ARoyden
@zingara1860.bsky.social
Post-conflict social cohesion, building resilient democracies, Gen Z politics. Puppy wrangler. Failed minimalist. I love bread.
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I've said this before, but there are two kinds of people in the world.
- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something, and think it's unfair unless everyone else also suffers
- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something and don't want anyone else to experience that.
- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something, and think it's unfair unless everyone else also suffers
- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something and don't want anyone else to experience that.
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I've said this before, but there are two kinds of people in the world.
- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something, and think it's unfair unless everyone else also suffers
- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something and don't want anyone else to experience that.
- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something, and think it's unfair unless everyone else also suffers
- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something and don't want anyone else to experience that.
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When you're a Saudi crown prince they let you do it. You can do anything, dismember them with a bonesaw. You can do anything. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Saudi entourage for US visit may include official implicated in Twitter spy plot
Senior aide to Mohammed bin Salman allegedly led campaign to identify users who were posting critically about Saudi regime
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
When you're a Saudi crown prince they let you do it. You can do anything, dismember them with a bonesaw. You can do anything. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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it is impossible to honestly describe this country without understanding the nature of a multilevel marketing scam
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
it is impossible to honestly describe this country without understanding the nature of a multilevel marketing scam
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🧵, as they say:
Mamdani says that six years ago, a well-meaning uncle told him that he didn't have to tell people he was Muslim
October 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🧵, as they say:
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This beautiful young man is the very best of us. The kind face of this incredibly tiny small town of a city that we love so much. And those bastards are trying to make him feel less-than? Trying to make ALL of us feel less-than?
To hell with them. Cuomo and Adams and all their corporate supporters.
To hell with them. Cuomo and Adams and all their corporate supporters.
October 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This beautiful young man is the very best of us. The kind face of this incredibly tiny small town of a city that we love so much. And those bastards are trying to make him feel less-than? Trying to make ALL of us feel less-than?
To hell with them. Cuomo and Adams and all their corporate supporters.
To hell with them. Cuomo and Adams and all their corporate supporters.
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I'm still seeing people suggest secession as a solution and bitching about red states.
There are multiple problems with this but the biggest is that it means abandoning our people. Even if states skew red, there are still folks there who need equal rights and our protection.
There are multiple problems with this but the biggest is that it means abandoning our people. Even if states skew red, there are still folks there who need equal rights and our protection.
October 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I'm still seeing people suggest secession as a solution and bitching about red states.
There are multiple problems with this but the biggest is that it means abandoning our people. Even if states skew red, there are still folks there who need equal rights and our protection.
There are multiple problems with this but the biggest is that it means abandoning our people. Even if states skew red, there are still folks there who need equal rights and our protection.
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Despite everything I still have fundamental faith in the American people turning this around and making things better.
[reads any New York Times focus group]
Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]
[reads any New York Times focus group]
Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]
September 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Despite everything I still have fundamental faith in the American people turning this around and making things better.
[reads any New York Times focus group]
Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]
[reads any New York Times focus group]
Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]
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It never occurred to them, raising children on hate, filling them with wrath, that it could come back to bite them. That their little monsters could become big monsters & those monsters wouldn't care who they hurt. Because that's what they were taught.
That their needs are outsized & must be met.
That their needs are outsized & must be met.
September 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It never occurred to them, raising children on hate, filling them with wrath, that it could come back to bite them. That their little monsters could become big monsters & those monsters wouldn't care who they hurt. Because that's what they were taught.
That their needs are outsized & must be met.
That their needs are outsized & must be met.
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Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton?????
A:
A:
it’s not even a sacrifice, it’s like a Free Gift With Purchase
September 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton?????
A:
A:
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Astonishing how fast and easy it is to bring down a global superpower if you’re really committed to destroying its political system, tanking its economy, killing as many of its people as possible through disease and removing medical care, and destroying its universities, and nobody stops you.
August 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Astonishing how fast and easy it is to bring down a global superpower if you’re really committed to destroying its political system, tanking its economy, killing as many of its people as possible through disease and removing medical care, and destroying its universities, and nobody stops you.
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I just sent this out.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
to Jews, on the Gaza famine
an open letter: we have been commanded
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I just sent this out.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
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Opinion | Tens of thousands of Palestinians are at risk for starvation. But the real famine is the lack of pro-Israel voices on America’s campuses.
by Bret Stephens
by Bret Stephens
July 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Opinion | Tens of thousands of Palestinians are at risk for starvation. But the real famine is the lack of pro-Israel voices on America’s campuses.
by Bret Stephens
by Bret Stephens
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The antipathy for the Department of Education is the most enduring relic of the cause that birthed the modern GOP: not having to go to school with Black people.
July 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The antipathy for the Department of Education is the most enduring relic of the cause that birthed the modern GOP: not having to go to school with Black people.
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It is ironic that they cut the budget for nursing homes so they could increase the budget to arrest many of the people who work in nursing homes.
A bit overkill on the nursing home attacks, really.
A bit overkill on the nursing home attacks, really.
July 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It is ironic that they cut the budget for nursing homes so they could increase the budget to arrest many of the people who work in nursing homes.
A bit overkill on the nursing home attacks, really.
A bit overkill on the nursing home attacks, really.
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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
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Mamdani should win but he's the latest example of the Democratic Party closing ranks to keep anyone young and exciting and full of energy out of the party - and then they spend countless millions on consultants trying to figure out why they're struggling with young voters
June 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Mamdani should win but he's the latest example of the Democratic Party closing ranks to keep anyone young and exciting and full of energy out of the party - and then they spend countless millions on consultants trying to figure out why they're struggling with young voters
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Among many other things this is a proliferation nightmare. The lesson learned will be never negotiate with the United States.
June 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Among many other things this is a proliferation nightmare. The lesson learned will be never negotiate with the United States.
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Any Democrat thinking of running for president in 2028 who isn’t going to speak out against the Trump/Netanyahu war with Iran should just stop thinking about it. You’re never going to win without being on the right side of this.
June 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Any Democrat thinking of running for president in 2028 who isn’t going to speak out against the Trump/Netanyahu war with Iran should just stop thinking about it. You’re never going to win without being on the right side of this.
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This Army birthday I’m thinking of Medal of Honor recipient Pvt Henry Johnson of the 369th NY National Guard (known as the Harlem Hellfighters). The 369th served more days in the WWI trenches than an other US unit, took more casualties also. DOD just stripped Johnson’s name off Ft. Polk.
June 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This Army birthday I’m thinking of Medal of Honor recipient Pvt Henry Johnson of the 369th NY National Guard (known as the Harlem Hellfighters). The 369th served more days in the WWI trenches than an other US unit, took more casualties also. DOD just stripped Johnson’s name off Ft. Polk.
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today my friend, a teacher, was asking me about work and said “if you could tell me one thing right now, what would it be?”
and i told her that the attack on senator padilla and the murders in minnesota are just the beginning; that more violence is coming, and burying your head isn’t an option.
and i told her that the attack on senator padilla and the murders in minnesota are just the beginning; that more violence is coming, and burying your head isn’t an option.
June 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
today my friend, a teacher, was asking me about work and said “if you could tell me one thing right now, what would it be?”
and i told her that the attack on senator padilla and the murders in minnesota are just the beginning; that more violence is coming, and burying your head isn’t an option.
and i told her that the attack on senator padilla and the murders in minnesota are just the beginning; that more violence is coming, and burying your head isn’t an option.
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So do we get why I was banned from speaking about Pinochet at the Naval Academy now?
June 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
So do we get why I was banned from speaking about Pinochet at the Naval Academy now?
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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
June 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.