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@contra_press Works for me. Only you can defend your culture.

🇯🇵🇺🇸🇨🇳 – Japan just passed a law that could escalate East Asian tensions, especially with China. Tokyo is moving toward what the Takaichi government describes as "the most complex security environment since WWII," establishing an equivalent of the CIA. Japan's parliament enacted legislation establishing a National Intelligence Council. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pushed this as central to her governing agenda. Many Chinese analysts interpret this as Japan restoring its wartime intelligence apparatus. The Global Times writes: "Intelligence serves military ends above all else." But the intelligence council is one piece of a broader strategy. Washington is orchestrating Japan's militarization: US-backed weaponization paired with Tokyo's far-right push are turning Japan into a geopolitical spearhead aimed at Beijing. This strategy encompasses deploying missiles capable of striking mainland China, conducting live-fire military exercises, and constitutional revision toward militarization. Most consequentially, Takaichi has explicitly discussed military conflict with China over Taiwan. Meanwhile, a massive peace protest movement is mobilizing across Tokyo and beyond, resisting Takaichi's effort to make Japan "war-ready." Street-level opposition is growing as the scale of the shift becomes clear. Internal documents allegedly reveal the intelligence council's actual target: suppressing protest movements, labor organizing, critical media outlets, and political dissent. Under the banner of "security," Japan is fundamentally reshaping its political order, moving from pacifism to militarization. The law includes no parliamentary oversight mechanisms. Accountability structures are absent. Japan has long been described as "America's unsinkable aircraft carrier" in the region. Tokyo's militarization pushes an Asia-Pacific closer to confrontation, with Beijing watching carefully and Washington greenlighting the shift.

@InspGadgetBlogs The Thin Man. To what rhythm do you shake a martini? I youtu.be/S9cnYeFFeC4?si…

Hard Days Night.

@DistillSocial Does this also limit union donations?

HUGE: Michiganders for Money Out of Politics turned in enough signatures today to get on November’s ballot. This could be the most meaningful reform Michigan has seen in a generation. No more letting corporations, lobbyists, and private interests buy a government that works against the people. 🧡🧡🧡

@shoesonplease Do you think telling someone to do that which is anatomically difficult to one’s self is Ok to meet the civility standard?

Not satire. Recorded on Michigan’s Mackinac island where the ruling class meets every year to sip champagne and discuss us peasants. Today, they’re talking about education, menopause, data centers, and of course, “civility.“

@bekahj No, the worst thing they did was to stop teaching children how to read.

The worst thing schools ever did was take away home economics Did you have home economics in school?

@hoshizorarock Please consider using those skills to defend your Shrines and Temples rather than go for clicks from Americans.

アメリカ人よ🇺🇸 びびっているのか？🥺 かかってきなさい😡

@SenateGOP Are you holding President Trump’s agenda hostage?

Democrats are doing everything they can to defund law enforcement and open the border.  They even held pay for the Coast Guard hostage for 76 days, forcing military families into debt.

@shoesonplease I think that we wouldn’t mind as much if we were compensated for the loss of a rural lifestyle. It seems the benefits flow to the developers while the long term costs are borne by the locals.

Fixed it for you -

@SenMikeLee @SenMikeLee any chance you would attend one of the proforma sessions and request a quorum call so maybe the Senate could back to work and maybe work 17 weeks?

There are 31 weeks left in the year. The Senate is currently scheduled to be in recess for 16 of them. We can secure American elections and pass the MAGA agenda using one weird trick: Stop taking vacations.

@kwasny007 @dandinohill @jumikelly @SenateGOP @GOPSenate Remember that you can only vote against them in the primaries. You don’t want to vote against them in the general election. If you think they are bad, just think what will happen if the Democrats get the majority.

@dandinohill @jumikelly @SenateGOP @GOPSenate Senate GOP. MAGA is watching you. x.com/i/status/20596…

Senators @SenateGOP @GOPSenate - can't make time to pass the SAVE America Act, But always find time to run Pro Forma Sessions to block Pres Trump from getting any recess appointments. GOP Senators - do you guys understand how angry this makes your constituents? Do you care?

America’s meat processing rules are stuck in the past. Yesterday, Farm Action submitted a public comment urging the USDA to modernize size definitions for meat, poultry, and egg processors. Right now, the federal government largely classifies processing facilities based on employee count, not actual production scale or corporate ownership. That means small independent processors are often treated the same as massive automated plants owned by multinational corporations with far greater resources and capacity. Family-scale operations are getting crushed by rules never designed for them, while corporate consolidation keeps growing.

@DerrickEvans4WV In a few years this site will produce methane gas, the gas will be collected and sold to generate electricity another example of recycling.

I bet most people have no clue where their trash goes. Have you ever been to a landfill?

