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It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

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To mark the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon today, I spoke with three scholars about the forgotten aftermath of the Vietnam War, and their personal stories of escape and survival. www.gzeromedia.com/news/analysi...

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Singapore kicked off a lightning-fast, nine-day campaign on Wednesday for its May 3 election. The vote promises to be the most contested since independence, as the ruling People’s Action Party sweats a strong challenge amid weak economic forecasts. www.gzeromedia.com/amp/singapor...

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a reduction in State Department staff and bureaus on Tuesday as the Trump administration continues its staffing and program cuts. But some diplomats are breathing a sigh of relief. www.gzeromedia.com/news/watchin...

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🇨🇳’s Li Qiang urged 🇯🇵’s Shigeru Ishiba to “fight protectionism together.” “I don’t know what the equivalent in Japanese for ‘chutzpah’ is, but I think the Japanese bureaucrats will snicker a bit to themselves,” says David Boling. (“Chutzpah” is 厚かましさ, btw) www.gzeromedia.com/amp/beijing-...

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Preparations for the funeral of Pope Francis are underway after the Holy Father died from a cerebral stroke early Monday – as are those for the secretive election to choose his successor. www.gzeromedia.com/news/watchin...

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China warned Monday that it would “take countermeasures” against countries that try to curry favor with the US by hurting Beijing. More than 70 countries have reached out to Washington in hopes of brokering deals to avoid eye-watering tariffs. www.gzeromedia.com/news/watchin...

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For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

submitted 55 days ago • 37 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

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A viral video circulating on TikTok appears to show an attorney running five ICE agents off outside his client's house. Lots to unpack here.

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NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

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AUTISM IS NOT AN EPIDEMIC, PEOPLE WITH AUTISM ARE NOT BROKEN

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The only way to say that you are starting a scientific study and you will know the definitive answer five months from now is for it to be a fake study with predetermined conclusions.

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important to remember that they lie all the time, and that this is as likely to mean 'we will retreat and claim that it was an extraordinary deal secured by the president's genius' as anything else. they've already blinked once.

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Ok sorry but getting on my soapbox to say that this isn’t a u-turn or a 180 or even a pause on tariffs. The MASSIVE tariffs are gone but BIG tariffs are still in place. And more so than before last week. Frame it right.

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Every Cabinet member has different, contradictory talking points about supposed purpose of these tariffs. Are they a negotiating tactic? Are they instead permanent, because we need them to raise revenue/boost US manufacturing? Are they designed to return us to 1790s lifestyles & living standards?

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Un niño palestino-estadounidense de 14 años muere tras recibir disparos de colonos israelíes en la Cisjordania ocupada.

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Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great

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even if you think tariffs are good from a leftist point of view, this is a really stupid thing to make your talking point right now when the increasingly unpopular far-right president has crashed the stock market and pinned his personal brand to tariffs.

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that Noem video reinforces my belief that there is a streak of sexualized sadism on the US right that goes back to lynching imagery but began in its most recent form with the enthusiasm for torture during the Bush years.

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North Korea appears to have additionally dispatched at least 3,000 soldiers to Russia in January and February - Yonhap The reinforcements add to the roughly 11,000 troops North Korea has sent to Russia so far, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.

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Sickening. It’s impossible to comprehend the cultural and moral abyss looming behind this barbaric photo op. I can’t find the words to express the level of rage any human being should feel in response to this administration’s callousness.

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I know I'm late to the game but I've pulled together some reading recommendations for anyone who might be interested in learning more about Spanish as a language of the United States in the wake of the EO three weeks ago effectively saying that it isn't one. wp.nyu.edu/sjpearce/202...

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They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

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Poland is planning to more than double its military and to train millions of reservists. “By the end of the year, we want to have a model ready so that every adult male in Poland is trained for war, and so that this reserve is adequate for possible threats,” Tusk said

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Bennet: Did you know the President’s Middle East advisor was in Moscow on this thread? This sloppiness, this incompetence, this disrespect for our intelligence agencies and the personnel who work for him is entirely unacceptable. It's an embarrassment

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How many Signal chats with sensitive information about military operations are ongoing within the Pentagon right now? Where else are war plans being shared with such abject disregard for our national security? We need answers. Right now.

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Protests in Turkey continue. Reportedly, they are now happening all over the country, not just Istanbul.

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I wrote this in July 2016 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

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The benefit of using a proxy to fight a war is that Kagame can talk peace, while the M23 continue to seize territory.

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All my fellow haters and history buffs out there gotta check out @ceaubin.bsky.social’s new podcast @tgspod.bsky.social Voltaire sucked! She and @goingmedieval.bsky.social explain why he was the Joe Rogan of the 18th century. open.spotify.com/episode/447S...

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🚨🚨DHS, in a statement to @dropsitenews, is standing by its claim that the pro goaltender's tattoos are gang-related, even after getting an affidavit from the tattoo artist that the crown was representative of Real Madrid's logo: www.dropsitenews.com/p/venezuelan...

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yes.

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In hindsight, "we off-shored the concentration camps and are not keeping great records about who gets sent there" should have been the obvious manifeststion of American fascism.

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The guiding principal of the Trump Administration is white supremacy, manifesting in a resegregation of the present and the past www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

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This is a pretty big warning sign.

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