https://blog.pmpress.org/2025/04/29/it-is-time-to-build-a-world-based-on-solidarity/
In my opinion we have to find a way to protect ourselves from #capitalism and the #state, FIRST.
We need #solidarity but we also need #MutualAid AND #communitydefense because, to quote the philosopher #KattWilliams "We got bills and shit!"
Here's a fun fact from the Global Organized Crime Index Report 2023:
The state is the biggest mafia.
Don’t Move A Mussel - The Role Of Key Environmental Drivers And Management Scale In Assessing Spatial Variation In Dreissenid Spread Risk In The Missouri River Basin
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112526 <-- shared paper (Missouri River Basin)
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/western-fisheries-research-center/news/assessing-risk-invasive-mussels-spreading-throughout <-- shared technical article (Columbia River Basin)
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https://rconnect.usgs.gov/webDR/ <-- shared link to webDR: Dreissenid Risk (Missouri River Basin)
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #fedscience #dreissenids #invasive #invasivespecies #management #mitigation #risk #hazard #riskindexing #webtool #nonnative #ecology #economics #cost #humanimpact #state #basin #water #freshwater #hydrology #basin #watershed #mussel #zebramussel #infested #infestation #watercraft #boating #leisure #pleasure #NorthAmerica #waterbody #decontamination #program #planning #policy #regulations #relativeriskindex #model #modeling #geostatistics #parameters #MissouriRiverBasin #ColumbiaRiverBasin
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The #US #State Dept *demanded* #NorthKorea's deployment to #Russia & any support by Russia in return must end, adding Russia had violated #UN #Security Council resolutions by training North Korean soldiers.
#TooLittleTooLate
Countries such as North Korea, whose support has "perpetuated the Russia-#Ukraine war, bear responsibility," a State Dept spox told Reuters [#Trump’s & #Rubio’s complicity has too].
However the #election in #Canada goes #tomorrow, Canada is still not safe. Safer than the #USA for sure, but not actually safe.
It's still a #SettlerColonial #state, first and foremost. Outright #Zionist #Trudeau remains popular there, as #universities crack down on #protests. If it hadn't been for #Trump, they would have elected #Poilievre easily. And they still re-elected #DougFord in #Ontario, where he's been gutting #welfare and pushing #disabled and #unhoused people into #MAiD for years.
#PSA: If someone complains how much "sick" or "deficient" people "cost" the #state, that’s LITERAL #nazi ideology which only serves to belittle people and justify death.
Here’s an #NSDAP #propaganda poster. Translation: “This hereditary defective [man] costs the public 60,000 RM [Reichsmark] in a lifetime. Comrade, that’s your money, too. Read New Public, the monthly issues of the Race-Political Office of the NSDAP.”
Let’s not get anyone get away with #nazi talking points.
![An NSDAP propaganda poster. Its literal text is (in German): “60000 RM kostet dieser Erbkranke die Volksgemeinschaft auf Lebenszeit. Volksgenosse das ist auch Dein Geld. Lesen Sie Neues Volk – Die Monatshefte des Rassenpolitischen Amtes der NSDAP”.
On the poster, an drawing is shown: An old white man in a black suit looking unhappy sits on a chair. Behind him, a young adult white man with black hair in a white suit stands in the background holding the old man’s shoulder. He smiles.
The picture has been marked with an overlay text: “[NAZI PROPAGANDA]”.](https://cyberplace.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/399/328/550/700/999/original/38d2904a0fbeae1e.jpg "An NSDAP propaganda poster. Its literal text is (in German): “60000 RM kostet dieser Erbkranke die Volksgemeinschaft auf Lebenszeit. Volksgenosse das ist auch Dein Geld. Lesen Sie Neues Volk – Die Monatshefte des Rassenpolitischen Amtes der NSDAP”.
On the poster, an drawing is shown: An old white man in a black suit looking unhappy sits on a chair. Behind him, a young adult white man with black hair in a white suit stands in the background holding the old man’s shoulder. He smiles.
The picture has been marked with an overlay text: “[NAZI PROPAGANDA]”.")
The first text reflects the proposals communicated by #Trump's envoy #SteveWitkoff to European ofcls in Paris that were in turn passed to #Ukraine, acc/to sources close to the talks. #US Secy of #State #MarcoRubio described the proposals as a "broad framework" to identify differences between the sides.
The second text emerged a week later from talks between Ukrainian & European ofcls in London & has been given to the American side, the sources said.
The #threat by #JDVance to walk away from peace talks were similar to comments last wk from Secy of #State #MarcoRubio & from #Trump, who said…if the 2 sides don’t agree quickly to a deal, “we’re just going to say, ‘You’re foolish, you’re fools, you’re horrible people, & we’re going to just take a pass.’”
Wed, Vance said under the US proposal, “We’re going to freeze the territorial lines at some level close to where they are today.” [not his call]
#Rubio accused the bureau for population, #refugees & #migration of sending millions of taxpayer dollars to nongovernment groups that had promoted mass migration, including “the invasion on our southern border.” The language echoed #Trump’s, & Rubio did not provide evidence for any of his assertions.
On a new #State Department account on Substack on Tuesday, #MarcoRubio wrote that the bureau for #democracy, #HumanRights & #labor had become a “platform for left-wing activists to wage vendettas” against conservative leaders — including those in Poland, Hungary & Brazil — & to try to promote an arms embargo against Israel.
The New York Times reported on Sunday on a draft document labeled an “executive order” that outlined plans for a drastic restructuring of the #State department, including cutting the entire office of the under secretary for #civilian #security, #democracy & #HumanRights & many other parts of the agency.
#Trump #NationalSecurity #law #ConspiracyTheories #USpol #TrumpPurge #TrumpCoup
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/trump-state-department-overhaul.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=A2810FE2-C5BE-44FF-BD1A-DF09F1C597DE
Some elements of that office, including a bureau for #democracy & #HumanRights & one for #refugees, would be cut & *folded into* an office for foreign assistance & #humanitarian aid [the same one they folded #USAID into] acc/to the reorganization chart posted on the #State Department website.
In the announcement, #MarcoRubio did not give more information on the ideology or ideas to which he objected, but the chart & a Substack post revealed some of his thinking. The most drastic change is the elimination of the office of the under secretary for #civilian #security, #democracy & #HumanRights, which is charged with advancing American values around the world.
#MarcoRubio released the plan in the form of an organizational chart and a brief official #statement, w/few other details. The move is the latest by #Trump’s admin to downsize & reshape the government to a degree unseen in generations, which critics have called a shortsightedly blunt assault on the federal bureaucracy.
Secy of State #MarcoRubio outlined plans to drastically reorganize the #State dept, saying it was “beholden to radical political ideology.” The overhaul at the nation’s diplomatic agency will include the elimination of the office of the under secretary for #civilian #security, #democracy & #HumanRights.
#State #NationalSecurity #law #ConspiracyTheories
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/politics/state-department-cuts-rubio.html?smid=url-share
New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
comics.lucentinian.com/7024
#Laughs #AIComedy #DailyComedy #VisitUsNow #DailyJokes
REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS
Politics, the State, and American Capitalism in the Civil War Era
Special Issue of the _Journal of the Civil War Era_
The American Civil War Era was transformative for American capitalism. The destruction of slavery proved the occasion for an unprecedented mobilization of economic resources, dramatic changes in the nature and scale of federal taxation, financial experiments that included a wholesale revamping of the banking and monetary systems, struggles over corporate privileges and labor protections, a slew of expressly developmental policies ranging from railroad subsidies to agricultural research and education, and still more. That all this occurred in a time of governmental crisis, breakdown, and reconstruction underscores the connections between the economy and the state.
This special issue seeks original papers that explore the Civil War Era as a defining period in American economic development. We seek to publish original scholarship that will reenergize an ongoing conversation among historians about political economy, capitalism, and governance. Our goal is not only to uncover American state capacity – which has by now been revealed beyond any doubt – but to explore government’s concrete role in shaping the country’s economic trajectory during this formative period. We are particularly interested in studies that examine specific government actions and policies, on the federal, state, and municipal levels, that shaped important economic outcomes by reconfiguring markets in various ways. Contributions may address any aspect of economic statecraft, including finance, monetary management, legal doctrine, infrastructural projects, tariffs and trade policies, mobilization of labor, and acquisition and use of land. They may also look into political alignments, divisions, mobilizations, and conflicts around any of these issues. The proposals need not be limited to the war itself or its consequences. We finally seek to prioritize historical work that positions the US in a comparative light and engages themes and questions from disciplines across the social sciences and humanities.
Deadline for proposals: April 25, 2025.
#histodons @histodons #civilwar #civilwarera #jcwe #cfp #ushistory #capitalism #state
#EndFossilFuels 
Greg Cocks 
