There isnβt a quote more perpetually pertinent than Maya Angelou stating:
βWhen people show you who they are, believe them the FIRST time.β
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There isnβt a quote more perpetually pertinent than Maya Angelou stating:
βWhen people show you who they are, believe them the FIRST time.β
"I can't believe The New York Times did this" Trans kids? Claudine Gay? Gaza? At some point we have to stop being surprised. The right sees the Times as a vehicle for laundering its conspiracy theories and injecting it into elite America and the Times is very happy to oblige them.
04.07.2025 02:04 β π 5364 π 1306 π¬ 52 π 64WHAT?!?!
04.07.2025 09:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0just to be clear, being from a working class background does not actually make it okay to use the environment-destroying plagiarism machine. All use of AI in writing fiction is morally bankrupt, because it steals and it destroys - and that's not even getting into the betrayal of craft.
04.07.2025 07:43 β π 145 π 39 π¬ 2 π 2I hope for a day Americans will value people's lives abroad just as much, and will treat members of the military like this.
04.07.2025 05:22 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0There's something really gross about the disregard for the incredible and highly available intellectual work of Mira Nair and Mahmoud Mamdani.
I don't know how you engage with their obvious depth and thoughtfulness and come away bewildered by their son or his care for people.
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I donβt think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make whatβs happening now look like childβs play. And people are disappearing.
You mean ON TOP of this god-awful bill passing, this is how I learned that someone hacked my Alma mater my personal data has been compromised?!?!?!?!
03.07.2025 23:55 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0canβt decide the funnier anti-nepo narrative correction here:
Mamdani rejected by the place where is dad was professor
unlike what racists think, this demonstrates that checking an βAfrican American boxβ is not some automatic ticket to the Ivy League
Columbia turned away the possible future mayor
While Mr. Mamdani was not a target of the hack, the information about him was included in a database of millions of student applications to Columbia going back decades. The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name CrΓ©mieux on Substack and X and who is an academic and an opponent of affirmative action. The Times agreed to withhold his real name.
His name, @nytimes.com is Jordan Lasker, and you probably know him since he was at the Eugenics Conference you and every other mainstream outlet provided fawning coverage over
03.07.2025 23:43 β π 856 π 205 π¬ 13 π 14I think the idea that βpeople who voted for this should suffer the repercussionsβ is misguided because the repercussions of this bill are going to impact everyone, including so many people who didnβt vote for it. Political consequences are rarely felt in isolation and only by those who vote for it.
03.07.2025 23:47 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Absolutely incredible how US libs will say anything to launder genocide even in the face of incontrovertible evidence.
27.06.2025 12:43 β π 27 π 6 π¬ 3 π 0helpful reminder that even the most stone-cold dumb as fuck people can be dangerous fascists β using recklessly dehumanizing fascist language, promoting consonant ideas and policies, etc.
27.06.2025 20:25 β π 16 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0It is HIGH TIME for sagacity to reign amongst us!
27.06.2025 17:48 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0God π©
27.06.2025 17:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0They are setting the stage for full-fledged Balkanization.
27.06.2025 16:32 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Like, what really is the difference between ~whatever the fresh hell this is~ and the state of nature as described by Hobbes??
27.06.2025 16:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A failed, self-cannibalizing state if Iβve ever seen one, whew.
27.06.2025 16:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Also, all you liberals who were humping Amy Coney Barrett last month really should have listened to me when I told you SHE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND
27.06.2025 14:13 β π 5373 π 730 π¬ 183 π 39BREAKING: Supreme Court rules to save free access to preventive care including PrEP
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules to save free access to preventive care including PrEPThe defendants in the case previously argued that supporting PrEP access was similar to supporting homosexuality. bit.ly/3ZOJZ4P
27.06.2025 14:35 β π 25 π 8 π¬ 0 π 1Once we start picking and choosing which librarian-approved books are okay to discriminate against, we open the damn floodgates. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
27.06.2025 15:16 β π 289 π 92 π¬ 2 π 2This Christian theocratic projectβof which SCOTUS is a crucial partβdepends on kids growing up to be bigots.
Kids arenβt born to hate. They learn it. We canβt have kids learning to respect differences because thatβs how you get communism so we gotta keep letting kids be indoctrinated into bigotry.
RFK Jr. says US wonβt donate to global vaccine effort Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
A chilling reminder that American science denial does not just affect people in the US, it kills people globally.
25.06.2025 22:38 β π 1458 π 462 π¬ 46 π 36When I told my Barnard students + mentees my bagel order, they damn near wanted to crucify me lmaooooo
26.06.2025 04:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Bisan Owda, the award-winning Palestinian journalist and activist in Gaza works with this organization. Please donate, and share the fundraiser!
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This is for mass surveillance. RFK Jr. already said heβd use smartwatch data for his βautism registry.β He clearly sees it as a way to get personal health information without running into HIPAA or asking for consent.
26.06.2025 02:09 β π 18 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
I donβt think yβall understand just how much the entire state of New Yorkβespecially the cities upstate!βhave suffered because of the unchecked greed and drastic jump in the cost of living in NYC.
So if those sociopaths want to leaveβlet them!
Bit rich for Shai Davidai to call for "our colleges" to become "partisan-free spaces for education" has he forgotten what hes been doing for a year and a half
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