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doughenwood.bsky.social
Ukrainian support for war collapses. Just 24% want to fight until victory, vs. 73% in 2022.

news.gallup.com/poll/693203/...
August 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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mabdelmoumen.bsky.social
Wow.
Clip officiel - KWE! Où est allé tout ce monde qui avait quelque chose à raconter
YouTube video by KWE! À la rencontre des peuples autochtones
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June 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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nocontroller.bsky.social
You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
June 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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doughenwood.bsky.social
Oh, ok.
"I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East," said Mr. Vance, who has been a vocal skeptic of those engagements. "I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then, we had dumb presidents, and now we have a president who actually knows how to accomplish America's national security objective."
June 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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doughenwood.bsky.social
Every time the Dems lose the answer is to become more Republican.
adamwren.bsky.social Adam Wren @adamwren.bsky.social · Mar 2
New: Last month, a group of moderate Democratic consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials & party leaders gathered in Loudoun County, Virginia, for a retreat where they plotted their party’s comeback.

We got their takeaways. t.co/bEwlg4jbtM
March 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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chantalpoulin.bsky.social
J'en ai marre d'être dirigée par des cons!!! 😭😭😭
anarcoco.bsky.social Coralie LaPerrière @anarcoco.bsky.social · Feb 18
La CAQ veut mettre fin à la gratuité des musées le premier dimanche du mois. (Comme si c'était ÇA le gras à couper pour atteindre le déficit zéro)
Donc, on signe la pétition, go go go : m.assnat.qc.ca/fr/exprimez-...
Pétition : Maintien de la gratuité dans les musées les premiers dimanches du mois - Assemblée nationale du Québec
m.assnat.qc.ca
February 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
katebrowne.bsky.social
www.compactmag.com/article/doge...
DOGE as Class War
It might strike some as odd: The new president of the United States won the election by rallying the working class against the establishment swamp, yet he has placed at the helm of his assault on the ...
www.compactmag.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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currentaffairs.bsky.social
This is the testament to the effectiveness of protesters and Palestinian journalists. By exposing what Americans would otherwise not see, they are shifting public opinion. It's much tougher to shift policy but it's clear they are moving things and should stay at it.
February 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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nycnewliberals.org
Congestion Pricing is creating tremendous benefits.
Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13%
Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends)
Transit Crime: 🔻36%
Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44%
Trip Times: 🔻10-30%
February 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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chantalpoulin.bsky.social
(1) Alors qu'iels ont été traités en dangereux criminel.le.s et envoyé.e.s plusieurs jours en prison sans procès, la Couronne décide aujourd'hui que ce n'était "pas si grave finalement" et change le type d'accusation pour faire en sorte que les activistes n'est pas droit à un procès devant jury.
Les activistes qui ont bloqué le pont Jacques-Cartier ne pourront pas avoir de procès devant jury
Les Montréalais accusés d’avoir escaladé le pont Jacques-Cartier ne pourront pas obtenir un procès devant jury comme ils le désiraient.
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February 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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metronomephil.bsky.social
En bandeau: «Gaza "Côte d'Azur" et si c'était possible?»
leolefrancois.fr Léo Lefrançois @leolefrancois.fr · Feb 6
Je veux juste qu'on soit tous sur la même longueur d'onde.

Là, alors qu'un génocide et des déplacements forcés ont lieu dans la bande de Gaza, on invite un représentant des métiers du tourisme pour lui demander son avis sur l'idée de Trump d'une "French Riviera" à cet endroit ?
February 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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daddyshark.bsky.social
Great clarity on the left ballot question in the US here. Everyone left of the Democratic consensus has struggled with how to approach electoral success and this essay from Michael Kinnucan of the NYC DSA really lays it out starkly:

jwmason.org/slackwire/po...
Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States – J. W. Mason
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February 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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harshawalia.bsky.social
Library lovers & comrades,

Take action now to tell Vancouver Public Library to reverse its anti-Palestinian branch-wide ban on staff wearing watermelon pins and keffiyehs.

VPL's ban is assault on its stated commitments to intellectual freedom & decolonization.

actionnetwork.org/letters/vplban
Background is photo of VPL. Text reads: Sign and Share. Tell the Vancouver Public Library to Reverse it's Anti-Palestinian Ban!
February 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
WELP!
originalsp.in Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · Feb 4
“You were ONLY supposed to be RACIST”
carmack55 21h Follow Dozens of female Republican officials who have been fired by the Trump Administration's anti-DEl policies are complaining that Trump's firings were supposed to be according to race, not gender. DEI 816 @ 112
February 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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moira.bsky.social
In light of State Farm's request that CA allow "emergency" insurance premium rate increases, citing claims for the LA fires, I'll re-up this blog for @lpeblog.bsky.social which looks at how the industry obscures how its finances work in an effort to keep profits high.
lpeproject.org/blog/the-ins...
The Insurance Industry Is Not the Victim
The rapidly worsening home insurance crisis is often understood as primarily a problem for insurers. Yet the overarching policy question should not be, “how do we save the home insurance industry from...
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February 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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doughenwood.bsky.social
There's no Auschwitz in Gaza. But it's still genocide www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
There's no Auschwitz in Gaza. But it's still genocide
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www.haaretz.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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ziibiing.com
“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.”

-Mike Davis
January 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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doughenwood.bsky.social
Harvard Hillel's summary of the university settlement of a lawsuit against it. The crackdown on criticism of Israel is remarkable to behold.
January 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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doughenwood.bsky.social
Lots of truth in this thread
genderhorizon.com M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · Jan 22
A lot is really discouraging about the rise of fascism in the US. I feel particularly distressed at how difficult and unlikely a popular front between liberals and the left is, largely as a result of the horrible turn of liberalism this last year. 1/19 🧵
January 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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metronomephil.bsky.social
Sur les origines sud-africaines d'Elon Musk, Peter Thiel et d'autres.

Source: Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk’s Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics
www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/qui...
January 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
katebrowne.bsky.social
Thoughts on an emerging new world. It is generally portrayed as unambiguously negative, and I'm convinced it does have many negative consequences. But I often feel that we're not seeing the whole thing, and partly we don't like it because it's a new system. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Are young people's attention spans really shrinking? It's more complex than you might think | Marion Thain
Distractions long predated today’s fast-moving online world, says culture and technology professor Marion Thain
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January 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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doughenwood.bsky.social
"New Yorkers buoyed by economic optimism under a second Trump administration are fueling a boom in plastic surgery — especially breast implants and liposuction, according to a leading Long Island cosmetic surgeon."

nypost.com/2025/01/02/u...
Economic optimism after Trump election win sparks plastic surgery boom in NYC
New Yorkers buoyed by economic optimism under a second Trump administration are fueling a boom in plastic surgery — especially breast implants and liposuction, according to a leading Long Isl…
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January 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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nicolechung.bsky.social
I count, this first day of another year, what remains.

—Jane Hirshfield
Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me by Jane Hirshfield The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured? I count, this first day of another year, what remains. I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hands. Can admire with two eyes the mountain, actual, recalcitrant, shuffling its pebbles, sheltering foxes and beetles. Can make black-eyed peas and collards. Can make, from last year’s late-ripening persimmons, a pudding. Can climb a stepladder, change the bulb in a track light. For four years, I woke each day first to the mountain, then to the question. The feet of the new sufferings followed the feet of the old, and still they surprised. I brought salt, brought oil, to the question. Brought sweet tea, brought postcards and stamps. For four years, each day, something. Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace. Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder. Today, I woke without answer. The day answers, unpockets a thought from a friend don’t despair of this falling world, not yet didn’t it give you the asking
January 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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doughenwood.bsky.social
Jewish author renounces Israeli citizenship over 'genocidal campaign' against Palestinians

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
December 30, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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doughenwood.bsky.social
No infrastructure remains in northern Gaza, for terrorism or for life www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
December 30, 2024 at 3:05 AM