I mean, you definitely should read theory. Summaries are helpful, as are cool ways to explain complex concepts, such as dialectics4kids when it comes to teaching dialectical materialism. However, advanced theory is helpful for accurate analysis and advanced practice. It better informs us on our conditions and our necessary tasks in building a better world. I made an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list to help facilitate that process of learning, and to help expand my own knowledge to help my IRL organizing.
When we reject theory, and reject advanced analysis, it's akin to a factory abandoning best practices and doing whatever feels best at the moment. Such a factory would probably work fine at first, but would run into far more hiccups, accidents, slow production, and even fall apart. So too do revolutionary projects need accurate analysis, best practices, and a solid understanding of the forces at play that go beyond simple vibes.
Revolution is like designing a smartphone, you need to analyze social development, its behavior and laws, history and trajectory, just like you need to analyze material science, physics, electrical engineering, chemistry, and more, not to mention logistics, shipping, mining, packing, and more to develop a smartphone.
It's time to read theory, comrades! As Lenin says, "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle." Reading theory helps us identify the core contradictions within modern society, analyze their trajectories, and gives us the tools to break free. Marxism-Leninism is broken into 3 major components, as noted by Lenin in his pamphlet The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism: | Audiobook
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
Critique of Capitalism along the lines of Marx's Law of Value
Advocacy for Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism
As such, I created the following list to take you from no knowledge whatsoever of Leftist theory, and leave you with a strong understanding of the critical fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism in an order that builds up as you read. Let's get started!
Section I: Getting Started
What the heck is Communism, anyways? For that matter, what is fascism?
Breaks down fascism and its mortal enemy, Communism, as well as their antagonistic relationship. Understanding what fascism is, where and when it rises, why it does so, and how to banish it forever is critical. Parenti also helps debunk common anti-Communist myths, from both the "left" and the right, in a quick-witted writing style. This is also an excellent time to watch the famous speech.
Section II: Historical and Dialectical Materialism
By far my favorite primer on Marxist philosophy. By understanding Dialectical and Historical Materialism first, you make it easier to understand the rest of Marxism-Leninism. Don't be intimidated!
Further reading on Dialectical and Historical Materialism, but crucially introduces the why of Scientific Socialism, explaining how Capitalism itself prepares the conditions for public ownership and planning by centralizing itself into monopolist syndicates. This is also where Engels talks about the failures of previous "Utopian" Socialists.
Section III: Political Economy
That's right, it's time for the Law of Value and a deep-dive into Imperialism. If we are to defeat Capitalism, we must learn it's mechanisms, tendencies, contradictions, and laws.
Best taken as a pair, these essays simplify the most important parts of the Law of Value. Marx is targetting those not trained in economics here, but you might want to keep a pen and some paper to follow along if you are a visual person.
Absolutely crucial and the most important work for understanding the modern era and its primary contradictions. Marxist-Leninists understand that Imperialism is the greatest contradiction in the modern era, which cascades downward into all manner of related contradictions. Knowing what dying Capitalism looks like, and how it behaves, means we can kill it.
Section IV: Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism
Can we defeat Capitalism at the ballot box? What about just defeating fascism? What about the role of the state?
If Marxists believed reforming Capitalist society was possible, we would be the first in line for it. Sadly, it isn't possible, which Luxemburg proves in this monumental writing.
Excellent refutation of revisionists and Social Democrats who think the State can be reformed, without needing to be replaced with one that is run by the workers, in their own interests.
Section V: Intersectionality and Solidarity
The revolution will not be fought by atomized individuals, but by an intersectional, international working class movement. Intersectionality is critical, because it allows different marginalized groups to work together in collective interest, unifying into a broad movement.
Critical reading on understanding misogyny, transphobia, enbyphobia, pluralphobia, and homophobia, as well as how to move beyond the base subject of "gender." Uses the foundations built up in the previous works to analyze gender theory from a Historical Materialist perspective.
De-colonialism is essential to Marxism. Without having a strong, de-colonial, internationalist stance, we have no path to victory nor a path to justice. Fanon analyzes Colonialism's dehumanizing effects, and lays out how to form a de-colonial movement, as well as its necessity.
Solidarity and intersectionality are the key to any social movement. When different social groups fight for liberation together along intersectional lines, the movements are emboldened and empowered ever-further.
Section VI: Putting it into Practice!
It's not enough to endlessly read, you must put theory to practice. That is how you can improve yourself and the movements you support. Touch grass!
Mao wrote simply and directly, targeting peasant soldiers during the Revolutionary War in China. This pair of essays equip the reader with the ability to apply the analytical tools of Dialectical Materialism to their every day practice, and better understand problems.
Congratulations, you completed your introductory reading course!
With your new understanding and knowledge of Marxism-Leninism, here is a mini What is to be Done? of your own to follow, and take with you as practical advice.
