-wing university education with the goal of preparing "thoughtful and ethical innovators, builders, leaders, public servants and citizens through open inquiry and civil discourse."
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Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalatesGil Duran (The Nerd Reich)
A new storm is brewing in South-East Asia. This time it's in the halls of power
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Karishma Vyas (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Maybe a silly question - but is it unwise to use Firefox for getting torrents, or saving any bookmarks in firefox? Is there benefit to using a private window (doubtful as I believe this only affects your device).
I know we generally can trust Firefox but they could turn quickly.
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ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows
ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows
More than a third of the roughly 220,000 people arrested by ICE officers in the first nine months of the Trump administration had no criminal histories.Laura Strickler (NBC News)
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What all would you do to set up Ubuntu as a NAS?
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For a NAS, like, storage on the network, keep it as simple and as reliable as possible,, so avoid Ubuntu and go to the core underlying OS: Debian.
Then just build up the functionality you need, is SMB, NFS, etc.
Personally, I went from OMV to a home built NAS, but went with Arch as that's what I use elsewhere (btw), so am comfortable with it, but it's bleeding edge which isn't always the best if some functionality changes when you're not ready for it.
If you're going for a server running lots of containers, etc, then find whatever the container handler (docker?) is best on... I just put everything on bare metal, so can't advise what's best for containers... probably Debian again...
But, keep it simple.
Yup! Considering that cpu, debian will be painful, but ubuntu as a server is asking for trouble. Look for fedora server, for the love of god even an arch server. Do your future self a favor and avoid that grilled roadkill that is ubuntu.
Fedora server comes with cockpit if thsts what you want.
For the 370, fedora works well.
Pinch of salt- i got burned too many times with ubuntu server, I run an extensive homelab and I'm a regular at the burns ward. I loathe ubuntu with the energy of a Wolf-Rayet star.
Young German leaders deem recent trip to Israel a 'PR operation' run by foreign ministry
Some of the 160 delegates from Germany tell Haaretz that the the five-day, all-expenses-paid trip lacked critical narratives. 'The messages of the delegation was very nationalist ... there were no perspective for diplomacy or peacebuilding,' reports one participant
In mid-November, some 160 young Germans, described as the country's "handpicked future leaders" and representing each German state, were brought to Israel by the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Israeli Embassy in Berlin for a trip billed as a celebration of 60 years of diplomatic relations.
Their itinerary included receptions and briefings at the Knesset, the President's Residence and the Supreme Court; a visit to Rafael, the weapons manufacturer; meetings with survivors of the October 7 attack; and visits to a kibbutz near the Gaza border and the Nova site.
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FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Attorney General Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism,” according to a Justice Department memo published here exclusively.
The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology,” as well as “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Christianity.”
That language echoes the so-called indicators of terrorism identified by President Trump’s directive National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, or NSPM-7, which the memo says it’s intended to implement. Where NSPM-7 was a declaration of war on just about anyone who isn’t MAGA, this is the war plan for how the government will wage it on a tactical level.
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?Ken Klippenstein
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FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Attorney General Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism,” according to a Justice Department memo published here exclusively.
The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology,” as well as “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Christianity.”
That language echoes the so-called indicators of terrorism identified by President Trump’s directive National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, or NSPM-7, which the memo says it’s intended to implement. Where NSPM-7 was a declaration of war on just about anyone who isn’t MAGA, this is the war plan for how the government will wage it on a tactical level.
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?Ken Klippenstein
$27 million in divestment victories. - JVP
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39990892
from The Wire
[online publication of Jewish Voice For Peace JVP in USA]
In North Carolina, Michigan, and Minnesota, local campaigns have notched divestment wins totaling more than $27 million.Across the country, JVP chapters and our partners are organizing to demand their state and municipal fund managers divest from Israel Bonds — essentially investments in Israeli genocide and apartheid — and invest instead in the well-being of our communities.
This organizing targets the engine enabling Israel's violence against Palestinians: material support from our own institutions in the U.S. And the momentum is growing...
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* Defend anti-Zionist students.
* Plug in locally.
* Join Power Half-Hour.
$27 million in divestment victories. - JVP
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[online publication of Jewish Voice For Peace JVP in USA]In North Carolina, Michigan, and Minnesota, local campaigns have notched divestment wins totaling more than $27 million.Across the country, JVP chapters and our partners are organizing to demand their state and municipal fund managers divest from Israel Bonds — essentially investments in Israeli genocide and apartheid — and invest instead in the well-being of our communities.
This organizing targets the engine enabling Israel's violence against Palestinians: material support from our own institutions in the U.S. And the momentum is growing...
Also:
* Defend anti-Zionist students.
* Plug in locally.
* Join Power Half-Hour.$27 million in divestment victories. - JVP
The West Bank is in crisis as Israel expands its genocide and extremist settler violence reaches record highs.Sarah Burch (Jewish Voice for Peace)
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$27 million in divestment victories. - JVP
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39990892
from The Wire
[online publication of Jewish Voice For Peace JVP in USA]
In North Carolina, Michigan, and Minnesota, local campaigns have notched divestment wins totaling more than $27 million.Across the country, JVP chapters and our partners are organizing to demand their state and municipal fund managers divest from Israel Bonds — essentially investments in Israeli genocide and apartheid — and invest instead in the well-being of our communities.
This organizing targets the engine enabling Israel's violence against Palestinians: material support from our own institutions in the U.S. And the momentum is growing...
Also:
* Defend anti-Zionist students.
* Plug in locally.
* Join Power Half-Hour.
$27 million in divestment victories. - JVP
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[online publication of Jewish Voice For Peace JVP in USA]In North Carolina, Michigan, and Minnesota, local campaigns have notched divestment wins totaling more than $27 million.Across the country, JVP chapters and our partners are organizing to demand their state and municipal fund managers divest from Israel Bonds — essentially investments in Israeli genocide and apartheid — and invest instead in the well-being of our communities.
This organizing targets the engine enabling Israel's violence against Palestinians: material support from our own institutions in the U.S. And the momentum is growing...
Also:
* Defend anti-Zionist students.
* Plug in locally.
* Join Power Half-Hour.$27 million in divestment victories. - JVP
The West Bank is in crisis as Israel expands its genocide and extremist settler violence reaches record highs.Sarah Burch (Jewish Voice for Peace)
$27 million in divestment victories. - JVP
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39990892
from The Wire
[online publication of Jewish Voice For Peace JVP in USA]
In North Carolina, Michigan, and Minnesota, local campaigns have notched divestment wins totaling more than $27 million.Across the country, JVP chapters and our partners are organizing to demand their state and municipal fund managers divest from Israel Bonds — essentially investments in Israeli genocide and apartheid — and invest instead in the well-being of our communities.
This organizing targets the engine enabling Israel's violence against Palestinians: material support from our own institutions in the U.S. And the momentum is growing...
Also:
* Defend anti-Zionist students.
* Plug in locally.
* Join Power Half-Hour.
$27 million in divestment victories. - JVP
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[online publication of Jewish Voice For Peace JVP in USA]In North Carolina, Michigan, and Minnesota, local campaigns have notched divestment wins totaling more than $27 million.Across the country, JVP chapters and our partners are organizing to demand their state and municipal fund managers divest from Israel Bonds — essentially investments in Israeli genocide and apartheid — and invest instead in the well-being of our communities.
This organizing targets the engine enabling Israel's violence against Palestinians: material support from our own institutions in the U.S. And the momentum is growing...
Also:
* Defend anti-Zionist students.
* Plug in locally.
* Join Power Half-Hour.$27 million in divestment victories. - JVP
The West Bank is in crisis as Israel expands its genocide and extremist settler violence reaches record highs.Sarah Burch (Jewish Voice for Peace)
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$27 million in divestment victories. - JVP
from The Wire
[online publication of Jewish Voice For Peace JVP in USA]
In North Carolina, Michigan, and Minnesota, local campaigns have notched divestment wins totaling more than $27 million.Across the country, JVP chapters and our partners are organizing to demand their state and municipal fund managers divest from Israel Bonds — essentially investments in Israeli genocide and apartheid — and invest instead in the well-being of our communities.
This organizing targets the engine enabling Israel's violence against Palestinians: material support from our own institutions in the U.S. And the momentum is growing...
Also:
* Defend anti-Zionist students.
* Plug in locally.
* Join Power Half-Hour.
$27 million in divestment victories. - JVP
The West Bank is in crisis as Israel expands its genocide and extremist settler violence reaches record highs.Sarah Burch (Jewish Voice for Peace)
How do I notify followers/subscribers to a PeerTube channel?
I created a video channel on a PeerTube server, but its service quality is poor, so I have migrated everything to another server. The first server' channel is still open, but I have a migration notice on the channel's home page.
The problem is that I have 8 followers on the old server whom I would like to notify directly. How can I do that using my PeerTube handle?
I tried to follow my PeerTube account from my Mastodon account, but it shows "Pending" in Mastodon. When I go to my PeerTube account, I don't see any place for messages, requests, etc.
Any documention or suggestions for me to look at? Thanks.
"Yes"
Where i used to work we had a lot of Chinese students in the city, with varying degrees of skill with English. No problem, English is my main but also not my first language. This story is from about 20 years ago.
A customer comes in for help with their computer. I ask my troubleshooting questions to triage the problem.
"My computer can't connect to the Internet"
OK what happens when you try?
"Nothing"
At home, at work?
"At home"
Have you checked all the connections?
"Yes"
Restarted everything? PC, router?
"Yes"
Have you contacted your ISP?
"Yes"
And?
"No problem"
OK do you see link lights on the network socket?
"Yes"
Is it just websites? Are you having problems with email, MSN messenger or Skype or any other chat clients?
"Yes"
(We are at this for a good 10 minutes but I'll skip the unnecessary bits)
Have you tried a new network cable?
"Yes"
OK bring it in, we can test it here for you.
"Oh but it works in Starbucks"
What? You mean its a laptop? Wireless?
"Yes"
And you connect wirelessly at home too?
"Yes"
But you said.. the cable, the link lights?
"Yes"
And then it hits me. Waves of memories wash over me. My Japanese father talking to clients, head bobbing up and down constantly nodding and bowing.
"Hai, hai, hai, haaaa, hai, hai, kashikomarimashita"
Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh yes. Yes. Yes. I understand.
Yes in japanese doesn't necessarily mean "correct". We say it to show we're listening and being attentive, following the conversation. Yes doesn't always mean "yes that's right", it can means "yes please continue". And now I assume its similar in Chinese too. Like in English you might say "aw yeah! Aw hell yeah!" while listening to a story.
Right. Forget everything we've just said and start from the beginning.
Can you see your SSID in the list at home?
"Yes"
(Fuck. Thats on me)
And what name is your SSID in the list when you connect at home?
"[ISP]-XYZ123"
OK good and...
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