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“Just a kid from Brooklyn”

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Last week it was snowing. This week it’s going to be 72 degrees. Someone needs to reboot this simulation.

08.03.2026 04:50 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Chocolate Ragdoll Cats are very rare—and absolutely stunning.

08.03.2026 04:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Scientists have detected “extremely abundant” alcohol in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Kanpai!

astrobiology.com/2026/03/alma...

08.03.2026 04:34 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I sincerely believe that Trump is convinced that the Iranian people will hail him as a great liberator and erect a giant gold statue of him in downtown Tehran.

07.03.2026 21:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Only in Trump’s America would govt officials defend the man who is helping Iran kill U.S. troops.

07.03.2026 03:08 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Erasing People through Disinformation: Syria and the “Anti-Imperialism” of Fools - New Politics Disreputable writers and outlets are spreading corrosive propaganda and disinformation that aims to strip Syrians of political agency.

This seems a good time to re-read this 2021 letter, written by Syrian ex-pats, denouncing the “anti-imperialism of fools” —the activists who protested against military intervention, while also ignoring or whitewashing the human rights violations of the Syrian regime.

newpol.org/erasing-peop...

07.03.2026 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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French TV is showing the classic animated film, “Persepolis,” about a young woman coming of age in post-1979 Iran.

GenZ leftists who never saw it before are ranting over at Twitter about how it’s Islamophobic, racist, and classist.

Thankfully, not everyone agrees.

07.03.2026 02:39 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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"Okay, I want you to go over to the record player and put on some Allman Brothers. I want you to put on 'Eat a Peach.' Do you have that?

Now, I want you to listen to the guitar solo on the first side.

I want you to remember this: You're not dying. You're just high. And you’re going to be fine."

07.03.2026 05:19 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Nintendo, and it’s not even close.

07.03.2026 03:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Only in Trump’s America would govt officials defend the man who is helping Iran kill U.S. troops.

07.03.2026 03:08 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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French TV is showing the classic animated film, “Persepolis,” about a young woman coming of age in post-1979 Iran.

GenZ leftists who never saw it before are ranting over at Twitter about how it’s Islamophobic, racist, and classist.

Thankfully, not everyone agrees.

07.03.2026 02:39 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Squirrel Spies: a Nutty Story Bushy-tailed squirrels may look innocuous, but according to a report coming out of Iran, over a dozen of the furry critters were detained near the country’s border on suspicion of espionage. That’s ri...

Iran once arrested 14 squirrels for espionage.

www.wired.com/2007/07/squi...

05.03.2026 21:40 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Also, don’t forget Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds in Syria, which prompted the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis in 2018.

05.03.2026 21:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well, Orwell was homophobic and antisemitic, so I can see the appeal for MAGA.

05.03.2026 20:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Serious question: What finally made Trump decide to fire her? What did she do that, in his eyes, made her seem more of a liability than Pete Hegseth?

05.03.2026 20:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This imbecile thinks he’s still on The Apprentice. 🤦‍♂️

05.03.2026 20:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OMG, he still thinks he’s on The Apprentice.

05.03.2026 18:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why does every pundit’s solution for broadening the appeal of the Democratic Party ALWAYS requires throwing someone under the bus.

05.03.2026 03:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Another Young Republicans group chat goes full Nazi:

“In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as “whores,” used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler’s politics.”

05.03.2026 02:56 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s kind of amazing that nobody seems to notice that the Trump administration has been fast-tracking a civil nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia. And yes, that’s very relevant to what’s going on right now.

04.03.2026 21:29 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

the seemingly inexorable march of antisemitism into the very heart of US politics from both the left and right is pretty depressing

02.03.2026 18:59 👍 2033 🔁 243 💬 75 📌 37

normal people i know and would generally say that I respect[ed] are now dropping stuff like "the jews bought all the houses, that's why it's all so expensive", in casual conversation. it's absolutely fucknig shocking

02.03.2026 19:19 👍 937 🔁 121 💬 36 📌 11
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Your daily reminder that Bruce Campbell has more talent and class in his pinky finger than Kevin Sorbo has in his entire body.

03.03.2026 05:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cynthia McKinney having a normal one…

02.03.2026 21:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"No stupid rules of engagement" is how you shoot down three of your own F-15s in one day. Just a shocking display of martial ineptitude.

02.03.2026 16:23 👍 5375 🔁 1397 💬 125 📌 62

One of my standout memories was a “very special episode” of Beverly Hill 90210.

In the interests of balance, they presented the idea that “having sex with condoms made contracting AIDS more likely.”

In high school, we pushed for safe sex education, and were told abstinence was the only option.

02.03.2026 14:57 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ICE Detention Centers Face Huge Backlash—Before They’ve Even Been Built Turns out ICE has bad PR.

"While DHS may be swimming in money, the ghastly reality of detention is where the rubber of the department’s funding hits the road of local politics." ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4s78vtH

02.03.2026 03:00 👍 197 🔁 56 💬 3 📌 1
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"Aside from the internment camps used to incarcerate Japanese Americans in the 1940s, such facilities have no precedent in American history..."

US Conference of Catholic Bishops statement on Trump's new mass prison camps.

Full statement at the link:

www.usccb.org/news/2026/th...

02.03.2026 02:45 👍 4290 🔁 1737 💬 141 📌 58
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Notes on Anti-Jewish Hatred The failure of condoning antisemitism with silence.

"It’s not that our Jewish siblings don’t just feel unsafe, as though this is some failure of psychological strength on their part. They are, in fact, not safe. They are clearly not safe. Not here in the United States. Not in Israel. Not anywhere."

26.02.2026 22:06 👍 184 🔁 52 💬 13 📌 8