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Just blatantly exploiting fault lines that already exist in Western/European societies in order to spread hate and get friendly governments elected. There’s not nearly enough pushback against this type of shit.

Not only are they ending reporting requirements for beneficial ownership, they’re deleting their existing database of beneficial owners as well. Anything to cover up the massive crime and corruption this administration has been involved in; this should be seen as the equivalent of burning down buildings full of records.

Same school of thought as Ben Gvir’s crocodile-guarded prison, just brutality for its own sake. The gloves are to be delivered by next March, and I guarantee that by year’s end they’re going to be used against some grandpa with a pacemaker or a similarly vulnerable individual.

Lmfao. After years of supporting Trump and trying to be his right-hand man in the Nationalist International, I wonder how Modi is going to sell this absolute shit sandwich to his cultists. Then again, the President has discretion on tariff rates, so this is just another opportunity for extortion.

Stopping oil exports would be pretty regarded anyway given that US refineries are dependent on imported heavy crude, and that the West Coast is dependent on gasoline imported from Asia. Better to institute a windfall profits tax and use the proceeds to ensure a minimum allocation of fuel for everyone.

Fork found in kitchen. There’s no way that the ~70,000 young men who were uneducated and unemployed enough to take part in this stunt could’ve pulled it off without some organization from above.

Just kidding, this article is about the ultra-Orthodox Haredi community in Israel protesting a café opening on Shabbat. Funny how the existence of these parallel subcultures in certain immigrant communities is enough to assume anyone who looks vaguely alike is a misogynistic, homophobic religious fanatic opposed to “Western values”, whereas the existence of such societies in Israel—on a much grander scale, and with much more political and institutional power (currently holding up Netanyahu’s coalition)—raises no questions about their self-image as a modern democratic outpost in a sea of backward savages.

The activists in question are American Jews using their presence to protect Palestinian farm workers from attacks by settlers or Israeli security forces. The fact that someone is willing to value common humanity over ethno-religious affiliation is a major threat to the sort of identitarian thinking that perfuses through the Israeli government and civil society.

At this point the right-wing media ecosystem is just frothing at the mouth with incoherent invective, designed purely to generate a visceral emotional response rather than even keep up appearances of disagreeing on policy. Although these men are rather mild social democrats, it’s gratifying to see the utter fear they have struck into the hearts of these establishment toadies.

It’s hilarious seeing rightoids like this, who imagine themselves to be strong and muscular icons of masculinity, turn out to be such weak, pathetic, thin-skinned beta males. The fact that he insisted on a lawsuit, likely against against the better judgment of his attorneys, makes him look like even more of an insecure loser.

India is a country that is still in relatively early phases of economic development, and the demand for (high-quality) public education far exceeds the available supply. This creates a need for extremely competitive national university entrance exams, for which schoolchildren spend a significant chunk of their time preparing, and which for those from underprivileged backgrounds offer a ticket out of hardship. This cycle, exam papers were leaked to certain well-connected individuals in advance, which other students saw as an insult; this led to a protest movement which eventually removed the country’s education minister.

First he nationalized big chunks of the commanding heights of the economy, now he’s exporting the revolution by imposing big beautiful tariffs on countries that (allegedly) engage in forced labor. Wonder what’s next for Comrade Trump.

Squandering a once-in-a-generation opportunity to put the right wing on the back foot, so they can push some centrist empty suit who will win 51-49 against JD Vance in 2026, but get absolutely crushed by Marco Rubio in 2030.

Pro-Israel interests trying to pinkwash their favored candidates and policies by going for the “misogynistic Arab man” trope. Frankly I’m surprised they didn’t try it on Mamdani as well, considering that Arabs, South Asians, and Muslims are—as far as much of the electorate is concerned—one and the same. I suppose Cuomo’s own SA allegations, and Mamdani being rather lib-coded, made such a line of attack unlikely to work.

Absolutely corrupt to the core. Sounds like the brothers behind many of these gas stations had legal trouble and probably agreed to sell gasoline at a loss, for Trump’s benefit, in order to make it go away.