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The Author Who Warned America: Sarah Kendzior   Aug 28, 2025

“...this was all revealed in real time you know Donald Trump has been a mafia associate for his        entire life he was first investigated by the department of justice in 1973 so        we're on the you know past the half centennial of that he was uh trained by mafia lawyer and uh right-wing hard        right-wing political operative Roy Conn uh one of the most influential and notorious uh operatives of the 20th        century. Uh you know he has deep ties and secrets within the business world,        entertainment world, media, politics. Uh he flirted with running for president numerous times. He was not a political        neoight in 2016. He had thought about running in uh 1988 thinking about uh        starting up a campaign again in 1996. ran uh briefly in 2000, ran briefly uh        in 2012, and then of course ran in 2016, and then again in 2024. So, this is someone with lifelong political goals,        surrounded by some of the most nefarious and dangerous people in the world, in        America, um and in numerous countries, in particular, uh Russia, Israel, Saudi        Arabia, uh I could just go on and on. Um and so there was no attempt uh by our        government to stop him from taking power in a meaningful way. And that to me is the more interesting story because we _ _”

Trump  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaILdKZ7Yo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaILdKZ7Yo

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Arundhati Roy: How to Survive Authoritarianism | The Interview

Aug 30, 2025  The Interview | A Podcast From the New York TimesArundhati Roy has faced prison and censorship. The award-winning author, known for her writing about the struggle of marginalized and oppressed people, has been targeted repeatedly by India’s government under the populist leader Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She tells “The Interview” host Lulu Garcia-Navarro that she knows what’s coming for America under President Trump – and has some advice for how to survive in what she calls a “culture of fear.”

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David Pakman And Brian Tyler Cohen EXPOSED For Taking Dark Money

“....with. A number of influencers that were paid by this this group, Chorus, took9:34this contract with them. They were given $8,000 a month9:40to produce the content, the political content that they wanted them to produce. What that means, ladies and9:46gentlemen, is some of these people, as I told you a year ago, that were saying they were independent were not9:52independent. They are under the guise of being independent. Some of them may have9:58started out as independent commentators, but when money started being thrown their way, they decided to take the10:04money. Now, I'm saying this as someone who was in this this field because David Pacman10:11has issued a response. I'mma play that lame ass [ __ ] after this article. He has issued a response and I am living proof10:18that what David Pacman is using as an excuse for taking this money10:24isn't necessary. Let's go on here.10:29In their group chat, influencers debated the details. Should we send a joint email or we just going to send things10:36separately and hope they change everything for everyone? So, it goes on to say here, "Some joked about10:42collective bargaining, yada yada. The influencers in the chat collectively had at least 13 million followers across10:49social platforms. They represented some of the most well-known voices online,10:54posting in support of Democrats, and their key to when wherever the party10:59moves next, but ultimately the group didn't make much progress." Let's go on11:04here. Um, for Democrats, for years, Democrats have11:12struggled to work with influencers. In 2024, Biden's White House snubbed several prominent content creators after...”\

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Max Blumenthal stand-up at Icarus Fest 2025

Aug 29, 2025  #TheGrayzone                                          

The latest and (possibly darkest) foray into stand-up comedy by The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal, at Icarus Fest on August 23, 2025 in Rutherford, NJ. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find our reporting at https://thegrayzone.com

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The Palestinian Film That’s Also Funny

Jul 19, 2025 The Time That Remains (2009) is an autobiographical and historical film about a Palestinian family living under Israeli rule, but the comedic style makes it feel fictional, almost fantastical. And there’s a reason why director Elia Suleiman chose this style.

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVhpp5_4ZJg

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These Jokes About Israel Hit Hard...Because They're True!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGwZUz1-36s

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HECKLER WALKS OUT OVER ISRAEL P3DO JOKE | STAND UP COMEDY

Premiered 11 hours ago  #heckler #standupcomedy #australia                              Sure seems like a weird thing to get offended by...wonder where they fled to 

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Aug 29, 2025Canadian photojournalist Valerie Fink publicly resigned from Reuters in a now-viral tweet, in protest of the outlet's coverage of her colleagues assassinated by Israel. Reuters ran a story claiming Anas Al-Sharif, whose work for Reuters won the outlet a Pulitzer Prize, was a Gaza militant with zero evidence, and that was the breaking point for Valerie Fink. “Even if that were true—which it wasn’t—you bomb a hospital and kill 20 people to target a camera? It’s a travesty. It’s unforgivable.” She tells BT’s Rania Khalek this is because the Reuter’s “has never cared about Palestinian lives, Black lives, or Indigenous lives. Their priority is profit.”

