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The response to Zohran Mamdani's campaign reminds me of the stories I've heard from ambitious, optimistic Millennials (esp. BIPOC) whose ideas are repeatedly shot down by managers, are told they don't have enough experience to be leaders, and are constantly subjected to microaggressions and racism.

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supporting guys like cuomo is a way for wealthy new yorkers who are actually republicans to maintain dem cred without voting against their own interests

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I do not care about borders. I do not care about nations. I care about human beings.

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Professor Khaled Elgindy of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University tells the public that the Israeli occupation army invaded, ransacked and stole from his wife's familial home in the occupied West Bank.

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The Democratic Party is already dead. They’re the 1850s Whigs but just don’t know it yet

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Host: Are you saying the US did not see intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization? Rubio: That’s irrelevant Host: No, that's a key point Rubio: No it’s not… Forget about intelligence

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Trump is doing all the things you shouldn’t do if you’re aiming for authoritarian consolidation, but that you SHOULD do if your goal is doing lasting damage to the United States on every possible front.

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In case it wasn’t already obvious. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Funny, that.

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"An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes." —Sun Tzu

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"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, for example, recently enthused that a "significant fraction" of the Earth's total power production should eventually go to AI." futurism.com/ai-pollution...

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On every level all they have to do is say brown people have weapons & they can just do anything to us

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On top of everything else, there’s basically nothing in the US press about how other Middle East nations are responding, the condemnations sunni leaders issued on behalf of a sovereign shiite Iran — important! We’re arrogantly blundering into Iran without any awareness at all.

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A quick reminder about the history. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

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This is going great!!!

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This seems to be the direction Republicans are taking the country

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Farmers own ideology is suffering consequences of their own making. Farmer despise socialism but rely on government assistance. They detest immigrants but only employ them. They deny global warming yet crops continue to wither.

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You’d think even pro war pundits would have learned their lesson at this point but no www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

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Honestly, there is something deeply ironic of a nation that views itself as a successor to the tradition of Rome, and has rendered its Senate irrelevant and is ruled by a mad Emperor who has chosen to go to war with a nation that views itself as a successor to Ancient Persia.

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Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.

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Just saw this incredible poster for a jazz festival here, so much going on.. look at the abducted sheep 😅 I love it

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no no no no no! #pacers

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Contradicting data, Kristi Noem warns of ‘northern border crisis’ at Detroit event michiganadvance.com/2025/06/20/c...

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"The U.N. nuclear watchdog said later that there has been “no increase in off-site radiation levels” at the locations that the U.S. hit. The International Atomic Energy Agency sent the message via the social platform X." How's this possible if Iran was just about to produce the bomb?

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UPDATE: Iran has just voted to close the Strait of Hormuz. (Higher prices on everything loading) nypost.com/2025/06/22/w...

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Two leading Canadian economists say a guaranteed income floor that cuts poverty in half could be funded at half the cost of previous estimates. This would make basic income considerably cheaper than the cost of poverty itself, saving lives and money.

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“Colonialism is insatiable. Enough is never enough.” — Omar El Akkad just now on Al Jazeera

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"Rome’s empire would not collapse until the 5th century A.D., but the death of the republic was much nearer than Scipio Aemilianus might have thought." www.liberalcurrents.com/inherent-vic...

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BREAKING: Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization says it will not halt its nuclear program following the U.S. attack, calling the strikes a “blatant violation of international law.”

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It’s the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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If I hear another person say ‘American democracy is falling apart’ I might lose my mind. American Democracy isn’t collapsing. That’s ridiculous hyperbole! Something has to exist in order for it to collapse. What IS collapsing is the mythology of American Empire.

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Happy Pride Month, all my sweet angels babies! ✨🌈 We must never let people forget the LGBTQ+ community’s and specifically drag culture’s connection to the Black Liberation Movement. This is U.S. History ✊🏽🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈

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impeach!

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I'm watching the HBO documentary on the Ohio State sexual abuse case that should've come out before the election, and wow. It's gutting and hard to watch, but I wish everyone would. And Jim Jordan is a big fat liar and despicable person. But you all knew that.

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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

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"The days of 'Learn to code' might be coming to an end," @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes. "If the numbers are any indication, we might have passed peak computer science":

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Incredible slow motion footage of a cheetah running at over 60mph (96km/h), captured at 1200fps by cinematographer Greg Wilson.

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Hot air balloon carrying 21 people crashes in southern Brazil 😳 so sad

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Send this to your woman next time you mess up 😂

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BREAKING President Trump says the United States has just completed an attack on three nuclear sites in Iranian territory.

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Scholars estimate that over just 50 years in the late 19th - early 20th centuries, 20,000 to 25,000 Indigenous people were exhibited in “living habitats” in the West. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

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can’t overstate how shoddy the actual work is. “the framers didn’t think black people counted in the constitutional order” falls apart with a single question: “well what did they think about all the free blacks that most of them lived around, encountered, and even hired for work?”

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