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ProtonVPN blocked in Venezuela. It appears they're blocking all the common VPNs along with Twitter.

Unlike the useless DSA the PSL is calling out the Walz pick

Tim Walz: a fake progressive sent to rescue the sinking Democratic Party.

After Biden's meltdown, the Democrats are hoping to reenergize people with a supposedly "progressive" pick for Kamala Harris' running mate.

Russia are still not calling this a "war" in ukraine. They are continuing to call it a Special Military Operation.

The counter offensive they're now mounting in their own territory? "Counter Terrorist Operation"

The threat of Trump liquidating the administrative state and democratic party, real or imagined, has pressured dems at the highest level to do the previously unthinkable; demonstrate basic political instincts.

Incredible new just dropped
Fire an RPG into an Israeli outpost, lay a bunch of explosives in the street outside the nearest mosque since they'll beeline straight toward it, and let them walk into the trap

This Ukrainian offensive stopped at the first town it ran into (population ~5000) and I'm still gonna have to hear about it for the next week

CW: dead bodies, gore

a7med.meqdad posted a picture of body parts in plastic bags on Instagram. Says they are remnants of martyrs from the displaced school after an Israeli attack. Because they are so disfigured it is impossible to tell who it is so they weigh the bags and every 70kg gets buried as a separate person.

I find it interesting that your standard liberal scoffs at Iran’s military capacity, yet whenever Israel does some shit, a dozen articles are written about how US military generals become on edge and announce “negotiations” or “deescalation” that help stop/delay major Iranian strikes against Israel/US bases.

Copy and pasting from CNN since linking to breaking news doesn’t let me link to the story itself

Stocks are tumbling. But, no, America's market is not "crashing”

The US stock market looks like it’s going to have another very rough day on Monday. But this is not what a market crash looks like.

US futures, which give investors a sense of how the market will open at 9:30 am ET, are sharply lower. Dow futures are down 800 points, or 2%. Futures for the broader S&P 500 are 2.9% lower. And futures for the tech-heavy Nasdaq, which entered correction territory (a 10% decline from the peak) fell 4.2%.

That’s bad, but it’s not close to historically bad. By comparison, Japan’s Nikkei 225 plummeted 12% Monday — that’s a crash.

The Dow’s worst drop, measured by points, in history, came in the early days of the pandemic: It fell 2,997 points on March 16, 2020, a decline of 12.9%. The broader S&P 500 fell 12% that day — the second-worst decline in history.

But that wasn’t even close to “Black Monday,” the worst US stock market crash ever. The Dow on October 19, 1987, fell 22.6% in a single session. That day, the S&P 500 nosedived 20.3%.

The US trading day hasn’t even begun, and strange things can happen when fear takes hold on Wall Street. But — at least so far — this is not what a market crash looks like.

My “the markets aren’t in melt down” shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are answered by my shirt.

Whatever you think is happening right now, the bank manager wants you to know that your money is safe and you should definitely exit the queue of people seeking to withdraw their money.

It’s SO fucking Joever.

Climate change could return a stolen lake to Indigenous people, a century later

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• Semá:th Xhotsa, or Sumas Lake, in Canada was the center of First Nations’ food system and culture, before European colonists drained it in 1924 to create farmland.
• Almost 100 years later, catastrophic flooding threatens to refill the lake and displace the farmers.
• First Nations people and university researchers have proposed restoring the lake ecosystem to adapt to climate change-driven flooding, and as a method of reparation, but the local government is pushing back.

A tribe once declared ‘extinct’ helps reintroduce salmon to the Columbia River

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• For thousands of years, Kettle Falls was a vital salmon fishing ground for the Sinixt, but early 20th-century dam construction blocked salmon migration.
• Wrongfully declared extinct in Canada in 1956, the Sinixt fought for recognition and were officially acknowledged as Aboriginal Peoples of Canada in 2021.
• In 2023, the U.S. government signed a $200 million agreement with a coalition of tribes, including the Sinixt, to fund an Indigenous-led salmon reintroduction program into the Columbia River system above dams in Washington.
• Sinixt leaders say this project is an important effort to help right a historical wrong in the legacy that led to their “extinction” status, while many hope to one day join salmon efforts on their traditional territory in Canada.

Moral of the story?

Crazy how 10 years ago AMD was a penny stock, around $4 vs Intel's $27, and now they're $135 and $20 respectively. I think abt this more than I should because I've always been team red and almost bought it. But now it's too gambly to buy any

Here is the map of countries recognizing the Venezuelan elections:

I edited the map from Wikipedia to fix Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.

Learning from Bangladesh, Thailand has shut down the Move Forward party, widely regarded as a US proxy, with 151 seats in the 500-seat parliament. Last year, it was blocked from forming a coalition government by the monarchy and military.

Thailand also recently applied to BRICS, and has a 900-kilometer high speed railroad in the works by China, which would connect Kunming in China to Bangkok via Laos. It should be complete by 2028 and will cost up to $10 billion, but a railway ticket will cost a third of the equivalent plane ticket and bring two million Chinese tourists every year.

Nonetheless, a color revolution could still come in through the back door, with Myanmar's government continuing to lose ground to Western-backed rebels. China has been pressuring them to come to some kind of agreement and end the conflict, but they have so far refused to give in.

Simple electoral take. We may have underestimated the amount and extent of people who just wanted a different candidate besides Trump and Biden. KBrat is a different candidate.