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Trump PLOT to REWRITE History Gets SMOKED OUT

Aug 25, 2025  “How is Trump changing our sense of who we are?” 

The New Republic posed that question to our friend, historian Dr. David Blight, and asked him to gather other historians to write articles considering the question. David joins Court Accountability Action’s Mike Sacks to talk all about the project, how the Trump administration continues to rewrite American history, and what we lose when we lose our history—good and bad.

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‘YOU ARE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE’: Huckabee HUMILIATES Himself For Israeli Rabbis

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How a top Israeli official escaped the US after pedophilia arrest                   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlXpyBunwIE

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(Quds) In an earlier interview, journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa, killed this morning by the Israeli army in the horrific attack on Nasser Medical Complex, shared her fears while documenting the Israeli genocide in Gaza from the very first day.

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Fighters of the Ezz al-Din Al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas stand guard around ruins as Israeli hostages get delivered to representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Feb. 1 2025 in Gaza.

“Time Is Up” — A Gaza Journalist’s Open Letter To Hamas

Story by Fathy Sabbah AUG. 25,2025

BEIRUT — "Israel’s war of extermination continues to escalate, and brings with it endless catastrophes and an ever rising toll of innocent people killed, wounded and disabled. The vast destruction, the loss and grief and confusion, the failure to achieve any results, and the transformation of most areas of Gaza into a barren desert, and the desertification of minds and consciences and morals — all of it has pushed me to address to you, leaders of Hamas.

This is a message of counsel, driven by specific concern for you, but above all for the people of Gaza who remain, and the land of Gaza, in the hope that it may reach those who should be paying attention."

"In conclusion, the four wars, the last of them in 2021, ended without achieving any results besides ending the war. There was no releasing prisoners, or regaining rights or acquiring new rights."

Israel is convinced that what cannot be achieved by force will be achieved by more force.

READ MORE “Time Is Up” — A Gaza Journalist’s Open Letter To Hamas

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AUG. 25,2025

The Weapon Israel Fears the Most Ryan Rozbiani@RyanRozbian

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs

"This camera should be exhibited one day in the Genocide Memorial built in memory of the innumerable victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza. Shame on all journalists not raising their voice against the massacre of their brave Palestinian colleagues while documenting the genocide."

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The Meteor and the Star Cluster

Explanation: Sometimes even the sky surprises you. To see more stars and faint nebulosity in the Pleiades star cluster (M45), long exposures are made. Many times, less interesting items appear on the exposures that were not intended -- but later edited out. These include stuck pixels, cosmic ray hits, frames with bright clouds or Earth's Moon, airplane trails, lens flares, faint satellite trails, and even insect trails. Sometimes, though, something really interesting is caught by chance. That was just the case a few weeks ago in al-Ula, Saudi Arabia when a bright meteor streaked across during an hour-long exposure of the Pleiades. Along with the famous bright blue stars, less famous and less bright blue stars, and blue-reflecting dust surrounding the star cluster, the fast rock fragment created a distinctive green glow, likely due to vaporized metals.

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Displaced Palestinians gather around a massive crater left by Israeli bombardment of a camp for internally displaced people in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 21, 2025

Israel-Palestine conflict

There is something worse than starvation in Gaza

It is Israel killing hope with its ceasefire games

Shoug Mukhaimar Palestinian writer based in Gaza

"And so, I cannot help but ask: Where is the world in all of this? How can an entire planet watch two million people be starved, bombed, and stripped of dignity, and still do nothing?

This silence is heavy; it crushes the spirit as much as hunger does. It tells us that our suffering is acceptable, that our lives can fade away without consequence.

History will condemn those who committed these crimes, but also those who stood by and allowed them to happen."

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.

READ MORE https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/24/there-is-something-worse-than-starvation-in-gaza

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A Cool GIF of a 2025 Perseid

Explanation: The camera battery died about 2am local time on August 12, while shooting in the bright moonlit skies from a garden in Chastre, Brabant Wallon, Belgium, planet Earth. But not before it captured the frames used to compose this cool animated gif of a brilliant Perseid meteor and a lingering visible trail known as a persistent train. The Perseid meteor, a fast moving speck of dust from the tail of large periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle, was heated to incandescence by ram pressure and vaporized as it flashed through the upper atmosphere at 60 kilometers per second. Compared to the brief flash of the meteor, its wraith-like trail really is persistent. A characteristic of bright meteors, a smoke-like persistent train can often be followed for many minutes wafting in the winds at altitudes of 60 to 90 kilometers.