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the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
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"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
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Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.
February 23, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.
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The Epstein scandal is a symptom of a larger disease
The capture and corruption of American politics and institutions of power has created a criminal, abusive, and degenerate class of elites who believe they are untouchable and don’t care who they hurt
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-rotten...
The capture and corruption of American politics and institutions of power has created a criminal, abusive, and degenerate class of elites who believe they are untouchable and don’t care who they hurt
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-rotten...
It's Rotten All the Way Down: Epstein, Trump, and the Twilight of the Elites
What's being exposed is bigger than Jeffrey Epstein or Donald Trump. It's the failure of American institutions
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The Epstein scandal is a symptom of a larger disease
The capture and corruption of American politics and institutions of power has created a criminal, abusive, and degenerate class of elites who believe they are untouchable and don’t care who they hurt
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-rotten...
The capture and corruption of American politics and institutions of power has created a criminal, abusive, and degenerate class of elites who believe they are untouchable and don’t care who they hurt
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-rotten...
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World Food Programme sounds the alarm: 318 million souls staring down starvation next year, twice the gut-wrenching tally from 2019. What's fueling this global gut-punch? Conflicts, greed, and indifference bite hard. #EndHunger
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
World Food Programme sounds the alarm: 318 million souls staring down starvation next year, twice the gut-wrenching tally from 2019. What's fueling this global gut-punch? Conflicts, greed, and indifference bite hard. #EndHunger
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
I know that shit is “fun” and “unusual” and “cheap”. It’s also enslavement of an entire population.
Stop it!
Stop it!
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I know that shit is “fun” and “unusual” and “cheap”. It’s also enslavement of an entire population.
Stop it!
Stop it!
I am much more focused on the inhumane evil Hitler unleashed on the world and the millions of lives he stopped with his policies. His dick is the furthest thing from my mind. Its size, still further.
What's fascinating about this post is as a "Marxist female researcher," I can't say I've ever really thought about Hitler's penis one way or another. But I guess JF Gariepy does?
November 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I am much more focused on the inhumane evil Hitler unleashed on the world and the millions of lives he stopped with his policies. His dick is the furthest thing from my mind. Its size, still further.
There are whole systems in place to combat this corruption. They are too scared to hold this mega-nepo baby accountable. He’s corrupt and enriching himself while setting all Americans up for the Greater Depression.
And you’re too depressed by the news to pay attention.
Privileged much?
And you’re too depressed by the news to pay attention.
Privileged much?
Trump pardons allies who boost his crypto coin.
Trump invests in corporations that he's supposed to be regulating.
Trump cuts deals with autocrats to advance his family's real estate business.
The list goes on.
We must not become numb to this blatant corruption.
Trump invests in corporations that he's supposed to be regulating.
Trump cuts deals with autocrats to advance his family's real estate business.
The list goes on.
We must not become numb to this blatant corruption.
November 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
There are whole systems in place to combat this corruption. They are too scared to hold this mega-nepo baby accountable. He’s corrupt and enriching himself while setting all Americans up for the Greater Depression.
And you’re too depressed by the news to pay attention.
Privileged much?
And you’re too depressed by the news to pay attention.
Privileged much?
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the difference between the two major political parties in the United States is that one wants vote-by-mail and the other wants votes by males
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
the difference between the two major political parties in the United States is that one wants vote-by-mail and the other wants votes by males
Hey, look, another non-elected MAGAt-brained MO AG is pandering to MAGA conspiracy theories instead of making MO better for her citizens. 🤡
Missouri will try to seize assets owned by China to collect a $24 billion default judgment in its case accusing the Asian nation of lying to the world about the COVID-19 pandemic that began in Wuhan, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said. #moleg #mogov
Missouri wants to seize Chinese assets to recover $24 billion judgment in COVID case • Missouri Independent
Missouri wants to seize assets owned by China to collect a $24 billion judgment in its case accusing China of lying about COVID-19.
missouriindependent.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Hey, look, another non-elected MAGAt-brained MO AG is pandering to MAGA conspiracy theories instead of making MO better for her citizens. 🤡
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journalists should not be people who have spent their whole lives trying different ways to become famous and would have also accepted “enter the actual hunger games” as an option if it made enough people know their name
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
journalists should not be people who have spent their whole lives trying different ways to become famous and would have also accepted “enter the actual hunger games” as an option if it made enough people know their name
I’m envisioning a three-tiered cat tree with a Chesterfield sofa on every level. ❤️
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I’m envisioning a three-tiered cat tree with a Chesterfield sofa on every level. ❤️
Maybe don’t mention the scandal where, if the president had been tried and jailed appropriately, we wouldn’t have the corruption we see daily in the White House.
Do your job. Remove the administration and put them all on trial.
Do your job. Remove the administration and put them all on trial.
LINDSEY GRAHAM: This was worse than Watergate. An effort to destroy President Trump and come after people like me. I'm gonna sue the hell out of these people
HANNITY: How much?
GRAHAM: Tens of millions of dollars. I went to Fani Willis in Atlanta, spent $1.2 million with that bullshit
HANNITY: How much?
GRAHAM: Tens of millions of dollars. I went to Fani Willis in Atlanta, spent $1.2 million with that bullshit
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Maybe don’t mention the scandal where, if the president had been tried and jailed appropriately, we wouldn’t have the corruption we see daily in the White House.
Do your job. Remove the administration and put them all on trial.
Do your job. Remove the administration and put them all on trial.
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apropos of nothing in particular, Saudi Arabia has a population of 35 million but only 19 million are citizens, in part because only Muslims can be citizens of Saudi Arabia, so the ~2 million Christians in the country are “foreign workers” forever, even if born there
November 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
apropos of nothing in particular, Saudi Arabia has a population of 35 million but only 19 million are citizens, in part because only Muslims can be citizens of Saudi Arabia, so the ~2 million Christians in the country are “foreign workers” forever, even if born there
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“Keep your voice down.”
“That’s enough of you.”
“Be nice; don’t be threatening.”
“There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”
“Quiet, piggy.”
This is a sampling of what the president of the United States has said to and about female journalists.
“That’s enough of you.”
“Be nice; don’t be threatening.”
“There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”
“Quiet, piggy.”
This is a sampling of what the president of the United States has said to and about female journalists.
November 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
“Keep your voice down.”
“That’s enough of you.”
“Be nice; don’t be threatening.”
“There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”
“Quiet, piggy.”
This is a sampling of what the president of the United States has said to and about female journalists.
“That’s enough of you.”
“Be nice; don’t be threatening.”
“There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”
“Quiet, piggy.”
This is a sampling of what the president of the United States has said to and about female journalists.
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Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
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Maya in 1933: "I met the publisher responsible for Der Stürmer and its publication of Jewish crimes.
They told me how they they didn't want Jewish crimes recorded as German crime so they set up the publication to ensure accuracy to the Volksgemeinschaft."
They told me how they they didn't want Jewish crimes recorded as German crime so they set up the publication to ensure accuracy to the Volksgemeinschaft."
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Maya in 1933: "I met the publisher responsible for Der Stürmer and its publication of Jewish crimes.
They told me how they they didn't want Jewish crimes recorded as German crime so they set up the publication to ensure accuracy to the Volksgemeinschaft."
They told me how they they didn't want Jewish crimes recorded as German crime so they set up the publication to ensure accuracy to the Volksgemeinschaft."
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Epstein survivor Jena-Lisa Jones: "Trump really ran his campaign on this. This is why I voted for him. The release of these files has been so important for me for so long that when he run on that, I really had some hope that someone would do something about it."
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Epstein survivor Jena-Lisa Jones: "Trump really ran his campaign on this. This is why I voted for him. The release of these files has been so important for me for so long that when he run on that, I really had some hope that someone would do something about it."
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Acquaint yourself with the major antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Acquaint yourself with the major antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
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WATCH: “When you don’t stand up to it you inherently make it ok.”
Kanew calls out reporters who stood by as Trump said “QUIET PIGGY” to Catherine Lucey, and says by not standing up to his misogynistic, authoritarian bullying they let him bully journalism into irrelevancy.
Kanew calls out reporters who stood by as Trump said “QUIET PIGGY” to Catherine Lucey, and says by not standing up to his misogynistic, authoritarian bullying they let him bully journalism into irrelevancy.
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
WATCH: “When you don’t stand up to it you inherently make it ok.”
Kanew calls out reporters who stood by as Trump said “QUIET PIGGY” to Catherine Lucey, and says by not standing up to his misogynistic, authoritarian bullying they let him bully journalism into irrelevancy.
Kanew calls out reporters who stood by as Trump said “QUIET PIGGY” to Catherine Lucey, and says by not standing up to his misogynistic, authoritarian bullying they let him bully journalism into irrelevancy.
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1. Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving with Jeffrey Epstein *after* Epstein’s arrest.
2. Their falling out was over real estate, not pedophilia.
3. Nancy Mace is not a well woman.
2. Their falling out was over real estate, not pedophilia.
3. Nancy Mace is not a well woman.
Nancy Mace: "It was Donald Trump who banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. He may have been a whistleblower. And if he did, thank God for Donald Trump. I don't know that there's anything this man cannot do in this country."
November 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
1. Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving with Jeffrey Epstein *after* Epstein’s arrest.
2. Their falling out was over real estate, not pedophilia.
3. Nancy Mace is not a well woman.
2. Their falling out was over real estate, not pedophilia.
3. Nancy Mace is not a well woman.
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The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
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Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.