Protik Islam-Jakobsson

Protik Islam-Jakobsson

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Sometimes I think; sometimes I am.
Pluralist in the streets // atheist in the sheets.
#Swedish dad, #neurology resident, #giraffe rotator. we stan Kant

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mostly nuts, judging from the name

We're like 7 years into this and I still have no idea what Macronism's actual ideology is. Something about cutting people's pensions?

well eel be damned...

Former Conservative MP Marcus Fysh has called for the Conservative Party to be dissolved and a new party to be formed, Sky reports. Probably swimming upstream with that one.

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Gaza City in the north is experiencing really horrific bombardments right now- while families are on the streets trying to go to a safe place that doesn’t exist 😢

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There are so many levels to this own. One can revisit it repeatedly and find additional layers.

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Mudakun: COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET

You don’t follow me but I do have to let you know that this is an unhelpful suggestion for most folks. Malicious website design is at fault here, and that is where I focus my criticism. The user-hostile design approach has to be denormalized.

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Emma/Tay (Cumslutress) 🏳️‍⚧️

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Emma/Tay (Cumslutress) 🏳️‍⚧️

also no one asked, but worst fruit is forever honeydew

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RESULT: Aurélien Rousseau wins as left candidate. He is Macron's former health minister who resigned in protest in December, after Macron adopted an anti-immigration law with support of far-right MPs. Macron reportedly maneuvered to defeat him this week (as I posted earlier this week).

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Yannick Jadot (the Green Party's presidential candidate in the 2022 presidential election) just said about what happened in this election: "Macron dissolved Macron." Macron's party did a lot better today than it looked a few weeks ago; but they're set to lose ≈90-100 seats.

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Big, symbolic flip for the Left: Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, an ultraconservative politician & former presidential candidate (*not* in the RN, though he's endorsed Le Pen's presidential bid in the past), was ousted in the greater Paris region. He was an incumbent.

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What could have happened today if more candidates who came in 3rd had refused to drop out? Hint of an answer in the city of Aix. Here, the Macronist candidate refused to drop out. As a result, no front vs the far-right. Result: RN wins with 37%. Left at 36%. Macronists 27%.

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Gabriel Attal, sitting PM, is now speaking. He says, "this dissolution [=snap election call], I didn't choose it." Veiled criticism of Macron, given a lot of reporting on Attal not knowing about Macron's decision, & doing a lot more than Macron to block far-right this week.

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SCOTUS votes 6-3 that Le Pen gets to be President of France

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because (thankfully) the left came through.

It held

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www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essentialwww.thelancet.com By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

"dork ass losers" remains my favorite insult of all time

My favorite:

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Unfortunately, this is evergreen. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Way back in the early 2010s I created a tumblr page devoted to fake quotes from the founders. One pattern I found is that the people most likely to circulate fake founders quotes are the people who call themselves conservative *originalists.* www.tumblr.com/fakefounders...

Nearly Every Founding Fathers' Quote Shared By A Likely Future Congressman Is Fakewww.tumblr.com Georgia's likely, future Congressman appears to be the Michael Jordan of Fake Founders Quotes. Looks like this tumblr will have reason to exist for at least a few more years.

i could never have imagined this was a real guy tbh when will i learn to Never. Google. It.

Future Trump WH spokesman Catturd2 with the least predictable take on the French election results.

rank choices tbh

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New Popular Front won because of this

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We truly are a nation of absolute doofuses slate.com/life/2024/07...

America’s Biggest New Viral Star Has Been Co-opted by the Right. This Is an Absolute Tragedy.slate.com It’s a huge, huge problem that the Dems don’t know how to capitalize on this stuff.

look I know there are a lot of pretty good sandwiches, but there's nothing like a perfect desi omelet between two lightly toasted slices of the most boring bread you can find

i know everyone has to eat, but political reporters too??

Political reporting, 2024

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This sort of asinine nonsense is why I find it difficult to take anonymous comments thrice-removed about how he stumbled on a word during a meeting as anything worthwhile. There is no sense of proportion, no awareness of what might be normal and what is anomalous. It’s all vibes, nothing is real.

Political reporting, 2024

If I'm cooking, secret ingredient chicken soup or halibut tikka with fennel if my wife's cooking, then it's her moose ragu if my mum's cooking, it's chicken korma with polau, niramish, or a perfect veggie shingara with ceylon tea tbh we rarely use the oven except for baking

Searching my camera roll for dishes not requiring an oven. -Burrata, prosciutto, white peach, basil salad -Lucas Sin's cold sesame noodles tinyurl.com/22ya5edy -Sriracha deviled eggs w/ ikura + fresh shiso leaves -Osaka style okonomiyaki savory pancake tinyurl.com/yf7nwty3 What are your faves?

this is how the Republicans lose Utah

Tell every person you know that the GOP wants to ban porn. Let them imagine a hellscape where they both have no human rights and no legal sources of weird smut to drown their sorrows in

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into my veins

Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

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Judah Grunstein

In practice, the center-left is stronger with the New Popular Front, and there's no small amount of antipathy between the center-left and LR, and even between the center-left and Horizons, to say nothing of between the center-left and Macron.

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Judah Grunstein

4. That's a very reassuring outcome for France and for Europe. But this is not an electoral result that invites triumphalism ot complacency. To the contrary, it demands self-examination by Macron, and above all, it demands results in the form of political accomplishments to come.

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Judah Grunstein

But even if the RN surge is conjunctural, it is unlikely to revert quickly. It's worth recalling, too, that whatever has taken hold is not unprecedented in France. Similar to what we've seen in the US, the "de-demonization" of various expressions of bigotry and prejudice exercises a powerful pull.