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Supreme Court clears way for Trump to downsize the federal workforce
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-clears-way-for-trump-to-downsize-the-federal-workforce?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Supreme Court clears way for Trump to downsize the federal workforce
The justices overrode lower court orders that temporarily froze the cuts, which have been led by the Department of Government Efficiency.PBS News
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In Cabinet meeting, Trump takes a golden opportunity to talk interior decor
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/08/cabinet-meeting-trump-takes-golden-opportunity-talk-interior-decor/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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After the U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation accused Hamas of attacking two American employees at its distribution center, eyewitnesses and local journalists say the GHF fired grenades on the crowd first before aid-seekers threw them back at them.
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The image is a meme consisting of three photographs arranged in a grid format. The top section of the image contains text that reads: "The little smile you give to old people when you walk past them to prove you're not a chav or anything." The first photograph on the left shows a young boy with a subtle smile, wearing a white shirt and a dark tie, suggesting a formal setting. The second photograph in the top right features a woman with blonde hair, wearing a black top, looking over her shoulder with a similar subtle smile. The third photograph on the right shows a man with short blonde hair, wearing a gray shirt, also with a subtle smile. The background in all three photographs is plain, focusing attention on the subjects' expressions.
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The image is a meme consisting of three photographs arranged in a grid format. The top section of the image contains text that reads: "The little smile you give to old people when you walk past them to prove you're not a chav or anything." The first photograph on the left shows a young boy with short brown hair, wearing a white shirt and a dark tie, giving a subtle smile. The second photograph in the top right shows a woman with blonde hair tied back, wearing a black top, looking over her shoulder with a similar subtle smile. The third photograph on the right shows a man with short blonde hair, wearing a gray shirt, also giving a subtle smile. The background of each photograph is plain, with the first and third images featuring a neutral-colored wall, and the second image showing a door and a wall. The overall theme of the meme is to humorously depict the awkward, self-conscious smile people might give to older individuals to avoid being perceived as "chav" or lower-class.
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#Science #ABetterFuture #politics #Trump #WorstPresidentEver copy: @renewedresistance
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Charles Calverley (1833 - 1914), American, born Albany, NY
Bronze bas-relief
1895
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#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
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Israeli Settlers Set Fire Near Ancient Church in West Bank Christian Village
A group of Jewish settlers set a fire near an ancient Christian church in the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Nabd El-Haya, a radio station based in the village, has reported.
news.antiwar.com/2025/07/08/is…
#Gaza #Palestine #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen #SettlerColonialism #AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa
Israeli Settlers Set Fire Near Ancient Church in West Bank Christian Village - News From Antiwar.com
A group of Jewish settlers set a fire near an ancient Christian church in the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Nabd El-Haya, a radio station based in the town, has reported.News From Antiwar.com
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Cybersecurity Basics: Stay up to date
Cybersecurity basics: The most important thing for most people is staying up to date. How to stay safe online.Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
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Perhaps it's just me, but I do find it amusing that the GNU Readline 8.3 announcement, in July 2025, gives two FTP URLs as the primary way to obtain the software. I don't remember when I last fired up an FTP client, and my web browser has long since forgotten how to do it too.
Ah, '80s FTP.
I recall a text adventure puzzle where an in-game terminal with an ftp client let you teleport objects. If left in ASCII mode, a transporter-accident "worthless pile of protoplasm" resulted.
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Copper Spikes on Trump’s Latest Tariff Threat
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-07-08/copper-spikes-on-trump-s-latest-tariff-threat-evening-briefing-americas?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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161 people known to be missing in Texas floods as death toll rises to 109
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07/08/texas-flooding-missing-death-toll/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trump Vows No Tariff Extension, Hardens Stance on Copper
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-07-08/trump-vows-no-tariff-extension-hardens-stance-on-copper?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This cartoon tells you more truth than the entire corporate media.
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
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#palestina #StopAIPAC #IDFTerrorists #DismantleZionism
Mike Lindell Lawyers Earn Pillow-Soft Sanction After Letting AI Do The Thinking
$3000 doesn't cut it for AI errors anymore.Joe Patrice (Above the Law)
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An amateur astronomer may have just spotted the first known comet (or asteroid) impact on Saturn.
We've seen impact flashes on the Moon & Jupiter, but this would be by far the most distant one yet observed. 🧪🔭
earthsky.org/space/did-space-r… #space #science #nature #astronomy
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DC33 is the largest and lowest-paid among the city's major unions.
Members earn an average of $46,000, considered below a living wage in the city, per an analysis by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
#strike #unions #union #strikes #workersrights #socialism #communism #capitalism #anarchism #anarchy #marxism #anticapitalism #revolution #classwar #politics
The health department said Kennedy stands by his CDC reforms.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/07…
Bloomberg: The Texas Floods Were Made Worse by Climate Denialism
Elected officials must be held accountable, now and in the future, for the lives lost in disasters brought on by increasingly extreme weather.
By Michael R. Bloomberg
"...The tragic news out of central Texas has been heartbreaking, but it’s also been maddening — because so many lives could have been saved if elected officials had done their jobs. They owe the families who lost loved ones — the death toll from the Fourth of July floods is now at more than 100 — more than thoughts and prayers. They owe them a sincere commitment to righting their deadly wrong, by tackling the problem they’ve turned their backs on for too long: climate change...."
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4 fmr high-ranking #police officers are suing Mayor #EricAdams of #NewYork, accusing him of enabling #corruption in the #NYPD, an agency where they said anyone who spoke out faced #retaliation & #humiliation.
The separate lawsuits filed on Monday in #NY State Supreme Court come as Adams, a fmr police captain, is running for re-election & using falling crime numbers to bolster his campaign.
“We will not unload a single inch of this murderous cargo”
- Enedep, the union of dock workers at Athens’s port city
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#athens
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
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Greek dock workers will refuse to unload Israel's 'murderous cargo'
Dock workers at the port of Piraeus have said that they will refuse to unload the Ever Golden, a container ship carrying military-grade steel to Israel, when it arrives in Greece.Oscar Rickett (Middle East Eye)
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What is this new Bitchat scam that crypto-bros think is good?
My friend was telling me of this, thinking since its crypto related it must be really good. I said this has been around for many years and there are much better solutions than any that Jack is going to come up with to scam us. Have you guys heard of this?
I have to laugh at these tech-bros that actually know nothing, thinking they are great genius inventors. Reminds me of fElon.
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Keep boycotting McDonald's?
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
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A US appeals court blocks FTC's "click-to-cancel" rule, which was set to take effect on July 14, saying it failed to conduct a preliminary cost-benefit analysis (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
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A US appeals court blocks FTC's “click-to-cancel” rule, which was set to take effect on July 14, saying it failed to conduct a preliminary cost-benefit analysis
By Jody Godoy / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
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Pressure works. Debbie Downers are wrong.
"Michelle Roos, executive director of the Environmental Protection Network, a group of former EPA employees, called the administration’s latest court filing a “step in the right direction” in a written statement, saying it came in the wake of “fierce public pressure and legal accountability." thehill.com/policy/energy-envi…
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