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⚔️ARMED FORCES COMMANDER PREPS OFFENSIVE, TRUMP – SANCTIONS:UAE talks. New stage of the war in 2026: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/24/armed-forces-commander-preps-offensive.html

Gen Zers have taken on their governments. From around the world, they tell us why. - CSMonitor.com https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2025/1124/Gen-Zers-have-taken-on-their-governments.-From-around-the-world-they-tell-us-why

Gen Zers have taken on their governments. From around the world, they tell us why.
From Nepal to Peru and from Madagascar to Morocco, Generation Z-led protests have rocked governments. The revolution has brushstrokes of youth, from the use of a gaming platform to organize it to a ubiquitous symbol – a Jolly Roger flag. Perhaps most extraordinary about the Gen Z protests: their interconnection. A global generation has spawned a global movement.

Sources: Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe for around $1B; Observe has raised more than $470M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/snowflake-talks-buy-app-monitoring-startup-observe…

Snowflake in Talks to Buy App Monitoring Startup Observe Inc. For Around $1 Billion
Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe Inc. for around $1 billion, which would likely be the biggest deal in Snowflake’s history, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. Observe, based in San Mateo, Calif., sells so-called observability tools that help ...

"Classifying the Ways LLMs Summarise in Academic Search" https://aarontay.substack.com/p/classifying-the-ways-llms-summarise

Hundreds of clergy from around the country gathered in Minneapolis to learn from Minnesota faith leaders how to protest against ICE enforcement.
Then they took to the streets and helped block the city's airport.
Religion News Service was one of only three outlets given access to the conference,
which was largely organized by the local religious advocacy group
"Multifaith Antiracism, Change and Healing", known as

Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE
(RNS)— Hundreds of clergy from around the country gathered in Minneapolis to learn from Minnesota faith leaders how to protest against ICE enforcement. Then they took to the streets and helped block the city's airport.

Two hospitalized after ICE agent ‘shot at person who tried to run him over’ in Maryland neighborhood | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/ice-shooting-maryland-anne-arundel-b2890305.html

The paradox of Nazism being both the most capitalist thing possible, defining itself as explicitly anticommunist, while masquerading as "socialism" is difficult to resolve until you understand one thing: fascism pivots around antisemitism (and its extension, conspiratorial thinking).
I'm, of course, not talking about the redefinition of "antisemitism" into meaning any criticism of Israel but rather an anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative rooted in Roman Christianity.
This is critical to understand as MAGA fascism pivots between capitalist and pseudo-anticapitalist with Trump in the middle. Hitler did the same thing. Strasserism helped the Nazis gain power by pulling in the Left. In the Nazis case they killed the Stasserists pretty quickly. Now, I think we're seeing an attempt to make the opposite pivot happen in MAGA. But it's all the same thing.
Fascism can infinitely fail to address the needs of the people while dismissing it's own responsibility for creating the problem by maintaining a permanent enemy.
This is why it's important to understand antisemitism and how to fight it. It's especially important now because the apparatus of violence in Israel is itself a tool of global fascism, and we finally have an opportunity to dismantle the whole thing. But we have to be aware of how fascists can pivot around to block this.
I've been reading Safety Through Solidarity, and I think it's especially relevant at this time.
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html

¡Atención! Jarvis Cocker y compañía han liberado una nueva canción. Se trata de un cover de un clšsico de Johnny Cash «The Man Comes Around». ¡Me encanta que anden así de activos los Pulp!
https://album.link/s/3Dnjc7dbVYRoqy16L5yoE7

I post a lot here and on Maker Forums Discourse, and have kind of not gotten around to blogging for a while. But today I had time to reflect on my first full year of #HamRadio — this new hobby has surprised me in a lot of (good) ways.

🔥The Armed Forces of Ukraine control the north of Pokrovsk and eliminate the enemy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/the-armed-forces-of-ukraine.html