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“Cruel and unusual” is a massive understatement.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Fuck Trump. Fuck the puppeteers behind him. Fuck the GOP, especially congressional Republicans and quisling Democrats, who enabled him. Fuck the people who voted for this, and fuck the media for never reporting on him realistically.

Fuck them all, for they have truly fucked us and the world.

I once ate a mango in Martinique, and when the guy who I bought it from sold it to me, he told me to take my shirt off before I ate it. He was right. I’ll never forget that flavor.

have to endorse this important message. the mango flavor distribution runs from "mild upgrade on cantalope" to "proof of the existence and boundless love of God"

mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io) Attached: 2 images I'm going to keep sharing this info until it sinks in. Young voters do not get significantly more or less politically activated. Voter suppression gets more or less effective. Bal...

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 22: The Youth Vote

Q: Isn't it true that older people are more racist? Either people get more conservative as they get older, or norms were different and everyone was racist make then? Either way, the next generation will save us! Right?

Unfortunately not.

“There were thousands of us out there before Renée was murdered. The day after Renée was murdered, there were tens of thousands. Tons of new people came into this knowing they could die, because we saw it on video, and it didn't stop them. Almost everyone I know has been pepper sprayed or tear gassed or both in the last two months. They go home, they wash out their eyes, they decontaminate their clothes, and they go back out.” — Margaret, member of Defend the 612

One volunteer talked about rapid responders who had drawn up wills for the first time, in the wake of Renée Good’s killing, “in case they didn't come home to their kids.” organizingmythoughts.org/we-belong-to...

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

Lee Smolin pauses working relationship with Perimeter Institute after being named in Epstein files Lee Smolin has been asked to “pause” his work by the Perimeter Institute as they review ties to Jeffrey Epstein

I‘ve mentioned that thanks to the Epstein tranche I learned that one of my PhD advisors, Lee Smolin, continued to have contact with Epstein after 2007, which is not the impression I had

It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis

YouTube video by Cassidy Williams Tiny Hacks: Using custom phone vibrations for passive learning

This is a pretty sick idea. Set custom vibrations for contacts in your phone that are the morse code for their first initial.

Just sitting and learning the morse code alphabet is not so bad, but the idea of custom vibrations -> morse code for notifications is awesome.

@cassidoo.co

Social media break. Take care pocket friends.

It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles

Epstein is like pervert forest gump.

look, what if we all pretend this never came out? just ignore one piece of history forever. I say we give it a try

Let’s try this one in foreign correspondent voice:

State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official

When I was translating Kon Satoshi, in order to understand him better I spent time reading his personal blog. I'll never forget him writing "They say what Aronofsky is doing is an "homage." I know my English isn't great, but I don't understand the difference between "homage" and being "ripped off."

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

What I'm talking about, and what non-white people have been talking about for a very long time, is how it's only when white people start getting hurt or dying that people start to be characterized as "heroes" and "martyrs".

The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahu’s arrest warrant Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC

Theodor Meron survived the Holocaust, found refuge in Israel, helped set up the ICC, then aged 93 indicted Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes. He stands by his decision.

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Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents?

Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?

The Atlantic screenshot: Yes, It's Fascism Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny. JONATHAN RAUCH

A: Super curious, why Grindr? If asexual and just networking, why not LinkedIn? B: there are a disproportionate amount of gay mathematicians A: Fascinating

One of the theologians I read a lot recently did a long essay on how doing a big Bonhoffer project helped him realize that MAGA evangelicals have kind of already gone through the process that made the German people see potential mass murder as sanctifying! Once you see it, it's hard to unsee

Cops kill people pretty much every single day in this country. Stop saying that “ICE isnt law enforcement - it’s a fascist street gang”

Cops ARE a fascist street gang. And the fact that you can’t see that is one of the reasons we’re in this shit

this is negligibly different than footage of US occupying forces in Iraq menacing civilians

If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?

I will immediately resign from my corporate gig and take the attendant pay cut if a future D POTUS offers me a DOJ spot persecuting members of this Administration

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Combat veteran William Vermie says he was denied access to a lawyer after being detained for filming ICE in Minneapolis.