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Hey guess what

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Some U.S. media (such as the Washington Post here) trace U.S.-Iranian animosity back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, conveniently forgetting that the CIA helped overthrow a democratically elected Iranian government in 1953, forcing Iranians to endure decades of the Shah’s brutal rule.

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Hey folks. I know there's a lot going on right now, but I'd really appreciate it if you read this piece I wrote on the perils of raising an autistic child during the era of RFK Jr. and his campaign of insane conspiracies and cruel scare tactics geared toward people on the spectrum.

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for folks who arent familiar with the political demographic of this area in ohio, just know that 400 protestors in chardon is quite something

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You don't have to like her but when she cooks she's Anthony Bourdain

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Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

submitted 17 days ago • 644 comments

🧵 When I was an intern at the Arizona Republic I got a police report handed to me to write a story on. It was an arrest of a man who police got through a sting going after pedophiles. They ended up searching his computer and the detective described a video that for years I thought had to be fake

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Louisiana's law that defines mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled substances is leading to patients being denied care for biopsies, hysteroscopies, and miscarriages. Read @lorenaoneil.com in @lailluminator.com lailluminator.com/2025/06/06/m...

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This is correct. It's grifters, grifting.

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

submitted 17 days ago • 836 comments

he’s a nazi, debra

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

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Remember when “death panels” was a Republican talking point against expanding health insurance coverage with Obamacare? Now, cutting coverage and actually sending people to their death is a policy position of the Republican Party.

submitted 23 days ago • 72 comments

Really wish people would simply use alt-text in their posts. There are a lot of graphics going around, which really help visualise the impact of the story they are telling, and they don't have any alt-text on them. Just makes the post non-inclusive to many others.

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"To understand who is in control, observe who you are not allowed to criticize." -Voltaire

submitted 25 days ago • 68 comments

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

submitted 28 days ago • 140 comments

ICYMI. This is the Steve Madden interview that clearly has Trump in a tizzy. “We want to build big things.”

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments

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

submitted 30 days ago • 369 comments

“I’m publicly horrible and cruel to a group of people, and then I’m shocked and offended when those people respond to me negatively” = one of the most obvious and baffling trends of the last decade

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

Let's be very clear, this is a feature, not a bug. Because if there aren't any jobs, people will do absolutely anything to stay alive. Lower wages, more employer crime, a permanent underclass. This is all built into the AI proposition.

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Public broadcasting officials from across the country plan to descend on Capitol Hill today in hopes of convincing lawmakers to preserve their federal funding despite pressure from President Trump and his allies.

submitted 40 days ago • 45 comments

NEW: Records show that senior State Department officials in both D.C. and Gambia coordinated with Starlink execs to coax, lobby and browbeat Gambian government ministers to help Musk. One official said Gambia is under “maximum pressure” to yield.

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political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”

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NEW: Nice Democracy you have here… The Trump Admin has a pressure campaign to help Elon Musk’s biz. In Gambia, officials got a veiled threat of losing U.S. govt funding. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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RFK seems to have lied to Congress a lot

submitted 40 days ago • 187 comments

Siri, summarize Musk in a few bullet points. Siri: - Musk promised glory and to solve people’s problems - this was a problem that did not exist in the first place - people believed the grifting - people made choices to support Musk and the grift - Musk grifted people -people realized this was grift

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1. Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish doctoral student at Tufts, speaks after a federal judge ordered her release following her arrest by federal agents on the street. She calls the United States “the greatest democracy in the world” and says she has “faith in the American justice system.”

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everyone, even bland mainstream news organizations, fully understands ICE are Nazi stormtroopers, and with the exception of some elected officials you can get basically anybody in the US to acknowledge it

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It’s important to pay attention to the fact that there are simultaneous efforts to criminalize mask-wearing by citizens and to standardize the wearing of face-obscuring gaiters by people purporting to be law enforcement.

submitted 45 days ago • 26 comments

If you are curious why maga crypto bros are accusing the new pope of having “suicidal empathy”, well boy do I have a podcast episode for you

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”

submitted 47 days ago • 216 comments

The other takeaway from this is so many of the Tech CEO oligarchy thinks everyone’s jobs can be replaced by AI because they themselves have fake ass jobs — if you can be very active in like 5 groupchats every day, what are you even contributing?

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