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"Luxury of political correctness" is such a telling statement. Really fucking struggling to be factual and not throw slurs.

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Black Comics Crew — y’all know what to do. Help is needed here for one of our own and we gotta look out for one another. Much love. 🤜🏾💥🤛🏾

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

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If you are among the supporters of Israel who reflexively label every pro-Palestinian protester as a Hamas supporter or terrorist, now would be a good time to stop.

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

submitted 19 hours ago • 134 comments

Less about cyber trucks, more about khyber trucks

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Again, the Secretary of State has no authority to “revoke” green cards.

submitted 13 hours ago • 160 comments

If anyone can please help. Our water was cut today.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

many people are saying

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

Classic Portlander Aggression

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

The 30 Rock where Liz was an asshole in high school but she thinks she was the one who was bullied because she was unpopular is really a Rosetta Stone for our time

submitted 13 hours ago • 11 comments

I wonder if I can get an exchange at the boob store.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Strong contender for worst Sonic take I’ve ever heard in my life and it’s not even on twitter. Of course Eggman eats pussy. What the fuck are you talking about

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Now that the influential bigot who did a Hitler salute publicly claimed that organic protests against his malfeasance are secretly controlled by a list of foreign Jews, some of whom aren’t even alive today, are we allowed to call him a Nazi, or is there something even Nazier we have to wait for?

submitted 23 hours ago • 128 comments

Columbia is welcoming ICE agents into their campus, with or without warrants, and instructing faculty not to interfere with their operations to arrest, harass, or deport students. It is clear now that Columbia will take no action to protect students on visas or with green cards.

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments

Just FYI, Tom argued for universal welfare, abolition, public education, state-sponsored pre/post-natal care, family subsidies, & retirement for workers at 50 w/state pensions that would double at 60. He also considered the American revolution a failure, co-opted by self-serving, landowning elites.

submitted 17 hours ago • 13 comments

The details are disturbing. It basically looks like a kidnapping. They even got his legal status wrong but proceeded to detain him anyway. The agents didn’t even identify themselves at first and refused to show a warrant. His wife is 8 months pregnant

submitted 21 hours ago • 12 comments

The comments saying this man deserves this treatment because he (or other Palestinians) didn't vote for Harris are infuriating because (a) HE CANNOT VOTE, HE'S NOT A CITIZEN; (b) collective punishment is morally repugnant; (c) genocide is wrong; (d) human rights aren't transactional;

submitted 21 hours ago • 30 comments

USDA has eliminated two food safety advisory committees for microbiological contamination and meat inspection. Most recently, they had been reviewing regulatory approaches in response to the fatal Listeria outbreak from Boar’s Head meats and fatal Cronobacter contamination in powdered infant formula

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

And we keep hashtag "Not All Americans"-ing the rest of the world. It's infuriating & embarrassing. It's our American exceptionalism hard at work. Would the Allies have accepted "not all Germans/Italians/Japanese?" 80 years ago? Has US militarism spared many of those who "didn't want this?" Ever?

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

My grandfather was a green card holder from when he arrived in the US in his 20s until he died in his 90s. Having a green card makes you a LEGAL resident of the US. The fact that he has disappeared should terrify you. And the fact that Columbia was complacent in his disappearance is grotesque

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

So ICE has effectively disappeared a student for protesting Israel's genocide, separating him from his 8 month pregnant wife. Pure fascism

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This is go to prison forever malfeasance. A guy who is currently a SpaceX employee also serves as an FAA official who cancels a big contract to award instead no-bid to his own employer and starts installing hardware without statutorily required tests and assurances

submitted 15 hours ago • 65 comments

A second German tourist is being held in a detention centre after having her Visa revoked by the U.S. It’s the same detention centre holding Jessica Brösche, the German tattoo artist who spent 8 days in solitary. She’s been held for 6 weeks. The U.S. is not a safe place to travel anymore

submitted 15 hours ago • 139 comments

Happy International Women’s Day

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

seriously this is a fucking five alarm fire

submitted 14 hours ago • 9 comments

we're really not going to recover from this and go back to some "normal." even if we survive this round, we've made it abundantly clear that every four years there's a valid possibility that dumbass magas may tank everything. we are not to be trusted.

submitted 13 hours ago • 21 comments

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 14 hours ago • 200 comments

ice cream's ultimate form

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it is genuinely so hideous that men see sex as some sort of reward that women should be granting for good behavior, regardless of their own interest or desires. you need to uncouple these things in your mind immediately

submitted 17 hours ago • 38 comments

New sticker just dropped.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Stephen King saying “capital punishment is complex” doesn’t mean that it is. Maybe you also think clowns actually turn into big space spiders because he typed it

submitted 19 hours ago • 54 comments

What if an innocent person is executed? The death penalty is absolute caveman nonsense and does nothing for anyone. It does not bring back the dead. HOW’S THAT FOR A HORROR STORY STEVE

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

Everyone call your reps tomorrow. No continuing resolution with these cuts

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I'm losing patience for "B-but if Trump dies, then we get Vance/Elon/DeSantis/etc and he's WORSE cuz he's MORE EVIL AND LESS DUMB" doomerism, not because doomerism isn't understandable in these trying times but because it totally misreads the "Oops! All scheming viziers!" nature of the trump court

submitted 18 hours ago • 40 comments

There’s a solid chunk of Democrats who want — more than anything — to slide back into power and pursue Starmerism here. It is utterly imperative we throw every single one of them out of the party

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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

submitted 23 hours ago • 343 comments

They're only banned if you let them be banned. The proper response from any agency is "Fuck you. See you in court." All of this website scrubbing and exhibit purging is cowardly and disgraceful. As Timothy Snyder has observed, it's simply teaching power what it can do.

submitted 22 hours ago • 29 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

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One more American Revolutionary Era thing before I forget, cuz it's funny as hell: The UK didn't recognize American independence until 1783, via The Treaty of Paris. A painting was commissioned to commemorate the occasion, but the British delegates refused to pose for it. Salty bitch behavior. 🧂

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AI images have an extremely distinctive and very strange distribution of spatial frequencies. They're basically made of zebra stripes at varying scales. Every dark band has a corresponding bright band of the same thickness immediately alongside it this is actually MORE noticeable at thumbnail size

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THIS PICTURE HAS NEVER BEEN MORE ACCURATE

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