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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Schiff: "The president -- 'I'm going out to play golf.' One thing that is so shocking to me is that they're appealing to the Supreme Court for the right to cut off food from people. Who does that? Who works so hard to cut food from people who need it right now? The cruelty is part of the policy."

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sky @returntox.bsky.social · 9h

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sky @returntox.bsky.social · 2d

“I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, OK?” Trump told reporters at the White House on 23 October. “We’re going to kill them, you know. They’re going to be, like, dead.”

Senate blocks Democrats’ bid to check Trump power over Venezuela strikes

Resolution fails 49-51 with only two Republican senators voting in favor as president increases military buildup

www.theguardian.com

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sky @returntox.bsky.social · 4d

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York told the MSNBC network: “At the end of the day I don’t think that our party needs to have one face. Our country does not have one face. It’s about all of us as a team together, and we all understand the assignment.”

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sky @returntox.bsky.social · 6d

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sky @returntox.bsky.social · 6d

You know what - for generations, millennia, since the onset of patriarchy, man has centered maleness, himself. Now “others” are centering “others” revolving round otherness. He doesn’t consider the means or the whys of his oppression. No, he wanna cry cause women are calling out “toxic masculinity”.

I’m a teenager who was lured into the manosphere. Here’s how to reach young men like me | Josh Sargent

Masculinity is almost always presented as toxic on my feed – but we need constructive alternatives to give hope to those who feel lost, says Josh Sargent

www.theguardian.com

sky @returntox.bsky.social · 6d

The bravest most compassionate empathetic Israeli in Israel’s military force

Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse

Rightwing politicians and pundits have called the soldiers accused of attack on Palestinian detainee ‘heroes’ and military investigators traitors

www.theguardian.com

sky @returntox.bsky.social · 6d

He’s not thinking about “partially funding” his gaudy ballroom though. Obviously he’s been pressured cause there’s too much pressure on the populace. Him and his ilk got waaaaay too much money which translates into power in our pitifully capitalist world

Trump administration will provide half of usual funds to Snap recipients in November

Contingency funds will keep benefits going for nearly 42 million people in the food assistance program, says Trump

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sky @returntox.bsky.social · 8d

“A close friend of Sarkozy lamented on a radio show that prison is “a shock for people like us, its terrible,” before concluding: “We’re not made for that, we’re not animals.” Leaving aside the speciesist undertone of that remark, who, then, are the “animals” deemed deserving of prison?

Poor Nicolas Sarkozy. His hardline views on crime and punishment have come back to bite him

The former French president zealously promoted a zero-tolerance penal system. Luckily for him, his prison visitors include powerful friends, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

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sky @returntox.bsky.social · 8d

“Hard questions are rightly being asked about why military equipment from Britain, Canada and elsewhere has reached Sudanese battlefields…The UAE angrily denies backing the RSF...US intelligence agencies say it increased arms shipments to Sudan this year. Gold flows in the opposite direction.”

The Guardian view on the atrocities in El Fasher: the responsibility for these horrors extends beyond Sudan’s borders | Editorial

Editorial: The world said ‘never again’ after Darfur’s genocide. Yet it stood by as catastrophe loomed

www.theguardian.com

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 9d

Did anyone else feel their heart leap with the news that the British Library are aiming to relaunch their archives and manuscript catalogue in early December? Can't wait to see you old friend 😭

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sky @returntox.bsky.social · 9d

“Annie Lennox and Prince Harry are among the thousands of punters who have walked through the doors of a small, Black-owned gallery in Soho in recent weeks to see a photographic exhibition that has quietly become a sensation since it opened in July.”
🔗 - - > britishvogue.visitlink.me/7ReHD4

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10d

Vladeck: Even if you accept the predicate that these drug cartels are foreign terrorist organizations, that still doesn’t get you anywhere close to legal authority to use military force. They’re trying to blur and sort of collapse the distinction between two regimes we have…

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us.

And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:

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sky @returntox.bsky.social · 9d

We’re not going to combat racism when trad media never confronts it. Not a word regarding the inherent racism or regimes desire to swell the numbers of white people in the US in this article.

US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans

Low number represents a dramatic drop after US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution

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sky @returntox.bsky.social · 11d

“The demand, which would require Google and Amazon to effectively sidestep legal obligations in countries around the world, was born out of Israel’s concerns that data it moves into the global corporations’ cloud platforms could end up in the hands of foreign law enforcement authorities.”

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show

www.theguardian.com

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sky @returntox.bsky.social · 11d

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Jamal X (@monty905410)

Raleigh, North Carolina. A baby girl was born into slavery. Her mother, Hannah Stanley Haywood, was enslaved. Her father was almost certainly her mother's enslaver—George Washington Haywood, a promin...

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sky @returntox.bsky.social · 11d

US democracy has always been heavily flawed. It is so rigged in favour of wealthy elites that a detailed academic study back in 2014 found that the political system is rigged in favour of what the economic elites want.

From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles | Owen Jones

We’re watching the Orbánisation of the US – and as in Hungary, control of the media is key to consolidating power, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13d

AOC: There was a day before his presidency, and there will be a day after — and it belongs to us.

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Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 15d

"message failed to send" is some bullshit

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sky @returntox.bsky.social · 15d

“…Amazon as a whole consumed 105bn gallons of water in total in 2021, as much as 958,000 US households, which would make for a city bigger than San Francisco, according to the memo….”

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows

Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities

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sky @returntox.bsky.social · 16d

Mirdering people with impunity. No respect for life at all.

Pentagon deploys top aircraft carrier as Trump militarisation of Caribbean ratchets up

Use of USS Gerald Ford along with fighter jets comes as president plots strikes against alleged cartels on land

www.theguardian.com

sky @returntox.bsky.social · 16d

Confront America’s racist genocidal beginnings; address misogyny, male domination, hierarchy, organised religion, notions of exceptionalism, and white/male supremacy; implement curriculum that isn’t solely about elevating/celebrating whiteness, and instilling western history as world history.

sky @returntox.bsky.social · 16d

“Trump’s military doctrine has focused squarely on death, destruction, terror, and destabilization as the aim — unconcerned by consequences, uncaring of justification, and desperate to create failed states where there had been functioning ones.”

The U.S. Isn’t Even Bothering With Its Usual Lies to Sell Its Regime Change War in Venezuela

Selling the lies of the Iraq War took months. With Trump and Venezuela, there’s no pretense of anything other than regime change.

theintercept.com