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MI-based policy and urban planning nerd. Justice and sustainability advocate
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Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
![Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.
During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.
Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/bafkreiafbjju65esvo6htynkkl6or6muv4qqhwo5fghkkbyvclgnxxmchy@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
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There are lots of worse people in this golden age of monsters and freaks and lunatics, but there few better examples of the empty, vapid, soulless nihilism of the moment than Jimmy Fallon bsky.app/profile/more...
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
There are lots of worse people in this golden age of monsters and freaks and lunatics, but there few better examples of the empty, vapid, soulless nihilism of the moment than Jimmy Fallon bsky.app/profile/more...
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Please explain:
Folks say selling our most powerful computer chips to China will jeopardize our national security.
Trump agrees and says Nvidia can sell the chips if it gives the US a kickback. The payment does nothing to enhance security.
Why is this not just Trump extorting private business?
Folks say selling our most powerful computer chips to China will jeopardize our national security.
Trump agrees and says Nvidia can sell the chips if it gives the US a kickback. The payment does nothing to enhance security.
Why is this not just Trump extorting private business?
Trump Clears Sale of More Powerful Nvidia A.I. Chips to China
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Please explain:
Folks say selling our most powerful computer chips to China will jeopardize our national security.
Trump agrees and says Nvidia can sell the chips if it gives the US a kickback. The payment does nothing to enhance security.
Why is this not just Trump extorting private business?
Folks say selling our most powerful computer chips to China will jeopardize our national security.
Trump agrees and says Nvidia can sell the chips if it gives the US a kickback. The payment does nothing to enhance security.
Why is this not just Trump extorting private business?
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19 Acts Who Pulled Their Music Off Spotify This Year ino.to/USAPEmr
19 Acts Who Pulled Their Music Off Spotify This Year
Why King Gizzard, Deerhoof, Kadhja Bonet, and more opted to remove their work from music's biggest streaming platform.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
19 Acts Who Pulled Their Music Off Spotify This Year ino.to/USAPEmr
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It's really an "anyone but Spotify" situation. Looking back on 2025, we can see everyone whose paid me royalties this year & the rates thereof (Tidal wins, but Amazon, Youtube & Apple aren't bad,) and looking back on my history with Spotify by year, we see exactly when their payout rules changed:
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
It's really an "anyone but Spotify" situation. Looking back on 2025, we can see everyone whose paid me royalties this year & the rates thereof (Tidal wins, but Amazon, Youtube & Apple aren't bad,) and looking back on my history with Spotify by year, we see exactly when their payout rules changed:
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Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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In just a few generations, it's gone from "women need you & you'll get one as a mate/domestic servant regardless of how you act" to "women can survive on their own & will only mate with you if you bring something to the table" and WOW men are not adjusting well.
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
In just a few generations, it's gone from "women need you & you'll get one as a mate/domestic servant regardless of how you act" to "women can survive on their own & will only mate with you if you bring something to the table" and WOW men are not adjusting well.
Yes, they are talking about you
🚨Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list" of Americans who may be extremists, per signed memo leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
LEAK: FBI List of “Extremists” Is Coming, Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Yes, they are talking about you
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Despicable
December 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Despicable
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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Here’s every Democratic ad for the midterms. 👇
December 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Here’s every Democratic ad for the midterms. 👇
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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ICYMI: Without reliable transportation, Detroiters in need of regular medical care struggle to get to hospitals, clinics or pharmacies. planetdetroit.org/2025/11/detr...
When getting to the doctor is half the battle in Detroit
Detroit residents with chronic conditions and no car face difficulties accessing healthcare, missing appointments.
planetdetroit.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
ICYMI: Without reliable transportation, Detroiters in need of regular medical care struggle to get to hospitals, clinics or pharmacies. planetdetroit.org/2025/11/detr...
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Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
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They need to release this video to the public
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
They need to release this video to the public
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In a world awash with negative science/health news this is unashamedly great news. connectsci.au/news/news-pa...
Seventh patient in HIV remission after stem cell transplant | News | ConnectSci
connectsci.au
December 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
In a world awash with negative science/health news this is unashamedly great news. connectsci.au/news/news-pa...
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Psychologists and even GOP national security experts have said it before, and Trump's advancing cognitive decline proves: he is not fit for office and must be removed.
December 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Psychologists and even GOP national security experts have said it before, and Trump's advancing cognitive decline proves: he is not fit for office and must be removed.
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i hate that i have to post this (and will likely delete after today), but please don't @ me with your spotify stats.
i appreciate the support & know it comes from a good place, but i really would like you to find another streaming service.
i appreciate the support & know it comes from a good place, but i really would like you to find another streaming service.
December 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i hate that i have to post this (and will likely delete after today), but please don't @ me with your spotify stats.
i appreciate the support & know it comes from a good place, but i really would like you to find another streaming service.
i appreciate the support & know it comes from a good place, but i really would like you to find another streaming service.
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There’s truly something deeply wrong with these people: all of them.
Fox’s Greg Gutfeld on double tap boat strike: “It's just better for us to kill them in the ocean, make them shark feed, be done with it”
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM
There’s truly something deeply wrong with these people: all of them.
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Monthly global climate data update from UAH for the month of November 2025.
Third hottest month of November since 1979.
datagraver.com/climate-data...
#climate
Third hottest month of November since 1979.
datagraver.com/climate-data...
#climate
December 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Monthly global climate data update from UAH for the month of November 2025.
Third hottest month of November since 1979.
datagraver.com/climate-data...
#climate
Third hottest month of November since 1979.
datagraver.com/climate-data...
#climate
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🔴 Gaza Civil Defense: Thousands of Families Dig for Their Relatives Themselves; Only 1 Excavator Operating in Central Gaza
Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud al-Basal said the file of the missing & the recovery of bodies is “one of the most difficult and most painful issues,” w/ thousands of...
Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud al-Basal said the file of the missing & the recovery of bodies is “one of the most difficult and most painful issues,” w/ thousands of...
December 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🔴 Gaza Civil Defense: Thousands of Families Dig for Their Relatives Themselves; Only 1 Excavator Operating in Central Gaza
Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud al-Basal said the file of the missing & the recovery of bodies is “one of the most difficult and most painful issues,” w/ thousands of...
Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud al-Basal said the file of the missing & the recovery of bodies is “one of the most difficult and most painful issues,” w/ thousands of...
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☑️ Confirmed: Fmr. Honduran Pres. Juan Orlando Hernández was released from a US prison on Mon. night, hours after Trump issued a pardon wiping out his drug trafficking conviction. Hernández, once a key US ally, had been serving a 45-yr sentence for running a cocaine pipeline through Honduras...
December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
☑️ Confirmed: Fmr. Honduran Pres. Juan Orlando Hernández was released from a US prison on Mon. night, hours after Trump issued a pardon wiping out his drug trafficking conviction. Hernández, once a key US ally, had been serving a 45-yr sentence for running a cocaine pipeline through Honduras...