SOLDIERS KILL STARVING GAZANS IN "SQUID GAME"
"Red Light, Green Light": Nearly 600 starving Palestinians have been killed "for moving at the wrong time" at US-Israeli military aid sites, according to the soldiers themselves.
https://violetnews.substack.com/p/soldiers-kill-starving-gazans-in
End the denial of [Canadian] visa and stalled permanent residency for Jay Naidoo, renowned South African anti-apartheid leader! https://ofl.ca/action/stop-the-denial-of-visa-and-stalled-permanent-residency-for-jay-naidoo/
"The government of Panama has declared a state of emergency, suspending constitutional protections in the Bocas del Toro province after two months of worker-led protests and road blockades in opposition to a contested social security reform. The province is a major banana-producing region where workers have spoken out against exploitative conditions by banana giant Chiquita. The corporation (...) fired thousands of striking workers last month."
Abolishing ICE Is the Bare Minimum
ICE agents aren’t out of control. They are performing their designed role as fascism’s storm troopers.
"While it’s tempting to point to this and say, “The problem is Trump,” that’s simply not true. The problem is ICE. It was created in the post-9/11 fever of 2003—another time of rampant human rights violations at home and abroad—and set up specifically to be a quasi-police force that could detain and deport immigrants. It has played a malevolent role for as long as it’s existed, carrying out abuses under Democratic and Republican administrations, including the Biden administration. It’s not an accident that Tom Homan, Trump’s psychopathic “border czar,” rose to prominence under President Barack Obama. It’s a measure of the fascist cancer at the heart of ICE. That cancer may have metastasized under Trump, but it’s been there the entire time.
(...)
There is no accommodating such an organism. There’s no way to make such a virulent thing better. There’s no way to make ICE fit comfortably within a democratic society. Just the opposite: The only kind of society something like ICE breeds is an antidemocratic police state. The targeting of democratically elected officials like Lander lends this an especially literal air, but ICE’s assaults on everyday people are no less malignant to the functioning of a civilized country. The only decent, moral solution is to do away with it—something people have been strategizing about for years. We do not have to consign ourselves to be ruled over by a depraved agency that, as Working Families Party press secretary Ravi Mangla pointed out the other day, is younger than Shrek. There’s no line in the Constitution that forces us to keep ICE around. This isn’t to say that tearing it down would be simple or easy—just that we’re talking about pruning a very young branch of government, not trying to shift the earth’s orbit.
And that is where “Abolish ICE”—two words that were everywhere during the last Trump administration—comes in. The Abolish ICE movement faded when Joe Biden took office—a victim of the partisan tendency to stop caring about an issue once “your” guy is in charge—and was sent deeper into the political wilderness as Democrats stampeded to the right on immigration over the course of Biden’s term. But if what we’re witnessing right now shows us anything, it’s that abolishing ICE remains as important as ever. Not only that—it is an obvious litmus test for anyone seeking political office. You can’t proclaim to fight Trumpist extremism and dodge its most visible, horrifying manifestation. You can’t run for local office as a progressive and collaborate with this project. You can’t vote to fund it and expect grassroots support. You can’t say you’re a supporter of immigrants and fail to stand up to their tormentors.
This isn’t a wild ask. It’s the least we should expect. Anything less is unacceptable. Anything less is a win for fascism."
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/abolish-ice-brad-lander/
"The tragedy narrative obscures the reality that a significant measure of their suffering emerges not from the condition alone, but from the social response to it — the part of the situation we are most able to fix."
We May Soon Be Telling a Very Different Kind of Story About Dementia
"With President Trump threatening to cut federal funding to the state if the trans girl competed, the event organizer changed the rules just days before the event in hopes of allaying concerns about the fairness of allowing Ms. Hernandez to compete. The athlete who finished behind Ms. Hernandez would be elevated to share her placement."
Where Gaza ethnic cleansing - genocide is now, without taking into account the artificially created famine.
Here's the latest control map of Gaza from Suriyak maps.
— The dark green area outlined with a white border is controlled by Resistance fighters
— Red areas are Israel's buffer zones
— Purple areas are controlled by Israel
— Yellow areas are Israel's latest operation (Operation "Gideon's Chariots")
— The rest has been razed/theoretically cleared
(Violet News Chat on Telegram)
GN!
“When you’re not able to fix a leaking faucet, well, your fate is to live with a leaking faucet.”
“By giving up on understanding what it means to be part of the world, they had become its enemies.”
“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape around us—and we call it: the world. It’s on this world that we apply the process of discrimination. We divide the sand into small piles: here and there, black and white—yesterday and today. Our handful of sand seems uniform—but the more we look at it, the more it appears diverse. Each grain is different from the others.”
“To improve the world, you must start by improving your own heart, and your head, and your hands—and then move, gradually, toward the rest of the world.”
—Robert M. Pirsig
(Photo: Unsplash)
Jack Dorsey Backs Plan to Rebrand Sats to ‘Bits’
"Twitter and Block Inc. founder Jack Dorsey has publicly voiced his support for a proposal to rename Bitcoin's smallest unit from "satoshis” or “sats” to "bits" or simply "bitcoin" as the base unit.
