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The overland “Steadfastness” Convoy to break the siege on Gaza will depart from Tunisia on the morning of Monday, June 9, 2025, under the slogan: “The chains must be broken.” The convoy will travel through Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt, with the goal of reaching the Rafah crossing.

As a member of La Via Campesina’s Arab and North Africa Region, the Association of the Million Rural Women and Landless (MRWL) is a key partner in the organization, support, and mobilization for this popular overland convoy. The convoy coincides with the Global March to Gaza and the Freedom Flotilla, where freedom-loving people from around the world will gather at Rafah on June 14, 2025, in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

viacampesina.org/en/2025/06/tu

La Via Campesina - EN · Tunisia: In Solidarity with Gaza, La Via Campesina Members Join Overland Convoy to RafahThe convoy coincides with the Global March to Gaza and the Freedom Flotilla, where freedom-loving people from around the world will gather at Rafah on June 14, 2025, in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
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#CyberPsychosis is a thing. 😵‍💫 Study: “Humanity is currently facing an existential crisis about the nature of truth and reality driven by the availability of information online which overloads and overwhelms our cognitive capabilities, which we call Cyber-Psychosis. The results of this Cyber-Psychosis include the decline of critical thinking coupled with deceptive influences on the Internet which have become so prolific that they are challenging our ability to form a shared understanding of reality in either the digital or physical world.” (screencap of the study attached, you’ll need to look it up if you’re interested in more info) #MentalHealth #internet #psychology

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@richardrawson @fl0und3r

you know this but for everyone else reading:

if you ever *don't* want your post 10 comments down in a silly thread to go global, you can turn that off with the quiet public option

everyone can still see your post, but they have to dive into the thread it's in to find it, they won't see it pop up in their feed

important caveat:

you can not edit this option after you submit your post

Gaza needs aid now. They have been cut off for over 2 months. Plastics are being burnt down to make petrol. The people of Gaza deserve peace and a chance to recover.

Assuming Trump's intentions are more narcissistic spite and a goal to do additional business in the Middle East there than any humanitarian purposes...

but his latest moves have given some tiny shard of hope that Israel is no longer going to be supported in their genocidal destruction of Gaza

forward.com/fast-forward/71910

The Forward · ‘Honey, he’s had enough of you’: Trump’s Middle East moves increasingly appear to sideline IsraelTrump’s trip to the region doesn’t include Israel. Neither do some of his talks with Israel’s enemies.
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"I don't have anyone at home. They arrested my mom, my sister, & a 2-mo-old baby."

Worcester police & agents were seen on video detaining a mother & her teenage daughter, whose🚨face was slammed into the ground.

Aa lg crowd forming around the them as community members shout, "You're not supposed to work with ICE!"

A 16-yr-old girl, momentarily escaped from the police officers *seen chasing & restraining her on the ground as she screams desperately.


nbcboston.com/news/local/harro

NBC10 Boston · ‘Harrowing': Video shows Worcester police hold girl's face on ground during ICE operationBy Mercedes París, Mike Pescaro
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Protesters: are you paying attention? Break up the bigger protests into a large number of smaller protests to make things difficult for the Stasi, I mean the SS, I mean the pigs, I… you know what I mean.

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An old failed Venus lander will re-enter from earth orbit next month, and it could land anywhere between 52 degrees north and south. Which covers basically all population in the southern hemisphere and a large majority in the north, leaving out the Baltics, Nordics, and Alaska.

It weighs a thousand pounds and is expected to reach the ground intact. Previous debris from the launch landed in New Zealand.

sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2025/

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This is incredible:

“A burgeoning movement among Big Ten universities would create an alliance to counter government attacks…Several faculty and university senates have approved resolutions asking their leaders to sign a NATO-like agreement that would allow the institutions to share attorneys and pool financial resources in case President Donald Trump’s administration targets one of its members.”

washingtonpost.com/education/2

The Washington Post · Big Ten university faculties push for defense compact against TrumpBy Ben Brasch

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, a story written in 1935 imagining a strongman U.S. President coming into power with the help of mass media propaganda.

This book was written at his wife's urging and based on her observations as a reporter in fascist Germany/Italy.

Little has apparently changed since 1935, parts of the story feel as if he is telling the true story of 2016-2025 Donald Trump.

openlibrary.org/books/OL385021

Open LibrarySinclair Lewis by Sinclair Lewis | Open LibraryIt Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, 2021, Independently Published edition, in English
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in other news, today I learned that crows can correctly nest and close brackets/parentheses, which is going to make me feel just great the next time I'm banging my head against the wall over a script that doesn't work only to find out I forgot to close one (1) bracket

scientificamerican.com/article

Scientific American · Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively HumanBy Diana Kwon