get a move on already

[ayeforscotland]

Protests against Kushner-linked resort in Albania enter second day

Environmental NGOs have long raised concerns that the project could threaten the area's biodiversity and disrupt bird migration routes. #Eur

All the support to the people of Albania fighting against their government allowing Kushner to purchase protected land.

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[xx-k1tsun3-k1d-xx]

very telling that even if you’re not allowed to view content related to self harm/suicide/eating disorders due to not giving up your ID on the uk internet you will still be shown relentless ads for weight loss drugs and fad diets showing unrealistic/AI generated bodies and unhealthy methods and time frames for weight loss that can only be achieved by starvation. oh and also so so many gambling ads. relentless ads for gacha and gambling services. almost like it’s not actually about protecting kids at all or something

[probablyasocialecologist]

Colonial agriculture never appears as simple extraction. It arrives with a blueprint and rewrites entire ecologies in its image. Across Latin America, Indigenous polycultural systems that integrated maize, beans, squash, herbs, insects, and forests were dismantled and replaced with monocultures such as sugarcane, coffee, and cocoa. These were not crops built to feed communities, they were engines for European markets, a transformation described by Eduardo Galeano as the conversion of whole continents into reservoirs for imperial hunger. Hunger became a method of governance long before it was named a “crisis”.

Raya Ziada, Harvesting Freedom: Food Sovereignty and the Struggle against Colonial Hunger in Palestine

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[probablyasocialecologist]

Two billion people cannot be relocated to cities. Yes, China’s rural population has fallen from 80 per cent in 1980 to 35 per cent – but China is unique. Even in neighbouring India, the rural population remains at 65 per cent, or 900 million people. The entire world’s manufacturing, construction and mining currently employ only 800 million people: clearly, the global peasantry cannot be absorbed into industry. We need to realise that, in the absence of exceptional levels of industrialisation, nothing can sustain large populations so well as the land. We need to stop seeing urbanisation as the main index of developmental progress, and realise that it is, in many cases, the sign of a major disaster: the destruction of rural life by big agriculture and industry, and the loss of irreplaceable human and ecological systems.

Maryam Aslany, The world needs peasants

[probablyasocialecologist]

When it comes to Palestine, the sacred laws of journalism are bendable. Optional even. Passive voice is king. Omitting facts is standard. Fabrication is permissible. Journalists become stenographers, and reporters become state secretaries, as they parrot police and military narratives. They tamper with evidence. They muddle, mislead, and misconstrue, manufacturing consent for ethnic cleansing and creating confusion around murders that are clear as day. The courageous industry that boasts of speaking “truth to power” is but a bullhorn for the powerful. We have seen this time and time again. It is almost satirical: anchors reject the data before their eyes to recite lies, and newspapers read like caricatures of themselves. When a 2014 Israeli airstrike on a cafe in Gaza blew eight Palestinians to shreds, the headline from the New York Times was “Missile at Beachside Gaza Cafe Finds Patrons Poised for World Cup.” Whose missile? Whose gunfire? Who is the sniper?

Mohammed el-Kurd, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

US political operatives built a surveillance app for Alberta separatists, a coordinated attack to destabilise Canada.

The Centurion Project's voter surveillance tool was built by US political operatives with direct ties to the Trump regime

The data on 2.9 million Albertans was loaded onto an app built with US funding, shaped by US political strategists, and deployed by a Canadian separatist organizer who spent nearly two years cultivating US partners before launching the Centurion Project. The question is not whether there is a US connection to what lawyers have called potentially the most significant privacy breach in Canadian history. The question is how deep the operation goes, who in the Trump orbit knew about it, and how far are they willing to take it. On the night of 29 April 2026, David Parker stood in front of supporters at the Edmonton Oilfield Technical Society and unveiled the Centurion Project app, describing the technology as the same tool that "helped Trump win Michigan." Minutes after Parker finished speaking, an Elections Alberta investigator arrived with Edmonton police officers to inform organisers they were under investigation for improperly accessing and using the province's list of electors. Parker had already loaded the names, addresses, and voter identification numbers of every judge, every lawyer, every politician, every domestic abuse victim, every First Nations chief, every journalist, every senator, and every elections investigator in the province onto that app. Former premier Jason Kenney, on learning his home address had been shown to meeting participants, retained legal counsel and said he had previously received threats from people involved with the separatist, anti-vaccine, and far-right movements in Alberta. The database was accessible to anyone with the link, with no identity verification required.

Read more.

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland @abpoli

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[probablyasocialecologist]

Not just the US: India to Brazil, 51 nations armed Israel amid Gaza war

Despite ICJ genocide warnings, 51 nations kept arming Israel, even after pledging to halt support.

A months-long Al Jazeera investigation has found that military-related goods originating from at least 51 countries and self-governing territories continued entering Israel after the ICJ’s warning of a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza. Based primarily on an analysis of Israeli Tax Authority (ITA) import data between 2022 and 2025, and supported by customs records and freedom of information requests, the investigation traced military supply chains linked to countries across Europe, Asia, North America and South America. All named countries are signatories to the Genocide Convention. In some cases, the military-related goods originated from countries that had formally imposed arms embargoes on Israel or had partially suspended arms supplies to the country. In fact, according to the ITA data, arms imports increased after the ICJ ruling, with the largest share falling under the category of munitions. The five largest countries of origin for military-related goods entering Israel - the United States, India, Romania, Taiwan and the Czech Republic - all recorded increased shipments during the war.

[...]

Patrick Wilken, a researcher at Amnesty International, said the scale of Israel’s military campaign made such international support indispensable. “There is no way that Israel alone could have sustained the intensity of its massive bombardment across the Gaza Strip,” he said. “Israel has relied on a global supply chain of arms, munitions and support services, primarily supplied by the United States but supported by many other states.” As the war continued, weapons-related imports to Israel increased. The data appears to bear that out.

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Neve Gordon, an Israeli professor of international law and human rights at Queen Mary University of London, told Al Jazeera that “country after country has contributed to the evisceration of the international legal order by feigning blindness and refusing to abide by their legal obligations". “This is myopic. The very states that helped build this legal order, and invoke it constantly, are now playing a central role in its dismantlement.”

23 May 2026

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scopOphilic_micromessaging_1699 - scopOphilic presents its micromessaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally. (2025 2026)

[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

This Doonesbury abortion cartoon was originally written by Gary Trudeau in 2012, in response to a Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion. It was banned from many major newspapers, and they ran syndicated cartoons in its place.

Now seems like an appropriate time to bring these cartoons back, with the passing of Texas’ new law requiring the burial or cremation of miscarried or aborted fetal remains. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if Trudeau decides to write the sequel.

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[whatbigotspost]

God. You’ll have to excuse me openly weeping atm. I remember being horrified when that law hit the books here.

I had no idea how much worse it would get in 10 year’s time.

[probablyasocialecologist]

After 1989, the idea of breaking with the context of capitalism as it is was all but erased from the conceptual map. With the conclusive defeat of actually existing socialism, an “overwhelming heaviness” paralyzed the imagination, according to Enzo Traverso; the present order took on the guise of an immutable nature that is as hard to shake off as it would be to abolish the law of gravity—and “once capitalism is naturalized, to think of a different future becomes impossible.” Neoliberalism, according to Perry Anderson, “rules undivided across the globe: the most successful ideology in history.” This conjuncture is the indispensable setting for geoengineering. Indeed, it is hard to conceive of any other historical soil from which such a far-out prioritization could grow. Morton, for one, is aware of this: he knows of Fredric Jameson’s dictum “it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” and he elects to embrace that condition. Subjectively and objectively, geoengineering is an extreme expression of a—perhaps the—paradox of capitalist modernity. The structures set up by people are perceived as immune to tinkering, but there is hardly any limit to how natural systems can be manipulated. The natural becomes plastic and contingent; the social becomes set in stone.

Andreas Malm, Planning the Planet: Geoengineering Our Way Out of and Back into a Planned Economy

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