Exiles in Our Own Land -- Well, Stolen Land and from Where the Bombs Are Dropped

“There’s a good chance this will wreck my career”: Omar El Akkad on his new book about Palestine, Israel and Western hypocrisy!

A little primer in language and peace:

I was watching a group of people be eradicated while the Western world was cheering it on, bankrolling it and telling me that if I opposed it in any way, that made me a terrorism supporter. Everything I knew about history, and everything I’d experienced covering wars and mass injustice as a journalist, led me to believe that one day, everyone would be against this. I sent that tweet late one night and thought nothing of it—and then it went into that strange viral place.

I was watching a group of people be eradicated while the Western world was cheering it on, bankrolling it and telling me that if I opposed it in any way, that made me a terrorism supporter. Everything I knew about history, and everything I’d experienced covering wars and mass injustice as a journalist, led me to believe that one day, everyone would be against this. I sent that tweet late one night and thought nothing of it—and then it went into that strange viral place.

Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured―the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial.

Why must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly impossible task? With fearless prose and lyrical precision, Mohammed El-Kurd refuses a life spent in cross-examination. Rather than asking the oppressed to perform a perfect victimhood, El-Kurd asks friends and foes alike to look Palestinians in the eye, forgoing both deference and condemnation.

How we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony, history, and reportage, Perfect Victims presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian.

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Shift, here: Whitney Webb - The Elites Are Using AI to Destroy the Human Spirit

Jew and Jew and Jew: Cognitive Decline, or lobotomizing, and the death of decisions — Generative AI will Decide.

The Rapist and Racist in Chief:

"He's a real general, not a television general," Trump said in Miami on Wednesday, two days before his Truth Social post catapulted Caine from retirement to a nomination to be the most senior active-duty officer in the U.S. military.

If approved by the Senate, Caine will take over a military that is undergoing change in the first 30 days of the Trump administration and will inherit a Joint Staff rattled by Trump's surprise firing of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown.

Racists in Chief and Apartheid 110 IQ Musk on the war path:

Nope — Not the World’s Center of the Universe. Trump and his Magical Thinkers want USA to be dumb as fucking cement: SUBSCRIBER ONLY

UC San Diego, bracing for more than $200M in funding cuts, freezes faculty hiring

‘This is the biggest financial challenge in UCSD’s history,’ said Terry Gaasterland, a longtime faculty member.

Repeated over and over now that the Fascists are on the War Path.

‘I loved my job because I got to help preserve things that mean something to so many people,’ says former USFS archeologist Erica Dirks

Approximately 2,300 people have been terminated from the agencies that manage the 35m acres (14m hectares) of federal public lands in the US.

These are our lands. They encompass national parks and forests, wilderness and marine protected areas, scenic rivers. They are home to campgrounds, river accesses, hiking trails and myriad other sites and facilities that more than 500 million people visit each year.

The termination letters sent to employees stated that they had “not demonstrated that your further employment at the agency would be in the public interest”. Those same people fought fires, protected sacred sites, cleared trails, cleaned campgrounds and bathrooms, educated visitors and managed wildlife. They also provided safety, including search and rescue and emergency medical treatment.

For one postdoc, uncertainty about whether the funding for her awarded “diversity” fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will come through means she’s spending valuable time writing more applications instead of doing research. For another, learning that the “dream job” he’d been offered at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) was being withdrawn because of the federal hiring freeze has left him clinging to his current position—and $5000 poorer because he already canceled his lease in preparation for moving. And a Ph.D. student whose dream is to one day lead a planetary mission at NASA is “panicking” about her professional future.

These are just a few of the countless researchers reeling after President Donald Trump’s administration unleashed a wave of actions over the past month—freezing funds, firing thousands of federal employees, upending programs and research related to gender and diversity, and more. Scientists of all stripes have been affected, but none more so than early-career researchers, a group already struggling with low pay and job insecurity. Now, some wonder how many of those budding researchers will throw in the towel and leave science, or the United States, entirely.

“There’s going to be a missing age class of researchers that will reverberate for years,” one federal scientist fears.

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And so AI/GAI will decide if the poisons are poisonous enough! Judge rejects Health Canada's 'trust us' approach in glyphosate pesticide approval

Health Canada's approval of the glyphosate pesticide Mad Dog Plus failed to consider contradictory science, court rules.

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The cunts have a plan/plans: Trump’s return isn’t just chaos, it’s a calculated strategy. While liberals dismiss him, Trump understands raw economic power in a way centrists fail to grasp. What is his master plan, and how could it backfire? Meanwhile, Musk & other billionaires are the new ruling class. As capitalism dies, we enter technofeudalism, where corporate overlords control entire infrastructures of power. And in Europe, elites literally cried over the U.S. pivoting away. Does Europe have any real sovereignty left? Yanis Varoufakis joins Rania Khalek to break it all down.

Billionaire Bill Ackman makes a number of moves that turn heads. Jew Jew Jew.

The price of Eggs = Rapist in Chief Trump and his MAGA! Eggs seized at border as prices hit record highs in US.

Another one late to the fucking dance:

"Do you think we're headed towards superhuman intelligence in your time as CEO?" asked Patel. While referencing Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's use of superhuman intelligence, Nadella indicated that we'd need to establish trust with the "new species" first.

According to the Microsoft CEO:

"Before we claim it is something as big as a species, the fundamental thing that we've got to get right is that there is real trust, whether it's personal or societal level trust, that's baked in. That's the hard problem."