the kid looks fucking terrified, knows the university will probably punitively hold the diploma they've worked three or four years to get, and also knows people have been disappeared recently by fascists for doing way, way less. still says it! just an incredibly fucking brave person
Here is a clip of the student's speech.
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Dear god let this man cook.
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
Okay Markwayne.
Happy Easter!
Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
FT should do an interview with Bill Gates to check if he is still impressed with Trump and his interest in innovation, HIV prevention and vaccines. According to Bill, Trump was enthused about it.
This is what empires look like when they fall
inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
Trump’s downfall begins now – his paranoia and baseless rage is his undoing
This is what empires look like when they fall
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded
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WH has now confirmed: this is insane
nypost.com/2025/04/02/u...Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Hungarian Model
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
"The response to authoritarianism isn't acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing and one thing only: a punch in the face." -
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Hey, can I share some historical context with you about “race-baiter” Ebrahim Rasool?
When I see a South African who’s a little older, I always check what they were doing before 1990. 🧐
Found something surprising: As a boy, Rasool and his family were expelled from District Six.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rubio says South Africa’s ambassador 'is no longer welcome' in the US.
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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
A quick update on the US’s global standing, via tomorrow’s UK front pages:
Det er ikke «realisme» å ta et nederlag i Ukraina på forskudd
Henrik Thune bommer. «Realisme» betyr nå å innrette seg på at USA svikter. Ukraina er i krig, Europa må innstille seg på krig.
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
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🇵🇱🇪🇺 "The paradox is that 500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans for help to protect them from 140 million Russians," — Tusk
❗️"We must rely on ourselves, fully aware of our own potential and believing that we are a world power," he said.
Sunday Times.
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Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.
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Norwegian firm Haltbakk Bunkers announced it will stop providing fuel to all US forces in Norway: "No Fuel to Americans! We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example. SLAVA UKRAINA"
#3E #StandWithUkraineEurope does have strong leaders, who can say fuck you to Trump and rally popular opinion. Unfortunately none lead the big three. If someone of the mettle of Kallas or Sikorski were president of France, chancellor of Germany or prime minister of the UK I'd feel much better.
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my dog when I ask what’s in his mouth
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Lmfao at this performative bullshit.
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment."
#Divest
www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FD
ABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.
The US government is now nonstop performative idiocracy.
Trump: "We were the richest relatively -- think of this -- from 1870 to 1913. That was our richest. Because we collected tariffs ... we had so much wealth. Of course, now we give it away to transgender ... everybody gets a transgender operation."
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200 million dollars of waste.
TRUMP: You have a man who has let a country that had the more beautiful cities get demolished. The most beautiful domes.
FOX: But that's Russia's fault, Mr President
T: 1,000 year old domes. Everything is demolished. It's sorta like Gaza
F: That's Putin's fault
T: I get tired of listening to it
Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE
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