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by any means necessary || he/they || all views are my own

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism. 

American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.

And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.

For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.

We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.

The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.

It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.

[AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_]

BREAKING: Protester sets himself on fire outside UN headquarters in New York.

[izzy @redshirt990]

10-15 years from now there will be millions of Americans saying they don't know anyone who voted for him

[zay @stfuzae]

literacy is dead.

[Kamylle 🧜🏻‍♀️ @ZeodrakeV]

What's the lore with all of Africa hating on South Africa

[Wayne Waldrop @WayneWaldropW]

The Declaration of Independence quite literally tells us to overthrow a government exactly like the one we have right now.

[zay @stfuzae]

ive been waiting for this since i was in diapers.

[WizardsMuse @WizardsMuse1]

a new era in DC sports 🔥🔥

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7

[zay @stfuzae]

even im not this delusional lmao

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

"Can the USMNT win the 2026 FIFA World Cup?"

Zlatan Ibrahimovic: "Yes".

[jill scott heron🪐 @stillnotziora]

bra this artist just said virginia the only place where you can go to a nonbinary rave on a plantation

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “I think Israel in its current formation, given that it’s a settler colonial operation that’s seeking out the expulsion or complete extermination of the indigenous population as an apartheid state, does not have the right to exist. It’s like saying does Nazi Germany have a right to exist”

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The opening sequence for ‘ADVENTURE TIME: SIDE QUESTS’ has been revealed.

The prequel series follows Finn's early childhood on monster-fighting adventures with Jake.

[B/R Football @brfootball]

▪️ World Cup debutants
▪️ World ranked 64
▪️ Smallest country by land area to ever qualify
▪️40-year-old goalkeeper who plays in Portuguese second division
▪️ Central defenders who play in League of Ireland and UAE Pro League

THE MIGHTY CABO VERDE JUST HELD SPAIN TO A GOALLESS DRAW 🤯🇨🇻

[Othell Yarwyck @bigbrovar]

Suddenly all the people who cared about human rights when Russia and Qatar hosted the world cup and suddenly quiet. .. No fancy documentary from the BBC on immigrants rights. No expose on Crime in inner cities (as we saw in South Africa)

Just silence.

[ᏕᎧᎩ ᏕúᎮᏋᏒ ᎴᏝ 🗝₊˚⊹ ♡ @gwenisonline]

shame is a prison with unlocked doors and no guards btw

[Greg @GregGrandin]

I was a premature anti-génocidaire as well, both after 9/11 and 10/7. You only had to have had a minimal historical imagination to have seen what was coming.

[Sesame Chiccen 🔜Dreamcon @Loccdawggg]

Nah I kinda care how my people get pussy lol ethical hoops only. No reach in fouls if you get what I’m saying

[J 🇩🇿 🇧🇷 @Jxs_b]

May every African team win against their coloniser teams 🙂‍↕️

[Ali Alkhatib @_alialkhatib]

vaguely recall seeing some university spending significantly more on union-busting, policing, etc... than it would have cost to meet the demands of organizing graduate workers because the issue is never the money; it's the power. they'll happily take this deal; AI won't organize.

[Trick Forever @khiazmos]

I like Hunter Biden because he isn’t one of those guys that gets sober and then pretends being a degenerate isn’t insanely fun

[is🔻🇵🇸 @witchrealms]

it’s crazy to take this whole thing as “this guy is being annoying” and not “wow this guy has to work a million times harder to get the same recognition as other directors trying way less to connect with their audiences”. and also then not make the connection as to why that is