Notices by Ramesh Gupta (rameshgupta@mastodon.social), page 3

#Chicago #HandsOff #Protests

Sign says "This isn't a #Cabinet. It's a #JunkDrawer"

#Chicago #HandsOff #Protests

Sign says "Hands Off My #Vote" — #LeagueOfWomenVoters #LWV #GlenEllyn #Illinois

The obligatory and ubiquitous #FuckTrump sign is also here

#Chicago #HandsOff #Protests

Sign says "#NeverAgain is NOW"

#Anger is palpable with protester holding sign that says "WE BELIEVE
#BlackLivesMatter.
NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL.
LOVE IS LOVE.
#WomenRights Are #HumanRights.
#SCIENCE IS REAL.
WATER IS LIFE.
#Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to #Justice Everywhere"

#Chicago #HandsOff #Protests

#TheTroubles from #Ireland are here in the #US. Sign says "#GoodTrouble #NecessaryTrouble"

On the bottom right is someone demonstrates with #Trump #GoldenSneakers

#Chicago #HandsOff #Protests

Sign says "No Gods. No Kings. No Masters." [No #Religion, No #Monarchy, No #Slavery]

Also "No one voted for (f)#Elon" #FElon

And "When #Injustice Becomes #Law, #Resistance Becomes #Duty"

#Chicago #HandsOff #Protests

I shed #TearsOfMirth 😂 at the sight of a sign that says "So Bad, Even the #Introverts Are Here!"

Other signs say:
#StopTheHate
FREE #MahmoudKhalil
"If you cut off MY #ReproductiveRights, can I cut off yours?" with woman wielding a pair od scissors 😂

And a poster that reads "Shame on #Trump #Musl #Republicans #Democrats" — Damn right! #ElectedDemocrats are behaving as if they were elected to support the #MAGA #DOGE agenda. #Schumer #Schiff #Fetterman, Go home!

Defense Dept. evicts #NBC, #NPR, #NYT from #Pentagon offices to make way for #Breitbart, #OANN

😢 Lying prostrate for the orange one bore no fruit

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/01/defense-dept-evicts-nbc-npr-nyt-from-pentagon-offices-to-make-way-for-breitbart-oann/

⬆️ @Nazani

>> Microbes that can produce an atmosphere on Mars would be nice, but some that can #sequester #carbon here would be better.

👏

Well, we have #photosynthesis here to convert carbon to oxygen, but who cares about #Green anymore, when #fossilFools (ha! not my term) rule the world?

⬆️ 🧵 >> In #Sahel States #Mali, #Niger, & #BurkinaFaso, and most recently #Chad, #Putin is on collision course with #France & #EU….

via @SANKOFAB >> Since Burkina Faso gained independence in 1960, the country never had any gold reserves despite being the 3rd biggest site for gold exploration in #Africa and 4th biggest gold producer in Africa, all its gold was taken to mostly France.

Now all the gold will go to #Russia 👀

@palestine

⬆️ >> In #Sahel States #Mali, #Niger, & #BurkinaFaso, and most recently #Chad, #Putin is on collision course with #France & #EU [Also forced #US troop withdrawals from bases in Niger & Chad ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/112673674478766247]

Russia is now accusing #Ukraine (of all countries) of escalating tensions on the African continent, claiming that Kyiv’s alleged support for militant groups in Mali and Niger constitutes a “second front” in the ongoing conflict with Moscow 👀

via @byteseu https://www.byteseu.com/604051/

⬆️ >> In #Sahel States #Mali, #Niger, & #BurkinaFaso, & most recently #Chad, #Putin is on collision course with #France & #EU [Also forced #US troop withdrawals from bases in Niger & Chad ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/112673674478766247]

France’s military is being ousted from more African countries as two of its closest allies struck a double blow.

Chad announced it was ending defense cooperation to redefine its sovereignty.

#Senegal said that French soldiers wouldn’t be on Senegalese soil.

https://apnews.com/article/france-chad-military-senegal-sahel-russia-85f2cf5066033db4b0bd044a7ed80438

⬆️ @hanse_mina
big mess is brewing
>>#Russia…transferring military…to #Libya

#LostContinent

Russia’s been trying to cut a wide swath across #Africa from #Mauritania to #Eritrea and everything in between

In #Sahel States #Mali, #Niger, & #BurkinaFaso, & most recently #Chad, #Putin is on collision course with #France & #EU

Niger recently suspended military cooperation with #US after moving away from France & EU last year

Almost all of #Africa from #Algeria to #SouthAfrica are also in for Putin

⬆️ @SANKOFAB

>> That is incorrect, but you’re certainly entitled to your opinion. The difference is the #RussianFederation was invited in by the #Sahel countries

Umm, "invited".

The image you posted quotes Ibrahim #Traore, "I don't understand why we need foreign nationals or experts to mine our gold, when we could do it ourselves"

#JustSayin

@palestine

#UK #Conservatives plan to cut all homeless people in half by 2025.

English is not my native language, but isn't this a little harsh?

Why cut them in half when you can deport them or round them up in concentration camps like #US conservatives plan to do in 2025?

#Project2025

Image via @TJ1001

⬆️ @br00t4c

>> We Need to Talk About #MattGaetz's Insane Texts

Paging #Justice #Garland…

Justice Garland?

#DOJ #MerrickGarland?

https://www.jezebel.com/we-need-to-talk-about-matt-gaetzs-insane-texts

⬆️ @Radical_EgoCom

>> Capitalism is the problem. No amount of taxation will eliminate this as long as the capitalist system of private ownership of the means of production exists… where the owners extract surplus value from workers…

If there is no surplus value, economies stagnate, shrink, and collapse. The goal is to tax the surplus in a way to discourage the surplus from being concentrated in a few dozen hands. That does not require govt control means of production

@slashdottir @DaveFlater

⬆️ @slashdottir

>> Everyone seems to be averting their eyes from the fact that capitalism as a system seems to require underpaid or slave labor to keep things affordable to the general public so that it works out … Is there a way to have capitalism without relying on exploitation?

Fair, #progressiveTaxation is what's missing.

4+ decades of #Reagan #TrickleDown economic policies is what brought us here.

Problem is not #Capitalism but unbridled #laissezFaire. Govt is not optional.

@DaveFlater

⬆️ @dashrb @RealJournalism

I really enjoy @emptywheel's writing because she has the ability to #LiftTheFog and always comes with receipts.

Nobody said it was #Garland's fault alone, but this seems difficult to refute:

DOJ's approach “can be traced to Garland’s desire to [avoid] allegations of partisanship… Inside [DOJ]… some lawyers have complained that the AG's determination to steer clear of any claims of political motive has chilled efforts to investigate #Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/12/trump-criminal-charges-avoid-office

The #SupremeCourt wades into the #Israel-#Palestine conflict. What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.vox.com/scotus/390424/supreme-court-israel-palestine-fuld-plo-personal-jurisdiction

⬆️ @dashrb @RealJournalism

>> I’m not necessarily a Biden apologist, but I do think that if you’ve made a decision about a thing, and then later you learn more information about the situation, it’s legitimate to change your mind.

2 wks after #Biden won in 2020, he privately told advisers that he doesn't want his presidency to be consumed by investigations of his predecessor #Trump.

3 wks after that, an insurrection happened on #Jan6, but Biden never corrected course.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/president-elect-biden-wary-trump-focused-investigations-sources-say-n1247959