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another "day", another post

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don't have much time to make anything anymore, so here's what you get. i'm sorry.

i wish you a wonderful day in which you feel it is warranted to treat yourself <3

Just two days before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, Donald Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX, a major federal contractor run by Elon Musk, according to ethics filings made public on Thursday.

The SpaceX bond buy was among 517 trades Trump made in August, transactions that spotlight conflict of interest concerns that have hovered over his presidency.

Beyond SpaceX debt, Trump purchased up to $25 million of Meta shares, up to $6 million of Microsoft stock and a smaller amount of Oracle shares, filings show.

Republican Representative Mike Collins cannot seem to rise above his staffers’ Nazi reputations.

The Georgia representative practically drowned under reports of his team’s ties to extremism during his first debate against Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff Thursday, unable to bat away the various white supremacist connections within his orbit.

“Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists,” Ossoff said in his opening remarks.

At least four of Collins’s former staffers and aides have been accused of extremist affiliations. They include Collins’s former chief of staff Kip Talley; former digital director William Paul (the son of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul); and a former intern, Preston Parra, who has frequently shared Ku Klux Klan and Nazi images to his personal social media account, including an image of himself clad in the white supremacist group’s hooded uniform.

Man finds $7.5 million hidden in a storage unit he bought for $500 in 2018 and contacted the original owner, reaching a $1.2 million settlement to return the unit with all the money 🤔💰

He's a better man than me. The original owner would only remember he left money there after watching my instagram stories from Monaco.

Often dubbed "Russia's Google", the tech firm admits customers may experience disruption to digital services due to the attacks.

Elon Musk, you pretentious bald fuck with a micro-penis and god complex—you blew $44B on X to stroke your fragile ego after endless ratioings. Your Teslas are flaming deathtraps, SpaceX rockets are pricey fireworks, Neuralink fries brains, and your Mars fantasy is cult bait. You breed kids like a stray dog but can't hold a wife 'cause you're a narcissistic shithead. Suck a bag of dicks and fuck off to your red planet.

Russia is having problems supplying itself with diesel due to how many of their refining capacity has been damaged by Ukraine.

The only effect of this will be an attempt to shift blame from Trump for the shortages and high costs of energy onto Ukraine for daring to defend themselves.

The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."

The Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African former UN human rights chief who chaired the UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza.

That commission concluded last year that the state of Israel was guilty of genocidal acts in Gaza “with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza”, and said the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, its president, Isaac Herzog, and its former defence minister Yoav Gallant had “incited the commission of genocide”.

Israel refused to cooperate with the commission, arguing it was biased, and rejected its report as “scandalous”. The Israeli foreign ministry reacted furiously to news of Pillay’s award on Friday.

“If there were an award for lies, hatred, and blood libels, Navi Pillay wouldn’t just be a contender. She’d be a frontrunner,” the ministry said on X, adding: “Awarding Pillay the Nobel Peace Prize isn’t a recognition of justice. It’s the grotesque weaponization of an award to legitimize anti-Israel hatred and prejudice.

“Now that the Nobel commission has rewarded the biggest lie of the 21st century, Joseph Goebbels is certainly applauding from hell.”

Ning Xu's winning entry to Nikon Instruments' Small World in Motion competition was ineligible due to AI, a spokesperson for the contest told Gizmodo.

cross-posted from: https://expressional.social/users/Peter_Link/statuses/117412995120379379

Edward Said, and the Palestine that was never an empty desert

[from FB post by We Stand With Francesca Albanese]

#EdwardSaid was born on November 1, 1935, in Jerusalem, Palestine.

He dedicated his work to dismantling the false historiography used to justify the founding of the State of Israel.

Before the first Aliyot, Jews made up barely 3% of the population.

#Palestine was not an empty desert. It was a prosperous territory of the Ottoman Empire, with banks, industry, and agricultural exports that rivaled those of Italy.

Its population grew endogenously precisely because it was a thriving place.

Much of the population living today in #Gaza and the #WestBank descends from the families expelled from the lands that now make up #Israel.

#FreePalestine #SanctionIsrael
#AntiZionismIsNotAntisemitism #BDS #DivestFromIsrael #SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism #EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#news #politics
@palestine

Players can double-jump away from poll watchers to cast their ballot or simply stay at home and jerk off.

That response contrasts with a signed 2025 questionnaire submitted to the Stonewall Democrats of Austin, in which Talarico’s campaign wrote that “if elected, Rep. Talarico would sponsor the Equality Act in the U.S. Senate.” He also answered “Yes” when asked by the Communications Workers of America if he would support the bill.

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