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Is that better or worse than the president apparently communicating to his cabinet through Truth Social dms

Everyone angrily replying to you in favor of harassment not realizing they are the baddies 😂

You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works

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If Biden is the reason, what good is a deal if it doesn’t outlast Trump being in office?

Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades

My wife is an elementary gifted ed specialist. The idea that gifted kids either don't exist or don't benefit from gifted education services is both wrong and harmful to those kids. Phasing out gifted programs is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

Freeze tuition and cap the number of students who actually pay full price

Thank you for your hard work on this!

The Continent 27 SEPTEMBER 2025 | ISSUE 215 15 INVESTIGATION The Djiboutian massacre Ethiopia won’t acknowledge Djibouti drones killed eight people on the other side of its border with Ethiopia. Djibouti claimed they were terrorists. Ethiopia said nothing. This investigation found that some of the dead were Ethiopians, revealing another episode in Addis’s tendency to let its neighbours kill its citizens with impunity. Crossing the line: Djibouti’s bombs landed inside Ethiopia, killing civilians – not armed fighters. zecharias zelalem On 30 January this year, a drone manned from Djibouti dropped a bomb on a funeral gathering in Siyaru, a remote, semi-arid village near the Ethiopia Djibouti border. As rescuers rushed in, a second bomb dropped. And then a third. At least eight people were killed, including three children. Several others were injured. Given the village’s remoteness, the incident might have gone unreported if graphic images of the dead hadn’t spread across Ethiopian social media. A statement from the Djibouti’s defence ministry said the drone struck rebel fighters from the Front for the

Restoration of Unity and Democracy (Frud), a Djiboutian political party with a military wing. It has been fighting for Afar interests in Djibouti since the 1990s. The Afar are a community split by the colonial border separating Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Eritrea. “Eight terrorists were neutralised on site,” said a Djibouti military statement. “Unfortunately, collateral damage among Djiboutian civilians in the area has been documented.” International media, including Voice of America, Agence France Presse, and Radio France Internationale reported this version of events. Now, new findings from an open In recovery: Mariam Mohammed Abdullah was injured in the drone strike. source investigation by The Continent reveal a different reality. The bombs landed inside Ethiopia, not in Djibouti, and civilians – not armed fighters – were killed. That distinction matters. It shows Ethiopia is once again tolerating a foreign military targeting its own citizens, as it did with Eritrea during the Tigray conflict. A transparent lie Even before the ink could dry on the Djiboutian military’s statement, The Addis Standard and human rights groups in Djibouti were emphatic that the strike had actually occurred inside Ethiopia’s Afar region. But Alexis Mohamed, an adviser to Djiboutian President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, rubbished these reports in now-deleted social media posts. The Continent got to work to figure out what really happened. Over the course of eight months, we collected eyewitness testimonies, interviewed human rights activists in Ethiopia and Djibouti, and examined images and footage from the strike. Our findings align with those of Djiboutian activists, who pinpointed Siyaru in Ethiopia’s Afar region as the site of the strike. The ammunition residue found on the night of the strike confirms the bomb was manufactured by Roketsan, a state run weapons manufacturer in Türkiye. Former US army explosives expert Trevor Ball identified t…

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org:
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT

An example from right around the first Iron Man movie www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Chart showing the decline in the number of people charged with federal drug offenses.

EXCLUSIVE: The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a @reuters.com review of court dockets found.

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They released a picture of one of the suspects.

When the right broke, according to the right "That's what radicalized you all?"

The idea that the "beer summit" was a point of radicalization for right-wingers is utterly incomprehensible.

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that
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Not that taking these positions now wasn’t the right thing to do and also good politics but aren’t Dems still trusted less on immigration than Trump? Seems like taking the “moderate” position 2-3 years ago would’ve helped prevent Trump’s return in the first place.

Though nice to see Jon Finer and Philip Gordon catch up to bare minimum of where activists and the public have been for nearly two years on restricting US arms to the Israeli government, their article erases their own role in abetting the Netanyahu government’s genocide.

Posts from 2019

If the FBI was still run by the normie Republican they appointed last time, there wouldn’t be a trust issue with most libs. You don’t appoint Kash Patel bc you care about the other half of the country believing what you say.

This should remind you of when Thabo Mbeki said vegetables could cure AIDS.

thought this was an interesting comment

"kristi noem and corey lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together"

absolutely cursed sentence

It's funny that Ta-Nehisi Coates actually pulled off the "retreat into the fortress of solitude so every time you emerge to say something it feels like a big deal" thing that Barack Obama tried but failed to pull off in his post-Presidency

I’ve seen arguments that the fascists don’t need a reason to use the power of the state to punish their political opponents. I disagree strongly with this sentiment. Public opinion absolutely matters. They can and will get away with more attacks if people buy into their lies about collective guilt.

oh wow, almost as if the whole thing was a blatant lie that was obviously cooked up from the start, and should have been reported as such by any responsible news organization.

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

You’re right but it’s all so stupid at the same time

cot damn

Classic

Was thinking the same thing, looks like Sheen and Catherine Keener

Next step is to be l-AI-cized