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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.
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Hey wait a minute shouldn't this say, "In Ukraine, Damage to Public Health Infrastructure Amid Ongoing Fighting?"
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If it seems like the Supreme Court waits until the end of the term to release unpopular opinions ... It's not your imagination. abcnews.go.com/538/supreme-...
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I wrote about how the Democratic Party brought us here for The Guardian. theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Again, none of this is to say American capitalism is awesome for working people, it manifestly is not! But we’re talking about change vs constants. And the *trends* have been more money in the pockets of lower wage earners, in real terms, over the past two years.
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“The extraordinary pace of China’s green energy investment in recent years may trigger defensive reactions in the west. But it is our best hope of actually achieving climate stabilisation in time to stave off planetary disaster.”
Stifling China’s green energy boom would be a disasterwww.ft.com Does the government in Beijing have the courage to throw its weight behind what business is already doing?
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It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.
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if it's not from the champagne region of france then it’s just called sparkling fascist tears
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An article in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet, using the conservative estimate of 4 indirect deaths in Gaza for every one direct death (in other conflicts it’s been 3-15x), calculates that Israel has killed approximately 186,000 Palestinians. That is 8% of the population of 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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Gonna check out this new Inside Out movie now I guess
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Angela Y. Davis, 1981, "Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights". Can't say that the point that repro rights require continued progress and attention to the most vulnerable hasn't been made.
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Historian here seen on the other site: Spain vs France and England vs Netherlands pretty much sums up mid-17th century warfare and you could flip the countries and it would still be true!
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European sports rivalries just hit different. In America we will hate a rival because they beat us in the playoffs a couple times. In Europe they are like "yes we hate that team, because in 1456 they disposed our king and did a light genocide against us. Also they dive a lot."
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Study for a Portrait, by Francis Bacon, 1952, 📸 via @MenInBlazers
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Félicitations, France! Grand match!
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Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour leader who was expelled for anti-Semitic comments, has won Islington North. Corbyn 49% Labour 34% (-30)
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People on here who are deprived of their mental faculties say that "if Israel wanted to commit a genocide it would" well what is this exactly? How would you describe the near total destruction of Gaza City and the near total destruction of our ability to make food? The murder of 15,000 children?
-40,000+ killed -15,000+ children killed -20,000 children missing -70% of Gaza's buildings destroyed -60% of Gaza's farms destroyed -2,200,000 displaced
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ok he’s toast
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Transit funding = antifascist praxis
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when roberts votes against trump's interest it is because he thinks he knows better than trump what is in the long term interest of the republican party. don't ever think it's because he has a higher ideal in mind.