I'd give the Democrats credit for showing some decent political instincts for once. Walz seems like a human being at least and not a total freak. He's a lib, but someone with at least some humanity compared to that ghoul Shapiro.

WhatsApp is being used by ‘fascists’ to coordinate threats and harassment against their opponents, claims Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro

Maduro deleted Whatsapp LIVE on Venezuelan TV lol

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This site was in the tank for Kamala ever since we started off

IOF goon 1: Hey, there's this spotless barrel inconspicuously lying in the middle of all this rubble. Let's all stand right next to it.

IOF goon 2: Yeah, good idea.

https://xcancel.com/RFN3138/status/1821251932750553344

A bunch of the conservative grifters have withdrawn support for Trump in the last 24 hours. Something big coming out or is it just that over?

Majority of Israelis say it is acceptable for soldiers to SA prisoners (Link is to the poll, no SA related imagery)
EDIT: post deleted, backup here

Sinwar is the head of Hamas' polticial bureau succeeding Haniyeh.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/6/hamas-names-yahya-sinwar-as-new-leader-after-ismail-haniyehs-killing

US and UK to boycott Nagasaki bombing memorial after Israel disinvited - Middle East Eye

The US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 killed tens of thousands of Japanese civilians

The American and British ambassadors to Japan have announced they will skip an upcoming ceremony commemorating the victims of the US’s 1945 atomic bombing because the city’s mayor did not invite the Israeli ambassador.

The Russian and Belarusian ambassadors have also been excluded from the event this Friday by Japanese authorities. The Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony is intended to mark the 79th anniversary of the US atomic bomb attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima that killed tens of thousands of Japanese civilians, with many more later dying from radiation poisoning.

The attacks in August 1945 preceded Japan’s unconditional surrender to the US and the end of the Second World War. Julia Longbottom, the UK’s ambassador to Japan, told local reporters that Israel is exercising self-defence in Gaza and should not be treated in the same way as Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

lmao I’ve been seeing a defense of Kamala that amounts to “Kamala can’t control Biden’s policy, don’t blame her for Biden sending bombs to Israel”.

As if Biden isn’t working with his second in command and hand-picked successor on policy. He picked her to lead policy starting next year, but he doesn’t let her have a say in policy right now?

And even if he really is shutting her out like that, she’s been silent about it and completely uncritical of Biden. She could use her campaign to rail against his actions, but she doesn’t. Hell she could (and should if she actually wanted to stop bombing Palestine) attempt to invoke the 25th amendment and take control right now.

And even if that fails, sometimes old men just trip down the stairs and that’s it. Tragic really.

excited for the tim walz slammer edits when he inevitably says israel has a right to defend itself

Iran is in the middle of a heatwave, it wouldn't be crazy if they're waiting for basic services to function again before retaliating. The government was shut down yesterday to save energy. This could mean another week before a response

its over. hexbear is gonna have a civil war over this guy.

@[email protected] any word on why Nicaragua and Brazil are expelling each other's ambassadors?

I know people have an issue with nationalism at the Olympics, but it felt damn good to see Guatemala win Gold in women’s shooting and bronze in men’s.

We have a growing interest in the sports and it’s shown since the Pan-American games. Here’s hoping our program continues to grow.

With the numbers of infantry, tanks, armored vehicles and drones sent into Kursk this appears it might be an all-in offensive from Ukraine. Everywhere in Donbas has stopped getting reinforcements and is collapsing at an increasing rate. This is Ukraine’s “2024 summer offensive” and this time they were smart enough to not brag about it loudly in the media for months.

More and more reinforcements are being sent into the Kursk breach and once it’s eventually stemmed and cleaned up Ukraine is going to be in an extremely weak position.

However this will be very damaging for Putin’s reputation and was a major intelligence failure. I even heard reports the Russians saw Ukrainian build-ups and hesitated to strike for some reason, major fuck up

All government offices and banks have been closed in Iran tomorrow citing "rise in temperature" (heatwave) as the reason.

https://xcancel.com/IranIntl_En/status/1820909582941847811

According to twitter posters Hezbollah is SLAMMING Israel with rockets. They're allegedly getting through the iron dome (what dome?) and Iran is yet to even attack. Is this misinfo or legit? WHY ARE NONE OF YOU ONLINE AND POSTING?!

I have infomred Iran that we have opend a New Mega .

A travel story in which a white American woman delays a trip to Mongolia for a year because she would have to briefly enter Russia, has what sounds like an uneventful regular ass road trip, forgets what is described as a “piece of paper” but is likely her visa entry card meaning when she tries to exit she doesn’t have a valid visa, nonetheless is allowed to exit without incident after authorities verify her identity, and it is breathlessly written like a harrowing trip through a gulag.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/05/travel/road-trip-russia-mongolia-american-woman/index.html

This is why you don't let neoliberals run a war

Imane Khelif from Algeria has won an Olympic gold medal in the women's 66kg boxing final in dominant fashion.

Omg is it over?

Did Russia just lose?

Did Ukraine just annex Russia?

Is Israel winning? Is Israel running victory laps around Gaza and Iran????? Are they now the eternal god-kings of the middle east???

Did China just collapse?

Did the US become the eternal hegemon?

Is the US mass-distributing mind control chips to all dissenters to ensure that their hegemony is never challenged again?

Is worshipping the US now the world's religion?

Is worshiping the US now a biological need equivalent to food and water?

Is it over?