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small d democrat, socialist, environmentalist, hate war but not a pacifist, support Palestinian rights, pronouns he/him they/them is also OK if you prefer that.
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Kristi Noem's statement about Habeas corpus reminds me of Livia's comment about Claudius in 'I Claudius.' "I have seen fools pretending to be wise men, and wise men pretending to be fools. But this is the first time I've seen a fool pretending to be a fool."

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Here’s the thing: line officers at DHS routinely lie about stuff like this. Some studies suggest manufactured statements occur in 15-20% of cases, sometimes higher. Border Patrol is the worst offender but ICE does it too. Read this John Washington piece from 2019. theintercept.com/2019/08/11/b...

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

My Facebook account is back.

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My account on Facebook is now disabled by Facebook. I guess the words "anti-Zionist" and "Jews" in the same post was too much. If someone is on Facebook and wants to post this article on it you might do so. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

How my mom's brief career as an eight-year-old international jewel smuggler in 1929 lead to her becoming anti-Zionist .... znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

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People seem excited about the possibility that MAGA will create an Anti-Pope. I don't see the big deal; after they already made an Antichrist president, everything else is kind of an anticlimax.

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It would be the greatest troll of all time if someone could convince MaGA that AOC had been chosen as the new pope.

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softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

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"God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation." Julian Jarboe in "Everyone On the Moon is Essential Personnel." A perfect poetic gem that shakes my atheism for one moment.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

We don't have an immigration crisis. We have a cruelty crisis. Trump made that worse but did not invent it. To put immigration in perspective: the US had essentially open national borders until the 1875 Page Act.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Not (Intentional) satire. Lindsey Graham really did tweet that he is "excited to hear that Trump is open to the idea of being the next Pope." I always thought of Lindsey as an average closeted Gay Republican Elder, but apparently his tastes are bit kinkier than I gave him credit for.

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You need to scroll far down to find this piece, but the other news on this page are worth looking at too.

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From 2legged on Mastadon: "feminism that does not speak when women are starving under siege ...when girls are pulled from rubble .... that cannot name Gaza is not feminism. It's performance" — Nadine Quomsieh Paywalled original: www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025... Archived full text: archive.is/Hhanj

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Before Kennedy was into vaccine denial, he made his bones opposing offshore wind where it would be barely visible (at an extremely great distance,) from homes of rich people in Martha's Vineyard. He learned the celebrity value of contrarianism well before the brain worm.

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I am so glad we moved cautiously and slowly in dealing with the criminal former president, and mostly chose to look forward rather than backward, because who knows what terrible mess we might have ended up in had we not honored our cherished norms

submitted 33 days ago • 16 comments

Overheard conversation fragment: Man: Was your sister always this crazy? Woman: No, it started when she was three. Man: What happened? Woman: She learned to talk in complete sentences...

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I'm against this because it is wrong. But it also shows how trans bashing threatens everyone; as people with sense have been saying for years, it is an excuse for gender policing that anyone can be subject to

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The facility ICE is sending kidnap victims to in El Salvador is not just a "torture prison," though people are tortured there, or even only a concentration camp. It is a death camp. For instance, inmates are limited to one cup of water a day, which by itself could cause death from dehydration.

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A department so sprawling that it cannot be effectively managed, and so endowed with supraconstitutional powers that it cannot be controlled must be destroyed. DHS operates with opacity and rules with brutality, and there is no terroristic danger so severe that its existence is warranted.

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments