Pleasant Politics

Eliminate the pressure to spend money on things you don’t actually value by considering whether purchases you’re making are adding real worth to your life.

If you want to have a no-spend or low-spend 2025, remember you don’t have to embark on this journey alone.

Establish why you want to do a no-spend or low-spend goal.

“Customize the challenge to fit you and what you want to accomplish. You don’t have to go all-or-nothing,”

“Identify and eliminate spending triggers,” Woroch advised. “This could look like deleting shopping apps on your phone, unsubscribing from retail newsletters, and avoiding walking into stores where there are sure to be plenty of spending temptations.”

"They offered us oil, but we don't want oil, we want the institutions and the borders," Abu Qasra said.

I was hoping it wouldn't come to that. They clearly don't like Rojava's federated power, and want it centralized under them. Unfortunately I don't for see a good outcome here.

Some Hashtags are:

• "#berniesanders"
• "#queer"
• "#obama"
• "#voteblue" (#votered remains unaffected)
• "#dnc" (#rnc remains unaffected)
• "#fucktrump" (#fuckbiden remains unaffected)
• "#democrat" (#republican remains unaffected)
• "#kamala"
• "#prochoice"
• "#constitution"
• "#reproductiverights"
• "#jan6th"
• "#insurrection"
• "#14thamendment "
• "#republicans" (with an s)
• "#fascism"
• "#liberal"
• "#rightwing"
• “#georgeconway”
• “#domesticterrorist”
• “#jacksmith”
• “#drumpf”
• “#johnoliver”

Elon Musk waded into controversy on Monday when he gave back-to-back fascist-style salutes during celebrations of the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump.

In a statement posted to social media later on Monday, the ADL said: (...) “It seems that Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, (...)

Twice?

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53101258

Pappe talks to Al Jazeera on ‘neo-Zionism’, ceasefire talks, the second coming of Trump and ‘indoctrination’ in Israel.

Luigi Mangione has drawn lots of defenders on social media. That's a challenge for platforms when it comes to moderation — and for users.

Archived link of the article

A fundamental part of “what to know” about these crimes is egregiously missing from the Times report – the role of the United States:

• $18 billion in military aid to Israel in the first year of the genocidal war on the people of Gaza, surely the most generous provision of military support ever from one state to another for the purposes of ethnic cleansing.

• The sending of 100 US military personnel to Israel to operate an advanced missile defense system there.

• The sending of massive US naval and air forces to the region to protect Israel from regional retaliation for its genocidal war.

• The Biden administration/US Empire blowing though “red lines” beyond which its spokespersons said it would not continue support for the war: Israel’s assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah in May of 2024 (US support continued) and Israel’s blocking of humanitarian assistance to the people of northern Gaza (Biden dropped that “red line” in December of 2024).

• The US Empire blowing off the “Leahy law” – US legislation that says the US can provide “no aid to foreign forces facing ‘credible’ accusations of human rights violations.” (Israel’s US-backed human rights crimes have been so credible that at least a dozen US government officials and personnel have resigned their positions in protest and Israel’s president and top military commander have received indictments and arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court!)

• The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) preventing its staff from reporting on maternal and child mortality in Gaza since the war began

@roberteldersoftware on youtube has started speaking out against Michael Klein, shitty greedy landlord in Canada who is notorious for using the "renoviction" tactic on tenants, many who are low income, after he himself is becoming a victim of this guy. Victims are joining together and trying to put pressure on this guy. I cant do much from the US, so trying to boost awareness. More info: https://acorncanada.org/news/new-report-connects-ontarios-biggest-renovictor-michael-klein-to-renovictions-happening-in-21-buildings-in-7-cities/

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Annoying format, but a good article.

This is an odd bit of political trivia but enough of the states which Trump won his electoral votes from have laws forbidding Felons from taking office. If the democratic party just sues in those state, they could revoke enough electoral votes to prevent Trump from getting his second term.

It just requires them to enforce the laws that already exist. The only counter the Republicans have is to repeal the laws preventing felons from holding office. (Some of them started to realize this https://www.latintimes.com/republican-bill-inspired-trump-would-let-convicted-felons-run-public-office-missouri-568981)