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So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?
January 25, 2026 at 5:42 PM
So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?
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“If this is a real ceasefire, why is Israel still closing the borders and restricting the entry of life-saving necessities, including caravans, humanitarian aid, commercial products, and even my daughter’s medicine and milk?” www.972mag.com/israel-siege...
Despite ceasefire, Israel's siege allowing only a trickle of aid into Gaza
Palestinians report a dire lack of healthy food, medicine, and winter shelter, while a new ban on humanitarian groups will push the enclave to the brink.
www.972mag.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:40 AM
“If this is a real ceasefire, why is Israel still closing the borders and restricting the entry of life-saving necessities, including caravans, humanitarian aid, commercial products, and even my daughter’s medicine and milk?” www.972mag.com/israel-siege...
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The budget deal in Congress will give ICE another $10 BILLION.
Absolutely not.
ICE is out of control. We must stop this rogue agency’s dangerous abuses of power, not bankroll it.
Absolutely not.
ICE is out of control. We must stop this rogue agency’s dangerous abuses of power, not bankroll it.
January 22, 2026 at 3:19 PM
The budget deal in Congress will give ICE another $10 BILLION.
Absolutely not.
ICE is out of control. We must stop this rogue agency’s dangerous abuses of power, not bankroll it.
Absolutely not.
ICE is out of control. We must stop this rogue agency’s dangerous abuses of power, not bankroll it.
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To better understand what made the Trump shock possible, and how to confront it in the future, we must turn to its roots, namely, to Project 2025
thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/p...
thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/p...
Project 2025, from nightmare to reality
The year 2025 was marked by the Trump shock: an unprecedented wave of extreme brutality, unapologetic nationalism, and unrestrained extractivism that shook the world as never before since 1945. To …
thomaspiketty.wordpress.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
To better understand what made the Trump shock possible, and how to confront it in the future, we must turn to its roots, namely, to Project 2025
thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/p...
thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/p...
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Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions.
👇Share this thread, share the report!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
👇Share this thread, share the report!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
World Inequality Report 2026
YouTube video by World Inequality Lab
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December 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions.
👇Share this thread, share the report!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
👇Share this thread, share the report!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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Now do Dershowitz and Elisa New. And @harvard.edu give back every cent of filthy Epstein money you took: put it into a fund for the victims and in Virginia Giuffre's case their surviving children.
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Now do Dershowitz and Elisa New. And @harvard.edu give back every cent of filthy Epstein money you took: put it into a fund for the victims and in Virginia Giuffre's case their surviving children.
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Elisa New is not getting near enough focus on her disgusting and corrupt interactions with Epstein and, it turns out, Woody Allen 🤮. Arizona State must cut ties.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
Elisa New, wife of Larry Summers, mentioned ‘Lolita’ in email to Jeffrey Epstein - The Boston Globe
The correspondence between New, an emeritus Harvard literature professor, and Epstein was among a cache of emails between the late financier and his associates that Congress recently released. .
www.bostonglobe.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Elisa New is not getting near enough focus on her disgusting and corrupt interactions with Epstein and, it turns out, Woody Allen 🤮. Arizona State must cut ties.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
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The ADL has dropped the pretense that its mission is anything besides whatever director Jonathan Greenblatt cares about. defector.com/the-adl-is-h...
The ADL Is Having A Mamdani Meltdown | Defector
The focus of the Anti-Defamation League has become entirely warped. Support for Israel was always part of the organization’s goals, but typically that was nested within a broader declaration to fight…
defector.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The ADL has dropped the pretense that its mission is anything besides whatever director Jonathan Greenblatt cares about. defector.com/the-adl-is-h...
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The media: Watch Mamdani fail.
The reality: Watch the bipartisan US establishment – representing billionaires – work tirelessly to destroy Mamdani.
The reality: Watch the bipartisan US establishment – representing billionaires – work tirelessly to destroy Mamdani.
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The media: Watch Mamdani fail.
The reality: Watch the bipartisan US establishment – representing billionaires – work tirelessly to destroy Mamdani.
The reality: Watch the bipartisan US establishment – representing billionaires – work tirelessly to destroy Mamdani.
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Of 102 "antisemitism" complaints against US universities reviewed by experts, all but one were actually criticisms of Israel.
Nonetheless, 92 of these complaints led to the US government launching a formal investigation of the university in question.
Nonetheless, 92 of these complaints led to the US government launching a formal investigation of the university in question.
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Of 102 "antisemitism" complaints against US universities reviewed by experts, all but one were actually criticisms of Israel.
Nonetheless, 92 of these complaints led to the US government launching a formal investigation of the university in question.
Nonetheless, 92 of these complaints led to the US government launching a formal investigation of the university in question.
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ICYMI, my latest essay in @thedriftmag.com, which also serves as a postscript of sorts to Make Your Own Job www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Shitty Life
Self-Help Gets Philosophical
www.thedriftmag.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
ICYMI, my latest essay in @thedriftmag.com, which also serves as a postscript of sorts to Make Your Own Job www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...
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The grant to the right-wing Tikvah Fund is the largest in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Source: ejewishphilanthropy.com/neh-awards-i...
Source: ejewishphilanthropy.com/neh-awards-i...
Buried in this piece and notable given giant Trump admin cuts to the humanities: “This September, the National Endowment for the Humanities presented its largest-ever grant—$10.4 million—to the conservative Zionist Tikvah Fund.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
What Is Lorin Stein Doing at “Tablet”?
The former Paris Review editor was ostracized over sexual harassment allegations. Now he’s editing a divisive, right-wing Jewish magazine. What’s going on?
www.thenation.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The grant to the right-wing Tikvah Fund is the largest in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Source: ejewishphilanthropy.com/neh-awards-i...
Source: ejewishphilanthropy.com/neh-awards-i...
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Kamala Harris's Campaign Memoir is a Tour-de-Force of Democratic Delusion www.lukewsavage.com/p/kamala-har...
Kamala Harris's Campaign Memoir is a Tour-de-Force of Democratic Delusion
This past week I’ve been taking in Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir through various reviews.
www.lukewsavage.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Kamala Harris's Campaign Memoir is a Tour-de-Force of Democratic Delusion www.lukewsavage.com/p/kamala-har...
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What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.
October 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
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"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds
Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
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BDS VICTORY! Last week, the Iowa City Council unanimously voted to boycott and divest from Israel bonds and all companies complicit in the Israeli government’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
August 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
BDS VICTORY! Last week, the Iowa City Council unanimously voted to boycott and divest from Israel bonds and all companies complicit in the Israeli government’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
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Israel killed 53 of them while they were trying to get food.
🚨The Palestinian Health Ministry reports that 83 people were killed and 554 injured across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours.
August 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Israel killed 53 of them while they were trying to get food.
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While you feared for your future and organized against fascism, Kamala “Marie Antoinette” Harris, in possession of a vast email list and other resources to help mobilize people, ‘tuned out’ the news and watched cooking shows.
August 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
While you feared for your future and organized against fascism, Kamala “Marie Antoinette” Harris, in possession of a vast email list and other resources to help mobilize people, ‘tuned out’ the news and watched cooking shows.
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ITS SATURDAY! WE HAVE LITENEWS! TACKLING SLOPTUBER EPIDEMIC W/ NOAH SAMSEN AND MORE! ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN! GET IN NOW!! TWITCH.TV/HASANABI
August 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
ITS SATURDAY! WE HAVE LITENEWS! TACKLING SLOPTUBER EPIDEMIC W/ NOAH SAMSEN AND MORE! ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN! GET IN NOW!! TWITCH.TV/HASANABI
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on the one hand we should want people to change their mind so we can stop what's happening now. On the other hand there need to be costs for the ghoulish behavior that got us here, as these people absolutely will do this again given half a chance
In May 2024, "Clinton said students who oppose Israel's policies in Gaza and the West Bank 'don't know very much.'"
"Clinton and a number of European leaders are speaking out now because Israel has already 'carried out their final solution.'"
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide
"Clinton and a number of European leaders are speaking out now because Israel has already 'carried out their final solution.'"
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide
At Eleventh Hour, Enablers of Israel's Mass Starvation of Gaza Do 'Reputational Damage Control' | Common Dreams
U.S. and European leaders shift rhetoric, call for humanitarian aid. Gaza in famine, children at risk. Will the U.S. continue to support Israel's actions? #EndTheBlockade #FreePalestine
www.commondreams.org
July 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
on the one hand we should want people to change their mind so we can stop what's happening now. On the other hand there need to be costs for the ghoulish behavior that got us here, as these people absolutely will do this again given half a chance