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It’s Not Just 'Netanyahu': The Rise of Liberals’ One Bad Man Theory to Explain Away Gaza Genocide Attempts to pin the horrors on “Netanyahu" obscure the reality of just how popular genocide is with US elites and within Israel itself.

As Dems struggle to find an off-ramp for the increasingly unpopular Gaza genocide their leadership spent 22 months supporting, they've settle on blaming "Netanyahu." I wrote about the rise of One Bad Man Theory and how it serves to obscure much deeper issues with the logic and reality of zionism.

We need to be clear about this - the HHS Secretary, RFK Jr., is *the* biggest purveyor of disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theories about vaccines and public health.

He is *directly* responsible for these attacks - and there will be more, if he is allowed to continue.

this is a picture of CDC parents waiting to be reunited with their children at 11:00pm after 5 hours of lockdown

they are murdering the people who tell the truth.

Wings out!

That's barely anything compared to his successor, Lyndun B. Johnson, who spent a heroic -375 years in office.

Derek Falvey and the Pohlads are my enemies for life

it should make clear that the same ideological forces that are bombing and starving Gaza are the ones also making sure Americans don't have healthcare, down the very language

The war on Gaza is genocidal now, it was genocidal in October 2023, it will be genocidal tomorrow. There was no time when it was a just war with noble aims

Opinion | Democratic socialists deserve a seat at the table "Fateh, like New York’s Mamdani, is a compelling candidate gaining steam. Win or lose, their campaigns will show that the term democratic socialist is just another way of describing someone who wants ...

With a political status quo as bleak as ours, we should welcome democratic socialists.
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Omar Fateh for MPLS banner hanging outside of the candidate's box above the convention floor.

Photo of the delegates sitting on the Convention floor.

Omar Fateh smiles alongside Convention attendees.

Staff and volunteers for Omar Fateh make calls to delegates and alternates.

I am incredibly honored to be nominated for the DFL endorsement. I am thankful to each and every one of you who showed up today to support my campaign for Mayor. I truly believe that the coalition we’re building can create a Minneapolis that all of us can afford to call home.

This is his time.

now that i think of it, with claude, grok and chatgpt, they basically stopped making them woman-coded like siri as soon as they wanted them to act like topic based authorities

Facebook post from the group Historic Minneapolis Minnesota From George Johnson: We are re-siding our house and discovered something very cool! It appears our house wasn't always a residence. Old mercantile perhaps? It was definitely converted. Need to do some digging. We’re just south of 45th on Minnehaha. Photos show an old house being re-sided, with scaffolding and ladders. The three views all show a Gold Medal Flour mural covering the entire house, under the siding that’s being removed

Another post from the following day: Hold onto your hats! It looks like the other side of the house also has the same sign! More to come as it is revealed! To update the situation, it appears that the house was originally a grocery in the early 1900s. It was relocated to my property in 1915 and converted to a house. The painting was covered with tar paper and lap siding and is amazingly preserved!

what a find!

From the article: Lone star ticks are aggressive and can speedily follow a human target if they detect them. “They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,” said Sharon Pitcairn Forsyth, a conservationist who lives in the Washington DC area.

Incredible description

Just a horseshoe crab doing its thing. Its thing is heading back to the water after a volunteer rescued it from being stuck on its back and left behind by the tide. 😅 I love the scraping noise they make as they move along the sand.

#invertebrates 🦀 🌿

Afternoon Sun, North Shore, Lake Superior
Lawren Harris
1924

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

Round plates forming a ball shape in the coccolithophore Calcidiscus leptoporus, Monteiro, F.M., Bach, L.T., Brownlee, C., Bown, P., Rickaby, R.E., Poulton, A.J., Tyrrell, T., Beaufort, L., Dutkiewicz, S., Gibbs, S. and Gutowska, M.A. - https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/7/e1501822 And Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccolithophore#/media/File:Diversity_of_coccolithophores.jpg

The pentagon shells of Braarudosphaera bigelowii. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccolithophore#/media/File:Diversity_of_coccolithophores.jpg

The flower like shells of Discosphaera tubifera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccolithophore#/media/File:Diversity_of_coccolithophores.jpg

Image of a white cliff (White Cliffs of Dover) with a lighthouse on top. By Archangel12 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Cliffs_of_Dover#/media/File:Dover_cliffs,_South_Foreland_Lighthouse_(7961633780).jpg

These tiny creature are called the "carriers of stone seeds" in Ancient Greek.

Known as coccolithophores, these algae shield their bodies in stunning calcium plates. In ancient times they were so numerous their bodies—piled in the trillions—formed the rock of the White Cliffs of Dover, in England

A lot of Vikings fans will suddenly be following a lot of historians and archeologists 😅

The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.

This Historian Has Seen the Future of Trans Health Care Jules Gill-Peterson doesn’t want to fight for trans joy. She wants to fight for what trans people really need: resources, hormones, and surgery. Her latest arena? The US Supreme Court.

Jules Gill-Peterson isn’t mincing words: Forget euphemisms like “gender euphoria.”

“We need hormones, sex changes, and surgeries.”

Not affirmation—access.

But we have an entire intellectual class that has somehow convinced the public — and itself — that describing basic political realities is a form of bias.

"Don't unfairly judge the right" has become "don't judge the right" — even when the facts indicate that they deserve blame.

these are our brothers and we should be building a better world together

Turtle Mutual Aid:

Further, we cannot hope that a Federal Task Force led by this DHS or FBI will have any goal in mind other than to create maximum fear and anxiety while accelerating Trump’s agenda of family separation and deportations. We can’t only care about immigrants when it’s convenient.