Meggan

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Neurodivergent public defender and mom

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Just remember: the fascists do not have to win. It is not inevitable.

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“Dozens of Palestinian civilians are killed and wounded after Israel’s air force attacked another school sheltering the war-displaced.” “Another day. Another month. Another school hit,” UNRWA’s chief says.”

Dozens of Palestinian casualties after Israel attacks another Gaza schoolwww.aljazeera.com Facility sheltering 2,000 war-weary civilians is targeted a day after a school attack killed at least 16 people.

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Getting owned that hard on the normie platforms is great news tbh

Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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“At least five journalists were killed in attacks by Israeli forces in the last 24 hours in Gaza as bombings and air strikes across the besieged enclave intensified.”

Five journalists killed as Israel steps up bombardment across Gazawww.aljazeera.com Journalist couple Amjad Jahjouh and Wafa Abu Dabaan and their children were killed in a strike on the Nuseirat camp.

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Depressing that the entire promise of the internet was once that we would have all the world's information at our fingertips, and genAI has, in a very short space of time, completely nullified that idea.

Well this is grim

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Well this is grim

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This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

tom nichols—of all people???—just made a good point: you have to talk about P2025 in simple real people terms. not policy wonk terms.

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2 friends have COVID 2 others continue to deal with the life altering effects of long COVID, which isn’t new but always reminds me of the importance of minimizing risk gothamist.com/news/nyc-cov...

NYC COVID cases up 250% in 2 months — and this variant's harder to duckgothamist.com The increases is driven by the new FLiRT variant.

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The number of Google searches for Project 2025 skyrocketed after Taraji P. Henson mentioned it during her BET Awards appearance and encouraged the audience watching to Google it. That single black woman did more for liberal causes than all the current DNC leaders and the candidates themselves.

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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“In Grenada, officials said about 98 percent of the buildings on Carriacou and Petite Martinique, where 9,000 to 10,000 people live in total, had been damaged or destroyed, including Carriacou’s main health facility, the Princess Royal Hospital… “There is literally no vegetation left anywhere”

Hurricane Beryl Batters Jamaica as 2 Other Islands Lie in Ruinwww.nytimes.com The powerful storm, which devastated communities in the eastern Caribbean earlier this week, was headed next to the Cayman Islands.

Hell of a cover to run during Disability Pride Month.

it’s 2024. this is embarrassing

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Prison rape jokes are a part of rape culture. Making “don’t drop the soap” and “become someone’s bitch” jokes means you think rape is okay if it happens to certain people.

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so the position at stake is most powerful man in the world and the finalists are the guy being asked to prove he's still alive, the guy who everyone's sure was besties with the international sex trafficker, and the guy trying to convince everyone he's not a cannibal, good times

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

here you go: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/06/06/2...

26 ways to be in the struggle, beyond the streets (June 2020 update)disabilityvisibilityproject.com 26 ways to be in the struggle, beyond the streets. (a list) June 2020 updates Contributors Ejeris Dixon, Piper Anderson, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Ro Garrido, Emi Kane, Bhavana Nancherla, Deesha …

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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.

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Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man. innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...

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The thing is, the disabled are a population of enraged people. The disabled are carrying a deep rage because not only is ableism embedded in nearly everything in our world, but people without our vulnerabilities are hostile to making anything better for us. Also society does not accept our rage.

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Do you remember folks were picketing Supreme Court Justices' homes a couple of years ago? They're back! At Justice Roberts' home today. Short thread with video on Twitter: x.com/LiteraryMous...

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brought the four year old to a public splash pad this afternoon and he had a blast and so did every other kid there anyway sometimes I think about the people who filled in or drained public pools rather than allow them to be used by kids of a different race and just how fucking evil that is

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the conservative theory of law in one headline

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I know everyone says "their reporters do great work" and that's true, but over the course of my life, the New York Times has institutionally had multiple points at which it was important to choose "be evil" or do the right thing and they've fucked it hard every time

A lifetime of stepping on Legos to anyone who puts these photos in my feed.

I did not have "pictures of RFK Jr with barbecued dog" on my hellspace bingo card today

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The last time people went to go protest a Supreme Court decision there was an immediate, bipartsan effort to use tax player dollars to put snipers on Samuel Alito's roof while our favorite pundits went "Brett Kavanaugh has a family :( :(. His daughter must be so scared :( :("

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so if the president forgives student loans thats not allowed but if he tells the military to missile everyone holding a student loan credit note thats legal cool system

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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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#chronicillness #autoimmune #chronicallyill #chronicillnesshumor #chronicillnessmemes #autoimmune #fibromemes #fibromyalgia #spoonie #mecfs #longcovid #chronicillnessmemes

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“You’re a lawyer! What does this mean, really?” Man, I don’t fucking know. In the last week an entire area of law I studied was more or less rendered entirely moot and now there’s one specific guy in the whole country who may be able to do anything he wants without recourse. This is kind of new.

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The de-facto effect of this is the six-year statute of limitations for challenging agency action is now abolished, and any agency action no matter how old and settled is now effectively open to challenge...days after Chevron was overruled

First is Corner Post. Barrett has the court's 6-3 ideological decision holding that APA claims accrue from plaintiff's injury, not the date of the final rule — opening up all rules to possible new challenges. Jackson writes the dissent for the liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...