@jake4480@c.imSnagged this cool Neil box set at thrift the other day. Missing a disc but I couldn't leave it behind. Too damn cool. It has disc 1 and 2, which really has all the good stuff on them anyway.
#NeilDiamond #PhysicalMedia #BoxSets
@aral@mastodon.ar.alGuess what you anonymous coward, “both sides”-ing a genocide is genocide denial.
And genocide denial is complicity in genocide.
Blocked right back, asshole.
(His post was in reply to https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115065419489536063)
@…
@scott@carfree.cityI’m stopping in for a quick bite at Nixta Foods, the plant-based popup in Radio Habana Social Club, whose parklet blew over in the wind Thursday. With or without the parklet their vegan tamales are amazing.
@noellabo@fedibird.comおはようございます。
写真は、ほっといたら、私の足の先にもたれかかってくつろぎはじめた茶々です。
#chacha_cat #cat
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.usFinally took the time VACUUM FULL all my #PostgreSQL #databases and empty a runaway table. Dropped from ~90% diskusage to ~25% and a hell of a lot less CPU
@cdarwin@c.imI am now heading to Shreveport, Louisiana, the home of Speaker Mike Johnson.
He is the architect of Trump's "big beautiful bill," the most destructive piece of legislation in modern history.
And his constituents need to know that.
@BernieSanders
@muz4now@mastodon.worldSummer wildflower garden
#summer #garden #wildflowers
@seemannsmission@c.imReichlich Schiffs…. Äh Bootsverkehr auf der Gracht vor dem Guesthouse Keizersgracht der Deutschen Seemannsmission Amsterdam (aus dem Aufenthaltsraum gesehen).
Wenn ihr nach Amsterdam kommt: mit Glück ist ein Zimmer in dem kleinen Haus frei. Bucht rechtzeitig.
#Amsterdam #Seemannsmission
@prachisrivas@masto.ai
@lilmikesf@c.imOverall #Irish exports fall by 43% in April compared to March, with shipment volume to #USA drastically down by 62%...but one bright spot from Emerald Isle data is insatiable demand from chubbies chasing #DietPills in states, where despi…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alCan all German genocide deniers please get the fuck out of my mentions.
Genocide denial is the last and final stage of genocide and constitutes complicity in genocide.
Matze Schmidt, you are complicit in genocide.
And history is taking notes.
https://masto.ai/@matzeschmidt/1150655
@noellabo@fedibird.com#fedibird #fedibird_info さきほど『お知らせ』に、フィッシング詐欺の投稿への注意喚起とともに、『お知らせ』の確認できる環境を確保しておくようお願いする内容を流しました。（添付画像の内容です）
信頼できる情報が必要な時は、Mastodon系のサーバでは、お知らせを確認してください。
ここは、サーバの管理者だけが情報を流せる場所で、偽装が困難です。
本当に重要な内容であれば、こちらでもアナウンスするようにしますので、ニセの情報に騙されないよう注意してください。
@scott@carfree.cityThe best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The worst time was 10 years ago
@jake4480@c.imCD inserts ftw. I already have an old copy of this, of course, since it's my favorite album, but I found this MINTY CD copy of Too High to Die at thrift the other day, and as a rule, I had to grab it.
#MeatPuppets #90s #90sRock
@noellabo@fedibird.com @cdarwin@c.imParents sending their kids to live without them for the first time grapple with the question:
Does love mean buying a $469 mattress topper?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2025/08/19/luxury-dorm-decorating/
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThis? Oh, it’s just GoFundMe preventing people who are being starved by Israel in Gaza from raising money to buy food to live.
The scale of this inhumanity and injustice will haunt us forever. https://mastodon.social/@daliamohisen/115060399174567486
@scott@carfree.city49 bus on Mission full of people held up by single Waymo double-parking to drop off one person. Sign the petition to stop Daniel Lurie from bringing this "innovation" to Market Street: https://keepmarketstmoving.org/sign-the-petition
@jake4480@c.imNetflix suggestion algorithm, ya done me wrong
@noellabo@fedibird.comやまこさんの熱い思いにお応えするべく、菓子パン情報を提供しましょう。
先日ローソンで買った『プリン風パンケーキ』です。
何がプリン風なのかなと思ったら、あの甘いカラメル部分が再現されているんですね。
おいしいけど、まぁまぁかな！ @…
#パン部
@aral@mastodon.ar.alPeople are starving in Gaza, you fucks. Talk about not having taste. Read the fucking room. https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115059906348542852
@cdarwin@c.imJohn Deere has been hit hard by Donald Trump’s tariffs. The farm equipment manufacturer and industry bellwether just announced ⭐️mass layoffs affecting more than 200 workers at three Midwestern plants.
The company is set to fire 115 employees at a facility in East Moline, Illinois, later this month, according to the Des Moines Register.
Next month, 52 workers at a facility in Moline, Illinois, and 71 employees at a facility in Waterloo, Iowa, will also reportedly be terminated
@scott@carfree.city“What destroys the poetry of a city? Automobiles destroy it,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti said, but ban cars and the poetry comes back!
#sundayStreets #SundayStreetsSF #SundayStreetsMission
@jake4480@c.imYou can trust him.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWhat is Hasbara? Learn about Israel’s “Ministry of Truth.”
#hasbara
@cdarwin@c.imThe far right is surging in the United States,
driven in part by white nationalists exploiting economic anxieties
and a populace increasingly frustrated with the political status quo.
Now, as the Trump administration rolls back diversity, equity and inclusion policies,
cracks down on immigration and offers pardons to white supremacists,
some see an opening.
In creating their community, the founders of "Return to the Land" are challenging anti-d…
@scott@carfree.citybought a new shovel to dig car culture’s grave
@jake4480@c.imNo such animal 😂
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“We kissed Trump’s ass and kowtowed to a fascist.” https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115067151811326127
@cdarwin@c.imThis is comparable to the rise of totalitarian regimes in the 1920s and 1930s,
when Mussolini said even a teacher of mathematics must be a fascist.
Now all who do not take positions on American politics, policies and history that comply with the administration’s views
are in danger of being denied funding, subjected to lawsuits, and derided by the White House in ways that can inspire violent private attacks.
All this has precedents, but not in America’s peacetime hist…
@jake4480@c.imCrazy Taxi on my phone. What a world 😍
@aral@mastodon.ar.alNot an assault. Genocide.
One that the UK – for which the BBC is the propaganda channel – is complicit in.
#israel
@jake4480@c.imLocal craft store had tiny coffins
@aral@mastodon.ar.alPuy Netanyahu, it is hard to convince people that genocide is kosher. https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/115068506887487160
@cdarwin@c.imHundreds of employees at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
have signed an open letter,
directed to Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy,
criticizing proposed cuts to the agency
and condemning recent policies that could potentially harm the U.S.
The letter, titled
“The Voyager Declaration”
in honor of two spacecraft that were launched by NASA in the 1970s
(that continue to zoom beyond the boundaries of t…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe 35-day old baby who starved to death in Gaza was clearly a Hamas terrorist. Anyone who says otherwise is antisemitic.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/19/weeks-old-baby-dies-of-starvation-in-gaza-hospital-amid-ongoing…
@jake4480@c.imSaturdays are for Cosmo's and SVU, apparently. This is the furthest I've ever gotten in Cosmo's and now I'm a little stuck, gotta look up a walkthrough 😂
#CosmosCosmicAdventure #Steam #SteamGames
@cdarwin@c.imChina wants foreign businesses to invest more in the country -- but recent actions taken against foreign executives are sending a chill.
⭐️Chinese authorities have blocked a U.S.-based Wells Fargo banker from returning home,
⭐️and separately sentenced a Japanese executive to more than three years’ imprisonment for espionage.
Though few details of the cases have been made known, they are a reminder of China’s expansive security apparatus
and what to some executives, bu…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🥳 New Kitten Release
• Improved Markdown parser
Kitten’s JavaScript tagged template strings (`kitten.html`) no longer fail to render as expected when interpolated values are used inside of Markdown where the Markdown render changes source order.
So, for example, the following will now work correctly, whereas, previously, the link source and link text would have been erroneously flipped:
kitten.html`
<markdown>
[${linkText}](${linkSource})
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@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump wants to make it illegal to criticize him. He is trying to end freedom of speech.
That’s the best way to understand or explain what’s happening here. It’s a gradual process, but this is how it starts.
-- Max Berger
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/stephen-c
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe AI equivalent of your starship exploding at the launchpad. https://tldr.nettime.org/@festal/114721637610323807
@aral@mastodon.ar.alLook at how Trump’s fascist government treats a journalist asking questions about israel’s Hannibal Directive and its illegal nuclear weapons.
Oh, sorry, I meant Biden’s.
Lesser of two evils and all that, I guess.
https://www.newsweek.com/s…
@cdarwin@c.imThe number of undocumented people held in immigration jails has exploded under Donald Trump’s brutal crackdown.
Despite polls showing growing public disgust with viral videos of heavily armed officers making violent arrests,
the administration is doubling down on policies aimed at filling immigration jails and detention camps with up to 100,000 people at any given time
— a massive expansion from the current incarcerating capacity of 41,500 people.
Along with tax brea…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alZuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff*: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mark-zuckerberg-meta-nickname-trump-b2774168.html
@cdarwin@c.imWe just put up billboards demanding an explanation on why our MAGA opponent voted to hide the list. -- Yes, that list.
It's Esther Kim Varet:
I promised you a Democrat who's a fighter, and who demands accountability,
because that is the only way we win California's most flippable congressional district.
We are not letting Young Kim get away with 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 between now and election day,
because we know the voters WILL remove her.
I'm not let…
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is preparing to
💥shut down seven major investigations and cases concerning alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including
⚠️ some where the agency already found civil rights violations, according to HUD records obtained by ProPublica.
The high-profile cases involve allegations that state and local governments across the South and Midwest illegally discriminated against people of color
by placing industrial…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration on Thursday said it will restrict waivers that have allowed states to keep kids enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program beyond the 12-month period of continuous coverage required under federal law.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), led by Mehmet Oz, announced the move on Thursday, saying that it has informed states of a “clear shift away from policies that extend beyond statutory limits,”
specifically restricting…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alI don’t understand why we must spend billions of dollars and waste so much water for AI.
I just created an “AI-generated image” from the original using a few dabs of the retouch tool in the Photos app.
Might have taken a sip of water afterwards but that was it.
(Is there a word/phrase for taking a regular image and making it look like it was AI generated? There should be.)
@cdarwin@c.imICE raids of farms are a cruel reminder that the U.S. has long devalued immigrant labor
-- while also being wholly incapable of surviving without it
https://prismreports.org/2025/07/16/our-country-doesnt-value-the-farmworkers-who-help-su…
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imAt a time when strategists across Wall Street are dialing back their recession probabilities, Peter Berezin of BCA Research is doubling down.
President Donald Trump's 90-day tariff pause was enough to ease the worries of some investors,
but the chief global strategist at BCA has maintained his bearish outlook.
While Berezin has lowered his recession outlook from Liberation Day levels,
he still expects an economic slowdown to unfold this year.
"I've …
@cdarwin@c.imWhile the rare earth market is dominated by China, Canada also has some of the largest reserves in the world.
But new rare earth mining projects have to balance the need for these materials with the environmental impacts that mining has on the land.
Instead of starting from scratch, the University of Alberta and Calgary-based CVW CleanTech are trying to mine these valuable substances from tailings, a waste product of open-pit oilsands mining.
Previously known as Titanium …
@cdarwin@c.imOur results confirm persistent gender disparities:
women are more frequently acknowledged than credited as co-authors, especially in roles involving investigation and analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15237
@cdarwin@c.imCanadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/06/canadians-travelling-to-the-us-advised-to-not-fucking-do-that/
@cdarwin@c.im"Putin is afraid to admit how many [Russian] people have died. Because if the moment comes when he needs to mobilize, his society will be afraid," Zelensky said.
Ukrainian authorities have confirmed that at least 20 of the bodies Russia returned as Ukrainian were actually Russian soldiers.
"Sometimes these bodies even have Russian passports," Zelensky said.
He also cited the case of a deceased Israeli citizen fighting on Russia's side, whom Moscow had …
@cdarwin@c.imUkraine announced on June 13 that its short-range Sapsan ballistic missile would go into mass production
-- a major development in Kyiv's ongoing efforts to domestically produce the weapons it needs to fight Russia's full-scale invasion.
As Ukraine faces growing challenges in securing weapons from Western partners, and Russia continues launching drone and missile strikes on civilians, the development of Ukraine’s missile production is seen as a critical step toward strength…
@cdarwin@c.imRussia is systematically recruiting migrant workers from Central Asia to fight in its war against Ukraine as "cannon fodder".
Citizens of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and other countries in the region are increasingly being drawn into Russia's war effort under duress or with misleading promises, HUR said.
Many of those recruited are reportedly killed on the front lines.
According to HUR, Russia's security servicestarget migrant workers who arrive in the country …
@cdarwin@c.imMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s recent public support for Donald Trump did not come as a shock to those who know or have closely worked with him.
Dozens of people who have either worked with or known Zuckerberg told the Financial Times that the CEO’s more public shift toward Trump is just Zuckerberg displaying the more “authentic” version of himself to the world,
even though he was once known to support liberal ideology and voiced opposition to Trump’s policies during the first admini…
@cdarwin@c.im“In the US, we have a set of electoral and legislative institutions that drive us toward only having two parties,”
Mark Copelovitch told us.
“That allowed the 20 to 25 percent of people that support the far right to basically take over one of the two parties,
and everything in our system is weighted towards the Republican constituency
— the Supreme Court, the gerrymandered House, the way the Senate is apportioned.
All of these things basically bias the electo…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump just won a temporary victory in court allowing his use of troops in Los Angeles.
His unhinged reaction to it reveals the true depths of his malevolent intentions toward... well, us
https://newrepublic.com/article/197074/trump-threat-unleash-t…
@cdarwin@c.imDemocrats have an age problem
House Republicans managed to pass their draconian budget bill,
-- which promises to make massive cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and food assistance,
-- early Thursday morning by a narrow one-vote margin
💥that was only possible due the deaths of three Democrats in this current Congress.
The latest Democrat to pass away was 75-year-old Representative Gerry Connolly of Virginia, who died on Wednesday after battling esophageal cancer.
@cdarwin@c.imPreston Damsky is a law student at the University of Florida.
He is also a white nationalist and antisemite.
Last fall, he took a seminar taught by a federal judge on “originalism,”
the legal theory favored by many conservatives that seeks to interpret the Constitution based on its meaning when it was adopted.
In his capstone paper for the class, Mr. Damsky argued that the framers had intended for the phrase “We the People,” in the Constitution’s preamble, to refer exc…
@cdarwin@c.imAdministration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines
Doctors and advocates worry the move is a first step toward ending federal guidance for HIV treatment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/06/21/hiv-aids-rfk-guidelines-n…
@cdarwin@c.imOne under-scrutinized federal agency has been crucial to the Trump administration's effort to detain and deport noncitizens who protested Israel’s war in Gaza (many of them students who are in the U.S. on visas or green cards):
Homeland Security Investigations
-- the investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (which markets itself as an elite force that targets human traffickers, drug smugglers, and war criminals).
As it built dossiers on Khalil and o…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump undermines Watergate laws in massive shift of ethics system
Then-Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman was 32 when, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, she voted in 1974 for three articles of impeachment against President Richard M. Nixon.
She spent the next few years as part of a Congress that passed wave after wave of laws to rein in future presidents.
A half-century later, Holtzman, a New York Democrat, is watching as Donald Trump takes aim at post-Watergate reforms …
@cdarwin@c.imIran vowed swift retaliation Saturday following the U.S. military’s strikes on the Iranian nuclear program.
“Every American citizen or military personnel in the region is now a target,” a commentator on Iranian state media said.
Al-Asad Air Base, an Iraqi installation 150 miles west of Baghdad that is operated jointly by the Iraqi and U.S. air forces, houses thousands of American troops,
the largest U.S. deployment in the country.
Iran and its proxies have in recent…
@cdarwin@c.imSen. Padilla claps back after JD Vance calls him ‘Jose’:
‘ He knows my name'
Sen. Alex Padilla blasted the Trump administration Saturday,
-- calling it “petty and unserious”
after Vice President JD Vance referred to him as “Jose” during a news conference in Los Angeles the previous day.
“He knows my name,” Padilla said in an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning.
Vance visited Los Angeles on Friday for less than five hours
after several weeks o…
@cdarwin@c.imIt's Esther Kim Varet,
Democrat running to flip blue California's closest Republican held seat.
We know the Republicans are scared of my brand of leadership, because they've already started attacking me online.
This week my opponent announced that she wants to work with Trump to sell federal parks to pay for tax cuts for their friends.
It's unacceptable.
My opponent is powered by billionaires,
but I'm powered by you.
Can you …
@cdarwin@c.imTrump is upset that in the lower courts his administration has lost 96 percent of the time so far, accordingto one analysis.
The president’s apologists have asserted that this shows that the courts are biased against Trump.
In reality it is the law that is biased against actions that defy the web of statutes, regulations, rules, contracts, and case law that have long been part of our legal system.
