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In a move that critics are calling “one of the most tasteless events I’ve ever heard of,” Berkeley landlords are celebrating the end of eviction protections in the East Bay city with a cocktail party. The Berkeley Property Owners Association, a trade group for rental property owners in Berkeley, apparently believes regaining the right to throw people out of their homes is cause for celebration — or at least a networking event. The “Fall Social Mixer: Celebrating the End of the Eviction Moratorium” is set for the evening of Sept. 12; the event was first spotted by Berkeleyside.

About an hour passed before protesters entered the bar, at which point multiple fights broke out, Berkeleyside reported. According to one witness, a male BPOA member who attended the event slapped a female protester in the face and pushed her. Videos of the event show other violent altercations, including a protester knocking a party attendee’s eyeglasses off and a party attendee swinging their fist toward a protester.

Statement by the Landlord association:

“We condemn the actions of hostile dissidents who disrupted a private gathering at a local restaurant to intimidate, harass, and physically assault our members who are law-abiding small business owners,” read part of a statement, which was shared with SFGATE.

"Hostile dissidents" is some interesting phrasing for local residents chanting outside of a bar.

Like Confederate monuments that were built in the early 20th century, this was built in the 1990s. Relevant reading on what else Ukranian fascists were up to at the time.

Link to the tweet with the image and the one by More Perfect Union with a short video.

Dr Jan Rosenow, the director of European programmes at the Regulatory Assistance Project and co-author of the report, said: “There has been a campaign spreading false information about heat pumps [including casting doubt on whether they work in cold weather]. People [in the UK] don’t know much about heat pumps, so it’s very easy to scare them by giving them wrong information.”

The reunification train runs to ~~Busan~~ Vladivostok.

Bulletproof, Slow and Full of Wine: Kim Jong-un’s Mystery Train. Heading to Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin, the North Korean leader chose to travel by rail, on a train with some unusual features.

What are the unusual features? (Bad guesses only)

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-bolsonaro-be-hospitalized-monday-two-operations-2023-09-11/

Scumbag move by scumbag pigs. I don't support this guy on the run but 100% his sister probably said ACAB and refused to speak to police, so they forwarded her to ICE.

Hint: They invest heavily in R&D.

Huawei has 207,000 employees globally, according to its website, and 55.6 per cent are research and development personnel. This is up from the end of 2021, when the company said it employed 195,000 people, with 54.8 per cent of them in R&D.

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I unironically think events like this do scores more to radicalize folks than years of proselytizing

I haven't seen much western coverage of this disaster, so i figured i'd share. Solidarity with the people of Libya in this horrible situation.

I think this has broken me. Usually I kinda cheer along to the plight of America's collapsing empire... but this. I'm just sad. It makes me cry to think there are already kids being shoved through this nightmare 'school'. What is this point in history? What are we becoming? I don't like it, I dread what is to come.

Every day a little less human. Every day a little more spreadsheet.