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Or they could just create a model detention center that remains open to lawmakers and press. Allow "self-governance" by detainees. Call it Theresienstadt.

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It’s not an anomaly if it keeps happening

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In addition to his appalling record of sexual harassment, the neglect of nursing homes during the pandemic, & his tanking of the MTA, Cuomo drained SUNY and CUNY of resources for years. Regional campuses like the one I work for have struggled to stay afloat...

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#Juneteenth is a day to celebrate Black excellence. Check out Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS, published by @triohousepress.org and reviewed recently on VerseCurious.

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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

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So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem

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THREAD: Chinese corporate disclosure can be a thing of beauty - really. Late Friday night we reported that Cuomo's Asian outreach director was head of asset management at a Chinese state-owned investment company. (1/x)

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Flowers my garden made 🌺

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The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

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They spent 45 mil on a parade and didn't even make it fun

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My 82-year-old mom’s choir gave a Pride-themed concert today that said No Kings, only Queens!

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BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

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My god, the evil has really gone to his forehead; he looks like he has an actual worm under his skin, trying to get out.

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"Donna herself had been a beauty once. She despised the way people exclaimed when they saw old photos of her. They perceived loss, where she saw growth." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/06/08/s...

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oh crazy, it is as if protests have consistently hurt trump since 2017

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this is literally the same thing southern segregationists said about the civil rights movement.

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Know a boy or young man who feels isolated and rejected? Instead of letting him dress up in paramilitary gear, steer him toward musical theater. He'll still get to play pretend, and he will be treated like a god--lead roles, lavish praise--no experience or talent necessary.

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First story publication in...a long time. TW: "They Got Away" has a moment of violence at the end, and mentions a past sexual assault.

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Glimpse this brave and harrowing story from @saraschaff.bsky.social. (CW: violence, implied sexual assault)

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“The Swedish government must protect their citizen! Greta Thunberg has been kidnapped by the Israeli military.” Use their website contact form, tag and email the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs NOW: Web: www.government.se/contacts/

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First story publication in...a long time. TW: "They Got Away" has a moment of violence at the end, and mentions a past sexual assault.

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Men impersonating ICE agents are a clear threat. Men impersonating women in bathrooms? Not a thing.

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Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.

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Once again begging an American electorate uninterested in "politics" or "human rights" but obsessed with skin care to really look at this guy's face and tell me he knows what he's doing.

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one day it's going to come out that the total revenue for the entire generative AI industry is like $20-$25bn in 2025, and the cost to make that revenue was $50bn-$100bn+

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The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

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If you need a good laugh-cry: In an effort to impress the fascists, former University of Michigan President Santa Ono sold out UM (my alma mater) & canceled their DEI programs. He was just turned down for the head job at U Florida...because he had once supported DEI efforts.

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✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS (@triohousepress.org). "Perkins's [...] fierce debut [...] asks us to feel deeply, despite a world that attempts to deaden our ability to feel with unending indignities..." Listen/share/rate. #poetry #poems #poets #books

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On Sunday, my friend, Jonathan Joss was murdered and it took me a minute to find the words... Like so many of our lives, Jonathan's existed at the powerful intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, visibility, and vulnerability. He was fierce, funny, flawed, and real in every way that mattered.

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Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible. We have always been here.

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Saying, "If a Democrat did what [Trump/Musk/Hegseth/Ernst/etc] did, Republicans would be furious," has no effect. It's true, but It. Does. Not. Matter. Republicans are authoritarians now and have no interest in a democratic system, or in logic.

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Putting the "Christ" back in "Christ, what an asshole"

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lmao shout out to whoever put this sticker on a sidewalk in Brooklyn Don't rank Cuomo or Adams Do rank Zohran Mamdani #1!

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After you, Jodi Ernst

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Dr. Marcus Wheatland was born in Barbados in 1868 & earned his M.D. from Howard University in 1895. He established his medical practice in Newport, RI, where he introduced the 1st X-ray machine, a new device of which he was a renowned expert.

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LLMs like ChatGPT are the MLMs of the tech industry--the only people benefitting financially are the tech bros at the top.

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Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says his country is committing war crimes

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Forgive the dirty kitchen windows; we can’t clean them and risk disturbing our new neighbors, the ROBINS. (JK, we’ll probably never clean these windows.)

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In a statement earlier today, Elise Stefanik said she was proud to vote for a bill that guts Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP, while driving up the deficit.

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The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

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If there's one thing I understand better as I get older, it's why Amy Hempel wanted her dog on the cover of her collected stories.

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