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I'm not a fan of Ian Dunt, and he's an embarrassingly amateurish podcaster. But his argument here on #TransRights and #Democracy is well expressed, and I expect that his description of parliamentary procedure, however idiotic it sounds, is correct.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Striking 13 Podcast: The trans rights stitch-up
Starting from: 00:21:27

Episode webpage: iandunt.substack.com/p/the-tra

Media file: api.substack.com/feed/podcast/

If you think China is bad, the US is worse. China is a fake communist country with authoritative tyrants. The US is a fake democratic country with filthy rich oligarchs who control a bunch dirty politicians. When your rights are consistently being violated by a bunch of obese, unfit, poorly educated, poorly training, violent, unethical, and even psychopathic, sick police officers, your votes mean nothing.

#China #US #police #communism #democracy #oligarchs

youtube.com/watch?v=TVscphZ3Ku

"(...) In 1982, eleven clandestine Radio Solidarity radio stations were shut down across Poland. The scientists who cooperated in the balloon project were risking serious jail time in addition to the loss of their career and livelihood.

Their act of defiance didn't bring down the state. It didn't do much more than give hope and brighten the day of a few hundred people. But it went straight back to that first idealistic promise of radio: that there existed magic, invisible rays that had the power to erase the distance between people, bypass all intermediaries, and penetrate even the thickest walls.

I tell this story to reassure you that just because everything is heavy and political right now, it doesn't mean we can't also fight these fights on our own terms, as nerds.

The Utopian qualities that made us love the web have not disappeared, even as it's become centralized and corporate, and we can find ways to defend and express them in our work.

The important thing is to recognize that there is a fight, and a need for individual acts of creative resilience.

We have to make sure that the powerful don't get comfortable using our tools. And we have to find ways to dismantle the surveillance economy before it becomes a political weapon turned against our democracy. (...)"

idlewords.com/talks/ancient_web.htm

#Radio #Web #Democracy #SurveillanceCapitalism

idlewords.comLegends of the Ancient Web

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Steve Schmidt:
Trump & Gabbard's Claims About Obama Are RIDICULOUS

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the greatest Trump whack job of them all?

Is it Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary who is trailed around by his wife, nicknamed Yoko ono?

...is it Pam Bondi, the holder, the keeper of the Epstein files…and now leading the cover up...

What about Tom Homan, Trump's bald-headed little Eichmann, or his fascist boss, Steven Miller?"
youtube.com/watch?v=_3vPvZD54AA

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Steve Schmidt:
Trump & Gabbard's Claims About Obama Are RIDICULOUS

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the greatest Trump whack job of them all?

What about Robert Kennedy? … a drug addled untreated psychiatric patient; the secretary of HHS, surrounded by grifters, conspiracy cranks, conmen...

Maybe it's Tulsi Gabbard, alone among all the Trump sycophants, she, like Clarence Thomas's wife, is an actual cult member.”
youtube.com/watch?v=_3vPvZD54AA

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Steve Schmidt:
"There is no majority that supports the insanity that is taking place.

...as they fail, as Donald is cornered in a pit of his own lies on this Epstein case and the abuse of these girls, as it all falls apart...the overreach, the abuses of power will increase. But there will be accountability for all of it. All of the lawlessness at hand will be known, and it will have to be faced.”
youtube.com/watch?v=_3vPvZD54AA

Guardian:
Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest

They appear to use a stun gun on one man, put another in a chokehold and can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio: “You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.” Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.”
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrestBy Clare Considine

Daily Beast:
Ghislaine Handed DOJ 100 Names in Shameless Pardon Quid Pro Quo
DEAL OR NO DEAL

The partner of late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, completed a second day of questioning on Friday, where she shared information on about 100 different people with the Justice Department.
thedailybeast.com/ghislaine-ha

Ghislaine Maxwell
The Daily Beast · Ghislaine Handed DOJ 100 Names in Shameless Pardon Quid Pro QuoBy Sarah Ewall-Wice

The Guardian:
Democrats request copy of Epstein ‘birthday book’

House Democrats on Friday sent a letter to the attorneys representing the estate of Jeffrey Epstein requesting a copy of the so-called “birthday book” that reportedly contains a crude poem and doodle from Donald Trump in celebration of the late sex offender’s 50th birthday.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · Democrats request copy of Epstein ‘birthday book’ that reportedly contains Trump poemBy Lauren Gambino
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@IndyMediaAus

No. Absolutely not. No computerised, or even electronic, system is safe and secure. They can't be; it's inherent. Then—if computerised—there's the firmware and software, fraught with problems no matter how carefully checked before going into production.

All of this is ignoring the wetware, our squishy clever-ape brains that insist on interfering with a system that works perfectly by making it more complicated, costly, and dangerous.

Please share, print, paste, distribute.

The wealth divide is accelerating, and with it, the lack of accountability of the ruling class. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Smash the corporate dictatorship and the power of its fascist enforcers.

#Politics #News #CurrentEvents #USA #Government #SocialJustice #Activism #Resist #Freedom #Democracy #Humanity #Art #Design #Creative #Viral #Trending #InstaArt #DigitalArt #PoliticalCartoon #GraphicDesign #Commentary #Debate #Discussion #Awareness #TakeAction #StandUp #UnitedStates #America #InstaGood

‘Be patriots’: Bombay HC rejects CPI(M) plea to hold protest rally against Israel’s war on Gaza

scroll.in/latest/1084877/be-pa

> The bench urged the party to focus on domestic concerns rather than international affairs.

Behold! The wold's largest "democracy":
Not only do people need to make a plea in front of a court to be allowed to protest, the court's ruling specifies what people can and can't protest.
#India #democracy #freeSpeech #Israel #Gaza