Please just target student loans, erase them all, put millennials out of our misery!
Posts by Penelope Currier
Israel destroyed the synagogue in Teheran just after the Passover service. The community is the oldest Jewish community outside of Israel. The IDF described the destruction of this important religious centre as "collateral damage."
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Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.
Wild that 47 women have been killed per day for 925 days straight by Israel, Israel which continues to massacre, maim, rape, torture, kidnap, and destroy Palestinians, Lebanese, Iranians, Syrians, Indonesians, journalists, medics, researchers, diplomats, poets, the elderly, children, and babies.
A review of federal court documents by THE CITY reveals three dozen cases in which local law enforcement in cities and towns on Long Island and in counties north of NYC allegedly cooperated with ICE agents.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/16/l...
"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."
A young child who is covered in dust and wearing a grey sweatshirt and is looking down to the floor is held by an adult
NEW: Hospitals in Beirut are now posting photos of children in an attempt to identify their parents.
This photo was shared by senior Al Jazeera producer, Suddaf Chaudry.
Hospitals are also appealing for blood donations.
Israel’s actions in Lebanon today have been another stain on humanity.
You see RFK as a freak you can compare to disabled people, but he's a normal white man who sees himself as a norm & wants to eliminate disabled people.
The death toll in Lebanon is now 2,020 with 6,436 injured
Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu.
Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran?
Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.
Republicans today
New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.
They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.
www.theverge.com/news/908401/...
A dangerous driver with a long history of reckless driving commits traffic violence enabled by insufficient and unsafe infrastructure. And many people will still call this an "accident."
A 'Dinosaur Smarties' Easter egg.
Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.
Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country.
Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.
It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.
AI doesn’t just “run in the cloud”—it devours power and water like a desert parasite. Vast data centers are strip-mining the grid, draining aquifers, and supercharging emissions—all so tech giants can cash in while selling you “innovation.” It’s environmental vandalism at scale.
The White House requested $1.5T from Congress, representing a 40% increase. trib.al/ccWrD9m
This comes just days after Trump told his supporters at a private lunch “it’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things.”
The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz
Since Liberation Day, a year ago today:
* US foreign direct investment is lower
* US factories employ 89,000 fewer people
* US goods trade deficit is UP 2%
@npr.org
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Sauer just had to say that slaves had an "intent to remain" in the US.
Motherfucker WHAT??
Israeli police blocked Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and Custos Francesco Ielpo from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for Palm Sunday Mass, forcing them to turn back.
The Latin Patriarchate called it a serious violation of religious freedom during Holy Week.
The problem that every attempt at athletic sex testing runs into is that it's trying to force a strict binary onto something that is inherently a multidimensional continuum with overlapping distributions.
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“Twelve hours after Israeli settlers brutally attacked several Palestinians and established a new illegal outpost in their village, the Israeli military stepped in.
But instead of detaining settlers, the soldiers targeted the Palestinian residents of Tayasir and a CNN team covering the incursion.”
The carpet bombing terror campaign further destroying Lebanon with less impunity than a mild shrug
This is an illegal war. There is no security council resolution. These are war crimes.
This is utterly extraordinary.
If Hegseth et al got this wrong, think what else is happening with the drug boat strikes and much more.
The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm.
Gets worse as you read it.
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More than 87 public libraries and archives in Gaza have been partially or completely destroyed by Israel’s genocide.
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Israeli settlers have been filmed vandalising a boys’ school in Huwara, spray-painting racist graffiti and raising an Israeli flag on the roof.
The attack comes as settler violence intensifies across the occupied West Bank, with homes and cars set on fire, injuring at least nine Palestinians.
ICE locks tens of thousands of detainees nationwide in a network of 170 "hold rooms" spread across 49 states, which are forbidden from containing beds.
Today, we are publishing location and detainee information about all 170 facilities.
coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/03/excl...
So it has begun