sarah

sarah

@weissman.bsky.social

Queen Antifah

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Replying to @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

I did not need to wake up to Claire McCaskill on MSNow scolding us all to be "charitable" to Lindsey Graham because he was a "good man." No, he wasn't. He was the fascists' handmaiden.

I had been holding onto my $50/yr WaPo subscription because it was stupidly cheap and I thought things might get better, but I just pulled the plug because I cannot at this point ever imagine wanting to read it again.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

I used to be a WaPo Opinions video editor, and if a video didn't have 100 views within the first five minutes of publishing on Youtube, I would've considered it an embarrassing failure. Fortunately didn't happen much!

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BREAKING: Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán has called Péter Magyar to concede defeat in today's election. With 53.45% of votes counted, Magyar's TISZA looks set to secure a super majority. A defeat for Putin, a defeat for Trump, a victory for Europe, and above all, a victory for the Hungarian people.

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“The wars will end and the leaders will shake hands, and that old woman will remain waiting for her martyred son, and that girl will wait for her beloved husband, and the children will wait for their heroic father. I do not know who sold the homeland but I know who paid the price.” —Mahmoud Darwish

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Fascinating, informative, and insightful thread that deserves article space tbqh

Jeanne Theoharis@jeannetheoharis.bsky.social

On the 58th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, it's time to reckon with the media's troubling role in the civil rights struggle. (I pitched this to @nytimes.com who found it "fascinating..[but] the news is making deeper & certainly more historical pieces very hard." But they're the news.) A 🧵

sarah reposted

Trans Day of Visibility. Trans people are our neighbors. Trans people are not dangerous. Today, and every day, we see you. You are loved, you belong 💛

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Minnesota still needs your attention

Andrew Karre@andrewkarre.bsky.social

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

❤️ Milan ❤️

The New York Times@nytimes.com

In the hours before the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics on Friday, demonstrators took to the streets in Milan to protest the presence of U.S. ICE personnel in Italy and the cost of the Games. nyti.ms/4an7feN

This is just devastating testimony. If you are like me and can't watch the video, read these docs.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com

"Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds."

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"Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds."

sarah reposted

Replying to @jbendery.bsky.social

It was so bitterly cold this morning that I couldn't take my fingers out of my gloves for more than 30 seconds without them burning. But I really wanted footage of MN residents shaming ICE/CBP agents to their faces. So I hit "record" with my chin and just aimed my phone at stuff. Like this.

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Replying to @edroso.bsky.social

Anti-Somali smear artist Nick Shirley has been sniffing around Baltimore. Starve his lie machine.

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Replying to @unraveledpress.com

Hundreds more people just marched up to join. Some bonfires going. Copious handwarmers being passed out. Chanting, "no justice, no peace!"

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Hey, please remember that you do not owe anyone watching the video. There are enough people who are very good at what they do watching it that if you can’t, you don’t have to

Look, I know he sucks but I am kind of over the Trump health discourse. Like I have cuts on my hands from existing in winter right now. Doesn't seem too crazy that he may have been cut by someone's dumb ring.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social

"His physical signs of aging are becoming more evident to some of his closest advisers. His skin is so delicate that Pam Bondi caused his hand to bleed when she nicked him with her ring while giving him a high-five at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee..." www.wsj.com/us-news/as-s...?

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Newborn hepatitis B vaccinations prevent acute AND chronic illness AND save lives. 90% of hepatitis B infections in kids become chronic hepatitis. Chronic hepatitis causes 60% of liver cancers. Hepatitis B is NOT just sexually transmitted, it’s spread through direct contact with bodily fluids. 1/

It shouldn't be surprising and yet I am still surprised by the cruelty and just complete ass-in-head denial of reality of these antidiversity policies that have apparently been completely fucking embraced by academia.

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Replying to @davmicrot.bsky.social

Punishing our allies in Afghanistan, who we left behind, is not going to make US safer. It is going to cement around world that we are not to be trusted. None of this is meant to make US safer, and pretending that Trump had good intentions is dangerous collaboration with his fascism & hatred of US.

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Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.

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The US invasion of Afghanistan directly killed over 200,000 Afghanis and indirectly killed around 360,000 more. These numbers are probably tremendous underestimates because often there was no one left alive to count the dead. We bombed weddings and funerals, we shot children in their beds.

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New hat to make: "Jay" is not a serious scientist. The issues he raises are important but he seem incapable of critical analysis of data. How the hell did he ever get a Stanford PhD, faculty position, and tenure?

Bob Morris, MD, PhD@rdmorris.bsky.social

Why is the head of the world’s preeminent medical science research institute relying on an anonymous, anti-vax, software engineer known only as “Ben” for his COVID epidemiology? The answer does not bode well for the future of science based medicine. open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor... 🧪 #episky #NIH

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Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.

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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX