<p>"Every Black Republican now serving in the U.S. House of Representatives is leaving. Every single one. Wesley Hunt, Burgess Owens, John James and Byron Donalds — the four Black Republican faces most often used as evidence that the GOP was somehow diverse, inclusive and post-racial — are all walking away. That is an indictment. Republicans recruited Black candidates not to reform policy, but to provide political cover. Now the mask is slipping": <br><a href="https://baptistnews.com/article/the-republican-partys-blackout/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="baptistnews.com/article/the-republican-partys-blackout/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">baptistnews.com/article/the-re</span><span class="invisible">publican-partys-blackout/</span></a> <a href="/tags/racism/" rel="tag">#racism</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a></p>
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<p>"It sure seems like <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#Russia</a> is starting to lose its war in <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#Ukraine</a>: <br><a href="https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/is-russia-finally-using-its-war-of?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="statuskuo.substack.com/p/is-russia-finally-using-its-war-of?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">statuskuo.substack.com/p/is-ru</span><span class="invisible">ssia-finally-using-its-war-of?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true</span></a> <br>"Russia has been fighting a 20th-century war, but Ukraine is waging a 21st-century one." <br><a href="/tags/military/" rel="tag">#military</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/putinspuppet/" rel="tag">#PutinsPuppet</a></p>
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<p>My latest essay for Substack. Please read this. 👍🏿</p><p>Thank you.</p><p><a href="/tags/blackpeople/" rel="tag">#blackpeople</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> </p><p><a href="https://substack.com/@popcornreel/note/p-197794460?r=275tyr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="substack.com/@popcornreel/note/p-197794460?r=275tyr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">substack.com/@popcornreel/note</span><span class="invisible">/p-197794460?r=275tyr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action</span></a></p>
<p>BOOM! SAY IT LOUDER:<br>Gary Chambers Jr. just dragged <a href="/tags/louisiana/" rel="tag">#Louisiana</a> Republicans — while Speaker Mike Johnson wears holes in his kneepads for Dear Leader.</p><p><a href="/tags/whitesupremacy/" rel="tag">#whitesupremacy</a> <a href="/tags/greatreplacementtheory/" rel="tag">#greatreplacementtheory</a> <a href="/tags/tuckercarlson/" rel="tag">#TuckerCarlson</a> <a href="/tags/racism/" rel="tag">#racism</a> <a href="/tags/votersuppression/" rel="tag">#votersuppression</a></p><p><a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="/tags/israelfirst/" rel="tag">#IsraelFirst</a> <a href="/tags/epsteinclass/" rel="tag">#EpsteinClass</a><br><a href="/tags/election/" rel="tag">#election</a> <br><a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#war</a> @politics <a href="/tags/activism/" rel="tag">#activism</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialmedia</a> <a href="/tags/protest/" rel="tag">#protest</a> <a href="/tags/resistance/" rel="tag">#resistance</a> <a href="/tags/gerrymandering/" rel="tag">#gerrymandering</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/redistricting/" rel="tag">#redistricting</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtqia/" rel="tag">#lgbtqia</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#congress</a> <a href="/tags/democrats/" rel="tag">#democrats</a> <br>@blackvoices <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#blackmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/justice/" rel="tag">#justice</a></p>
<p>Jum'ah mubarak to everyone except the Indonesian state government and those who regurgitate colonial logic.</p><p>I'm enraged, and my autistic ahh has been ruminating painfully, while my ADHD has the energy for it. So Imma drop Friday khutbah here lol.</p><p>Racists, bigots, colonial apologists DNI</p><p>Bismillah</p><p>When survival becomes organised humiliation, people stop consenting quietly. It’s only a matter of time before people decide that being k¡lled by rulers is far preferable to living another day under these conditions. Don't come lecturing people about "violence is never the answer" when you can still afford to see meritocracy as something genuine and unemployment, poverty, homelessness as personal moral failures; when you refuse to sit with the contradictions; when you opt to exceptionalise almost everything, whether it concerns a certain group or a certain religious identity, and call it "nuance." We're Indonesian, not USian.</p><p>What are we doing?</p><p>Are we still the same nation that went to war against the Portuguese and the Dutch with bambu runcing, and called that war jihad fisabilillah in the 1560s and 1820s, far before Marx even drew the connections between capitalism and colonialism?</p><p>We might not be the same people, the same Acehnese, the same Javanese who went to war against colonial powers. But we are the same Ummah that owes a great debt to the Ottoman military for the cannons and gunners under Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis, who aided our Muslim brothers and sisters in 1560s Aceh against the Portuguese, where the Ottoman flag flew as a sign of Muslim unity under the Ottoman Caliphate; the same Ummah that took up arms under Prince Diponegoro's call of jihad against the Dutch and colonial extraction in Java in 1825–1830. Yet we're also the same Ummah that abandoned the Acehnese in the 19th century because, by then, the Ottomans were too weakened to materially respond, and our local ulema were bought by the Dutch Orientalist scholar Snouck Hurgronje, who converted to Islam to learn about Muslims, whom he called "Mohammedans," as objects of study to divide us from within.