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What It's Like To Watch The World Cup From Gaza | Defector
The original version of this article was published in The Nation on July 13. When I first heard the 2026 World Cup was about to begin, I barely paid attention. This was partially because of the timing...
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Someone on Reddit used this prompt to get "AI" to reveal its copyrighted training data, and I decided to test it myself and what do you know, anyway, "AI" is trained on theft, don't use it
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which was gutted last year. If Bezos can spend $500M on a yacht, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
Technically, they’re Remains now.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last mo.A fifth of Leave voters have died.
me: changes the light fixtures in my house to energy efficient LED lightbulbs Jeff Bezos:
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
When white supremacists described the first black politicians winning elections in the South during Reconstruction, they too called it a "reign of terror" that innocent white people had to suffer under. Black leaders! Elected to federal office! Can you imagine the indignity?!
Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW: U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson's "reign of terror" in Mississippi "is over," Gov. Tate Reeves says, urging the ousting of the state's only Black member of Congress through redistricting before the end of 2027. He made that pronouncement even as he canceled a special session on redistricting.
Just a reminder that Trump didn't just bumble us into an unnecessary war -- he deliberately created the conditions that he's now screaming about
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhen Trump came to power, he ripped up the peace deal that Obama had made, and used the uncertainty he created as an excuse to bomb Iran, insisting he had ended the problem he had created once and for all, except now he's bombing them again to solve the problem he created and previously solved?
…….. Isn’t this like a huge crime the US is accusing Russia of doing to Ukrainian children?
Stacey Burns@wentrogue.bsky.social · 5mo agothis kid was spirited away to a "short-term residency program" owned by Bethany Christian Services, an evangelical adoption agency connected to Betsy DeVos
A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy
Mark Ellinwood@markellinwood.bsky.social · 6mo agoHow many followers for a prominent Bluesky elder to host Jeopardy
The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 6mo agoagree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room
Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.
High school crushes who never felt the same way I bet www.popularmechanics.com/science/a699...
A Scientific Breakthrough Has Unveiled the Ancient Source of Our Pain
Cutting-edge genetics research reveals a startling legacy embedded in our DNA.
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For me the inflection point wasn’t Trump but Mitch McConnell refusing to confirm Merrick Garland.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 7mo agoyep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
Real and virtual snow combining in Amsterdam. (Thanks @simonbs.dev for the Festivitas app!)
"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 8mo agofor all people make fun of falun gong, it's wild how much this is basically the same thing as shen yun
