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The first time I drove anywhere by myself longer than an hour was ≈1,000 miles back home from my college dorm. It was just me, the cardinal directions, my atlas, and a list of interstate highways from one city to the next.

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Democrats… learn something from this

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A good rubric for any given piece of media about "transgender issues" is asking yourself how well the author answered the question "What about the trans people?" It seems so stupidly obvious but you'll quickly notice how discourse ostensibly about us generally avoids the consequences we face

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Lubna’s husband was abducted and she’s all her own trying to take care of her three kids including Yazan who has been ill. She really needs help

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Harvey Milk served in the Navy during the Korean War, but was discharged in 1955, not for any misconduct, but because he was gay. And now his name is being removed from a Navy vessel, once again not because of anything he did wrong, but because he was gay. It's the same hate from the same scum.

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla crew issue "distress signal" after spotting drone overhead - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-freedom-flotilla-crew-issue-distress-signal-after-spotting-drone

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Go vote Mississippi! Only a few hours left.

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New — On X the Minneapolis PD said they were only present at the ICE raid protest "to ensure the crowd and the surrounding area remained safe," but photos shared directly with me show Police Chief Brian O'Hara personally escorting federal agents off Lake Street where protest took place.

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random people showing up daily now to shout down masked government thugs with assault rifles and tanks and full military gear for the high-stakes operation of arresting a suspected undocumented line cook sort of feels like something

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As the genocide in Gaza rages on, the U.S. does nothing to stop Israel from killing American citizens in the West Bank, @jennamtphoto.bsky.social reports. The Israeli military has killed several U.S. citizens, & each time, the State Department does little more than request an investigation.

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Warren's report is here: www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do... - It's 14 pages and could likely be turned into a 5 page artful zine that can be printed and distributed across the country.

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A doctor at Nassar Hospital says most of the 27 aid seekers murdered today by Israel were children between the ages of 10-13 with gunshot wounds to the head or chest. www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...

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Al Jazeera reports Israel has just murdered at least 27 more Palestinian aid-seekers near Rafah, bringing the total number of people massacred in cold blood while seeking aid to 102 in just eight days. Unspeakable crimes against humanity. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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these guys are such pathetic, weak little bitches. a withering look could fucking knock them over. just the biggest losers in history.

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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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Jonathan Joss (Comanche, White Mountain Apache) did not simply die from a gunshot. He was murdered in a homophobic, racist hate crime by his former neighbors. He died saving his partners life. Honor his legacy-- both queerness and Indigeneity are inextricable to why he was targeted.

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San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

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So many gorgeous, creative things here!

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Pick up some N95s or similar —Bonafide Mask is running a sale. bonafidemasks.com

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Truly.

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So Trump is threatening to use the FBI against any hospital providing transgender surgeries to those under 18. Note: Such procedures, typically limited to top surgery and in some rare cases, bottom surgery at 17 before going to college, are legal. This is meant to scare hospitals out of care.

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The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.

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If you have ever thanked me for anything who you should be thanking is Ahmed who has talked to hundreds of Gazans for me to verify their story. This is the first time in months and months that he has asked me for any help with anything despite me asking him for help every day.

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Evening Update: Still sitting at $3340 needed asap to catch up on my rent. Thanks for all the shares today! #MutualAidRequest CashApp: $charlotteirene Paypal.me/charlotteirene Venmo: charlotte-irene8

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A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial research in the late 1800s.

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“Depp’s decade-long campaign against Heard has become a well-worn playbook for other men, an accelerant for far-right politics, and a warning to victims of what they will endure…It will keep happening until a vocal majority of people finally choose to hate the abusers and not the victims.”

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I want my enemies to have less power and for us to have more. Part of that involves people who have supported bad leaders and ideas changing their minds. We don't have to be anyone's friend or forgive people, but off-ramps must exist. I think that's pretty basic.

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So this is where we are. We worked hard to get here (sigh), and getting out is going to be hard - but it is important to understand where we are.

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Hello, it's Pride Month and for the rest of the month, I'm offering 20% off all annual memberships to my writing Patreon if you use code "PRIDE". patreon.com/katelynburns

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Ahmad is another Palestinian who has suffered through Bluesky's gatekeeping to prove he is a real person living in Gaza. He returned to Gaza to marry his childhood sweetheart Samar and remains trapped in Gaza's unending nightmare. Follow his story:

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This.

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You just gotta try.

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NEWSFLASH: At least 41 Russian aircraft are burning after a covert Ukrainian drone strike deep inside Russia. The attack, planned over 18 months by Ukraine's Security Service, hit four airfields and targeted Russia’s strategic aviation used to bomb Ukrainian cities.

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“People back in the past wanted to leave Mississippi, and they don’t want to say they’re from Mississippi because writers (then) talked about Mississippi being less than something else. We not less than something else. Mississippi got it goin’ on,” bluesman Bobby Rush said.

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The interesting thing about people dragging the folks in that NYT piece who said that they didn’t vote for moms to get deported is that the article is about how these women are organizing for a member of their community, aggressively and openly, and actually, that’s good.

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Hello! I would be happy to help. You can email me lollardfish at gmail with a draft of a piece and a pitch and I will help you refine it to improve your chances of being published. I mean this. I've helped a few dozen people these last six months.

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This is the first week I've felt Zohran can win and I'm not ok with getting emotionally invested in New York politics.

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Damn. This is dramatic. I had heard a couple days ago that a Nadler staffer had been arrested but was waiting for confirmation. So now we know what happened; ICE officers barged into the district office trying to arrest other people, handcuffed a staffer who pushed back, then let her go, no arrest.

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The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman and US citizen detained by ICE, keeps getting worse She’s been in the country for 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications & threw her in a detention facility in Georgia Did you know she was a whistle blower against forced sterilization?

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Video shows two unknown men, without uniforms or identifying insignias, attacking and kidnapping a man from a Nashua, NH courthouse back in February. During the kidnapping, the assailants, presumed to be ICE agents, knocked an elderly bystander who walks with a cane to the ground.

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