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She/her. Spinster of the Parish in Ao/NZ. Travel a lot & obsess about Byzantine /Ottoman things; ancient and modern Near East politics and history; dilettante Witch; daydreaming about tea on the Bosphorus. Free Palestine 🇵🇸. Get the fuck out of Lebanon. 🇱🇧
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finding out donald trump genuinely is enraged by this is amazing and i hope people keep pressing him about this so we can destroy the US by basically playing chicken with him

stop writing that he’s leaving DOGE without mentioning that just a few days ago the solicitor general told the United States Supreme Court that he is not part of DOGE

Ah yes, the notoriously over recognised and over paid ECE teachers fucking up the economy by not letting centre owners make enough money. All ECE should be nationalised and it’s a fucking grotesque and immoral way to make money. I said what I said.

Services that shouldn't be profit-focused: Health care Education Housing Child care Aged care Basic food supply A wealthy society ought to provide all of these via taxation with basic costs for maintenance factored in. Anything else is exploitation.

I finally watched Conclave. I like that Ralph Fiennes has the same energy as Kermit the Frog trying to keep The Muppet Show from going off the rails.

I have a PhD in Genome Sciences I have taught graduate level courses on human genetics I have taken graduate level courses specifically on "the Evolution of Sex" and "Sexology" (the study of sex) Never once did I hear the terms "biological sex" It's a political dogwhistle, not science

Day by day, we’re seeing the Justice Department effectively decriminalize and wave away crimes by Trump’s friends and instead selectively focus investigatory resources on Trump’s adversaries and enemies. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/crime-is-n...

Related key point from @dandrezner.bsky.social: Banning foreign students also will help drive up costs for US students. More in my piece and thread below on another angle on the deep perversity of all this. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

The other week, they INSISTED that pulling the rug out from under the pay equity claims wasn’t reducing women’s pay And now they actually are reducing pay in a women dominated industry

You don't need to be a prophet. Images like this - of starved Palestinians hammed into fenced cages by Israel - will be remembered for generations as hideous evidence of a terrible crime. And history will remember not just those who cheered it on, but those who stayed silent.

Better to ask shadow president Stephen Miller

People work so hard in life only to discover that they fucked up by not being white people who commit fraud

The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.

NEW: After an 86-day blockade of food into Gaza, starving residents are pictured being herded like livestock & surrounded by fencing and barbed wire as they await food parcels. This photo was posted in the last hour by Gaza-based journalist Motasem A Dalloul.

You can tell the president has a Very Good Brain, Perhaps the Best Brain Ever? because his staffers are doing everything possible to hide the record of his solemn pronouncements.

When I see Yoda I think “that dude’s got a cloaca, no question”

Israel killed 25 mostly children & women as they slept. Set ablaze they were. We won’t hear their names or learn the ambitions they once held.

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

This is correct, they also tie traffic fines to income so the richer you are the more you pay. We could learn a lot from the Finns.

Absolute clown show. The original tariff deadline lasted 2 days. Governing on vibes and the whims of the last person Trump speaks to is not sustainable.

The most corrupt presidency in the history of the United States.

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

PRESI-DEMENTIA/CON-MANDER-IN-CHIEF/FATTY SHACK/AYATOLLAH COMPLAINI/TANNIBAL LECTER/SCAMMY DAVIS JR./RICH LITTLE HANDS/HIPPOPOTUS/OUR FONDLING FARTER/TRUMPELSTILTSKIN/HUNGRY HUNGRY HYPOCRITE/DICTATOR TOT/UNCLE SCAM/QUID PRO COMBOVER/MANGO MUSSOLINI/FRANCIS FORD GROPE-ALA/ALEXANDER SCAMILTON <the end>

And they accuse liberals of indoctrination!

Bold prediction: Cancelling of Pay Equity is a much bigger deal than Nats thought it would be, it'll slow burn into the next election & will cost the Nats enough support bled to Labour to go out Greens & TPM will be in a strong position to form govt From most right to most left govt ever #NZPol

This is actually hilarious.

The implication here from the BBC is that al-Najjar children could’ve been legitimate targets if their parents had ties to Hamas. Children are not targets. We must side with the child over the bomb every single time, no matter whose bomb and no matter whose child. Every time.

Yes, we got a tip when the $TRUMP whales (biggest buyers of his crypto) were going to show up Friday at the White House for their VIP tour and The NYT was there. We had a list with their names. So we knew who they were. But they did not want to chat. I still tried...

One of the great under-reported stories of Trump’s ignorance (insanity?) is that for years he has made repeated comments about stealth fighters which suggest he believes they are literally invisible in the sky. His weirdness cannot be overstated.

Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar, a pediatrician at Nasser Hospital has just received the charred remains of her 7 children: 1- Yahya Hamdi Al-Najjar 2- Rakan Hamdi Al-Najjar 3- Ruslan Hamdi Al-Najjar 4- Jubran Hamdi Al-Najjar 5- Hawaa Hamdi Al-Najjar 6- Rivan Hamdi Al-Najjar 7- Sydeen Hamdi Al-Najjar

Israel killed 75 people today—human beings with names, stories, and families. Our people aren’t numbers. Our people are precious; their lives matter, and their deaths aren’t trivial footnotes deemed not newsworthy. Shame on the west for allowing this daily slaughter to continue.

đź”´ There are explosions in the centre of Kyiv - Mayor Klitschko says 20 drones loom over the Ukrainian capital. That must be the Russian peace memorandum.

Trump’s like a controlling father telling the kids there’s no money for the movies but buying himself a sports car to use just at weekends.

This will, of course, terrorize all international students. One cannot simply "transfer" between schools & cities/states, uproot lives abroad, establish new roots to... risk deportation from another US institution for whatever the next threat is from Noem? And do not sleep on this part.. đź§µ

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

Just nonstop crimes in broad daylight

Ireland, Is it true that ICE are routing kidnap victims of many nationalities through Shannon Airport, to Djibouti to be kicked across the border into the war zone of South Sudan? Perhaps the most dangerous place in the world? #ireland #warcrimes #Shannon

Flight carrying US detainees destined for South Sudan likely flew through Shannon airport to Djibouti www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

this is about the size of it....⤵️⤵️⤵️