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This is real multipolarity. The US/EU vs Russia/China/Iran stuff isn’t true multipolarity because it’s literally just two poles: one in Washington DC and one in Beijing.
I didn’t think about “we’ll tire you out until you start making costly mistakes,” but that works too. I guess this is another form of war by attrition, instead it’s more about slowly destroying enemy attentiveness/readiness/morale.
But unlike Diablo, there’s no gold chest at the end of that dungeon.
So Tory seats went to Reform (-557 vs +570) while Labour seats split between LD and Greens (-160 vs +129+40)?
Cool May 1st art from Palestinian artists:
https://xcancel.com/atlajala/status/1917838350863720732
Palestine Action Éire actionists halt US Military CRAF flight at Shannon Airport:
https://xcancel.com/pal_action_eire/status/1918011838526308538
Wholesome content: Vietnamese kids reenact the liberation of Saigon
https://xcancel.com/CarlZha/status/1917558597615247819
Being a Zionist and getting caught up in organ trafficking, name a more iconic duo:
https://xcancel.com/GhassanKDE/status/1916782626481807629
Since work was canceled today and Friday is worker day this will be a 3 day work week.
3-day workweek
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday firmly rejected the notion of reviving the Karabakh movement, describing it as a serious risk to the country’s independence and sovereignty.
The US doesn’t even have enough experienced personnel to adequately manage the number of factories needed for reindustrialization. A bunch of parasitic techbros and finance bros are less than useless on the factory floor, whether as the actual worker doing productive labor or as a supervisor or as a GM.
Common inverse Cramer W:
https://xcancel.com/CramerTracker/status/1909342873214149088Jim Cramer called for Black Monday
The Nasdaq finished +0.01% today
Incredible
The U.S. is denying Mexico’s request for Colorado River water for the first time since the two countries signed a water-sharing treaty in 1944.
The Trump administration said it will deny a special request to deliver Colorado River water to Tijuana.
The water treaty Mexico and the U.S. signed in 1944 compels the U.S. to share Colorado River water with Mexico, and Mexico to share water from the Rio Grande with the U.S.
But Mexico has recently fallen behind on water deliveries to the U.S. Climate change and drought have meant less water to go around in dry northern Mexico.
In a social media post, the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs said Mexico’s failure to deliver water has been “decimating American agriculture.”
Flight attendants on how deportees were treated on deportation flights
https://xcancel.com/propublica/status/1907599803531546650THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants.
They said they’d worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board.
Most of the flight attendants hadn’t knowingly signed up to help deport people. When they took their jobs, they’d expected to fly VIPs to glamorous locales.
Then the airline started working for ICE, and many or most of their passengers were detainees, people in chains.
We spoke with 7 current and former Global Crossing Airlines crew members. Their accounts were consistent with one another and aligned with what’s in legal filings and other records about ICE Air—important because neither GlobalX nor ICE answered any of ProPublica’s questions.
The flight attendants’ training classes hadn’t prepared them for this, they told us.
One flight attendant said: “They never taught us anything regarding the immigration flights… They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
The flight attendants said there were new rules to follow, though:
•Don’t talk to the detainees.
•Don’t feed them.
•Don’t make eye contact.
•Don’t walk down the aisles without a guard escorting you.
•Don’t sit in aisle seats, where detainees could get close to you.One flight attendant described needing to give emergency oxygen to a little girl traveling with her parents on a deportation flight. The girl had collapsed with low oxygen saturation and a high fever, and the flight was diverted back to the US. But when paramedics rushed on only the mom was allowed to join the little girl as they took her to the hospital, the flight attendant said.
The flight attendant said the dad had to stay, and that he was going to be deported without the rest of his family, without knowing if his daughter would live.
Three flight attendants said they did get some rare guidance on how to run evacuations on deportation flights from ICE Air pilots.
“Just get up and leave” after you open the exit door, one recalls a pilot telling him. “That’s it… Save your life first."
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” another said.
The flight attendants who spoke with ProPublica believed those lives were not worthless. That, many of them said, is why they no longer fly for ICE Air—and why they shared their stories.
Though we didn’t hear from GlobalX, then-CEO Ed Wegel did address deportation flights in 2023.
“In the time that we’ve been flying, we’ve not seen any inhumane treatment,” he said. "There have been threats made to our crew members…But we haven’t seen any mistreatment at all.”
TRADE is BADneeds to be an emote.
https://xcancel.com/BookerBiro/status/1907365970110222640
BREAKING NEWS
The shooting incident in Nakuru targeting Party leaders is deeply unfortunate. However, we have made it clear; no amount of intimidation will stop our struggle for an independent, liberated, and socialist Kenya.
To be honest I was surprised he lasted this long.
I’m simultaneously surprised he lasted this long and didn’t last long enough if that makes sense.
https://xcancel.com/incontextmedia/status/1906682710304649702Ibrahim Traore, Burkina Faso’s President has reportedly increased salaries of civil servants by 50% and reduced salaries for MPs, Ministers and politicians by 30%.