December 13, 2023 - A major highway in Los Angeles, USA, was blocked for 2.5 hours during rush hour by Jewish activists and allies with the organisation If Not Now.
The protesters were demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and an end to US funding for Israel's war crimes against the Palestinian people. The protesters, wearing T-shirts saying "Not in our name", formed a human chain across the highway and erected a 7-foot tall menorah in the road. According to police 75 activists were arrested. [video]
Affaire de la mosquée de Sicap Karack : les derniers développements des auditions à la police et la médiation du sous-préfet
Affaire de la mosquée de Sicap Karack : les derniers développements des auditions à la police et la médiation du sous-préfet
L’affaire de la mosquée de Sicap Karack prend une autre ampleur. ‘’SourceA’’ qui relate cette affaire dans sa parution de ce mercredi, renseigne que les protagonistes seront auditionnés aujourd’hui à partir de 10 heures au Commissariat de Dieuppeul. Aussi, ajoute le journal, la médiation entreprise par le sous-préfet de Dakar-Almadies avance et va reprendre demain.
Imam Khalifa Ndiaye, d’après…
Much love to this old lady whose reaction to Macron's Great Saucepan Ban of 2023 was to straight-up smuggle a saucepan in her purse past the police checkpoint to go clang it with a spoon near the president with renewed anger and determination.
Protesters today greeted the Prime Minister on an official visit by banging their shoes against walls to make noise, so I wonder how long we'll still be allowed to wear shoes.
(Joking about this is risky because after the saucepan protests on Monday, Le Gorafi (the Onion's French cousin) joked that the government would now take action to seize pans—and it became a reality on Thursday... We can't forget that our satirical news outlets are disproportionately affected by the bullshit inflation.)
Fully aware of the increasingly violent crackdowns on students and teachers protesting his enabling of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, Biden greenlit an even harsher police response this week.
Biden had already given police the greenlight to behave violently through his budgets. The 2020 protests against police brutality were met with rampant police brutality, but after entering office in 2021, Biden dramatically scaled up federal subsidies to police through regular appropriations legislation (for fiscal years 2022 through 2024), and the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
Companies nowadays are getting SO comfortable asking for our social security numbers.
Like why tf does Optimum need my social to install wifi? They're just an internet provider, they don't need my social. I don't care that the last people living at my location didn't pay their bill, there are a dozen other ways to prove that I'm not them without me handing over my social.
Anyway, hot tip, legally you can refuse to give your social security in unnecessary cases like this. If a company needs to prove that you are who you say you are, they have alternative ways to do so.
Geordi and Data are perfect for each other if for no other reason than they're both THE BIGGEST SECURITY RISKS STARFLEET HAS EVER EMPLOYED.
Like between Geordi's VISOR getting hacked for MULTIPLE assassination attempts and Data hijacking the ENTIRE SHIP on numerous occasions, they're a disaster match made in software security heaven.
May 16, 2023 - A swarm of bees in the Encino neighbourhood of Los Angeles attacked an “LAPD volunteer”, which is a thing apparently. The bees are quoted as saying “ACAB includes volunteer cops!“ [video]
May I respectfully observe that the blueberry tart ethics agonies is a wonderful candidate for 'tell me you're French without telling me you're French' scenario? The combination of philosophical gymnastics and patisserie is just....magnifique!
Merci
😂 Trying to think of how to make this scenario more French... like if our Parliament started weirdly intense debates to legislate on this niche issue as a way to distract from more important problems and came up with a law hated by the left and the right somehow, and/or the minister of the Interior declared that anyone buying two slices of pie without a written attestation (that you must write yourself to give yourself permission to buy pie) will be arrested, and he uses a worryingly loose and inexplicably racist definition of "pie", and Parisians started burning stuff by force of habit which led Macron to try and calm things down by a) making Announcements, b) giving a 2.5 hour TV speech no one watches in which he says "Let me be very clear" 5 times and "Whether you like it or not" 10 times, c) promising to organise a Great National Debate on blueberry pie ethics which prompts newspapers to write enthusiastic headlines because they never learn, and which goes utterly nowhere
I actually finished a book series in 2024 (and in like two months)
The world and magic (?) system is so fun and unique! And apparently I can't consume media without drawing something from it so: Ophelia at the beginning of the first book and then with her tunic/robe in Babel.
Yesterday (November 6th 2023), Spanish right-wing and neo-nazi organisations called to attack the Madrid headquarters of PSOE, the ruling party of Spain who is currently negotiating with different political parties to ensure enough votes to form a government. The reason for this protest was showing their opposition to PSOE for negotiation with Catalan political parties, and particularly the fact that one of the things that is being talked about is a possible amnesty for Catalans victims of political reprisals.
About 3,800 people (according to the Spanish Government) showed up following the call, holding Spanish flags and signs that say "Pedro Sánchez [PSOE president] traitor" and "no amnesty". They tried to take hold of the PSOE headquarters. When riots started, the police attacked these right-wingers and neo-nazis as is usually done in protests, using tear gas and rubber bullets.
The right-wing PP and fascist Vox parties have been complaining today because they think their followers shouldn't have been attacked. The PP party said the response was disproportionate and condemned the police for "treating [the protesters] like CDRs".
CDRs —which stands for Committees in Defence of the Republic— are grassroots non-hierarchical associations in Catalonia in favour of independence, which the Spanish media often used as a boogeyman.
So, basically, they attack a rival political party's headquarters, and when the police uses violence against them, the complaint is "how dare they treat us like this? What do they think we are, Catalans??"