The Greater Cleveland Food Bank lost 20 truckloads—$2 million worth—of emergency food this week due to agent orange admin cuts. That’s a MILLION POUNDS of food GONE. This is either incompetence or deliberate cruelty.

#Bruxelles 30.03.25

La condescendance et la complaisance de nos sociétés dites favorisées me donnent la nausée.
Et ce petit monde de l'entre-soi où l'empathie n'est que façade et pacotille.
"l’Académie des Oscars s’excuse pour son manque de soutien envers le réalisateur palestinie Hamdan Ballal Oscarisé le 26 mars arrêté par l’armée israélienne"

#PhotoDuJour #photography #photo #streetphotography #gaza #freedom #war #politics #live #stopgenocide #ceasefirenow #ceasefire #palestine
#genocide

As Eva Wiseman points out:

'while governments have an obsession with efficiency, its still limited solely to cost-cutting. There seems to be little interest in, for instance, making access to welfare payments more efficient or healthcare, or childcare... No, efficiency is only important when trying to maximise profit'!

efficiency defined by cost, rather than by effective practice(s);

we know the cost(s) off everything but the value of nothing!

#politics #economics

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/mar/30/striving-for-efficiency-is-all-very-well-but-it-leaves-no-time-to-live

A new release of #OverpoweringMyOPWifeInBed is available!

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I have been invited to testify (virtually) at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs about firings at VA. The hearing will begin at 3:00pm Eastern on Wednesday, April 2. The hearing was organized by the Democratic committee members; although all members of the committee are invited to attend, the Republican members are not expected to show up. The hearing will be live-streamed on Twitter (https://x.com/SVACDems) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/SVACDems/).
#politics #USPol #VA

#Bruxelles avant l'apocalypse écocidaire

Derrière tout empereur, chercher la femme
Derrière toute richesse, chercher Patchamama
Derrière les actionnaires, chercher la terre mère
Je recherche des personnes impliquées,actives dans la préservation de l'écosystème et désireuses d'échanges constructifs et solidaires.
Si tu vis à Bruxelles, en #Belgique, on peut organiser des rencontres.

As much as international people love to watch the US slide into fascism, you might be snickering at us Americans now, but this will soon happen to you if you aren't ready https://www.antihate.ca/election_2025_canadian_anti_hate_network_concerns #Politics

One word is going to start coming up more & more as the Court of the Tangerine Tyrant tries to extend the influence of its decisions (such as those against diversity policies), and that word is:

'extraterritoriality' - the projection of national legal sovereign power into other jurisdictions.

The US has always used forms of extraterritoriality, but Trump may be about to make this a much more contentious issue as he tries to reach deep into other domestic jurisdictions.

There is something very wrong in this country when six young people meeting to discuss politics in a Quaker Meeting House are arrested by the police after a mass (twenty officers) invasion of the building (armed with tasers).

The freedom to protest, or even the freedom to meet in a room to discuss current affairs, are central to a democracy... if this freedom is now compromised (further), as it seems to be, we are in a very bad place!

#politics

h/t @Thebratdragon

https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house

The power of ADSB tracking having very real impact on politics.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/ice-flight-tracker-deportations/682226/

Previously: “People are scared to go out because they go out with their kids, and they don’t want to go to a place where (people are) going to show up with guns to check whether they’re a U.S. citizen or not. That was very upsetting for a lot of people.” https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-raids-abbys-bakery-valley-los-fresnos/

I have been trying to make the point that when we give up our privacy, we give up our security for a long time. This is an article and short video from 2017. I could have made the same statements today.

I think many more are seeing the same. I know most of you here do.

#Vivaldi #Browser #Politics #internet #Web #Privacy

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-at-oslo-freedom-forum/

#Bruxelles 28.03.25

L'école ment comme toutes nos structures technocrates qui se rigidifient empêchant les potentiels de se libérer, d'exister.
Professeur d'art, ne supportant plus le mensonge profané à coup de novlangue dénué de sens, source d'angoisse, de perte de repères, je me prépare à un nouveau projet
Apprendre n'est pas un enjeu économique, de pouvoir sur l'autre, mais de découverte de soi, de développement de ses potentialités propres.

Says it all... Ben Jennings (Guardian)

“I don’t know when the shoe is going to drop. As a vaccine researcher we are all extremely nervous about what can happen to research funding,” said the New York scientist who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “There is no Plan B. It is economic madness as well as the elimination of a powerful technology against future pandemics. It is a freaking nightmare.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/trump-vaccine-skeptics-research-funding #Trump #Musk #coup #oligarchy #science #vaccines #mRNA #politics

#satire #humor #politics #alt #borowitz #greenland #trump #jdvance
Borowitz Report
Greenland Refuses to Trade JD Vance for Rare Earth Minerals

#Bruxelles 27.03.25

"Lutte pour nos droits"
Osons reprendre le chemin de la démocratie et agissons pour nos vies, nos enfants.
"La société est proche du burn-out, il faut retrouver du sens. La lutte contre le dérèglement climatique ne se fera pas sans une prise en main du sujet par les citoyens. Cela commence par «le courage de dire la vérité» face à l’incohérence des autorités." Libération