This architectural style looks like it should be in a neighborhood that I could never dream of affording. But it's public housing in Brussels.

New developments in the horseshoe theory

"Cruz twice chastised his Democratic colleagues for praising peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters while failing to condemn “antifa” and the “terrorists” who killed a federal security officer, Dave Patrick Underwood, during a May protest in Oakland. Cruz’s implication was clear: The left killed Underwood.

Yet Underwood was killed by a member of the far right — one of 329 murders carried out by right-wing extremists since 1994.

In the same period, a grand total of zero murders have been attributed to antifa participants."

"One of the few voices of reason throughout the afternoon, Michael German, a former FBI agent specializing in domestic terrorism who is now a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, noted the “sensationalized” focus on the far left has “distracted from focus on the deadly threats” posed by the far right."

" Senate Democrats at the hearing did no favors to the ongoing uprisings either. Hirono may have made welcome reference to the scourge of white supremacist violence, but she also dismissed the serious and reasonable demand to defund the police at the center of the protests. “Who takes that literally?” she said, “I certainly don’t.” Such are the establishment powers against which anarchists, among many others, have good reason to act."

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/05/ted-cruz-hearing-antifa/

#ShutDownCanada https://twitter.com/police_canadian/status/1291127921747226624

Dear leftists,

Please stop using Twitter and choose a better platform.

Yours truly,
—United Anarchists of America

Elon Musk is sending so many satellites in space it's causing significant damage to research by astronomers, as well as causing a dangerous build-up of space debris as they go offline (picture from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile, every white streak is a SpaceX satellite)

Another example of space observation ruined by the satellites

Also worth noting is Amazon's plans to launch 3236 additional satellites in orbit, not to mention the planned 12000, possibly even up to 42000, Starlink satellites from SpaceX (currently 597)

Polish Syndie admin here.
I'm totally devastated by the drop of understanding of the local legal and cultural status of non-heteronormative people over here, especially going down since 2019's signing of LGBT+ rights bill by Mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski. Since February 2019, a third of Poland became LGBT-free zones, and all sorts of right wing politicians and catholic church officials joined the fight against the imaginary LGBT "ideology". Not to say that the EU condemns anything like that.
Yesterday, an anarchist queer activist, Margot, was arrested by police for two months, presumably for damaging an anti-abortion van, though her group, Stop Bzdurom (Stop Bullshit), had been part of the rainbow flag sticking action onto monuments in the City of Warsaw. And Margot wasn't the only one to be arrested lately for pro-LGBT happenings.
As of 2020, Poland is considered to be the least friendly to LGBT people country in the EU.
I bet some of you will be like "how could I help anyone in Poland go through this tough times with discriminatory laws and bullshit government". Don't worry. We have prolific pro-LGBT NGOs you can donate here and now to make sure, that Polish citizens eventually get proper teaching on what LGBT really is (we're people, and we just want to live just like the heteronormative majority with all the rights they have from the get go).
Let me give links to four most well known NGOs in Poland supporting LGBT rights and LGBT people:
1. Lambda Warsaw [no english sadly] - DONATE VIA PAYPAL
2. Campaign Against Homophobia [only some news are in english] - DONATE VIA PAYPAL
3. Stonewall Group - DONATE VIA PAYPAL
4. Stop Bullshit - DONATE VIA PAYPAL OR DONATE VIA FIREFUND