The proposal, known as BIP 177, was introduced by Synonym CEO John Carvalho, and would redefine one satoshi as one "bitcoin" (or "bit"), so what is currently 1 BTC (100,000,000 sats) would become 100,000,000 bitcoins (bits).
Dorsey, a prominent bitcoin advocate, argued that the term "sats" was confusing for new users and created a psychological barrier to Bitcoin adoption.
His support is part of a broader debate in the Bitcoin community, with some prominent figures agreeing that the change could help mainstream adoption, while others warn it may cause confusion or technical errors, especially without coordinated adoption.
“I think renaming the base unit is just plain stupid and totally pointless,” said one Bitcointalk forum participant. “Is there some problem or issue that it would solve? No.”
Implementing BIP 177 would require coordinated changes involving wallets, exchanges, merchants, and data providers.
Bitcoin's decentralized governance means that major changes require broad agreement among miners, developers, node operators, and users ― an especially challenging task for a non-critical change."
Source: Unchained Daily at https://unchainedcrypto.beehiiv.com/p/circle-eyes-sale-to-coinbase-or-ripple-amid-ipo-plans-f44d8d2177814c37
"(...) Israel is spiraling. The country is caught up in various negative momentums, both foreign and domestic"
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-netanyahu-smotrich-ben-gvir-collapse/
"Pam Bondi’s Trump Media
windfall: Attorney General sold up
to $5 million in shares just as
Trump's Liberation Day tariff
shock roiled the stock market
Pam Bondi Trump Media stock sale is
drawing attention after records showed she sold up to $5 million worth of shares on the same day President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs that shook the
market. Bondi’s stock sale came just before Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” press conference, which caused Trump Media’s stock to fall 13% in the following days. Her disclosure doesn’t reveal if the trade
happened before or after the
announcement, raising questions about
timing and ethics. With Bondi previously tied to Trump Media, this sale is under scrutiny. Here’s the full story behind the controversial move.
15 may 2025"
Pam Bondi’s Trump Media windfall: Attorney General sold up to $5 million in shares just as Trump's Liberation Day tariff shock roiled the stock market
Hackers bribed staff overseas
Company rejected $20 million ransom demand
Stock to join S&P 500 index in days
Coinbase warns of up to $400 million hit from cyberattack
"The baby, now 9 ½ months old, became the first patient of any age to have a custom gene-editing treatment, according to his doctors. He received an infusion made just for him and designed to fix his precise mutation (...) To accomplish that feat, the treatment is wrapped in fatty lipid molecules to protect it from degradation in the blood on its way to the liver, where the edit will be made. Inside the lipids are instructions that command the cells to produce an enzyme that edits the gene. They also carry a molecular GPS — CRISPR — which was altered to crawl along a person’s DNA until it finds the exact DNA letter that needs to be changed (...) It eventually could also be used for more common genetic disorders like sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis, Huntington’s disease and muscular dystrophy."
Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment
The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases.
(ChatGPT) "Jeffrey Sachs is a complex figure: visionary in his aspirations to eradicate poverty and promote sustainable development, yet sometimes criticized for his methods and positions. His credibility is solid in the field of economic development and global health, but his interventions in international politics and geopolitical stances are more controversial."
Jeffrey Sachs Claims Coronavirus Created by DARPA Involving University of North Carolina
Human rights are a light in the darkness.
https://www.amnestyusa.org/defend-human-rights-in-the-second-trump-administration/
"The Trump administration has scrapped more than $800 million worth of research into the health of L.G.B.T.Q. people, abandoning studies of cancers and viruses that tend to affect members of sexual minority groups and setting back efforts to defeat a resurgence of sexually transmitted infections, according to an analysis of federal data by The New York Times."
I do like the "Nostr Terminal" (https://enterthenostr.com/). Its "Matrix" look is fine by me.
GN!
The U.S. crypto market structure bill, backed by Donald Trump, aims to create clear rules for the industry. However, the crypto sector is split into four factions with conflicting views. Some want to keep the status quo, others seek to remove digital assets from SEC oversight, and some propose specific criteria to determine whether an asset is a security. These internal disagreements are slowing the bill’s progress, leaving Congress and the White House uncertain about the path forward. If the industry can’t unify, it risks missing a crucial chance to gain the regulatory clarity it has long sought.
https://unchainedcrypto.com/can-these-4-factions-stop-fighting-over-a-crypto-market-structure-bill/
I took it from here:
https://blog.goodmetaphysics.com/the-cage-of-an-amoral-metaphysics-over-art/
I had fun watching the movie “Speed Racer,” having been a fan of the animated series, now elevated to the status of the best film of the 21st century. It was entertaining and far-fetched, even though Patrick H. Willems puts his whole heart into it. I was disappointed when the movie first came out, but now I’m ready to see it with fresh eyes — especially since it was directed by the Wachowskis of the “Matrix” quadrilogy, and Willems highlights its techniques as being "ahead of their time".