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Georgian anti-government protests are ongoing, with the government denying their videoed use of rubber bullets, the government hiring thugs dressed as civilians to beat up peaceful protestors so the violence does not appear as police brutality, and footage of Georgians admitting they voted for the pro-Russian Georgian Dream party for a government bribe, which in some cases was allegedly as minimal as onions or potatoes. The leader of the Georgian opposition, a proEU party, has been arrested.
On Friday, the two-year anniversary of a passenger train crash that killed 57 people, hundreds of thousands of civilians around Greece protested the lack of conviction since the incident, that the railway still hasn’t been repaired, and general government mistrust and corruption.
After a roof collapsed in a freshly renovated railway station in Serbia’s Novi Sad, student protests mourning the 15 civilians killed have grown into the tens of thousands, with the prosecutors so far charging 13 people in connection to the roof collapse. Serbian students continue to protest corruption, demand the charges against students for protesting be dropped, and an increased budget for higher education.
The States are banning pro-Palestinian student protesters from campus. The University of Chicago is seemingly calling the police on its own students, with one student being detained for 30 hours and indefinitely suspended and banned from campus, with a photo of them at a pro-Palestine campus protest cited as evidence. The escalation in deeming these protests as a ‘threat’ rather than ‘disruptive’ is working and the harsher disciplinary action has seemingly correlated with smaller and smaller protests around American Campuses.
After ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) have been knocking DOOR TO DOOR and requesting documentation in the States, reportedly even asking citizens to snitch on their ‘illegal alien’ neighbours, protesters marched down a major highway in LA, many waving Mexican flags. Calling an illegal immigrant an ‘alien’ is clearly dehumanising to an interplanetary level.
Trump, Vance, and Musk hail free speech when it concerns being able to call minority group slurs, yet “We’re seeing so many new policies put in place, so many different restrictions that limit the ability to speak on campuses”, and former NFL player Kluwe was arrested for stating “Maga is explicitly a Nazi Movement”, so it seems free speech doesn’t apply if it involves the criticism of Trump and his Government. Musk moved Twitter’s HQ from SF because “Is there place that’s more far left than San Francisco, Berkley” and Twitter “was an accidental far left information weapon”, like yeah there fucking is bro, idk, Cuba? A study pre-Musk’s takeover also showed that in six out of seven countries right wing political parties enjoyed algorithmic amplification, making Twitter if anything, a conservative ‘information weapon’. After calling old twitter an “arm of the Government”, Elon made the platform artificially boost his own posts by a factor of a thousand, banned organisations and journalists that criticised him, and while Twitter used to comply with government censorship requests about half of the time, as of seven months ago, Twitter now agrees with government censorship 80% of the time. Is that free speech?
Since WWII, the States operated on a model that propagated and benefited from the international system, such as the UN or NATO, however on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Trump just voted alongside Russia, North Korea, Belarus and a handful of other states against Ukrainian territorial integrity and refusing to condemn Moscow’s invasion. Iran, who sell weapons to Russia, didn’t even side with the States. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and a smörgåsbord of European leaders have announced continued support for Ukraine.
We are living in some fucking gnarly times. The global architecture that has stood since the end of the second world war, namely trans-Atlantic relations, is faulting. At least art and creativity tend to improve in the face of existential threats... until all the artists and writers are drafted.
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Aaron Rogers
We aren’t sure if being a Covid Denier is worse than playing for the Jets but it certainly seems like a fair punishment.
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Liam Lawson
Hate to say it but his success is largely going to be defined by how well Max Verstappen does, and we think he may fall off worse than Drake.
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Chanel Harris-Tavita
Massive shoes to fill and Te Marie Martin may just fit those shoes a little better.
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Bronny James
This is less a prediction and more just an acknowledgement of the passage of time.
Joseph Parker
Not because of anything he will do but because he will sit out a year fighting chumps and out of condition heavy weights without getting his shot. If he has spare time he could do society a favour and put Jake and (or) Logan Paul on the canvas for the ten count.
alexa’s atrology
ARIES
March 21 - April 19
You thought you could escape a bad horoscope this week because you’ve been praising the universe but unfortunately, you will step on Lego. Im sorry.
TAURUS
April 20 - May 20
You remember that really cool show you watched everyday as a kid? Yeah, me neither. Spend a few hours trying to remember what it was called then get back to me. K?
GEMINI
May 21 - June 20
How does it feel to share a star sign with Donald Trump…
CANCER
June 21 - July 22
You will see a cat on your way to class today.
LEO
July 23 - August 22
You’re definitely feeling burnt out after ‘bumpin’ that’ all thru brat summer. It’s time to relax and rehabilitate... And lay off the gear.
VIRGO
August 23 to September 22
I dont have a fortune for you this week. So instead ill just recommend you my fave reality show. “Vanderpump Rules” will turn your week around, promise.
LIBRA
September 23 - October 22
23, 7, 13, 2, 3, 41, 5. These arent your lucky numbers, theyre prime numbers. See you wouldn’t know that because you failed math in high school.
SCORPIO
October 23 - November 21
Nows ur time to switch to Apple Music as ur listening platform. Dont ask me why it just fits your vibe better.
SAGITTARIUS
November 22 - December 21
Your car has a seriously overdue WoF and service. Get that checked out asap.
CAPRICORN
December 22 - January 19
Can you not? Youre starting to get on my nerves.
AQUARIUS
January 20 - February 18
The universe is on your side. You will never have to pay for extra guac on any meal ever again. Stay blessed.
PISCES
Feburary 19 - March 20
For this next week your diet will consist entirely of diet coke and those iced animals biscuits.
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