The news gets more sordid by the hour. Blowback is certain. Anyone with a shred of respect for human dignity is horrified.
If we were a sensible species, we'd see our climate falling apart and ask: Cripes, maybe it's time to figure out how to behave ourselves after all these centuries of nastiness?
Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026
Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.
STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
It looks like the US used Anthropic's Claude AI to strike the girls' school in southern Iran, killing 168 open.substack.com/pub/councile...
`Werder Bremen, one of the founding members of the Bundesliga, said playing in the city “does not fit with our values” in light of two federal law enforcement shootings last month.'
On Sundays, in Florida. Free bus from Ft. Myers/Naples.
Who will investigate the investigators?
Thank you.
Axon: AI, surveillance, and the social-control economy
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`The arrest took place this morning on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s 66th birthday, meaning he has lived 25 years longer than his rape victim, Virginia Giuffre.`
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This is well put. So *many* technologies are joyous and progressive. The web was invented in a PUBLICLY FUNDED UNIVERSITY! It is, in fact, an aberration that the fascist VCs think they're the default with their approach to tech. They were only ever supposed to be a tiny fraction of the ecosystem.
`Ask yourself why the Israeli consulate would be using a property managed by a sex trafficker and owned by his brother that was attended by underage models to house a former prime minister. Take all the time you need.'
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/here-is-th...
Despite scoring an initial zoning victory, CoreCivic argued before the Kansas Court of Appeals that it should be allowed to open an ICE detention center in Leavenworth without local approval.
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
(next to a photo of comedian Ron Funches) “You said we had no money for teachers, but they can pay fucking ICE agents six figures?"
I love the torture video. From Sulayem to Epstein.
Instead of investigating the "torture video" the DOJ investigated Pramila Jayapal?
Minneapolis estimates 76,200 residents are now experiencing food insecurity because of the federal immigration operation.
The city also estimates a negative economic impact of at least $203 million.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
There are low-melanin people in the margins here, too.
When you build a farming system around two food items, both enormously carbon intensive and destructive to the environment, you also make yourself vulnerable to market fluctuations.
It's a system that doesn't work for anyone, bar a few wealthy men and women at the top.
`We urge football fans to avoid World Cup matches in the US not only as a political statement, but for your own personal safety.'
Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.
Unidos somos América.
A life well lived. The three rules of #journalism are excellent.
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![US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe
State department grants to spread 'American values' are part of Washington's 250th anniversary celebrations
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US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe State department grants to spread 'American values' are part of Washington's 250th anniversary celebrations [Picture of Ms. Sarah Rogers] Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to London, Paris, Rome and Milan last year as part of what was dubbed her 'freedom of speech tour' © US Senate Department
MAGAthink (even worse for regular people than the usual mainstream media think pieces.)
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/tributes-p...
Ending the use of a particular type of cage is not the same as ending confinement.
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Another angle
What we wished for was more south-south discussions. All we ever hear is a constant north-north warring babble. They’ve always been melodramatic even after extracting resources, plundering & murdering. They’re still holding the majority world to ransom. It’s the permanent calcified world order.
Euro-US colonial brokering. We all thought Denmark had signed 'wide-ranging autonomy' for Greenland and the Indigenous peoples of Greenland in 2009.
Nah, they'd rather underwrite US takeover of 'small pockets of land' which were never theirs to begin with. Why not relinquish Copenhagen? All of it.
Elon Musk is a white supremacist. Case closed.
