Sylvan songstress
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The normalization of this madness is so quick that we’re debating whether a second illegal strike was wrong after an initial illegal strike with no proof of any crime and we’ve already seen just random murders of fishermen normalized with the excuse they’re running drugs, which isn’t legal either.
December 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The normalization of this madness is so quick that we’re debating whether a second illegal strike was wrong after an initial illegal strike with no proof of any crime and we’ve already seen just random murders of fishermen normalized with the excuse they’re running drugs, which isn’t legal either.
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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Between this and the terrorism against Latinos who are mainly Catholic, the US has become the leading persecutor of Christians.
Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago.
He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.
He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.
Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians reut.rs/4qBrVXy
November 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Between this and the terrorism against Latinos who are mainly Catholic, the US has become the leading persecutor of Christians.
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Sometimes I pause and wonder what would happen if all the time and energy and especially $$$ that has gone into AI in education the past 2 years would have been redirected towards tangible things we already know works to make classrooms and schools better.
Oh well.
Oh well.
October 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Sometimes I pause and wonder what would happen if all the time and energy and especially $$$ that has gone into AI in education the past 2 years would have been redirected towards tangible things we already know works to make classrooms and schools better.
Oh well.
Oh well.
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Letitia James is a former public defender and public advocate. She's spent most of her career on the side of the marginalized and underprivileged. And let's be honest: Trump is attacking her because he doesn't want Black women in positions of authority in this country.
October 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Letitia James is a former public defender and public advocate. She's spent most of her career on the side of the marginalized and underprivileged. And let's be honest: Trump is attacking her because he doesn't want Black women in positions of authority in this country.
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You know what show is absolutely perfect? Hilda.
September 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
You know what show is absolutely perfect? Hilda.
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the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
September 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
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Every day there is a new piece (or many) of the saddest news I've ever heard, and it's especially brutal to consider that this is being done on purpose by our government.
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every day there is a new piece (or many) of the saddest news I've ever heard, and it's especially brutal to consider that this is being done on purpose by our government.
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Are we going to talk about the fact that we have a clear pattern of ICE taking children as hostages here in Massachusetts, #mapoli, or are we just going to continue to yammer about how we support public safety?
Because this isn’t safe at all.
Because this isn’t safe at all.
September 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Are we going to talk about the fact that we have a clear pattern of ICE taking children as hostages here in Massachusetts, #mapoli, or are we just going to continue to yammer about how we support public safety?
Because this isn’t safe at all.
Because this isn’t safe at all.
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The Washington Post can't claim to defend free speech while firing Karen Attiah for exercising hers.
The Post should be a newsroom that promotes the freedom of ideas, speech and the press.
The Post should be a newsroom that promotes the freedom of ideas, speech and the press.
Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah
September 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The Washington Post can't claim to defend free speech while firing Karen Attiah for exercising hers.
The Post should be a newsroom that promotes the freedom of ideas, speech and the press.
The Post should be a newsroom that promotes the freedom of ideas, speech and the press.
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plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel
September 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel
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They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal
September 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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Pregnancy and childbirth are dramatically radicalizing experiences for a lot of women, who often find themselves discarded, condescended to, and hurt at a moment of profound vulnerability. For some women,’the experience makes them feminists. For others, it makes them paranoid, eugenicist quacks.
Perhaps if we'd paid some attention to that sort of fascist/eugenic recruitment of birth-traumatized women and given it anywhere near as much attention as we gave Radicalized White Dudes Sad About Their Mediocrity, we'd be in a better place understanding how MAHA came about.
August 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Pregnancy and childbirth are dramatically radicalizing experiences for a lot of women, who often find themselves discarded, condescended to, and hurt at a moment of profound vulnerability. For some women,’the experience makes them feminists. For others, it makes them paranoid, eugenicist quacks.
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Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
August 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
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Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy went out the window as soon as WNBA players showed up with T-shirts bringing awareness to the lack of financial equity they have in their league.
July 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy went out the window as soon as WNBA players showed up with T-shirts bringing awareness to the lack of financial equity they have in their league.
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We have not had free and fair elections in this country.
We didn’t abolish the poll tax until 1966. Every year after the passage of the Voting Rights Act involved Certain States trying to thread the racism needle in their election rules to get preclearance, and they had reasonable success at that.
We didn’t abolish the poll tax until 1966. Every year after the passage of the Voting Rights Act involved Certain States trying to thread the racism needle in their election rules to get preclearance, and they had reasonable success at that.
July 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We have not had free and fair elections in this country.
We didn’t abolish the poll tax until 1966. Every year after the passage of the Voting Rights Act involved Certain States trying to thread the racism needle in their election rules to get preclearance, and they had reasonable success at that.
We didn’t abolish the poll tax until 1966. Every year after the passage of the Voting Rights Act involved Certain States trying to thread the racism needle in their election rules to get preclearance, and they had reasonable success at that.
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We are going to hold elections in this country.
We will just be doing everything on hard mode: the registering, the voting, the winning, the getting the winning certified, the transfer of power.
We will just be doing everything on hard mode: the registering, the voting, the winning, the getting the winning certified, the transfer of power.
July 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We are going to hold elections in this country.
We will just be doing everything on hard mode: the registering, the voting, the winning, the getting the winning certified, the transfer of power.
We will just be doing everything on hard mode: the registering, the voting, the winning, the getting the winning certified, the transfer of power.
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I think it is important to delineate between “not having elections” and “understanding how they’re going to try to steal the election” because if we understand the tactics we can do something about it.
July 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I think it is important to delineate between “not having elections” and “understanding how they’re going to try to steal the election” because if we understand the tactics we can do something about it.
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The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
July 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
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the thing about the NYT is is you look like mamdani you have to be accountable forever for everything including a form you filled as a teenager and didn't do anything wrong with but if you look like Trump laws you have sworn a public oath to uphold do not apply to you at any point in your life
July 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
the thing about the NYT is is you look like mamdani you have to be accountable forever for everything including a form you filled as a teenager and didn't do anything wrong with but if you look like Trump laws you have sworn a public oath to uphold do not apply to you at any point in your life
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In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."
July 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."
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The nation's fifth most populous county, San Diego, just chose its political future today—and appears to have chosen to have a Democratic local government—and it's crickets everywhere. Quite the eye-popping example of the NY/East-Coast-bias of how elections get covered.
July 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The nation's fifth most populous county, San Diego, just chose its political future today—and appears to have chosen to have a Democratic local government—and it's crickets everywhere. Quite the eye-popping example of the NY/East-Coast-bias of how elections get covered.
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It’s one thing to say they want to deport 20 million people, it’s even one thing to go nuts brazenly doing whatever you can as the executive branch to make it happen, but the fact that they’re going to give ICE an additional 45B shows how committed they are to seeing this through.
July 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It’s one thing to say they want to deport 20 million people, it’s even one thing to go nuts brazenly doing whatever you can as the executive branch to make it happen, but the fact that they’re going to give ICE an additional 45B shows how committed they are to seeing this through.
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i would watch tf outta this
I have always wanted to see a side-series to the Great British Bake Off focusing on the friends and families of the bakers as they practice baking endless stuff at home.
You *know* each baker is dumping absolute tons of free baked goods on everyone they know. Total strangers getting handed cakes.
You *know* each baker is dumping absolute tons of free baked goods on everyone they know. Total strangers getting handed cakes.
June 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
i would watch tf outta this