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Yesterday, ASU apparently, for a short time, changed their LGBTQ+ resource page to "LGB Students" This would match what Trump did to Stonewall National Monument. Thankfully sanity prevailed and someone changed it back. Do NOT erase trans people to please Trump! web.archive.org/web/20250424...

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There frankly hasn't been enough written about how Twitter is the really dangerous social media echo chamber. It's not just that it's a right-wing site now; it's that any journalist, pundit, pollster, etc. who stays there just stews their brain in the most absolute batshit racist ideas out there.

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#OtD 28 Apr 1945 Italy's fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was executed by anti-fascist partisans. His body was then hung up in Milan's Piazzale Loreto, a square in which 15 partisans had been killed and left publicly to rot the previous year workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...

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I've encountered a few people arguing that tariffs are good, actually, because they will force us to consume less and while I think our consumer culture is problematic in many ways, I don't think things such as 'food' and 'medical supplies' fall under the category of unnecessary purchases.

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… what’s really difficult about this and what’s to come is Pritzker has rhetorically outflanked EVERYONE now just by saying out loud that this happening

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"The fact that the U.S. federal government is squawking in one loud, highly irritating voice — in your name and mine, and doing so on our taxpayers’ dime — that it would like to obliterate the national sovereignty of our longtime friend and ally to the north is in and of itself a scandal."

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laughs in the BLACK DOLLAR

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In an interview, @govpritzker.illinois.gov said “if Dems reclaim a majority in the House, they should investigate the actions of Trump admin officials, including who accessed sensitive taxpayer data. ‘We’re going to hold ppl responsible. They can’t just get away w/what they’re doing right now.’”

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Umm, I don’t see this mentioned in any national news outlets… but the historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis, the site of MLK’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, burned down this morning. My sadness is immeasurable. www.fox13memphis.com/news/watch-h...

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“I think it is fair to conclude that the US constitutional system is on the verge of an authoritarian takeover… unless the Trump takeover is repelled, our system will retain the familiar constitutional forms while becoming ever more illiberal, undemocratic and corrupt.” — David Pozen

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In case it wasn’t obvious, Trump toady Pam Bondi made it clear that the recent arrest of a state judge was meant to intimidate a judiciary where Trump has struggled, even with judges he’s appointed www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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It’s upsetting that we can see fascists cooking each others brains in group chats and online generally, it seems bad to just double down on a computer based future

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Once again, trying to use #Sinners as a way to push for Coogler to do a MCU Blade movie is creatively bankrupt. Cause Sinners was the opposite of what I personally would want out of a Blade movie.

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I hardly think "Trump using state apparatus to try to shut down his opposition's primary source of fundraising" rises to the level of "did the president of Harvard copy boilerplate language in her dissertation?" or "is Kamala Harris doing enough press conferences?"

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I wish Hugh Jackman was on here so I can tag him in this once a month

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The golden dome is so silly lol

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I think about Paris's incredible transformation like every day. They are winning the war on cars; better cities are possible! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

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"trans women are women, trans men are men, non-binary people are valid" You know what, this isn't fucking roll call. Why don't you try "Trans people deserve dignity, autonomy, and freedom from discrimination"? "Trans people deserve access to healthcare without gatekeeping"? "Trans people matter"?

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They don't want to go to jail

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“We have to abandon the culture of incrementalism” is one of the most hopeful sentences I’ve read in a while.

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Maybe this will help some of the Democrats who are still propping up Musk's fascist propaganda platform find the will to leave. He is rigging the game against you. There is no dialogue there worth having. Stop giving him your credibility, that's the only thing you're accomplishing there.

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Leaked Israeli documents reveal how Benjamin Netanyahu's government waged a secret campaign to stop boycotts of Israel in Britain. That included a "sensitive" meeting with Michael Gove about countering the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. www.declassifieduk.org/israels-secr...

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Last week the Trump administration fired another 8 immigration judges. One judge was fired in the middle of an asylum hearing and had to walk off the bench before the hearing was over! There are now nearly 50 FEWER immigration judges than when Trump took office!

submitted 19 hours ago • 87 comments

Think I might bookmark this for possible litigation use, if the question of consent ever comes up.

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A shower head company ran an A/B test to see whether consumers will pay the additional price for a product that's made in the USA. Spoiler alert: No.

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So this is absolutely terrifying and something I hope congressional Democrats plan to make into a huge issue.

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For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.

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Hey so this article is fucking crazy and Meta is creepy as fuck for this

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Fandom is rotten as a concept, man. I understand it helps a lot of people who struggle with socializing to find community, but I think it's pretty clear the end result is the very difficult to reverse enmeshment of individual identity with corporate property.

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Seeing this after being cursed out by a family member for not taking a job paying $175 a week bc "useless degrees" only send "emails" is wild.

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The fact that they’re tracking autism and not the bird flu automatically tells you they’re operating on eugenics and not actually wanting people to be healthy. They want you sick, disabled, or dead.

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Genuine question: I'm looking into starting pilates because I have a sedentary job. But I can't find the pricing for a lot of these studios. Club Pilates has a "First class Free!" button but I can't find the cost after that. Since I am doing this for exercise, anyone have reccs on where to go?

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Similar to towns with clean water and properly funded services without any restrictions bordering reserves under the Indian Act in Canada.

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The default Dem position should be that nothing under Trump is valid. Trump didn't honor his predecessors' agreements. He didn't even honor his own trade agreements. He didn't honor Congressional appropriations. He doesn't follow laws. Clean slate. If you rely on him, your loss.

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Can we not misuse the term Luddite? The Luddites were not ignorant of technology or against its use. They were against the use of exploitative technology. LLMs are an exploitative technology, so the parallel works, to some extent, just not in the way OP seems to think.

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i hate to sound old but im actually really irritated that there are no kid only spaces fr anymore. children are online in these adult environments and also watching mature content on television and it’s having irreparable damage on their psyche

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This in a real story posted by NBC and blasted out to their email lists. The mainstream media is, without exaggeration, gonna kill us all.

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A tape measure and a die both have numbers on them. Therefore when I want to know the length of an object I roll a D20. It's much faster.

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For context: The OVERWHELMING majority of films experience a 40-50% drop in box office receipts in their 2nd week. Studios prepare themselves for that as a given in their business models. A 10% drop the week after release is unheard of.

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The existence of such a database is Very Illegal

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The Naval Academy cancelled a freakin' Ken Burns documentary showing, not because of the content, but because Burns had been critical of Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Did you know the same white woman who wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb" reinforced anti-fatness as anti-Blackness? 👀 If not, you have probably not read Professor Sabrina Strings' Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia! 🔥🔥🔥 I interviewed her for this: prismreports.org/2023/09/13/b...

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Remembering how a big part of the hype was that NFT images would never ever ever get lost ever and they'd exist forever because uhh blockchain magic. lol

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None.

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i genuinely want to know what the hell is wrong with this guy. he is a total monster and i am a little interested in how he got to be this way.

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