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This is why part of ICE that does non-deportation actual cop shit (human trafficking, drug smuggling, customs evasion, etc) wanted to be jurisdictionally separate from ERO, the deportation people during Trump v1: if people see you as the fucking gestapo, you’re less effective at actual police work

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"A final phase, allowing nonprofessionals to submit columns with help from an A.I. writing coach called Ember, could begin testing this fall." Ah cool, so unionbusting?

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Excellent and comprehensive look at Lee election and its implications for alliance relations and Korean foreign policy from Andrew Yeo of Brookings. www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...

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New steel & aluminum tariffs put tariffs on the non-metal content in derivatives, so if you have a $1k bicycle that’s 40% aluminum you pay a 50% tariff on $400 then a 10% tariff on $600—Unless the bike is from 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇨🇳🇲🇽 in which case the numbers are completely different. Insanity.

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They're literally doing the meme

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Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea secured a landslide victory in South Korea’s 21st presidential election on June 3, winning a strong mandate and control of the National Assembly. What lies ahead for President Lee? @victordcha.bsky.social @andysaulim.com write:

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You might find yourself interested by this post from ‪@wellerstein.bsky.social‬ , that investigates what motivated Pakistan so strongly to get nuclear weapons, and how their situation compares to Iran’s.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

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Disturbing this far-right group was able to sneak educators into elementary schools in Seoul. One thing for parents to voluntarily send their kids to these places, quite another for public institutions to allow these far-right educators in without alerting parents. news.kbs.co.kr/news/mobile/...

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Happy Pride month everyone!! 🦊❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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‘Would you be in favour of reintroducing National Service?’

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South Koreans turned out in force to vote in the presidential election, seeking to restore stability after six months of turmoil triggered by a brief shock of martial law imposed by former leader Yoon Suk Yeol. Follow Reuters live coverage: reut.rs/4kK9hcb

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The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find any angle whatsoever to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

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Mount Etna produced a spectacularly explosive eruption Monday, sending a ripple of reddish clouds down from the southeast summit of Europe's highest active volcano.

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The COVID-19 vaccines are the closest humans have come to a scientific feat like blowing up an asteroid headed to Earth in real time and saving millions, if not tens of millions, of lives. And conservatives are like, "Witch!!"

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this morning remembered moment involving friend from high school. the friend asked his mother and father if they were sad that he and his older brother were both now away from home (friend off to college, brother had own place). the parents were blunt: “we can have a lot more sex now, so not very”

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Exit polls show #Lee Jae-myung with decisive lead over #Kim Moon-soo by 51.7% to 39.3%

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another factor here is also how trivial it is to infiltrate russia.

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Breaking: Liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung will become South Korea's next president, broadcaster JTBC forecasts

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The exit poll released immediately after voting ended at 8 p.m. shows Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung with 51.7 percent, compared to People Power Party candidate Kim Moon-soo’s 39.3 percent.

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Inflation is the Occam's Razor explanation for the election

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Exit polls have Lee Jae-myung as South Korea's next president. There will be plenty of pieces in next few days saying why that's good/bad-most will say bad-for US-ROK alliance. For now, enough to say this starts to bring closure to a very turbulent few months in South Korea's domestic politics.

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We will soon be in a world where Russia and China each possess nuclear arsenals on par with the United States’—and where the probability of great-power war is growing.

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출구조사 결과가 나오자, 민주당 개표상황실에선 환호성과 박수가 터져나왔습니다. 반면 국민의힘 등에선 침묵만이 가득했습니다. 민주노동당의 상황실에선, 20대 이하 여성에서 5.9% 예상 득표율이 발표되자 박수가 나왔습니다. 권영국 후보도 활짝 웃었습니다.

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So Lee Jae-myung is very likely going to win and win in the manner we expected. Lee has strong support among the “386” generation (they are in their 50s now) and the cohort just behind them in their 40s. Older people supported Kim Mun-soo. 1/

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Considering how many Koreans don’t like or don’t trust Lee Jae-myung, I think his massive victory can be seen as a massive victory for Korean democracy — when democracy was truly threatened, Koreans put aside their personal antipathies and voted for the pro-democracy candidate.

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The United States Justice Department micromanaging how the Harvard Law Review’s internal reprimand of a student editor is insane

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NEW: South Koreans are on track to elect liberal president Lee Jae-myung after chaotic six months, in an election that followed the impeachment of the leader who declared martial law for the first time in South Korea's democratic history. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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The Uncertain and Shifting Future of Ph.D.s in Science undark.org/2025/06/03/p...

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This Budget will destroy CDC injury prevention. Decades of evidence, infrastructure, & excellence will disappear. Call your lawmakers. Also, all data scientists who run these data sets were fired on April 1. Public Health is critical infrastructure. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

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The fact of the matter is that we would not accept any of these incidents if it was done by U.S. forces. When blackwater killed Iraqi civilians it was a national outrage. This occurs weekly in Gaza and the West Bank and it’s met with indifference to what our military aid is supporting.

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Analysis: Trump’s “Gold Standard Science” is already wearing thin arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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It is deeply hilarious that the Hudson's Bay Company was founded in 1670 and chugged along for three and a half centuries and Private Equity finished it off in like five years.

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Lee Jae-myung, presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, has a two-digit lead over People Power Party (PPP) candidate Kim Moon-soo according to exit polls by Korea’s three terrestrial broadcasters.

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YES. Kate Nash’s latest song goes SO HARD against TERFs, transphobia and toxic masculinity. Perfectly articulates so much of the anger I’ve felt recently 💪

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Look this is pathetic but instructive because it’s not just about this lame creep it’s about the Overton window continuing to be moved so quickly by Trump’s criminality and lawlessness that bad people have reassessed their previous actions against the metric of “you can get away with anything.”

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this is largely why I find it funny that the man positioned in pop culture as the ultimate futurist lost his mind when his kid became a girl

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We definitely screwed up the terminology here. Confabulation is a much better term. @jzleibo.bsky.social

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Thank god. He's not great, but he's way better than the other guy... or the previous pres. apnews.com/article/sout...

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As someone else said as well, Jones stories follow the tradition of adventure stories, and adventure stories are more about the transportation of the audience to an exotic place full of excitement and danger than the character controlling the outcome of the story

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One prominent industry continues to avoid scrutiny for operating in Xinjiang: major international hotel chains, peterirwin.bsky.social and @henrykszad.bsky.social write. Rather than reducing their exposure to the region, these companies are on a building spree.

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