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Fuck you Carter Hart

A powerful paragraph here:

"An acquittal is only a legal conclusion, not a moral one. [...] The prosecution must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, which is often difficult in sexual assault cases where the body is the crime scene"
Sexual Assault Survivors Provide Context On Hockey Canada Trial And Carter Hart - SinBin.vegas
Over the summer, top Canadian indie podcast Canadian True Crime produced a five-part series dissecting the Hockey Canada trial in detail, opening my eyes to angles on this I never could have even fath...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Vicente has been missing for seven weeks after being taken into DHS’ custody and experiencing a medical emergency.

His family has no answers on where he is or if he is safe.

The Trump Administration cannot get away with disappearing people.
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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National Guard soldiers didn't sign up to be deployed as local police indefinitely as part of someone else's political stunt.

They're not set up to be local police, they never should have been deployed.
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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LAST DAY TO EARLY VOTE!!!!!

Woke up with the energy of 1,000 Dolly Partons 💅🏼✨ A new poll has us just 2 points behind. It’s the LAST day to early vote! COLLEGE KIDS COMING HOME: hug your fam, kiss the dog, then find your polling place at iwillvote.com?utm_so.... Let’s flip TN-07!
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Whenever you see Bari Weiss' name, remember:
PROFESSOR REFAAT ALAREER TOLD US TO HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS MURDER!
Bari Weiss made his home a target, and they killed Dr. Alareer, his sister, her 3 children, his brother and that brother's son.
Bari Weiss is a proud propagandist for racist murder.
Remember what Dr. Refaat Alareer told us about Bari Weiss.
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.

What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.

And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?
Riley Gaines climbed the MAGA ladder by vilifying trans women in sports. Now, teammates are speaking out about the real problems on her team: abusive coaching, sexual harassment, eating disorders. ow.ly/o3wq50XuCzp
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.

In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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He betrayed his oath as a doctor and voluntarily supported a man whose insane policies will kill children, all for the sake of power, MAGA, and politics.

I hope he is shamed for life.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Vaccine-supporting Cassidy declines to speak against RFK Jr.
But Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician, did emphasize his belief that vaccines are safe.
www.politico.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:

Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.

If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.

Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Family law lawyer here. Please do not do this to your child(ren). There are other options, & your kids deserve joyful memories.
See more of my thoughts on this in the replies.
My birthday is the day after Christmas. My parents' custody decree said that whichever parent I spent Christmas with, I had to spend my birthday with the other one. I spent every Christmas night traveling. From ages 8-14, that was flying across the country alone. So yeah, I've always hated holidays.
The Only Children of White Collar Professional Parents In The 1990s website is uniquely badly-positioned to have good memories or holiday food
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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I have so many feelings on this as a scrunchy mom who had friends pushing "freebirth" and judging me for having my 4 kids in hospitals with midwives. I would have bled to death 3-4 births and I'd have lost one child if I had done this "freebirth" madness.
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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When our starting pay is this low and our scheduled hours don’t qualify us for benefits, the numbers just don’t add up. Starbucks has a higher CEO-to-worker pay gap than ANY business in the S&P 500. It would cost them less than a single day’s sales to finalize a fair contract!
November 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Lorelei Cloud was born 3 years before Native Americans living on tribal lands in Colorado were guaranteed the right to vote. She is now vice chair of the Southern Ute Tribe. “I don’t want future generations to have to deal with any of what we’ve had to.”
On Native Land, a New Push to Expand Voting Meets the Long Tail of State Violence
Ongoing negotiations between tribal leaders and Colorado officials may chart a new path for automatically registering Native voters and growing voter rolls nationwide. But first the state is having to confront a legacy of mistrust.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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A client's garden that I planted was posted on Insta by someone who felt they could take fruit w/o permission. He defended his choice and has apparently been sharing the location of the garden with others so they can also take fruit. The entitlement + lack of consent is concerning.
Someone put my client's garden on Instagram. I'm not thrilled with what I saw
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Wheatpasted outside the Metro in #OccupiedDC
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Thread but also just don't tell Paypal anything. No "what is this for" you both know what it's for. If you send a friend some money for dinner or something and you say "for friday night", even odds they get banned as a sex worker.
PayPal has rolled out a new "feature" that prompts you to leave feedback about an artist that you've commissioned via invoice.

Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.

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November 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.

The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.

🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM