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Joined April 2013
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Inspired by young people around the world, each week I am going to share one resource on this thread relevant for learning more about human impact on the planet. #FridaysForFuture #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Anthropocene #PlanetEarth (1/?)
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Very important to point out that he did not achieve this by increasing policing. Right wingers have no answer to this
New York City just had its safest first 5 months of a year in recorded history. Murders plunged 21%, and major crime overall is down 11%.
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Bro is on a generational run.
🚨 BREAKING: Crime in NYC has hit an all-time low under Zohran Mamdani.
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🚨 Zohran Mamdani announces the launch of 5 city-run grocery stores in NYC. Experts predict this will significantly increase access to nutritious food in low-income areas.
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Guys, please hit a follow on her handle. She's one of the on-ground reporters providing live coverage from Lebanon's war zones and has been in the area for nearly 2 years. Musk and Bier are throttling her reach. Make sure to live/RT everything you see.
The main road to Nabatieh, Lebanon
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I saw this cemetery when I was 17 years old, and I instantly understood what a gift I had been given by all of these dead men: freedom. This cemetery awed me.
Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend
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Black people started Memorial Day. It was originally called Decoration Day and it included a parade, but the most remarkable detail to me is that the newly freed dug up bodies of Union soldiers from mass graves, identified them and gave proper burials. 👇🏽
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65 years ago yesterday my dad was part of a group of heroes arrested in Jackson, MS while participating in the Freedom Rides. This is what it takes. This is what it’s always taken. He was 20 years old.
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Everyone COPY this video, share it far and wide. Paramount Skydance billionaire baby David Ellison can’t handle that Stephen Colbert is getting millions of views . @Youtube we will cancel our subscription as we did when we dumped @paramountplus.

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Respect, dude!
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. apnews.com/article/pope-apol…
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Famously Charlie Kirk applied to West Point, was rejected, and blamed affirmative action, and that victimhood launched Turning Point
Hegseth to West Point graduates: "Last, and most importantly, seek God. As Charlie Kirk often said ... "
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🚨 JUST IN: Brazilian President Lula da Silva: "I want to say this loudly and clearly: The Israeli president is committing genocide against women and children. This is a historical fact."

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RT @JayCSpain: After 4 years, I’d like to reintroduce myself as Dr. Jalen Spain, MD 👨🏾‍🎓 I now join the 2.6% of Black men who are physici…
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My friend Robbie went missing in action in Vietnam on October 12, 1972. His body has never been recovered. I think of him every Memorial Day — and what he died fighting for.
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🚨Trump is now single handedly responsible for 27.7% of the national debt. This is dramatically more than any President in American history.
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This is Adam Hoffman, a 49-year-old Waco, TX attorney. He faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy. Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender. A judge increased his sentence to a whopping 60 days. He gets out in June. Not an immigrant. Not a trans person. Not a Black or brown person. Every MAGA accusation is a confession. Full story: letsaddresstexas.substack.co…
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The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught. —Professor Richard Feynman (must watch)

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Our new pied-à-terre tax will have the ultra-wealthy elite — those who own $5 million apartments in New York City but don’t actually live here — pay their fair share.
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