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Here's the archive link, forgot to use it for the post

https://archive.ph/aNoMk

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Beyond being another hateful iteration of the conservative assault on trans people’s rights, the bill could have the state of Tennessee losing buckets of money as the legislation would contradict federal guidelines. If it passes the bill, Tennessee could lose $1.2 billion worth of federal education funding, and another $750,000 of federal grants dedicated towards supporting women and children. Other state and local government entities could be impacted as well.

Even with that potentially astronomical loss of funding, the bill passed the Senate 27-6, exhibiting the relentless urge Republicans have to target trans people at any cost.

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Probably not practical for a lot of people here, but cool if you want to pick up a few words

The free app, called Dakhód Iápi Wičhóie Wówapi, was unveiled in February

Khloe Cavanaugh learned some Dakota words from her grandfather growing up on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota. He was one of the few fluent first language speakers on the reservation.

“I have an Indian name and I didn’t know how to say it in Dakota, so he taught me how to say it and how to introduce myself,” said Cavanaugh.

“Haŋ Mitáuyepi, Čhaŋte waštéya napé čhiyúzapi. Dakȟóta ia Heȟaka Thašina Wakȟaŋ Wi emákiyapi. Wašiču ia Khloe Cavanaugh emákiyapi.”

“(Hello my friends and relatives, I greet you with a good heart and handshake. My Dakota name is Heȟaka Thašina Wakhaŋ Wi and my English name is Khloe Cavanaugh.)”

Cavanaugh, a freshman at the University of Minnesota, is studying beginners Dakota and considering a major in American Indian studies, with a focus on developing mastery of the language. And now, she has a new tool — co-created by her Dakota teacher, Šišókadúta — to help her remember vocab words and work on pronunciation: a Dakota language dictionary app.

The free app, called Dakhód Iápi Wičhóie Wówapi, was unveiled last month at an event at the Grand Casino Mille Lacs in Onamia, Minnesota. It contains over 28,000 words in Dakota and includes a Dakota language keyboard and audio recordings of first language speakers — both men and women — saying the words so users can learn how they are pronounced. It’s a vital resource not just for preserving the language, but also for learning vocab on the fly. There’s no Google Translate or other online dictionary for Dakota.

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Miramax and beIN, for example, stated in their submission that around 90% of the Iraqi population watches pirated live sports events and other media content. That’s a remarkable figure that we have never seen in any official reports, and it also triggered the USTR to ask “how these estimates are formulated.”

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A floating blob of seaweed 5,000 miles across, spanning nearly the whole width of the Atlantic Ocean, is headed for Florida’s Atlantic Coast. The sargassum algae, a brown, branching, stringy seaweed that can turn seawater mud-colored when present in large quantities, is likely to cause serious problems for the Sunshine State as well as the Caribbean and parts of Mexico, per multiple reports.

In past sizable seaweed blooms, sargassum has clogged up beaches with hundreds of tons of sticky, matted algae. To make matters even less appealing: The seaweed emits hydrogen sulfide gas as it decomposes, producing a rotten-egg like odor and causing potential respiratory irritation as well as digestive and neurological problems for people nearby.

The thick flotillas of organic matter can also end up clogging power plant intakes, desalination water plants, and boat traffic.

Then there are the ecological impacts of massive sargassum blooms. The algae provides some of the only wildlife habitat in the open ocean of the Sargasso Sea, where the rafts of seaweed grow and float most of the time. However, in recent damaging mega-bloom events, the algae is a less welcome intrusion—particularly in near-shore ecosystems. Sargassum blooms can choke up shallow coastal waters, block out light, degrade water quality, clog coral reefs, deplete oxygen, kill sea life, and more.

This year’s bloom is starting months earlier than usual and seems likely to be as bad as—if not worse than—any prior sargassum event on record. “It’s incredible,” Brian LaPointe, an ecologist at Florida Atlantic University, told NBC News. “What we’re seeing in the satellite imagery does not bode well for a clean beach year.” Researchers use satellite data to keep tabs on the algae.

Along Mexico’s Caribbean Sea coast, excessive amounts of the algae have started to appear on some beaches. Resorts have readied their plans to remove the seaweed from tourist spots and attempt to salvage their income. In brief: hundreds of people will work 24/7 to shovel and cart away the algae as it washes up. Cancun officials have said the marine material will be turned into biofertilizer, according to the Cancun Sun.

