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So what's the centrist plan here? Democrats have to win. Alright, why? To arrest the growth of the fascist right through sweeping political reforms? No. To enact an ambitious policy agenda? No. To do policy like we did 30 years ago and hope everyone likes it and we're fine again? This will work?

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And the opinion that 'a tariff is an external tax, fundamentally different from an internal tax so its fine' was literally the single concept the US revolution was most strongly animated against

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There should be a word for the lag in intimacy for messages you don’t receive because of time zone differences. The conversations not had. Text messages not sent.

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🕯️

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Grateful for deacons, Mary the Mother of God, and Orthodox cathedrals open for prayer. Small mercies that help me feel seen and loved by God today.

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I don't think we're reclaiming it as a positive term for ourselves, so much as pointing out how Christian discourse about "Pharisees" as legalistic pedants focused on legal minutiae above spirit and compassion directly parallels the way Christians portrayed all of rabbinic Judaism.

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Again reminding everyone that the relentless Sinophobia from both parties results in harm to Asian Americans.

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that wonderful and sacred mystery

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you ever think about how the New York City commuter rail network is a testament to human achievement and engineering

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If you see this, post your favourite character in ALL of Star Trek.

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"Omdim BeYachad"--Standing Together, is doing the holiest of work: blocking hate with their own bodies. This is what Jewish solidarity looks like, and historically, hard to imagine anything comparable to the formation of a "Humanitarian Guard, in terms of its centrality. Some braves folks out there.

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"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

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If a former Israeli prime minister can say this, what is stopping European leaders?

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I will not feed the pontificating about this, because my God literally told me to “Give to anyone who asks you, and don’t turn away from anyone who wants to borrow from you.” I already fail to do this as I am able, which is to my own soul’s judgement on the last day. But there is nothing to debate.

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palestinians' accounts continue to get suspended on here because white people levy blanket accusations like the claim that palestinians are mostly southeast asian scammers with not much more than timestamps, so if it's all the same to the discourse on here i'm going to cross-post on other platforms.

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Me last year: “I wonder if I should even post about the parallels I’ve noticed between Zionism and Chinese revanchist colonialism considering their very different historical roots and circumstances…” Chinese nationalists and their allies on twitter:

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It would be super great if we could stop debating who is/was having a worse mental decline and, instead, understand that clear minds are choosing to endorse greed, murder, mass destruction, eugenics, and genocide.

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watching people still deny that israel is conducting a genocide even while israel drops all pretext that their motivation in gaza is not genocide

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Being a real man seems tiring. I hope at least some of y’all get to be fake men, who are allowed to eat ice cream and hug their kids.

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did it hurt? when i cut your word count down by half

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For the 3rd consecutive year, HK's Victoria Park - historically the site of annual Tiananmen crackdown candlelight vigils - will host a patriotic food carnival on June 4. In full: buff.ly/rV2s1nI

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become unpublishable

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The peace of God, which passeth all understanding

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ICYMI, this 2002 PhD dissertation by Pan Yue, current head of the national ethnic affairs commission, drew up a blueprint for settler colonialism 20 years ago. he specifically wrote that China should learn from the experience of the westward movement

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A fellow pedestrian yelling out “it’s called a red light” at a cyclist running the intersection: chef’s kiss, this is what my city dreams are made of.

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George Floyd was murdered 4 years ago today. His life extinguished by a man while others watched doing nothing to save him, as he cried for his “Mama.” When Kelly Latimore painted this icon he was asked: “Is it George Floyd or Jesus?” His answer was “Yes.”

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