NEVER AGAIN?

Israel plans to confine Gaza residents in a closed concentration camp atop Rafah ruins, as the genocide continues. Defense Minister Israel Katz is calling it a "humanitarian zone," but it is a de facto concentration camp. Internees will not have freedom of movement or the ability to leave. They will be forced to move there, whether they want to, or not. Living conditions will be deplorable.

As a side note, for anyone unfamiliar with the slogan, “Never Again,” it was chanted by prisoners as they were liberated from Buchenwald at the end of World War II. It was used by Jewish Defense League founder Meir Kahane in his 1971 book, Never Again! A Program for Survival. It is a slogan often repeated by Jews, though there has been disagreement about whether it applied just to Jews and antisemitism, or whether it was a more universal slogan, meant to oppose all forms of fascism and genocide. The slogan originated from the 1927 poem, Masada, by Yitzhak Lamdan, about the siege of Masada, when the Sicarii (Jewish assassins who target Roman leaders and Jewish collaborators) were captured and chose to commit mass suicide rather than be captured.

euromedmonitor.org/en/article/…

#palestine #gaza #genocide #holocaust #concentrationcamp #warcrimes #FreePalestine #nazis #fascism #rafah #israel

Extremely ominous news for the region, given Israel's reckless behaviour ⬇️

Congressmen Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Mike Lawler (R-NY) have proposed authorizing President Trump to deliver B-2 'Spirit' bombers and GBU-57 bombs to Israel under the 'Bunker Buster Act.'

#IsraelTerroristState #USA

Who needs a functioning government anyway?

nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/poli…

Canada’s government treats war funding as urgent but climate action as ‘unrealistic’ despite heat domes killing 20x more people than terrorism. While military spending is set to soar to 5% GDP, climate gets scraps at 0.7% GDP, half of which funds fossil fuel scams like carbon capture.

The real security threat is climate chaos displacing millions and collapsing food systems Yet we’re buying missile shields instead of mass electrification.

nationalobserver.com/2025/07/0…

#canada #cdnpoli #climatecrisis

There's always money for the military. But climate?

For years, the climate movement has been calling on the federal government to spend two per cent of GDP on climate infrastructure and action, to no avail.

^{Canada's National Observer}

Pick your own crops--coming soon to a town near you!

'We’re working on it': Trump pick admits no plan for farmers amid deportations
rawstory.com/deportation-26730…

#FarmWorkers #UFW #UnionStrong #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

'We’re working on it': Trump pick admits no plan for farmers amid deportations

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins was forced to admit on Fox Business Wednesday that the Trump administration has no plan for farmers amid ongoing mass deportations, which have hit farmers particularly hard due to their overreliance on migrant …

^{Alexander Willis (Raw Story)}

Montecarlo celebra i 150 anni della Filarmonica con due serate di musica nel chiostro
Ci sarà anche un concerto del gruppo I figli dei fiori, con le hit degli anni '60 e '70

luccaindiretta.it/capannori-e-…

Montecarlo celebra i 150 anni della Filarmonica con due serate di musica nel chiostro - LuccaInDiretta

^{LuccainDiretta}

The US, China Race for AI Supremacy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-07-09/the-us-china-race-for-ai-supremacy-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Bloomberg Television @bloomberg-television-bloomberg

So they’re letting me host a session the #Fedicon conference on August 1st in Vancouver, CA

I’ll probably ramble about: #Music, #UX, and #Commerce on the #Fediverse

What do you all want to talk about?

fedicon.ca

FediCon — Fediverse Conference

2 day Fediverse Conference on August 1st and 2nd, 2025

^fedicon.ca

Former Mr. Gay UK sentenced for slaying & cooking his male partner
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/former-mr-gay-uk-sentenced-for-slaying-cooking-his-male-partner/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into LGBTQ Nation @lgbtq-nation-LGBTQNation

LWDW is live on YouTube!!!
Come have some fun and get some #Linux #News along the way!
😍😂🐧🐧🐧

#OpenSource #podcast #technews
shorturl.at/CbBHP

GRUBER: Would you support the prosecution of Barack Obama if all roads lead back to him with the fraudulent Russiagate & dossier smearing Donald Trump?

