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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.
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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I feel really sick right now with concern over Trump's unhinged remarks on Iran. Please call your representatives. You can use this website to get the numbers. You can speak to a staffer or leave a message in most cases: 5calls.org/issue/stop-i...
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Fascinating, informative, and insightful thread that deserves article space tbqh
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 🧵
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Minnesota still needs your attention
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.
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Let's reset the terms of the debate. theracket.news/p/when-will-...
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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."
And another declaration from a medical doctor who was on scene and attempted to treat the man who was shot. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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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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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.
"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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During this busiest shopping period of the year, we’re hitting pause on purchases from Home Depot, Target, and Amazon. Let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
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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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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?
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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If a man points in a woman's face and says "Quiet piggy" you say something about it... You stand up and you say "What the fuck did you just say?" www.welcometohellworld.com/the-love-we-...
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Hey, parents, child development specialists, linguists and internet experts! Can we talk for a @thebaltimorebanner.com column about this “6,7” business?
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WE HAVE ABOUT AN HOUR! They may cave! @rosen.senate.gov - NV @baldwin.senate.gov -WI @fetterman.senate.gov - PA @hassan.senate.gov - NH @ossoff.senate.gov - GA @senangusking.bsky.social -ME @peters.senate.gov - MI @durbin.senate.gov - IL @shaheen.senate.gov - NH 1/
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc