WonkleDonkle
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I really cannot stress this enough, but people really need to stop concluding that just because this man vomits something up it means it's going to happen. What he is proposing - or thinks he's proposing - is a logistical nightmare.
Trump on Gaza: "We're gonna create something that was my idea but unfortunately I got drafted. It's gonna be called the 'board of peace.' And it's gonna reign over that territory. They asked me if I'd be the chairman of the board of peace. I said yes."
September 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I really cannot stress this enough, but people really need to stop concluding that just because this man vomits something up it means it's going to happen. What he is proposing - or thinks he's proposing - is a logistical nightmare.
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The New York Times 🤝 Idi Amin
Asian Ugandans aren't really Africans and can never be African even if they were born there
Asian Ugandans aren't really Africans and can never be African even if they were born there
SCOOP: Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application
I co-report for The New York Times: Zohran Mamdani was born in Uganda. He doesn’t consider himself Black but said the application didn’t allow for the complexity of his background.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...
I co-report for The New York Times: Zohran Mamdani was born in Uganda. He doesn’t consider himself Black but said the application didn’t allow for the complexity of his background.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...
Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The New York Times 🤝 Idi Amin
Asian Ugandans aren't really Africans and can never be African even if they were born there
Asian Ugandans aren't really Africans and can never be African even if they were born there
Well, at least we have Paul Johns.
April 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Well, at least we have Paul Johns.
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So easy to be cynical and glib. No-one is under any illusions about the way events often play out in the Middle East, or the character of the groups who defeated Assad. But it is ok to hope. It is ok to celebrate the end of a dictator.
December 8, 2024 at 11:49 AM
So easy to be cynical and glib. No-one is under any illusions about the way events often play out in the Middle East, or the character of the groups who defeated Assad. But it is ok to hope. It is ok to celebrate the end of a dictator.
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Quick, get in the blood and piss taxi
November 22, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Quick, get in the blood and piss taxi
New 2025 single by Caesar's Palace called "Frot it Out"
November 26, 2024 at 10:53 AM
New 2025 single by Caesar's Palace called "Frot it Out"
Learnt today that for very silly reasons, yellow attire (specifically socks) were negatively associated with being gay for a couple of decades in Newcastle https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/pages/yellowsocks
Yellow Socks Affair | Living Histories
livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au
July 6, 2023 at 2:23 AM
Learnt today that for very silly reasons, yellow attire (specifically socks) were negatively associated with being gay for a couple of decades in Newcastle https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/pages/yellowsocks
It has been 98 days since food aid to Tigray has been suspended.
Accountability and justice are needed for abuses in Western Tigray.
If Ethiopia’s international partners want to see sustainable and credible rights progress, they should stop overlooking victims’ calls. https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/06/01/ethiopia-ethnic-cleansing-persists-under-tigray-truce
If Ethiopia’s international partners want to see sustainable and credible rights progress, they should stop overlooking victims’ calls. https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/06/01/ethiopia-ethnic-cleansing-persists-under-tigray-truce
July 6, 2023 at 1:10 AM
It has been 98 days since food aid to Tigray has been suspended.