REP. MARK HARRIS: I would support the prosecution of anybody that there is evidence of their guilt, & we must take it wherever

How large?
Quite.

One can climb all the way up the magic tree, cool uh

Hamas Agrees to Release 10 Hostages, Musk's X CEO Resigns, More
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-07-09/hamas-agrees-to-release-10-hostages-musk-s-x-ceo-resigns-more?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Podcasts @podcasts-bloomberg

At The Money: Managing Business Model Changes
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-07-09/at-the-money-managing-business-model-changes?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Podcasts @podcasts-bloomberg

Zur Abwechslung mal wieder ein Schachbrettfalter.

#nature #photography #naturfotografie #naturephotography #makro #macro #schmetterling #butterfly

AI search engine Perplexity has launched a web browser, Comet, which is currently available to $200-per-month Max plan subscribers and a small group that signed up for a waitlist. Here's more from @Techcrunch.

flip.it/CoF.6C

#Tech #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #WebBrowser #Perplexity

Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser | TechCrunch

Perplexity is launching its first AI-powered web browser, Comet, marking the company's latest attempt to unseat Google Search.

^{Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)}

No Sirens. Just Darkness and Floods.
Texas was left unprotected by policy and design. The rest of the country should pay attention.

Texas Had a Chance to Warn Its People. It Chose Not To.

-- Olivia of Troye
Jul 09, 2025

open.substack.com/pub/welivedi…

#GOP #Trump #Texas #Corruption #Project2025 #MAGA

No Sirens. Just Darkness and Floods.

^{Olivia of Troye}

Today in Labor History July 9, 1917: Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman were sentenced to two years in prison, $10,000 each, and deportation to Soviet Russia for their antiwar efforts and their anarchist activism. Their persecution by the U.S. government was part of the Palmer Raids, or the first anti-communist witch hunt in the U.S., which led to the imprisonment, death and/or deportation of hundreds of anarchists, communists, and labor organizers. The witch hunt decimated the IWW. And it jump-started the career of J. Edgar Hoover, future head of the FBI and persecutor of activist groups under COINTELPRO, who was then the underling of his mentor A. Mitchell Palmer.

Though Berkman and Goldman were both born in Russia, they were also naturalized U.S. citizens. The U.S. also deported anarchist Mollie Steimer in 1922. So, Trump’s threat to strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship and have him deported would be nothing new for the U.S. The U.S. has also denaturalized and deported people on the right, including several dozen Nazis in the 1970s-1990s.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #communism #immigration #deportation #trump #russia #ussr #emmagoldman #alexanderberkman #molliesteimer #nazis #prison #IWW #fbi #cointelpro

The received wisdom is that growth on Mastodon and Bluesky comes from big waves of new users who flee other networks when their owners say or do something particularly evil. But according to @laurenshof, that's no longer a given. "Musk managed to put himself up high on the list of people whose actions directly led for the largest number of deaths in the twenty-first century due to his involvement in the shutdown of USAID, but such evil did not meaningfully lead to people leaving Musk’s social network for other places," Hof writes for his Connected Places newsletter. Here, he takes a look at what's happening.

flip.it/nMcSJB

#Mastodon #Bluesky #OpenSocial #SocialMedia #SocialNetworks #Twitter #ElonMusk #Tech #Technology

Growth narratives on the new social networks

The narratives that networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have about themselves how their network grows are a snapshot of a specific moments in time. How do these narratives evolve as the circumstances change again?

^{connectedplaces.online}

Measles Are Back, Who Would Have Guessed?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-07-09/us-measles-cases-hit-33-year-high-rfk-jr-must-do-more?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Bloomberg @bloomberg-bloomberg