Police thuggery needs to be investigated

Had to put this here. facebook.com/share/p/1D7eZAt…

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Truly? Sand in what’s supposed to be bags of sugar?? The cruelty beggars belief.

The Australien Government and the Opposition have made an ad about electoral reforms, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative (and they're hoping you don't hear about it) #auspol

If you stand for truth, peace and justice in this world then it’s important not to make your happiness dependent on large-scale wins. Because the deck is stacked so heavily against truth, peace and justice, your side will experience far more losses than wins. You will watch powerlessly as your government backs genocides, starts wars, and unleashes nightmare after nightmare upon the global south. Your heroes will disappoint you. Your protest movements will fizzle. Your civil rights will erode, your speech will be marginalized, the wealthy and powerful will amass more wealth and power while the poor and the powerless grow ever more so. I say this not as an expression of pessimism or defeatism, but because that’s simply where we’re at as a society right now. Ours is a highly controlled dystopia where minds are continuously inundated with power-serving propaganda and tyrants enact their abusive agendas without much meaningful resistance. This doesn’t mean we can’t win, it just means we can’t realistically expect many big wins in the immediate future under our current circumstances while truth has so much difficulty getting a word in edgewise. You can let all the human suffering depress you and let all your failed attempts to stop it drag you down, or you can look to some other source for your happiness which isn’t dependent on securing large-scale wins for humanity. For me this is a no-brainer. It does nobody any good for me to be miserable all the time, and in fact letting myself get bogged down in depression and despair would make my efforts a lot less prolific and effective. A dissident voice choosing to be unhappy just because there’s so much suffering in the world would be like a revolutionary soldier choosing to be weak and emaciated and worthless on the battlefield just because there are so many people who are starving. A happy mind is a healthy mind, a healthy mind is an effective mind, and we need our minds to be as effective as possible while we work to awaken our civilization from the lies of the empire. So don’t bind your happiness to the success of your efforts. As Chris Hedges has said, “I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.” Do everything you can to fight back against the lies, war and tyranny of the empire, but do it for its own sake because it’s the right thing to do, not because you’ve wrapped up your sense of wellbeing in the success of failure of your fight. Instead, find your happiness elsewhere. In your love for your fellow humans. In the jaw-dropping beauty of this miraculous planet we get to live on. In the raw enjoyment of feeling the air in your lungs and the ground beneath your feet. In being present in the senses rather than immersed in the dull repetitive chatter of the mind. Happiness is a skill that can be learned with practice, and it is worthwhile to learn that skill. The revolution doesn’t need a bunch of despondent, burnt-out minds, it needs vibrant minds full of zest for life on this planet, who really have something to fight for. By not allowing yourself to be happy, you’re not helping the needful, you’re just depriving the world of that much happiness. Any joy you can allow into your life will have beneficial knock-on effects on every life you touch, and any joy you shut out will deprive them of that. And you deserve to be happy. You do. If this feels untrue to you, the happiness is hiding just beneath that feeling. See if you can get underneath it and unhook whatever beliefs are binding you to that pointless, unhelpful fixation. You are worthy of happiness and inner peace. Find your happiness and continue to fight ferociously, without placing too much importance on whether your efforts will succeed or fail today. All we can do is keep throwing our own little bit of sand into the gears of the machine, knowing that one day, with enough sand, the whole thing will start grinding to a halt. There’s no good reason to waste our time on this earth depriving ourselves of happiness in the meantime.

So… we’re just gonna do fuckall about this??? Hello?!?! Anyone?!?

Don Jr. nonchalantly rubbing cocaine on his gums while standing next to his daddy in front of TV cameras speaks volumes.

We are working with @SwelteringCity to Raise awareness about this conditions women in Darwin prison are enduring Please sign this petition and show the women we have not forgotten them 🖤 and that we’re fighting for justice

Babyyyyy yall are gonna hate me for saying this. Working at Ben and Jerry's as a teen radicalized me. The staff literature taught me tax evasion. They take several insane progressive political stances a year, including total prison abolition. It's hard to believe, but it's true

A post from one of Australia’s most senior and highly respected journalists: Eyewitnesses say “the smell of rotting corpses permeates the entire Gaza Strip. It emanates from the rubble, under which people were buried, and dogs run around with human remains in their mouths.”

#Recount2024 #DemandARecount

#US #Elections Comment: 11102024 There are solid reasons why Kamala Haris lost the elections. Though it's remarkable she didn't win any of the swing states. 1. My suggestion is that mathematical - #stochasticdistribution samples are taken across counties across states to recount by hand what the outcome of the voting machines has been. Important is also to check if individual voter records are correct in those samples. Mathematics should determine the setup - which to sample where and the sample sizes. The sample outcome the number of differences found in comparison the cut off number determine if to accept the overall voting results or to reject. 2. I live in the Netherlands. We were to change our elections' process to voting by voting machines. Investigators showed us how easy it was to hack the voting machines. The government made the wise decision to keep the voting by pencil and ballot. Because what I know from my own country I do think thorough stochastic sampling of the voting process is a necessity.

This kind and courageous man just keeps on proving himself 💜

Lebanon’s syndicate of chemists, based on the level of destruction last night, believe that Israel may have used depleted uranium.

These quotes express principles that should be taught to every high school student in every nation.

If you ever have to argue with an anti-vaxer - especially the “patriot” type - show them this. Vaccine scepticism so weakens a nation that the US tried to make it happen in China. aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/14…

70-year-old #GiselePelicot has become a powerful symbol of resilience by refusing private trials for her husband, who drugged & raped her alongside 50 other men for a decade. Her courage has sparked global attention. She’s rewriting the narrative around sexual assault and pushing for justice in the public eye. I hope her strength inspires #women, including those in #Turkey who’ve faced violence and sexual assault, to come forward and fight against their abusers.

“We are former national security and foreign policy officials who served in the administrations of Presidents Reagan, H.W. Bush, W. Bush, or Trump…We believe Kamala Harris possesses the essential qualities to serve as President and Donald Trump does not.” rbmralumni4harris.substack.c…