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monique d'hooghe ♿ they/she
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Gio DeBatta @GDebatta Follow 60 years of CIA history in one 270 character post Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen Gentle reminder that ISIS was created by the US govt to fight the Shiite militants, who were armed by the US govt to fight Saddam, who was armed by the US govt to fight Iran, who hates us because the US govt overthrew their elected leader and installed a brutal dictator.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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@daniellehaighx False eyelashes always getting wrecked shoving them in ur bag?? Go treat urself to a kinder egg ur welcome ladies x !two pictures of a kinder egg, one held closed by a hair tie another one open showing some lashes Sarah McG @sarahmcgbeauty Ican't use a Kinder egg, they're illegal in the US. Do you think a semi-automatic iT le willwork instead? I can get those at Wallmart
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Daractenus @Daractenus Follow After it turned out that about two thirds of Twitter's MAGA and far-right accounts are ased in Russia, Nigeria and Bangladesh, Musk as now shut down the location feature.
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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NOV 23, 2025 2:59 PM GMT DOGE disbanded: Elon Musk's Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended Ahead of Schedule POLITICS REPUBLICANS @jesscraven101
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Teacher: You have 5 cats, and someone wants 2 of them. How many cats do you have left? Me: 5 Teacher: Ok. Let's say someone forcefully takes 2 cats. What do you have now? Me: 5 cats and a body. Picture of a tortoise cat gazing into the camera
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Hugh Thompson Jr. faced a moment in Vietnam that tested every boundary of duty, conscience, and courage. On March 16, 1968, he and his crew were flying low over the village of Mỹ Lai when they realized something was terribly wrong. There were no enemy combatants. There were only unarmed civilians—women, children, and elderly villagers—being shot by American troops advancing through the hamlet. From the air, Thompson watched bodies fall in ditches and saw survivors running for their lives. He immediately grasped the truth that others refused to confront. This was not combat. It was a massacre unfolding in real time. Thompson set his helicopter down between the U.S. soldiers and the remaining villagers. He stepped out to confront the officers on the ground, demanding they stop firing. Then he issued an order that could have ended his career or his life: he instructed his crew to open fire on American troops if they continued killing civilians. It was the only way to create a shield for the people he was trying to save. With that line drawn, Thompson and his crew began evacuating terrified villagers. They radioed for more helicopters to carry out the wounded. They rescued a small boy from a ditch filled with bodies. By the time they lifted off, dozens of lives had been spared because one pilot refused to obey the silence of complicity. Thompson was not celebrated for this decision. For years he endured hostility, threats, and isolation from those who believed he had betrayed his fellow soldiers. Only decades later did the Army award him the Soldier’s Medal, recognizing that he had upheld the highest ideals of military service. Hugh Thompson Jr. stopped the Mỹ Lai massacre not with firepower but with moral clarity. His legacy endures as a reminder that real courage sometimes means standing against your own side to protect the innocent.
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Such a cute story.... the weirdest things can be uplifting & help us cope once they are infused with love and laughter
nonamebatman .4h 35 Awards One time, about five years into our relationship, my girlfriend (now wife) and I were in separate rooms in our one bedroom apartment in early December. From the other rogm, she want for Christmas?" Qllered teme "what do you I had been working full time, taking part-time university classes to finish my degree, and had been volunteering as part of a youth mentor program...so I said "All I really want is a break.' shoebox. After getting through the mountain of duct tape and several layers of wrapping paper, I had my very own... brick. "I really didn't understand what you wanted it for, she said, "but you sounded socure of it here you go!" Cue about ten minutes of laughs, and now that brick sits proudly on my desk. Every time I am overwhelmed or feeling like l've taken on too much, 1 look at it, pick it up, have a little laugh, and put it back so I can carry on. ever.
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Wages are a mental health issue. I can't help a client whose anxiety comes from the fact that they are one missed shift away from not being able to make rent. Child care is a mental health issue. I can't help a client who works 80 hours per week to afford daycare, and doesn't have the time or energy left to come see me. Drug policing is a mental health issue. 1 can't help a client who ended up in prison because they got caught self-medicating with illegal substances. Police brutality is a mental health issue. I can't help a client whose 'anxiety' is a very real and justified fear of ending up as a hashtag.
November 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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How to Escape a Prayer Circle Request Prayer For Rare Hand-Rotting Skin Disease Most effective if done while violently trembling. Shout "AM I BEING DETAINED?!" May not wark in a charismatic church. Recite Necronomicon Incantation Just don't mess it up. Lob Chick-Fil-A Sandwich M lf you can part with it . Pray In Tongues With Lots of Near-Curses Guaranteed next prayer starts with, Tllclose us out." Roll-And-Throw With proper form, you can toss your fellow believer without harming them. Trigger Fire Sprinklers (Requires flame thrower.) Summon the She-Bears This solves most prablems to be honest. If All Else Fails, Sacrifice Limbs Better to lose one part af your body than for yaur whole bady to be stuck in a prayer circle.
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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reberrabon_bon I posted a video on YouTube shorts about how Alien is literally about men being SAed, and that's why it's scary, and I have SO MANY MEN on there BEGGING me to "leave politics out of Alien." Babes...the man who wrote the screenplay literally said that's what it was. l'm not "putting politics" into anything. The politics were already there. You just don't like knowing what they are.
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Hours of work needed per week on minimum wage to escape poverty
dotsokt 23h HOURS NEEDED TO ESCAPE POVERTY ON MINIMUM WAGE: 1. JAPAN - 11 HOURS 2. UNITED KINGDOM - 23 HOURS 3. FRANCE - 26 HOURS 4. NEW ZEALAND - 29 HOURS 5. PORTUGAL - 31 HOURS 6. AUSTRALIA - 32 HOURS 7. BELGIUM - 32 HOURS 8. SPAIN - 32 HOURS 9. IRELAND - 33 HOURS 10. GERMANY - 37 HOURS 11. LUXEMBOURG - 44 HOURS 12. CANADA - 44 HOURS 13. UNITED STATES - 90 HOURS YES, 90 HOURS. A SINGLE PERSON ON FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE ($7.25/HR) WOULD NEED TO WORK 90 HOURS A WEEK TO ESCAPE POVERTY.
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski X.com knew they blamed immigrants for everything but I didn't think they would blame immigrant ows for hamburger prices Ron Smith X.com @Ronxyz00 Scott Bessent says the reason beef prices are so high is because immigrants from South America are bringing their cattle with them as they come here and they are infected with diseases. What a weird take! EXCLUSIVE DC DC oohge Tox MAHA STEAKS CEO: BEEF SET TO COST S $1OPER POUND SCOTT BESSENT SECRETARY OF TREASUR
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Tovaritch sends solidarity and leans in for a kiss
Close up of my cat tovaritch leaning in for a kiss You can see half of his black face and one nostril (with a slight pink sheen because of the light filtering in through pink curtains cast over it all) The left eye you can see is a very light yellow-green
November 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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A common virus may be the root cause of lupus. Lupus has baffled medicine for centuries. Now, scientists think they’ve found the culprit – and it’s one of the world’s most common viruses. In a new study, researchers at Stanford University have traced nearly every case of lupus to the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) – the same virus that causes mononucleosis, or “kissing disease.” While most people infected with EBV never get seriously ill, this research suggests it may reprogram immune cells in a way that triggers systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) – a chronic, often life-threatening autoimmune condition. Among people with lupus, the percentage of immune B cells infected with EBV was found to be 25 times higher than in healthy individuals. Using advanced sequencing, scientists discovered that the virus switches memory B cells – which normally help fight infection – into a pro-inflammatory state that may drive autoimmune attacks. That could explain not just what causes lupus, but also why it flares and settles unpredictably. EBV lies dormant in the body, but when reactivated, it could push the immune system into overdrive. The finding may also help explain why lupus affects some people more than others: not all EBV infections are equal. People with lupus may have been exposed to a more virulent strain, or their immune systems may be especially vulnerable to the virus’s effects. This could also reshape how we understand other EBV-linked conditions, including multiple sclerosis and long COVID. Read the study: "Epstein-Barr virus reprograms autoreactive B cells as antigen-presenting cells in systemic lupus erythematosus." Science Translational Medicine, 2025.
