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Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2 Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine

Weird how all of these young far right guys think Hitler should have won the war

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.

Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.

Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Stripe says it’s accepting payments for LGBTQ content
JVA site starts working with Visa again
Mastercard reportedly panicking and making Riot moderate messages

The tide is turning
We are going to win this
Keep calling
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You can do this

American Nazis: The Aryan Freedom Network is riding high in Trump era With Donald Trump’s return to power, a neo-Nazi group buoyed by his rhetoric is expanding its reach and changing the face of white extremism in America. Its leaders: a Texas couple, both born to Ku Klux Klan leaders.

Wow guys what was your first clue

The head of the BLS does not make policy; they count the numbers. A new official cannot adopt a new strategy to save Trump from his economic policies. Their only options are to count the numbers honestly, or not. We should start to become really worried if the process for collecting jobs estimates starts to be tampered with.

Trump firing the BLS Commissioner makes even less sense than for other positions becaue *these are not policymaking positions.*
Their only role is to ensure the integrity of data collection processes. A replacement can only fix Trump’s problems by fixing thr data. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

i remember being like …13? and taking some early and probably horrible stabs at flirting with a girl and she was like “ew, buzz off” which obviously sucked but was also valuable intel and since i had no jordan peterson to tell me that she was at fault actually, i just had to refine my own technique.

there is a part of "the left" that talks a lot about getting laid but unfortunately it's this kind of person www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTsd...

The APA put out a guidelines report on men and boys that was compassionate, kind, linked to tons of research from people who study and work with men and boys, and it was absolutely sabotaged by the right. Every social scientist who tries to speak on these topics is attacked, constantly

This video spread across platforms falsely claims to show a massive crowd greeting US President Donald Trump as he visited Scotland in July 2025.

In reality, the footage comes from a Courteeners performance at a 2016 music festival. u.afp.com/SgDz

age verification? my first show was nine inch nails with the jim rose circus sideshow opening at the boston garden

a graph of US pharma imports by country, which are $175B/yr from the EU

Underreported trade news of the day is that Trump announced that the 15% tariffs on the EU would include pharmaceuticals that have thus far been exempt from tariffs

If tariffs on pharma go up 15% this week it'd be a *massive* escalation of the trade war—the US imports $175B/yr of them from the EU

Bright Futures STEM has just crossed by radar. It's a STEM program for grade 5-6s sponsored by a swag of fossil fuel companies and the program seems to have run in 100s of schools.

I hate this, and I'm hoping it's defunct. Does anyone know if it's still running?

www.brightfuturestem.com.au

This Group Takes Responsibility For Steam's Payment Processor Censorship Policies — They Just Implied 'Pervert Nerds' Cause Society's Problems A little-known group claims it's focusing on 81 more Steam titles for removal, arguing the games feature inappropriate content.

I dug into Collective Shout, the organization taking responsibility for Steam's new payment processor-spurred guidelines. The group vows to target over 80 more games

Some of its claims on Steam's content seem far-fetched, however

www.vice.com/en/article/t...

Against Cheering A “Chinese Century” The “American Century” sacrificed millions of people, built a comically unequal world, and planted the political seeds of its own destruction. We should not expect a Chinese version to be any better.

The “American Century” sacrificed millions of people, built a comically unequal world, and planted the political seeds of its own destruction. We should not expect a Chinese version to be any better. www.un-diplomatic.com/p/against-ch...

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale announced today that, “The Abundance Institute, in partnership with Stand Together, is raising $4M to place a strike team of 15-20 AI-native software engineers, data scientists, & product leaders inside the FDA…” 7/7/25 1/ blog.joelonsdale.com/p/engineerin...

DHS used anonymous pro-Israel site to target activists for deportation, agency says in court DHS said at a trial Wednesday that it used a list from the site, which has been accused of doxxing people whom it sees as being anti-Israel and antisemitic.

A senior DHS official said today in court that "It’s true, many of the names, or even most of the names" of pro-Palestinian college students and scholars targeted for visa revocation came from the Canary Mission website www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

*ahem* there is an actual point to be had here and maybe some of yall can wake your people up to it

“anti cancel culture” media always leads exactly here because THERE IS AN ACTUAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL FUNCTION TO SOCIAL SHAME, IT MODERATELY SUPPRESSES THE ABILITY TO ORGANIZE HUMANS INTO FASCIST MOBS

My dad taught me most of what I know about politics, yet I didn’t believe him when he said that the anti-abortion movement was just a stalking horse for white supremacist eugenics.
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Ok Dad you’re right, I’m sorry

Its so funny because yes entirely true, but also the tip of the iceberg in terms of how complex inter ethnic dynamics are for south asian communities.

i find that writing decision so grievously annoying lol. any outlet that writes "_____, who uses ---/--- pronouns" for any trans or gender non conforming person mentioned should also make that distinction for everybody ever. i wanna see John Fetterman, who uses he/him pronouns,

Basically leftists are walking tolerance paradoxes, saying everyone should accept bigotry that comes disguised under the guise of “culture”. The way I heard it, Iranian feminists are fine with protecting culture but they’d like their rights first and then they’d like to keep those rights.

She breaks down leftist to a T.

Wake up call for Europe

Europe:

“The Mobile Fortify App empowers users with real-time biometric identity verification capabilities utilizing contactless fingerprints and facial images captured by the camera on an ICE issued cell phone” one of the emails sent to all Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) personnel reads.

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

🇮🇷 Iran moved much of its enriched uranium from Fordow before the U.S. strikes, EU capitals believe—casting doubt on Trump’s claim the nuclear program was "obliterated." Early intel shows damage was extensive but not total.

Commission unveils Roadmap for lawful and effective access to data for law enforcement - EU Law Live The European Commission has presented a Roadmap to enhance lawful and effective access to data for law enforcement across the EU. This initiative is part of ProtectEU, the EU’s …

Commission unveils Roadmap for lawful and effective access to data for law enforcement