Spamerooni

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Just your average nobody. Feminism, cats, and kindness are my thing.

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"Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death 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...

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It's also wildly inaccurate. Plenty of the base of white christian nationalism is in wealthy suburbs and, yes, cities too. Stop buying this "barefoot hicks" b.s. and realize the fascists are down the street shopping at whole foods.

Honestly I feel deflated seeing the response to “depiction of white Christian nationalism ascendant” be cracks about inbreeding, or glee at concentrating these people in rural communities so they can eat their own

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A man in his 30s I did not know well recently said to me he was surprised I was 50, and that he’d date me if he were older. Lacking a filter I said “I wouldn’t date you either way.”

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

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Just to be really explicit about what’s happening here, the cover conflates age, physical disability, and cognitive disability, and goes on to conflate disability with unfitness for office. It’s utter bullshit.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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A.R. Moxon

Real hope isn't a passive thing, you know; no, hope is a crucial step in the natural process of repair. You can't fix a thing until you have the conviction it should be fixed, and the expectant determination to fix it—and if that doesn't describe hope, I don't know what does.

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if the media could go ahead and treat this claim the way they treat Biden saying "I'm fine" - aka, as a lie that requires days on end of front page stories to debunk - that would be great we'll be over here waiting

Trump is trying to get ahead of the reality that he and the heritage foundation are working to destroy America and institute a fascist dictatorship. He is lying and expecting the media to gaslight America for him.

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Emily L. Hauser

The US only began to approach genuine democracy with the Civil Rights Act in 1964; in 1973, women gained some access to the Declaration of Independence's "inalienable rights" when we finally gained some control over our own bodies. Maybe our grandchildren will get a chance to give it another go.

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that's the problem. we already know who he is. if "grab em by the pussy" didn't do shit when he was just candidate, this won't do shit ESPECIALLY now as a former president

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I've lived in an authoritarian country (Saudi) and the lesson I take from it is that most of us will be fine--many of us will even prosper. But folks on the margins are in for a level of cruelty that's incomprehensible right now. At least now we know what our generation's great struggle will be.

That's part of the attack. It's intended to destroy hope

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Not much news about the devastation from Beryl, this was the first post I saw today

www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

‘Please send help’: Caribbean reels from Hurricane Beryl devastationwww.theguardian.com Homes flattened, apocalyptic scenes and at least four dead as St Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada try to recover

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did anyone catch the protest-bashing line in gorsuch's homelessness decision? "It makes no difference whether the defendant is a person experiencing homelessness, on vacation, or a student who abandons his dorm room to camp out in protest on the lawn of a municipal building"

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Here’s the Vanity Fair piece that story came from. The allegations of sexual assault are even more troubling. (Then again, Trump has set the bar sub-basement-level-low.) www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

RFK Jr.’s Family Doesn’t Want Him to Run. Even They May Not Know His Darkest Secrets.www.vanityfair.com A shocking photograph. Blowback from a Trump meeting. Alleged sexual assault. The Kennedys have voiced support for Joe Biden, but certain aspects of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s character are only just now...

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Saeed Jones

When I was writing HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES, I privately debated leaving some chapters out. I thought writing about kids asking me if I was saved at the lunch table or my private panic about Matthew Shepard would be too dated to be relevant to readers by the time the book came out in 2019. ALAS.

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NEW: Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred in New York www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad1/c...

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Emily L. Hauser

And I've reached the point where I, too, believe RBG ultimately failed the country she served so well for so long—yet it is DAMN telling that people are only too happy to lay the blame for what our white supremacist patriarchy has wrought at the feet of that one (1) woman.

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Yup: Fascism is just interpersonal abuse scaled for a population!

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“Mom, tell me about 2024.” Well, honey, people were concerned about a man’s age so we let Nazis take over.

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"That the public interest might also be served, perhaps, by using the criminal courts to hold the president accountable for attempting a coup, is absent from this opinion."

my quick and dirty response to the immunity ruling (hed is just a slice of it) newrepublic.com/article/1833...

Sotomayor Exposed the Court Conservatives’ Hypocrisy With One Linenewrepublic.com The liberal justice, dissenting from the majority's ruling on Trump's immunity case, quoted the court's Dobbs decision back to them.

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Just getting caught up on this immunity ruling and can some explain how it wasn’t a conflict of interest to have the three justices he literally gave lifetime jobs to ruling on this issue?

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I’ll cheer on this country when it stops trying to kill me.

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I used to really care about the Supreme Court as an institution. Someone gave me SCOTUS water glasses as a wedding present. I'm that girl. I don't respect the court anymore. The conservatives are hacks. Roberts et al. deserve to be mocked, booed, & ostracized for the rest of their miserable lives.

Roberts is not the worst member of the court, but he's a bad judge and it's always worth remembering that. He's the guy who wrote Shelby County. On any reasonable court, he'd be the conservative crank writing dissents.

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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

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the sad part is that biden will see this moment and say “im gonna act like an extra good boy to show im the responsible choice for president and everyone will think that’s nice!”

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Maybe I'm super fucked up but having the supreme court declare that J6 was fine and good actually feels worse than J6

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Joshua J. Friedman

Sotomayor: "Today’s decision ... makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law."

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waiting for the torment box to tell me if i'm ruled by a god emperor

exciting to know that in an hour or so americans will learn whether or not we’re ruled by a god emperor

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i think donald trump should withdraw from the presidential race, for the good of the country

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Stacey Burns

Gift 🔗: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/u...

She Needed an Emergency Abortion. Doctors in Idaho Put Her on a Plane.www.nytimes.com In states that have banned abortion, hospitals have struggled to treat pregnant women facing health risks. A Supreme Court decision this week did not help.