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You only kill journalists when you want to hide what you're doing.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

one of the great tragedies of our age is how many people are willing to view AI as magic because they don't understand how it functions but unwilling to exhibit any humility at all towards more important things they understand even less (like the climate or medicine)

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing.

Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter.

Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵
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gerald fard

i'm actually dying laughing at "baruck obama"

some guy who won the Nobel for particle physics or something is going to get black bagged by an 11th grader named Bracen Walmart

Lmaoo

Reminder that actual piracy is still always more ethical than datamining software as a service that masquerades as the ethical alternative to piracy. The second we chose streaming clouds over file storage it was all downhill.

Whispers: We don’t need a Joe Rogan of the left we just need well funded and quality non-lying media. Left billionaires searching for the Joe Rogan of the left should just keep the CPB alive. Blue states could also give to it, or a new replacement organization.

the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies

the entire republican party is currently involved in a cover up involving the worlds most notorious underage sex trafficking ring

THREAD. A recent poll shows that people in the United States suffer from mass delusion about crime. The results are alarming for Democrats. It should be a massive scandal for mainstream news, and it's a pillar of the authoritarian zeitgeist.

i’ve seen so many adults act out their feelings like children over their kids not being able to behave unerringly like adults

Children's liberation is a skeleton key to understanding so much of the ways our society is fucked up, from misogyny to racism to classism to transphobia, and beyond, because all of these things specifically target children in unique ways. That's why it must never, ever, ever be acknowledged

true as heck and i think about this a lot

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

Primarying both Schumer and Jeffries from the left is an important and strategically worthwhile political project.

woke up early to go for a mental health/fitness bike ride and mother nature rewarded me with a bee sting to the face

one can cobble together a calendar via volunteer-run listings sites and substacks - but there is a sore lack of editorial among the most robust of those, for reasons you write about. Incl @nightafternight.bsky.social’s substack being a notable exception

brilliant & prescient from @gabrielkahane.bsky.social

In principle, a clear-cut case for an internationally-led humanitarian military intervention would be if a country had rounded up a minority population, systematically deprived them of food, and was refusing to allow in any aid. In that hypothetical situation, everyone would agree it was necessary.

ok I decided to actually read up a bit on the Epstein case and my initial takeaway is that a great way to protect women and children from sexual predation would be to prosecute white collar crime

“Six figures”

I’m sorry a ten percent chance of saving one (1) little girl at that camp was worth six figures, even in the relatively callous world of ‘statistical value of human life’ calculations

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth.”

- 1984, George Orwell

a better world is possible

There's a place in my neighborhood where I can eat Doro Wat and get a fancy cocktail and listen to live klezmer music all at once and that's why America is so great.

doro wat would put scarlett o'hara into a coma