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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This maybe sounds mean, but I think we should be able to send doctors "hey, you were wrong" letters. the-lincyclopedia Follow I was misdiagnosed with asthma when I was 12 and took asthma meds daily for seven years, and then it turned out I hadn't had asthma in the first place; 1 actually have a different breathing problem. don't think the doctor who told me 1 had asthma (my - pediatrician, who I was no longer seeing by that point) ever found out she'd been wrong. (This is one of at least four misdiagnoses in my life, from a variety of doctors, that I can think of off the top of my head.) Similarly, my first therapist told me she didn't think I was autistic because I wasn't obsessed with trains. I don't think she ever found out that I am, in fact, autistic, because wasn't seeing her by - the time I was diagnosed. - get that it might be demoralizing to have someone contact you specifically to tell you that you messed up, but 1 think it would be useful for doctors to have data on how often they misdiagnose patients, especially since some doctors tend to think the patient is generally wrong when attempting self-diagnosis. It would be useful for my former therapist to move me from the mental column of "people who erroneously think they're autistic" to "people whose autism I did not notice when they were right in front of me." It would be useful for my pediatrician to realize she needed to look more closely and listen to kids when their breathing symptoms weren't the classic asthma ones. Doctors can get on their high horse and refuse to believe patients lot of the time, and the power dynamic makes that dangerous in plenty of situations. I think it would be helpful to have a way to at least alert doctors when we have proof they messed up.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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With alt
machine-unlearning Follow When I (M29) was a young boy (M7) my father (M35) took me into the city (X167) to see a marching band (M23, M21, M22, F22, M24, M25, F21,M machine-unlearning He said "Son (M7) when you grow up (F33) would you be - wait what
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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erniechiara h Trump announced in February 2025 that he temporarily removed the Resolute Desk from the Oval Office and installed the C&O desk in its place, which was previously used by President George H.W. Bush. He explained that the desks were being swapped because the Resolute Desk needed to be "lightly refurbished." Now, nine months later, it's been spotted in a picture taken from inside Mar-a-Lago. (picture of a desk with a plaque behind velvet ropes like in a museum exhibit, in a heavily guiilded room)
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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dead war criminals are the best kind.
Cheney on torture "It's a no-brainer for me" 2006 "I was and remain a strong proponent of our enhanced interrogation program." 2009 "I would do it again in a minute." 2014 CODEPINK
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Irene Kreutzer 14h Behind every successful man is a woman supporting him. Behind every successful woman are at least 10 men trying to hold her back.
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Mommy I'm scared of socialism j.g_rubel 17h Taught my kids how Socialism works. Let them Trick or Treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101 johnrashotte 7h The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Piss off the elite Be nice to each other
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Oh hell no

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October 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Michael McCullough @ME McCullough Stop using pop culture references as the first half of the title of your journal article. 5:43 PM . 05 Apr 23 .3.2M Views 153 Retweets 1.885 Ouotes 1597 Likes Spirit, PhD, LPC, NCC, CPCS @talk2spirit Replying to @ME _McCullough Who Gon Check Me, Boo: A Phenomenological Study of Entitled Gate Keeping of Scholarly Contributions. 11:39 PM . 06 Apr 23. 50.2K Views
October 31, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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godtrauma Follow the man who owns and runs the thai restaurant in my town knows me by name. he is one of the kindest and most thoughtful men know. i started ordering from his place back in january, which was when i got my fibromyalgia diagnosis. back then i was using a walker, had limited mobility in my entire body but especially my hands, and was very visibly in pain. always ordered the same thing: yellow curry with no meat, potatoes and carrots only (i have texture and other dietary issues). he always made it a point to make sure i could get out the door and carry the food safely. he had his workers package the food so that it was easier for me to open. as i kept coming back and i told him a little bit about my health status, he would always encourage me to keep going. he told me about how the spices he used were good for inflammation and began to edit the recipe just for me so that spices that were even better for fighting inflammation were used. he'd give me extra portions and despite the fact that i would tip every time,i realized later that he never charged my card for them. as time went on and my condition began to get better, especially with the help of a physical therapist, he would make encouraging remarks and tell me how happy he was for me. the day i came in without my walker, he practically jumped for joy, and despite my insistence, he gave me my meal for free that day. i continue to make progress with my conditions and i continue to go to the thai place. this man who does not know me personally and who i hardly know anything about is one of my favorite people. it's interactions with humans like these that make loving life easier. and his curry really does help my chronic condition. it's comfort food taken to the next level.
October 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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🔸Medieval humor – The Peeker of Conques’ at Abbey of Sainte Foy, France ca. 1107.
🔸Medieval humor – The Peeker of Conques’ at Abbey of Sainte Foy, France ca. 1107. A slab of stone on a column has been hewn to give the impression of it being malleable cloth, wist a left hand holding it from underneath and the right hand from above and a face between the hands peeking with only the nose, eyes and hair visible
October 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM