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"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

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New, from me: Marco Rubio used to boast that he was banned from China, calling it a totalitarian state. Now he combines a) new surveillance capabilities to monitor and punish international students, with b) little accountability or due process. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

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Please help Salwa!

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Yep, I still don't think people realize how dire the situation actually is internally...

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Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. Populations get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

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A couple of things. The poor sanitation has caused outbreaks of the parasite hookworm...and parasites are why we have the stereotype of the "slow" southerner

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Art by Ray Feibush from Science Fiction Monthly Vol 2 No 12 1975

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Democracy isn’t dying in darkness it’s being dismantled at the hands of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. @allisonjriggs.bsky.social won this election fair and square back in November. Her opponent is a petulant Confederate cosplayer who can’t handle losing. Concede Jefferson Griffin.

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And mean. Nobody likes them. They don't even seem to like each other

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It's so funny how they rant and rave against Marxists and what not, but man, do they sound like failed Soviet leaders. "You have been reassigned from hospital doctor to toaster maker. Please go to factory at 5 a.m. for shift."

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North Carolina voted 47.8% for Kamala Harris but if you look in these replies you will see joy and jubilation for their suffering because it’s a red state and therefore everyone is bad

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Trump just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it “unwarranted.”

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Linda McMahon calls AI "A1" (like the sauce) repeatedly www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZAs...

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Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act included mobs, but increasingly came to include open defiance by state governments. Personal liberty laws. State court habeas writs. Officials assisting and shielding people. Federal courts ignored. Frankly a kind of anti-slavery nullification and interposition.

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i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

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Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.

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Really interesting new research on state-level climate and energy policy, specifically tax incentives. Partisanship is not a major factor. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.

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Screeching about low birthrates is a stalking horse for stripping women of their rights. That's why all the well-meaning liberal solutions — better childcare, better healthcare, and especially men doing their fair share — fall on deaf ears.

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I reported on economics full-time in 2020. It taught me there are no incentives to have a baby in the US. Women in the US have to pay for pre-natal, medical and child care, earn less, do most of the parenting and chores, get promoted less, and are now at 27% higher risk of maternal mortality.

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It is heresy to argue for so inefficient a God! Only ~2% of incoming solar energy is converted into wind kinetic energy (css.umich.edu/publications...). Why wouldn't God just control the weather directly, which is 50 x as efficient! (h/t @twitskeptic.sirvin.com)

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Whenever you write something like this it should be antisemitism in quotes at bare minimum or in some form making clear that they’re aren’t actually cracking down on antisemitism

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God created all of that about 10e56 g of stuff in this universe out of thin air. All that for a single (and rather stupid) civilisation. So the guy clearly doesn't care about efficiency.

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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

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Re: ICJ genocide case. Not that one. Sudan has filed a case at the ICJ, accusing the UAE of complicity in the genocide of non Arab tribes in Darfur, citing its support of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary. It's unclear yet if the ICJ has jurisdiction here, but oral arguments have been heard.

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JUST IN: President Trump is authorizing the military to occupy and take jurisdiction over public land along the southern border.

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two months in to the new fascist regime the Friday night news cycle is still jarring. The fact that we now are getting firsthand reports of American citizens, being terrorized by department of Homeland security and being told to leave the country or face disappeared by DHS should be everywhere

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My Massachusetts-born law/platonic life partner received this email today in which DHS "encourages" her to leave the United States "immediately on your own" rather than face criminal prosecution, which is of course fine and normal