Get organized. Join a Leftist org, find solidarity with fellow comrades, and protect each other. The Dems will not save you, it is up to us to protect ourselves. The Party for Socialism and Liberation and Freedom Road Socialist Organization both organize year round, every year, because the battle for progress is a constant struggle, not a single election. See if there is a chapter near you, or start one! Or, see if there's an org you like more near you and join it.
Read theory. Don't think that you are done now! Just because you have the basics, doesn't mean you know more than you do. If you have not investigated a subject, don't speak on it! Don't speak nonsense, but listen!
Aggressively combat white supremacy, misogyny, queerphobia, and other attacks on marginalized communities. Cede no ground, let nobody be forgotten or left behind. There is strength in numbers, when one marginalized group is targeted, many more are sure to follow.
Be industrious, and self-sufficient. Take up gardening, home repair, tinkering. It is through practice that you elevate your problem-solving capabilities. Not only will you improve your skill at one subject, but your general problem-solving muscles get strengthened as well.
Learn self-defense. Get armed, if practical. Be ready to protect yourself and others. Liberals will not save us, we must save each other.
Be persistent. If you feel like a single water droplet against a mountain, think of canyons and valleys. Oh, how our efforts pile up! With consistency, every rock, boulder, even mountain, can be drilled through with nothing but steady and persistent water droplets.
"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent."
Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a national organization of revolutionaries fighting for socialism in the United States. Our home is in the working class.
Apparently I've somehow picked up on how to read the phrase "alhamdulillah" in Arabic despite never studying the language. Neat!
I basically recognize "Allah" ﷲ based on the shape of the whole word rather than the individual letters, and I learned to read that word through exposure. In the phrase الْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ alhamdulillah I see there's no alif at the start of Allah, though.
I think I learned to read ال al- just through repeat exposure since al- is literally the most common prefix in Arabic — it's even at the start of Allah! — but I also know the letters alif and lam on their own because ا alif is memorable to me as the "simplest letter for the simplest sound", and ل lam is memorable to me because it looks like (and literally is, in a sense) a backwards L.
After recognizing "al-??? lillah" I was already figuring from context that the text probably said "alhamdulillah", but I still tried to confirm this by looking at the remaining letters:
Medial ha ح looked a lot like the initial kha خ in the word khatam (as in خاتم النبيين khatam an-nabiyin, "Seal of the Prophets"), so I figured that the two letters ha/kha had to be variants of each other with similar h-like sounds. Previously, I'd known the letter ha really just from its isolated/final forms ح, just from going down an Arabizi rabbit hole once: ح ha is often written as 7 in Arabizi due to the similarity of the numeral 7 to the isolated shape of the letter ha.
Medial meem ﻤ looked a lot like the final form of the related Hebrew letter mem ם, which also, very coincidentally, looks like the Korean letter ㅁ mieum, which was derived from the shape of the mouth to represent the fact that you say M with your lips. The origin of the Korean letter is completely unrelated to the Arabic and Hebrew letters but still makes them more memorable to me.
Dal د is not a letter I had any real chance of recognizing. It's related to its Hebrew, Latin, Greek and Cyrillic equivalents but is not particularly similar to any of them. But if I got to the point where I could tell that the text said "al-ham?? lillah" then there was really zero chance the unrecognizable last letter could be anything other than dal.
Learning new writing systems is really fun because you get to return to the joy of first learning to read your native language as a little kid. I wonder if I'll manage to learn the entire Arabic script through passive exposure!
Dutch travel agencies report a significant drop—around 20%—in bookings to the United States since Donald Trump’s inauguration. The decline mainly affects longer round trips, while short city trips (e.g., New York, Chicago) remain relatively stable.
Travellers cite: - Discomfort with Trump’s policies - Fear of stricter immigration controls, including concerns about being asked to show social‑media accounts - A general negative sentiment toward the U.S. political climate
As a result: - Alternative destinations such as Canada, Asia, Egypt, Australia, and New Zealand are becoming more popular. - Some agencies say the “Trump effect” is pushing travellers toward other long‑haul destinations. - Cheap flights keep short U.S. city trips somewhat stable, but longer tours have dropped sharply.
We definitely noticed the cheap tickets right now. We're working on flying more of our kids out of the US to Europe to emigrate permanently as they finish school. It's a great time to fly out.
What project is this? I have never seen a reaction like that, if anything I've had the opposite, where I said it was a minor inconvenience and the maintainer said "what do you mean 'minor'? This is terrible!"
Questo è il testamento musicale di Warren, morto poco prima della pubblicazione del disco (24 gennaio 1947–7 settembre 2003). Colpito da un male incurabile, il musicista californiano ha voluto a tutti i costi questo album, e se pur stanco, affaticato dalla malattia, ha lavorato duramente con profonda dignità fino alla completa registrazione... Leggi e ascolta...
Questo è il testamento musicale di Warren, morto poco prima della pubblicazione del disco (24 gennaio 1947–7 settembre 2003). Colpito da un male incurabile, il musicista californiano ha voluto a tutti i costi questo album, e se pur stanco, affaticato dalla malattia, ha lavorato duramente con profonda dignità fino alla completa registrazione. Attorniato da un numero incredibile di amici e musicisti, ci ha consegnato uno dei dischi più belli ed ispirati della sua trentennale carriera... silvanobottaro.it/archives/399…
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I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no "two evils" exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.... — W.E.B. Du Bois
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. — Julius Nyerere
I’m sure you could find more stuff if you keep going back. This has been happening forever. Every new generation has to learn this lesson for themselves I guess. But nothing ever changes.
Any suggestion that there's something questionable or unreliable about the American democratic process is a trick by the Republican Party to suppress liberal voter enthusiasm. And if you mention it you are helping the Republicans win. Also Russia.
If you're still in line, stay in line. Our elections are secure. The midterms is winnable if you vote in it. Shut up and do what we tell you or you're an enemy.
The Democrats engage in this exact same behavior. In fact they often either back the Republican efforts to disenfranchise people or fail to provide any counter narrative to dispel the lies which to me is basically tantamount to support. And then when they offer push back it's in the stupidest way that ends up lending some kind of credence to the Republican outlook because there is some need to engage in bipartisanship action with insane people in search of a mythical centrist position that will unite us all.
Let's not pretend this is one side versus the other. Those bought and sold by institutional and corporate power are waging a war on the working class of this nation and much of the rest of the world. It is not left vs right it is owner vs worker.
The reality is our "democratic" institutions are designed to limit the extent to which average people can effectuate change in our society. At every level there are layers of misdirection that are rife with opportunities to dilute the will of the voters and warp it into something that broadly serves the ruling class instead.
People want free healthcare but instead of getting that we end up with some mildly better system that perpetuates the insurance industry being in control of what services a person is allowed to get both through price gouging and denials of service - just as one example. No solutions just Band-Aids to extend the longevity of the powers that be.
America (like most "liberal democracies") doesn't have a democratic process to begin with, so your point is moot. Your reps control your entire country and can do basically whatever the fuck they want for 4 years (in the house/presidency), 6 years (in the senate) or life (for SCOTUS).
In theory, the power of recall or impeachment exists, but you've seen yourself how trying to impeach even someone as corrupt as Trump goes.
Even in cases where there is a semblance of direct democracy (such as state wide propositions), the capitalists own the entire media aparatus (on top of basically every other part of society and nature).
Work hand in hand with the current president for years
Supports regime change on their border causing a civil war for a decade then catching them in a brutal war of attrition in a place that is predominantly Russian speaking culturally Russian people
Sanctions Russia and restricts access to global capital causing significant economic harm and forcing them to go into wartime production
Decides to withhold all their money
Refuses to negotiate in good faith
Russia can't seem to end the conflict, get their money back or gain access to US and European markets and capital
Also Americans:
Russia controls the US president! Russia is doing everything bad to the US!
This isn't a SocDem problem but a Democratic Establishment problem.
The DNC are the absolute shitstains standing in the way of progress while pretending to be progressive. Just remember how they royally fucked Bernie over in 2016 because it was, "Her Turn"™.
That was when many people gave up on Democrats, and rightfully so if it wasn't for Trump running in 2024.
I actually went to caucus to try and sway and put in my two cents for Bernie, and deadass someone in my ‘group’ said we should vote for Hillary because it’s ‘time for a woman president’. And yeah, not wrong, but that’s his entire reasoning. Ridiculous, not well it would be great to have a woman and she’s really experienced or I believe in this part of what she is running. Nope, just the first part.
today I was tasked with breaking rocks with a pickaxe with my feet chained, but you can be damn sure I looked professional and really upstanding while doing it, that's gonna show em
I have a conspiracy theory that the DNC are just conservatives who made the most financial decision of socially supporting the smallest minority they could find for PR.
The dangers are limited unless you hit an edge case which you'll want to avoid. In other words, you'd have to be really unlucky. Surges can happen with audio equipment easily though.
The principle of grounding is actually simple enough: when something goes wrong with the current, for instance if it can't move through the wires it should move through, it'll try to escape. Grounding makes sure that it moves through a dedicated wire to somewhere it can no longer do harm. Cars, for instance, use their frame as a ground, which will conduct the current into the tires and into the ground (ie Earth) if necessary.
This is probably 25% accurate so I'll invite any electrician to correct me but I am fairly confident this will do as a basic answer.
You hook up the GND contacts to anything that is not connected to anything electrical, preferably something non-conductive at the end of it, you'll be fine.
Thank you for the first response. I look forward to possible second opinions as you suggest.
And this makes a bit of sense to me. If the medium doesn't matter I could probably just stick a bolt in the wood next to the units. That'll keep any wires fairly short.
Basically I was showing the system on the audio forum and asking some questions regarding the unusual number of AC plugs. One of them asked about the age and grounding, and suggested there might be a serious danger.
