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So prescient, I never had a Twitter account.
Not sure this guy's "the left", personally.
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Replies correctly point out that "the populist right is going to hear" all sorts of things "as 'the Jews'". There's also the interesting factual question of _which_ left-wing populists "want[...] to win internal Democratic Party fights by calling their factional opponents the 'Epstein class'"...
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Chinese GF has informed me this is called "scrubbing the wok" (hence why there's foamy water in the middle) and you can see a million more of these videos if you search č¶éå·é (off-road hot pot).
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e.w. niedermeyer
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the elder millenial poster's retirement home has achieved its final form
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Erin Reed
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In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up
A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-youth-suicides-skyrocketed
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)
4 days ago
The US is starving Cuba to death
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...
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From blackouts to food shortages: How US blockade is crippling life in Cuba
US pressure pushes island nation's 11 million people to the brink as Cuba imposes emergency measures amid fuel crisis.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/2/8/from-blackouts-to-food-shortages-how-us-blockade-is-crippling-life-in-cuba
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jennifer uncoolidge
4 days ago
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: āCerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patientās nose. In another⦠a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patientās skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injuredā
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As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/
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John McDonnell MP
3 days ago
I asked the Defence minister today to examine whether the Ā£4 million donation to Labour in 2024 by Quadrature. a hedge fund with sizeable investments in Palentir, a client of Mandelsonās company, had any influence on the award of contracts to Palentir, some without competition.
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Chris Ingraham
3 days ago
This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Peter Geoghegan
8 days ago
š“ BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm Ā£30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story:
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BREAKING: McSweeneyās think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-morgan-mcsweeneys-labour-together-investigators-journalists
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Looks like ICE. (Go on, detach this post, you cowards.)
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Joad The Wet Sprocket
4 days ago
I think growing up in the specific time we did has a lot of us taking "they'll just jailbreak it" for granted. There still isn't a working root for Amazon tablets made after 2019. The Xbox360 is 20 years old and we're only just now seeing a softmod on the horizon. They can lock stuff down now.
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"No break greater than 4 hrs yesterday" "Posted same url 10+ times yesterday" "Posts a lot: more than 100 times yesterday"
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flyingrodent
4 days ago
Good to see Lewis Goodall at least addressing this, a thing nobody else Iāve seen has had a go at.
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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins
4 months ago
This popped up in my memories from 2022... Everything about it is magnificent; - Inexplicable The xx playing in the background - The debate lord tactics on such a mundane topic - The blank stare from the wife the whole time - Capped off w/ a premonition of the impending divorce
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"I'M IN A POLYCULE WITH AELLA"?
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Unreal. Hours after Ryan Grim, co-founder of
@dropsitenews.com
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Jessica Kant
5 days ago
I feel so sick reading this. She dedicated her life to helping her immigrant trans siblings, finally got the medical care she sought her whole life, and then a year later ICE tricked her, kidnapped her and used her postoperative status as a weapon to destroy her health. CW for basically everything
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She Was Honored With A Human Rights Award. Then She Says ICE Tricked And Arrested Her.
A HuffPost investigation found how the Trump administration systematically destroyed safeguards for detainees, subjecting them to abuse and neglect.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-ice-trans-immigrants-medical-neglect_n_69851c88e4b06f7f7bb7cdbc?utm_campaign=share_email&ncid=other_email_o63gt2jcad4
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Japan just had its 3rd general election in 5 years, and...the LDP blew out the opposition. Ehn. I see why people pay more attention to the Super Bowl and the Olympics.
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2026 Japanese general election - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Japanese_general_election
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Emissary Of Night | ŁŁŁŁ
5 days ago
OK these complaints are getting a little sillyā the guy who founded a news company that focuses on Gaza basically every day stopped talking about it in Nov 2024?
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flyingrodent
6 days ago
Okay, but I can certainly see why itās highly inconvenient for some people that the focus is on political corruption
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7 days ago
Stark difference between Peter Mandelson and Nicola Sturgeon police home searches Not a surprise though. š
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Stark difference between Peter Mandelson and Nicola Sturgeon police home searches
Officers erected a forensic tent outside of the former first minister's home, did Peter Mandelson get the same treatment?
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25834343.difference-peter-mandelson-nicola-sturgeon-police-search/
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Carole Cadwalladr
6 days ago
Since
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Oliver
5 days ago
'The [utterly despicable paedo-]Times just conducted a "friendly" interview with Peter Mandelson (pictured half naked with young girls) that says he was āmanipulatedā by Jeffery Epstein' Murdoch rag publishes Mandelson puff piece despite Epstein scandal
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Murdoch rag publishes Mandelson puff piece despite Epstein scandal
The Times may be part of the Murdoch press, but you'd think they have the sense not to publish a Mandelson puff piece at this moment in time
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/02/07/mandelson-piece-published/
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Saul Staniforth
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"Why is it there was one set of rules for Mandelson & a different set of rules for people like myself" Labour MP Apsana Begum has consistently spoken out against the factionalism of those in control of Labour (& Apsana knows from personal experience how disgusting their actions can be
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Phil Lewis
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The International Olympic Committee ruled that an image of Toussaint Louverture, born into slavery and and leader of the Haitian Revolution, on Haitiās uniforms violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism
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Haiti's Winter Olympics team shines a positive light even as IOC removes patriot from uniforms
Haiti is making a statement at the Milan Cortina Winter Games with two athletes proudly representing the nation.
https://apnews.com/article/haiti-olympics-uniforms-winter-games-diversity-f85baa15a623fadbc15569325efc61b5
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Arctic sea ice volume has been, if I'm reading this chart correctly, at a perpetual seasonally adjusted low, to within statistical error, every day from the start of 2023 (maybe even 2022).
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Eils_G š
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"The use of Shannon Airport for flights carrying Palestinians being deported from the United States has been described as āreprehensibleā, ādeeply disturbing,ā and āoutrageousā by Opposition politicians."
#Ireland
#SpƩirGhorm
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Shannon Airport being used to deport Palestinians from US | BreakingNews
The first of the two flights passed through Shannon Airport on the night of January 20th/21st with eight Palestinian men on board, reportedly with their wrists and ankles shackled.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/shannon-airport-being-used-to-deport-palestinians-from-us-1862588.html
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Unicorn Riot
7 days ago
A masked federal agent in a convenience store parking lot in the northern Twin Cities suburb of Coon Rapids told legal observers that Minnesotaās status as a blue state is linked with the removal of residents, on a video provided to Unicorn Riot.
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Scoutprime
7 days ago
LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
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ktb ā§
7 days ago
Why does this look like a Symbolics demo from 1988?
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Reddit as most anti-Trump of these platforms interesting in light of the controversies years ago about misogyny and /r/The_Donald/. (And given how much LLMs have been trained on Reddit posts, might help explain US LLMs' liberal-ish-by-default lean.)
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Dylan
7 days ago
Do you think this is the first time Bartolome de las Casas has been labeled part of the "woke mob"?
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MichĆØle Nuijten
10 days ago
I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing.
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Promised Data Unavailable? ā Iām Sorry, Maāam, Thereās Nothing We Can Do ā Meta-Research Center
This blogpost has been written by MichĆØle Nuijten. MichĆØle is an assistant professor of our research group who investigates reproducibility and replicability in psychology. Also, she is the developer ...
https://metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/3/promised-data-unavailable-im-sorry-maam-theres-nothing-we-can-do
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The Nation Magazine
10 days ago
Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling āA Day for Gaza.ā There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.
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A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/a-day-for-gaza-intro-explainer/
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Another
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banger. "Thiel personally solicited and maintained a business partnership with Epstein that stretched from 2014 [...] all the way up to Epsteinās final arrest."
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Stephanie M. Lee
10 days ago
Hereās What the Latest Epstein Files Say About His Ties to Higher Ed: Collectively, the files underscore how deeply Epstein remained embedded in academic and intellectual circles even after his criminal history became public.
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Hereās What the Latest Epstein Files Say About His Ties to Higher Ed
New documents released by the Department of Justice on Friday reinforce that long after his criminal convictions, many prominent professors continued to communicate with him.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/heres-what-the-latest-epstein-files-say-about-his-ties-to-higher-ed
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Keith Stack
13 days ago
FWIW, as funny as it is to say all of societyās woes date back to Lowtax banning hentai, I think that sentiment really does give too much leniency towards all the things Facebook/Zuckerberg are responsible for.
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Gregk Foley
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If you'd told me, a decade ago, that the rising concept of the 'influencer' would one day serve as a transmission belt for the elevation of subliterate clowns seeking to provoke pogroms in exchange for promotional deals with online betting companies, I'd probably have said, "That tracks."
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Daniel Suitor
10 days ago
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
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Mehdi Hasan
11 days ago
Now is probably a good time to remind folks that Elon Musk deleted this recent tweet of his about an 18 year old girl
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Jessica Washington
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Shouting this from the rooftops!
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The Dax Symbiont š“š³ļøāšš²šøš©
11 days ago
Shout out to William stancils who said this week that protesting isnāt dangerous. This dude let people use his apartment to clean off pepper spray and tear gas and now heās on a DHS domestic terrorist watchlist
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All those "Rude" labels are applied _manually_?!
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The Twitter Files were the most scandalous and important documents ever but the ones about prominent politicians and members of the elite being pedophiles? Yawn
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The most dramatic example I can recall of a right-winger punching left with a transparently bad-faith accusation of bigotry.
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Carl Quintanilla
12 days ago
WSJ: ā.. The deal marked something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president's company."
@wsj.com
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Scott Santens
16 days ago
Looking forward to seeing local businesses saying to bring in your photo like this for a free whatever they sell.
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