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Day 32 cont 🗳️⚔️🤜🤛👊

As the election gets closer, #extremism and #conflict is happening at polling booths with unruly candidate, party members and constituants.

“A barrage of #complaints about #threatening and #aggressive #behaviour at polling booths has fuelled tension in Australia’s most hotly #contested #electorates and prompted the #ElectoralCommission to warn #candidates in marginal seats that such behaviour would discourage #voters”

#AusPol <archive.md/5KgGv> / <smh.com.au/politics/federal/th> (paywall)

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The #Trump administration is currently engaged in the first phase of an #aggressive #terror #campaign to undermine the #firstamendment They’re bullying #news outlets and #lawfirms and public figures into bending the knee and refraining from #criticism which will pave the way for harsher crackdowns to come.
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p

Charlotte's Web Thoughts · You Are Not Special in a Fascist StateBy Charlotte Clymer
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Mark

#Greenland’s PM hit out at planned visit by senior US officials, calling the move “highly #aggressive” in light of Trump’s threats to take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory

What is the security advisor doing in Greenland? The only purpose is to show a demonstration of power, & the signal is not to be misunderstood

On Sunday, JD Vance took aim at #Denmark, accusing it of “not being a good ally” to the US.

euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03

euronews · Greenland's PM slams US officials' visit as 'demonstration of power'Múte B Egede sees the move as "a demonstration of power" against the island, which Donald Trump has threatened to seize. #EuropeNews
#AmericanAggression#DictatorTrump#AmericanCoup
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Mx Verda

Some music to study, relax, chill, or dissociate to:

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Fuck people who push your boundaries. Fuck "Life isn't fair" apologists. Fuck anyone who mocks your needs or makes you feel less than anyone, ever.

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#motivation#aggressive#inspiration
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…This week’s pause is fueled at least partly by uncertainty over the way #Trump could enact new policies, such as a return to an #aggressive & #unpredictable global #trade overhaul w/ #threats to impose significant #tariffs on US trading partners. Though it’s unclear exactly how those policies will affect the #economy, some #Fed ofcls have already begun to factor these policies into their economic projections.

#FederalReserve#TheFed#inflation
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The Kyiv Independent [unofficial]

Ukraine Daily summary - Sunday, January 26 2025

Sandu, Zelensky say they are ready to meet Transnistria's energy needs -- Russia's Ryazan oil refinery in flames after drone strike -- Zelensky offers Ukraine as transit hub for Azerbaijani gas to Europe -- Trump serious about annexing Greenland, aggressive with Danish PM -- and more

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writeworks.ukUkraine Daily summary - Sunday, January 26 2025Sandu, Zelensky say they are ready to meet Transnistria's energy needs -- Russia's Ryazan oil refinery in flames after drone strike -- Zelensky offers Ukraine as transit hub for Azerbaijani gas to Europe -- Trump serious about annexing Greenland, aggressive with Danish PM -- and more
#watchdogs#fico#геноцид
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Some members of the fediverse have some ... #unreasonable behaviours. If it only affects them, that's fine. But when they're aggressively bothering others, it's a problem. They're the #scolds that jump on posts, frequently those new to the #fediverse, giving forceful instructions about their #behaviour.

#Demanding strangers add content warnings to posts mentioning subjects that bother you is not #reasonable. It's like walking up to someone you don't know in a coffee shop and demanding they turn their laptop screen away from you because you don't like the article they're reading or the email they're writing. Some people on the receiving end of this behaviour will accommodate such #demands, just to avoid the conflict -- but you should not be surprised, or offended, if you get a harsher response telling you to mind your own damn business.

It's similar for people demanding others add alt-text to images. I do it. Lots of people do. But the people who don't add alt text don't owe anybody anything. You demanding they spend their time doing something because you want it, not because they want to, is simply not reasonable behaviour.

This scares people away from the community - justifiably, because it's #aggressive, #unsolicited, unwanted criticism.

This happens in other spheres, too. As a Free Software author, I sometimes get email from people demanding I implement a feature or change a behaviour to suit their preferences.

Please don't be like this.

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Mark

French maritime patrol aircraft was target of Russian intimidation

Plane was patrolling in international airspace when S400 ground-to-air defence made a radar lock

"This #aggressive #Russian action is unacceptable,"

#French aircraft was on a #NATO observation mission off #Sweden, monitoring vessels in effort to keep an eye on suspect ships

We continue to defend freedom of navigation in international air/maritime areas

reuters.com/world/europe/frenc

#RussianAggression#HybridWar#Baltic
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DoomsdaysCW

#Italy: Wasp altered by #ClimateChange destroying #beehives

#VespaOrientalis has wrecked 40,000 beehives in three regions

"An Italian wasp which has turned into a more aggressive alien species due to climate change is wreaking havoc among Italian beehives, green farming officials told ANSA Tuesday.

"The Vespa Orientalis hornet has become just the latest of threats to bees, whose declining numbers are jeopardising agriculture worldwide, said Laura Bortolotti, lead researcher of the Crea AA - Agriculture Environment think tank.