</p><p>He succeeded. He understood something the gunboats never did: capturing the legitimation machinery is cheaper than fighting it. Conquest by purchase of the minbar outlasts conquest by rifle, and it never had to end when the Dutch left.</p><p>The Ummah had been divided long before the Arabs revolted against the Ottoman Empire under European imperial manipulation, and had understood transnational solidarity long before Marxist internationalism gave it another vocabulary.</p><p>The Ummah here was subjected to two captures before they had names anywhere else. The first wore secular clothes: anything political, anything touching governance, was crushed, while ritual performance and akhlaqul karīm became matters between you and God alone, because fuck empathy and humanity, right? "Obedience to ulil amr is obedience to God," and they called it taqwa. Hurgronje wrote that manual decades before any mandate power bought its first mufti. The second capture came later wearing literalist clothes: ibn Wahhab's interpretation with a state behind it, folded into a nationalist project, until its heirs pointed at everything and called it bid'ah, conflating da'wah with Saudi propaganda. The colony was the laboratory. The methods “tested” here travelled, then came back rebranded as authenticity.</p><p>What are we even doing?</p><p>Is it because the oppressors now speak the same language as us and claim to worship the same God?</p><p>These oppressors were raised in the same traditions as those who abandoned knowledge, succumbed to manufactured enmity and moral panic, and murdered farmers, teachers, labourers, midwives; the working class in 1965–1966, in the name of jihad; the declaration of “God is the greatest” at the top of their lungs while parading the severed heads of farmers around the village. The same society that had not yet had a proper tool or concept for collective intergenerational trauma from 3.5 centuries of colonialism, and only had Islam as a moral framework and the language of liberation and resistance against colonial powers, by the time the successor of the British Empire planted a seed of backwardness that labelled Muslim revolutionaries like Tan Malaka and other members and sympathisers of the Communist Party kafirun just twenty years after independence.</p><p>The same Tan Malaka whose speech at Comintern in 1922 about the shared goal of Pan-Islamism and Marxism changed everyone's view of Islam, which was very likely Orientalist anyway, and of Indonesian resistance against colonial powers.</p><p>The same Tan Malaka who wrote a book that gives modern Indonesians a language to speak to power. To see the rot in the system itself. To hold power accountable for the structural violence it enforces. A book that the government eventually banned.</p><p>The government that wants us to see them as ulil amr. The same government that spiritualises its incompetence, that crushes dissent, whose religious ministry said teachers' salaries are amal jariyah, that calls activists foreign actors—because how else should they appeal to the masses other than by triggering the trauma of the descendants of the colonised?</p><p>When ideas are crushed and dissenters are criminalised or even pathologised, the harm doesn’t stay abstract. It shows up as hunger, as homelessness, as lives cut short.</p><p>Violence isn’t always soaked in blood. Poverty, homelessness, famine; these are forms of violence. They’re structural. Someone has made sure the poor stay poor while they fatten themselves up.</p><p>Yet some of us turn around and say, “Corruption is cultural in Indonesia. It's a collective sin,” and call it a day. No dialectical materialism, no questions about who benefits from lateral violence among broke citizens in this day and age, no nothing.</p><p>We have the moral architecture, we have historical records of wins and losses, of the most sophisticated synthesised concept of political theology and material obligations with spiritual accountability. We have material evidence of a pluralistic society in a nation-state that isn't secular and was never once a theocracy.</p><p>Yet most arguments from our best and brightest are bootleg copies of colonial logic to blame the oppressed and call it "holding ourselves accountable."</p><p>How do some people afford to spiritualise and moralise structural poverty and anti-intellectualism? How do you even participate in society, yet, when it comes to structural analysis, act like you're merely a rude guest looking in through the window?</p><p>What are you even doing with that fancy degree?</p><p>Thus, conclude today's Keputrian session. My sincere apologies for the absence of snacks, I can't afford them, I'm broke.<br>See you around.</p><p>Wassalaam</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@indonesia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>indonesia</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@actuallyadhd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyadhd</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/panislamism/" rel="tag">#panislamism</a> <a href="/tags/marxism/" rel="tag">#marxism</a> <a href="/tags/trotsky/" rel="tag">#trotsky</a> <a href="/tags/genocide/" rel="tag">#genocide</a> <br><a href="/tags/neurodivergence/" rel="tag">#neurodivergence</a> <a href="/tags/decolonial/" rel="tag">#decolonial</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/colonialism/" rel="tag">#colonialism</a> <a href="/tags/activism/" rel="tag">#activism</a> <a href="/tags/islam/" rel="tag">#Islam</a></p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116586570693522049" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116586570693522049"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYo</span><span class="invisible">u/116586570693522049</span></a></p><p>"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at today's rally in Alabama: “I am here because our destinies are tied. I am here because this county was built on solidarity, and all of us here are inheritors of the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and that also required the freedom and the bravery of the Freedom Riders who came down to help, support and assist that. So we stand on that legacy and we are here to stand with you. You are not alone.” <br>copy: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://channel.org/@renewedresistance" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>renewedresistance</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/votingrights/" rel="tag">#VotingRights</a></p>
<p>Ahmed Najar argues:</p><p>'Criticism of Russia is not treated as hatred towards Russians. Opposition to American wars is not automatically framed as hostility towards Americans as a people. Protest against the Chinese government is not assumed to be anti-Chinese racism.</p><p>Only when it comes to Israel does this distinction repeatedly collapse.</p><p>That collapse carries consequences'</p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/5/16/britain-is-losing-the-ability-to-tell-anti-semitism-from-dissent" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/5/16/britain-is-losing-the-ability-to-tell-anti-semitism-from-dissent"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202</span><span class="invisible">6/5/16/britain-is-losing-the-ability-to-tell-anti-semitism-from-dissent</span></a></p>
<p>Ken Paxton’s hypocrisy is well-documented. He's one of the loudest proponents for requiring schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Yet he’s famously eschewed Number 7 multiple times (thou shalt not commit adultery). <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/ken-paxton-attorney-general-rhetoric-analysis/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/ken-paxton-attorney-general-rhetoric-analysis/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/ken-paxt</span><span class="invisible">on-attorney-general-rhetoric-analysis/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/language/" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/religion/" rel="tag">#religion</a></p>
<p>Polymarket and Kalshi seem to be everywhere, but what are prediction markets doing to society?</p><p>On <a href="/tags/techwontsaveus/" rel="tag">#TechWontSaveUs</a>, I spoke with Jathan Sadowski to dig into the ideological goal to financialize everything and the many harms that arise from that model.</p><p>Listen to the full episode: <a href="https://techwontsave.us/episode/329_prediction_markets_want_to_financialize_everything_w_jathan_sadowski" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="techwontsave.us/episode/329_prediction_markets_want_to_financialize_everything_w_jathan_sadowski"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techwontsave.us/episode/329_pr</span><span class="invisible">ediction_markets_want_to_financialize_everything_w_jathan_sadowski</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/polymarket/" rel="tag">#polymarket</a> <a href="/tags/kalshi/" rel="tag">#kalshi</a> <a href="/tags/betting/" rel="tag">#betting</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a></p>
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<p>BOOK TO READ</p><p>"A Merry Life and A Short One" is my collection of writings about pirates as examples of anarchists. It consequently sets out to discuss and describe both pirates and anarchy for the general reader in order to make relevant connections between them. I think its the best thing I have ever written but that's probably up to the reader to decide. Recommended for anyone who wants to think about pirates or anarchy and their consequences or how to fight back against oppressive politics.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/a-merry-life" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="archive.org/details/a-merry-life"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/a-merry-li</span><span class="invisible">fe</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/pirates/" rel="tag">#pirates</a> <a href="/tags/anarchy/" rel="tag">#anarchy</a> <a href="/tags/capitalism/" rel="tag">#capitalism</a> <a href="/tags/justice/" rel="tag">#justice</a> <a href="/tags/liberty/" rel="tag">#liberty</a> <a href="/tags/freedom/" rel="tag">#freedom</a> <a href="/tags/autonomy/" rel="tag">#autonomy</a> <a href="/tags/resist/" rel="tag">#resist</a></p>
<p>British Prime Minister <a href="/tags/keirstarmer/" rel="tag">#KeirStarmer</a> said Monday he is stepping down as leader of the governing <a href="/tags/labourparty/" rel="tag">#LabourParty</a> & will leave office within weeks, scarcely 2 years after being elected in a landslide. <a href="/tags/starmer/" rel="tag">#Starmer</a> says he will remain caretaker prime minister until a new Labour leader is chosen by the party. Starmer is the sixth prime minister in a decade to announce a premature departure.</p><p><a href="/tags/uk/" rel="tag">#UK</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#Europe</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/ukpol/" rel="tag">#UKpol</a> <br><a href="https://apnews.com/live/keir-starmer-resignation-uk-prime-minister-updates-06-22-2026" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="apnews.com/live/keir-starmer-resignation-uk-prime-minister-updates-06-22-2026"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/live/keir-starmer-r</span><span class="invisible">esignation-uk-prime-minister-updates-06-22-2026</span></a></p>
<p>🚨 Mutual aid checkpoint 12 JUNE 2026 🚨 <a href="/tags/mutualaidspace/" rel="tag">#mutualaidspace</a></p><p>People are protesting in the streets here, the pigs are targeting them again, accusing them of foreign influence. All the while the president is cosying up with colonisers in the name of "peace". israel is still colonising Palestine, still being bankrolled and shielded by the same imperial machinery that has never stopped running. The two-state solution is the normalisation of occupation, of colonialism, of chronic temporariness. And everyone knows it. We are not waiting for permission to take care of each other.</p><p>1. Reply with a request for yourself or someone you care for, including the need, deadline, and payment handle or Chuffed/GFM link<br>2. Boost this post and every reply under it<br>3. Share this on any platform where mutual aid communities already exist, and invite them here explicitly</p><p>From each according to their capacity, to each according to their needs.</p><p>The first 10 direct requests get collected for next Wednesday's roundup + newsletter.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mutualaid</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mutualaid@fedigroups.social</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/disability" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>disability</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@actuallyadhd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyadhd</span></a></span><br><a href="https://wrzky.com/@posts" rel="nofollow">@posts</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.chinwag.org/@edendestroyer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>edendestroyer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@QuyetPawz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>QuyetPawz</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ellespeaks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ellespeaks</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@nillerus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nillerus</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@khurry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>khurry</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@frugalcoffee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>frugalcoffee</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Kristenzeta" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Kristenzeta</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@phizoto" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>phizoto</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@indonesia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>indonesia</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/mutualaidrequest/" rel="tag">#MutualAidRequest</a> <a href="/tags/disabilitymutualaid/" rel="tag">#DisabilityMutualAid</a> <a href="/tags/disabilitycrowdfund/" rel="tag">#disabilitycrowdfund</a> <a href="/tags/emergencycrowdfund/" rel="tag">#emergencycrowdfund</a> <a href="/tags/gazamutualaid/" rel="tag">#gazamutualaid</a> <a href="/tags/mutualaid/" rel="tag">#mutualaid</a> <a href="/tags/mutualaidboost/" rel="tag">#mutualaidboost</a> <a href="/tags/transmutualaid/" rel="tag">#transmutualaid</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/activism/" rel="tag">#activism</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/neurodivergence/" rel="tag">#neurodivergence</a> <a href="/tags/anarchism/" rel="tag">#anarchism</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialmedia</a> <a href="/tags/writer/" rel="tag">#writer</a> <a href="/tags/disabledwriters/" rel="tag">#DisabledWriters</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activitypub</a> <a href="/tags/muslim/" rel="tag">#muslim</a> <a href="/tags/islam/" rel="tag">#Islam</a> <a href="/tags/muslimvoices/" rel="tag">#muslimvoices</a> <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#poverty</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#disability</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#mentalhealth</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/congo/" rel="tag">#Congo</a> <a href="/tags/sudan/" rel="tag">#Sudan</a> <a href="/tags/indonesia/" rel="tag">#Indonesia</a> <a href="/tags/longlivetheresistance/" rel="tag">#longlivetheresistance</a> <a href="/tags/panjangumurperlawanan/" rel="tag">#panjangumurperlawanan</a> <a href="/tags/acab/" rel="tag">#ACAB</a></p>
<p>From Jessica Luther in our magazine: Once the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another. To counter this, we need to look at gender-expansive athletes in a detailed and holistic way. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/trans-athletes-inclusion-sports-culture/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/trans-athletes-inclusion-sports-culture/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/trans-at</span><span class="invisible">hletes-inclusion-sports-culture/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/sports/" rel="tag">#sports</a> <a href="/tags/gender/" rel="tag">#gender</a> <a href="/tags/trans/" rel="tag">#trans</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>
