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Democracy dies in silence – Rümeysa Öztürk’s arrest is a warning - The Boston Globe
Democracy isn’t something we are. It’s something we do. And too few people in this country are doing it right now.
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“Resistance may or may not be futile. Acquiescence definitely is.”
- @yabraham.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/29/m...
- @yabraham.bsky.social
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Fun fact: an air blockade is an act of war. If it is against a country we are not at war with, it is an act of aggression and thus a war crime.
This is madness! The “no new wars” president is taking us to war with Venezuela.
Bombing ships in the Caribbean, as an ongoing operation, without congressional authorization, crosses the line into an unconstitutional use of military force.
Bombing ships in the Caribbean, as an ongoing operation, without congressional authorization, crosses the line into an unconstitutional use of military force.
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Fun fact: an air blockade is an act of war. If it is against a country we are not at war with, it is an act of aggression and thus a war crime.
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It doesn’t matter why he’s convinced he’s right. The headline should be that he is utterly and absolutely wrong.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
www.theatlantic.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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So the secret is exploited labor? Thanks, Mike!
At one of the world's leading hospitality schools, we learned the secret to five-start service. Hint: It might be hiding at your local Starbucks.
Read more: bloom.bg/3JZwdI0
📷️: Getty Images
Read more: bloom.bg/3JZwdI0
📷️: Getty Images
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
So the secret is exploited labor? Thanks, Mike!
West Virginia election results 2024
Guy who f***ed them: 70%
Harris: 28%
Nailed it, WVA!
Guy who f***ed them: 70%
Harris: 28%
Nailed it, WVA!
Bleak deep dive into how Trump fucked Appalachia on the Green New Deal while victims blame “Washington.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
West Virginia election results 2024
Guy who f***ed them: 70%
Harris: 28%
Nailed it, WVA!
Guy who f***ed them: 70%
Harris: 28%
Nailed it, WVA!
Just a reminder that we beat the stuffing out of white supremacists in Franklin, Tennessee in November, 1864 and we can do so again.
Wow — #TN7 NEWS: Speaker Johnson is coming to Tennessee (FRANKLIN & CLARKSVILLE) to try to rescue Van Epps as Rep. @aftynbehn4tn closes the gap in a Trump +20 district
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Just a reminder that we beat the stuffing out of white supremacists in Franklin, Tennessee in November, 1864 and we can do so again.
Funny how we never see a thread about white male tenured professors refusing to do anything besides lecture from 40-year-old notes and slobber over junior women faculty, both observed at a very well-known college in the Boston area.
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Funny how we never see a thread about white male tenured professors refusing to do anything besides lecture from 40-year-old notes and slobber over junior women faculty, both observed at a very well-known college in the Boston area.
And in January 2027 he can be impeached for inter alia war crimes.
Pete Hegseth will be the first person in the regime to be prosecuted and locked up once we take back power.
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
And in January 2027 he can be impeached for inter alia war crimes.
Mining comedy gold from boneless chicken breast pads — who’s writing his stuff now, Bania?
bravely describing it as one of his ‘strongest standup routines in years’ and then all the quotes from it are stuff like this lol ‘cancellation’ is never solely a cultural issue! it’s a craft issue too!
November 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Mining comedy gold from boneless chicken breast pads — who’s writing his stuff now, Bania?
What America has always been: a country in which mediocre white men can attain fame and fortune by devoting themselves to furthering white supremacy and enriching the rich.
St. David Brooks: Hallelujah!
St. David Brooks: Hallelujah!
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“My love of country this Thanksgiving season is not based on what this or that politician does, but on what America has always been,” our columnist David Brooks writes.
“My love of country this Thanksgiving season is not based on what this or that politician does, but on what America has always been,” our columnist David Brooks writes.
Opinion | What I Love When I Love America
My love of country this Thanksgiving season is not based on what this or that politician does, but on what America has always been.
nyti.ms
November 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
What America has always been: a country in which mediocre white men can attain fame and fortune by devoting themselves to furthering white supremacy and enriching the rich.
St. David Brooks: Hallelujah!
St. David Brooks: Hallelujah!
If only out of touch elite Democrats had not adopted such “extreme left-wing” positions on immigration!
(H/t @nytopinion.nytimes.com )
(H/t @nytopinion.nytimes.com )
Stephen Miller is of Jewish descent, yet he pushes the same “they won't assimilate” argument used by antisemites for millennia. Stephen Miller is a racist monster, and so is his boss.
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If only out of touch elite Democrats had not adopted such “extreme left-wing” positions on immigration!
(H/t @nytopinion.nytimes.com )
(H/t @nytopinion.nytimes.com )
Number of elected Republicans condemning this racist insanity: 0.0.
Thought this year we’d get by without one of these posts… but then came Trump’s late-night “Happy Thanksgiving” rant. His dangerous rhetoric continues to divide this country when we need unity the most.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Number of elected Republicans condemning this racist insanity: 0.0.
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The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Is this the same obviously-superior Western civilization that illegally kidnaps asylum seekers and carries them off to foreign concentration camps on the orders of Sturmbahnführer Miller?
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Is this the same obviously-superior Western civilization that illegally kidnaps asylum seekers and carries them off to foreign concentration camps on the orders of Sturmbahnführer Miller?
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He's becoming completely unfiltered just like a bigoted cranky uncle. It's going to get really gross.
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
He's becoming completely unfiltered just like a bigoted cranky uncle. It's going to get really gross.
Dementia, ex. 475
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Dementia, ex. 475
And the piece still fails to directly address in any meaningful way the overwhelming evidence of dementia, and instead pretends the Mad King’s cognitive collapse is due to “fatigue.”
Got to love how much praise NYT gets for one article, 2+ years late, that literally just rehashes things we all knew already but NYT has spent the last 2 years ignoring & denying & obfuscating.
The New York Times produced a detailed, data-driven report on President Trump showing signs of aging. The president, 79, responded by calling the female reporter who co-wrote the story “ugly.” https://cnn.it/48idUFL
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
And the piece still fails to directly address in any meaningful way the overwhelming evidence of dementia, and instead pretends the Mad King’s cognitive collapse is due to “fatigue.”
Did that same poll show overwhelming support for Chalabi? He’s tanned, rested, and ready! Just like 2003.
"One guy, it doesn't matter who, swears there's a poll out there that says people want to be invaded." What kind of sourcing is this lol
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Did that same poll show overwhelming support for Chalabi? He’s tanned, rested, and ready! Just like 2003.
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Many voted for him **because**
on the heels of the "piggy" incident. he's a piece of shit misogynist and sexual predator, and always has been. and people voted for him anyway.
Now we have the president calling a female New York Times reporter ugly because he's mad about a story she wrote.
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Many voted for him **because**
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The fact that only 3 (by my count) Republican members of Congress have spoken out about the Witkoff situation shows how thoroughly corrupted and compromised the entire party has become from top to bottom. None of this is about just Trump - it is the entire political party.
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The fact that only 3 (by my count) Republican members of Congress have spoken out about the Witkoff situation shows how thoroughly corrupted and compromised the entire party has become from top to bottom. None of this is about just Trump - it is the entire political party.
Amount of taxes owed by Brin on this multibillion-dollar surge in his wealth: $0.00.
Google’s cofounders have risen through the ranks of the world’s wealthiest in recent weeks.
Sergey Brin Now No. 3 Richest—Google Co-Founders Pass Oracle’s Larry Ellison Amid Alphabet Surge
Google’s cofounders have risen through the ranks of the world’s wealthiest in recent weeks.
www.forbes.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Amount of taxes owed by Brin on this multibillion-dollar surge in his wealth: $0.00.
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He tends to insult white women's looks and Black women's intelligence so it's safe to say that he really hates all women.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
He tends to insult white women's looks and Black women's intelligence so it's safe to say that he really hates all women.
I would think that a Judge of the Massachusetts Family and Probate Court would have plenty of power to demand testimony under oath from the child's father about whether he called the body-snatchers on the child's mother.
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I would think that a Judge of the Massachusetts Family and Probate Court would have plenty of power to demand testimony under oath from the child's father about whether he called the body-snatchers on the child's mother.
DC's hottest ticket: Kristi's responses under oath in open court to Judge Boasberg's examination.
Fun fact: there is no "attorney-client privilege" for government lawyers, who represent the United States, not Kristi the Puppy Killer
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Fun fact: there is no "attorney-client privilege" for government lawyers, who represent the United States, not Kristi the Puppy Killer
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Noem made decision to continue deportation flights to El Salvador, justice department says
Justice department maintains that Trump administration didn’t violate judge’s order to return flights to US
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
DC's hottest ticket: Kristi's responses under oath in open court to Judge Boasberg's examination.
Fun fact: there is no "attorney-client privilege" for government lawyers, who represent the United States, not Kristi the Puppy Killer
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Fun fact: there is no "attorney-client privilege" for government lawyers, who represent the United States, not Kristi the Puppy Killer
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
But what about all the times that Democratic Presidents appointed US Attorneys who had $1 million sanction orders against them upheld on appeal? Both sides!
NEWS: A federal appeals court pane upholds the $1 million sanction against Trump and Habba for a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, Comey, et al.
"Many of Trump’s and Habba’s legal arguments were indeed frivolous," Judge Pryor wrote.
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"Many of Trump’s and Habba’s legal arguments were indeed frivolous," Judge Pryor wrote.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
But what about all the times that Democratic Presidents appointed US Attorneys who had $1 million sanction orders against them upheld on appeal? Both sides!