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‘I will die for this cause’: how India’s cockroach meme became the biggest challenge to Modi’s grip on power

‘I will die for this cause’: how India’s cockroach meme became the biggest challenge to Modi’s grip on power

Prime minister’s propaganda machine falters as fiercely secular youth protests reclaim nationalismby in DelhiAs the poster bearing the face of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, was thrown to the floor, a cheer went up. Then came the feet, trampling the image into the muddy ground with gleeful abandon. “Thief, thief,” chanted the crowd.Just a week earlier, such scenes in the heart of India’s capital would have been almost unthinkable. For the 12 years Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) have been in power it was widely acknowledged that you criticised the government at your peril. Dissent was swiftly, routinely and expertly crushed.

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HaaretzHumanityIslamic World
Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West BankScroll downCredit: Avishay Mohar, B'TselemHagar ShezafShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppThese images appear again and again – from the ground, from the air, and on maps: dozens of Palestinian communities wiped off the landscape, while illegal Israeli settler outposts continue to spread across the West Bank.Since October 7, 2023, this phenomenon has intensified significantly. Unlike the war in Gaza, there is no discussion in Israel about ending this parallel campaign of dispossession.

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The GuardianHumanitySouth Wales
Warning: Australian politicians are importing the British right’s visions of doom | Jack Jacobs

Warning: Australian politicians are importing the British right’s visions of doom | Jack Jacobs

Having met Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe and Tommy Robinson, Pauline Hanson is deploying their rhetoric in a country with a very different history of immigrationIn a 1950 essay, the critic AA Phillips in which insecure Australians looked to Britain for instruction. Today, some Australians are championing far-right British actors and importing their visions of doom to Australia.In June, the former Australian Liberal at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference, which is organised around the idea of “renewing” western civilisation. “Sustained mass migration, especially from countries with quite different cultures,” said Abbott, “[is] the surest and swiftest way … to dilute and eventually to extinguish the Anglo-Celtic core culture and the Judeo-Christian foundational ethos (which is actually what attracts migrants to the Anglosphere).” Peta Credlin, his former chief of staff, now a Sky News Australia commentator, : “You are a petri dish … [on] multiculturalism and radical Islam, you are where we don’t want to go.”

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The GuardianHealth AlertsUSA
I tried so hard to become a salad eater. Now cyclospora is sending me back to burgers | Dave Schilling

I tried so hard to become a salad eater. Now cyclospora is sending me back to burgers | Dave Schilling

Between the companies pushing junk food and the bacteria threatening our produce, eating right feels basically impossibleWhile war and conflict seem to be raging across the planet, the greatest weapon of mass destruction afflicting the United States today is, apparently, a salad – in the sense that fresh produce is now waging battle with our stomachs thanks to the cyclospora parasite. Cyclospora has infested an unknown amount of our food, causing thousands to suffer bowel movements that would make Pompeii look like a gender-reveal party.This is a tragedy for everyone except the fat cats at Big Toilet. Cyclospora may be spread through human feces getting into irrigation systems in the food supply due to poor worker hygiene. It . The best we can do is throw all that cilantro away and start from scratch. The FDA is scrambling to find the source of the contamination as soon as possible, going as far as to finger the supplier Taylor Farms with a false positive test that they had to sloppily retract as fast as they declared it. I, for one, am trembling, and not because I’m seconds away from expelling parasitic eggs. I’m terrified because now I don’t know what to eat.Dave Schilling is a Los Angeles-based writer and humorist

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The GuardianHealth AlertsUSA
Confusing product recall adds to US cyclospora outbreak uncertainty

Confusing product recall adds to US cyclospora outbreak uncertainty

Explosive diarrhea infection spreads to 41 states with at least 72 sickened by new, as yet unknown source of parasiteConfusion abounds in the cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands in at least 41 states, as officials identify a new cluster of cases and more potential products come under scrutiny.The recall of products during this outbreak of explosive diarrhea has been an unusual one, complicated by poor communication, politicization and the delay of a new regulatory rule could have helped trace the cyclosporiasis outbreak faster.

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The GuardianPoliticiansUkraine
What’s behind Maga influencer Laura Loomer’s about-face on Ukraine?

What’s behind Maga influencer Laura Loomer’s about-face on Ukraine?

After a Kyiv visit, rightwing firebrand now supports Ukraine – but perhaps it’s just because Trump favors a winnerLaura Loomer, the online Maga provocateur, has never worked in the White House or anywhere else in the government, but this week is significant because her social media posts often have real policy implications in the second .The rightwing commentator has spent the last few days in , where she announced a newfound sympathy for in its long war with , and admitted that she had previously fallen for Russian propaganda.

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The GuardianDiplomacyEurope
Maga influencer Laura Loomer reverses course on Ukraine after Kyiv visit

Maga influencer Laura Loomer reverses course on Ukraine after Kyiv visit

Rightwing provocateur meets Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who says he expects talks with Donald Trump in Washington next weekVolodymyr Zelenskyy will meet Donald Trump in Washington next week, according to the rightwing US influencer Laura Loomer, amid signs the White House’s traditional hostility towards Ukraine is beginning to crumble.In an interview with Loomer, the Ukraine president said he will probably attend the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham and hold talks with Trump, which will take place as the latest version of the Russian sanctions bill makes its way through Congress.

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The GuardianHumanityEast Anglia
Inside the growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras

Inside the growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras

An underground network of privacy activists is disabling or destroying the ubiquitous surveillance devices sprouting up across the USThe first time that “NoMark” tried to knock out a Flock camera feed, he waited an hour for the perfect moment – pacing in and out of bushes that towered over him, a few feet behind a pole holding up the device.“I was just so nervous,” he said.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
Trump administration admits canceling clean energy grants to Democratic states

Trump administration admits canceling clean energy grants to Democratic states

Court fillings show grants denied to states if they didn’t back Trump’s re-election, but administration claims it’s a ‘misrepresentation’The has admitted scrapping more than $7.5bn in federal grants for clean energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed in the 2024 election.US federal officials appeared to acknowledge in last week that they had terminated the funding last October “based solely” on political criteria, targeting projects in states that were represented by and had voted for .

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The GuardianEconomyUnited Kingdom
Professional classes stand in way of tax on the super-rich | Phillip Inman

Professional classes stand in way of tax on the super-rich | Phillip Inman

If the prime minister wants to make the system fairer he will need to upset the professional classes with a land value taxThe professional classes act like a Praetorian Guard for the super-rich.Having acquired some of the trappings of being rich, they defend the privileges of wealth – land, property and pensions. They do this as if they – company managers, lawyers, doctors, judges, senior civil servants, architects and chartered this and thats – were the main beneficiaries.

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The GuardianInformationUSA
Cecilia Vega of 60 Minutes says she felt pressure from CBS to add ‘political bias’

Cecilia Vega of 60 Minutes says she felt pressure from CBS to add ‘political bias’

Vega made remarks to ABC’s John Quiñones at National Association of Hispanic Journalists conference Cecilia Vega, the former 60 Minutes correspondent, said Thursday she felt pressured by CBS News’s executives to incorporate “political bias” into segments for the broadcast program.Vega made the remarks during an onstage interview with John Quiñones, the ABC News correspondent, at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ annual conference in New Orleans. Her comments were first reported by .

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