"The hornet has recently destroyed some 40,000 beehives in #Lazio, #Campania and #Molise officials said.

"'Despite being a native species in Italy, the Vespa Orientalis is behaving as if it were an alien species; its behavior towards bees has changed in a few years, becoming increasingly #aggressive, also due to climate change which, in some way, has altered the environmental balance', Bortolotti told ANSA.

"Vespa Orientalis is also an increasing threat to public health in urban areas, they said."

Source:
ansa.it/english/news/2025/01/1
#Ecosystems #Europe #ClimateCrisis #Honeybees

Agenzia ANSA · Wasp made alien by climate change destroying beehives - TopNews - Ansa.itAn Italian wasp which has turned into a more aggressive alien species due to climate change is wreaking havoc among Italian beehives, green farming officials told ANSA Tuesday. (ANSA)
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Chuck Darwin

The Trump campaign’s male-dominated culture is losing women votes

Soon after Donald Trump’s campaign team took over the Republican National Committee earlier this year, a senior Trump aide was asked
❓how to combat news stories that the campaign had an insufficient get-out-the-vote operation.❓

🔥“We are going to beat the reporters into retardation!”
shouted #James #Blair,
⚠️one of the two men now leading the operation, on a call with other advisers,
according to two people with direct knowledge of the conversation.


💥Such #pugnacity has come to define much of the tone and image of Trump’s 2024 campaign,
reflecting the personalities of many of the men leading it as well as the candidate.

❌Trump has long valued being viewed as an alpha male who never apologizes or shows weakness.

In many ways, that campaign culture mirrors some of its strategies.

Trump and his advisers are calculating that, at a time when polls show voters dissatisfied with the direction of the country, and with turmoil abroad revealing the limitations of America’s global influence,
they can win the White House by projecting a particular kind of strength
— with a distinctly #aggressive vibe not seen in presidential campaigns before

washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Is the Trump campaign’s male-dominated culture losing women votes? By Isaac Arnsdorf
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Chuck Darwin

#Leonard #Leo, the conservative activist with an estimated
💥 $1 billion at his disposal,
is threatening to withhold money from the dozens of groups he supports 👉 unless they develop plans to "weaponize" their ideas.

Why it matters:

Leo's call for conservative groups to get #more #aggressive will send shockwaves through the right-wing ecosystem he helped create.

Leo wants less conversation and more action
— fewer seminars and more campaigns
— as part of a plan to
♦️"crush liberal dominance at the choke points of influence and power in our society,"
he told the groups in a letter obtained by Axios.

The goal should be to direct "funding🔸 to operationalize or weaponize the conservative vision," Leo wrote.

Zoom in:

Leo, 59, is telling organizations backed by his #85Fund that he's undertaking a
"comprehensive review" of his grant-making process.

His letter doesn't mention any specific groups by name, but they know who they are.

Groups such as Teneo,
Honest Elections Project,
Consumers's Research and
Do No Harm
are examples of organizations that have adopted
the kind of #aggressive #tactics Leo encourages, according to a source close to the 85 Fund.

Those groups have run campaigns that have achieved measurable results, such as
Consumers' Research's work on ESG investing,
which has been featured in congressional hearings.

Decisions about future funding will be shared with the groups by the end of November, Leo's letter said.

Zoom out:

Leo helped build the #Federalist #Society, an organization for conservative law students,
into an incubator for lawyers and judges that reshape the federal judiciary and American society.

He helped former President Trump select three conservative jurists for the Supreme Court
— Neil #Gorsuch, Brett #Kavanaugh and Amy Coney #Barrett.
They've transformed federal law on issues ranging from #abortion #rights (overturning Roe v. Wade) to #federal #rule-#making.

In 2022, the New York Times revealedhow a nonprofit Leo controls,
the #Marble #Freedom #Trust, received a ⭐️$1.6 billion contribution from a conservative donor, #Barre #Seid,
who gifted the shares of the company he founded before they were sold.

Leo has an estimated
⭐️$1 billion left to spend,
according to the Financial Times.

Leo, who is credited with the initial $1.6 billion windfall to Marble Freedom Trust, has been responsible for raising donations and support for the 85 Fund.

Between the lines:

Behind Leo's new push is his admiration for what he views as successes of progressive nonprofit groups
such as The #Wyss #Foundation and the
#Berger #Action #Fund,
supported by #Hansjörg #Wyss.

Leo is also convinced that liberal organizations and ideas have captured most influential institutions in government,
media, entertainment and academia.

"They invested in talent pipelines to populate the power centers inside government,
where policy would be implemented,"
Leo writes.

"They incubated litigation as a means of leveraging the law to produce change."

The other side:

As Leo's prominence and influence have increased,
his methods and his conservative network have drawn scrutiny
— and provoked outrage
— in progressive circles.

axios.com/2024/09/12/leonard-l

Axios · Scoop: Activist Leonard Leo pushes to "weaponize" conservativesBy Hans Nichols
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