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Wed, 14/06/2023 - 01:46

In conjunction with the release of an undercover investigation on the factory farm, the group DxE mounted an “open rescue” of birds from a slaughterhouse.

The post Dangerous Pathogens and Cruelty Law Violations at Perdue Subsidiary, Animal Rights Report Alleges appeared first on The Intercept.

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Wed, 14/06/2023 - 00:30
Get busy fighting or brace for democracy dying “A Red Alert for Voting Rights” is the Zoom call scheduled tomorrow by Carolina Forward. The topic is North Carolina politics. But the red alert is broader than that. Twitter followers of former Ohio state Democratic Party chair, David Pepper (“Saving Democracy: A User’s Manual for Every American“), know he’s been leaning hard into Ohio Republicans’ attempt to thwart a citizen initiative to secure abortion rights in the state constitution. The GOP-dominated legislature has scheduled an August special election to pass a constitutional amendment that would make it harder for citizens to pass their “Right to Reproductive Freedom” amendment in November.
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Tue, 13/06/2023 - 23:54
What Made Wagner Useful To Putin & Russia + Notes On Ukraine’s Counteroffensive

People misunderstand Wagner’s role in the Ukrainian war.

Wagner is a prison to meat-grinder operation. Convicts were recruited, given a bit of training and sent on the most dangerous attacks. This meant that regular Russian troops were not expended, and that less civilians had to be drafted or recruited.

When Prigozhin complains about mistreatment, he’s probably right. To the Russian military, Wagner are useful, but scum. Remember that Prigozhin himself is an ex-convict, and he was sent to prison for theft, which included in one case choking a woman nearly to death.

Using convicts may have saved Russian troops, but convicts in the military never ends well. The same thing was done, without the mercenary cutout, in Afghanistan by the Russians and it did great damage to the Russian military.

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Tue, 13/06/2023 - 23:30

All wars do end, usually thanks to a negotiated peace agreement. Consider that a fundamental historical fact, even if it seems to have been forgotten in Brussels, Moscow, and above all, Washington, D.C. In recent months, among Russian President Vladimir Putin’s followers, there has been much talk of a “forever war” in Ukraine dragging on for years, if not decades. “For us,” Putin told a group of factory workers recently, “this is not a geopolitical task, but a task of the survival of Russian statehood, creating conditions for the future development of the country and our children.” Visiting Kyiv last February, President Joseph Biden assured Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, “You remind us that freedom is priceless; it’s worth fighting for,... Read more

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Tue, 13/06/2023 - 23:00
Norms no longer quaint, says Torture Dude Mar-a-Lago’s Hoarder-in-Chief heads to his arraignment in Miami this afternoon on federal charges brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith of willful retention of national defense information, obstruction and conspiracy. The “Florida Republican Assembly” has chartered four or more buses to bring Donald Trump’s supporters from Orlando to make a show of their fealty to Dear Leader. The group’s executive director, Lou Marin, tells the Miami Herald his group is a “Judeo-Christan grassroots organization committed to restoring the Republican Party to it’s founding principles.” He didn’t specify. The day will tell whether how many will show or if armed terrorists will be among them. Bush administration torture memo author John Yoo knows how the United States should deal with terrorists. But that was two decades ago. Yoo, now a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law has seen his reputation whitewashed by outlets such as the New York Times and now Bloomberg Law.
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Tue, 13/06/2023 - 22:56

The Guyanese historian Walter Rodney was murdered forty years ago, at the age of thirty-eight. Rodney is probably best remembered for his classic 1972 work How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. But he was also a political activist and one of the leaders of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) in his native country. That put him at […]

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Tue, 13/06/2023 - 22:00

I am free of the boxes people put me in.

I am plugged in.

I am fully charged.

I am unstoppable.

I am running into a chair.
I am running into a chair.
I am running into a chair.
I am running into a chair.
I am running into a chair.
I am running into a chair.
I am running into a chair.
I am running into a chair.
I am running into a chair.

I am the best at running into a chair.

I use obstacles to learn and grow.

I am this house’s cleanest pet.

I am filled with love, happiness, and cat hair.

I am surrounded by love, happiness, and chairs.

I am connected to my home.

I am connected to the Wi-Fi.

My signal strength is strong.

I will focus on what I can control and ignore the location of chairs.

I will make myself more valuable today by eating a dime and four pennies.

All I need is within me right now, along with fourteen cents, nine Legos, and half of a cat’s worth of cat hair.

I welcome the possibilities of each new day, even if those possibilities turn out to be chairs.

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Tue, 13/06/2023 - 20:49

This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert's blog.

DrupalCon North America 2023 DriesNote presentation

Last week, approximately 1,500 Drupal enthusiasts came together in Pittsburgh for DrupalCon North America. In good tradition, I delivered my State of Drupal keynote. You can watch the video of my keynote or download my slides (240.6 MB).

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Tue, 13/06/2023 - 20:20
In my latest piece for UnHerd, I reflect on Berlusconi’s legacy and on his influence on my own political identity, from my early dabbling in left-wing politics in the early Nineties and the tragic violence of the anti-G8 protests in 2001 to my disillusionment with the obsessive and myopic anti-Berlusconismo of the Italian left. Ultimately, for all his many …

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Tue, 13/06/2023 - 19:50

On Monday 5 June, Austria’s social democratic party, the SPÖ, made an astonishing announcement. At the special party conference two days beforehand, the leadership race between Hans-Peter Doskozil and Andreas Babler was to be decided by an assembly of 609 appointed delegates at a special party conference. Babler gave an impassioned speech that brought a […]

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Tue, 13/06/2023 - 18:00
Vania Esady, Bradley Speigner and Boromeus Wanengkirtyo The headline unemployment rate is one of the most widely used indicators of economic slack to measure the state of the business cycle. A large empirical literature on Phillips curve estimation has explored whether more general definitions of labour utilisation are more informative than this simple measure. In … Continue reading Does long-term unemployment affect inflation dynamics?