I have only a very basic knowledge of electricity and an even smaller knowledge of amps but I have heard about certain amps that would be susceptible to immense power surges which would short out some circuits and that power needs to go somewhere. If it's not grounded properly it might release its current into the air where it'll find you, or maybe catch fire.
The specifics of this and why or how this happens should be findable online.
Most likely it'll also have something to do with the higher voltage direct current being transformed into a lower voltage alternating current. But why and how you'd need to be properly grounded for that is beyond me.
It's not. If you mean an extension cord with built-in ground and surge protection, that is.
If your amp had a ground in its power plug, we wouldn't be having this conversation. If there is a surge in the actual power to the outlet, the surge protector might catch it. But since this is about surges inside the device itself, it means you should no longer actually touch the amp because you might get a shock. You can imagine that the higher the amperage flowing through the amplifier, the more dangerous this is.
If you are worried about grounding the system, and don't mind cutting the cord/ crimping stuff, you could get a 3 prong cord from the hardware store and screw the ground into the box via a case screw on the back.
I have the manuals and I can check those. I can also easily get the model numbers off the units. Are diagrams something that you can find for old hardware online?
And I appreciate the assistance. My background is in computer science, so my electrical engineering abilities are slim.
Fellow computer geek here .. also a radio amateur.
No idea what the availability of circuit diagrams is for your gear. In amateur radio equipment the user manual regularly has them, sometimes as big foldout sheets. I'd be surprised if they didn't exist.
That is what it looked like, but that surprised me. My turntable is more modern and doesn't require a ground. As for the antenna, yes, that makes sense!
But am I misreading something... neither of those seems like an actual dangerous situation? Oddly enough the components that I would normally guess were more dangerous (specifically the pre-amp and amp) don't seem to have a ground circuit exposed despite the two-prong set-up.
They don't have a power ground to prevent hums. There might be a marginal risk if something comes loose in the amp, but your modern electrical cabinet would have a differential switch to save you in that case. I remember my audio engineer degrounding one of my audio components when in had the issue.
My guess for the audio ground is that older turntables had poorer electrical isolation and power lines were more noisy. For more technical explanations we need an old school audio engineer.
I'm hoping this means that the system is probably safe to use? XD
I'm not really finding grounding needs on any of the other equipment. Even though the power amp, for instance, is something that I would associate with more danger and it only has two prongs, there doesn't seem to be exposed ground circuitry.
The ground lugs are for a turntable, not a power ground. The audio signal from a record player is incredibly tiny, which means it needs more amplification stages (usually if you have a phono input, it has another pre amp stage). Because of this it is important that the turntable and pre-amp have a common ground reference to eliminate things like a DC offset or ground loop which would otherwise be amplified more than other audio artifacts from other sources.
The strap looks like an antenna ground for an AM input
Sounds like you're confirming what I've been hearing from other people, that neither of these grounds contains any real danger?
And as for grounding the turntable, that makes a bit of sense, however I have a fairly modern one and I'll have to check it. I don't know that it actually has an external ground beyond the three prong plug.
Is grounding of the turntable still relevant in that case?
I think most modern turntables have a built in pre-amp so it's less of an issue. If it doesn't have a ground lug itself then it's probably not an issue.
Yes, I believe I have a selector switch that allows me to select either the internal pre and for an external. I was thinking of going with the old external for a bit of additional configurability.
I had a quick question and thought it might spark some discussion.
I know that Lemmy currently uses the NSFW tag/filter, which is great, but I’ve noticed that it tends to get applied to a wide variety of content—everything from mildly suggestive posts to very graphic material.
This got me wondering: has Lemmy ever considered adding more granular content filters or tags?
For example:
NSFL (Not Safe For Life) for particularly graphic or disturbing content (ie graphic war footage)
Political for sensitive Political Posts
Other potential tags for things like triggering content, or etc.
The goal would be to give users a bit more control over what they see, and help communities categorize content more accurately without overloading the single NSFW tag.
Curious if this has ever been discussed, or if there are plans to expand filtering options in the future.
Tags would be useful for so many things - much more than content filters. For example, posts in a world news community could be tagged with the name of the country.
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I'm not sure - I haven't looked into the implementation yet. I haven't actually seen this tagging feature in the UI so I'm not sure how to even use it.
It looks like Lemmy 1.0 (currently in alpha testing) will support filtering by keywords, too: join-lemmy.org/news/2025-12-24…
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Musk’s pro-Nazi social media feed ranking broke the US government:
Senior executive 2: Whenever there’s a critical incident, one of the first things that happens is a conference call with everybody — all the executives, most of the field offices dial in. The director rarely speaks, because someone with situational awareness is leading the call. They’ll say: Here’s what happened. Here’s what we know. Here’s what we need. But we get on, and it’s just Kash berating the special agent in charge in Salt Lake. He’s super emotional.
