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People keep asking why The Onion is doing well right now, and it's simply because we just refuse to kowtow. I cannot stress enough how good it is for your business and your soul be strong and even fun in the face of the ongoing horror and bullshit. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

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Happiness click for comic: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wishes-6 #smbc

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This is how for-profit healthcare works: You pay a private company to help cover your healthcare expenses. Your doctor has to ask this company before treating you. The private company then decides if they will cover it. If they say “no,” they make more money. It’s immoral.

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I saw this post because of @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Hasan solidarity. Also a wonderful look into the chaos in 'Murica

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Happy belated May Day to all the creators of surplus value. There is a world to win.

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This is a delightful look inside the clown car.

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why would i watch season 2 of Endor when the first season didn't even have any Ewoks in it

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EV sales in Europe: up 38% Tesla sales in Europe: down 45.2% Breathe it in folks, breathe it innnnnnnnnnnnn www.reuters.com/business/aut...

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Annoying side effect of climate change is a growing sense that electrification of transport solves the problems with cars rather than leaving all the other problems with cars unchanged

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Never thought I'd be this amped by a Macklemore song, but here we are. Resistance music.

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It’s just bleak that there’s a considerable amount of people who are like “thank goodness the worlds richest human being is stopping the tyranny of the consumer financial protection bureau and that guy who collects atmospheric data”

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Maybe there's some confusion about the motives of the moves to crush the NIH, NSF, and CDC. The Trump administration is conducting a book burning. Me for @sequencermag.bsky.social www.sequencermag.com/this-is-a-bo...

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Sometimes when I talk to folks here I feel like people think “organizing” is a great charismatic leader rising from the left and telling everyone what to do and then creating a mass march in the streets that is a cathartic outpouring of emotion (but accomplishes nothing). No.

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#Gaza: We are devastated to report the death of Bilal Okal, our colleague killed by Israeli forces in Jabalia, North Gaza, along with 10 of his family members. We strongly condemns the killing of Bilal and his family in their home by Israeli forces. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/msf-mourns-t...

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1. The UK government’s pursuit of GDP growth at all costs is an assault on our natural wealth, which will impoverish us all. It might be able to massage the headline figures by converting the living world into money, but it does not improve our lives.🧵

submitted 119 days ago • 71 comments

Every. Single. Time.

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Here, broken down into a thread, is a copy of my last post on X. 1. This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it.

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Watch the emotional moment as Palestinian prisoner Rula Hassanein reunited with her daughter after spending 10 months in an Israeli jail. Rula was a journalist who was among 90 Palestinian prisoners freed from Israeli jails as part of a ceasefire deal in Gaza.

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While many struggle to make ends meet, the wealth of the super-rich has soared. It doesn’t have to be this way. There’s another way—one that prioritises fairness, sustainability, and equality. It starts with making those at the top pay their fair share. Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/40FunBq #Davos

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UK and European leaders are going to have to make a stand. There is no third way.

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War crimes till the very last second: ‘My children, my children’: The Gaza family killed minutes before ceasefire. The al-Qidra family wanted to go back home. They didn’t know that the Israel-Hamas ceasefire had been delayed. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/...

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Great read. It doesn't matter whether Trump and Co. are fascists. It's the class war they're waging that is defining them.

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Extremely concerning that in all the media stories & politician statements/interviews on the #Israel #Gaza #ceasefire, I have not seen one comment on the need for accountability for the extensive number of atrocity crimes that have been committed. #intLaw #ICL #IHL www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

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Just deleted Twitter. Hadn't used it in years, but at least now it counts towards a drop in registeted users.

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Jesus Christ America. How had I not heard of this? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling...

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Ahem. Thank you for coming. Eat shit proles. You stink on land and sea. Choke on your inferiority losers. Spread the word: you were trash, you are trash, you serve us, now you're gonna serve us while eating shit. We'll never stop crushing you and history will remember you as the garbage we crushed.

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