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Violet D. Blood
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regular ol’ person
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Got damn
July 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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it is good that mr. cenobite apologized
Matt Lucas is setting the record straight. He shares a heartfelt apology to Millie Bobby Brown: eonline.us/3QI5Yp0
March 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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January 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Choose better heroes
November 14, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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Yet again, I see that People Magazine is too cowardly to admit who the real Sexiest Man Alive is:
November 13, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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"Liberals" and "Centrists" who ensured Trump's return are attacking people who BEGGED Biden/Harris to offer a bold alternative to fascism and genocide. They're GLOATING about the looming horrors. Rotten to the core, mirrors of their MAGA partners.
November 6, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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That's an all-time update to the abstract
November 1, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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The Final Pitch
October 16, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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You can get 4 free COVID tests again from covidtests.gov
Free covid tests by mail program revived by Biden administration
People can again order four covid tests per household. The move comes ahead of an expected winter coronavirus wave.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 26, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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During the Iraq war/GWOT, the U.S. attacked Al Jazeera relentlessly, bombed its facilities, killed its Baghdad correspondent and locked a cameraman in Guantanamo. Israel has repeated this pattern. All journalists must condemn these violent assaults on freedom of the press.

aje.io/rg3e2h
Israel closes Al Jazeera bureau in Ramallah: All you need to know
At 3am, heavily armed Israeli soldiers raided the office of Al Jazeera in Ramallah, throwing the team out.
aje.io
September 22, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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Last spring, Washington state passed a bill banning commercial octopus farming.

Today, we (myself and 99 others, led by Jennifer Jacquet, Becca Franks, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Walter Sanchez-Suarez) have a letter in Science supporting the US OCTOPUS Act, which would do the same nationwide.
Support US OCTOPUS Act to keep octopuses wild
www.science.org
August 17, 2024 at 4:26 AM
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I know there's no way for this to be against the law but feels like it should be
August 15, 2024 at 3:06 AM
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Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.
June 20, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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All the anti-potato "evidence" is from population studies, which are hopelessly confounded & inaccurate.

But here's one that says potatoes are just fine.

Live by the sword ...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Potato Consumption and All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality – A Long-Term Follow-Up of a Norwegian Cohort
Potatoes are a staple food in many traditional cuisines, yet their impact on long-term risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality is unclear, …
www.sciencedirect.com
July 24, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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NYT grownup. Seattle Times not. NYT's Jaahnavi Kandula story, having researched local news, saw PubliCola drove the story from the start. Thanks NYT for linking PubliCola, something Seattle Times rarely does when repeatedly piggy backing @ericacbarnett.bsky.social city hall & homelessness coverage.
Seattle Police Officer Fired Over ‘Cruel Comments’ About Pedestrian’s Death
The officer, Daniel Auderer, was heard laughing as he discussed Jaahnavi Kandula, who was struck and killed by a speeding police S.U.V. driven by another Seattle officer.
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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And you know what they always say:

A man who will lie about genocide is definitely a man you can trust to defeat fascism.
What’s great about Biden is that he’s mentally fit enough to lie about his role in supporting the first genocide in world history we’ve been able to ceaselessly monitor on our phones.
“President Joe Biden, who has pledged support for Israel amid the country’s ongoing war with Hamas that has left more than 37,000 Palestinians dead, claimed in a recent interview that he’s “the guy that did more for the Palestinian community than anybody.””
July 16, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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July 5, 2024 at 3:14 AM
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'Mothers in Gaza are so malnourished themselves that they cannot breastfeed, and so babies are dying, literally starving to death, because they cannot get the vital nutrition that newborns need.'

Yes, but does it meet the definition of genocide that I made up?

news.sky.com/story/newbor...
Newborn babies now have little chance of survival in Gaza, hospital director warns
Mothers are so malnourished they cannot breastfeed, so their babies are dying - literally starving to death - because they cannot get the vital nutrition they desperately need.
news.sky.com
July 4, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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Sir
Raymond
Douglas
Davies
is Eighty
June 22, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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June 22, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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It's really weird (it's not really weird) how states that ban abortions are also states where women can't get leave to take care of their children.
June 15, 2024 at 6:25 PM