Tried the 8 Values test again.

“I was raped twice by female recruits … once by them and once by a dog.” A Palestinian detainee recounts repeated abuse he says he endured in Israeli detention. Watch Bodies of Evidence: Israel’s Darkest Weapon, an Al Jazeera investigation aje.news/b66a1s

LA City Council Committee punted on -Ranked Choice Voting -Council district expansion And refused to pass ANY of the Controller’s recommendations, except for designating a CFO, which they are giving to the CAO (an unelected bureaucrat who answers to them) City Hall is broken.

This means that in the UK a 17 year old is legally allowed to become a mother, work at a job, and drive a car, but she will not be allowed to watch YouTube Shorts, TikTok, or Twitch Gaming streams after dark because the content would supposedly be too mature for her to cope with.

Overhearing my family talk about world politics is like overhearing kids talk about what they think sex is.

🇻🇪 Hegseth Says U.S. Will Expand Strikes Across Latin America 🔹Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday the U.S. will carry out more military operations against drug cartels and criminal organizations across Latin America, confirming on CBS’s Face the Nation that Americans “should expect” strikes in countries including Ecuador and Guatemala. 🔹He described a new “America’s Counter Cartel Coalition” formed with partner governments across Central and South America to “defeat and destroy” groups Washington designates as foreign terrorist organizations, casting it as a revival of the Monroe Doctrine: “We’re taking back control of our hemisphere.” 🔹The remarks followed Trump’s announcement that a U.S. strike killed Héctor Guerrero Flores, known as Niño Guerrero, the leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, on June 12 in Bolívar state. Trump and Venezuela’s government said the strike was a joint operation. The killing is part of a broader U.S. campaign that has killed more than 200 people in strikes on alleged drug boats.

the office is some of the most tame shit ever what is he talking about

Trump, a billionaire, did a meme coin rug pull to his own supporters, transferring $600-700 million of wealth from the MAGA base to his already wealthy family. Argentina's right-wing President Javier Milei did the same to his supporters, promoting the Libra crypto pump-and-dump scheme. They don't care a bit about their supporters. They see them as stupid losers -- which, honestly, they are, if they still support these crooks.

The explosion of billionaire wealth has been one of the defining features of our time. Globally, billionaires used to own wealth equivalent to 3% of world GDP in the 1980s. Today: 17% of world GDP. And the upsurge is accelerating.

It’s happened again: A migrant was released from jail (charges dropped) and picked up by ICE. ICE decides not to deport. ICE drops migrant off far from home. Migrant dies in the cold. Manner of death: Homicide. Nearly identical to Buffalo case. wtae.com/article/daphy-miche…

Israel has struck a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs in response to Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel, marking the first such strike since last Sunday.

Not true. Wealth concentration makes us all worse off. If income distribution had stayed constant, everyone in the bottom 90 percent could be making $32,000 more a year: marketsbuiltforhumans.org/fl…

Bloomberg is owned by the world's 18th richest man. Billionaires emit more carbon in one hour than a poor person does in a lifetime. This is propaganda.

🚨Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israeli attacks have killed 45 people and wounded 149 over the past 48 hours. According to local reporting, Israeli warplanes struck 24 different southern Lebanese towns and villages on Friday, while drones targeted six localities and intensive artillery fire hit 19 others. More on recent attacks below ⬇️

It’s a Trumpian World Cup for racism — why don’t those who condemned Qatar 2022 say so? My piece for The Guardian on the blatant hypocrisy and double standards on full display. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Lol sucks to suck

