R.O.L.

R.O.L.

@rlaux.bsky.social

Weekend writer and human person trying to survive this late capitalism dystopian hellscape. I am definitely not a cat. peteca.substack.com

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“…here we sit in front of our TVs hardly paying attention and doomscrolling our brains to rot, casually, over the dead bodies of a whole civilization. Their descendants? Removed to camps, some living in situations very similar to what popular media shows…” peteca.substack.com/p/post-apoca...

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“covert surveillance inside houses of worship… “interrogations of churches’ staff… “ICE agents hauled off a nun who was wearing her habit and walking down the sidewalk en route to Sunday Mass… “suing a Catholic diocese in New Mexico to seize 14 acres of their land…” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

ms.nowThe Trump administration keeps clashing with faith communitiesLast year the White House said Joe Biden and his administration “abused and targeted Christians.” A year later, the hypocrisy is staggering.

Lula won, by a big margin. Now his opponent is crying for an extension to the voting hours that his own party also requested. These people are the worse crybabies to have power in history. Ever the poor victims of some fake unseen injury. Whilst either actually or calling for real injury to others.

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Bleecker Street, the film distributor overseeing the theatrical release of Alex Gibney's documentary Musk, was informed on Friday that the film's TikTok account was subject to "permanent suspension." tinyurl.com/4yd9997x

This is the bad place. We are inches away from a world war, hunger, genocide, climate change, extremism, political incompetence, anti-intellectualism, stupidity masquerading as skepticism and a good dose of allergy to truth. We have dire need of solutions. What do we get? A fake fucking flying car

GOW Laufey looks fucking amazing. I will gladly pay full price for it. In the meantime I will fill my need to play a cool protagonist with Echoes of The End.

Popular media has broken our brains. There is no salvation coming around the corner, the bad guys don’t get a comeuppance, there will never be someone coming to you to tell you “you are special” or the “chosen one”, if they do it’s a scam. We are on our own and the bad guys control everything.

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Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

With this New Age of stupidity, willful ignorance and Fascism I think it’s only a matter of time before the looksmaxxing crowd rediscovers Phrenology.

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Chuck Schumer's two votes tonight in favor of bombs and bulldozers to Israel is yet another reason Senate Democrats must vote to remove him as leader post the midterms.

The war in a nutshell: Trump will set your house on fire and then ask for praise for not pouring more gasoline on it. Figuratively speaking.

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"Israel’s Latest Genocide Is Against the Shias of Lebanon. Why Is the World Silent?" Lebanon’s Christians are being told by the Israeli military to get rid of any displaced Shias hiding in their homes or villages. Haven’t we seen this story before, and don’t we all know how it ends? My latest:

zeteo.comIsrael’s Latest Genocide Is Against the Shias of Lebanon. Why Is the World Silent?Lebanon’s Christians are being told by the Israeli military to get rid of any displaced Shias hiding in their homes or villages. Haven’t we seen this story before, and don’t we all know how it ends?

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BREAKING: Trump Fires Pam Bondi… for Not Being Corrupt Enough Our authoritarian president wanted AG Bondi to prosecute his enemies. She tried – and helped cover up the Epstein scandal, too. It wasn’t enough. zeteo.com/p/trump-fire...

zeteo.comBREAKING: Trump Fires Pam Bondi… for Not Being Corrupt EnoughOur authoritarian president wanted AG Bondi to prosecute his enemies. She tried – and helped cover up the Epstein scandal, too. It wasn’t enough.

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Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s minister of national security, celebrates Israel’s newest law: a death penalty applied exclusively to Palestinians. Israel’s new measure to execute Palestinians is one of the most extreme laws in the nation’s history. Read: zeteo.com/p/israel-app...

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"The Campaign Against Hasan Piker Is About Crushing the Left" Centrist groups like Third Way are trying to cancel the popular progressive streamer as part of their campaign to ‘reduce far-left influence.’ Why are top Democrats joining in?

zeteo.comThe Campaign Against Hasan Piker Is About Crushing the LeftCentrist groups like Third Way are trying to cancel the popular progressive streamer as part of their campaign to ‘reduce far-left influence and infrastructure.’ Why are top Democrats joining in?

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Cory Booker, Ruben Gallego and Elissa Slotkin all say they won’t go on Hasan Piker’s show. But they’ve all been on Bill Maher, who says Islam is like “the mafia”, the Muslim world has “too much in common” with ISIS, Muslims bring “desert stuff” to the west, and has also used the N word on his show

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Trump’s DOJ purged the Board of Immigration Appeals of anyone deemed too likely to vote in favor of an immigrant facing removal. The result has been a rubber stamp, one so obvious that the admin is actually trying to get rid of it almost entirely and just replace it with an automatic denial system.

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"Last year, [BIA] decisions backed Department of Homeland Security lawyers in 97% of publicly posted cases; that's at least 30 percentage points higher than the average from the last 16 years." https://n.pr/4blNUw7