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The UAW has timed all their major contacts to end on May Day 2028 and has called for others to do the same to prepare for a general strike. Can’t find the link but some teachers unions did with their contacts as well.

That may be a bit far out but it’s also the most planning I’ve seen for a general strike in the US.

Really want to see the next God of War series be Kratos vs the Japanese gods. Fighting Susanoo would be pretty wild.

Yeah love how the mystical parliamentarian prevented a bunch under Biden but the first time they tried to stop Trump he just ignored them and we found out that it was always allowed but the dems didn’t because of “decorum”.

Charging interest on loans for education is crazy too, feel like the bare minimum they could do is just set the interest rates to 0%.

Yeah Biden literally did it when he sent weapons to Israel. Overruled a bunch of checks that were supposedly supposed to stop weapons from going to countries committing war crimes.

Now imagine if he had done something for student loans, might’ve saved the election for the democrats.

sending letters to Countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in China. Nobody has ever seen anything like this

It’s all barely readable garbage as usual but this part killed me lol. Like the only time I can think of the news reporting that countries were receiving random letters regarding trade is literally with Trumps tariffs.

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Forgot this golden line

starting with the “Magnets” and, other Elements

Thankfully this country has a robust safety net and free healthcare so people aren’t hit with huge unexpected expenses /s

The nobel prize is literally the only thing that gives this a chance. Trump may want it bad enough that he puts some pressure on Israel to follow it.

Would not be shocked if it falls apart anyway since once the hostages are released there’s basically no leverage. Could see it immediately falling apart after he gets the award if he somehow gets it too.

Multiple sources from Hamas and other Palestinian factions have told Drop Site that their central concern in these negotiations was that handing over all Israeli captives would remove nearly all of their leverage if it did not include a complete Israeli withdrawal. Israel has, as a matter of policy, systematically violated its ceasefire agreements with Hamas and also with Lebanon. In entering into these negotiations, Hamas negotiators accepted they were engaging in a high-stakes gamble.

“This is a risk, but we trusted President Trump to be the guarantor of all the commitments made,” said Mousa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas leader, in an interview with Drop Site on Monday. “Had there been no commitment from the American president, we would never have agreed to take the risk, because we do not trust Netanyahu or his extremist right‑wing team in the current Israeli government.”

The Palestinian negotiators, after consultations with a range of factions, agreed to a deal that will keep Israeli forces in Gaza even after all Israeli captives are handed over to Israel. Throughout the negotiations over the past several months, Hamas has insisted it would not enter into a deal that did not include the complete withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces. “This is something they were not able to move,” the source said. While the exact lines that Israeli forces will redeploy to as part of the exchange of captives are still being worked out, Israeli forces will remain entrenched in Gaza.

That is an enormous risk but when your people are going to be starved to death I guess there wasn’t much of a choice.

The issue from Europes perspective is that to split like that they need energy security and not rely on US LNG. To do that they needed to one of:

1. Go back to using cheap Russian fossil fuels but that isn’t realistic after the Ukraine war and Nordstream pipeline sabotage.

2. Rely largely on Nuclear power. Also not realistic outside of maybe France given how long it takes western countries to setup these plants and how little they’ve invested up to this point.

3. Rapid switch to cheap renewable energy. This would be the smartest option long term but would require them to invest massively which is highly unlikely given the neoliberals that run these countries, or to align with China which they also have chosen not to do.

It also found that the teens' parents had "failed to fulfil their duty of guardianship" and ordered that they bear the compensation, state media reported. 

This includes 2m yuan for operational and reputational damage, 130,000 yuan to one of the caterers for tableware losses and cleaning expenses, and 70,000 yuan in legal costs.

Looks like it’s the parents on the hook for it