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Education is also rapidly becoming a universal standard. A century ago, many Westerners did not attend high school. Today, most of the world does:
Infant mortality in India and Bangladesh today is the same as the West in the 1990s. In the Middle East and North Africa, it's even better than that.
The entire world is converging to what was once considered exclusively "Western."
Even the world of the 2000s is a distant dream. Extreme poverty has straight-up *evaporated* outside of Africa. The 21st century has done things that were aspirational UN goals just a few decades ago.
We are living in a *dramatically* improved world. It's up to us to defend that world, and make things even better.
Even the world of the 2000s is a distant dream. Extreme poverty has straight-up *evaporated* outside of Africa. The 21st century has done things that were aspirational UN goals just a few decades ago.
Remember her name: Aliya Rahman
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
A 25% increase in real wages?
Numerous people are pushing back against the reasonable consensus that Epstein was evil and that cozying up to him showed bad character. You are under no obligation to take those arguments seriously and respectfully. Look out, they may call you a “woke” “mob.”
Absolutely fucking repulsive.
Blumenthal: ICE and CBP are out of control. The practices of this agency have to be completely overhauled. It’s like a corporation in bankruptcy—either dissolved or reorganized. They’re morally bankrupt, legally bankrupt, and politically bankrupt.
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for better or worse, people will forget about that video by the end of the year, if not end of the month. but when trump finally kicks the bucket, there were be orgasmic celebrations across the US & around the world. he will be remembered as the most despised US president since WWII for generations
We need to rehabilitate the "girlboss" as a concept, seeing how it took approximately 2.5 seconds for us to go from deciding they were cringe to a rapeboss taking over the world.
Almost half of gofundme-type fundraisers don't get a single donation. I rarely post these but this one is from a fan about to lose their home who put up theirs 5 months ago and it just had no visibility, and thus no donations. So I'm using my visibility:
www.gofundme.com/f/temporaril...
Donate to Temporarily stranded, organized by Ogechukwu Nwigbo A
Hi I'm Oge and I need help to support my small family and avoid being homeless. We have a 5-mo… Ogechukwu Nwigbo A needs your support for Temporarily stranded
I for one would not turn the whole weight of the US government against a 5 year-old named "Rabbit" with a rabbit hat now known worldwide out of spite.
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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president
bsky.app/profile/kyle...A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account:
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
ICE is terrorizing our communities.
Democrats are fighting to impeach Kristi Noem, provide no more funding for ICE, and hold them all accountable.
Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”
I think Jessie Diggins said it well when she said, essentially, that she gets to decide who she competes for and she’s not competing for the racists
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very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth
This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
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they’re going to lose and things like this are why they’re going to lose but the suffering they are causing in the process is immense
embarrass the administration and they will do everything in their power to ruin your life, even if the embarrassment is the result of their own cruel overreach
vicious sadistic bullies all the way down
The whole list exceeds my expectations in terms of being creative about making them sound deranged for objecting to any of it.
So yeah TLDR get ready for the rest of DHS to be shut down for a while IMO.
🧵DOJ isn't going to investigate anything with Alex Pretti's murder.
This is to block the State of Minnesota AG from charging the ICE agents.
The same thing happened with Renee Good. Take over the investigation and stonewall all state agencies.
This is their way of avoiding trials for murder.
Civil rights investigation opened into Alex Pretti shooting
The deputy attorney general said it was a “standard investigation” after Pretti's fatal shooting in Minneapolis.
“.. US stocks outperforming the rest of the world has been one of the strongest investing themes for years. It peaked in December 2024, right after Trump's win.”
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@weisenthal.bsky.socialFor decades, nativists have sold America this narrative that immigrant welfare is behind our deficits and debt. This figure shows how absurd that is. This is all government expenditures, federal, state, and local, for the last 3 decades. Immigrants are not to blame:
Unfortunately at a later date the organizers, who are unknown to me, made an unannounced rule change, instituting a complete ban on interactions with press. As a press member yourself, I think you might be a little concerned with this kind of mentality, but who knows. I was removed without warning.
Hey Ryan! as a reporter I’m sure you care about accuracy here. I was removed for one specific reason - because I brought press on ridealongs, on the condition that no other observer be revealed. This was common practice and my local network actually set up a ridealong for me with the Atlantic.
Will Stancil getting thrown out of the ICE signal chat for being annoying (and apparently not following the rules?) was always the way this was destined to end
"Former Farming Leaders Warn U.S. Agriculture Could Face ‘Widespread Collapse’"
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Thinkin about this incredible interaction
ICE is still in Minnesota. ICE is still breaking down glass windows and doors. ICE is still separating families. ICE is still targeting our neighbors who need to go to work because they cannot afford food, rent, and basic living expenses. 1/
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Fucking give it all away then asshole.
See how you feel. See how others respond to you. Tell us how you feel then
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Rep. Ben Cline at the National Prayer Breakfast: "We are reminded that leadership is not only about policy and power, but about character, conscience, and the recognition that all authority that all authority is ultimately accountable to God. We are honored to welcome President Bukele."
I just read the declaration that Kira Kelley asked J. Blackwell to consider.
This immigrant describes being
-unlawfully arrested
-taken from one overcrowded & filthy prison to another over 19 days
-held incommunicado
& ICE never telling him a court ordered his release
He describes an American gulag
There's been lots of attention on 1 particular inexperienced & untrained govt lawyer
But I want to give a shout-out to Kira Kelley,
climatedefenseproject.org/profile/kira...,
who focused on ICE's horrific treatment of an immigrant prisoner -- all occurring *after* the court had ordered him released
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Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
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