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The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

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RIP Henry Kelly Going for Gold was a favourite in my youth www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Said it a few years ago, it’s more true now, and it gets truer as execs keep killing game studios and decimating movies: Capitalism’s so fucked that it won’t even provide bread and circuses anymore. They’re consuming the very escapism that distracts us from their consumption. Useless ghouls.

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This....

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There’s a civil war going on in America, even though we don’t know it. It’s being fought in every government department, between resistors to, and accomplices to, autocracy. It’s being waged in the courts, in the media, and civil society. And it’s not over

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That everyone outside your own political base isn’t “real people” is a very succinct summation of populism’s core premise. It’s not about some nebulous notion of representing the masses, it’s about claiming the power to decide who counts as “the people” with rights and legitimacy.

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Saying someone can’t be a Nazi because they support Israel is like saying someone can’t be a misogynist because they married a woman.

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Once you are normalising a Nazi salute with your writings or social media accounts then just accept you are either a lickspittle or a fascist m.youtube.com/watch?v=Web0...

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This is truly shameful. Even China and Iran abstained. The US has put itself in the company of some of the worst states in the world - Russia, Belarus, North Korea. Hungary showing its true colours as Russia's Trojan horse in the EU as well.

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Feels like we are entering an era where the hushed conversation in a lot of (all-white) media boardrooms is, in careful euphemism, “we’re not hiring black people in major roles anymore” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

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THERE IS NO AMERICAN CONSTITUENCY FOR AN ALLIANCE WITH RUSSIA. Even the GOP hates it. It’s just that Russia, for reasons we STILL do not know, owns Trump.

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“When fascism begins to creep in around us…. Trusting your instincts, naming the threat and sharing your fears isn't just cathartic - it's empowering. It might even save your life.” No excuses. No equivocation. We call it what it is. And them what they are. Very good letters in @theguardian.com

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These are the people that would have abandoned Poland to Hitler.

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For the first time in over 20 years, Israel has deployed tanks in the West Bank, after expelling 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps. This is a prelude to full annexation, and makes a mockery of the ceasefire agreement that Israel continues to violate. [1/3]

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TRUMP: fires black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; fires female chief of naval operations; hires unqualified replacement, a white man NYT:

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“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”

submitted 3 days ago • 281 comments

The MAGAs are really, really blatantly firing a ton of women in the federal government and military for the crime of being women, and it is embarrassing when people ignore or downplay this.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Idiocracy

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It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.

submitted 5 days ago • 108 comments

I love to read takes by my favorite powerless pundit, Chuck Schumer. As a purely passive observer, he has great insights.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Ms. Ghasemzadeh described a sweltering encampment, overrun with cats and dogs. Then, she sent a text message saying that the authorities were confiscating all phones. Her last words: “Please try to help us.” Don't look away. This is happening. Read ⬇️. And, this is why a free press is essential.

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"Move fast and break things" sounds like some bold techbro vision of innovation, but it's also the same motto of thieves who want to do a smash-and-grab and get the fuck out before anybody can catch them.

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

Trump is on Putin's side. That's it. That's the story and if you are on Trump and Putin's side then you're on the side of murder, fear, war and autocracy. Find it absolutely staggering that some people who you'd expect so much more of are cheering this nightmare on

submitted 8 days ago • 60 comments

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 8 days ago • 237 comments

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

submitted 10 days ago • 74 comments

Fuck golf. Well, fuck golf clubs owning loads of land that would be better for the environment if left to go wild, and better for the public if they were common ground.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Just amazing that they are listing a bunch of programs that strengthen democracy for about 2 billion people for peanuts in the grand scheme of things and they think it’s a win cancelling them. Honestly, the most stupid people.

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Putin can end the fighting anytime he wants. He just needs to take his nasty little pockmarked fascist arse and carry it back to Russia where it fucking belongs.

submitted 9 days ago • 27 comments

It sounds to me like lots of people have decided that the only way to fight Trump is to not fight him. Which is objectively fucking stupid.

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

?? It’s no mystery where the money goes; this has been asked and answered. 70-75% of US spending is on Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Pentagon and veterans + interest on the debt. Foreign aid is 1% of the budget. You can read this in a CBO or OMB report! Easily available.

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I posted this elsewhere: I wrote it because a lot of the people who will read it there are young and could do with learning this early. I'm re-posting it here because a lot of people are much older and still have not. But it's never too late:

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Striking that so many on the Reform tendency, who have banged on for years about the need to remember the sacrifices of WW2 and policed the wearing of poppies... failed to learn any lessons from it. You don't appease dictators casting shadows on your doorstep. You fight back.

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Before these become totally useless I’ll give one of my 2025 calendars away here. (and one over on the Blue place) To win just RT and follow and I’ll pick a random winner on Monday at 10am. My lil’ shop www.infinitebacon.com

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This “NATO transcript” is fake and I’m sad to see people repost it. I’m reporting it and blocking the account that originally posted it. Always worth checking your sources before you repost stuff that conveniently affirms all your political feelings, whatever side you’re on.

submitted 12 days ago • 44 comments

Wishing everyone a pleasant Sex Halloween.

submitted 12 days ago • 29 comments

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

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Roses are red, My name is Dave, This poem makes no sense, Microwave

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Just imagine the Fox News and Republican outrage if Biden had said he wanted to cut America’s defense spending in half…in coordination with Russia and China. But none will criticize Trump for this. These people have zero principles.

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation” George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt

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‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+". The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history. This pride, we riot.

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Based Hellboy.

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