@TonyStark @northernlights Let's face it, she'd have won in a landslide if only she been born (and remained) a man.
llinois governor is first in US to block federal access to personal data on autism
@Beachbum What is RC? @TonyStark
Librarians have guts.
Bravo!
“Staff members at the library balked and called the U.S. Capitol Police as well as their general counsel, Meg Williams, who told the two officials that they were not allowed access to the Copyright Office and asked them to leave, one of the people said.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/trump-library-of-congress.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
@TonyStark I'm struck by the thumbnail image here: antisemites want all the Jews to go back to Israel...except for when they want all the Jews to leave Israel. The proper place of the Jews is always Somewhere Else.
Dictator Donald’s claim of an Afrikaner “genocide” is a vile lie that mocks real atrocities; it peddles white grievance, erases genuine suffering and reeks of fascist gaslighting.
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@Beachbum You minced your own words. We were taking them at face value. @TonyStark
@liferstate Heh. How many of us do? @TonyStark @Beachbum
@Beachbum Mean what you say, and say what you mean. Especially in a written medium. @TonyStark
@Beachbum If you truly don't wish it to be about religion, then just use nationalities, and stop using a religion. @TonyStark
@TonyStark I think he's just confused. At least I hope that's all it is. @Beachbum
@Beachbum Yes. Americans voted for the US dictator. Israelis voted for the Israeli dictator. See my last post. Don't confuse Israelis and Jews. One is a nationality. @TonyStark
@digyoursoul You're half right. He's certainly a tool.
@Beachbum Jews =/= Israelis and Israelis =/= Jews. @TonyStark
You cannot ethically write a paragraph that says "Trump claimed Monday that a genocide was taking place in South Africa" without immediately contextualizing it as a damnable, racist lie from a delusional demagogue. And yet WaPo did. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/12/afrikaner-refugees-arrive-dulles-trump/
Fareed Zakaria: "#ElonMusk choosing, thru #DOGE, to cut #USAID is a case of the world's richest man being involved in the deaths of the world's worse [off] people."
Bill Gates: "If you show up and say in a few months you can cut $2 trillion out of a $7 trillion budget, you're not going to succeed... He's a genius in some domains but in global health, it hasn't been a focus."
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