CALAPALOOZA: UC Berkeley's "Club Day"(Vincent Ooi) Looking back seven years at Cal’s Club Day, when students sign up for what interests them to get involved in campus community life.
Are there any all-girl acapella groups to join?
Summer is over. Everyone is back. This is the slow wind up to the beginning of instruction at the University of California at Berkeley (Cal), the world's greatest public institution of higher learning. Move in days just happened, and everyone is bracing for the full moon day of August as everyone returns to class and studying. Thursday, which is coincidentally also a lunar eclipse, marks a big event on campus: Calapalooza:
With over 1,400 student-registered organizations on campus, a student community is right around the corner. Learning a new skill, meeting like-minded friends, and discovering passions are only a few of the perks of joining a student club. Establishing these connections through activities that members have in common enriches the college experience. life.berkeley.edu
Jewish UK PM Kier Starmer claims to be secular unlike his Jewish wife, so how could he be pro-Zionist Israel or fund and defend its genocide in Gaza?
We're here to help any way we can.
British Prime Minister Starmer says he's an atheist not a religious Jew and has chosen to take a "solemn affirmation" (rather than an oath) of allegiance to the British monarch [390]. He has said that although he does not believe in God, he recognizes the power of faith to bring people together and is raising his children in the Jewish faith [391, 392, 393]. Sure he goes to temple for the Jewish Sabbath, but it's only to accompany his Jewish family to services at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in North London which is hardly even Jewish really [388, 394]. Starmer is a keen footballer, make Sport sort of his God, maybe even wishing he could engage in football hooliganism for his team but not as PM... More
International Workers' Day is observed on May 1st. It is also called "May Day" but differs from the pagan/heathen European fertility festival May Day (like Shinto Japan's Steel Phallus Fest), which is of ancient origins.
It marks the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on May 1, around halfway between the Northern Hemisphere's spring equinox and midsummer solstice [1, 2].
Festivities are also held the night before (on April 30th), which is known as May Eve. Traditions include gathering green branches and wildflowers ("bringing in the May") [3] that are used to decorate buildings and made into wreaths. Plus there's the:
Crowning a May Queen (ask Led Zeppelin), sometimes with a male companion (Jack in the Green) decked in greenery;
setting up a Maypole, May Tree, or May Bush, around which celebrants dance and sing;
parades and processions involving these [4].
Bonfires are also a major part of the festival in some regions.
Regional varieties and related traditions include Walpurgis Night in central and northern Europe [1], the Gaelic festival Beltane [5], the Welsh festival Calan Mai [5], and May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary (a Christian-Jewish version of Kwan YinorMother Maya). It has also been associated with the ancient Roman festival Floralia [6]. More
(Firstpost) Feb. 9, 2026: The 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy were meant to begin with celebration and spectacle, but the opening ceremony has instead triggered a storm of controversy.
Social media users accused organizers of displaying Satanic symbolism after a pentagram-like visual appeared during the show.
This comes just two years after the Paris 2024 opening ceremony faced backlash for its religious parody.
Are Olympic ceremonies drifting into unnecessary controversies? [Did Hitler ruin The Games for everyone in 1936 by having Nazi Germany host them, adding a great deal of pomp and circumstance with industrialized symbolism and grandeur worthy of ancient Rome and Greece?] And are these spectacles overshadowing the spirit of sport?
Rupha Ramani breaks down the outrage, the history of opening ceremony controversies, and explores if the opening ceremonies are setting the wrong tone for the event to follow.
Peaceful and legal protests and demonstrations have intensified in Minnesota after federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse [like they executed Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother] who worked in the Minneapolis Veterans Health Care System, on Saturday.
ICE: Shoot 'n keep shootin
Democracy Now!'s John Hamilton reports from the scene where innocent Pretti was shot to death, where protesters are clashing with federal agents.
“We’ve seen everything from [teargassed] people that are unconscious, that have fainted, tear-gassed, bruised, bloody noses, can’t breathe,” said Melissa, a local resident.
State Senator Omar Fateh responded to the killing with outrage: “He had a camera on his hand. He was tackled, he was pummeled, and he was executed.” VIDEO:
Democracy Now! speaks with a former colleague of Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old ICU nurse ICE shot to death, acting as Trump's federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. Dr. Aasma Shaukat, who hired Pretti for a research job over a decade ago, says he lived with “kindness, compassion, and a strong sense of civic duty to help his fellow citizens.” VIDEO:
(The Young Turks) Federal agents kill another white person in aggressive enforcement of Trump's dictatorial takeover of USA.
I'm the top cop, and I run this town.
A "theory" in the legal language of lawyers (Lawyer-ese) is an argument supported by facts under which one can be prosecuted. Just as a Mafia don could be indicted, prosecuted, and convicted for sending out thugs or "Guidos" (gavones) to do some "dirty work," that Don is as guilty as they are if they kill while being paid thugs enforcing whatever it is the don paid them to go out a do, maybe just stir up some fear. Don Trump is just this kind of don, it may legally be argued and is therefore LEGALLY liable for the murders his agents have committed. There are two executions on video already, from multiple angles. The Don's lawyers in the Pam Bondi's DOJ lie for him, and Kristi Noem parrots the Don's lies and excuses. But that would not hold up in court as any kind of defense. The Don would be found guilty and likely Noem would also be found guilty as an accessory to murder. Who would prosecute them, the state of Minnesota? The Federal court is in the Don's pocket, as is the FBI under Kashy Patel.
How Zionist Israeli Jews buy US politicians. - Talk to ICE = you're a "domestic terrorist"
So it's a world upside down, and there is likely a reason for all the mayhem Trump is choosing to cause. Could it be keeping the popular mind from thinking about the unreleased Epstein Files? Would that explain threatening Greenland, Mexico, Europe, Davos, Somalia, Venezuela, fishermen at sea...? Obey orders. Worship respect the office of the dictator president. And whatever you do, don't ask questions.
ICE agent's view seconds before deciding to shoot her in the face
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Jimmy Kimmel on the awful ICE shooting in Minneapolis and a baseline of decency in America [and what a douchebag fascist Trump Zionist henchman Jewish supremacist Stephen "Goebbels" Miller., who was a budding racist elitist politician in Santa Monica.]
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