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This is particularly germane when it comes to the military. As legal scholar Josh Chafetz told me, while the president is commander in chief, Congress has regulatory authorities over the military, and "military discipline is squarely within Congress's purview." That's arguably what Democrats did with this video: They are doing their best to offer oversight even as Republicans will not. And they should keep it up. Big public gestures like this can force big public arguments, and the debate over whether Trump is or is not giving illegal orders is one we need to have.
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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If she stays and complies, we should be ready to push for more ambitious demands: reduced NYPD technology and surveillance capacity, the end of the gang database and status-quo approaches to gang policing, and budget and headcount reductions. We are in the unfortunate position of needing to organize like hell just to claw back the status quo we enjoyed in 2019-the city jail population nearly doubled under Adams.
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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“Diplomacy” is an interesting synonym for “@ss@ssin@tion” apparently?!
AXIOS Josephine Walker, Avery Lotz • NOV 17, 2025 What to know about Trump's U.S. gunboat diplomacy near Venezuela
November 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Every one of these assholes and the Dem leadership (Schumer) should be thrown out on their bums
They are literally going to get people killed by lack of insurance
Tim Kaine Jacky Rosen John Fetterman Jeanne Shaheen Maggie Hassan Angus King Dick Durbin Catherine Cortez Masto Voted to support a funding bill that fails to address the Republican health-care crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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It's easy to mock. But accessible masculinity appears to be the aesthetic of the new institutionalized terror in our burgeoning $200 billion police state, as ICE disappears immigrants. Members of this goon squad look like the guys who roam around America's dead malls. Yes, the aesthetic affords them powerful obscurity, sowing fear and confusion in the communities they torment; they dodge accountability through the use of facial coverings and unmarked cars. But it also makes you wonder about all the other men who look the same and aren't ICE agents. "You don't know where they're from. You don't have any idea who they are, and they are given carte blanche [authority]," said Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, author of The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics and a professor at UCLA. She likens ICE agents to the Nazi-era Sturmabteilung, also known as Brownshirts, many of them unemployed men and former soldiers who terrorized German towns with chaos and violence. "They were the rabble-rousers and drunks," Ravetto-Biagioli said. "They looked like a bunch of 'bros, as you might say in common parlance, and angry men who felt disaffected by being on the losing side of World War I."
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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His critics and opponents painted pledges such as free bus service, universal childcare and rent freezes as unworkable, unrealistic and exorbitantly expensive. But some have hit back, highlighting the quirk of geography that underpins some of this view. "He promised things that Europeans take for granted, but Americans are told are impossible," said the Dutch environmentalist and former government adviser Alexander Verbeek in the wake of Tuesday's election. Verbeek backed this with a comment he had overheard in an Oslo cafe, in which Mamdani was described as an American politician who "finally" sounded normal. "Normal. That's the word," Verbeek wrote in his newsletter, The Planet. "Here, taking care of one another through public programs isn't radical socialism. It's Tuesday." That view hit on the wide differences in how Mamdani's promises are seen by many across the Atlantic. "Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us," said Verbeek. "We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return. The debate here isn't whether to have these programs, but how to improve them."
November 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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If we were to simply listen to the smart voices of those who aren't lost in the hype cycle, we might see that it is not inevitable that Al systems use content without the consent of creators, and it is not impossible to build Al systems that respect commitments to environmental sustainability. We can build Al that isn't centralized under the control of a handful of giant companies. Or any other definition of "good Al" that people might aspire to. But instead, we end up with the worst, most anti-social approaches because the platforms that have introduced "Al" to the public imagination are run by authoritarian extremists with deeply destructive agendas. And their extremism has had a profound chilling effect within the technology industry. One of the reasons we don't hear about this most popular, moderate view on Al within the tech industry is because people are afraid to say it. Mid-level managers and individual workers who know this is the common-sense view on Al are concerned that simply saying that they think Al is a normal technology like any other, and should be subject to the same critiques and controls, and be viewed with the same skepticism and care, fear for their careers.
October 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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🚨 PSA: if you or a loved one gets COVID, get a Lab PCR test from a doctor/urgent care! You will need that record to prove disability in the future if you have long COVID. 🚨
October 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Is he going to bomb them all too?
Picture of Netanyahu “CN 凸 With US backing, defiant Netanyahu vows response to countries recognizing Palestinian state”
September 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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This northern area has witnessed relentless bombardment, and remotely controlled robots loaded with explosives are operating in there. They ve been literally wiping out entire neighbourhoods. What we know is at least four Palestinians have been killed in this attack, and there are also dozens of Palestinians injured. This shows Israeli forces are attacking people even as they're fleeing following Israel's forced expulsion orders. Because of the intensified bombardment, Palestinians are on the move. The army is using quadcopters to kill people trying to escape their neighbourhoods and using these robots with residents saying every time they explode it feels like an earthquake.
