Dillon Lake

living life aiming to spread Peace, Love, and Positivity! #Everybody 🏳️‍🌈❤️✌️♻️🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: There's been a lot of talk in this race about what it means to be a real man.

Recently on the campaign trail I told the story of my adoptive dad, Mark Talarico. Every Saturday morning, he would mow our lawn, and then without anyone asking him to, he would go next door and mow our neighbor's lawn because she was a widow. My dad never talked about it — he just did it, because that's what a man does.

A man takes responsibility, upholds his commitments to his family and his neighbors, and does what's right, even when no one is watching.

Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life, sell their soul to the highest bidder, or steal from other people in order to enrich themselves. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

I welcome this debate about what it means to be a man, and I don't think Ken Paxton or Ted Cruz are in a position to tell anybody what a real man is.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @TheDailyShow

[Conspiratorial Report @CnsprtrlRprt]

People are noticing

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

“I’m seeing 13- and 15-year-olds coming in with gunshots because they went to go get food,” says Jack Latour, a Canadian nurse in #Gaza.

The @globeandmail spoke with three MSF staff about the dire conditions Palestinians face while seeking aid.

https://t.co/ckjG5HhaHA

[Acyn @Acyn]

Talerico: They are trying to insulate themselves from the will of the people. Normally, when you pass unpopular policies, you lose seats in the next election. That's how this is supposed to work. It's how people get a say in what their government does, but that doesn't work if one side cheats, and that's what's happening here. This is the rot at the core of our broken political system.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

The Zionist holocaust regime has lost the Daily Express

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

[The Associated Press @AP]

First national analysis finds America's butterflies are disappearing at 'catastrophic' rate https://t.co/uNoSxPtsGG

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

SHOULD THIS HAPPEN IN THE US?

This week a bill was introduced in Australia that will limit the total spending on a party by billionaires to Just $20,000 This will ban billionaires from single-handedly buying Elections.

Your thoughts?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A history of adults blaming the younger generation

[📹 History Hustle]

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Extraordinary text by Israeli historian Omer Bartov, a former IDF soldier who's now the world's leading scholar on genocide and the Holocaust: https://t.co/BCjj3HNeUC

He directly compares the ideology in today's Israel to that of Nazi Germany, says Israel is committing genocide and that it might be headed towards "self-annihilation".

Some extracts:

"[Israel has adopted a] logic of endless violence, a logic that allows one to destroy entire populations and to feel totally justified in doing so. It is a logic of victimhood – we must kill them before they kill us, as they did before – and nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood. Look at what happened to us in 1918, German soldiers said in 1942, recalling the propagandistic “stab-in-the-back” myth, which attributed Germany’s catastrophic defeat in the first world war to Jewish and communist treason. Look at what happened to us in the Holocaust, when we trusted that others would come to our rescue, IDF troops say in 2024, thereby giving themselves licence for indiscriminate destruction based on a false analogy between Hamas and the Nazis...

I told [some Zionist students] the story of how, in 1930, the German student union was democratically taken over by the Nazis. The students of that time felt betrayed by the loss of the first world war, the loss of opportunity because of the economic crisis, and the loss of land and prestige in the wake of the humiliating peace treaty of Versailles. They wanted to make Germany great again, and Hitler seemed able to fulfil that promise. Germany’s internal enemies were put away, its economy flourished, other nations feared it again, and then it went to war, conquered Europe and murdered millions of people. Finally, the country was utterly destroyed. I wondered aloud whether perhaps the few German students who survived those 15 years regretted their decision in 1930 to support nazism. But I do not think the young men and women at BGU understood the implications of what I had told them...