In Florida, beaches in Key West have also already begun to incur algal inundation, LaPointe told NBC News. There too, resorts and other private beach owners work to mechanically remove the seaweed from the sand. Florida’s Gulf Coast is already enduring one type of algal bloom, as an ongoing “red tide” event kills tons of fish and other sealife. With the incoming seaweed apocalypse, the peninsula would be surrounded on both sides by the consequences of a human-mucked up oceanic ecosystem.

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Last month 15 Democratic House members traveled to Israel as part of a delegation sponsored by the liberal Zionist group J Street. According to a new Jewish Insider interview with Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), the congresswoman pushed the delegation to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was “extremely impressed with his willingness to..grapple with us [on] some of the toughest issues that Israel’s facing.”

In January, Porter launched a Senate campaign to succeed Senator Dianne Feinstein in 2024. Fellow California Representatives Adam Schiff and Barbara Lee are also running for the seat.

Porter told JI’s Matthew Kassel that Netanyahu was “extremely generous both with his time and with his thoughts” and that the J Street group was “really able to have an interactive dialogue with him. Advertisement

“I was extremely impressed with his willingness to kind of grapple with us at some of the toughest issues that Israel’s facing, everything from judicial reform — an issue that we’re having questions and discussions about right now within the Democratic Party here in the United States — to issues about the West Bank and about settlements,” said the congresswoman.

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The Vietnamese Communist Party has nominated Vo Van Thuong as the country’s new president, two party sources told the Reuters news agency, following the forced resignation in January of his predecessor as part of a sweeping anti-corruption campaign in the country.

The government in a statement on Wednesday said the party’s Central Committee had agreed on a nomination for president but did not name the candidate.

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is going to be focused around the interview that we did with Alexander Dugan now if you haven't seen that full interview or if you've uh if you haven't even seen parts of it the link I put in the chat it's the first message there it says link to our full interview with Alexander Dugan please uh watch that

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and I asked some people who are fans of the channel now who are you know Dugan supporters to send me some materials so I'm definitely looking forward to reading about that uh yeah I've heard of infrared yeah actually I follow his uh his telegram Channel

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uh I think I think the the lesson we should take from Dugan to be honest and is is that I think I think we the main lesson in my opinion is that we should not think that traditionalism is in contradiction with Marxism leninism in terms of uh social policy and cultural policy I don't think these uh like these issues should even like be at the Forefront of uh communist political programs either I mean like so much time is spent on in a lot of leftist groups on what what essentially at this point it wasn't always like this but at this point a lot amounts to Liberal issues like talking about um you know trans athletes are they able to participate in this or that uh talking about like I don't know all this stuff connected to sexuality it's like it's not it's it this stuff is not uh critical to the the advancement of the Marxism movement and it's something that no other Communist Party in the world is uh is is really paying that sort of attention to outside of the West so I think what we should do is understand that like whether someone's more traditionally oriented or like super into this I guess identity politics stuff or cultural politics this is not like a critical factor in deciding whether or not someone is Progressive in terms of the class struggle or not that's I think that's I think what the main thing we should take away like we should not uh like we should not we should not denounce Dugan because he thinks that the that like the focus on trans issues or something in the west is like ridiculous that should not be the the critical moment

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TLDR you must acknowledge that caring about gay rights is western imperialism if you are a true anti imperialist marxist leninist, don't bother watching, just skim the transcripts if need be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjgk6HNLmX4

This guy is just an expat in Russia who works for RT and collaborates with Caleb Maupin's CPI to make videos about LaRouche shit and does the classic leftist move of interviewing an ideological fascist Alexander Dugin to try to find some common ground and also PCUSAs congressional candidate :shrug-outta-hecks: wonder why that would happen

the bar is so low these days you make your channel have red on it and you're like I'm an "anti imperialist marxist leninist" and I hate liberalism, liberals are the west, west are liberalism, lgbtq is west and liberalism, west and liberals bad, lgbtq bad, and my channel is somehow about how we're going to bring about the revolution bc of my inspiring ideas and all the theory that I've definitely read a single page of

https://unofficialbird.com/DonaldCourter

Of course they retweet both Haz, Peter Coffin, and, Hinkle, the strongest bastions of "anti imperialist marxist leninist" thought

Members of the group Parasol Patrol successfully blocked extremists at drag queen events across the national capital region. Christopher Wiggins February 27 2023 11:23 AM EST

Within a week of the Proud Boys’ violent attack on supporters outside a Maryland Drag Queen Story Hour, two Washington, D.C.-area communities teamed up with their residents to protect kids from right-wing extremists.