And then it turns surreal. He and Bongino start talking about their Twitter strategy. And Kash is like: I’m gonna tweet this. Salt Lake, you tweet that. Dan, you come in with this. Then I’ll come back with this. They’re literally scripting out their social media, not talking about how we’re going to respond or resources or the situation. He’s screaming that he wants to put stuff out, but it’s not even vetted yet. It’s not even accurate.
National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, issued by the Trump administration in September 2025, relies on logic from the lady and the fly. It frames “domestic terrorism” and “organized political violence” as national security crises. It tells federal agencies to work together to investigate and stop suspected threats, a framework that enlarges the set of things the state can plausibly treat as suspect, including the freedoms of association and belief.
The language in the memorandum affirms legitimate counterterrorism work while leaving room to treat political dissent as out of bounds. But the First Amendment protects protest speech.
Still, if the language of the Trump memo is somewhat abstract, Minneapolis has provided a brutally concrete example.
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The state has two choices when a death occurs that’s politically dangerous to the government.
It can investigate the killing with transparency and center the victim’s rights alongside public accountability as organizing principles. Or it can treat the killing as an opportunity to put the victim on trial in the court of public legitimacy.
The second choice avoids holding government accountable, shifts conversation toward the target’s supposed behavior and character, and expands the blame to include the people who loved and stood with the dead.
When this happens, the government does not have to win in court. It only has to keep the stigma circulating by asserting that a particular speaker undermines respect for elected officials. Indeed, that’s one of the reasons Trump offered for Good’s shooting by the ICE officer: “At a very minimum, that woman was very, very disrespectful to law enforcement,” he told reporters.
The United States has been here before. Around EG: During? World War I, the U.S. Supreme Court issued several free speech decisions in cases mostly remembered as disputes over protest and draft resistance. But their underlying engine was the swallow-a-fly theory. Opposing the war might ruin the nation, so political dissidents had to be stopped, and the court affirmed the government’s right to silence strident speakers.
Renee Good’s death was the consequence, writes a First Amendment scholar, of a kind of politics in which the state survives by making dissenters illegitimate as citizens.
President Donald Trump officially launches his so-called “Board of Peace,” as his son-in-law Jared Kushner presents a “master plan.” Head of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza Ali Shaath says Rafah border crossing will open for two-way traffic next week. UN warns Gaza food situation remains perilous, documents Gaza’s water crisis and discusses the block of repairs, while UN estimates say Gaza’s population has fallen by more than 10%. The World Health Organization evacuates patients from Gaza, warns thousands are still stranded. Veteran cameraman and CBS News contributor among journalists killed in Gaza airstrike. ICE memo authorizes home entries without judge’s warrant. A Minnesota school district says ICE detained four students, including a 5-year-old. The Trump Administration eyes Cuba after Venezuela ouster. An appeals court lifts limits on ICE actions against Minnesota protesters. DHS launches immigration enforcement operation in Maine. NATO chief avoids public comment on the U.S.’s Greenland threats. Syrian Army reports post-ceasefire deaths in SDF attacks, with reports of a drone strike in Northeast Syria. U.S. begins moving IS prisoners from Syria to Iraq. Famine and new displacement grip South Kordofan. The UN warns fighting is cutting off aid across Sudan. RSF attacks kill Over 100 Civilians in North Darfur. Intel flags expanded UAE Support for Sudan’s RSF, as Saudi red lines emerge. Israel strikes Syria–Lebanon crossings and Hezbollah targets despite ceasefire. Car bomb targets Saudi-Backed militia leader near Aden. Boko Haram attack kills soldiers in Northeast Nigeria. Nigerian Army rescues 62 hostages in northwest offensive.
Trump officially launches "Board of Peace"; Rafah crossing said to reopen next week; ICE memo authorizes home entries without judge’s warrant
President Donald Trump officially launches his so-called “Board of Peace,” as his son-in-law Jared Kushner presents a “master plan.” Head of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza Ali Shaath says Rafah border crossing will open for two-way traffic next week. UN warns Gaza food situation remains perilous, documents Gaza’s water crisis and discusses the block of repairs, while UN estimates say Gaza’s population has fallen by more than 10%. The World Health Organization evacuates patients from Gaza, warns thousands are still stranded. Veteran cameraman and CBS News contributor among journalists killed in Gaza airstrike. ICE memo authorizes home entries without judge’s warrant. A Minnesota school district says ICE detained four students, including a 5-year-old. The Trump Administration eyes Cuba after Venezuela ouster. An appeals court lifts limits on ICE actions against Minnesota protesters. DHS launches immigration enforcement operation in Maine. NATO chief avoids public comment on the U.S.’s Greenland threats. Syrian Army reports post-ceasefire deaths in SDF attacks, with reports of a drone strike in Northeast Syria. U.S. begins moving IS prisoners from Syria to Iraq. Famine and new displacement grip South Kordofan. The UN warns fighting is cutting off aid across Sudan. RSF attacks kill Over 100 Civilians in North Darfur. Intel flags expanded UAE Support for Sudan’s RSF, as Saudi red lines emerge. Israel strikes Syria–Lebanon crossings and Hezbollah targets despite ceasefire. Car bomb targets Saudi-Backed militia leader near Aden. Boko Haram attack kills soldiers in Northeast Nigeria. Nigerian Army rescues 62 hostages in northwest offensive.
