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To all the women out there fighting the good fight and everyone that supports us, Happy International Womenβs Day #pinks #sheshed
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Happy World Book Day! π
How to Dismantle a Concentration Camp newrepublic.com/post/207116/... via @newrepublic.com
I scored 369 in today's Slate Quiz. Think you can beat me? - slate.com/news-and-pol...
Nurul Amin Shah Alam was a blind refugee, unable to speak English. DHS improperly detained-but finally released him
Instead of bringing him home, they dropped him miles away-without regard to his disability or notifying his family
Unable to find his way, he died on the streets of Buffalo
Alone
THE KILLER by John Woo proves less isΒ more
Watch The Killer--a classic by John Woo that influences tons of modern directors--and you'll notice that the best parts are the quiet ones. The tension of face-offs between the assassin and the detective, guns pointed, but no triggers pulled. The scenesβ¦
I feel this so hard re: OUR MISSING HEARTS
Australian artist Meredith Woolnough's delicately embroidered sculptures express aspects of nature #WomensArt
An Amazon-style warehouse network to make disappearing people faster and more efficient
Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.
Pritzkerβs invoice to White House:
(via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov
What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve?
If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days?
If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built?
It's a tax. That's all it is.
Snow is the devil
Acceptable first names for drivers: Brisket, Scooter, Turbo, Bourbon.
Nicely done! NASCAR drivers should be required to have crazy names. If they embraced the inevitable crashes and armored the cars/demolition derbied it up, far more folks would watch.
Happy Friday! This week's quiz is not beatable. If you do better than 7/12, buy two lottery tickets and give them both to somebody you hate. #SLATE #newsquiz
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This should be a bigger story.
More than 15,000 American farms shut down in 2025.
U2 released a new protest song today in memory of Renee Good. It's pretty good and to the point.
American Obituary-
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Colbert posted the interview online. I do wonder if CBS and the FCC are aware of the Streisand effect? The interview has been up for 8 hours and has just over half a million views.
Wow.
use the money FOR the People and not AGAINST the people.
Unsurprising, but nice to see this validated.
Organized civil disobedience will be the key to defeating Trump as it was in defeating the Jim Crow oppression in the South.
OK Tracer Bullet was good but I assume we're all in agreement that this is the all-time BEST Calvin & Hobbes strip, correct
and even this guy who doesn't really know our history, but still doesn't want that history to be our future
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The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory