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“I'm not comfortable supporting any state that has a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or anything else. I think that, in the way that we have in this country, equality should be enshrined in every country in the world. That's my belief.” - Zohran Mamdani

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The first image shows a fantastic reconstruction of the omnivorous dinocephalian, called Jonkeria truculenta; by the talented artist @serpenillus.bsky.social. Jonkeria once had a large number of species attributed to it,‭ ‬but re-examination of the remains has found that many

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Just thinking about wtf is wrong with someone who says something like this

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TRUTH BOMB 💣 this guy is a Pedophile. I also made him President

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"The 5-year-old survived but lost both her parents and her younger sister" "We found Hanin recovering from second and third degree burns" "18 children were killed" "Our analysis ... showed fragments of a guided American bomb" We killed these children. We burned this child.

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terrified to feel optimistic about anything but god, Zohran really is so good

submitted 19 hours ago • 68 comments

My latest — I wrote about Trump pardoning reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley’s tax and bank fraud convictions after their daughter praised him at the RNC vs. 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes da Silva’s wrongful ICE detainment, and how justice has merely become a presidential transaction. Read here:

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NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.

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This is an abomination. The IDF is using an interlocking set of manifestly unlawful policies, killing civilians by the dozen, either with no military objective in view or in manifest disproportion to low-value targets. It makes a mockery of international law.

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the difference between this and all the “brave anti-woke academic speaking out despite the risks” is that (a) she’s actually risking something, and (b) she’s actually saying something that’s correct

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Jesus fucking Christ

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Strong essay by @mazmhussain.bsky.social on why Gaza is a genocide. mazmhussain.substack.com/p/death-and-...

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CBO now estimates that combination of Trump's budget bill + other parts of the GOP health agenda (e.g. allowing enhanced ACA tax credits to expire as scheduled) will increase # of uninsured people by 16 million. This is a backdoor Obamacare repeal by any other name www.cbo.gov/system/files...

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Just a completely rotten culture from top to bottom. Using human shields to clear buildings, shooting unarmed civilians, no ROE, etc; the IDF is anything but a professional military

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63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

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they will have to Zamboni the shit off his grave

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a good thing to ask yourself when pursuing a broad political strategy is “would this have prevented the civil rights movement?”

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I'm only half-watching this Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, but it is hard to overstate how unprepared the committee's Democrats are to fight these nominees. A bunch of elderly statesmen bringing decorum to a gunfight. Pathetic. Get these losers out of my face forever.

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Like nearly 40% of all New Yorkers, I wasn’t born in this country. I moved here at age 7. It’s my home. And I’m proud to be a citizen, which means standing up for our Constitution. Councilmember Paladino might consider reading it.

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ICE consists of people who are too unprofessional to be in the military and somehow too racist for the cops. They dress up like they’re fighting the Taliban in Korengal to brutalize Guatemalan-American teens, so they can defend the master volk (oh, I’m sorry: “real Americans”).

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They're literally doing the meme

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HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

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The Madleen Gaza aid flotilla – where Greta Thunberg is aboard – reports they've just spotted a drone hovering overhead:

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Johnathan Joss died a hero. He was murdered for being gay, he went out protecting his trans husband from being executed. They burned down their home and killed their pets and then they murdered Joss while trying to murder his husband. The New York times can barely muster "fatally shot." I hate this.

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This Israeli TV Channel has literally been inciting “genocide” onto thousands of screens. Read @premthakker.bsky.social's story: zeteo.com/p/inside-the...

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I don’t know how the world can watch the starvation, bombing, burning, shooting of Gazas civilians. Over half are children. They had nothing to do with the horrific Hamas attack. Hundreds of children are killed every week. Hundreds more maimed. This a genocide & it must be stopped

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RFK Jr. wants to eliminate as many vaccines as he can. Don’t believe him when he claims otherwise and says he just wants better science and safer vaccines He’s lying. His endgame is, for all practical purposes, to eliminate access to vaccines. thehill.com/policy/healt...

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DOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week. That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding, @hannahnatanson.bsky.social reports. Gift link: wapo.st/3HhnPSt

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Death threats. Islamophobic bigotry. Now a sitting Councilmember calling for my deportation. Enough. This is what Trump and his sycophants have wrought. It’s an assault on the values of our city and our Constitution. Will Cuomo condemn this or will that upset his MAGA donors?

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I cannot get over these cops wearing night vision to arrest a dude on a Southwest Airlines flight in broad daylight.

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Al Jazeera reports Israel has just murdered at least 27 more Palestinian aid-seekers near Rafah, bringing the total number of people massacred in cold blood while seeking aid to 102 in just eight days. Unspeakable crimes against humanity. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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i’d rather print this, rip it up, eat it, and puke it out, than read it.

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"Israeli forces have killed people waiting for food in Gaza for a fourth morning in a row. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says the aid distribution centres backed by the US & Israel have become death traps"

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Hey @amyklobuchar.com @klobuchar.senate.gov... any concerns that the bill you eagerly pushed is now being talked about by the folks who have been kidnapping people off the street for opeds and the guy who begged for his FTC job by saying he was going to "fight the trans agenda"? No?

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Israel is using the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to condense Palestinians into increasingly narrow enclaves, forcing displacement through need. We are witnessing the rise of a new humanitarianism where aid sites double as kill zones. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/the-...

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Jonathan Joss's murder & the media's erasure of the anti-queer, racist violence that preceded it reminds me of what @marisakabas.bsky.social wrote about Nex Benedict's death & the media's erasure of the anti-queer violence that caused it. www.thehandbasket.co/p/nex-benedi...

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You’re a disgrace to the Senate and the country.

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people are getting disappeared, innocent men sent to foreign gulags, the civil service hollowed out, thousands left to die without foreign aid, and schumer is saber rattling about iran. these people make me fucking sick.

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Israeli settlers set up an outpost in the Palestinian West Bank outside a shepherding community– within a week the settlers’ violent attacks forced all 23 families from the community to flee their homes. This is ethnic cleansing.

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a country full of little hitlers feeling as emboldened as they ever have in their wretched lives

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This this this!!! No bigot left behind is central to their world view.

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A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle Picture this: You're a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college…

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The Freedom Flotillas are some of the bravest endeavors in the world today.

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Every single one of those people "outraged" that they deported a mom in Missouri is gonna vote for JD or Don Jr or Trump in 2028

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“I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing.” Yep.

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These families are emptying their life savings and leaving the only home they've ever known just ensure their trans kid can get the care they need. Now ask yourself--would you even think about doing this for health care that was anything less than essential for your child's life?

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