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Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
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"genuine appreciation is somehow considered less intellectual than criticism" is such a word
the number of times I've said I enjoyed something and IMMEDIATELY, like a starting pistol just went off, someone gallops in to do "too bad you are simply Not Smart Enough to have spotted this list of flaws"
the number of times I've said I enjoyed something and IMMEDIATELY, like a starting pistol just went off, someone gallops in to do "too bad you are simply Not Smart Enough to have spotted this list of flaws"
It goes into that weird thing that genuine appreciation is somehow considered less intellectual than criticism but everybody is getting trained to be such a cynical unfeeling asshole nowadays that I find the smartest people often are the “hell yeah cool song/drawing/story/video” people
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"genuine appreciation is somehow considered less intellectual than criticism" is such a word
the number of times I've said I enjoyed something and IMMEDIATELY, like a starting pistol just went off, someone gallops in to do "too bad you are simply Not Smart Enough to have spotted this list of flaws"
the number of times I've said I enjoyed something and IMMEDIATELY, like a starting pistol just went off, someone gallops in to do "too bad you are simply Not Smart Enough to have spotted this list of flaws"
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If you can, please consider donating to their GoFundMe. The money is going to union members this holiday so they can buy groceries and pay rent while they fight for a fair contract.
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
Donate to Support Individualized Shirt Workers United, organized by Gabor Ptacek
Since this summer, worker leaders at Individualized Shirts have been organizi… Gabor Ptacek needs your support for Support Individualized Shirt Workers United
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December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If you can, please consider donating to their GoFundMe. The money is going to union members this holiday so they can buy groceries and pay rent while they fight for a fair contract.
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
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one day
Thousands of revelers descended on the boardwalk in Copacabana for Rio de Janeiro’s annual Pride parade on Sunday, with many celebrating the previous day’s preemptive jailing of Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro who is notorious for homophobic remarks.
Brazilian revelers at Rio’s Pride march rejoice after Bolsonaro’s preemptive jailing
Thousands of revelers have gathered on the Copacabana boardwalk for Rio de Janeiro’s annual Pride parade.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
one day
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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actually, you know what
picketing outside the churchgoing senators’ churches would probably really really really make them uncomfortable
free idea to a good home
picketing outside the churchgoing senators’ churches would probably really really really make them uncomfortable
free idea to a good home
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
actually, you know what
picketing outside the churchgoing senators’ churches would probably really really really make them uncomfortable
free idea to a good home
picketing outside the churchgoing senators’ churches would probably really really really make them uncomfortable
free idea to a good home
Isabella Obaze really stepped up this year and has been a gem. Everyone said she was in over her head, but she stepped THE HELL UP. So strong and smart. 🌹❤️
@thornsfc.com
#ptfc #BAONpdx
@thornsfc.com
#ptfc #BAONpdx
November 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Isabella Obaze really stepped up this year and has been a gem. Everyone said she was in over her head, but she stepped THE HELL UP. So strong and smart. 🌹❤️
@thornsfc.com
#ptfc #BAONpdx
@thornsfc.com
#ptfc #BAONpdx
Ew. Terrible take. In 15 years we went from abundant video stores and the magical Netflix having every movie and tv show under the sun (if you just waited it would show up at your house!) Now Netflix has 30 movies and 30 shows and the video stores are gone. Choice is exactly what we lost.
Someone doesn’t remember how badly going to a video store sucked, and just generally how much worse things were in the 90s-2000s. Oh, it doesn’t work perfectly? Sometimes they just didn’t have the thing you wanted. We live in an era of unprecedented media abundance and it’s has spoiled us rotten.
I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
October 21, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Ew. Terrible take. In 15 years we went from abundant video stores and the magical Netflix having every movie and tv show under the sun (if you just waited it would show up at your house!) Now Netflix has 30 movies and 30 shows and the video stores are gone. Choice is exactly what we lost.
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The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org
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The problem (at least in IL) is not that we have a feckless governor or mayor unwilling "to stand up to Trump." The problem is that over 80 years+ we the people have ceded vast powers to the Fed govt for good and necessary reasons and then, last November, we gave all those powers to Donald Trump.
October 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The problem (at least in IL) is not that we have a feckless governor or mayor unwilling "to stand up to Trump." The problem is that over 80 years+ we the people have ceded vast powers to the Fed govt for good and necessary reasons and then, last November, we gave all those powers to Donald Trump.
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State AGs have released a video saying that they "will do whatever it takes" to protect trans people in their states.
While the message is admirable, they need to take the one step they have not yet:
Sue the hospitals that capitulate to Trump, violating state law.
While the message is admirable, they need to take the one step they have not yet:
Sue the hospitals that capitulate to Trump, violating state law.
"We Have Your Back:" A Message to Trans Students from State Attorneys General
YouTube video by National Women's Law Center
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September 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
State AGs have released a video saying that they "will do whatever it takes" to protect trans people in their states.
While the message is admirable, they need to take the one step they have not yet:
Sue the hospitals that capitulate to Trump, violating state law.
While the message is admirable, they need to take the one step they have not yet:
Sue the hospitals that capitulate to Trump, violating state law.
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regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once:
— virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— against increasing the minimum wage
— buys foreign imports because they're cheap
— virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— against increasing the minimum wage
— buys foreign imports because they're cheap
August 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once:
— virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— against increasing the minimum wage
— buys foreign imports because they're cheap
— virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— against increasing the minimum wage
— buys foreign imports because they're cheap
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he also never takes the bait
so many other Democrats panic-apologize the minute someone on the right is like "WOW how DARE you be a Democrat" and immediately retract the one good thing they just said for fear it might poll badly
Mamdani is magnificently unbothered and I hope it's contagious
so many other Democrats panic-apologize the minute someone on the right is like "WOW how DARE you be a Democrat" and immediately retract the one good thing they just said for fear it might poll badly
Mamdani is magnificently unbothered and I hope it's contagious
August 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
he also never takes the bait
so many other Democrats panic-apologize the minute someone on the right is like "WOW how DARE you be a Democrat" and immediately retract the one good thing they just said for fear it might poll badly
Mamdani is magnificently unbothered and I hope it's contagious
so many other Democrats panic-apologize the minute someone on the right is like "WOW how DARE you be a Democrat" and immediately retract the one good thing they just said for fear it might poll badly
Mamdani is magnificently unbothered and I hope it's contagious
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The Framers made arguably one major mistake: They believed the legislative branch would jealously guard its power. They could not have fathomed that the legislative branch (Out of laziness, raw partisanship and a desire to keep their sinecures) would willingly surrender its power.
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
August 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The Framers made arguably one major mistake: They believed the legislative branch would jealously guard its power. They could not have fathomed that the legislative branch (Out of laziness, raw partisanship and a desire to keep their sinecures) would willingly surrender its power.
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Mariam Dagga, a visual freelance journalist in Gaza for The Associated Press, was killed by an Israeli strike on a hospital. She was 33. During the war, Dagga regularly based herself at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. S
Mariam Dagga, AP freelance journalist in Gaza, was killed by an Israeli strike
Mariam Dagga, a visual freelance journalist in Gaza for The Associated Press, was killed by an Israeli strike on a hospital. She was 33.
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August 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Mariam Dagga, a visual freelance journalist in Gaza for The Associated Press, was killed by an Israeli strike on a hospital. She was 33. During the war, Dagga regularly based herself at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. S
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I wrote about Israel’s assassination of Anas al-Sharif, a brave journalist in Gaza, and the work of local journalists everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
Opinion | He Was the Face and Voice of Gaza. Israel Assassinated Him.
www.nytimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I wrote about Israel’s assassination of Anas al-Sharif, a brave journalist in Gaza, and the work of local journalists everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
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ALYSSA NAEHER'S FIRST-EVER NWSL GOAL AND ON HER 200TH CAREER APPEARANCE TOO!!!!
August 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
ALYSSA NAEHER'S FIRST-EVER NWSL GOAL AND ON HER 200TH CAREER APPEARANCE TOO!!!!
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anyway the choice america faces going forward is live in the confederacy or do reconstruction for real and purge those motherfuckers from all of public life. and there isn’t really an in-between.
August 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
anyway the choice america faces going forward is live in the confederacy or do reconstruction for real and purge those motherfuckers from all of public life. and there isn’t really an in-between.
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Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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August 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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"L.A. needs to withdraw from hosting the Olympics—the sooner the better," writes @gustavoarellano.bsky.social. "Trump would love nothing more than to traipse around an L.A. radically transformed by his deportation blitzkrieg to proclaim his mission accomplished & broadcast his conquest to the world"
MY LATEST @latimes.com COLUMNA: L.A. never needed the Olympics. With Trump wanting in, it's time to pull out. Share, porfas!
Commentary: L.A. never needed the Olympics. With Trump wanting in, it's time to pull out
With the Games happening in a presidential election year, Trump would love nothing more than to traipse around an L.A. radically transformed by his deportation aggressions to proclaim his mission acco...
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August 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
"L.A. needs to withdraw from hosting the Olympics—the sooner the better," writes @gustavoarellano.bsky.social. "Trump would love nothing more than to traipse around an L.A. radically transformed by his deportation blitzkrieg to proclaim his mission accomplished & broadcast his conquest to the world"
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“Our hearts go out to the trans community, and we will continue to use our platform to advocate for you.” 🏳️⚧️
Sam and Becky weigh in on the U.S. Olympic Committee's decision to bar transgender women from competing.
Sam and Becky weigh in on the U.S. Olympic Committee's decision to bar transgender women from competing.
July 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“Our hearts go out to the trans community, and we will continue to use our platform to advocate for you.” 🏳️⚧️
Sam and Becky weigh in on the U.S. Olympic Committee's decision to bar transgender women from competing.
Sam and Becky weigh in on the U.S. Olympic Committee's decision to bar transgender women from competing.
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I’ve been visiting communities across the country who’ve built alternatives to police. Albuquerque. Durham. Atlanta. Dayton. I am eager to share this growing movement, writing “dispatches” based on what I learn. Please consider supporting this reporting by subscribing. unwantedpersons.substack.com
Unwanted Persons | Kaia Sand | Substack
There’s a hopeful story to tell about alternatives to police, and Kaia Sand sends dispatches to keep you posted. Read it here first while Sand writes a book, as well as columns and essays for Nation, ...
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July 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I’ve been visiting communities across the country who’ve built alternatives to police. Albuquerque. Durham. Atlanta. Dayton. I am eager to share this growing movement, writing “dispatches” based on what I learn. Please consider supporting this reporting by subscribing. unwantedpersons.substack.com
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#StaceyAbrams explains how to achieve an #autocracy in 10 steps.
We're at step 9.
The military is in our streets. Is our democracy worth the effort to defend it?
We're at step 9.
The military is in our streets. Is our democracy worth the effort to defend it?
July 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
#StaceyAbrams explains how to achieve an #autocracy in 10 steps.
We're at step 9.
The military is in our streets. Is our democracy worth the effort to defend it?
We're at step 9.
The military is in our streets. Is our democracy worth the effort to defend it?