Hundreds of supporters and dozens of Metropolitan Police officers gathered in Capitol Hill outside Crazy Aunt Helen’s, an LGBTQ+ eatery, where drag queen Tara Hoot was expected to read to children on Saturday morning as part of a Drag Queen Story Hour brunch.

On social media, there was a buzz about the Proud Boys — a white supremacist group with a history of disrupting similar events — trying to interfere with the bimonthly drag story hour brunch.

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posted about this earlier, but didn't stress that a socialist alternative member was the driving force

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/seattle-becomes-first-us-city-outlaw-caste-discrimination-after-council-vote-2023-02-22/

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/2/21/dalits-are-winning-against-caste-discrimination-in-the-us-too

A Seattle City Council resolution against caste discrimination is an important step in this journey.

On Tuesday, February 21, the Seattle City Council will make history if it votes yes to include caste in the city’s non-discrimination policies. Outlawing caste discrimination would be the culmination of years of Dalit feminist research and organising that has exposed caste oppression in the United States and has centred Dalit healing in the battle to end caste discrimination everywhere.

Caste is a hierarchical social system dating back thousands of years and practised throughout South Asia among people of all religions. It negatively affects more than 1.9 billion people worldwide and at least 5.7 million South Asian Americans, degrading their quality of life.

It determines who can worship where, education and career opportunities, and even personal relationships — in essence, caste shapes entire lives. While caste-based discrimination in the US is not as widespread and overt as in India, where it has its roots, it exists here, too.

South Asian immigrants from Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Myanmar, Maldives, and indentured communities all report experiencing caste discrimination in the US. The Equality Labs 2016 Caste in the United States survey found that one in four Dalits in the US had faced verbal or physical assault and two out of every three said they had faced discrimination at work.

This data is further supported by a forthcoming report from the National Academic Coalition for Caste Equity and Equality Labs, with the preliminary analysis of a new survey revealing that within US higher education, four in five caste-oppressed students, staff, and faculty reported experiencing caste discrimination at the hands of their dominant-caste peers.

Further, three in four caste-oppressed stakeholders did not report that discrimination in their universities or colleges because caste was not added as a protected category, or because their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion departments lacked the competency to address their concerns.

This data is backed by troubling testimonies of caste discrimination in workplaces, schools, places of worship and businesses.

It can no longer be denied: caste discrimination exists in the US and must be fought with civil rights enforcement.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints engaged in the scheme for more than 20 years.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a nonprofit entity that it controlled have been fined $5 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission over accusations that the religious institution failed to properly disclose its investment holdings.

In an order released Tuesday, the SEC alleged that the church illicitly hid its investments and their management behind multiple shell companies from 1997 to 2019. In doing so, it failed to disclose the size of the church’s equity portfolio to the SEC and the public.

The church was concerned that disclosure of the assets in the name of the nonprofit entity, called Ensign Peak Advisors, which manages the church's investments, would lead to negative consequences in light of the size of the church’s portfolio, the SEC said.

The allegations of the illicit shell company structure first emerged in 2018, when a group formerly called MormonLeaks – now known as the Truth and Transparency Foundation – claimed that year the extent of the church's investments had reached $32 billion.

The following year, a whistleblower filed a complaint to the Internal Revenue Service, according to a 2020 Wall Street Journal report; that year, the newspaper said the church's holdings had grown to $100 billion.

“For more than half a century, the Mormon Church quietly built one of the world’s largest investment funds,” the Journal said. “Almost no one outside the church knew about it.”

The SEC accused the church Tuesday of going to "great lengths" to avoid disclosing its investments and, in doing so, "depriving the commission and the investing public of accurate market information.”

“The requirement to file timely and accurate information on Forms 13F applies to all institutional investment managers, including non-profit and charitable organizations,” said Gurbir S. Grewal, director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, in a statement.

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