Steph

Steph

@smeyer.bsky.social

Big fan of nature, crafting, and lots of nerdy stuff 🤓

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Steph reposted

While we're all discussing how it's wrong to murder someone, let's not forget this:

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Democrats are amplifying pressure on the Trump administration to produce evidence that last week’s military strike in the Caribbean Sea killed 11 drug smugglers, as lawmakers from both parties question the legal basis for the surprise use of force.

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I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism. From Around the Horn:

Steph reposted

I know we can’t run around on fire every time Trump says something but he appears to have just announced the new US policy on Gaza which is to take ownership of it, ethnically cleanse it of the 1.8 million Palestinians there and maintain a long term ownership stake as it’s “developed.”

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Every day it breaks my heart to know that this level of misery is being inflicted on people, and that it's being done with American tax dollars that could be providing care for sick instead of slaughtering them.

Shantini@shantini.bsky.social

Israel has burned northern Gaza’s last remaining hospital. And kicked out its patients, including neonatal and ICU patients. I picked a western news source since y’all seem more likely to believe those. I don’t know how else to get people to care. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...

Steph reposted

I will say it again. I know way too many moms who had a child gunned down on a city street. But their child’s murder didn’t elicit a massive police or media response. I know way too many moms whose children’s homicides remain unsolved. Who don’t get calls back from the police. Then they see this.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

seems a bit dramatic

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