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📢📑 My latest research with #CIVICFutures entitled “#Counterinsurgency, #Redtagging & the ‘#WarOnTerror’: A War against Deliberation and Dissent, A War with No End” is now out! 1/ 👉SUMMARY & Full Report here: civic-futures.org/new-report-dis… 👉COINxWoT chapter: civic-futures.org/wp-content/upl…

📢 Inaanyayahan ang lahat sa “Wag Mabalisa, Mag-organisa,” isang community organizing skill-sharing session ng RIGHTS Network, Inc. at Partido Sosyalista. 📆 April 25, 2026 | ⏰ 2:30–5:30 PM | 📍 QC + online 1/2

@katzeyez4 @indolencey @sighyam "It’s giving western imperialist views on SEA." - First, define imperialism - I think you misunderstand what it means - Second, why is basic concern to reduce harm for a fellow human "Western"?

@sighyam I think you’re mistaking Thailand’s easy-going-ness for tolerance and leniency for reprehensible behaviors. It’s giving western imperialist views on SEA.

Reminder for party drug users going to Songkran: if you’re going to do drugs in Thailand, at the very least, don’t do it around people who won’t call an ambulance if things go wrong

Why is she doing this? Because there was general strike after general strike in Rome calling for an end to the genocide. Because the Italian dockers refused to ship weapons to Israel. The people made their fascist, pro-war PM change her tune because they demanded it. ✊🇮🇹

She said let me humble these bitches down.

The greatest challenge for Asia’s metropolises is a shortage of decent and affordable housing. Fixing that would improve millions of lives. To find out how, register to continue reading (it’s free) econ.st/4uMPi2F

A lot of you haven’t actually ridden the modern jeepney na punuan at tayuan, kaskasero ‘yung driver, tapos kulob pa kasi walang matinong ventilation and it shows.

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The rot of corruption in Philippine society only persists because it has been so successfully enabled by and laundered by the private sector for all its history, which has been so successful that you get popular beliefs like this

Just to give an idea how bad this is, P114 per liter of diesel (the most used fuel in the PH) is the current equivalent of paying US$7.20 per gallon at the pump. The highest price ever recorded for gasoline in the US was US$5.06 per gallon shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine. This is DOUBLE the current price of gasoline in the US. WE’RE COOKED.

UN experts denounce aggression on Iran & Lebanon, warn of devastating regional escalation: "U.S. and Israel should stop waging and expanding wars, and considering themselves as above international legality”. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

Bombing the center of a capital should be unthinkable. Apparently it depends on the city — and who’s dropping the bombs. In London, Paris or Washington this would be a global crisis. Here it barely registers.

Insane framing. He was anally gang-raped. He was severely beaten and then anally gang-raped on camera. Both a knife and a taser were reportedly used. There was a hole in his rectal wall. He got surgery for it. Because he was anally gang-raped by the IDF (on camera). He also had 7 broken ribs and other injuries as well. After it happened, Israelis staged multiple large protests in the streets. Not because they believe these soldiers did anything wrong, but because they were infuriated that the soldiers were arrested for anally gang-raping a Palestinian on camera. These protests weren’t just random people. They included multiple high ranking Knesset members (their Congress) who defended the anal gang/rapists. They didn’t stop there. They went after the lawyer who leaked the video. She was publicly smeared, was forced to resign, and was arrested. And now the anal gang-rapists who were caught on camera have had their charges dropped. They didn’t win in court. They weren’t somehow exonerated. The charges were completely and indefensibly dropped. The Jerusalem Post reports that there was sufficient evidence to take this to trial. This is part of a larger pattern of torture and impunity. NYT and many other major outlets have extensively detailed the abuses at the Sde Teiman torture factory. NYT reported that Prisoners lose 30+ pounds, a nurse was anally raped by a metal rod, another man was raped by a dog, and another was anally raped by a fiery hit rod until he died. Yes, the NYT reported all of that. I’ll share sources in the replies. Torture and sexual assault are commonplace at Sde Teiman, and many prisoners die in the process. The UN concluded that rape from IDF soldiers is so commonplace that it constitutes official “strategy of war”. And of course these monsters virtually never face jail time. Because Israelis by and large don’t have any problem with any of it. This is just what their society does. They torture Palestinians.

I am beginning to understand why I love people who ask thoughtful questions there are thoughts that do not come out without the right prompting. I see that prompting as very valuable in eliciting language that is not a memorized performance. do you know what I mean? can you hear it, when someone is speaking to you, and neither of you knows how the sentence will end? It feels like magic. I live for that feeling, when we go off script, and invent a new possibility. I feel as though I spend most of my time waiting for those few precious moments of impossible connection

BREAKING: Israel fired white phosphorous over Lebanese homes, Human Rights Watch says 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/a49wlz?update=…

Some of the coldest life advice you’ll ever hear

I appreciated the candor of this speech. But its telling Carney has basically just acknowledged facts about the international legal order that left wing and critical scholars have been pointing out for decades. Largely to apoplectic anger from true believers...

A good reminder that it’s the African and other states of the Global South - who have, by and large, been the most consistent upholders of the United Nations Charter-based order (an international system conceived by the big powers but then fundamentally reshaped by the fight for decolonisation) that’s made possible eighty of the most peaceful and prosperous years in human history.

Albanese is the true person of the year for 2025. The most courageous human on this earth. Humanity is indebted to her.

Before you start with your filthy racism on Muslims, say hello to Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43 years old Muslim citizen from Australia, who tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach gunmen. A hero.