The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
Watching people around me celebrate the state killing their own unarmed neighbor in front of his child is reminding me that we've been in a cold civil war for a while now
Journalists at the @nytimes saw a photo of a man being tortured, so naturally they reached out to the people torturing him to get their permission to report on it and give them the first word.
the “suspicious timing” always pisses me off bc as someone who barely escaped a sexual assault by a much older man in college, the last thing i ever wanted to do was talk about it bc the story made me sound like an idiot. but if he ever ran for office, i’d certainly be compelled
On the quickest of reads, it looks like a SCOTUS majority is happy to allow presidents to fire pretty much anyone, except for the Fed Chair, because the consequences of doing so would be bad, even though the consequences of firing other executive branch officials isn't relevant.
The Independent Int'l Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory presents new report to the UN Human Rights Council.
"The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted & killed by the Israeli security forces."
https://t.co/vMARqOLxpC
People doing above ground work might think that they’re safe from the sort of horrific government crackdowns on groups like the Prairieland 5, the ELF, the ALF, AIM, etc, but let me remind you that the net of what is considered “out of bounds” is expanding constantly and rapidly.
That giant 20,000 acre building over there takes all your fresh water, pollutes the air, raises local temperatures, makes annoying noises all day long, increases your utility bills and provides a whole 14 jobs. That building’s only job is spying on you.