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In case this is useful this week: if someone claims that an election held 6 years ago was fraudulent, they would need evidence thoroughly convincing to a large majority of election experts. Anything short of that should be dismissed without hesitation.
The news is always "This absolute fool was dismantled in hearings today. He is manifestly unqualified for the position and would be an existential danger if confirmed. Disaster. He is set to be confirmed immediately." When you ask why everyone is furious and exhausted all the time, this is why.
Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.
Amnesty International UKThe NHS was founded 78 years ago today. It was built after the devastation of the Second World War when the country was bankrupt - but when the people demanded a society built on fairness and dignity for all. Today, we must defend the right to healthcare and rebuild our social security system.
Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.
Greg PakKNICKS IN FIVE KNICKS PRIDE BROOKLYN
NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️
It's the End of American Science As We Know ItWe have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.news.chanda.science
The extent to which launching with "hey creatives, we stole all of your stuff but it's fair use for the good of humanity, now we're going to charge other people to replace you with it" poisoned the well is hard to overstate.
Tressie McMillan CottomI was just talking about this. AI in a robust social safety net is very different than AI in a scam economy without one.
Everything the VP says here is a lie. Tina Peters was convicted of multiple felonies. She stole an innocent person's identity, and after turning off the cameras in a secure room, allowed someone without authorization to use that identity to steal highly secure technology. And now she will profit.
Aaron RuparJD Vance cites Tina Peters as an example of someone who's receive a payout from Trump's new taxpayer-funded J6 slush fund
We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
i guess the best evidence that it wasn't some inside job/false flag was that some chucklehead didn't place a wager on polymarket that it would happen🤷
Leaf~My official stance is that none of the attempts so far have been faked. Not because it would be ethically wrong to kill a patsy for poll numbers, they WOULD do that and more. There've been no False Flags because a JFK coverup would require all of these fucking chowderheads to keep a secret
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the largest and deadliest battle for U.S. troops in WWI, resulted in approximately 26,277 American deaths. In comparison, the flu killed roughly 30,000 American soldiers in stateside training camps before they even reached Europe
Olga NesterovaMake this make sense.
JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:
i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you