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@thestustustudio

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🏳️‍⚧️ From “Death to America” to “A Strap and a Strategy”: A Look Inside Arm The Dollz 🏳️‍⚧️ Arm The Dollz is a trans revolutionary socialist group using explicit anti-American rhetoric while embracing militant politics. In its own promo video, the group invokes “Death to America” and “Death to th...

@havivrettiggur

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There's a lot to say, of course, about how much this sort of thing -- safe, comfortable Westerners appointing themselves arbiters of which nations are allowed to exist -- has taken over the politics of the Western left. Or about what Israelis see that they don't -- for example, why Israeli Jews who...

@BalazsOrban_HU

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IN JUST TWO WEEKS, THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN! AS SOON AS PÉTER MAGYAR AND HIS TISZA PARTY WON THE ELECTIONS, YESTERDAY’S CRITICISMS WERE REWRITTEN AS TODAY’S PRAISE! <a target="_blank" href="http://1.As" color="blue">1.As</a> long as the patriotic Fidesz-KDNP led by @PM_ViktorOrban won 🇭🇺Hungary...

@JeremyHarrisTV

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A 77-year-old man remains in the hospital after being beaten by two men at random while walking in downtown Seattle. The city's CCTV cameras recorded the assault. I also obtained body camera video showing the suspect asking an officer if he knows Mayor Wilson. @komonews ...

@marcomavina

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So excited to finally share my job market paper! The post-Floyd “Great Awokening” was driven by affluent white liberals and emphasized recognition over redistribution. Consistent with elite capture of identity politics. Feedback very welcome! Link below. ...

@SauravDassss

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#StoryAlert🚨 The CBI's challenge to Arvind Kejriwal and 22 others' discharge in the alleged liquor scam has opened up deeper and troubling questions about the High Court judge hearing the case, Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma. I analysed orders in all the 165 cases (criminal revision petitions) filed...

@SpencerJJoseph

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🧵 1. 'Arab antisemitism is not a response to the creation of Israel, it is the driving force behind the Arab-Israeli conflict. Too many people reverse cause and effect. They blame the antisemitism suffered by world Jewry on the existence of Israel' <a target="_blank" href="https://www.jns.org/antise...

@StoriesBy_Idiot

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KRITHI SHETTY — GOOD DAUGHTER &amp; BAD STUDENT ❤️‍🔥 Krithi ippudu 10th class chaduvtundi thana father suresh adhe school lo maths sir. Peru ki chaduvtundi kani eppudu fail avthune vasthundi vere subjects okay kani maths lo eppudu pass ayyedhi kadhu suresh kuda kodthu thidhu vachadu ...

@PalantirTech

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Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny...