Tennessee at the center of far-right assault on Black voting rights

https://liberationnews.org/tennessee-at-the-center-of-far-right-assault-on-black-voting-rights/

... we have never won any of our rights by sitting around and waiting for politicians or courts to save us. Our power comes from collective struggle. To fight back against these anti-democratic attacks, we cannot despair. Neither can we merely vote harder in a system that was not designed to reflect the interests of working-class, and especially Black people, in the South. Instead, we must organize.

The Civil Rights Revolution that won the Voting Rights Act was nothing short of a Second Reconstruction. As the far-right tries to roll back these gains, we know that it will take a Third Reconstruction — a Socialist Reconstruction — to win the lives we deserve, once and for all.

This should surprise no one really, as it's the same state where the KKK was founded -

On December 24, 1865, a group of former Confederate soldiers established what would become the first chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee.

Dating and Zionism - who knew how fucked up such a thing would be in this day and age?

I'm off the market, but even if I wasn't - I'd still stay away from this.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/tinders-secret-war-how-israel-used-the-dating-app-in-the-propaganda-battle-for-south-lebanon/291026/

Tinder’s Secret War: How Israel used the Dating App in the Propaganda Battle for South Lebanon

The choice tid-bit -

Tinder, the most popular “dating” app in the world, boasts over 75 million active users in more than 190 countries. It is owned by Match Group – a multi billion dollar conglomerate that owns the largest market share of dating platforms – Hinge, Match.com, OkCupid. Plenty of Fish, Salams, and others.

Largest market share also means one of the largest data gold mines – personal and intimate user data, messages, video calls, facial recognition and location data on potentially hundreds of millions of users across Match Group’s dozens of dating applications. Tinder’s user data was found in a breach at Gravy Analytics – a data broker company who sells data to governmental agencies to be used for police and military location tracking.

But Match Group’s strategy and their technologies became fully militarized after Zionist billionaire investor and trump donor Paul Singer and his Elliot Management group built a $1 billion stake in the company in January 2024.

Paul Singer has long worked to integrate Israeli military tech into global markets – co-founding Start-Up Nation Central (SUNC), a Tel Aviv based nonprofit started to combat the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. SUNC works to promote Israeli tech and get Unit 8200 officers – Israel’s elite military intelligence unit – hired at all major US tech firms like Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Palantir.

Quote of the day - 06-23-2026.

Chris Hedges.

Israelis, intoxicated by the fantasy of being the chosen people, do not have friends. They do not have allies. They have those they use and those they slaughter.

Amazing how all these white folks seem to get away with all sorts of shit, and against kids and teens.

Wonder if it's system thing?

You know, a system that's colored by say, white supremacy?

Ah so what? A few billion dollars off; big deal!

https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/06/20/the-hidden-cost-of-the-us-military-the-real-budget-is-far-larger-than-reported/

A new report from the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), written by David Vine, John Bellamy Foster and Gisela Cernadas, argues that this widely reported number dramatically understates the true cost of maintaining the US military. Using five different methodologies, the report estimates that total military spending in 2025 was between $1.5 trillion and $1.8 trillion and could be as high as $2.3 trillion when interest payments associated with military-related debt are included. The report concludes that the United States has been spending well above $1 trillion on military activities for many years, contrary to the common perception that this threshold was only recently crossed.

According to the analysis conducted by the POGO, the Hartung/Smithberger methodology produces the highest base estimate at $1,766,172,000,000, followed by the Wheeler approach at $1,727,634,000,000 and the figure reported by USAspending.gov at $1,717,989,509,643. The Cernadas/Foster and National Priorities Project methodologies yield comparatively lower base estimates of $1,494,236,125,000 and $1,477,081,000,000, respectively. When interest is incorporated, the totals increase substantially, ranging from $1,713,283,160,060 under the National Priorities Project methodology to $2,284,383,842,468 under the Cernadas/Foster approach. It should be noted that the National Priorities Project figure focuses on discretionary spending and excludes mandatory forms of spending; were the latter included, this estimate would align far more closely with the others.

Normally I would celebrate the 1st day if Summer.

But it's hard when you have to go back to work the next day.

Another black child killed in America, and no one cares.

Especially if Kohen Wiley was killed by cops.

https://scheerpost.com/2026/06/20/how-many-ways-can-you-avoid-reporting-that-cops-killed-a-baby/