Vishanti 🤟👁️

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🇲🇽 Mexicana/Filipina
living on Tongva land [🌴 L.A. /🍊 Orange County]

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Remember when Dorsey, Zuckerberg and Pichai were repeatedly hauled before Congress over allegations of liberal bias? Now we have a major social platform solely controlled by one of Trump's biggest backers. I wrote about what it means for X and the election. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | What Musk’s Trump support means for Xwww.washingtonpost.com Conservatives long accused Twitter of liberal bias. What happens now that its owner openly backs Trump?

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No better summation of being a billionaire than going “thanks for the cash suckers and fuck everyone else!”

Great so then Elon can not only return every penny (I’d say with interest too but we can debate that) he’s gotten from the Federal Government AND more importantly, anything he has developed after he received subsidies is now the intellectual property of the American people. ☺️

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every conservative since 1871

also that French industrialists lined up with the "let's try autocracy" platform (no surprise that the only private citizen charged post-liberation with war crimes by the provisional 1944 government was Louis Renault)

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That makes him an insurrectionist in my book. Disqualifying.

J.D. Vance's answer to what he would have done had he been VP on January 6, 2021. (Relevant, of course, to what he'd do if he were to be VP in January 2029.) abcnews.go.com/Politics/wee...

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time to dust this one off. amen.

Vance is, you guessed it, an adult Catholic convert

THIS TOO IS TORAH, AND I MUST LEARN

If I ever go back for the PhD in religious studies I was idly pondering, my doctoral thesis will be on the ways rap and hiphop music serve the same theological function for the American civil religion today as the Latter Prophets did during Second Temple Judaism

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Peter

this is why the idea that journalists have to maintain objectivity through detachment is distinctly dangerous. it demands that context be perpetually stripped away

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the editor of the New York Times reacting to a potential Trump second term with “fasten your seatbelts” is so deeply vile i can’t wrap my mind around it. these people have detached themselves so completely from the things they cover that the rise of fascism becomes just something exciting to watch

I'm no ivy league fail upward brunchlord news professional, but I feel it's generous to call conspiratorial fascism (managed by a sociopathic manbaby with a fourth grade reading level) "disruptive" that's kind of like saying nuclear annihilation is "modifying"

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CNN quietly disbanded its Race and Equality team, I’m told

CNN quietly disbands its Race and Equality teamwww.whatimreading.net The news comes as CNN leader Mark Thompson announced that the cable news channel will lay off 100 employees as it restructures its newsgathering operations.

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Anyone who wants to feel validated/unsettled, "2020s anti-LGBT movement in the United States" is a sub-link under Category:Political and cultural purges On Wikipedia. Yes, it's that bad. (No, I didn't put it there.) Love, auntie old queer ‎

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He's white and rightwing so here come the sympathetic stories about him being bullied in school

The gunman who allegedly tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was bullied in high school and didn’t fit in with other students, former classmates told CNN. Here's what we know so far.

What we know about the Trump rally gunman so far | CNNwww.cnn.com The gunman who allegedly tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was bullied in high school and didn’t fit in with other students, former classmates told CNN on Sunday.

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Shocker

A lawyer on Twitter got so livid with me when I asked what the point of going to law school was if the 5th Circuit purposefully misinterprets the law to fit their ideology and I stand by that

US judge who banned female prosecutor avoids disciplinewww.reuters.com A federal judge in Texas engaged in improper conduct but will face no discipline for making disparaging remarks about women attorneys and permanently barring a female prosecutor from his courtroom, a federal appeals court's chief judge has concluded.

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I was asked by a friend where my number of 700,000 settlers, not 500,000 comes from. This is from a report issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights entitled "Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan".

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Stephen R. Smith

I wrote this years ago for a week just like this one

How to Fight Disinformation — Part I: Firehosingwww.truthorfiction.com A practical guide to battling common disinformation and other hybrid warfare tactics.

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"I'm tired of this block-happy culture!" Okay, but, counterpoint: be less annoying.

Tlaloctzin + Chaactzin >>>>>>>>>>>

Apparently the government of the Yucatán recently erected a Poseidon statue on one of their major beaches. It’s a very heavily Mayan area, where people still pray to Chaac, the god of rainfall. They’re now being slammed with 3 hurricanes and significant flooding, leading to memes like this

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Today’s my birthday, and if you’d like to do something encouraging for me, please subscribe to and/or tell your friends about my newsletter, The Bugbear Dispatch! I write about the impact of authoritarian evangelicalism on individuals and society, among other things www.bugbeardispatch.com

I don’t talk a lot about my own story of queer self-discovery, in part because it’s not a simple or standard narrative. But I wrote a guest post about it for @d_l_mayfield’s STRONGWILLED, and it just so happened to come out today, on my actual birthday open.substack.com/pub/strongwi...

The Story of a Late Bloomeropen.substack.com A guest post by Chrissy Stroop

The Bugbear Dispatch | Chrissy Stroop | Substackwww.bugbeardispatch.com As a transgender American woman in a time of moral panic, Chrissy Stroop is one of society's current "bugbears." Here she publishes weekly musings connecting her reading and other cultural consumption...

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Undocumented workers use fake SSNs when they're hired for a W2 job, meaning they're paying into Social Security & Medicare, but can't get payments out of them. They literally contribute more money to our government than they will ever receive Source: I've done their taxes

I am not kidding. Social Security depends on young workers. Immigration is what keeps it going. These young recent immigrants are not drawing from Social Security right now! Once they start working, they pay INTO it! Why can't anyone SAY that?

(אין מזל לישראל) this is Pluto in Aquarius energy 1000%

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This is why mask bans are suddenly being proposed. If you’re in a place where that’s happening and you think we should prioritize public and personal health and freedom over expanding the powers of the police state then please do let your representatives know why the freedom to mask matters to you

Cops don’t like them; makes it harder to use surveillance footage and facial recognition to arrest people (especially at protests).

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i am gonna have to give a thumbs down to the green river killer book of dating

What - and I can not stress this enough - the fuck is this

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You can tell who did and who did not moderate IRC/phpBB/whatever back in the day, because all of us who did learned the true shape of online group culture: your culture is the shittiest person you don't ban

yeah, it is entirely possible to have a Normal Functional Discord!

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The New York Democratic Party can’t shift a Republican out of his seat for love or money but they’ll move heaven and earth to boot a progressive black guy in favor of a Reagan Democrat racist

WASHINGTON (AP) — George Latimer wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in New York's 16th Congressional District, beating incumbent Jamaal Bowman.

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And they’re even privatizing that. 🤗

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there are going to be a lot of takes saying it’s antisemitic to blame AIPAC for latimer’s win and i just want to say no it is not

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If you know who AIPAC is but not CUFI...

I fucking hate AIPAC but if they’re the only lobbying group/PAC I see you complaining about I am in fact giving you this look:

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Let's be clear, when mayors say they want to ban masks for "safety", they couldn't care less about public safety. What the mean is they want to see faces for surveillance purposes. They care about criminalizing your right to protest not your health or safety.

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AIPAC is spending $100 million this primary cycle to try and unseat most of the members of the squad. It shouldn’t be legal.

Bowman had a number of unforced errors but it is horrifying how much money AIPAC shoveled into the campaign.