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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 7h

The only people causing chaos in Portland et al are ICE and the federal government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

AG Bondi: "We're gonna get to the funding of antifa, we're gonna get to the root of antifa, and we're gonna find and charge all of those people who are causing this chaos in Portland and all these other cities across our country."

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 1d

This a thousand percent.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 1d

I still remember 867-5309, look it up.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 2d

Philosopher Queen!

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 2d

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 2d

Support women, Siddhartha. Even the ghoulish ones.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 2d

$50 million payout. For a freaking football coach. Jesus f.

Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 2d

Penn State has fired James Franklin. $50M buyout. So at least there is that.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 2d

Wait why is Bebe Neuwirth using a laundromat?!?!

Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 2d

To the people who don’t clean out the lint after using a dryer in a public laundromat - WTeverlovingF is wrong with you.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 2d

Why do they ALL look like Nazis. Different mothers, doesn’t matter. The physiology of hatred.

Nikhil Shah @grandmastershah.bsky.social · 2d

TikTok was always bad but something tells me that it will get to a whole new level of awful under MAGA leadership.

Barron Trump tipped for top job at TikTok as dad says users ‘owe’ him

The president has previously claimed that users ‘owe’ Barron Trump for saving the social media platform in a video from the Oval Office

www.independent.co.uk

Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 2d

The unmitigated cruelty.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 7d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3d

Trump’s toothless anti-DEI executive orders (toothless because they are not actually law) have given a lot of people and organizations an opportunity to be as shitty as they ever wanted to be, which is, apparently, pretty shitty.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 3d

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3d

Persuade TRUMP voters was the question. Dems are always being challenged to appeal to the right, Reps never challenged to appeal to the left (or even the center). That is a TOTALLY biased question which assumes the U.S. is naturally oriented towards Trump and his politics.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3d

To the extent that it’s ONLY Democrats who are asked how they’re going to appeal to Trump voters, and NEVER Republicans who are asked how they will appeal to Dem voters, that question is hugely biased. Also the video WaPo put up was HUGELY edited. She may be trash but not on the basis of that clip.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3d

“We expected it to have the integrity of the president of the United States” my dude it totally does.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

Shout out to the worker who put Rump instead of Trump on the watch these people paid $650 for lol

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3d

What are the chances that the manosphere, which spends a lot of time handwringing about fertility rates, will now advocate for clean air laws?

Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 3d

‘for every additional 10 micrograms of particulates per cubic meter of air there was a corresponding 10 percent increase in infertility risk.’

She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility

www.nytimes.com

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3d

It’s not a way to “erase the heritage of Native Americans” so much as erase the heritage of white people by erasing their history of colonization and the genocide of Native Americans. If Columbus Day were a day when we remembered how horrible he was and mourn the violence he set off, okay fine.

NPR @npr.org · 3d

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans. n.pr/4h2pwRc

Trump issues a Columbus Day proclamation to 'reclaim' the explorer's legacy

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans.

n.pr

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3d

This is how politicians should be talking about trans folks. Period.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 3d

Manufacturing consent for an invasion of Venezuela. I guess now that there’s a Gaza “agreement” the paper needs to pivot.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“When it comes to Venezuela, silence is violence,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes. “Choosing to ignore the catastrophe there only serves to perpetuate it.”

Opinion | A Worthy Nobel Peace Laureate

And a reminder of the need to depose the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

nyti.ms

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 4d

😂😂😂🤪

Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 4d

My kid is doing their MA at the University of Toronto, and their Farsi teacher is incorporating AI into her pedagogy. Needless to say, my kid hates it—says it basically undermines, rather than enhances, their education. I’m sure the prof is being given uni $$$$ to encourage AI in the classroom.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 5d

This all makes sense and yet I always wonder why it’s THIS condition that inspires such parental anxiety as opposed to anything else—like, I don’t see parents of children with other types of neuro or physical differences get quite as caught up in the “grasping for straws” conspiracy theories.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 5d

Fuck Stephen Colbert, who gets painted as a free speech hero while being given a pass for being an Islamophobic racist.

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 5d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 5d

I just switched to old school Microsoft Office which you have to download on your computer instead of Microsoft 365 so that I don’t have to contend with AI. Wish me luck.

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