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Omar El Akkad: "You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience...Forget pity. Forget even the dead if you must. But at least fight against the theft of your soul."

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MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.

submitted 21 hours ago • 673 comments

if you purchase anything "Harry Potter" you are funding this. I for one plan on unsubscribing from HBO/Max as soon her damned reboot is set for release...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

If you use AI you’re accelerating climate crisis, polluting deprived communities, burning through water, giving bosses excuses to reduce workers rights and wages. It’s a moral and ethical degradation.

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On May 28, 1830, Pres. Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, forcing tens of thousands of Native Americans west in an event now known as the Trail of Tears. The land seized enabled the expansion of slavery. 84 days until Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountdownToSRD

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Wow — John Fetterman has missed a remarkable 30 votes this year, has cancelled town halls, and avoids engaging with voters. But he did make time to go on a first-class, five-star hotel, all-expenses paid $36,000 trip to Israel to barbecue & hang out with Israeli military and government officials.

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"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

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We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care. I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

UN secretary-general says Israel’s war on Gaza is intensifying ‘with atrocious levels of death and destruction’.

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The other part of this is that means they are purposefully targeting the people who are “doing everything right”

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No. The protest movement against the genocide has been militantly and explicitly nonviolent (and yes, those things can co-exist). You do not get to blame a violent accelerationist shitposter on a ground movement that has from the start renounced violence.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

DHS is asking border shelters, run by nonprofits, to house immigrants. DHS is threatening to charge the same nonprofits with crimes for housing the immigrants DHS asked them to. apnews.com/article/bord...

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely please read on 🧵

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"Following multiple employee-led protests against the company's contracts with the Israeli military, Microsoft workers discovered that any emails they send containing the word 'Palestine' inexplicably disappear." Same with 'Gaza,' 'apartheid,' and 'genocide.' #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

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Reservations. They're pushing Palestinians onto reservations. They're manipulating the food + starving children to do it. And it's a for profit enterprise: apnews.com/article/gaza...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Photo looks like a Lynch mob.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Oh fuck literally every single part of this; not only removing privacy protections, but ACTIVELY INCREASING PRIVACY HARMS by giving Federal Preferences to the data brokerage industry??? No. Fuck this, no.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

this is like worse case scenario for me and many other trans people on medicaid. i will likely not be able to access life saving care if this goes through. can't state it any more - they're trying to eliminate us from existing. please call your reps now

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

This is so far over the line it’s disorienting.

submitted 11 days ago • 237 comments

🚨Reports around the country today that some people who showed up for their immigration court hearings were told that ICE prosecutors had dismissed their cases — and then were arrested moments later by ICE officers and taken to detention centers for unknown reasons. Happening in multiple cities.

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This is true, but the problem is that Democrats won’t do anything that will threaten actual power or give any to regular people. They just want it for themselves and their donors—many of whom are the same corporate interests that killed these newspapers in the first place.

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Warning Sirens Were Silent Ahead of Deadly Tornado in St. Louis, City Says www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

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UPDATE: UnitedHealth deliberately changed patients to "do not resuscitate' so that they would be left to die in any medical emergency as they considered especially critically ill patients to be 'a waste of money' regardless of patient's desire to live.

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If you use "A.I." to publish something it has to come with the professional death penalty. You cannot work in news ever again. Yes I know that's not how it actually goes – so many plagiarists are still thriving – but if it is up to me you are fucking done. Pack up your shit and hit the bricks.

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12 data centers have requested 6 gigawatts of new electricity generation in Nevada, which would amount to a 40% expansion of the state's power sector. We found the projects could also consume billions of gallons of water in the nation's driest state. <Now sharing my deep dive with a gift link.>

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“Choice”

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They chose the latter and THAT has been the fight of the current moment The fact most of us wanted to be seen offended these awful people on a primordial level, but worse made a cold sense to a not u small section of people who justified it. Because they wanted to hustle instead of create

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I feel like this is part of the point somehow. They insist on using AI unnecessarily, to replace things of obvious value with nonsense—and they do it on purpose. It’s a flaunting of careless contempt for humanity.

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Useless

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Absolutely useless

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None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

submitted 10 days ago • 469 comments

It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.

submitted 11 days ago • 357 comments

It’s not making it into most newspapers but people in Gaza are not only being starved to death and denied essential medical care like cancer treatments but they are also still being slaughtered by missiles on a daily basis. Tens of people are dying every day.

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Hey friends ! So here is the thing I keep telling folks we’re working on Here is a thread describing our why and our first steps Hope it helps and that we can grow it ( please hope it helps .. I now know so much more on government funding than I ever wanted to )

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GWU is investigating this student for her grad speech— "I cannot celebrate my own graduation without a heavy heart knowing how many students in Palestine have been forced to stop their studies, expelled from their homes, and killed for simply remaining in the country of their ancestors." Excerpt:

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

135 Palestinians killed in Gaza so far today. Massacre after massacre, day after day. The world does nothing.

submitted 11 days ago • 178 comments

The bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," where as the top 1% have more money than at any time in history, according to a new analysis. www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...

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"Waste" is when people get Medicaid. "Efficiency" is when you let 60,000 tons of food that's already been paid for rot instead of feeding someone with it.

submitted 12 days ago • 59 comments

As @blackamazon.bsky.social has stated before; the point of the techbro political movement is removal of consent, fundamentally the part underlying all rights. It's not "sliding into fascism" when the whole point was to build dictatorship from day one.

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