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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 7 days ago • 8512 comments

they want jim crow history for a jim crow society

submitted 12 days ago • 114 comments

Kevin Young is an incredible poet and scholar whose book “Bunk” is the best analysis of how important figures like Trump (PT Barnum etc) have been in American cultural history. Losing him at the NMAAHC is a tragedy.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

In Nazi Germany, the targeted population was encouraged to self-deport and the state sought to impoverish them to force them to leave.

submitted 14 days ago • 100 comments

This chart was made in America by skilled artisans. It also provides important context for understanding our current tariff situation.

submitted 14 days ago • 42 comments

Netanyahu added 400km to US journey as he believed Ireland, Iceland and Netherlands would arrest him - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-added-400km-us-journey-he-believed-ireland-iceland-and

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

techcrunch.com/2025/03/29/t...

submitted 26 days ago • 67 comments

crowd chanting: we don't want your Nazi cars take a one way trip to Mars #teslatakedown #Boston

submitted 26 days ago • 86 comments

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

submitted 29 days ago • 368 comments

Really good explainer of the NIH grant review process, why politicizing it is so dangerous, and why it’ll be hard to rebuild it if DOGE succeeds in destroying it.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

fox news youtube manager..., welcome to the resistance..

submitted 35 days ago • 21 comments

"The artificial line of separations drawn many years ago will finally disappear" oh my God coupling the imperialist fight over Canada with a (first ever?) recognition of the artificiality of borders the treatment of the northern border (w/ white people) vs the southern border (w/ brown people) 🥴

submitted 44 days ago • 11 comments

In a series of pictures described by experts as "breathtakingly on-the-nose," a photographer captured a 20 minute fight between a Canadian Goose and a Bald Eagle. The Eagle tried to eat the Goose, but the Goose was able to fight it until the defeated Eagle flew away. 🍁

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated. The USAID programs were cut anyway. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

submitted 52 days ago • 89 comments

I remain convinced that pundits and op-ed writers have caused untold damage in the political landscape because most of them don't take it seriously, and they never face real consequences

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Democrats who want to move away from small dollar donors are actually Republicans and no, you cannot change my mind:

submitted 52 days ago • 101 comments

Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

submitted 55 days ago • 422 comments

Oh come on!

submitted 56 days ago • 158 comments

This is also the legacy of Facebook having poisoned the media and communications ecosystem in Myanmar, first enabling a genocide and now cascading into countless other systemic harms.

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

submitted 58 days ago • 9509 comments

More people should be clearly saying: Israel is a criminal enterprise, and, therefore, should be fully dismantled.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment