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This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

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there will be hell to pay

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not a fan of military coups but hoping US military understands when it is being used to reinforce illegitimate political equivalence

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regime to attack resistance to its violent racial sweeps and ethnic cleansing “The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, wrote on X that national guard troops were being mobilized ‘IMMEDIATELY’ and threatened to send ‘active duty Marines’ if the unrest continued.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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at the Pentagon 1967 photo by Bernie Boston

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Just to recap, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of federalizing 2000 member of the California National Guard — over the objections of the state’s governor — in response to a protest that currently involves A FEW DOZEN PEOPLE AT A HOME DEPOT

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seared Prime NY strip steak, lemon, cut fresh rosemary leaves, a very good Canaan olive oil (Palestine); spring garlic/dried wild Sicilian oregano/crushed dried jalapeño-roasted Mexican grape tomatoes, NYS thyme; flattened young garlic clove/dried Calabrian peperoncino-sauteed local purple broccoli

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if this were actually true, a look at any number of extraordinarily-important precedents would suggest the ultimate outcome

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so a fascist regime is calling in the National Guard to defend its ragtag, militarized, and illegal agency increasingly engaged in violence against ordinary Angelenos defending their Constitutional rights www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Make it stop

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they’re going to get back together

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The administration gets closer to using the military to crush civilian dissent. Expect deaths, disappearances, and lawless detentions.

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Commentary: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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Joe Biden kicked millions off Medicaid in order to falsely declare the pandemic over and get the public to accept mass death and disability. Millions lost health insurance but Democrats didn’t seem to care when their blue team was doing it www.dissentmagazine.org/article/bide...

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Memo to Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer: You can't separate the issue of combating ICE terrorism from "kitchen table issues."

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jesus christ lmao

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it's not over until it's over, everywhere “'If gays have gone from invisibility to ubiquity and from self-hatred to self-acceptance, we should recognize we’re still being pushed off cliffs in Yemen — and from the top fronds of Florida palms, for all I know,' he wrote in 'The Loves of My Life.'"

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To be sure it's James Ivory's birthday we're celebrating, or are about to, but I never like to pass up a chance to say that Julian Sands's performance in A Room with a View is almost supernaturally good.

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is protest now criminal? [in 70s, did sit-down at neighborhood narrow 300-yr-old river stone-paved alley, to save it from asphalt we lost: neighbors wanted smooth surface later in NY arrests in demos to bring attention to AIDS we won some, but much of the neighborhood has helped lose even that]

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Last week, I conducted an unannounced oversight visit at the Northwest Detention Center. I found people who never should have been detained and individuals not being told what their rights are. This is not what the American people want from our immigration system.

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Sharing this alert for folks interested in rapid response today 8:25am 100+ community members kidnapped by ICE have been crammed into horrific conditions including bathrooms for DAYS at 26 Federal Plaza.

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might have been a bad idea for D cities to send astronomical funds and weaponry to a violent armed gang that hates them.

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all these public officials insist they will resist the Trump admin adn that they don't support ICE...and then the police departments they supposedly control rush out to beat up anti ICE protestors.

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Allium now going to seed, rue currently blossoming Chelsea Gardens central court garden

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among other things i appreciate that mamdani can actually dress himself

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Edmund White, 1940–2025 “My father would spend hours shaving with the hot Water running and running, but as if in penitence for So much narcissism his only cologne was witch Hazel, liquid masculinity. . . . ” —White’s poem “Shaving,” from our fall/winter ’20 issue. evergreenreview.com/read/shaving

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Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya. Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

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Eid Mubarak from me to you 🌙 Register to vote at zohranfornyc.com/vote 🗳️ Animation: Sarah Elawad

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we know the enemy

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Driving to the gym, windows down, blasting the audiobook for Middlemarch like it’s the song of the summer.

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Yglesias thinks we should welcome neo-Nazi billionaires into the Democratic Party.

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hot take: protestants have been starved of kitsch ever since the whole "let's tear out all the kitsch from the churches" movement half a millennium ago or whatever and they're all the worse for it, that's probably why the evangelicals love weirdo high camp preachers, they have a kitsch deficiency

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I love our nascent world

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