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Soraya Nadia McDonald

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It's always a troublesome Dutchie lol

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This is pretty cute

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"Teaja Adams, a rising senior at Edgewood High School. She said in a statement that referring to the class as “divisive” means they are uncomfortable with learning about the past “unless it’s whitewashed,” but what’s really divisive is not being honest about history." Teaja Adams knows what's what.

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If you don't wanna talk so much about racism you have to fix the racism. Doing another racism does not make it go away??????

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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Putting this in front of Joe Biden to show him a better future is possible

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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It's no coincidence that the Jefferson Memorial, a creation of the New Deal, chose to highlight this particularly apt quote from Jefferson.

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ʝꪖꪀꪊᦓ ᥅ꪮᦓꫀ 🍉's avatar ʝꪖꪀꪊᦓ ᥅ꪮᦓꫀ 🍉 @janus.bsky.social
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NYC taxpayers: why are we paying you to do horrible violence and then lie about what you do NYPD: *stops lying about it* that will be $200,000 please

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Saw the new Bad Boys: Ride Til the Wheels Come Off the Chopper or whatever tf. I think my essay holds up better than this chapter of the franchise. (I'm not psychic I just pay a lot of attention.)

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I mean, he went to Duke. It's not hard lol

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg 's avatar Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social
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If you think that voting doesn't matter, you're naive and reckless. If you think the work stops with voting, you're ignorant about how much our horrific systems and structures continue to harm under every presidency. The work encompasses and surpasses voting. We have big, big work to do.

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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The official 2024 GOP platform makes a reference to "Christian-hating Communists" who the Republicans will keep from entering the country. Back in the early days of the America First movement, "Christian-hating Communists" would have just been a longer way of saying "Jews."

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I had no idea we were bombing Exxon. I must have missed it.

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"unprovoked war on fossil fuels" Sir. Too much carbon dioxide (from burning fossil fuels!) has turned the earth into a sous vide machine. Just because your froggy climate change lost cause promoting ass doesn't believe science doesn't mean the rest of us are ok with slowly boiling!

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the way this heat can kindly go fuck itself ...

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Chris Levesque's avatar Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social
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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't.

www.zdnet.com/article/digi...

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Started the week with a good workout followed by making faces at an apple-cheeked baby in a floppy sun hat. Auspicious!

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What's weird is how much coverage there was of the surging right and a collapsing center and but no attendant deep coverage of the left? Not even to explain why news orgs seemed to be ignoring it other than stories accusing antisemitism b/v of opposition to Israel policy. So frustrating.

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Lydia Polgreen's avatar Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social
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This, along with the “get knocked down, get back up” talk is so distressing. This is not a Chumbawuma song! It is the presidency!

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I'm exhausted by the slavish devotion to binaries

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If you read Peachy Keenan's substack, that's exactly what it is. She is a reactionary who has an undeniable facility with words, but it's deployed in service of the same 12 moral panics

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He concedes this toward the bottom, he's just identified it as "taste." Again, very pained.

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Yes, but looting and cultural extraction with "taste," you see

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"There is one area, though, where the Right exhibits pretty good taste, and that’s online." I am HOWLING

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"The hosts reliably make two or three deranged political remarks per episode." Only 2 or 3? Step it up Butler!

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No, but they can sure harbor a lot of grievance when their soulless squiggles are not rewarded with fawning adulation instead of dismissal ... that's the story of Adolf and his basic-ass paintings no one wanted, and his crusade against "degenerate art."

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"Many earnest consumers on the Right feel so legitimately embattled by the nonstop streaming feed of hate speech and psyoppery directed at them that they think they have no choice but to reconfigure their artistic sensibilities accordingly." LMAO girl no one is trying to psyop you

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Idk it seems like a lot of prose to say "we need more Leni Reifenstahls because the hillbillies love tacky shit"

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This is oddly fascinating in the sense that it doesn't appear that the writer has spent any time with actual artists. He has so little understanding of why or how people make art.

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Jeffrey Vagle's avatar Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me
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What is Heritage rebelling against?

- Civil rights
- Regulation of financial markets, environment, consumer goods, antitrust
- Marriage equality
- Fair immigration
- Anything that they see as discriminatory against white people and their brand of Christianity

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Melissa Gira Grant's avatar Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com
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“I have nothing to do with them, including the multiple Project 2025 guys who worked in my administration and the one working on the party platform” newrepublic.com/article/1834...

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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Yes. Fertility fraud is one. But this guy wasn't just perpetrating fertility fraud— he was doing so with the explicit mission of creating an army of progeny to further his multigenerational white supremacist mission after they watched the many many YT vids he made for them. It's diabolical

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stacy-marie ishmael's avatar stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social
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making things up is very fast! rushing to judgement takes no time at all! doing even the most basic due diligence on things - especially in an information environment like this one - takes so much longer than you might expect.

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just to get all process-y for a minute: a reason that media publlications don't operate at the speed of X or Reddit is that reporting - gathering information, assessing credibility, reviewing source documents, talking to people, checking facts, getting comment - takes longer than "big if true"

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I certainly thought of Elon while watching that doc because this sounds like the sort of shit he wishes he'd thought of, given his obsession with creating more white children

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Ahhh! Maybe I will do that just to get some horse time. I would like to at least be able to canter

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The series is poorly constructed and leaves A LOT of reporting on the table. Doesn't talk to any Kenyan women who were duped into impregnating themselves with the sperm of a person who is seeking to bleach them. No context on contemporary race science/eugenicist movements radicalizing via internet

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Sooooooooo are any news orgs working on stories to find out how many other men are attempting to seed white supremacist internet sleeper cells via splooge colonialism and fraud a la Jonathan Jacob Meijer?

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Too real. stables in NYC are either Agnes Van Rhijn gatekeepy WASP vibes or weird MAGA energy

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