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37 people were illegally detained in Bellingham, Washington for the ‘crime’ of speaking Spanish. This is so fucking inhumane and cruel

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🚨URGENT🚨

Please stop ✋🚨 you're the only hope to save a child🥺

My son Mohammed is in critical condition after being shot by Israeli drones. He has been taken to the operating ⛺�� and urgently needs treatment outside the Gaza Strip.

I lost most of my family. I'm afraid to lose my son too 🥺 .

I need your help please donate and share, evry contribution, no matter how small, brings us hope in these dark times.

Mohammed deserves to live a happy and healthy life, just like every other child on this earth.

Please Donate now:👇👇 👇

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✅️My campaign is vetted by el-shab-hussein& Nabulsi's, my number verified on the list is ( #355)✅️ 👇

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In my first ever article for a print magazine, I'm analyzing Elon Musk's DOGE from the perspective of contractor capture: the notion that for-profit contractors like Musk desire not only money from the government, but also control over government itself.

You can read the full piece below, or pick up the April 2025 edition of The American Prospect at a local bookstore once it's available!

DOGE has been marketed as an organization aimed at cutting wasteful spending and increasing government efficiency, but it has quickly become apparent that this is not its primary function. Instead, DOGE has spent the first weeks of Trump’s second presidential term haphazardly dismantling the civil service, politically targeting spending that Musk and Trump dislike, centralizing decision-making power in the White House, and causing major disruptions to government operations that will decrease their overall efficiency. Still, one important aspect of this strategy has gone largely unexamined: the elevation of government contractors like Musk into government policymakers. Musk has acquired much of his tremendous wealth from the government he is now dismantling. Tesla Motors relied on significant support from the Department of Energy, which was criticized as government waste by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. SpaceX continues to receive billions of dollars each year in contract awards from NASA and the Defense Department, representing one of the company’s largest streams of income. Overall, Musk’s business ventures have benefited from more than $38 billion in government support, not including a new contract from the Federal Aviation Administration to upgrade its information technology systems. To hear Musk describe it, he is part of the solution, not the problem. He has argued that “there’s a vast federal bureaucracy that is implacably opposed to the … president and the Cabinet,” and thus that there is a need for a “thrashing of the bureaucracy as we try to restore democracy and the will of the people.” In this understanding, Musk is not a money-motivated billionaire riddled with conflicts of interest, but rather a selfless entrepreneur bringing private-sector efficiency to a sclerotic, wasteful government and “the Parasite Class” that depends on it. This view of government efficiency is impressively backwards. The civil service that Musk is attacking consists of millions of regular workers doing their best to transform the complexities of government into positive outcomes for the American people. The only parasitic class benefiting from government inefficiency consists of for-profit government contractors like Musk, who grow rich off of taxpayer dollars by providing overpriced services to compensate for a lack of state capacity, all while using their billions to rig the system in their favor. Allowing contractors like him to decide how the government spends money is both an affront to democracy and an open invitation to further corruption.

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from an article titled 'pretend girlfriend? be careful you're not using your fag hag,' by eric wright, xy magazine, july 1999.

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…psychiatry assumes that society does not cause distress in biologically normal people, who are considered biologically normal at least in part because they are economically productive. This assumption permits the conclusion that if a person is distressed to the point of unproductivity, it is because that person—not society—is abnormal. Thus, psychiatry’s commitment to biological essentialism not only masks the role of the constructed sociopolitical environment in creating distress but depoliticizes it by characterizing that allegedly irrational distress as induced by biological abnormality.

– Kiera Lyons, “The Neurodiversity Paradigm and Abolition of Psychiatric Incarceration” (2023)

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Jiang Miao — Heavenly Eyes (acrylic, carving, on aluminum panel, 2024.4.28)

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my coworker told me hes "straight but maybe demisexual" and i explained that a man who is only sexually attracted to women he personally knows is still, by all definitions, heterosexual and he seemed a little disappointed by the news

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Got an account here that could use some love

@neechees @apas-95 @afro-elf @lesbianchemicalplant

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Let’s hear it for bagel & cream cheese

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“I’ve really tried to understand the Israelis. I used to work on a farm in Israel. I speak Hebrew. I watch their news. All the time they talk about fear. How they have to run to their bunkers to hide from the rockets. How their children can’t sleep because of the sirens. This is not a good way for them to live. We Palestinians don’t talk about fear, we talk about death. Our rockets scare them; their rockets kill us. We have no bomb shelters, we have no sirens, we have nowhere we can take our children and keep them safe. They are scared. We are dying.”

— Mohammed al-Khoudry a Palestinian farmer in Gaza. (via champagnefather)

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by "something else" I mean more men's bodies exploited for art. get me more erotic saint sebastian paintings..... on the double!!

any art that's like. violent gory depictions of naked women women in stress positions women tied up "artful" bdsm sex symbolism involving women for the audience's consumption women looking demure POV of a woman looking up with doe eyes blah blah supposed subversion of these tropes while still objectifying women's bodies sex breasts spread legs impalation mutilation domination blah blah blah. can we do something else

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*no donations in 3 days*

thank you all for supporting eyad's campaign so far. unfortunately, donations have stalled again and i'm making a new post to boost his campaign. he and his family are being forced out of their home again, and they have nowhere to go.

the donations are not just going to support eyad and his family but also the charity he's building to distribute fresh meals to palestinians in gaza. he is close to getting the campaign off the ground. please support him and his cause.

2,880 / 20,000 USD

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Today, Iman has a high fever and her temperature has risen a lot. She needs care and medicine. Please help Iman get her medicine and recover Please donate

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Today I started the treatment process to remove this toxic virus, I hope the healing process will be done quickly before it becomes a chronic virus

I need 5 injection sessions and each session costs 300 USD, I really need your help before the virus spreads throughout the body.🙏🙏

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Selfie with My nephew

He is so small

One month and one week

I hope he will be with his dad soon🙏