The Borsch Witch
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Free borsch for all the day after (1) putin kicks the bucket; (2) Trump is out of the White House (again). Because the best borsch is yesterday's borsch.
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If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
March 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
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Got a printer? You can start fighting fascism. Here's a thread of things you can print and distribute. 👇
I promise doing something--even this--feels better than raging silently. And maybe it'll show you that standing up is possible and open you up to more things you can do.
I promise doing something--even this--feels better than raging silently. And maybe it'll show you that standing up is possible and open you up to more things you can do.
March 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Got a printer? You can start fighting fascism. Here's a thread of things you can print and distribute. 👇
I promise doing something--even this--feels better than raging silently. And maybe it'll show you that standing up is possible and open you up to more things you can do.
I promise doing something--even this--feels better than raging silently. And maybe it'll show you that standing up is possible and open you up to more things you can do.
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Russia does not want to end the war, and the Trump administration has shown no ability to induce Russia to end the war. And so, predictably, the Trump administration blames the victim, blames Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Russia does not want to end the war, and the Trump administration has shown no ability to induce Russia to end the war. And so, predictably, the Trump administration blames the victim, blames Ukraine.
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just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there
Wow—Trump is firing and banning all trans people from the military, per DoD memo.
“Military service by members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.”
Part of memo:
“Military service by members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.”
Part of memo:
February 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there
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He was too Black for the moment.
February 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
He was too Black for the moment.
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Global crisis style note:
What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.
What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.
February 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Global crisis style note:
What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.
What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.
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Your job as a journalist is to describe things in a way that clearly explains what happened and why it matters. How is this journalism? What does this clarify? Why was the gesture “provocative” or “controversial”? Might it be because it is identical to the Sieg Heil salute used by the Nazis?
February 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Your job as a journalist is to describe things in a way that clearly explains what happened and why it matters. How is this journalism? What does this clarify? Why was the gesture “provocative” or “controversial”? Might it be because it is identical to the Sieg Heil salute used by the Nazis?
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Stop calling these acts of deliberate malicious destruction mistakes — if you close your eyes and fire machine gun spray ceaselessly into a crowd claiming you just want to scare some of them off, it’s not a mistake that there are casualties.
The Trump administration is racing to fix mistakes after some agencies fired probationary employees who had accepted the deferred resignation offer for federal workers.
These feds took Trump’s ‘fork’ deal. Then they got fired — creating a government ‘mess.’
The Trump administration is racing to fix mistakes after some agencies fired probationary employees who had accepted the deferred resignation offer.
wapo.st
February 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Stop calling these acts of deliberate malicious destruction mistakes — if you close your eyes and fire machine gun spray ceaselessly into a crowd claiming you just want to scare some of them off, it’s not a mistake that there are casualties.
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…arrived here without the benefit of a resettlement program. One would think that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a Cuban American, would be familiar with the phenomenon. Branding all undocumented immigrants as “acting in defiance of law” is an ugly & inaccurate portrayal to advance a thin argument.
February 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
…arrived here without the benefit of a resettlement program. One would think that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a Cuban American, would be familiar with the phenomenon. Branding all undocumented immigrants as “acting in defiance of law” is an ugly & inaccurate portrayal to advance a thin argument.
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Pretty telling that the comparison here is “someone scolding you via a video you saw on Facebook that you found annoying” and “complete disregard for legal protections and long standing peaceful cooperation between nations”. It’s actually pretty accurate to how conservatives view the world
"...if American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg scolding you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk," VP Vance tells the Munich Security Group.
February 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Pretty telling that the comparison here is “someone scolding you via a video you saw on Facebook that you found annoying” and “complete disregard for legal protections and long standing peaceful cooperation between nations”. It’s actually pretty accurate to how conservatives view the world
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, keep spamming about "Nazi Ukraine" in the comments—I’d love to see how many countries today can boast this level of interfaith and interethnic unity.
February 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Yeah, yeah, yeah, keep spamming about "Nazi Ukraine" in the comments—I’d love to see how many countries today can boast this level of interfaith and interethnic unity.
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So Trump is mad that CFPB went after an openly racist company that wanted to open a giant loophole to enable more racial discrimination against potentially millions of borrowers.
February 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
So Trump is mad that CFPB went after an openly racist company that wanted to open a giant loophole to enable more racial discrimination against potentially millions of borrowers.
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Musk's intern "Big Balls" was in an internet nazi satanic pedophile hacking cult, he was under FBI investigation for cybercrimes and he was given access to US Treasury classified informatIon, including your grandma's social security and bank account numbers
just repeat that over and over again
just repeat that over and over again
February 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Musk's intern "Big Balls" was in an internet nazi satanic pedophile hacking cult, he was under FBI investigation for cybercrimes and he was given access to US Treasury classified informatIon, including your grandma's social security and bank account numbers
just repeat that over and over again
just repeat that over and over again
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Notable that Elons crew of incels and edgelords are full fledged men for the purposes of being given the keys to car to run the govt. But for the purposes of being accountable for their actions they’re just kids from good families with youthful indiscretions.
February 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Notable that Elons crew of incels and edgelords are full fledged men for the purposes of being given the keys to car to run the govt. But for the purposes of being accountable for their actions they’re just kids from good families with youthful indiscretions.
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New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
www.theatlantic.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."
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We all knew that attacking trans people doesn’t defend women but I think it’s important to highlight how brazen the lie is, that in fact attacking trans women is becoming a vehicle for attacking all women, as trans women said it would be.
February 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We all knew that attacking trans people doesn’t defend women but I think it’s important to highlight how brazen the lie is, that in fact attacking trans women is becoming a vehicle for attacking all women, as trans women said it would be.
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As the Finance Committee prepares to vote on RFK Jr. remember this. Vaccines save lives. (artist: Joy Episalla)
February 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
As the Finance Committee prepares to vote on RFK Jr. remember this. Vaccines save lives. (artist: Joy Episalla)
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Elon Musk is a terrible president.
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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Huge thanks to my sister for helping put these together.
February 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Huge thanks to my sister for helping put these together.
Call, call, call! Especially if your rep, like my sad excuse for one, is on the list of 48. DC office told me they've only had 4 calls today. I promised them that after this law decimates communities and the economy, I will knock on every door in the district to make sure folks know how he voted.
TODAY: We’re expecting a House vote on the Laken Riley Act, a dangerous bill that would shred constitutional rights and let MAGA extremists gut legal immigration.
48 House Democrats recently voted for this bill, so we really need you to call your representative ASAP: indivisible.org/resource/tel...
48 House Democrats recently voted for this bill, so we really need you to call your representative ASAP: indivisible.org/resource/tel...
January 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Call, call, call! Especially if your rep, like my sad excuse for one, is on the list of 48. DC office told me they've only had 4 calls today. I promised them that after this law decimates communities and the economy, I will knock on every door in the district to make sure folks know how he voted.
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Just in case people don’t fully grasp it. The pardoning of insurrectionists is Trump’s way of building loyalty from militias and domestic terrorists to carry out unofficial acts for him
January 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Just in case people don’t fully grasp it. The pardoning of insurrectionists is Trump’s way of building loyalty from militias and domestic terrorists to carry out unofficial acts for him
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LLM and Gen ai cheapens and diminishes the work of other people and your own.
It is the tool of those who have always copied homework, stolen work, failed up.
Using it won’t make you cool. It will get you laid off when they prove via metrics that your job is half done by a plagiarism robot
It is the tool of those who have always copied homework, stolen work, failed up.
Using it won’t make you cool. It will get you laid off when they prove via metrics that your job is half done by a plagiarism robot
January 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
LLM and Gen ai cheapens and diminishes the work of other people and your own.
It is the tool of those who have always copied homework, stolen work, failed up.
Using it won’t make you cool. It will get you laid off when they prove via metrics that your job is half done by a plagiarism robot
It is the tool of those who have always copied homework, stolen work, failed up.
Using it won’t make you cool. It will get you laid off when they prove via metrics that your job is half done by a plagiarism robot
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Populist radical-right parties are exploiting declining confidence in democratic institutions, drawing on misinformation to destabilize mainstream politics.
Misinformation and radical-right populism must be understood as inextricable and synergistic—two expressions of the same political moment. 6/
Misinformation and radical-right populism must be understood as inextricable and synergistic—two expressions of the same political moment. 6/
January 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Populist radical-right parties are exploiting declining confidence in democratic institutions, drawing on misinformation to destabilize mainstream politics.
Misinformation and radical-right populism must be understood as inextricable and synergistic—two expressions of the same political moment. 6/
Misinformation and radical-right populism must be understood as inextricable and synergistic—two expressions of the same political moment. 6/