i was thinking today how trump enjoyed taking photos with Mamdani more than Jefferies or Schumer

kinda says it all

“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of swastikas.” — that anonymous Coast Guard official

also the legal and medical systems are super hostile to disabled immigrants

not necessarily just arab but the medical gatekeeping and xenophobia towards anyone of middle eastern descent make it a lot less viable for trans immigrants

That's the impression I've gotten but notably Germany is very hostile to Arab immigrants

If you find that you must resort to calling your opponents shiftless cosmopolitans whose opinions are shaped by malicious foreign actors, or dismissing them as too young to know better, or too unsophisticated to understand the things they're seeing plain as day...that should give you pause.

I'm extremely tired of the way advocates for Palestinian human rights are dismissed as having only recently formed their opinions because of social media.

No. These opinions come from Millennials and Gen Z being more diverse and better educated than any generation before them.

I like (hate) that she can't bring herself to call malnourished Palestinians "emaciated" like she did with the Jews and just says "skinny"

being able to hire someone to help with personalized, specialized shit like that would be life altering in terms of chronic illness management but only rich people get to do that kind of shit

like i would pay a comfortable upper middle class salary for that information if i had that kind of money. would also separately hire someone to manage all the administrative components of getting medical care like scheduling and records handling

with trump's mission to gut everything that serves the public, this is basically an admission that the Epstein files are the final straw that could cripple the federal government

In other words they've been able to turn a blind eye to misconduct because nothing seriously threatened people's positions until the Epstein files compiled blatant evidence of it, and they've been doing it for so long that the department of defense is run by sex pests

that there'd be an overnight power vaccuum because they'd have to fire half of the non-elected leadershipj