🚨 NEW: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told State TV the emerging U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding is a roughly 1.5-2 page, 14-point document that has been negotiated for more than two months and reviewed line by line by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and military leadership. 🔸According to Araghchi, the first stage includes: ➤ A formal end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon ➤ A commitment that neither side will initiate a new war or use threats and force ➤ The lifting of the U.S. naval blockade ➤ A framework for the release of Iran’s frozen assets ➤ The Strait of Hormuz is addressed in the memorandum, with Araghchi saying Iran’s future management of the waterway “will be different from the past” and that services there “will no longer be free.” The arrangement for the 60-day period will be settled by the MoU itself, but other details may be finalized during the follow-on negotiations. ➤ Sanctions relief and reconstruction are raised as part of a reconstruction and economic development plan, but Araghchi says the full mechanisms on the matter will be agreed during later negotiations. 🔸 The Second Stage: ➤ Would consist of 60 days of negotiations toward a final agreement, with the possibility of extension by mutual consent. ➤ Araghchi says those talks will aim to resolve the nuclear file, including uranium enrichment and Iran’s stockpile of 60% enriched uranium. ➤ He says the negotiations will also address the broader issues raised in the memorandum, including sanctions relief, the reconstruction and economic development plan, arrangements related to the Strait of Hormuz, and other technical details. 🔸 On Hormuz (and Oman and China): ➤ He says Iran and Oman, as the two sovereign states bordering the strait, will continue to oversee its security and administration. ➤ Araghchi suggested that services in the Strait of Hormuz that have historically been provided free of charge, including maritime security and safe passage, the designation and maintenance of shipping lanes, environmental protection, and search-and-rescue services, would under a future framework carry fees. ➤ Araghchi says Iran has held close consultations with Oman, which he described as its principal partner on the issue, and that the two sides have reached “good results.” He said joint plans and a joint statement will be announced in the near future. ➤ He also says Iran has held expert-level consultations with other stakeholder nations, including China, noting that roughly 40% of shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is linked to China because of its economic interests. 🔸Araghchi said the memorandum will be signed remotely in a “digital” format, with each side signing separately before a joint announcement, adding that an agreement could be finalized “within the next day or two, or within the next several days.” 🔗 Araghchi’s full remarks on Friday, translated into English by Drop Site News, are below ⬇️

RT @lunwi75: Remember when Musk challenged the World Food Program to explain how he could solve world hunger with just $6 billion, they did…

🚨🇨🇺 BREAKING: Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel unveiled a sweeping set of economic reforms Friday, casting them as Cuba’s path through the crisis driven by a “criminal energy blockade” by the United States that has left the island nearly without fuel. Only 1 oil tanker has reached Cuba in the past 5 months, Díaz-Canel said, a collapse that traces to January, when the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and cut the flow of Venezuelan oil, then threatened tariffs on any country that supplied Cuba. Havana now endures blackouts of up to 15 hours a day. Among the most devastating consequences of the U.S. policy is that the Cuban government has been forced to postpone tens of thousands of surgeries for its citizens. The Cuban President today named national defense as the first priority, citing preparations under Cuba’s “Whole People’s War” doctrine. The full 2026 reform program includes: 🔹Enterprise & Markets 🔸 Overhaul the economic management system, easing the conflict between central planning and incentives for production 🔸 Grant state enterprises autonomy to set their own wages, dimensions, clients, and suppliers, use their profits freely, and enter the currency market directly 🔸 Loosen rules on non-state businesses, narrowing banned activities and widening shareholding 🔸 Fast-track approval of stalled private and state MSMEs (mipymes) 🔹 Decentralization & the State 🔸 Expand municipal autonomy, letting provinces import, export, attract foreign investment, and manage hard-currency income on their own 🔸 Restructure and shrink the state, cutting ministries and posts via a public draft law to reduce bureaucracy 🔹 Trade & Investment 🔸 Make foreign trade more dynamic, dropping mandatory intermediaries and favoring importers of raw materials over finished goods 🔸 Incentivize foreign direct investment, plus a new role for Cuban-diaspora and resident-Cuban investors as economic actors 🔹 Agriculture & Food 🔸 Reform land use, giving land to those who will farm it, cutting idle plots, and opening input and currency markets to producers across all sectors 🔸 Pursue food self-sufficiency by streamlining bureaucracy for agricultural production 🔹 Fiscal, Monetary & Social 🔸 Shift fiscal policy so the budget no longer finances state-enterprise inefficiency 🔸 Redesign monetary policy and the foreign-exchange market, and strengthen the banking system 🔸 Reform wages in the budget sector and move from subsidizing products to subsidizing people 🔹 Energy & Transport 🔸 Expand renewable energy and electric mobility, including local EV assembly, to cut dependence on imported fuel 🔸 Ease vehicle import limits, favoring solar-charged electric vehicles 🔹 Tourism, Commerce & Labor 🔸 Revive tourism through new operators beyond the big foreign chains that have pulled out 🔸 Modernize domestic commerce with electronic invoicing and digital platforms 🔸 Protect young skilled workers with better pay and incentives to curb emigration

You're sharing the National Post? An American owned far right newspaper? Big Tech is pushing for the social media ban because it offloads the necessity to maintain a safe product while the government enacts mass surveillance digital ID's

Those who celebrate @elonmusk's $1 trillion fortune need to be reminded of a simple and vital truth: That there is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy.