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Assam police, known to be a personal hit squad of Himanta Biswa Sharma to score ideological/personal vendettas, has been hounding journalist Dilwar Hussain for exposing financial irregularities in the Assam Co-operative Apex Bank. The CM is rattled because he's the director of the bank.

Yes, but also, an acknowledgement that government income could actually be increased substantially through returning to a tax structure at least a tiny bit closer to the post-war era would be nice, too.

I’ve been sick in bed today so here’s another cartoon

Nanny state (drawn for India Love Project)

There needs to be an honest to god real fucking communist party in that country.

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

Our boy’s getting worried…

A fantastic thing about Linux desktops is that it's trivially easy to install some neat looking tool to customize the look and feel and then a few weeks later your login manager is just broken.

It truly is the year of the Linux desktop, Pewdiepie on Arch Linux + Hyprland, if you look closely at the fetch output you'll see the terminal is Kitty and the shell is Zsh, he's gone all in

if capitalism is not rid of its distortions soon, it'll be pitchfork time

Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman received over $1 billion in pay and dividends in 2024, mostly in dividends from his 20% stake in the company.

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

Thing is, when you think about what Zelenskyy has had to go through - especially in the early days of the war when he was pretty much nailed on for getting assassinated - can you imaging Trump and/or Vance in that situation? They’d leg it at 100mph.

Rubio in 2022: Vladimir Putin is a “cruel & evil butcher” Rubio tonight: “I’m not going to fall into this trap of who is bad and who is evil”

Fish 4.0 Shell Released With Code Ported From C++ To Rust - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fish-Shell-4.0-Released

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

That'll be a hard pass from me Microsoft. Guess what else is free and doesn't come with ads or tracking or snoopy AI that digs around in all your stuff? @libreoffice.bsky.social Get it here: www.libreoffice.org

NO. At a time of massive income and wealth inequality we should not be giving tax breaks to billionaires. We should demand that they start paying their fair share.

RISC-V represents an exciting future for computing - one where everything from CPU architecture up to your favorite applications can be fully open. We are excited to share a few milestones toward RISC-V support that our RISC-V SIG has produced! * A RISC-V Koji instance is now live in our data […]

The new deputy director of the FBI recently said Trump should “set up a courtroom” in the White House and “just start making judicial decisions”

Mohammed's family, including his children and parents, lost their home & income & have been to Israel's genocide in Gaza. His niece Samar was born during the genocide, & urgently needs care & treatment. Please share & give to help them survive & rebuild in the famine & devastation left:

Canadians are petitioning the PM to revoke Elon Musk's Canadian passport! #elonmusk #canada www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Genuinely—and pleasantly—surprised that the @meidastouch.com folks are getting more than a MILLION VIEWS in LESS than a day! #uspol #trump

Likes/dislikes on the latest video is sitting at 98.8% Which to be honest is a mixture of surprising and relieving!

This country is a fucking dumpster fire. Can't solve systemic issues? Why don't you beat up the fucking protestors instead? Great international image no doubt. indianexpress.com/article/indi...

I suppose it's best said by you @jj-mccullough.bsky.social

Trump just undid the only good thing GWB did in his entire 8 years.

In the memorable words of Kalyug's 'Chanakya'... "Aap Chronology Samajhiye".

The vibe in science rn 🧪

Pixelfed has been making incredible strides over the past few years, and has begun developing a suite of different platforms and services for the #Fediverse. After just one day on Kickstarter, they've already smashed their campaign goal. But they still need your help!

Don’t have smallpox or polio? Thank the World Health Organization. For its many accomplishments: www.who.int/campaigns/75... *Someone* is feeling all powerful and can destroy orgs by defunding, so today, I’m asserting my (tiny) power by donating to @Who.int Alone we’re tiny, together we’re big.