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We are hope despite the times. Cynical optimist. An American living in Canada. Eat the rich. Octavia Butler was a truth-teller. Free Palestine.🇵🇸
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No idea why an Afghan refugee shot National Guard soldiers within walking distance of the White House, but this new USCIS directive was revealed on Monday. Worth noting.
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.

In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Cool how we're going to see collective punishment of an entire group of people and that's not going to be the main topic of conversation in the national guard shooting
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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"a debilitated CDC unable to protect the health of the American people."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Ralph Abraham, CDC’s new deputy director:

- halted Louisiana’s mass vaccination campaign

- promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin

- delayed deadly whooping cough outbreak warnings

- backed anti-fluoride policies

- fought to repeal ACA

He should not be making national health decisions!
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Yeah, this seems…great
🚨NEWS: A tech giant has filed a lawsuit asking federal courts to grant artificial intelligence algorithms a First Amendment right for to help landlords raise rent prices.

What stage of capitalism is this?
Tech Giant Says AI Has A First Amendment Right To Raise Your Rent
Fresh off a Trump settlement, RealPage is trying to overturn New York’s anti-rent-gouging law.
www.levernews.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
What in the AI hell is this nonsense from NY Times?
Ok NYT wut does the second sentence have to do w/ the first

“The shooting of two National Guard members on Wednesday was not the first time there was violence near the White House.

During World War II, a stranger slipped into the White House to watch a movie with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.”
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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jfc. It was determined by a US judge that she could not be deported to Sierra Leone due to danger she would face in the country she fled. So they deported her to Ghana, a country she had never been to, and Ghana deported her to Sierra Leone.

This country is fucking sick. Deeply deeply fucking sick
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcwashington.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Just a reminder that we could be living in an America in which Trump and his fellow conspirators are spending the rest of their lives in prison if we had serious politicians and a system that wasn’t hellbent on and designed toward self-destruction.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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‘Tulip’ comes from the Turkish word ‘tülbent’ which means "turban."

The flower got its name from the resemblance of its overlapping petals to the folds of fabric in a turban.
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Waymo privatized another public street:

Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco

Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.

The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.

OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The only thing less appropriate for cities than single-occupancy vehicles is zero occupancy vehicles.
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Scoop: The apparent new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Scoop: The apparent new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns.
The current Surgeon General of Louisiana has made headlines recently, including for allegedly burying a whooping cough outbreak.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Pretty sure not everyone knows this but I wish everyone did: Saying something critical of Republicans does not automatically equate to heaping equal and opposite praise on Democrats.
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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So a big part of the Project 2025 goals hinges on forcing women out of the workforce. The Heritage Foundation knows that women voters hold the most power in terms of sheer numbers. If they can push you out of the workforce, they can push you out of your voting rights.
Digging into the data of what's taking place with Black women unemployment and this graph is pretty damning.

You can see the EXACT month Black women's unemployment begins to splinter and that what hit us FIRST is now coming for all other women. This is #TheDoubleTax.

#blacksky #news #econsky
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Trying to decide on a career for when the economy crashes and we return to the ancient times. I'm leaning toward soothsayer but I'm also open to banditry
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"

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November 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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The AI stories about people losing their minds chatting with bots are indicators of a need to regulate these companies but also red flags that mental health is absolutely cratering and the same people who should regulate need to address this increasingly and intentionally precarious environment.
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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I don’t know, man. I don’t know that I’m going to make it out of this insipid ass period. It’s a trial.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"

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November 25, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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🚨NEWS: Exxon is now petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to grant corporations a new First Amendment right to avoid disclosing how much toxic pollution they are spewing and how much they are incinerating the atmosphere that supports all life on the planet.
Corporations Say It’s Their First Amendment Right To Hide
Corporations are asking the Supreme Court to help them dismantle a groundbreaking California transparency law requiring emissions disclosure.
www.levernews.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."

www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM