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It’s wild how the media buys the conservative line that liberals are devious and skilled while every piece of evidence before our eyes shows the opposite. I *wish* Democrats were this duplicitous but sadly no!

Very bizarre how the whole world has to play this game as if there is some kind of insurmountable challenge in getting food to Gaza that they need to build a pier or airdrop supplies because they refuse to say Israel needs to stop intentionally starving people in a campaign of genocide.

simivalleycares 8/1 RACIALLY MOTIVATED ATTACK ON BLACK TEENAGER Last night, a black teenager was jumped in the Regal Cinemas parking lot. The young man was chased, attacked, and injured badly and is now in the ER. It is concerning that no arrest were made, even though police were called. Witnesses say that one of the attackers is the son of a SVPD officer. To all the parents in Simi Valley: if your teens were in the area last night, please talk to them. The young man who was attacked deserves justice and all of our support. As a community, we need to do better. Our community should be safe for all of our kids, regardless of race. 48 minutes ago

There are reports about a racially motivated violent gang assault on a single black teenager in Simi Valley, CA last night. We are not re-sharing videos but they appear to show multiple young white teens viciously beating a black teenager while calling him the n-word.

It was rather condescending to be told by dems during the campaign, “We just have to defeat him at the ballot box”. Translation: “We realize you already beat him at the ballot box in 2020, and since we didn’t do our job of prosecuting him in the meantime, we’re asking you to do it again in 2024.”

This here I think is part of the answer. The admin and many dem leaders preferred to stay above it all and use Trump’s scandals merely as campaign fodder — which they (tragically) calculated would result in an easy win in 2024.
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You can blame the maga all day, and yes, it really sucks that the gop lacked the guts to convict in 2 impeachment trials. But that left us with a last line of defense, an admin that would move expeditiously to prosecute for obvious, blatant, public, repeated criminality.

We’re hearing a lot of takes on The One True Reason™ why the dems lost. But here’s an idea I haven’t seen:

81 million Americans elected Joe Biden in part to hold Trump accountable so he couldn’t get near the presidency again, and he didn’t get it done. How the hell did he not get it done?

🚨We are dying of hunger in Gaza. A bag of flour costs $700. There are no basic necessities of life. There is no food or clean water to drink. We are in danger. Save us from death. We are in dire need of your donations & contributions to buy the basic necessities of life😔😭
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Scattered strong to severe storms are possible across parts of the High Plains this afternoon/evening, and isolated severe storms capable of large hail and severe wind gusts are expected in the High Plains on Saturday.

If you're planning outdoor activities, also plan on where to shelter in a storm.

The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban.

The media is hiding what's happening here.

She missed the vote to appear on Colbert.

In response to Germany, France, and Canada promising to recognise the state of Palestine, John Fetterman has sworn to once again drive recklessly while texting with his whole family in the car.

Finally, the Dam Shoring Up Support for Israel Seems to Be Breaking The international community is at long last coming to agreement around the genocide in Gaza. But will it end military support and impose sanctions?

Perhaps it is a cumulative effect. Perhaps the images of children reduced to skin and bones was the final straw. Whatever the reason ultimately is, the critical question is: Now that we are here, what is going to be done about it?

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“I’m deeply concerned that the current draft guidance effectively relegates trans, non‑binary, intersex voices to matters of debate rather than lived reality.”

Yes, and this is the definition of “no debates” because we are not a debate.

agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

I cannot comprehend how people would be okay with living on the bones of murdered children.

"Make Gaza Jewish Again"

The horrifying banner hung by Zionists in Jerusalem’s Old City. They are endorsing occupation and genocide.

Trans people poured their hearts into this consultation. The EHRC won't even bother to read them.

but hey, sports has long, long been a place where folks create and enforce gender norms, so hey, there's a twisted logic to why you'd turn to sports to get your anti-trans work done

oops, there's the dissertation

yes, I'm all "you like them? name three songs" but the fact is none of Those Who Are Concerned (tm) can name a single song

and yet they get taken seriously

and even if you could come up with that kind of info (or, say, you could tell me what state Leadville happens in, or what the two courses are for Unbound and their relative challenges)---your arguments against trans inclusion would *still* be shit

but it's just so fake on its face

I mean, let's take the sport I care about, bike racing---unless you can tell me which top contender and former Leadville winner barfed her way through Unbound this year, you don't even get to talk about women's racing because I don't believe you care about it

I say this a lot, but truly: you meet these "oh no, women's sports won't be fair!" transphobes and ask them to name three women who competed in the sport they're focused on in the last year and its *crickets*

just the most obvious bad faith, no, insidious faith arguments

I would read the hell out of a dissertation about how sports got to be the avatar of "fairness" in the first place, the condition that set it up as the wedge used by people who could give a shit about women's sports to be anti-trans

"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. …

"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."

Rush Limbaugh Detained With Viagra Held At Airport After Drug Lacked Prescription; Could See Deal In Prior Case Collapse

Remember in 2006 when Rush Limbaugh was caught by a customs agent with a bottle of Viagra in someone else’s name (his doctor’s, for privacy reasons, he said) on the way back from the Dominican Republic?

Nobody found out who he was seeing and what ages they might be. www.cbsnews.com/news/rush-li...

“we are fighting fascism by passing the bipartisan infrastructure bill” is the lie you tell yourself because you cannot live with the truth that you are unwilling to take the risks associated with actually fighting fascism