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Thu, 27/06/2024 - 20:01

The term burnout was first used by German-American psychologist Herbert J. Freudenberger in 1974 to describe ‘cases of physical or mental collapse as the result of overwork’ in activist circles around the LA free clinic movement. Originally covering those trying to change society, it began to become applied to those working too hard to succeed […]

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Thu, 27/06/2024 - 16:52
After the Far Right National Rally (RN) took the prizes in the recent European Parliament elections and seriously dented the electoral appeal of Emmanual Macron’s grouping, the French President decided to follow the British script and dissolved the French Parliament and called a snap election, the first round of which will take place on June…
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Thu, 27/06/2024 - 15:17

Alleged “confessions” by two Palestinians in Israeli custody filmed seemingly admitting to multiple rapes, murders, and kidnappings on October 7, do not match the events of that day, are contradicted by copious evidence, and were likely coerced through torture. US and British media are running with the stories regardless. On May 23, 2024, Britain’s Daily Mail published what it described as “exclusive” interrogation tapes it had been handed by Israeli intelligence. The Murdoch-owned tabloid claimed the supposed confessions exposed a […]

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Thu, 27/06/2024 - 10:00
Nate Silver is out with a new polling model that says Donald Trump has a 66% chance of winning and everyone on social media is having a fit. If you come across that I would just suggest you remember this: You’ll note that’s dated the day of the election. How’d that work out? Just keep in mind that these close races, as they all are these days, are impossible to predict and data guys like Silver should stop with this nonsense. All it does is make people nervous and unhappy.
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Thu, 27/06/2024 - 09:00
You have to watch this. It’s short: WAIT, WHAT??? Is MTG telling Steve Bannon that President Biden, Jake Tapper, and Dana Bash are planning to murder Donald Trump at tomorrow's CNN debate? Holy sh*t. pic.twitter.com/fSZtbls280 — CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) June 26, 2024 Here’s Trump’s top adviser just five years ago: A global “cable” of satan worshiping pedophiles. This is one of the most powerful people in the United States.
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Thu, 27/06/2024 - 08:00
More Republicans should do that. That’s what I’m talking about. There must be some Indies and moderate GOPers who are getting tired of Trump’s whiny, sore-loserism. They can’t all have Fox News Brain Rot. Can they? Here’s another one:
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Thu, 27/06/2024 - 06:30
Here’s Dan Pfeiffer with a super-interesting newsletter about the Biden team’s message. [T]he concept of a “message box” … is an exercise every campaign should do at the outset. It’s a simple quadrant filled out to understand the message your campaign and your opponent’s campaign will communicate. While a little lost to time, a message box is still the fundamental building block of a successful campaign strategy. The best campaigns run every ad, tweet, speech, and statement through this filter to ensure they advance their message and undermine their opponent’s. For nearly a decade of running against Trump, Democrats have struggled with the lower left quadrant. We never really settled on a consistent argument about Trump. One of my maxims for politics (and life) is that the only thing worse than a wrong decision is no decision at all. That was the collective error our party made when it came to our anti-Trump message. We never picked one. He goes into the fact that Trump is notoriously difficult to define because he’s just such an asshole (my word not his) on every level.