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Omar Fateh,
the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist,
is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis
and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey.
Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate.
Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization,
raising the minimum wage
and reforming how the city handles public safety.
“…

“Mamdani of the Midwest”: Meet Omar Fateh. Could He Be the Next Mayor of Minneapolis?
Omar Fateh, the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist, is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey. Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate. Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization, raising the minimum wage and reforming how the city handles public safety. “Minneapolis can have a different kind of politics,…

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Den Aachener Friedenspreis erhielten das Ehepaar Lohmeyer für das Musikfestival Jamel rockt den Förster und der regimekritische Amirkabir Newsletter.

Aachener Friedenspreis für Birgit und Horst Lohmeyer aus Jamel
Das Künstler-Ehepaar Birgit und Horst Lohmeyer aus Jamel in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern hat den diesjährigen Aachener Friedenspreis erhalten. Der mit 2.000 Euro dotierte Preis wurde am Montagabend verliehen.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Meshell Ndegeocello:
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#NowPlaying #MeshellNdegeocello
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https://open.spotify.com/track/2BFIPXGjO8v1ng8mRtzoV0

Wait, do we really think Marmalade Mussolini and his merry band of incompetent chuckleheads would do this?!
Yes, yes we do. Totally plausible.
"Interior minister Diosdado Cabello said that a cell ‘financed by the CIA’ planned to attack the USS Gravely and pin the blame on Caracas [Venezuela], after the missile destroyer docked in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday to conduct joint exercises with Trinidad's navy."

Venezuela claims to have captured ‘CIA backed cell plotting false flag attack’ as tensions with US grow
Venezuela believes Trump is trying to put pressure on President Maduro in order to displace him from power

Any sort of •actual• strength is a threat to that illusion. A real strongman makes the photo cut-out look cheap, laughable.
Say what you will about US imperialism and the military-industrial complex, but the military is truly full of people who possess actual strength and discipline and do extremely difficult jobs well. It is full of people whose daily life makes a mockery of fascism’s cartoonish masculinity. And — devastating!! — many of those people are women! brown people! Black people! with all kids of bodies! who look all kinds of ways! The existence of a competent military is a threat to fascism that must be contained for fascism to spread.
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Comscore: US and Canada summer box office revenue was $3.67B, down slightly from $3.68B in 2024, and well short of the $4B from the Barbenheimer-fueled 2023 (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Summer Box Office Clobbered by Kryptonite: Domestic Revenue Barely Matches Last Year
The May to Labor Day season initially soared, but global grosses took a nosedive as foreign movie ticket sales plunged further and a glut of male-skewing tentpoles battled for scraps in the U.S.

The #GiantMagellanTelescope international consortium welcomed Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, or ASIAA, as its newest member, the consortium announced Tuesday: https://astro.arizona.edu/news/giant-magellan-telescope-brings-new-partner-fold

The largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group in the United States
is calling on U.S. lawmakers to follow in the footsteps of Sens. Jeff Merkley and Chris Van Hollen,
who on Saturday shared a video about their unsuccessful attempts to visit — or even just fly over — the Gaza Strip during Israel’s ongoing assault.
“Sens. Van Hollen and Merkley have taken a bold and necessary step
by confronting the Israeli-manufactured and U.S.-backed humanitarian calamity in Gaza…

CAIR Presses Congress to Confront Gaza Catastrophe After Senators Blocked From Entry
After senators were blocked from Gaza, CAIR says Congress can’t look away.

"Vomit first. Then try to make something pretty with it."
-Tatiana Maslany
#acting #coaching #inspiration

A nearly pristine #star from the Large Magellanic Cloud: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21643 -> "This star has the most pristine composition of any object known in the universe. The star's orbit indicates that it originates from the halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its detailed chemical composition implies a supernova progenitor with initial mass of 30 solar masses."