President Donald Trump officially launches his so-called “Board of Peace,” as his son-in-law Jared Kushner presents a “master plan.” Head of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza Ali Shaath says Rafah border crossing will open for two-way traffic next week. UN warns Gaza food situation remains perilous, documents Gaza’s water crisis and discusses the block of repairs, while UN estimates say Gaza’s population has fallen by more than 10%. The World Health Organization evacuates patients from Gaza, warns thousands are still stranded. Veteran cameraman and CBS News contributor among journalists killed in Gaza airstrike. ICE memo authorizes home entries without judge’s warrant. A Minnesota school district says ICE detained four students, including a 5-year-old. The Trump Administration eyes Cuba after Venezuela ouster. An appeals court lifts limits on ICE actions against Minnesota protesters. DHS launches immigration enforcement operation in Maine. NATO chief avoids public comment on the U.S.’s Greenland threats. Syrian Army reports post-ceasefire deaths in SDF attacks, with reports of a drone strike in Northeast Syria. U.S. begins moving IS prisoners from Syria to Iraq. Famine and new displacement grip South Kordofan. The UN warns fighting is cutting off aid across Sudan. RSF attacks kill Over 100 Civilians in North Darfur. Intel flags expanded UAE Support for Sudan’s RSF, as Saudi red lines emerge. Israel strikes Syria–Lebanon crossings and Hezbollah targets despite ceasefire. Car bomb targets Saudi-Backed militia leader near Aden. Boko Haram attack kills soldiers in Northeast Nigeria. Nigerian Army rescues 62 hostages in northwest offensive.
Trump officially launches "Board of Peace"; Rafah crossing said to reopen next week; ICE memo authorizes home entries without judge’s warrant
President Donald Trump officially launches his so-called “Board of Peace,” as his son-in-law Jared Kushner presents a “master plan.” Head of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza Ali Shaath says Rafah border crossing will open for two-way traffic next week. UN warns Gaza food situation remains perilous, documents Gaza’s water crisis and discusses the block of repairs, while UN estimates say Gaza’s population has fallen by more than 10%. The World Health Organization evacuates patients from Gaza, warns thousands are still stranded. Veteran cameraman and CBS News contributor among journalists killed in Gaza airstrike. ICE memo authorizes home entries without judge’s warrant. A Minnesota school district says ICE detained four students, including a 5-year-old. The Trump Administration eyes Cuba after Venezuela ouster. An appeals court lifts limits on ICE actions against Minnesota protesters. DHS launches immigration enforcement operation in Maine. NATO chief avoids public comment on the U.S.’s Greenland threats. Syrian Army reports post-ceasefire deaths in SDF attacks, with reports of a drone strike in Northeast Syria. U.S. begins moving IS prisoners from Syria to Iraq. Famine and new displacement grip South Kordofan. The UN warns fighting is cutting off aid across Sudan. RSF attacks kill Over 100 Civilians in North Darfur. Intel flags expanded UAE Support for Sudan’s RSF, as Saudi red lines emerge. Israel strikes Syria–Lebanon crossings and Hezbollah targets despite ceasefire. Car bomb targets Saudi-Backed militia leader near Aden. Boko Haram attack kills soldiers in Northeast Nigeria. Nigerian Army rescues 62 hostages in northwest offensive.
President Donald Trump officially launches his so-called “Board of Peace,” as his son-in-law Jared Kushner presents a “master plan.” Head of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza Ali Shaath says Rafah border crossing will open for two-way traffic next week. UN warns Gaza food situation remains perilous, documents Gaza’s water crisis and discusses the block of repairs, while UN estimates say Gaza’s population has fallen by more than 10%. The World Health Organization evacuates patients from Gaza, warns thousands are still stranded. Veteran cameraman and CBS News contributor among journalists killed in Gaza airstrike. ICE memo authorizes home entries without judge’s warrant. A Minnesota school district says ICE detained four students, including a 5-year-old. The Trump Administration eyes Cuba after Venezuela ouster. An appeals court lifts limits on ICE actions against Minnesota protesters. DHS launches immigration enforcement operation in Maine. NATO chief avoids public comment on the U.S.’s Greenland threats. Syrian Army reports post-ceasefire deaths in SDF attacks, with reports of a drone strike in Northeast Syria. U.S. begins moving IS prisoners from Syria to Iraq. Famine and new displacement grip South Kordofan. The UN warns fighting is cutting off aid across Sudan. RSF attacks kill Over 100 Civilians in North Darfur. Intel flags expanded UAE Support for Sudan’s RSF, as Saudi red lines emerge. Israel strikes Syria–Lebanon crossings and Hezbollah targets despite ceasefire. Car bomb targets Saudi-Backed militia leader near Aden. Boko Haram attack kills soldiers in Northeast Nigeria. Nigerian Army rescues 62 hostages in northwest offensive.
