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[Sakesis 🐝 @sakesis]

@MerriamWebster I read that the okto in octopus was Greek, so octopuses is best?

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

thank you for letting me know you don't care about fashion. a committee is preparing an award ceremony for you this saturday. they are calling you The Most Substantive, Most Serious, Most Intellectual Person In The World

[ZeZe the X @Burquena505]

@LongTimeHistory The Lutheran Church must be proud of their students’ behavior. After all it was Christian hospitality that made them act this way!

[Pelvic Floor 62 @MarlenaElias5]

@LongTimeHistory LUTHERAN? Please sue the crap out of these fake Christians!!! 👹 I'm so sorry the kids were treated like that. This is all Trump and Stephen Nazi Miller. They ooooze hatred and racism. These are kids damn it. Where are the school administrators? Sue them broke.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Let me get this straight.

USA Today Co. owns USA Today and more than 200 local newspapers.

You knew it as Gannett.

In August it signed a deal with Palantir.

The CEO, Mike Reed, told investors the point: "more effective and faster monetization."

"Every visit, every session, and every moment of attention creates a signal."
The plan is to turn readers' "anonymous interactions" into "known relationships."
Last month, at a Palantir conference, he demoed the system on an "anonymized" reader named Marcus.

Then he said it out loud: "We're actually an intelligence organization now."

Nearly 800 of his own journalists, in 31 union newsrooms across 18 states, signed a statement demanding he end it.

They cover immigration enforcement.

Their statement says journalists have been assaulted and falsely arrested doing exactly that.

The company's answer: a "business decision." It "complies with applicable data protection and privacy laws."

Readers: 180 million in the first quarter. 158 million in the second.
22 million gone in three months.
Staff: roughly halved since 2019.

Fewer reporters. Fewer readers. More data on every reader who stays.

There is no version of journalism in which the reader is the target.

Your local paper has a new beat.

It's you.

[Deborah Hamilton @arture2000]

@jacobsoboroff @connectmsnow An update on Abrego Garcia. Steve Vladeck on to analyze very recent Supremes ruling on third party deportations, and what they are likely to do next as they schedule full argument for this issue. Will they really sanction this permanently as part of a horrific new POTUS power?

[Sakesis 🐝 @sakesis]

@ADHDForReal Sugar

[Tulip 💐 @cutelipssx]

After 4 months of this I studied abroad because I wasnt able to switch housing for the rest of the year any other way. I loved my College but I will never forget feeling like prey every night.

[Tulip 💐 @cutelipssx]

When in College at William and Mary, I lived on Frat Row for a year which is dorms designated for frats on campus. One frat was kicked off campus, so the college decided to make it a girls dorm. A girls dorm surrounded on both sides by frats. I was assigned to this housing.

Every night at 8pm we would lock all the doors that connected to common hallways. Not a school policy, something we instinctively knew to do...

[Tulip 💐 @cutelipssx]

Without fail around 11pm almost every night there would be boys leering through the windows. Cat calling us, stripping and drinking in the stairwell and pounding on the door. Usually it stopped around 2am, worse on weekends. Nothing was done to stop them ever. We kept each other safe, trusting the locks on the doors. No university is immune and far too many tolerate harassment of girls and SA...

[Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS]

Now that I’ve disconnected, to do something fun, let me be clear: from now until Election Day, I won’t give an ounce of energy to addressing anything remotely negative or false & clearly this trend is going to continue.

Instead I will pour into the amazing candidates that have APPLIED to be endorsed by @thefirepac & received our nod. I’ll be sure to point to the real opposition & finally I’ll say thank you to the REAL ONES… that can always see through the BS 🙏🏾. The more we fight one another, the less we are fighting the people that put us here… and love me or hate me, I DID NOT GET US INTO THIS BS!

I stand on my body of work that spans years that even preceded elected office & just like they divided & distracted folk during the presidential, they are doing it again. Nothing I’ve done has taken food, healthcare, nor jobs away from the people I swore to rep. I will use my influence to support those that support making lives better. ✌🏾 If you aren’t talking about a R… and the lives being ravaged by them, you aren’t helping to contribute to a solution.

[Jane Doe @PotatoDoggies]

Does this look like a threat to you? It looks like one to me.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

At least 6 babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles.

[Kalan Hooks @KalanHookstv]

The autopsy of Nolan Wells reveals that no water was found in the lungs, throat or stomach

[Austin American-Statesman @statesman]

The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum. https://t.co/ZrfRqe3rhs

[Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz]

Russians are starving people in occupied Oleshky. Please don’t stay silent about it

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

United employees forced a 25 year old woman to return to her seat next to a man who was masturbating because the flight was full. After landing, the airline told the woman it was her responsibility to contact police and gave her a $100 travel credit.
https://t.co/7BCpa3hX10

[Sakesis 🐝 @sakesis]

@Yerkulez Aw, so close.

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

On March 16, 1968, US troops were raping and massacring Vietnamese civilians including children and babies at My Lai.

Then an American helicopter pilot named Hugh Thompson Jr. saw what was happening — and decided he could not stand by.

Thompson was flying a reconnaissance mission in an OH-23 Raven with his two crewmen, Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn. Their job was to scout ahead of the ground troops and identify enemy positions.

But something was terribly wrong.

From the air, Thompson noticed bodies everywhere — women, children, infants and elderly people. There was virtually no return fire.

He marked wounded civilians with smoke so they could receive medical help.

But when he came back, he discovered that some of the people he had marked as wounded had been shot dead.

He watched a wounded Vietnamese woman lying on the ground. An American soldier approached her, prodded her with his foot — and shot her in the head.

Thompson was horrified.

He then saw a group of 12–15 Vietnamese women and children fleeing toward a bunker while American soldiers pursued them.

He landed his helicopter between the civilians and the soldiers.

Thompson confronted the Americans and ordered his crew to cover the civilians. He told his gunner, Lawrence Colburn, to train his M60 on the American troops and fire if they opened fire on the Vietnamese.

Think about that.

An American soldier had reached the point where he was willing to risk shooting fellow American soldiers to prevent them from committing more war crimes.

Thompson then helped get the civilians out of the bunker and called in other helicopters to evacuate them.

His crew helped rescue Vietnamese survivors and wounded children.

After returning to base, Thompson immediately reported what he had witnessed to his superiors.

Hugh and his men deserve to be remembered, not because they were American soldiers, but because they chose humanity when others had abandoned it.

While others were killing innocent people, these three Americans risked their lives to save them.

That is courage. That is humanity. This is Thompson Hugh Jr.

[𝓓𝓮𝓵 @delonperc]

The Stockholm syndrome story is fucking wild. The irony is that a male psychologist, Nils Bejerot, watched a woman survive a hostage situation, interpreted her survival behavior for her, and the world accepted his interpretation as psychological truth. Just like the world accepted Freud’s “research.” The woman herself said she didn’t fall in love with her captor. She was trying to survive.