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When Biden was president, Israel did not block food from entering Gaza for months at a time, due to constant American pressure on Israel. This changed when Trump took office. And the people here who post about Gaza the most are the ones likeliest to make a #nodifference argument and vice versa.

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👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.

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Cutting semiconductor research, lmao

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NEW: The Trump administration has conceded that it improperly deported another Salvadoran man in violation of a court order — blaming a "confluence of administrative errors." The man's lawyer plans to demand his return. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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The end of US leadership in science, technology, and innovation. All in one little table. A tremendous gift to China, courtesy of the GOP. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

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Once again, an easy way to end this madness would be for Congress to pass a new trade law repealing Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, & the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977. He's only a mad king bc Article I is failing.

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imho, a nontrivial amount of discourse is animated by a belated realization that Kamala would have been significantly preferable to Donald in a great many ways, and an attempt to rationalize this away as not to require a political coalition with lame people

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So, what is to be done? Geoscience is essentially dead in the US with these funding priorities and the massively reduced budget.

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www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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rereading Windrow's THE LAST VALLEY, which is excellent but occasionally given to Orientalist framings. I'm going to need you to look up "broken on the wheel" and "drawn and quartered" before you claim there's anything uniquely East Asian about torture-executions.

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

Sometimes a phrase just cuts through language barriers like a bullet

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Republican officials have now asked us to disregard material things, sacrifice for the nation, and contemplate that death is inevitable. We have been taken over by a secret cadre of militant Buddhists.

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TIRED: Star Wars is a kids series WIRED: Andor introduced additional adult complexity relating to the complex nuances of authoritarianism INSPIRED: Star Wars is relevant to real life bc our political leadership say things like “your death is inevitable” & cackle while trying to maximize mass death

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NOW— Mass ICE arrests happened/are happening at the Manhattan immigration court at 290 Broadway on the 20th floor. I was just outside the building and an observer came out crying, confirmed they witnessed people getting detained outside courtrooms while families watched and wept.

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My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.

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law and order www.thedailybeast.com/trump-says-h...

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apropos causing injuries as a child, when I was maybe two and a half my mum took me to the sandpit in Platt Fields Park. I toddled in with the other kids and sat down next to a little girl who was playing in the sand, and watched her with interest.

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I mean I think Elon is a liar but also even babies can give you a black eye if they catch you at the wrong angle! I am told I yawned and stretched when I was a few weeks old and whapped my poor mum right in the face, and she had a shiner for days.

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this is social media but it's also the growth of legal sports gambling - players are regularly getting abuse and threats for 'underperforming' - or in some cases overperforming.

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watching elon musk spacing out while standing next to trump's desk and sporting an unmistakable no-shit black eye is maybe one of the weirdest moments in this second term yet.

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TIL one of the DHL founders was a pedophile who fathered numerous children on underage women in Asia, and his kids successfully sued for his estate after he died. dna-view.com/sfstory.htm

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a pattern I've seen in a few crimes in the UK is 'lowlifes become convinced one of their acquaintances has hidden wealth that doesn't exist, torture him for where it's hidden, he dies" there's a great fictional account of this in The Jugger, one of the Parker novels

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if autistic people weren't good at noticing patterns a lot of hobbies would fall apart, also some bits of the US intelligence services

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I see people posting about this as if it was an action movie, but if you read the whole thing unfortunately it's a Coen Brothers movie. lawandcrime.com/crime/coast-...

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chat is using a legal term of art "rancid bias"

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donald trump?!? breaking a promise ?!!!!?

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Just 7 days to go! bsky.app/profile/ozka...

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lots of people are really determined to defend the honor of SE Asian crime networks.

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The FT has dozens of newsletters that haven’t caused a trade war.

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if this animal didn't exist in the real world and someone described it to you, you'd think they were on drugs

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bunch of John Banville novels on sale with deep discounts on Kindle right now for those inclined.

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was not expecting the universe to so literally deliver on 'glenn greenwald loves to kiss the boot'

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