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Ehud Olmert on previously defending Israel against accusations of war crimes: “In recent weeks I’ve been no longer able to do so. What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: the indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. […] Yes, Israel is committing war crimes.”

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Prometheus (2012) was a good movie

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“These are two totally different species of goose. But for some reason, they paired up – and they even produced eggs.”

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How Australian is this? My new thongs have a bottle opener. Love it.

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Hmmmm

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I can only strive to such levels of inconveniencing others

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Still thinking about how we were tsk-tsk’ed for daring to suggest that the President receiving a 400 million dollar gift from a foreign head of state might qualify as corruption

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Stumbled upon this in my photos and it seems so incredibly fitting for these times we find ourselves in.

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Me when I contributed nothing to the group project (but still got paid):

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Probably a pinky promise even

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“Wiles has told associates that her cellphone contacts were hacked, according to some of the people, giving the impersonator access to the private phone numbers of some of the country’s most influential people.”

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Trump has a new post at Truth Social about the ruling against him on tariffs. It features much of the bullshit you’d expect. But one element that might be surprising: Trump says he’s disappointed in the Federalist Society, calls Leonard Leo a “sleazebag” and claims Leo “probably hates America.”

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"In investigating the case, agents believe the person may have been involved in sending these letters, claiming to be from Reyes, in an attempt to have Reyes deported before the case could go to trial, sources said."

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🚨BREAKING: The SEC just dropped its lawsuit against Binance—days after the crypto exchange listed the Trump-backed stablecoin USD1. me, for @forbes.com

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doubt all you people laughing at dan bongino would last a day on a job where you had to sit at a desk for literally hours AND you're not even allowed to bring your wife

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"I asked ChatGPT" well I asked my cat's anus looks like we both did our research

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Trump just nominated Paul Ingrassia to run the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia is a former far-right podcast host and election denier who once shared an article calling for “martial law” to keep Donald Trump in office following his loss in the 2020 election. He's 29.

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“I voted for Donald Trump, and so did practically everyone here,” said Vanessa Cowart, a friend of Ms. Hui from church. “But no one voted to deport moms. We were all under the impression we were just getting rid of the gangs, the people who came here in droves.”

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Tesla chair and Australian business leader Robyn Denholm's wealth has increased by more than 40% from last year according to the AFR, pegged at $952m up from $673m the year before.

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If any pro-vaccine study did something like this, the anti-vax movement would broadcast it so loud and make it the centerpiece of a documentary. But, bc the anti-vax movement is fundamentally about eugenics and propaganda, they'll just hand-wave it away, play the victim, and move on.

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They really are the whiniest bunch. And it’s actually diagnostically relevant, if we want to understand their political project: A movement of people who feel victimized by a society they believe owes them constant adulation and deference, whose self-pity inevitably turns to authoritarian cruelty.

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For those not familiar, here's the opening paragraph in the Wikipedia entry for the term "remigration," a term which popped up in Europe over a decade ago and until very recently has not been part of the U.S. political discourse. It is NOT a neutral term. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigra...

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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

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actually, your honor, it’s NOT illegal (dropping a laptop heavily on the desk) I asked a computer

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Just tried this one for myself. What a cool technology.

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“The country raised its National Preparedness Level to level 4 of 5 on Tuesday, which is unusually high for this early in the fire season. Last year, Canada didn’t reach that level until July.”

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Heard this happened yesterday as well. It's completely unacceptable. By law, the courts are open to the public and the media.

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Don’t like America’s tariff rate? Don’t worry, it’ll change by tomorrow

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Alternative Math

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Trump has always looked down on disabled people. His anti-DEI crusade is very much, in part, a crusade against disabled people, too.

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This brilliantly articulates why I will protest with #teslatakedown until it's a penny stock. "If Musk’s tenure with DOGE has shown anything, it’s that literally every company Musk runs is political."

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I really appreciate the decades of research & policy behind identifying the risk and getting everyone out in time. Good work. Really, really good work.

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Elon Musk Isn’t Really 'Leaving' the Government, but He Is on Everyone’s Shit List https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-isnt-really-leaving-the-government-but-he-is-on-everyones-shit-list-2000608750

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More immigration courthouse arrests today by feds some in masks, as people are leaving court hearings, at least seven detentions that I've seen in last few hours. Congressman Dan Goldman stops in briefly asking "why are you wearing masks?"

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“merit-based”

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The 19 yo woman detained by ICE in Georgia after being falsely accused of a traffic violation talks about some of the nightmare things she saw in detention. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MkSLLy/

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