Mere Smith

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Writer. Antifascist. Dork. Cis/she/her.
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TIL French basketball players are called “basketteurs”

Sans Wembanyama, les basketteurs français s’inclinent face à l’Allemagne en préparation des JO de Paris

Sans Wembanyama, les basketteurs français s’inclinent face à l’Allemagne en préparation des JO de Pariswww.lemonde.fr Forfait en raison d’un syndrome viral, le meneur des Bleus a cruellement manqué à son équipe, défaite après ses deux premiers matchs amicaux remportés haut la main.

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They lost their last politics editor (disclosure: whom I've known for a long time and remain friendly with) because he wouldn't run shit like this. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Noticed the Daily Beast stopped posting here about a week ago and just got this email.

‘Daily Beast’ New D.C. Chief Quits — After Only Five Weekswww.hollywoodreporter.com Booty and the Beast: Martin Pengelly skedaddles the online news outlet amidst mass staff buyouts.

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I think the @nytimes.com is just too old to be covering politics now. Its ability to handle the rigor and complexity of modern campaigns is obviously not there anymore. Put it out to pasture so younger newspapers can do the job.

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NEWSFLASH: Children's hospital struck in brazen Russian daylight attack Just a week ago we profiled the work of the Okhmatdyt Children's Clinic in Kyiv. Today, it was hit. We rushed to the scene to report.

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Hey politics reporters, when the former president was in office he just stopped releasing WH visitor logs and it was like a 1 day story and you all were like ah well nevertheless instead of doing your job

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President Biden recently met with the Secretary of Transportation, so I can only assume he’s slowly turning into a train.

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i keep seeing videos of people acting shitty in public where a top comment is something like “wonder who they voted for 🙄.” i honestly think a winning message for Dems is just “aren’t you sick of these fucking people”

did she shoot them

Official Kristi Noem social media accounts appear to have been deleted

Official Kristi Noem social media accounts appear to have been deletedwww.theguardian.com Error messages shown on Facebook and Twitter pages for South Dakota governor plagued by dog-killing admission

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It is disorienting to see what the New York Times will cover with an active voice (that is demonstrably more accurate) and what it'll obscure with passive voice.

it's also a handy denial of responsibility

Cynicism is a popular form of complacency.

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“Fascism sucks up power left unattended” deserves to be carved over the entrances to grand public buildings

largest french turnout in 40 years, to keep the nazis down. fascism sucks up power left unattended

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Just found out about a massive data leak at Twitter/X. I don't use it anymore but I keep my account alive so no one else can claim my username. I just changed my password and suggest others do too. Also use 2FA whenever you can. More: cyberpress.org/9-4gb-twitte...

9.4GB Twitter(X) Data Leaked - Over 200 Million Records Exposed Onlinecyberpress.org The Cyberpress Research Team made a significant discovery with the Massive 9.4 GB of X (Formerly the Twitter) Database.

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The Financial Times, which endorsed Labour, is also now punishing tax-hiding advice, calling sensible welfare funding "tax raids". (As a PhD seeking postdocs I have no idea why it's algorithm thought to recommend this to me.)

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The transcripts for all episodes, including this one, may be found here. I have highlighted the names of the accusers, and of Neil, where they speak in their own voices, either directly or in archived media. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Tortoise Media The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman - Google Drivedrive.google.com

Bouie called them “wicked people” the other day, and I thought that was quaint yet so apt. We need to bring back the concept of wickedness — bc you don’t need to be evil to be wicked — you can be banal and dull and dimwitted and wicked, too

The thing that's obvious to everyone and that nobody can actually write in the press is that the American (and yes, I'm sure elsewhere too) right wing is led by bad people and the object is to make more people extremely bad in basically every respect. It's anti-society

it’s that last sentence tucked at the end that the right is truly terrified of

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Never hand a cop your unlocked phone. If a cop with no warrant asks to see your phone, turn it off.

What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't. www.zdnet.com/article/digi...

This state is introducing digital driver's licenses. Here's what you need to knowwww.zdnet.com Your physical wallet is being replaced piece by piece. Here's what you need to know about using digital IDs.

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a castrated pirate:

i miss menards

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“People in Gaza City have reported one of the heaviest attacks by Israeli forces since 7 October, sending thousands of Palestinians fleeing from an area already ravaged in the early weeks of the nine-month-old war.”

Thousands of Palestinians flee amid heavy Israeli attack on Gaza Citywww.theguardian.com Civil emergency service says dozens killed in strikes launched after Israeli military issued evacuation orders

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sorry i didn’t text you back i was scrolling down to the year i was born

I used these for… 20 years? Who knows what that did to my system, what it’s doing to people’s systems right now

There was lead in EVERY tampon they tested. There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic. Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃 www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox... Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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"Up to 20 neo-Nazis stormed the group of people...'They kicked one victim lying on the ground in the face with their boots.' After perhaps a minute of brutal violence, it was all over and the neo-Nazis fled."

"Immer zu zweit auf einen": 20 Neonazis prügeln in Berlin mehrere Menschen zu Bodenwww-t--online-de.translate.goog In Berlin haben Neonazis einen Gewaltexzess veranstaltet: Bis zu 20 bewaffnete Vermummte griffen eine Gruppe Antifaschisten an.

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I don’t know writer/journalist Annabel Ross personally, but what she had to say about the Gaiman situation covers a fair bit of what I think so far… now I’ll go back to trying to find an emoji that conveys “goddammit I’m so fucking furious & sad & exhausted” open.substack.com/pub/politics...

Manufacturing consentopen.substack.com Untangling the Neil Gaiman sexual assault allegations, and the Tortoise Media investigation that is both flawed and important

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to whoever needs to hear it: no one is so talented that they can treat or speak to you in a disrespectful or demeaning manner. no one.

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If the French defeat the Nazis and America doesn’t, we will have to retire some of our most cherished jokes.

largest french turnout in 40 years, to keep the nazis down. fascism sucks up power left unattended

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I just read an article that said "Why is it taking so long for your favorite movies and tv series to air? Blame the writers and actor strikes" No I won't. I'm blaming that ✨single✨ motherfucker at the studio who makes $250 million dollars a year who's one job is supposed to make this shit happen.

Make a band meatier T-Bone Thugs-n-Harmony

Make a band meatier Third Ribeye Blind

“Her message for people fighting for gay rights today: ‘Put your ass on the fire the way we did – risk your ass.’”

From the age of 17, Nancy Valverde was repeatedly arrested by the Los Angeles police department for wearing masculine clothing. By the time she died, at age 92, the city had named a square in her honor, its first public monument to a lesbian.

The Chicana butch lesbian who defied the LAPD – and won: ‘I couldn’t be someone else’www.theguardian.com Decades after Nancy Valverde was first arrested for wearing masculine clothing, the city of LA finally honored her with its first public monument to a lesbian

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"And the cause of liberal democracy in Europe, which did NOT die..."

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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too