listen I may get blocked for this but: you don't actually get to hate kids and be an okay person. you can not like being around them. you can avoid interaction. you can feel uncomfortable. but if you HATE kids: sorry dude you fucking suck as a person

Oooh found my next hexing candidate

Breaking | Israel committed a new massacre in central Gaza, bombing a residential home north of Al-Zawaida and killing at least 11 Palestinians, with dozens more wounded in the initial toll. Rescue teams, working in darkness without proper equipment, search the rubble for missing civilians…

every democrat should loudly demand that rollins explain why a farmer bailout won’t lower grocery prices

Oh: "South Korea Says US Projects Will Remain in Limbo Until Visa Fix" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Sex workers posting wildly incorrect WW2 rage bait to get people to click on their bio instead of thirst traps is the funniest anecdote you can tell about this place

USAID was one small element in "global leadership" (certainly in terms of dollars) and it could absolutely continue under a future US that exists as a non-hegemonic participant in the global community.

CHARACTER Speaking at Crimea Platform at UNHQ is Mustafa Dzhemilev - Soviet human rights activist and dissident, Ukrainian politician, one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatar national movement, chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people. Hero of Ukraine. ⬇️

⚡️ Crimean Tatar leader Dzhemilev: If Crimea is not liberated, the Crimean Tatar people risk disappearing as a distinct nation. “For Ukraine it’s sovereignty, for us it’s survival.”

while i can't speak for brazil, i would like to mention that south korea isn't exactly „sane”, it's just that 1980-1987 is still fairly recent

of course, he's done absolutely nothing to restrain the greatest threat to a free syria, its psychotic neighbor, but that's more inaction than action

his foreign policy, counting the dissolution of USAID, is one of facilitating mass death but he's go one green arrow in a sea of red and it's giving the new syria a better chance

He genuinely does not care that Israel doesn't like this, at least. and frankly that's more than we got from Biden and Harris would have faced a revolt.

A powerful speech by Ahmed al-Sharaa that reminded us that the oppressed and tormented Syrian people, after years of suffering under the Assad regime, whose barrel bombs were no different from the 2,000-pound bombs dropped by Israel on the neighborhoods and refugee camps in Gaza, have finally won.

Van Hollen is calling for Democrats to turn away from “wimpy politics” and stake out clear positions even on issues that lack a clear political upside. That includes backing Mamdani.

I didn't buy the idea that Van Hollen was seriously considering a presidential bid in 2028 until I read this profile of him just released in WaPo

Zelenskyy, a leader at war, uses the podium to plead not just for Ukraine, but for Syria too. I hope Al-Sharaa doesn’t return the favor with an overdose of pragmatism with Moscow. Russia might no longer murder our children, but it still murders Ukraine’s.

my family was welcomed into this country by people who had numbers tattooed on their arms

russian forces shot and killed civilians, including a child’s parents, and abducted a young  girl. russia then continued their assault while holding the child hostage to prevent retaliatory fire. Radio interceptions indicate that these actions were premeditated 👇1/5

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Benny Gantz with an op-ed in the New York Times today in which he openly states that opposition to Palestinian statehood is at the heart of the national consensus of the Israeli body politic, something that virtually all Israeli Jews agree with Netanyahu on.

It’s kinda funny how Ukraine has ran over every single Russian red line and they don’t even have nukes lmfao

A former political extremist who has ”supposedly” moderated in order to gain favour with the western establishment, pictured here beside Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Zelensky: Syria deserves the strongest support from the international community.

Even while his own country continues to suffer from brutal bombardment, the Ukrainian President takes a moment to defend the Syrian people. Thank you, Mr. President, for your noble solidarity.

Zelensky met with Ahmed al-Sharaa as Ukraine and Syria officially restored diplomatic relations.

Prompting is open now btw!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Unions are pretty much always the answer to "why can Europeans ___ and not Americans" No one's figured out how to do a general strike without them. ~10% of the US workforce is covered by a union. In France it's nearly 100%, and they protest all the goddamn time. www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

I see some people pointing to the general strike in Italy like "why can't we do that here" well, (good for Italy though) apnews.com/article/ital...

literally only arab leaders would be dumb enough to believe him

I think it's virtually every US ideology's zone of exception - conservatism begrudging says the value is in essentially any tradition and religious literature but not that one, liberalism makes the carve outs you noted, libertarianism refuses to extend bodily autonomy to hijab fights, etc

More or less every liberal argument in favor of American hegemony either pretends MENA is an area of exemption from international norms or, more perversely, Israel is actually an embodiment of international norms. Either way the only conclusion to take is that Arabs are not included in liberalism.

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

From "I support a two state solution" to "a Palestinian state on the pre June 1967 borders is antisemitic"

Where’s the hockey x figure skating fic

My opponent, Winsome Earle-Sears, is lying (again). 350,000+ Virginians are at risk of losing their healthcare coverage because of Trump’s tax law — which she praised. That’s not leadership — and Virginians deserve better.

You really have to wonder who the hell is making these decisions. Musk's involvement is basically unavoidable but it baffles me that Earle-Sears decided to build her campaign essentially exclusively around transphobia. VA voters are pretty socially liberal even discounting the attacks on schools

Now that Jimmy Kimmel has his show back I can safely hate him for being unfunny and obnoxious again

i need to finish this thesis, finish my masters, get a job, get my own apartment zzzz but i don’t want to leave my mom alone :((((

my dad falling for a new bank scam ,,,, save me

FINALLY GOT A SLOT FOR THE BEGINNERS CLASS AHHHHH

Spooky month

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still in Virginia and Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk are still free.

Not to mention that Macron has been blocking the seizure of Russian assets because gLoBaL tRuSt

Progressives have been trying to get people to understand Farage is an enemy of the NHS for many, many years We would like to thank him for now being explicit about it

Just incredibly moving given the rest of our politics that every Lib Dem Conf includes flying the world’s largest trans flag while singing “We Shall Overcome”

Of all the brands to go for you pick the one that held its own through “the tylenol murders” and refused to change its name

like I'm glad it wasn't Fallon but it's so deeply undignified that we have to be out here riding for Jimmy Kimmel I try to think of it less like "hooray, his important voice has returned to the airwaves" and more like "hooray, the FCC didn't destroy the livelihoods of hundreds of innocent workers"

De Niro: "I gotta go. A couple cases of Tylenol fell off a truck and now I gotta figure out how to put autism in them."

OMG. Robert De Niro as Brendan Carr.