Just in case this bit of info drowns in the endless ocean of media noise: https://news.1rj.ru/str/Fallsac/52252

Good idea: write more by hand

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/11/1250529661/handwriting-cursive-typing-schools-learning-brain

Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning: « There’s actually some very important things going on during the embodied experience of writing by hand. It has important cognitive benefits. »

TIL that in 1833 Britain used 40% of its national budget to free all slaves in the Empire. The loan for the Slavery Abolition Act was so large that it was not paid off until 2015. [source, comments]

🔴 Turkey’s escalation in Northern Iraq: Cross-border operation or occupation?

Without any public attention Southern Kurdistan/Northern Iraq has turned into an allout warzone with Turkey deploying thousands of troops, armoured vehicles and heavy equipment into the region.
Between the Turkish ruling party AKP-MHP and its goal of occupying further parts of Kurdistan and expanding Turkey's territories into Syria and Iraq, there are the guerrillas of the Kurdish freedom movements, who vehemently resist these plans.

The Turkish invasion into Southern Kurdistan/Northern Iraq needs to be made public, denounced and protested!

China to achieve its 2030 renewable target by end of this month - July 2024, according to Climate Energy Finance group ( an Aussie based think tank).
https://redd.it/1e4b0qv
@r_Sino

Fascist oligarchs lie.
https://redd.it/1e4g1rd
@r_latestagecapitalism

Swiss Song of the Day ♾️🇨🇭: https://youtu.be/TBcL1QZbabs

Media
On this day, 16 July 1947, Black revolutionary Assata Shakur was born in Queens, New York City. After graduating from college she briefly joined the Black Panther Party, followed by the urban guerrilla group the Black Liberation Army which was engaging in armed struggle against the government, robbing banks and killing drug dealers and police officers. In 1973 Shakur was wounded in a shootout with police, arrested and later jailed for the alleged killing of a police officer. She escaped from prison in 1979 with the help of three BLA members and was granted asylum in Cuba, where she lives to this day. US government officials continue to press for her extradition, and early in 2021 the Republican administration labelled Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism, citing their harbouring of Shakur.Assata Shakur is also the step-aunt and godmother to murdered hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur. She has long been an advocate of direct action as a tool for social change, arguing: "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."We have made available numerous books by other former members of the Panthers and the BLA here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/black-panthers To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo

Liberals when they see Leftists