Rachel
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The Armenian Genocide is a historical fact. Vice President Vance can delete his post, but he can't erase history. His decision to ignore the facts is beyond disrespectful to the Armenian community and the millions killed in the Armenian Genocide.
Vance Acknowledges Armenian Genocide, Then Deletes Post, Igniting Outrage
By deleting the social-media post, Vice President JD Vance upset Armenians after a historic visit.
www.wsj.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:10 PM
The Armenian Genocide is a historical fact. Vice President Vance can delete his post, but he can't erase history. His decision to ignore the facts is beyond disrespectful to the Armenian community and the millions killed in the Armenian Genocide.
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
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heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show
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THE FOOTBALL SAID “TOGETHER WE ARE AMERICA”
IS THAT ENOUGH ENGLISH FOR YOU??!!
IS THAT ENOUGH ENGLISH FOR YOU??!!
February 9, 2026 at 1:44 AM
THE FOOTBALL SAID “TOGETHER WE ARE AMERICA”
IS THAT ENOUGH ENGLISH FOR YOU??!!
IS THAT ENOUGH ENGLISH FOR YOU??!!
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This is a love song to what the Latino community brings to the US - protest in art in its purest form and its widely entertaining. Well done all the way around.
How do you not view this as a gorgeous expression of Hispanic culture in the U.S.?
Smooth music, beautiful sets, and great dancing.
Smooth music, beautiful sets, and great dancing.
February 9, 2026 at 1:31 AM
This is a love song to what the Latino community brings to the US - protest in art in its purest form and its widely entertaining. Well done all the way around.
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Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny
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"The GOP promises to hold a vote to extend subsidies" is just "The Roadrunner has painted a tunnel on the side of this mountain" but in a different font.
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"The GOP promises to hold a vote to extend subsidies" is just "The Roadrunner has painted a tunnel on the side of this mountain" but in a different font.
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As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.
September 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.
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Rights of due process don't depend on our personal opinions of the accused. For example, I regard the January 6, 2021, criminals as insurrectionists and traitors - yet I am still glad that each and every one of them got a proper trial before they were convicted and sentenced.
April 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Rights of due process don't depend on our personal opinions of the accused. For example, I regard the January 6, 2021, criminals as insurrectionists and traitors - yet I am still glad that each and every one of them got a proper trial before they were convicted and sentenced.
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
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The ACA was cool because before the ACA EVERY SINGLE CHILD WITH CANCER hit their annual and lifetime limits almost immediately and were denied insurance for the rest of their lives and after the ACA that’s illegal.
The ACA was cool because before the ACA you could hit your lifetime maximum before you were a month old and be denied insurance for the rest of your life and after the ACA that’s illegal.
March 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The ACA was cool because before the ACA EVERY SINGLE CHILD WITH CANCER hit their annual and lifetime limits almost immediately and were denied insurance for the rest of their lives and after the ACA that’s illegal.
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If I conducted the Oscars orchestra and an actor asked me to stop playing them off I would deploy my Emergency Drumline
March 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
If I conducted the Oscars orchestra and an actor asked me to stop playing them off I would deploy my Emergency Drumline
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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@jillfilipovic.bsky.social nails it.
Trump is very much transparently restoring white men to power, stripping women & people of color of their accomplishments, and casting doubt on the very concept that people who are not white and male might actually be qualified.
open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/t...
Trump is very much transparently restoring white men to power, stripping women & people of color of their accomplishments, and casting doubt on the very concept that people who are not white and male might actually be qualified.
open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/t...
The Anti-Meritocracy of MAGA
The farce of Trump's anti-DEI push
open.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
@jillfilipovic.bsky.social nails it.
Trump is very much transparently restoring white men to power, stripping women & people of color of their accomplishments, and casting doubt on the very concept that people who are not white and male might actually be qualified.
open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/t...
Trump is very much transparently restoring white men to power, stripping women & people of color of their accomplishments, and casting doubt on the very concept that people who are not white and male might actually be qualified.
open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/t...
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The GOP has proven time and again since 2008 that the primary benefit to being in the opposition was that policy proposals weren’t their problem(and even just losing control of a single body in midterms was enough for them to institute their opposition strategy).
February 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The GOP has proven time and again since 2008 that the primary benefit to being in the opposition was that policy proposals weren’t their problem(and even just losing control of a single body in midterms was enough for them to institute their opposition strategy).
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem
February 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem
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the NCAA isn't gonna say shit if they wipe away Title IX either
February 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
the NCAA isn't gonna say shit if they wipe away Title IX either
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The real scam: making you fear the “the other” while the rich rob you blind. I wish every American understood this.
February 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The real scam: making you fear the “the other” while the rich rob you blind. I wish every American understood this.
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Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social