Melinda Harden
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This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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I’m sorry, but what the FUCK is this bullshit? He already provided proof of work authorization when he was vetted and hired. Is the school board also demanding answers from the agencies that performed his background check. They’re rewriting the public record in plain view.
October 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I’m sorry, but what the FUCK is this bullshit? He already provided proof of work authorization when he was vetted and hired. Is the school board also demanding answers from the agencies that performed his background check. They’re rewriting the public record in plain view.
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“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”
It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious.
@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...
@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...
September 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
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The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN
At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
www.cnn.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
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no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace
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College professor here.
Fuck this. Your friend's daughter's professor is a disgrace.
I'm going full Amish this term. Pen and paper. In-class discussions. No prideful buttons.
Fuck this. Your friend's daughter's professor is a disgrace.
I'm going full Amish this term. Pen and paper. In-class discussions. No prideful buttons.
Yeah I was vague for privacy. But this isn't unusual. My friend's daughter just started college and her first professor warned the students "drop any class if the professor DOESN'T include instruction about how to integrate AI in your work." I heard the same from a different friend this year.
August 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
College professor here.
Fuck this. Your friend's daughter's professor is a disgrace.
I'm going full Amish this term. Pen and paper. In-class discussions. No prideful buttons.
Fuck this. Your friend's daughter's professor is a disgrace.
I'm going full Amish this term. Pen and paper. In-class discussions. No prideful buttons.
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I actually can and will judge people who are using environmentally devastating technology built on mass theft to create a fictional partner who does nothing but tell how great they are.
July 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I actually can and will judge people who are using environmentally devastating technology built on mass theft to create a fictional partner who does nothing but tell how great they are.
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this is one of my ultimate “could never get away with this today” movies
genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it
also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious
genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it
also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious
July 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
this is one of my ultimate “could never get away with this today” movies
genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it
also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious
genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it
also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious
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texas legislators filed an anti trans and anti abortion bill before they filed a single piece of flood relief legislation
Senate Bill 25 represents the first of expected flood-related measures as lawmakers prepare to address the July 4 Central Texas disaster that exposed gaps in warning systems across the region.
First flood warning bill filed ahead of Texas special session
State Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, D-Austin filed the first flood related legislation Wednesday ahead of next week’s special session, proposing changes to emergency warning systems operated by munici…
www.kxan.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:47 AM
texas legislators filed an anti trans and anti abortion bill before they filed a single piece of flood relief legislation
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I have been doing some daily poetry writing with some internet pals this month and I guess I'm subjecting you all to some of it right now.
A Test
A Test
![Poem screenshot:
Knock knock it's the government
REED ELIOT, DEGENERATE
You applied for a passport
You fucking idiot
Upon reviewing your documents
we are pretty sure you have a pussy
Check ONE (1) to confirm genital status:
YES
NO
REED, did you know REED is a Boy Name?
We know. It is our job now. That is what
the government does: We Know Which Names
Are For Boys.
Upon reviewing your documents, REED
you appear to be
[you know]
kind of fruity with it
Check ONE (1) to confirm FRUIT LEVEL:
YES
NO
YES ALSO - using different brackets
Upon reviewing your documents, We know
what you're trying to pull. You cannot fool us. We
are the Important Documents Review Team. We reviewed your documents. Your
SITUATION is CONFUSING to US. WE do not LIKE it.
We want to know - crossed out
We demand to know - crossed out
Please attest - crossed out
YOU ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEST:
ARE YOU
[you know]
ONE (1) OF THOSE TRANSEXUALS
EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT
YES
NO
OTHER, crossed out
We are onto you.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtoz625fqj523zfjjdx3xuyj/bafkreic7beh2bi5cxwwfhwuysrwp26nmvku46u5ybnllrddhkrjfetfu5e@jpeg)
July 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I have been doing some daily poetry writing with some internet pals this month and I guess I'm subjecting you all to some of it right now.
A Test
A Test
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I should be asleep, but can’t stop thinking about a striking sanitation worker I met today. He told me about the time a trash bag full of human shit burst in his face, and he had to spend two days in the hospital to ensure he hadn’t contracted any dangerous diseases.
He makes $19 an hour.
He makes $19 an hour.
July 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I should be asleep, but can’t stop thinking about a striking sanitation worker I met today. He told me about the time a trash bag full of human shit burst in his face, and he had to spend two days in the hospital to ensure he hadn’t contracted any dangerous diseases.
He makes $19 an hour.
He makes $19 an hour.
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We’ve reached the “building concentration camps and funding secret police to arrest enemies of the regime” phase of America fascism.
It would be super useful if the nominal opposition party would say that to the American people!
It would be super useful if the nominal opposition party would say that to the American people!
July 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
We’ve reached the “building concentration camps and funding secret police to arrest enemies of the regime” phase of America fascism.
It would be super useful if the nominal opposition party would say that to the American people!
It would be super useful if the nominal opposition party would say that to the American people!
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The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'
July 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'
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At drink and draw tonight one of the winning prompts was “half man half fish half sexy”, and NO, I know what you’re THINKING, I did not come up with this prompt, my collaborator did. And oh my god. People nailed it.
June 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
At drink and draw tonight one of the winning prompts was “half man half fish half sexy”, and NO, I know what you’re THINKING, I did not come up with this prompt, my collaborator did. And oh my god. People nailed it.
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this argument has at least two readily apparent fucked up implications imo
one's silly: Bruenig seems lowkey cool w grave robbing & corpse defilement?
but one's v serious: people who are disabled, youth, or otherwise face questions about their capacity to make choices can be forced into childbirth
one's silly: Bruenig seems lowkey cool w grave robbing & corpse defilement?
but one's v serious: people who are disabled, youth, or otherwise face questions about their capacity to make choices can be forced into childbirth
June 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
this argument has at least two readily apparent fucked up implications imo
one's silly: Bruenig seems lowkey cool w grave robbing & corpse defilement?
but one's v serious: people who are disabled, youth, or otherwise face questions about their capacity to make choices can be forced into childbirth
one's silly: Bruenig seems lowkey cool w grave robbing & corpse defilement?
but one's v serious: people who are disabled, youth, or otherwise face questions about their capacity to make choices can be forced into childbirth
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Writing about Adriana Smith with such callousness and disregard while ignoring the obvious connection to breeding slavery sounds about white.
The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
June 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Writing about Adriana Smith with such callousness and disregard while ignoring the obvious connection to breeding slavery sounds about white.
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Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.
June 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.
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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
June 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
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Never let oppressors tell you how to protest
Remember this image every time someone tells you that protesters are "hurting their cause."
Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.
Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.
June 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Never let oppressors tell you how to protest
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Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.
June 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.
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It is the end of AAPI Heritage Month and tomorrow will be the start of Pride Month. The perfect movie for this transition period is FIRE ISLAND, an incredibly funny, perfectly modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice which includes this great reenactment of MY COUSIN VINNY: youtu.be/lNchouL-TrQ?...
FIRE ISLAND | "Heads Up" Clip | Searchlight Pictures
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June 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
It is the end of AAPI Heritage Month and tomorrow will be the start of Pride Month. The perfect movie for this transition period is FIRE ISLAND, an incredibly funny, perfectly modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice which includes this great reenactment of MY COUSIN VINNY: youtu.be/lNchouL-TrQ?...