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Today's story: apnews.com/article/orla...

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Having consensual sex with an unpaid woman is one of the most profoundly validating experiences for many men. A woman choosing to have sex with a man is usually a colossal approval of his physical and mental characteristics.

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

The Overton Window has shifted all the way to ban all non-white people from coming to America. It was never about illegal immigration.

submitted 3 hours ago • 73 comments

So Mirriam Webster has announced that 'FRIDGE' is an official word in their dictionary now, and sited me as the concept's creator in the definition. Very cool, and weird at the same time. I got death threats over this, cool for it it to be recognized. www.merriam-webster.com/slang/fridge

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I am a historian and the consensus as to the start date for Italian fascism is when Mussolini, accused of having his party disappear a leftist member of Parliament, made a speech daring anyone to do anything about it - no one did.

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UPDATE: One of the two FTC commissioners Trump purported to fire in March, Alvaro Bedoya, resigned today because he hasn't been paid since then and, he wrote, "I can no longer afford to go without any source of income for my family." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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As ICE officers conducted a series of raids targeting Latino communities in Los Angeles, reality star Phil “Dr. Phil” McGraw embedded with immigration officials. Later, Merit TV announced in a press release that its footage will be aired throughout a “2-Night Television Event."

submitted 8 hours ago • 66 comments

She was right.

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La CAQ a trop écouté ses opposants selon lui | 3e lien: «On a trop écouté ceux qui avaient des données», dit Samuel Poulin

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Friends: Unless you are from Los Angeles, are an American West historian, or a Latinx/Latine scholar, you might not understand how intrinsic the Mexican flag is to protests movements there. Grape boycotts, Chicano high school protests, all of it. It's history.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

There it is. That’s a HUGE part of the reason Trump & the oligarchs love the Gilded Age — the era before the income tax. They want to shift the tax burden back to consumers & working people while the robber barons celebrate their biggest tax cuts in US history. That’s also why Elon decimated govt.

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Love this illustration of the Cybertruck's numerous flaws, but particularly the non-real-time back-up camera. Very useful! www.wsj.com/business/aut...

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Danielle Smith when confronted with the reality that oil production has increased in Alberta… “We’ve got the lowest living standards in the world” No really. She said that. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOU ARE SO WONDERFUL. WE WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT YOU, SIR Say it with feeling. Louder. LOUDER. And try to ignore the cold metal of the muzzle at the back of your neck. That's what Republicans call freedom.

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Dans le milieu journalistique, les agences de presse représentent le summum de la neutralité. Bonne déconstruction de cette idée à partir d'une lecture critique de la plus récente édition du «stylebook» d'Associated Press: www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-the...

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Des nouvelles du vrai monde de la censure 👇

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Carney is doing everything not to upset a bully indifferent to facts. Also Alberta.

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The game: If you're not on the black list, join us before we turn on you.

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It’s interesting that ICE is not conducting raids on the farms and slaughterhouses in South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska etc. where 86% of the workers are undocumented… I wonder if Kristi Noem, as former governor of South Dakota, has an answer…

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This is a test. This is only a test of the military and police response system.

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pendant ce temps au canada, on fait un pari "all-in" sur la construction de pipelines

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NEW: In public, Trump and his top aides say trade talks are in great shape even after a court declared many tariffs to be illegal. In court, though, the admin is sounding more urgent alarm, warning judges that a ruling against them would damage Trump globally. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...

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Dans le tiroir de ma table de nuit | La Presse

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TL;DR: NRA=KKK

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J'imagine que c'est "protéger l'industrie touristique".

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Protest? On this economy?

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Masha Gessen worries that Americans are entering a phase of the "shock exhaustion" witnessed in Putin's Russia: A coping response to awful things happening in rapid succession is to normalize extremism. Establishment media (incl. the Times) too often enable this by both-sidesing authoritarianism.

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While the #LAPD were hosting a press conference talking about keeping the public safe, the news chopper captured live video of them beating an unarmed man every time he tried to stand up:

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What you get when entitlement and sadism are job qualifications

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Note that this is the LAPD doing this – the local law enforcement who are supposedly not doing anything to stop the protest/“riots”, providing the entire supposed justification for Trump’s national guard order.

submitted 18 hours ago • 13 comments

I'm just a simple country conflict tracker but someone once told me attacking a neutral flagged civilian vessel in international waters was a grave crime against the international community that only Iran-backed Houthi terrorists would stoop to

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David Graeber said this in 2012 about protests in New York City. Though this is increasingly what is happening this week in Los Angeles. davidgraeber.org/articles/con...

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Today's story: apnews.com/article/orla...

Having consensual sex with an unpaid woman is one of the most profoundly validating experiences for many men. A woman choosing to have sex with a man is usually a colossal approval of his physical and mental characteristics.

The Overton Window has shifted all the way to ban all non-white people from coming to America. It was never about illegal immigration.

So Mirriam Webster has announced that 'FRIDGE' is an official word in their dictionary now, and sited me as the concept's creator in the definition. Very cool, and weird at the same time. I got death threats over this, cool for it it to be recognized. www.merriam-webster.com/slang/fridge

I am a historian and the consensus as to the start date for Italian fascism is when Mussolini, accused of having his party disappear a leftist member of Parliament, made a speech daring anyone to do anything about it - no one did.

UPDATE: One of the two FTC commissioners Trump purported to fire in March, Alvaro Bedoya, resigned today because he hasn't been paid since then and, he wrote, "I can no longer afford to go without any source of income for my family." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

As ICE officers conducted a series of raids targeting Latino communities in Los Angeles, reality star Phil “Dr. Phil” McGraw embedded with immigration officials. Later, Merit TV announced in a press release that its footage will be aired throughout a “2-Night Television Event."

She was right.

La CAQ a trop écouté ses opposants selon lui | 3e lien: «On a trop écouté ceux qui avaient des données», dit Samuel Poulin

Friends: Unless you are from Los Angeles, are an American West historian, or a Latinx/Latine scholar, you might not understand how intrinsic the Mexican flag is to protests movements there. Grape boycotts, Chicano high school protests, all of it. It's history.

Love this illustration of the Cybertruck's numerous flaws, but particularly the non-real-time back-up camera. Very useful! www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Danielle Smith when confronted with the reality that oil production has increased in Alberta… “We’ve got the lowest living standards in the world” No really. She said that. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOU ARE SO WONDERFUL. WE WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT YOU, SIR Say it with feeling. Louder. LOUDER. And try to ignore the cold metal of the muzzle at the back of your neck. That's what Republicans call freedom.

Dans le milieu journalistique, les agences de presse représentent le summum de la neutralité. Bonne déconstruction de cette idée à partir d'une lecture critique de la plus récente édition du «stylebook» d'Associated Press: www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-the...

Des nouvelles du vrai monde de la censure 👇

Carney is doing everything not to upset a bully indifferent to facts. Also Alberta.

The game: If you're not on the black list, join us before we turn on you.

It’s interesting that ICE is not conducting raids on the farms and slaughterhouses in South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska etc. where 86% of the workers are undocumented… I wonder if Kristi Noem, as former governor of South Dakota, has an answer…

This is a test. This is only a test of the military and police response system.

pendant ce temps au canada, on fait un pari "all-in" sur la construction de pipelines

NEW: In public, Trump and his top aides say trade talks are in great shape even after a court declared many tariffs to be illegal. In court, though, the admin is sounding more urgent alarm, warning judges that a ruling against them would damage Trump globally. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...

Dans le tiroir de ma table de nuit | La Presse

TL;DR: NRA=KKK

J'imagine que c'est "protéger l'industrie touristique".

Protest? On this economy?

Masha Gessen worries that Americans are entering a phase of the "shock exhaustion" witnessed in Putin's Russia: A coping response to awful things happening in rapid succession is to normalize extremism. Establishment media (incl. the Times) too often enable this by both-sidesing authoritarianism.

While the #LAPD were hosting a press conference talking about keeping the public safe, the news chopper captured live video of them beating an unarmed man every time he tried to stand up:

What you get when entitlement and sadism are job qualifications

Note that this is the LAPD doing this – the local law enforcement who are supposedly not doing anything to stop the protest/“riots”, providing the entire supposed justification for Trump’s national guard order.

I'm just a simple country conflict tracker but someone once told me attacking a neutral flagged civilian vessel in international waters was a grave crime against the international community that only Iran-backed Houthi terrorists would stoop to

David Graeber said this in 2012 about protests in New York City. Though this is increasingly what is happening this week in Los Angeles. davidgraeber.org/articles/con...

There is no mass-deportation campaign going on right now. Deportation is a process. This is kidnapping and human trafficking.

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

Some questions answer themselves