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my main takeaway from this video is that when Mamdani stops smiling for a second, I get faceblind and don't recognize him

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Fascinating how everyone pretending Mamdani said “globalize the intifada” ignores the fact that the First Intifada was primarily peaceful protests and the Second Intifada started as peaceful protests until Israeli soldiers killed over 100 Palestinian protestors.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

weird, the gop used procedural shenanigans even though they weren’t first given permission to do so by dems doing it beforehand themselves.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

The purpose of asking Mamdani over and over to condemn “globalize the intifada” is to create the impression he actually said that, and he didn’t. But the smear campaign is working. Many people now think he did say that. It’s insidious, dishonest, and essentially racist.

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🚫 What’s being cut: – NIH: –$19.5B – CDC: –$4B – Cancer research: –$3.1B – SNAP: –$30B – Education: –$12B 💰 What’s being funded: – ICE detention: +$45B – Tax cuts for the wealthy: +$4.5T over 10 years This is the trade.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Chilean influence intensifies

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Thinking how significant it is to his understanding of politics that Mamdani majored in Africana Studies at Bowdoin.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

this feels like pretty much exactly the point.

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If you say that America is poised to institutionalize a police state - that the reality of concentration camps and regularized disappearances will become an ongoing facet of life - you'll still receive eye-rolls and clucked tongues. But that is not a possibility of this budget, it is the purpose.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Man!

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Abandoned ice cream carts, fruit, and taco stands. Trucks with broken windows left in the middle of the streets. It’s the new reality ICE has brought to our beautiful city. This taco stand appears to have been hit last night, 6/27 in South LA by Florence and Gramercy.

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

submitted 1 day ago • 146 comments

This was fun.

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"mainly a novel about consciousness—about how people draw on the interpretive tools they and their comrades have developed to make sense of what kind of hell they’re up against, how it got to be that way, and how they can stop it." www.bookforum.com/fiction/fron...

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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

submitted 2 days ago • 87 comments

to make a finer point: if the issue of nationwide injunctions reached the Court maybe half a dozen times in a few years, and they let them stand every time but one, is the rule really that nationwide injunctions are disfavored?

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Nobody ever asks a candidate if their pro Israel views will make Muslim or Arab Americans less safe

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight

submitted 2 days ago • 970 comments

I thought @jeremydnichols.bsky.social loved me but then he sent me this accursèd image and I am questioning 9 years of marriage.

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

Just to give a sense of how insane the birthright citizenship stuff is, this is what the constitution actually says about the matter. There is literally nothing controversial about it. Either 2+2=4 or nothing means anything.

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

(it's a rhetorical question, but the answer is: the supreme court will strike it down, because only the GOP executive gets to rule by imperial decree)

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The Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision shreds the very notion of Constitutional rights It effectively permits any president to enact an unlawful Executive Order which abrogates our freedoms And that Order will stand against each US citizen unless they sue the government individually

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.

submitted 3 days ago • 249 comments

Biden tries to forgive student loans SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. Trump revokes part of the constitution SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

submitted 3 days ago • 82 comments

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

submitted 3 days ago • 287 comments

well, fuck off

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Cala drew this yesterday and told me it was a señor crying, but insisted that both sets of circles (the filled in and the not) are his eyes, and I realized she's working on an aesthetic level I'm barely able to follow

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IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

submitted 3 days ago • 113 comments

this is an embarrassing thing for this guy to say in public but also touches on something that constantly rankles me, which is the vague idea of "feeling unsafe" as a problem that someone else needs to solve for you regardless of whether you are actually unsafe or not

submitted 4 days ago • 121 comments

it gives away what the question is FOR, too, that not being trapped by the question is to have "dodged" it

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Based on the first three tracks released from it, Willi Carlisle's upcoming Winged Victory album feels like it's the working class revolution folk album we all didn't know we were waiting for

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officially on record with "let's overthink this as much as possible" but a huge part of it has to be that people voted more for the likable attractive candidate that made them feel good about future possibilities than they did for the grim vampire who clearly hates you and wants to kill you

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