September 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Cool cool
Grist Santiago Mejia / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Wildfire smoke could soon kill 71,000 Americans every year By Matt Simon | Sep 18, 2025 | 11:00 AM ou may live many miles away from a wildfire, but it could still kill you. That's because all that smoke wafting in from afar poses a mortal risk. The threat is so great, in fact, that any official tally of people killed in a fire most likely is wildly low, given that it counts obvious victims, not those who
September 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Nope
Guardian Opinion Are heterosexuals OK? Emma Beddington It is the question du jour - and a lot of people are teasingly interrogating it 06:00 EDT Monday, 04 August 2025 › Women have been deploring the amount of 'mankeeping' in their lives. Photograph: Posed by models; laflor/Getty Images.
August 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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By persisting in not suspending the association agreement despite its clear violation by Israel, in not blocking arms deliveries to that country despite the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza, in not banning imports from illegal settlements despite the decisions of the international court of justice to that effect, by not sanctioning Israeli ministers and political leaders who make genocidal statements, by not banning Netanyahu from using European airspace despite the arrest warrant issued by the international criminal court, and by not supporting the judges of the court and UN officials sanctioned by the United States, the EU and its member states are discrediting themselves in the eyes of the world and undermining the international law and multilateral order they are supposed to defend. While under attack from Putin in the east and Trump in the west, the EU is thus deepening its isolation by cutting itself off from the rest of the world.
August 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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California, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

The labels of the recalled items will include the following:

Pack date May 28, 2025, with lot code 35156
Pack date May 30, 2025, with lot code 35157

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Label of recalled product from Ada Valley Meat Company COURTESY OF THE USDA
July 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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B B C NEWS Israeli rights groups accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza Emir Nader - BBC News, Jerusalem B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel presented the findings at a news conference in Jerusalem [Credit: Reuters] Two leading Israeli rights organisations have said Israel's conduct in the war in Gaza constitutes genocide against the Palestinian population. B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel released separate reports on Monday based on studies of the past 21 months of conflict. The organisations, which have been active in Israel for decades, said in a joint statement that "in these dark times it is especially important to call things by their name", while "calling on this crime to stop immediately".
July 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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CNN Picture of boats on a beach. “Gazans are desperate for fish. But Israel has banned access to the sea CNN's Joseph Ataman, Tareq Al Hilou and Abeer Salman 12:00 AM EDT July 27, 2025 Walls, tall and deadly, line three sides of Gaza. On the fourth lies the sea, stretching out to the horizon.”
July 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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The word "ghetto" was not the only Holocaust-era import to make its way into nascent Israeli discourse. Shitrit's colleague at the Minorities Ministry, Gad Machnes, went one step further rhetorically. Speaking at a meeting of the ministerial committee in November 1948, he warned his colleagues that "holding Arab residents in fenced-in concentration camps is no longer justified." Even earlier, in July 1948, Yosef Vashitz, a member of the left-wing Mapam party, offered a chilling admonition: "This concentration is the most important act undertaken regarding the Arabs in the state of Israel. This will determine whether the state of Israel will be a democratic state or a feudal state with medieval customs and Nuremberg Laws." To be sure, "concentration camps" and "ghetto" were lurking presences at this time in a society laden with the fresh traumatic weight of the Holocaust. One may have assumed that there would be an absolute taboo on such language in the immediate aftermath of World War II. But this was not the case.
July 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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NBC NEWS Why it's so difficult to get aid to Gaza's starving population Israel controls almost every part of an aid distribution process. Jul. 26, 2025, 10:34 AM EDT
July 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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We are the greatest country in the world! 🫠 www.wsj.com/economy/food...
WSJ [Picture of man reaching into a box of potatoes] “The federal government has cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to food banks. Food Banks Are Running Out of Food Exactly When More Americans Will Need Them 'The most challenging situation I've seen in 17 years' Cuts to food stamps and other federal programs mean some people go home hungry.”
July 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Don’t let anyone tell you opposing arming a genocide + war is radical. To the contrary it’s the only sane position
"Polling shows that Americans overwhelmingly oppose both arming Israel and U.S. military involvement in war with Iran, because nobody wants to foot the bill for endless violence," he continued. "The U.S. must cut off the endless supply of weapons now, before Israel finishes this genocide and launches the world into all-out war. Every representative has a responsibility to take immediate action. The bare minimum is signing on to the Block the Bombs Act led by Rep. Delia Ramirez and legislation opposing war with Iran." As Abuznaid notes, both positions are broadly popular among the U.S. population. A June 2024 CBS poll found that 61% of Americans oppose sending Israel weapons, while a recent Economist/YouGov poll showed 60% are against the U.S. becoming involved in the war on Iran.
June 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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In recent months, the Israeli regime has perpetrated genocide and apartheid in Palestine, a transnational terrorism attack with booby trapped pagers in Lebanon, thousands of armed attacks on Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, & Iran, the unlawful occupation of Palestinian, Lebanese, and Syrian territory, several extrajudicial executions on foreign territory, the assault on and commandeering of the humanitarian flotilla ship the Madleen, countless attacks on United Nations staff and facilities, and the use of its proxies in Western countries to harass human rights defenders and to corrupt governments. Israel has stockpiles of conventional, hi-tech, nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, allows no international inspections of them, and refuses to ratify the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). And it is governed by a far-right, deeply racist, and fundamentally violent regime that is unconstrained by any norms of international law, international diplomacy, or common morality.
June 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Community, not performance The "bubble" framing also fundamentally misunderstands what most people want from social media. When you go to a knitting circle, are you disappointed that most people there want to talk about knitting? When you join a book club, do you complain that everyone seems interested in books? Pundits and politicians may want to broadcast to the largest possible audience, but most people are looking for community, not maximum reach. Most people aren't looking for a debating arena. They want to talk with people they like about topics they care about-whether that's knitting, local politics, or professional interests. This becomes impossible when the platform owner has hung out a shingle for Nazis, and your attempts to discuss your hobbies get drowned out by fascist propaganda algorithmically pushed into your timeline. That's not "diverse discourse"-it's just a bad user experience.
June 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Electoral politics in the U.S. has long promised a voice to the people, yet in practice, it consistently fails to engage the public in the decisions that shape their everyday lives. Voting every few years for candidates pre-approved by party machines and funded by corporate interests offers little more than the illusion of choice. Meanwhile, the economic system that underpins this political structure -one driven by profit, wealth concentration, and the relentless demands of capitalism— renders it nearly impossible for ordinary people to exert meaningful influence. Most people are too burdened by debt, housing insecurity, precarious employment, and mass media distraction to organize effectively, let alone navigate the labyrinth of bureaucratic systems designed to disempower them. In this landscape, democracy becomes a hollow ritual while real decisions are made in boardrooms, lobbying offices, and closed-door meetings far removed from public accountability.
June 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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#Salmonella Outbreak Egg #recall www.cnn.com/2025/06/07/h...
The eggs were distributed from February 3, 2025, through May 15, 2025, with sell by dates from March 4, 2025, to June 4, 2025, within California and Nevada. The eggs were distributed at retail locations including Save Mart, FoodMaxx, Lucky, Smart & Final, Safeway, Raleys, Food 4 Less and Ralphs. The eggs were also distributed from February 3, 2025, through May 6, 2025, with sell by dates from March 4, 2025, to June 19, 2025, to Walmart locations in California, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming, New Mexico, Nebraska, Indiana and Illinois. The recalled eggs will have printed on the carton or package a plant code number P-6562 or CA5330 with the Julian Dates between 32 to 126. The recalled retail eggs will be in fiber or plastic cartons, with the above codes printed on one side of the carton. (See photo following for Julian date location.) Clover Organic Large Brown 12 eggs First Street Cage Free Large Brown Loose 1 case=15 Nulaid Medium Brown Cage Free 12 eggs Nulaid Jumbo Brown Cage Free 12 eggs O Organics Cage Free Large Brown 6 eggs O Organics Large Brown 12 eggs O Organics Large Brown 18 eggs Marketside Organic Large Cage Free Brown 12 eggs Marketside Organic Large Cage Free Brown 18 eggs Marketside Large Cage Free Brown 12 eggs Marketside Large Cage Free Brown 18 eggs Raley's Large Cage Free Brown 12 eggs Raley's Large Cage Free Brown 18 eggs Raley's Organic Large Cage Free Brown 12 eggs Raley's Organic Large Cage Free Brown 18 eggs Simple Truth Medium Brown Cage Free 18 eggs Simple Truth Large Brown Cage Free 18 eggs Sun Harvest Organic Cage Free Large Brown 12 egg: Sun Harvest Organic Cage Free Large Brown 18 egg: Sunnyside Large Brown Cage Free 12 eggs Sunnyside Large Brown Cage Free 18 eggs Sunnyside Organic Cage Free Large Brown 12 eggs Sunnyside Organic Cage Free Large Brown 18 eggs Loose Small Brown Cage Free-1 box= 6 flats (1 flat=: Loose Medium Brown Cage Free -1 box= 6 flats (1 fla Loose Medium Brown Organic - 1 box= 6 flats (1 flat= Loose Large Brown Organic-1 box= 6 flats (1 flat= 30 Loose Jumbo Brown Cage Free -1 box=5 flats(1 flat=i Loose Jumbo Brown Organic -1 box=5 flats(1 flat=20 This recall is associated with an ongoing outbreak investigation of Salmonella Enteritidis illnesses. Products were distributed in AZ, CA, IL, IN, NE, NM, NV, WA and WY.
June 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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When politicians lost their gamble that we would achieve herd immunity to COVID, they didn't admit they were wrong or explain that, without any mitigation, our "new normal" would be continual reinfection with a blood vessel, organ, immune system and brain damaging virus. Instead, they doubled down and worked to normalize this continual reinfection- and all the negative downstream outcomes that come along with it, like overwhelmed hospitals, record student and teacher absences, constant illness, record rates of worker sickness and long-term illness, re-emergence of controlled pathogens, dropping test scores, high excess deaths, and increasing heart attacks and strokes among younger people.
June 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM