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Not to be nuanced on tumblr but I think it’s possible to believe that there are severe human rights abuses happening in Palestine right now and also believe that it’s wrong to try and rectify this by instilling fear in Jewish communities via violence.

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Reportedly, Trump wants this photo removed from the Internet. Please share.

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Here is new footage of Trump looking incredibly depressed at his birthday parade because nobody showed up and it rained all day. This man-child didn’t have a great day!

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Images from the No Kings protest on Saturday, June 14, 2025:

Minnesota:

Chicago:

San Diego:

Dallas:

Seattle:

San Francisco:

Philadelphia:

Los Angeles:

(source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4, source 5, source 6, source 7, source 8, source 9)

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Saw a post about how halal and kosher meat will likely be the only reliably safe options in the US because their safety and cleanliness standards aren't dictated by what's the barest legal minimum that government food safety regulations demand.

So you're like 5 years away from "ever notice how the musulmans and jews never get sick from bad meat? clearly this is proof that they are poisoning us" right now.

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What’s been crazy about Trump 2.0 is that, from day one, they’ve had the attitude that they should attack everyone. There is no “let’s screw over our enemies but help our voters”, it’s simply “let’s screw over everyone.” Every action taken has been meant to harm people. Of course, they’ve gone after the most vulnerable (immigrants and trans people), but they’ve also hurt veterans, the active military, federal workers, researchers (including cancer researchers), people who work for and receive services from organizations that get federal funding—which is a shit ton of places—and they’ve pissed off federal judges. They’ve taken a sledgehammer to all of America, not to mention the insanity of their foreign policy.

But the question is: who is this even for? Who is benefiting from this other than Trump and Musk’s goons? No one. A handful of people have decided the government exists to benefit no one but themselves, and should be used as a vehicle for revenge on society and overall misanthropy. Authoritarians typically try to consolidate their power and have a strong bedrock of support before they start wrecking everything, but they drove the car off the cliff as soon as possible, and it pleases no one aside from the hardcore MAGA cult.

It’s been about 6 weeks of this. There are 44 months until the next election. It’s hard to imagine this being sustainable, at this level, for that amount of time. They’re pissing off too many different groups of people so that their cruelty is too hard to ignore. I have no idea what the future holds, but you’d think something’s gotta give sooner or later

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Based on the changes made for the live-action Lilo & Stitch: Spoilers (probably) for Disney's live-action remake of Pocahontas

Very few of the Powhatan cast are of actual Native American descent.

Some Disney exec snaps at a news outlet that reported on it saying "Do you know how hard it is to make 50% of your cast Natives?"

Disney's marketing team scrambles to cover up both by trying to spin Ben and Lon as "Disney's (25th) first openly gay couple"

Movie releases on Thanksgiving or Earth day.

The ads and movie open with "Based on a True Story"

The Powhatan are anachronistically referred to as "Native Americans," but also never referred to by their actual tribal name.

Speaking of anachronisms, there's at least one joke about "John Smith" being a generic name.

England is also depicted with it's industrial revolution era weather and pollution.

"Colors of the Wind" uses blatantly AI-generated visuals.

"Savages" is replaced with a menacing solo song by John Ratcliffe where he threatens the colonists (waving around a single flintlock) if they don't attack the Powhatan.

All of the Powhatan leave at the end of the movie for "parts unknown," leaving Pocahontas and John Smith in matrimonial bliss. "Where did all the Native Americans go and why ? ✨~We don't know~✨"

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Harvard University

launched a free college course online that covers basic U.S. Government, understanding the constitution and how to recognize a dictatorship takeover.

Here is the link to the free course "We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy"

https://pll.harvard.edu/course/we-people-civic-engagement-constitutional-democracy.

We understand that the current catalog of FREE COURSES at Harvard is being EXTENSIVELY EXPANDED, so you'll want to check their website from time to time to see which new courses are being added.

Government Courses | Harvard University

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Hey, for the record. This isn't my endorsement of treating "felons" like shit. Its bullshit that Canada has a blanket ban on anyone with a felony conviction. I think it's bullshit that the US has so many "felons". I think it's bullshit that felonies are a thing.

This is merely an expression of my wish to see trump get treated the same way that the rest of us are treated for once in his fucking life, and not get special treatment from every fucking establishment in the goddamn world. Our punitive, carceral system isn't going anywhere any time soon, I just think it would be funny to see him treated the same way anyone else would be.

Dont fucking @ me because I kinda want to see him dragged through the same shit everyone else goes through.

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Elon Musk’s shouting match with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent might have been the final nail in the coffin for the tech billionaire’s four-month stint in the White House, but it came after months of bubbling frustration at Musk’s “chain-saw” approach to dismantling the federal government. Musk and Bessent exploded at each other in April when Musk attempted to force through his pick to lead the IRS—Gary Shapley—behind Bessent’s back. (Musk eventually lost this battle—Shapley lasted less than 72 hours before Bessent tapped Michael Faulkender to replace him.) “Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!” a typically mild-mannered Bessent was heard shouting after Musk as they charged down the halls of the West Wing. “The fight had started outside the Oval Office; it continued past the Roosevelt Room and toward the chief of staff’s office, and then barreled around the corner to the national security adviser’s warren,” The Atlantic reported Wednesday.

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Musk’s unceremonious exit from government followed widespread reports that several senior Trump officials practically hated the tech billionaire, finding him abrasive, unfunny, and pompous—with some describing Musk as the “most irritating person” they’d “ever had to deal with.” “I have been in the same room with Elon, and he always tries to be funny. And he’s not funny. Like, at all,” a senior Trump official told Rolling Stone last month. “He makes these jokes and little asides and smiles and then looks almost hurt if you don’t lap up his humor. I keep using the word ‘annoying’; a lot of people who have to deal with him do. But the word doesn’t do the situation justice. Elon just thinks he’s smarter than everyone else in the room and acts like it, even when it’s clear he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”