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Go vegan 🐖 🐮 🐔 🐟
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Be nice to each other ♥️
It really shouldn't be that hard . . .
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Sounds like a plan
February 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Worth it!
This is a novella.

But if you read it you’ll understand everything you need to know about what Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg are doing right now. I’m a biographer of the first two men, and have chronicled here exactly how and why the third is following their lead.

Again—a long read.
The War Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Are Fighting Isn’t the One You Think It Is
A lonely extremist of dogmatic antisocial views has falsely sold himself for decades as a principled capitalist. His biographer explains why Musk’s mask came off—and why Zuckerberg is following suit.
sethabramson.substack.com
January 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Workers were seen kicking and hitting pigs, inappropriately stunning sheep, hitting cows in the face with a paddle, and other improper and violent acts against animals.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Chris Packham and Caroline Lucas accuse RSPCA of ‘legitimising cruelty’
TV presenter and Green party politician resign from animal-welfare charity over response to undercover abattoir videos
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2024 at 3:59 PM
December 4, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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Good piece here:
bsky.app/profile/leah...
“For an unfortunately large number of men, loss of privilege also feels like loss of meaning and purpose.”

Worthwhile read by @etvpod.bsky.social, whose observations largely match with what I’ve seen and heard monitoring right-wing digital spaces.

www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/11/the-...
The meaning crisis, and how we rescue young men from reactionary politics
In the recent US election, male voters overwhelmingly voted for Trump – because he offered them the illusion of meaning in a world where their position is uncertain
www.skeptic.org.uk
November 24, 2024 at 7:52 PM
“Like his friends Putin, Erdoğan, & Orbán, Netanyahu is trying to silence a critical, independent newspaper. Haaretz will not balk & will not morph into a government pamphlet that publishes messages approved by the government & its leader,” the statement said.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
Israeli government orders officials to boycott left-leaning paper Haaretz
Ministers also ban government advertising from critical newspaper that is widely respected internationally
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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This…this is it. In a nutshell, yes.
November 21, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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Bluesky should change its name to Twitter and bring back the bird.

Just totally commit to the bit.
November 14, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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Trump: LGBT people are grooming your kids.

Trump: Nominates a fucking nonce to be attorney general.
November 14, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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And, scene… 🙇🏽
November 16, 2024 at 7:24 AM
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THE NEW REPUBLIC: “Now that Gaetz has been tapped to lead the Department of Justice as Attorney General, a 'close friend' is petitioning a court to destroy records detailing a drug-fueled sex party the attorney general nominee allegedly attended in 2017.”

AG Gaetz clearly arrives pre-compromised.
Matt Gaetz Really Wants His Sex Trafficking Allegations to Go Away
Now that Gaetz has been tapped to lead the Department of Justice, a “close friend” is petitioning a court to destroy records detailing a drug-fueled sex party the attorney general nominee allegedly at...
newrepublic.com
November 14, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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Novara Media reporting on supposed violence in Amsterdam - eye opener

youtu.be/wATqghw5Ils?...
The Media Lied About These Attacks
YouTube video by Novara Media
youtu.be
November 11, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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My colleague @premthakker.bsky.social on how the Biden administration set a deadline/warning for Netanyahu - 30 days to increase aid into Gaza, or else! - and how Netanyahu just blew right through it. Again.
zeteo.com/p/dramatical...
'Dramatically Worsened': Israel Defies Biden and Blinken's 30-Day Deadline to Increase Aid to Gaza
Sen. Chris Van Hollen tells Zeteo he's concerned the deadline was a "political attempt" ahead of the election to show Biden cared about the situation.
zeteo.com
November 13, 2024 at 5:39 AM
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November 14, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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Israeli settlers make West Bank olive groves a battleground
Israeli settlers make West Bank olive groves a battleground
Israeli settlers make West Bank olive groves a battleground
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:17 PM