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Fri, 17/05/2024 - 23:00
Into your life it will creep Is anyone keeping a list? A list of the “I know you are but what am I?” behaviors of which the right accuses its adversaries while indulging in same with gusto? Indoctrination? Extremism? Propaganda? Intimidation? There must be a listing somewhere, but I’m too tired of the BS to go looking just now. The breaking news Thursday night was a photo of an upside down American flag flown outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., in Alexandria, Va. on January 17, 2021. Days after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol by MAGA extremists on January 6 and three days before Joe Biden’s inauguration as Donald Trump’s replacement. Alito blames his wife. Election rigging? Death threats? Political violence? Hating America? Upside down display of the American flag is a considered a signal of distress. Donald Trump’s Stop the Steal cult appropriated the signal as a sign of alarm that a Democrat was about to occupy the Oval Office in his place. It is unclear how many days it flew outside Alito’s home, The New York Times reports.
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Fri, 17/05/2024 - 22:00

“In response to the controversy surrounding Harrison Butker’s commencement speech at Benedictine College, the NFL distanced itself from the ideas expressed in the speech, saying the league doesn’t share the beliefs the Kansas City Chiefs kicker voiced while addressing the graduating students. During the commencement speech, Butker referred to Pride Month as an example of the ‘deadly sins.’ He also addressed gender ideologies and said a woman’s most important title is ‘homemaker.’” — The Athletic

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1. “Men set the tone of the culture, and when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction, and chaos set in.”

2. “The spectacles women used to make of themselves. Oiling themselves like roast meat on a spit, and bare backs and shoulders, on the street, in public, and legs, not even stockings on them, no wonder these things used to happen.”

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Fri, 17/05/2024 - 19:16
Max von Sydow (1929-2020) medverkade i över ett hundra filmer och TV-serier. Han gjorde många minnesvärda roller, men den som har berört mig mest är som fadern i Pelle Erövraren — baserad på Martin Andersen Nexös episka mästerverk. Bille August regisserade. Stefan Nilsson skrev musiken. Max von Sydow gjorde sitt livs prestation. Och det skär […]
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Fri, 17/05/2024 - 18:32

Labor’s budget is about making it look like the government is acting on the cost of living, in the hope of dampening the anger workers feel about it in time for an election in the next year.

The post Labor’s cost of living band-aids in budget leave real problems ignored first appeared on Solidarity Online.

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Fri, 17/05/2024 - 12:58

New environmental protection laws promised before the last election have been put indefinitely on hold, in another effort by the Albanese government to serve the coal and gas industry.

The post Approval laws delayed in further effort to do the bidding of coal and gas industry first appeared on Solidarity Online.