A Despondent Guy
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Hey, I am just a guy. I do the bare minimum.
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Mihnea
3 days ago
Human existence is a farce beyond anything the human mind could invent
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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The Fall of the House of Assad
A detached ruler, obsessed with sex and video games, refused every lifeline he was offered.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/02/assad-syria-regime-overthrow/685883/
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Cooper Lund
4 days ago
They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
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I'm probably voting for Talarico. It obvious he wants it more. But, man, so many White people are so eager to slander a Black woman. Most of y'all ain't Texans. Fuck off.
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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️
6 days ago
... a community that didn't *want* to take the bait. (Inasmuch as bsky even is a community, I mean? As opposed to a bunch of communities and community-like crab pots all shoved into the same place.) And we don't have that. What we have is people who want to *stay angry* and don't care how or @ whom.
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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️
6 days ago
Mistake: while at lunch, I went into a couple posts with a lot of odious replies and blocked *literally hundreds* of accounts that were doing performative alt-left "antizionism with a hard K" posting, which left me sick to my stomach. A stark reminder of how badly composable moderation failed.
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Calliope
7 days ago
Arguably, *Westlessness* is just empirically true in the sense that globalization has decisively ended the imbalances of the 1500-1900s. Many "Western" standards of living are now just the norm globally. For instance, electricity:
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Don't Fret. It Adores You
6 days ago
So this is an anti-immigration talking point. Protectionism, nationalism, and xenophobia are a Siamese triplet who cannot be separated, no matter how much Chris Hayes or this site's Bernie boosters wishcast that they were.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸
6 days ago
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There was a great thread on AskHistorians recently that did an amazing job of showing how much better life is now compared to then.
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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/lFRxgJ91tt
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Him.
6 days ago
It's seriously insane how elon is now using his knowledge of epstein's island being a honey pot to try to distance himself from it. Because that's what it was with certain targets. Blackmail. If you're like me and wondered how the pentagon got got? Think that and bitcoins. (1)
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6 days ago
Remember that these are the same type of people who managed to recreate a police shooting coverup from first principles in CHAZ.
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn
7 days ago
It’s so cool that all of this is STILL making it hard for me to find work by the way.
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn
7 days ago
hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”
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Cooper Lund
7 days ago
"This guy is clearly a monster, but he's a well-connected and well-resourced monster so I'm going to let it slide" is the universal lapse in judgement here among elites, and it's a huge issue that seems to be getting missed even though it's so damning of the culture around them.
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Sometimes I forgot how much safer the UK is.
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Matt Ashby
8 days ago
The most-common victim of homicide a young man killed during a brawl. But what about child homicide, elder abuse and domestic abuse? This thread summarises what we know about homicide vulnerability for those specific groups in society. đź§µ
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Chuck Schumer
8 days ago
The SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow style restrictions on voting. It will be dead on arrival in the Senate. My statement:
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Sailor Michael
8 days ago
You can take that other bullshit list and shove it too. "Israel apologist" You antisemitic piece of trash. You and I aren't on the same team. Kissing grown folks ass ain't my thing. Go talk to your parents for that
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Patrick Hulse
8 days ago
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U.S. Representative Al Green
9 days ago
Black History is American history. Enslaved Africans & their descendants are the economic foundation of this nation through labor, innovation, & sacrifice. Our history must be protected, respected, taught, & commemorated every day as a vital part of our nation.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Israel needs to get the shit kicked out of it. Peace cannot be found with this government who has to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to honor any deals that doesn't involve murdering folks.
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Rima I Anabtawi
9 days ago
“Egyptian sources told Ahram Weekly that the impasse was largely due to Israel’s preference to operate Rafah as an exit point. Egypt, however, maintained a firm stance, refusing to operate its side of the border unless Palestinians were also permitted to return to the Gaza Strip.”
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Shibley Telhami
9 days ago
'The underreported silent war: record levels of violence in the occupied West Bank since October 2023. More than 1,000 Palestinians — almost a quarter of them children — have been killed.'
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samuel
9 days ago
The moment international forces arrived at the Rafah land crossing today, in preparation for its reopening.
#Gaza
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Rima I Anabtawi
9 days ago
The Rafah crossing, a key passage between Gaza and Egypt, is set to reopen after Hamas and Israel agreed to a ceasefire in October. The New York Times visited two hospitals in Gaza to meet some of the sick and wounded awaiting medical evacuation.
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: Gaza’s Sick And Wounded Await a Lifeline in Rafah
The Rafah crossing, a key passage between Gaza and Egypt, is set to reopen after Hamas and Israel agreed to a ceasefire in October. The New York Times visited two hospitals in Gaza to meet some of the...
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000010675992/gaza-sick-wounded-rafah-crossing.html
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BeijingPalmer
10 days ago
reiterating that it is normalized in the world of billionaires for people to arrive at events with 18-24 year old girls in tow, and for access to those women to be a social gift. (since I have to spell this out each time, this is gross and was *social cover* for Epstein's abuse of younger girls)
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G Patrick, Lord of Craxis
10 days ago
Insane
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Strictly 4 My Navigators
11 days ago
My guy right here.. Happy 75th to the legendary, Phil Collins! 🥳 🎂🎊
#PhilCollins75
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Wesley Morgan
12 days ago
Throughout this piece, Milburn compares the IDF to US targeting practices that were far more restrained, even at their *least* restrained during Mosul and Raqqa 2016-17. But worth noting that those restrained practices are not set in stone, and even pre-Hegseth, efforts were underway to shed them.
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Wesley Morgan
12 days ago
This is an important, credible, and damning article about the IDF in Gaza by Andy Milburn, a retired US Marine Raider colonel with combat experience from Fallujah and Mosul who maintained close contact with IDF officers during the war (while keeping a low public profile). Read the whole thing.
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Gaza and the Conduct of Urban War: Civilian Harm, Risk, and Responsibility
Urban warfare is often invoked as an alibi: dense terrain, an embedded enemy, human shields, imperfect intelligence. These conditions are real but they do
https://warontherocks.com/2026/01/gaza-and-the-conduct-of-urban-war-civilian-harm-risk-and-responsibility/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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A penitent who is loud
12 days ago
Leftists have blame. "Libs" have blame. Conservatives, obviously, have blame. Most critically, the median voter, who cares fuck-all for Gaza except in a sort of vague "people are dying and more importantly the American establishment isn't Winning and that makes me sad" way, has a fuckton of blame.
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Joaquin Castro
13 days ago
Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.
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13 days ago
You Won't BELIEVE How It Happened
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Auschwitz Memorial
14 days ago
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
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Ilhan Omar
13 days ago
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
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public health guy
13 days ago
second sitting black congressperson to be assaulted in the past week. all the violence seems to be coming from one side, and it ain’t ours
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Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️
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Sasho Todorov
16 days ago
It's just pure peasant prejudice combined with the glorification of the one true leader (Trump). Any sense of duty, that your faith may place a requirement on you to care for any other being, is violently rejected.
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Sasho Todorov
16 days ago
The underlying aspect to all of this is that modern American evangelicalism as actually practiced has basically lost all connection with the sense of being an organized religion or even being particularly Christian. The Southern Baptist Convention has admitted internally that they've lost control.
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Congressman Greg Casar
16 days ago
1. ICE and CBP leave Minneapolis and stops terrorizing American cities; 2. We get a full, independent investigation into the killings; 3. No more detaining and deporting U.S. Citizens; 4. The masks come off; 5. The mass arrest quotas and warrantless arrests end.
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Congressman Greg Casar
16 days ago
Senate Democrats say they won't vote for ICE funding without reforms. Good. Now, we must negotiate hard. At least five demands must be non-negotiable before the bill comes to the House:
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John
17 days ago
The people who have power to end this are Republicans in Congress.
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G Elliott Morris
17 days ago
When I looked at this in December (more coming on this soon), Trump's approval rating was negative in 40 states, including almost a dozen that he won in 2024. Probably holds in many GOP congressional districts too
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What voters in every state think about Trump and prices
Using MRP on our 2025 polling, Trump’s overall approval is underwater in 39 states— and his inflation numbers are negative in 49
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-voters-in-every-state-think?utm_source=publication-search
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G Elliott Morris
17 days ago
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Jacqueline Sweet
17 days ago
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
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Cooper Lund
17 days ago
Every single person doing ICE watch in Minnesota is doing it knowing that they’re putting their bodies and lives on the line and every ICE agent and cop would shoot at their shadow if it startled them. That’s not professionalism, that’s being a coward.
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Matthew Gertz
17 days ago
I don’t think immediate execution is a reasonable punishment for annoying the heavily-armed masked agents of the state.
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Alon (they/them)
18 days ago
9. This also cascades to police brutality. Israeli police brutality against Arabs is extensive (much more than European brutality against minorities, much less than American brutality against white people), but it's usually violent suppression of riots, not US-style traffic stop shootings.
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Alon (they/them)
18 days ago
1. Thread to help explain last boost a bit better, on Arab views of crime in Israel. It may help inform how crime politics works in an atypically spatially segregated society like Israel. đź§µ
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Mel Brooks
18 days ago
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! Premieres tonight on HBO
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Proud Bureaucrat
19 days ago
This is legitimately the same thinking that supported the internment. It's a sense of values inherently tied to your ethnicity
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