@RannXerox @PatriotPostGirl That would be true if the data centers were built in industrial areas.

@PatriotPostGirl If a new data center is coupled with a new power plant and they build a closed loop cooling system, there shouldn't be an adverse effect on the grid, power costs, or major water consumption. Noise is no more than other industrial facilities with vac systems and such.

55% of Michigan voters don’t want a data center in their community. While you get the noise, brown water, hiked energy bills, and the grid strain; data centers get the servers, the subsidies, and the self-congratulatory press release. Because nothing builds community quite like turning cornfields into AI sweatshops while calling it economic development.

@DonnieDetroit19 @WOODTV Just about every news broadcast has a segment on gas prices. None ever references gas prices during the Biden administration.

@WOODTV WOODTV propagandists use a photo of a gas station in Colorado with the highest prices they could find. This is why people hate the news media.

U.S. consumer confidence declined slightly this month as gas prices stayed high and inflation remained elevated, a sharp contrast to soaring stock prices hovering near record levels. woodtv.com/news/nexstar-m…

@rutasosabu It also happens in US. In northern Michigan folks will find a deer that has been taken out of season and only the better parts have been removed. No normal hunter would waist the venison.

Vietnamese people hunting wild boars. In Japan, hunting animals is prohibited unless you have the proper permission or license. This is a crime.

@JackTrapperJT @SenateGOP are all to blame. If only one would break ranks, attend a proforma session, and request a quorum call, the Senate would have to get back to work and pass the Save America Act.

Breaking News: Josh Hawley BLOCKED Trump’s recess appointments today — TRAITOR!!!! Missouri, please remember to primary this RINO.

@AmyMek Only you can defend your culture. These activities are happening across the non-Muslim world. A personal commitment is required.

🚨 CONQUERED: SCOTLAND’S LEADERS TAKE GUIDANCE FROM THE QURAN - CHRISTIANS SUBMIT! Scotland’s new politicians just sat inside historic St Giles’ Cathedral, one of Scotland’s most important Christian churches, for the Kirking of the Parliament. What “blessing” did they receive? A proud Quranic sermon recited straight to them (4:58): وَإِذَا حَكَمْتُم بَيْنَ النَّاسِ أَن تَحْكُمُوا بِالْعَدْلِ “And when you judge between the people, judge with justice.” The official caption calls it: “A sermon direct from the Holy Quran (4:58), delivered to Scotland’s political leaders and newly elected parliamentarians. May Allah accept this small effort to share the beauty and urgency of His revealed guidance.” Sounds nice in English. Here’s what most non-Muslims don’t realise: In Islam, this command to “judge with justice” means rulers must govern according to Allah’s law (Sharia), not Scottish law, not democracy, not Western values. They weren’t given a generic prayer for peace. They were given marching orders from the Quran… inside a Christian cathedral. Even worse: In Islamic tradition, once Muslims pray or recite the Quran in a church, many consider that space theirs forever. Caliph Umar refused to pray inside Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, warning: “If I had prayed in the church, you would have lost it forever. Future Muslims would say, ‘Umar prayed here,’ and they would turn it into a mosque.” This is how sacred Christian spaces are claimed, one sermon, one recitation at a time using our own churches and traditions against us. Scotland’s politicians just received their guidance from the Quran. Will they obey it? Wake up, Scotland.

@WallStreetApes Cheap labor only is a benefit to the company hiring them. All other costs a covered by others.

This is literally insane Man moved to a rural town of Hidalgo, Mexico He learned that half the people from the town are living in Springdale, Arkansas I looked into why. They’re all working at Tyson foods, Walmart HQ, etc and Springdale Arkansas is now 42% Mexicans So many people from this small town are in America working that if they all came back at the same time there wouldn’t be enough places for them to stay This is why Americans can’t find jobs. We are completely overrun with foreigner cheap labor And this is a well documented thing Rural areas in states like Hidalgo, Michoacán, Jalisco, and others in central Mexico have long histories of economic migration to the US They all come over here illegally or legally on Visas and take our jobs They’re called chain migration networks. People from the same hometown cluster together, send remittances home, and sponsor more relatives. Entire social networks from one Mexican town now live in Springdale Absolutely insane. Send them ALL back. We have been completely sold out

@tanpukunokami If you don’t want to be cremated go to where cremation is not permitted. If you want to be cremated in a Muslim country you have to go to somewhere else as it is not permitted.

This is what’s going on in Japan right now. A: “In Islam, cremation is considered disrespectful to the dead.” B: “I understand. In Japan, cremation is the norm. It’s good to learn about cultural differences. When we visit each other’s countries, we should respect each other’s rules and customs.” That should be the end of the conversation. Somehow, it keeps dragging on. Whyyyyyyy

@CuriosityonX Envy

What is stopping humanity from coexisting peacefully?