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All textbooks in the city will now be replaced with titles such as this

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REGIME 🗽🗽🗽🗽

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On April 17, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed into law House Bill 1193, “Requiring Efficiency For Our Colleges and Universities System and Education System (REFOCUSES) Act��; around here, people refer to it simply as the anti-DEI bill. The new law forbids a variety of DEI-related practices according to a set of tendentious definitions. One term, “diversity training,” is defined in a particularly expansive way: “any formal or informal education, seminars, workshops or institutional program that focus on increasing awareness or understanding of issues related to race, sex, color, gender identity, sexual orientation or national origin.”

The law establishes reporting requirements and a complaints process, and, starting next summer, it will allow for public hearings in front of the state legislature to investigate infractions. Institutions found to have violated the law are given twenty-five days to “cure all actions relating to the violation”; leaving violations uncured can lead to court injunctions to comply with the law, and repeat violations are grounds for state funds to entire school districts to be withheld until the “violating entity demonstrates full compliance with the provisions of this act.”

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Eclipse of the Sun in Venice in July 8, 1842 by Ippolito Caffi.

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hi welcome to LA! come with me i wanna show you all the oil drilling sites that are disguised as office/government buildings ^_^

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absolutely amazing things happening right now. I had to triple check that these were real

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Hotel Adriatic II in Opatija, Croatia. Photo by Valentin Jeck.

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This is like when plantation owner’s sons got to be officers in the reb army

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looks like Iran did the old Israeli ceasefire where you keep dropping bombs as hard as you can right up until the last second before the ceasefire starts

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Before the US’s attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, amid a quickening drumroll for American entry into the war, critics of military adventurism from the left and the right frequently drew a comparison to the post–September 11 bloodlust for the Iraq War. While there are strong rhetorical resonances with that moment—a manufactured panic over nuclear weapons, delusional fantasies about being greeted as liberators—a more apt comparison is the 2011 NATO military intervention into Libya. Unlike Iraq, Libya did not see a major ground invasion; instead, the US-led NATO coalition used a combination of overwhelming air power and special ops missions to destroy the country’s national forces. The campaign lasted just over seven months, and the Americans didn’t bother sticking around to steer the direction of the state after the dust settled. Within three years, the country was engulfed in a civil war. That recipe—rain hell from the skies to annihilate the governing authority along with its national infrastructure, ensuring the state’s indefensibility and instability for the foreseeable future—is what Israel is openly calling for the US to operationalize.

23 June 2025

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I cannot help but recommend the following short documentaries, providing a historical materialist perspective on the current crisis of imperialism.

An Atlantic Tide, taking a look at the growing NATO split between the EU and US, and the shortest, at 15 minutes long:

Everything Under Heaven, concerning the push towards escalation and nuclear war, at 30 minutes:

And History is Marching, a comprehensive, two-hour documentary detailing the modern crisis of imperialism:

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that post that's like "what's wrong with joining the army to kill people ain't that the point" always reminds me of how a few years into the iraq war this volunteer american soldier gave an interview to the washington post where he said exactly that and candidly confessed to having already killed someone for fun but being disappointed by how easy and unexciting he felt it was, and a month later he planned and participated in a gang rape and massacre of a little girl and her family. average poor dumb kid from little old usa just trying to afford college

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was there no other name for this horse

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