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Work in digital scholarship, linguistic anthropologist, painter. BLM, against fascism.

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The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime America has blood on its hands.

“Hegseth insisted that “we, of course, never target civilian targets,” but large-scale bombing raids often hit and kill civilians, including children. This is one reason that it is immoral, as well as illegal, to launch a war of aggression.”

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www.publicnotice.co/p/iran-eleme...

09.03.2026 11:56 👍 453 🔁 86 💬 5 📌 3

They think this is winning

09.03.2026 12:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

08.03.2026 16:56 👍 4310 🔁 946 💬 17 📌 53

He's a fantastic actor. And his comment was stupid and self-serving

09.03.2026 02:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

there is no opposition party in the U.S.

08.03.2026 03:07 👍 1449 🔁 330 💬 26 📌 0

Happy Women's Day!

08.03.2026 15:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

08.03.2026 03:46 👍 5695 🔁 2216 💬 161 📌 156

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the Iranian people are not our enemy

07.03.2026 23:51 👍 2468 🔁 430 💬 99 📌 16

Like the 7 million dollar grant with more money from other sources? Funny how one of the top rated museums can do this. Also my issue was with having a co-pay at all since they were subsidizing it. Toledo got a small grant and made parking free as well. We should fund the arts better.

08.03.2026 00:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Why not free? The Toledo Museum of Art is free to all. Here, they want people to pay like we have copays for essential healthcare.

07.03.2026 22:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9

Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9

Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9 https://theonion.com/egg-companies-assure-customers-dozen-has-always-meant-9/

07.03.2026 20:00 👍 3042 🔁 436 💬 49 📌 17

Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.

07.03.2026 19:04 👍 2529 🔁 545 💬 73 📌 24

Anyone who knows the difference between campaigning and governing won't be surprised that Mamdani can't fully deliver. But some of you would rather vote for a Republican or career pol who is honest about the evil they'll do than someone who expresses aspirations and has partial victories

07.03.2026 20:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also burnout is a recognized medical condition in much of Europe. People get weeks of paid sick leave to recover from job-caused stress if certified by a physician (my friend did)

06.03.2026 15:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You need to recover. It's a huge adjustment but time off will help you heal and bring back more. Be generous with yourself! And giving yourself time for language learning is 🔥🔥🔥

06.03.2026 14:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So happy for you!

06.03.2026 14:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

'Technology was never historically neutral....In the post-colonial context, the neutrality of an algorithm is a fiction. When we talk about AI in an African context, we are talking about who gets to define intelligence and whose data is harvested to feed it.' 2/2

06.03.2026 07:11 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Republicans are not fiscal conservatives and they never were.

06.03.2026 05:20 👍 199 🔁 77 💬 4 📌 1

He doesn’t care even a tiny little bit about you.

06.03.2026 01:35 👍 1513 🔁 234 💬 48 📌 7

Like Teen Vogue (RIP), who would have guessed People to be more on point than our newspapers and TV news?

06.03.2026 02:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

People who believe in an imminent Rapture/Armageddon don't have anything invested in what happens to you here on Earth. You are irrelevant to them and will be treated accordingly.

04.03.2026 00:39 👍 8060 🔁 2108 💬 450 📌 134

Beautiful photo, Christian. Maybe think about a book of your photos.

05.03.2026 03:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They think there's a God machine that you can force through sacrifice.

04.03.2026 01:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Listen, guys, I have a hunch that those Iraqi WMDs don't exist

03.03.2026 20:20 👍 24 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

03.03.2026 12:10 👍 9499 🔁 4130 💬 77 📌 165

Gone to prison

03.03.2026 18:00 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

They just want to break things

03.03.2026 05:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It puts the lotion on its skin

03.03.2026 00:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Community members, public officials push back against ICE expansion into metro Detroit - WDET 101.9 FM The Southfield office and planned detention center in Romulus come as the Trump administration massively increases the budget for ICE.

“Cut the utilities, condemn the building, demo it, take it under eminent domain, whatever you can do. Make it impossible for them to use our neighborhood for a concentration camp,” he said.

“This will not be solved by a harshly worded letter or resolution. We need action.”

wdet.org/2026/02/27/c...

02.03.2026 01:46 👍 4041 🔁 1350 💬 85 📌 57

tbh there are things where I agree that the broad consensus on this place is a little echo-chambery/in need of grass touching, but it’s crazy that some pundits “I don’t like the guy with the totenkopf tattoo” is one of them.

02.03.2026 01:59 👍 112 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1