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Health economist by training, HRQOL researcher by profession. Kickboxing/judo/jiujitsu. DSA.
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I talked to Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker who was arrested at work, while he was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. I called him again once he was deported to Mogadishu. Here's what he had to say.
In August, the Trump administration flew 12 Somali immigrants to an ICE facility at Guantanamo Bay. “Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay,” Sakariye Abdi Mohamed told journalist Amanda Moore in a phone call from the detention facility. “Just like kidnapping.”
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The thing about Musk is, yes, his live-by-the-sword rhetoric is S-tier dorkery from an S-tier dork but also he has in fact caused the deaths of thousands if not millions of people, is extraordinarily dangerous, and needs to have that power removed one way or another for everyone's sake.
One of the most salient aspects of today's politics is how everyone imagines a conspiratorial "them" controlling things behind the scenes. Elon Musk is literally powerful enough to affect the course of the Ukraine war, but he's still imagining faceless puppet masters who need to be unmasked.
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ICE, local police collaboration, and elected official's opposition to them begs an uncomfortable question about what happens when the leadership without guns tells the people with guns to do something they don't want to do. And I'm worried that there are no good answers to resolve it.
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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President Trump publicly states that he is ok with a foreign adversary destroying American cities that are not aligned with him politically.
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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I very much fear an unstable equilibrium where every party across the west believes it will have two to four years to loot and crush its enemies but won’t bother trying to govern in the long term, because the voters are too fickle
Brazil elections: "useful visualization is this one here, from Electomaps (inspired by NYT). Showing difference in the vote compared to 2022 for president. The size of the arrow is the size of the variation,the color is which way it went. Results still coming in..." electomaps.com.br/apuracao-pre...
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Throwback to the time I sparred my first kickboxing coach, who is 40 lbs lighter and 5 inches shorter than me. It was like fighting a swarm of angry bees, and they were all really good at punching.
This also happens in every MMA and BJJ gym in the world. Testosterone-fueled new guy comes in thinking he can fight or grapple because he's an "I just see red" guy. Gets immediately put to sleep by someone half his size. Never comes back.
"Diversity is not our strength. We must be champions of our one type of civilization, which draws on traditions from vastly different cultures separated by cultural heritage, geography, and time."
Hegseth: "We need students of western civilization and the pillars of our republic. Leaders who understand the faith of Jerusalem, the philosophy of anthems -- Athens. The power of Rome, and the freedom of Philadelphia circa 1776."
I’ve been perusing the internet archive for a video project I’ve been thinking of, and I came across a CNN documentary from ‘96 about Desert Storm. It had uncensored images of people that had been killed with chemical weapons. Idk if the doc was made for TV or home video, but still, a different era
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Calling it now, it is a distinct possibility that they cut out the press entirely and set up an official White House Kick or Twitch account and they just stream events directly. Trump could take questions from chatters that are just staffers pitching him softball questions. Endless possibilities.
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Steveson just fled the cage in cowardice, he wouldn't even wait for the decision to be read. This man Sean Sharaf called Steveson a rapist to his face, went in depth on why he was clearly guilty, and then knocked him the fuck out. No matter what he does next, Sharaf is immortalised.
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FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
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In the recent Channel 5 documentary where Ian visited the West Bank, his guide mentions in passing that the neighborhood has a youth boxing gym. I'm interested to know if there's a significant boxing culture in Palestine
Vejam a forma maravilhosa que os palestinos de Gaza encontraram de ajudar as crianças e adolescentes, em especial meninas, a superarem o estresses da guerra genocida. Nos dão uma lição de resiliência para se preparar para um futuro melhor e mais esportivo. www.instagram.com/p/Dc1E71Pts3a/
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MMA had a brief moment where it could highlight unique human interest stories or serve as emergent, almost punk rock cultural phenomena. Now it’s a vector for right-wing politics and home to low IQ dipshits desperately seeking Darwin Awards.
I feel bad for this chimpanzee It’s going to be difficult to wash that MMA fighters blood out of his fur after he tears the man’s arms off and eats his face.