British lawyers have filed a request to the UK foreign secretary to impose financial and travel sanctions on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over crimes against Palestinians.
British law firm Deighton Pierce Glynn made the request earlier this week on behalf of the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK).
The submission stated that there were reasonable grounds to suspect that Netanyahu’s statements amounted to incitement to commit prohibited acts with an “intent to destroy in whole, or in part, the Palestinian people in Gaza”. Such intent, it said, amounts to incitement to commit genocide.
Experts are warning that the Trump administration's ongoing crackdown in Minnesota could quickly get out of hand and could even result in a second US civil war.
Claire Finkelstein, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, wrote in a Wednesday column published by the Guardian that she and her colleagues at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) conducted a tabletop exercise in October 2024 that simulated potential outcomes if a US president were to carry out law enforcement operations similar to the ones being conducted by the Trump administration with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Minnesota.
"In that exercise, a president carried out a highly unpopular law-enforcement operation in Philadelphia and attempted to federalize the Pennsylvania’s National Guard," Finkelstein explained. "When the governor resisted and the guard remained loyal to the state, the president deployed active-duty troops, resulting in an armed conflict between state and federal forces."
The mainstream media in the West is committed to portraying the protests in Iran as strictly an internal affair. The people of Iran, so the argument goes, spontaneously rose up against their government because they were in desperate straits due to their leaders’ corruption and mismanagement of the economy, as well as their oppressive policies. Virtually all the protestors in this story were peaceful, but their protests were met with government violence. Outside forces had little to do with causing the protests.
This interpretation of what happened in Iran is wrong and contradicted by an abundance of evidence. None of this is to deny that there were many peaceful protestors who had legitimate grievances against the government, but that is only part of the story.
If fact, what happened in Iran is an attempt by the Israeli & American tag team to overthrow the government in Tehran and break apart Iran, much the way the US, Turkey, and Israel fractured Syria.
But the strategy failed, mainly because the Iranian government was able to shut down the protests quickly and decisively. A key element in the government’s success was shutting down Starlink, which made it extremely difficult for the protestors to communicate with each other and the outside world. Once that happened, the protests were doomed and both Prime Minister Netanyahu and Trump understood that the tag team could not use military force to deliver the coup de gras. The Iranian regime had survived.
The bottom line is two-fold: 1) the tag team failed to overthrow the regime in Iran, although it surely has not given up on that goal; and 2) there is good reason to think that Israel and the US did not win the 12-Day war.
So browsers have started to roll out GPC, or basically browser-based consent. This was explicitly designed to deal with intrusive cookie banners. I've now noticed several websites with the same intrusive banners recognizing that you opted out but begging you to opt back in anyway. These banners are so big as to obscure the majority of the content on the site.
Easy, don't use products from companies which say user consent, but mean obligation, are the same which say "We value your privacy", but mean "to sell it to others for our incommings".
These aren't tech companies, they're just ad-driven publications
But yeah I remember the Do Not Track signal ironically being used to track you. And I remember Microsoft make it completely useless because they turned it on by default.
This, also site permissions (at least in Vivaldi), extensions like I don't need Cookies or its filterlists in the adblocker. (eg. secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-coo…), all other filtering with Portmaster, the middle finger for Big Brother corps.
Portmaster is a free and open-source application that puts you back in charge over all your computer's network connections. Increase your privacy and security. Get peace of mind.
Plasma-keyboard is essential for anyone on a convertible or even tablet, as the old maliit keyboard is abandonware
The usb portal will be really useful
Ocr support in spectacle! This exists on proprietary android but not AOSP, and on windows too. Really neat. I hope the integration is nice, this is a really big UI task.
I'll be so glad to ditch maliit, it isn't responsive at all and gets pushed off the screen by a simple vertical taskbar. Even worse, it spams the journal with so much unnecessary debug info that I never found any way to turn off or filter out.
I can't wrap my head around how good KDE has become, I end up crawling back to KDE every time. If some nice person will bake a native tilling mode like cosmic, it will be very hard to convince me to switch away from KDE.
I never liked KDE. I used it before there was GNOME but I used GNOME 2 for years and Cinnamon or XFCE after that.
I probably tried KDE4 once and KDE5 a couple times. Not for me. But I have used KDE a lot since Plasma 6. I have to agree with you. They are doing a great job. It is probably the best environment for Wayland.
I also use COSMIC a bit and Niri is my favourite environment. But I do seem to be using Plasma 6 a lot. It is sitting in front of me now.
Oh man I am so excited for the new keyboard! I had so many issues with trying to get one working on my Ally, and eventually had to give up because none of them scaled properly
Lang had been in the Twin Cities for at least a week, often taunting anti-ICE protesters. He arrived at City Hall, where the temperature hovered near 10° F, in a camouflage, military-style vest but no hat, gloves, or scarf. Hundreds of protesters stood across the street behind barricades, holding signs and chanting; dozens of others surrounded Lang’s small entourage as he spoke to reporters. Several police officers on the scene left shortly after his arrival; there was no police presence attempting to separate Lang from the counter-protesters.
Lang took a position above the crowd in a wide window well. Despite the megaphone in his hand, his speech was drowned out by the chanting. A few protesters threw snowballs and water balloons at Lang, now trapped on his ledge. It was a young Black man, Isaiah Blackwell, who eventually stepped in to shield Lang, and then cleared a path for him to leave; several dozen protesters followed, some trying to hit or punch him as he went, while others scuffled with Lang supporters. But the vast majority of protesters remained across the street in a disciplined and peaceful counter mobilization.
Lang was eventually driven away from the scene, ironically by two women who thought he was being chased by ICE agents. Later, one of his rescuers, Daye Gottsche, texted Lang once she realized who they had picked up: “I hope this has some sort of impact on you, because the fear and urgency you felt trying to escape that crowd is what people here feel every day. America was never ours to begin with, so how does it make sense that we can’t share, especially with people seeking safety and shelter?”
National media immediately grabbed hold of this incident, playing up the violence and overlooking the hundreds of well-disciplined Minnesotans across the street who simply chanted “Leave, leave, leave” and “Shame, shame, shame.” Lang, who did suffer a cut to the back of the head and was clearly shaken by the encounter, claimed that someone had tried to “stab” him through his vest.
Minneapolis: Counter-protests Against Ultra-rightists and Defense of Free Speech
January 22, 2026
Lang had been in the Twin Cities for at least a week, often taunting anti-ICE protesters. He arrived at City Hall, where the temperature hovered near 10° F, in a camouflage, military-style vest but no hat, gloves, or scarf. Hundreds of protesters stood across the street behind barricades, holding signs and chanting; dozens of others surrounded Lang’s small entourage as he spoke to reporters. Several police officers on the scene left shortly after his arrival; there was no police presence attempting to separate Lang from the counter-protesters.
Lang took a position above the crowd in a wide window well. Despite the megaphone in his hand, his speech was drowned out by the chanting. A few protesters threw snowballs and water balloons at Lang, now trapped on his ledge. It was a young Black man, Isaiah Blackwell, who eventually stepped in to shield Lang, and then cleared a path for him to leave; several dozen protesters followed, some trying to hit or punch him as he went, while others scuffled with Lang supporters. But the vast majority of protesters remained across the street in a disciplined and peaceful counter mobilization.
Lang was eventually driven away from the scene, ironically by two women who thought he was being chased by ICE agents. Later, one of his rescuers, Daye Gottsche, texted Lang once she realized who they had picked up: “I hope this has some sort of impact on you, because the fear and urgency you felt trying to escape that crowd is what people here feel every day. America was never ours to begin with, so how does it make sense that we can’t share, especially with people seeking safety and shelter?”
National media immediately grabbed hold of this incident, playing up the violence and overlooking the hundreds of well-disciplined Minnesotans across the street who simply chanted “Leave, leave, leave” and “Shame, shame, shame.” Lang, who did suffer a cut to the back of the head and was clearly shaken by the encounter, claimed that someone had tried to “stab” him through his vest.
Lang had been in the Twin Cities for at least a week, often taunting anti-ICE protesters. He arrived at City Hall, where the temperature hovered near 10° F, in a camouflage, military-style vest but no hat, gloves, or scarf. Hundreds of protesters stood across the street behind barricades, holding signs and chanting; dozens of others surrounded Lang’s small entourage as he spoke to reporters. Several police officers on the scene left shortly after his arrival; there was no police presence attempting to separate Lang from the counter-protesters.
Lang took a position above the crowd in a wide window well. Despite the megaphone in his hand, his speech was drowned out by the chanting. A few protesters threw snowballs and water balloons at Lang, now trapped on his ledge. It was a young Black man, Isaiah Blackwell, who eventually stepped in to shield Lang, and then cleared a path for him to leave; several dozen protesters followed, some trying to hit or punch him as he went, while others scuffled with Lang supporters. But the vast majority of protesters remained across the street in a disciplined and peaceful counter mobilization.
Lang was eventually driven away from the scene, ironically by two women who thought he was being chased by ICE agents. Later, one of his rescuers, Daye Gottsche, texted Lang once she realized who they had picked up: “I hope this has some sort of impact on you, because the fear and urgency you felt trying to escape that crowd is what people here feel every day. America was never ours to begin with, so how does it make sense that we can’t share, especially with people seeking safety and shelter?”
National media immediately grabbed hold of this incident, playing up the violence and overlooking the hundreds of well-disciplined Minnesotans across the street who simply chanted “Leave, leave, leave” and “Shame, shame, shame.” Lang, who did suffer a cut to the back of the head and was clearly shaken by the encounter, claimed that someone had tried to “stab” him through his vest.
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