By the time I travelled to Israel, I had become convinced that at least since the attack by the IDF on Rafah on 6 May 2024, it was no longer possible to deny that Israel was engaged in systematic war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocidal actions. It was not just that this attack against the last concentration of Gazans – most of them displaced already several times by the IDF, which now once again pushed them to a so-called safe zone – demonstrated a total disregard of any humanitarian standards. It also clearly indicated that the ultimate goal of this entire undertaking from the very beginning had been to make the entire Gaza Strip uninhabitable, and to debilitate its population to such a degree that it would either die out or seek all possible options to flee the territory. In other words, the rhetoric spouted by Israeli leaders since 7 October was now being translated into reality – namely, as the 1948 UN Genocide Convention puts it, that Israel was acting “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part”, the Palestinian population in Gaza, “as such, by killing, causing serious harm, or inflicting conditions of life meant to bring about the group’s destruction”."

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This fascinating Nature study (link in the bottom) by @jasonhickel and others should destroy for ever the myth that workers in the Global South "steal jobs" at the expense of the Global North.

They find an astonishing metric that "while Southern workers contribute 90% of the labour that powers the world economy, they receive only 21% of global income."

Meaning of course that the lifestyle of the North is subsidized by the work of the South: if we lived in a fair world, those contributing 90% of the labor should theoretically receive 90% of the income, not 21%... Concretely, the study calculates that "an extra 826 billion hours of Southern labour [the equivalent to 369 million workers] is effectively appended to Northern economies as invisible “ghost workers”, [which is] more than the total workforce of the United States and the European Union combined".

And before I hear you say "yes but it's all low skilled labor", that's not true at all. As per the study, "the South contributed the majority of labour across all skill levels: 76% of all high-skilled labour, 91% of medium-skilled labour and 96% of low-skilled labour". In fact, astonishingly: "the South now contributes more high-skilled labour to the world economy than all the high-, medium- and low-skilled labour contributions of the global North combined."

You could also say "yes but it's just a temporary situation: as global South countries develop they'll progressively become like the North", but that's precisely what this study shows is impossible because "the North’s development model relies on appropriation from elsewhere".

This implies two things: 1) the North has no incentive for the South to develop because their very model depends on appropriation from the South and 2) the South can't develop like the North because they have no South of their own to exploit. They need to find their own model that doesn't rely on exploitation, akin to China who developed with their own workers (and is progressively using more and more robots as its workforce gains in skills).

Also, the South catching up with the North is not the direction at all, except for some rare exceptions. The studies shows that, on average, "wages of Southern workers are 83–98% lower for work of equal skill within the same sector" and these wage gaps "have increased substantially over time, across all skill levels and all sectors, indicating a steady increase in absolute North–South income inequality".

So what's the solution? The study concludes that "development and poverty eradication, and any plausible trajectory for reducing global inequality, requires a shift in the balance of power between North and South, such that the latter is able to reclaim its productive capacities to meet human needs. Toward this end, international wage floors and minimum resource prices could help reduce price inequalities and limit value transfers. Ending unequal exchange will also require ending structural adjustment conditions on finance, and democratising the institutions of global economic governance, so that global South governments are free to use industrial, fiscal and monetary policy to pursue sovereign development and reduce their dependency on Northern capital. Such reforms are unlikely to be handed down from above, however. It will require a political struggle for national self-determination and economic sovereignty similar in scope to the anti-colonial movement of the 20th century."

Link to the study: https://t.co/6RZ4U7Hhcs

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

My god - there is video of IDF soldiers raping the Palestinian man at the Sde Teiman torture camp.

This is what Israelis rioted to protect, what the Knesset debated - the right to rape Palestinians.

[dylan saba @shaabiranks]

The testimonies collected by @btselem in their new report on the Israeli torture camps are even worse than you could imagine https://t.co/Bz16u3IDTr

[Jake Hanrahan @Jake_Hanrahan]

Convicted neo-Nazi (of banned Nazi organisation ‘National Action’) who spent six years in prison for far-right terrorism present at Southport riots. Reporting by @DdesimoneDaniel.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Watch #BURNED now: https://t.co/WYdItD5uk1

[Sophie Rae Lichterman @why_sophie_why]

They have never cared about women's sports and do not care now. It is like the least feminist thing in the world to be like she's too good at her sport, she must be a man.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden on the ticket last week, and Republicans are workshopping what exactly it is they hate about her