<p>Utah wants a datacenter. The Great Salt Lake is half empty. Our half-wit governor asked the state to pray for rain. They still haven't banned fireworks. In fact, I can hear huge arials exploding in the distance as I write.</p><p>Here's how that's working out so far. I took this picture just a few minutes ago. The fire is near the Huntsman Cancer Institute. I can't tell if it's smoke or stupidity that's making my eyes water right now, but I know what's making me curse.</p><p><a href="/tags/utah/" rel="tag">#utah</a> <br><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <br><a href="/tags/fire/" rel="tag">#fire</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/uk/" rel="tag">#UK</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> </p><p>Surprisingly, all those people are finding out <a href="/tags/brexit/" rel="tag">#brexit</a> didn't work...</p><p>Absolute nightmare’: Brexit bellwether constituencies revisited 10 years on </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/22/brexit-bellwether-constituencies-revisited-10-years-eu-referendum" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/22/brexit-bellwether-constituencies-revisited-10-years-eu-referendum"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/uk-news/20</span><span class="invisible">26/jun/22/brexit-bellwether-constituencies-revisited-10-years-eu-referendum</span></a></p>
<p>Timothy Snyder suggests (plausibly) the Tangerine Tyrant is bringing about the 'superpower suicide' of the US... entirely to enrich his friends & family.</p><p>In a sense we all have intuited this for some time, but Snyder joins the dots in a helpful way.</p><p>indeed, we might conclude the individualistic logic of the US has finally (as many would expect) bitten it in the arse courtesy of the corrupt family Trump.</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.thenerve.news/p/timothy-snyder-column-america-trump-superpower-suicide" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thenerve.news/p/timothy-snyder-column-america-trump-superpower-suicide"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thenerve.news/p/timothy-sn</span><span class="invisible">yder-column-america-trump-superpower-suicide</span></a></p>
<p>Living as a member of the working class in today's United States is living as a permanent victim. Life is just a matter of waiting for the next ripoff by the ruling class, and you never have to wait long. </p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/generalstrike/" rel="tag">#GeneralStrike</a></p>
<p>New from Justin Miller: The GOP dynamic was basically old-guard establishment vs. ambitious and uniquely hardline insurgents. The typical story, with the now-longstanding wild card of <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>’s kingmaking powers. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-gop-runoff-results-2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/texas-gop-runoff-results-2026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/texas-go</span><span class="invisible">p-runoff-results-2026/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/republicans/" rel="tag">#Republicans</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a></p>
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<p>RE: <a href="https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/tech-fknh6odjz/-/a-Xgc1Ge2MQheLbT_CP64Jfg%3Aa%3A1876139665-%2F0" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="flipboard.com/@gizmodo/tech-fknh6odjz/-/a-Xgc1Ge2MQheLbT_CP64Jfg%3Aa%3A1876139665-%2F0"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flipboard.com/@gizmodo/tech-fk</span><span class="invisible">nh6odjz/-/a-Xgc1Ge2MQheLbT_CP64Jfg%3Aa%3A1876139665-%2F0</span></a></p><p>Reminder to everyone: Crypto fights Democracy. Make a choice and stay away from it.</p><p><a href="/tags/crypto/" rel="tag">#Crypto</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#EU</a> <a href="/tags/europa/" rel="tag">#Europa</a></p>
<p>NEW: Amid Mounting War Casualties, Pete Hegseth “Defunded and Impeded” Efforts to Protect Civilians, Lawmakers Say</p><p>Ten members of Congress have warned the secretary of defense that the Trump administration’s gutting of a program focused on shielding noncombatants puts service members in peril, erodes the military’s moral standing and may violate federal law.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-trump-war-civilian-casualties-elizabeth-warren-pentagon?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-trump-war-civilian-casualties-elizabeth-warren-pentagon?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/heg</span><span class="invisible">seth-trump-war-civilian-casualties-elizabeth-warren-pentagon?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/petehegseth/" rel="tag">#PeteHegseth</a> <a href="/tags/defense/" rel="tag">#Defense</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#Iran</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#War</a> <a href="/tags/pentagon/" rel="tag">#Pentagon</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a></p>
<p>The United States sanctioned Chilean officials who were assessing a proposal to build an undersea cable between Chile and Hong Kong.</p><p>It wants to ensure South America data flows through cables owned by US companies, giving it the ability to surveil that data.</p><p><a href="https://restofworld.org/2026/chile-china-america-google-cable/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="restofworld.org/2026/chile-china-america-google-cable/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">restofworld.org/2026/chile-chi</span><span class="invisible">na-america-google-cable/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#google</a> <a href="/tags/chile/" rel="tag">#chile</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a></p>