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Hashtag #UsPol indicates politics
おはよう御座います。いよいよ金曜日、週末・投票日は大荒れ予報です。今日明日のうちに期日前投票は如何でしょうか?
今日も良い一日を。
Oh fuck it!
Just name everything after him starting with the #TrumpEpsteinFiles
But nothing we do can ever really satisfy him or fill the hole in his dead & empty heart & soul
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dulles-airport/
So.... Macron said a lot. First, I am glad he is at least waiting for science, rather than jumping on a “violent videogame ban”, “AI chat with chatbot ban” and also not intending to ban VPNs.
But it's clearly a new form of the internet, behind age gates for social media, real person assurance attempts in the age of AI that apparently the EU commission will assure, rapid disinformation counters especially for elections, algorithm transparency.
I think the problem with parental control was simply that it is opt-in not opt-out to be honest.
As someone that has played video games and watched anime since I was 3 years old. Both of these things have helped me immensely, the entire stance of making killers by conditioning (via videos and games) if violent, seems very much silly to me but also sad that this form of a discussion is brought back, again... I think it is better to develop a clearer ability to distinguish between real life and game/fiction.
Fortnite as an example was quoted, I really don't know what to say here. Not really an image of violent I get from that game.
Too much focus on conditioning, not enough on what maintains or corrupts a stable sense of self irrespective of conditioning: i.e beliefs, values, virtues, purpose...
(The above is subject to translation accuracy as I do not speak French)
Trying to explain compartmentalization to activists, but the biggest stumbling block is that most people become activists by accident, so their activism is deeply enmeshed with all of their existing accounts, platforms, and devices.
Activism context and political relevance
I do not feel any joy from me and many others being vindicated by the revelations about creepy powerful men and the corruption of elites in the last email dump from the Epstein files.
I am not sure this is going to change anything. I am sure there is so much more, with different people, related to Epstein or not (he didn't invent anything new, and since he died other people took his place), and in different circles, different countries, etc.
And who knows what the US department of Justice will never release.
The whole thing is revolting. Worse, I don't think anyone is going to get any justice.
Political scandal discussion
Special Representative of the #Russian President, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev called on "good people" who take part in annual meetings of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos to attend the upcoming St. Petersburg
Political figure promoting foreign event
Musk’s Starlink Blocks Russian Troops’ Internet Access at Ukraine’s Request
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/world/europe/starlink-blocks-russian-troops-access.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
All this moving the of the #OvertonWindow
Needs a little nudge back to aspiration
Instead of outrage bait
Maybe it’s time to toss out Believe in yourself
And
Believe yourself, what you are and what you will make happen
And what you will become
Let each of us cknowledge where we are
then
Make the world we want to become a part of by doing
the hard part out loud
We are, we don’t need to believe to achieve
Aspire to inspire
Make it up and make it happen
Our future waits only to be envisioned and built
One small act of kindness at a time.
Mentions Overton Window
“It's a friendly wave to anybody passing by that's from the neighborhood…But if ICE arrives, it forces them to slow down. We can log their heading, we can log their plates and we can alert the neighborhood.”https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/05/minneapolis-neighbors-using-blockades-as-popup-parties-that-slow-down-ice re: #Minneapolis #tacticalurbanism + more
Local protest against ICE, political content, news update
"The wars we’ve carried out as a nation abroad have come home," writes Cengiz Yar in his ground reporting from Minneapolis for @ProPublica, where he and colleague Peter DiCampo witnessed ICE raids, protestors enduring cycles of tear gas, detentions and regrouping, and more. "I do not have the words to articulate how it feels to watch this unfold in Minneapolis, a city that I have grown to know and love after moving here a few years ago," writes DiCampo. "The journalists who flocked here over the past few weeks are people I have run into while on assignment in hot spots all over the world. Now they were in my home city."
#ICE #Minnesota #Minneapolis #Immigration #TrumpAdministration
政党支持率一桁の立憲が、野党で最大の議席を確保出来ていたのは、左派が選べる政党がないからです。国民民主は中道右派ですが、極右から中道までカバーする自民党の守備範囲と被ります。同じ中道右派の場合、政策の実現性が高いのは、議席を多く持っている自民党ですから、国民民主は選ばれにくい。維新と自民のおこぼれ票しか得られない。国民民主が中道左派に少しイデオロギーをずらせば、左側の自民党の立場になり、左派の支持で政権を取れる可能性が高い。立憲はリベラルと言っても、安倍派や維新と対極にある立場同じですから、左に傾きすぎていて支持されない。右側に自民党が無い場合、右派に投票先が無くて維新に投票しているのと同じことなんです。左は理想主義の極左ばかりで、現実的な左派が選べる投票先が無いのが問題なのです。
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Newsletter on democratic participation
Analysis: CAQ haunted by third link promise even in leadership race https://montrealgazette.com/news/provincial_politics/analysis-caq-haunted-by-third-link-promise-even-in-leadership-race?utm_source=Mastodon
Wondering whether it's legal to collect wood that tree care services cut down in public places in #Berlin and just left on the sidewalk. There's at least 2m³ of solid untreated perfectly fine fire wood they left next to a park here. Pretty sure they'll just take it to a dump in the next couple of days. Unfortunately I don't have a car or place to store that shit.
Local legal inquiry
政党支持率一桁の立憲が、野党で最大の議席を確保出来ていたのは、左派が選べる政党がないからです。国民民主は中道右派ですが、極右から中道までカバーする自民党の守備範囲と被ります。同じ中道右派の場合、政策の実現性が高いのは、議席を多く持っている自民党ですから、国民民主は選ばれにくい。維新と自民のおこぼれ票しか得られない。国民民主が中道左派に少しイデオロギーをずらせば、左側の自民党の立場になり、左派の支持で政権を取れる可能性が高い。立憲はリベラルと言っても、安倍派や維新と対極にある立場同じですから、左に傾きすぎていて支持されない。右側に自民党が無い場合、右派に投票先が無くて維新に投票しているのと同じことなんです。左は極左ばかりで、リベラルや中間層の投票先が無いのが問題なのです。
There is absolutely no evidence that illegal aliens are voting in general elections.
I wish President Trump and ICE would concentrate on deporting the worst of the worst and reject the myth about elections being stolen by Immigrants.
It's just not true.
Political stance on voting and immigration
In response to Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy sites, Ukraine is having to import record amounts of energy from bordering countries -- 900 gigawatt hours of electricity in January.
https://bsky.app/profile/realjakebroe.bsky.social/post/3me53agfs7s2r