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Sela @sela.bsky.social · 1m

Study: Nearly 500,000 perished in Iraq war

A new study estimates nearly a half-million people died from causes attributable to the war in Iraq from 2003 through 2011. The results come from the first population-based survey since 2006 to...

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Sela @sela.bsky.social · 2m

“Wow Nancy, interesting comment. Now let’s take a look at what the data says—oh.”

Study: Nearly 500,000 perished in Iraq war

A new study estimates nearly a half-million people died from causes attributable to the war in Iraq from 2003 through 2011. The results come from the first population-based survey since 2006 to...

www.washington.edu

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Sela @sela.bsky.social · 1h

WEEKEND is wrapping up and afterwards i'm gonna fire up joan of arc's live in chicago 1999 which a) came out somehow coincidentally when i got into WEEKEND and movies like it and b) is also good for productivity (for me) and c) references said movie

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

mamdani is going to break 50% and centrist pundits are going to convolute themselves in new ways to say he doesn’t have a mandate

Erick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · 5h

Feel like we have a good idea lol

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Sela @sela.bsky.social · 3h

always retreat, always concede, always pivot, that's the way to winning according to these champions

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Sela @sela.bsky.social · 3h

well you see it's because you have morals buddy

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 7h

Dick Cheney, the gay marriage advocate?

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Sela @sela.bsky.social · 8h

“who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions” lies they were lies he knew they were lies he was told they were lies he helped create the lies they were lies and if we could call a lie a lie maybe the world would be a little less hell

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Sela @sela.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t owe you fucking shit ass hole

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Sela @sela.bsky.social · 21h

LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND RESPECTANLE THEMS WE GOT THE INSTANT ISLAMOPHOBE BLOCK

Sela @sela.bsky.social · 21h

The easy way to read your post is you’re a fucking moron

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Sela @sela.bsky.social · 21h

a. This is classic ad hominem.

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Sela @sela.bsky.social · 21h

The easy way to read your post is you’re a fucking moron

Sela @sela.bsky.social · 21h

Shut da fuck up

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Sela @sela.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so sorry, you do phenomenal work

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Sela @sela.bsky.social · 1d

Not to sound like BLUEWAVEMAMA1969 but it’s worth interrogating if someone who only posts content about Democratic infighting really has the movement’s best interests at heart

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

I reviewed two new books about Elizabethan theater for the Atlantic, discovering along the way how hard it is to shake the Romantic ideal of The Genius.

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