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“After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — ‘the best thing I ever wrote,’ he later told the BBC, noting that he had made sure the confession included ‘all my recommendations to the African National Congress’ about the best way to sabotage Koeberg and other facilities”

Sichuanese is perhaps the greatest cuisine in the world.

Very illuminating thread.

the internet did deliver on its promise to connect people and spread ideas around the world and unfortunately the ideas that it is best at spreading are conspiratorial and fascist

These people are not on the left. The left starts at anti-capitalist.

One of the top-ranked South Asian studies programs in the US… really abysmal times for South Asian grad students hoping for careers in academia.

We are in some truly dark times where we’re going to have to be grateful just to have any sh!t job.

I am dying

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

ET runs to print fudged financial stats for modi year after year but does real reporting on Musk, the model of the future appears to be that you follow domestic politics through international sources because they all suckle at the teat of their own domestic regimes

R1 research universities should be ashamed. Most have simply caved to “following state laws” or whatever crap excuses they come up with, while people in institutions with so much to lose are publicly taking on this regime.

Buon compleanno, il migliore. You have never been more correct, more important to us.

"Erased and Suppressed: Palestinian Testimonies of Meta's Censorship" - IFEX 7amleh releases a new report exposing Meta's approach to silencing Palestinian content during the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

“The continued discriminatory practices by Meta against Palestinian content constitute a clear violation of international standards for freedom of expression."

ifex.org/erased-and-s...

@marcmaron 3d marc maron wtfpod.com/dispatches/the... The anti-woke flank of the new fascism is being driven almost exclusively by comics, my peers. Whether or not they are self-serving or true believers in the new fascism is unimportant. They are of the movement. Whether they see themselves as acolytes or just comics doesn't matter. Whether they are driven by the idea that what they are fighting for is a free speech issue or whether they are truly morally bankrupt racists doesn't matter. They are part of the public face of a fascist political movement that seeks to destroy the democratic idea. When comedians with podcasts have shameless, self-proclaimed white supremacists and fascists on their show to joke around like they are just entertainers or even just politicians, all it does is humanize and normalize fascism. When someone uses their platform for that reason they are facilitating anti-American sentiment and promoting violent autocracy.

Ladies and gentlemen, Marc Maron.

Gutted. Absolute king.

Champaca Bookstore event for The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF 5th January 2025. 5 to 6:30, the Community Library Project, South Extension, Kotla, Mubarakpur

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF Jan 29 7 pm The Common Press, London

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Amen.

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i've been thinking lately about the loss of the future--not in the historical sense, because the future just keeps on coming--but the loss of the future in the ideological sense, the loss of the future as an organizing principle of politics

this is as true of liberals as it is of the left

A twitter conversation. One: isn't it weird how we pay money to see other people? Two(concerned): you mean prostitution, concert or the movies? One: glasses

Always gets me . Good morning.

Depends on department protocols in my experience—generally, it shouldn’t be an issue especially for a prof/course topic not relevant to your dissertation. Some depts might drive a harder limit on this. The person to clarify this is your DGS, who should be transparent about your particular situation.

LMAO

Posts about the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder are literally why I was on X all day today because the hilarious responses are leaving me in SPLITS… Bluesky’s too goddamn serious, come on already.

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Thanks.

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Ooooh trying this, thank you!! 🙏🏽

How are people saving posts here for future reading? Why does this app not have a Save or Bookmark option?? 💆🏾‍♀️

UnitedHealthcare CEO shot dead in New York City, and over on X, not one post expresses horror, sympathy or condolences... except for politicians. Otherwise, it's all-out celebrations.

The people are righteously mad.

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