Trump has even suggested that he may not be bound by the oath he swore on …
@cdarwin@c.imA Reuters/Ipsos poll releasedThursday found that
🔥62 percent of self-identified Democrats said that the party should replace Democrats with new leaders,
with only 24 percent disagreeing with that statement.
A plurality of respondents, at 49 percent, said that they’re unsatisfied with current leaders.
The survey included over 4,200 respondents, including 1,293 Democrats, and was conducted earlier this month
@cdarwin@c.imSheltering in a Bunker, Iran’s Supreme Leader Names Potential Successors
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not only picked replacements in his chain of military command in case they are killed in Israeli strikes,
he has also named three senior clerics to replace him should he, too, be slain.
Ayatollah Khamenei, 86, is aware that either Israel or the United States could try to assassinate him,
an end he would view as martyrdom, the officials said.
Given the possibility…
@cdarwin@c.imTell Your Senators: No War With Iran
https://act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran-war-senate?source=bluesky&medium=directpost
@cdarwin@c.imToday, power speaks in the seductive language of images laced with bigotry, seeded with cruelty, and driven by the logic of exclusion and ethnic cleansing.
Culture is no longer merely a reflection of the past;
it has become its erasure.
It functions as pedagogy — through what Ariella Aïsha Azoulay names as “imperial technologies,” and what I have called “disimagination machines.”
It is designed to strip the colonized not only of their futures but of their historie…
@cdarwin@c.imLeo Varadkar, who stood down as taoiseach in April 2024,
said he did not think a date should be fixed for an Irish unity referendum
as nationalists did not yet have the numbers to win.
But he said planning for a united Ireland should take place.
"I don't think a united Ireland is inevitable, I think it's something that we have to work towards," he said.
"But I think there are a lot of factors that would suggest that we're on that traje…
@cdarwin@c.imAs the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt has done little to uphold his organization’s claims to fight antisemitism
as the “leading anti-hate organization in the world.”
Instead, he’s shored up the ADL’s role as little more than a fierce pro-Israel lobby group known for defending Israel by attacking its critics.
With no sense of irony, much of this effort manifests as defamatory speech
— at least in the everyday, if not the legal, sense
— by…
@cdarwin@c.imHarvard Divinity School broke precedent
by refusing to publish a video of its commencement speech
after a speaker went off-script to call attention to the perilous conditions in Gaza.
“There are no safe zones left in Gaza after 600 days and 77 years of genocide,” said Zehra Imam,
who graduated from the Harvard Divinity School this spring and participated in the embattled Religion and Public Life program.
Imam, who is Muslim, was speaking with two other students f…
@cdarwin@c.imThe authoritarian dream is rooted in the belief that state violence should serve as the primary tool of governance.
When the guardrails of democracy are dismantled, violence shifts from being a last resort to a governing principle.
This is precisely what unfolded in Los Angeles, where Trump deployed the National Guard and Marines to crush protests against his mass deportation policies,
while mobilizing ICE as a modern-day Gestapo.
What cannot be ignored is that the…
@cdarwin@c.imWhen Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536),
the youngest child of the newly dominant Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella.,
was 3, her parents contracted her to marry Arthur, Prince of Wales, the heir to the Tudor king Henry VII in order to strengthen Spain's alliances,
since Henry's kingdom was a longstanding trade partner and an enemy of Spain's greatest enemy, France.
For the next decade Catherine had the best humanist education available,
preparing h…
@cdarwin@c.imICE issued new rules for Congress members visiting detention centers.
Experts say they’re illegal
Rep. Norma Torres (D-Pomona) and three other members of Congress were denied entry to the immigrant detention facility inside the Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles
The lawmakers were attempting an unannounced inspection,
a common and long-standing practice under congressional oversight powers.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said too many prot…
@cdarwin@c.imThe idea that Trump or MAGA is in any sense “anti-war” is something between an absurdity and a misunderstanding.
At one level it’s a simple fraud.
Trump claimed he’d always been against the Iraq War at a time when the U.S. had been bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan for years.
It was a helpful attack line and it was completely false.
Trump wasn’t in politics in 2002 or 2003 and to the extent he said anything, like a lot of people, he was for it when it was popular an…
@cdarwin@c.imIdaho pastor Douglas Wilson can be provocative.
He once wrote that “slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races.”
He’s said that “sodomy” is worse than “slavery”;
abortion, he’s written, is “as great an evil as slavery” due to what he sees as its ability to spark a civil war.
He told me last year that he regards the American state as the “biggest blasphemer” of them all.
But beneath the provocations is a vision of a remade
— and Chri…
@cdarwin@c.imThe 60-year-old man lying on the street, as far as anyone knew, was just a janitor hit by a drunk driver.
There was no mention of it on the local news, no obituary in the morning paper.
His name might have been Anonymous. But it wasn’t.
His name was Peter Putnam.
He was a physicist who’d hung out with Albert Einstein, John Archibald Wheeler, and Niels Bohr,
and two blocks from the crash, in his run-down apartment, where his partner, Claude, was startled by a scr…
@cdarwin@c.imBack in 1964, microbiologist Tom Brock received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how life works at high temperatures,
a question that took him to Yellowstone’s hot springs in search of extremophiles.
There, he and his student discovered a bacteria they called Thermus aquaticus,
which had enzymes that could work at incredibly high temperatures.
Two decades later, this discovery paved the way for the development of a technique called polymerase ch…
@cdarwin@c.imThis piece was created while the apartheid government of South Africa was forcibly removing Coloured families from their homes as part of the destruction of District Six.
#mannenberg #southafrica #amf
@cdarwin@c.imGuaraní is one of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in the Americas.
A mother tongue of roughly six and half million people—in particular, in Paraguay.
There, most Paraguayans speak Guaraní or a mixture of Guaraní and Spanish, regardless of whether or not they are Indigenous Guaraní, mestizo, or white.
Paraguay is the only country in the Americas where a Native American language has resisted assimilation into Spanish or Portuguese,
and where its very use w…
@cdarwin@c.imA coalition of European Union countries is pushing to bar Russian citizens who participated in the war against Ukraine from entering the Schengen Area, citing serious security concerns.
The call comes as Russia increased its hybrid operations targeting the European Union.
EU security agencies have repeatedly warned of Russian-linked sabotage operations, including arson attacks, orchestrated by Moscow as part of hybrid warfare strategies.
Interior ministers from the Baltic …
@cdarwin@c.imFlorida wildlife officials gave preliminary approval for the first black bear hunt since one 10 years ago that was halted early after more than 300 bears were killed in only two days.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted 4-1 at a meeting in Ocala in favor of a bear hunt in December and annually into the future,
allowing the use of up to six dogs to corner the bears.
Methods could include bowhunting, similar to rules for hunting deer, and bear hunting…
@cdarwin@c.imA young female bear caused a stir after wandering out of the forest and into the leafy suburbs of the Lithuanian capital.
For two days, the brown bear ambled through the neighborhoods of Vilnius,
trotted across highways and explored backyards
— all while being chased by onlookers with smartphones and, eventually, drones.
The government then issued a permit for the bear to be shot and killed.
That did not go down well with Lithuania’s hunters who refused, aware …
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s fundamental problem:
He and his White House seem to think that the cost of their policies
— the fallout from their effort to mold the country to fit their nativist and mercantilist obsessions
— are indirect.
Who cares about a few thousand protesters in Los Angeles or even a few million undocumented immigrants out of the more than 340 million people in the United States?
But the reality is that to harden the border and more tightly police immigration
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s tax policy encourages the very offshoring that his tariffs are intended to stop.
Take the more than $600 billion pharmaceutical industry.
Over the past few months, Trump and his associates have repeatedly criticized companies’ moves to offshore much drug making,
particularly to Ireland.
“We can’t be beholden and rely upon foreign countries for fundamental things that we need,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on April 13.
But the tax incentives i…
@cdarwin@c.imEven more than usual, the path ahead isn’t clear.
Still, there was barely any reaction in market prices. -- Nor has anything else seriously disrupted major markets.
That’s noteworthy, when you consider the crises that are looming:
the highest tariffs in decades;
a contentious crackdown on immigration
and a swelling budget deficit in the United States;
and, in the Middle East, an escalating war between Israel and Iran that could sharply reduce global o…
@cdarwin@c.imThe House will vote next week on a resolution “condemning the violent June 2025 riots in Los Angeles, California,”
sponsored by California GOP Rep. Young Kim.
Protests against sweeping immigration raids, deportations and detentions swelled in the Democratic stronghold earlier this month amid Donald Trump’s broader immigration crackdown.
Trump deployed Marines and the National Guard in a move harshly criticized by Democrats and resulting in a lawsuit from the state of Calif…
