“Surveilled”: Ronan Farrow on the Spyware Technology the Trump Admin Could Use to Hack Your Phone We continue to discuss the new HBO Original film Surveilled and explore the film’s investigation of high-tech spyware firms with journalist Ronan Farrow and director Matthew O’Neill. We focus on the i...

"The Trump Administration has shown an unprecedented disregard for the rule of law."

The recovery period for meningitis is incredibly vital to the patient's health. Please keep helping Fidaa care for Layan, even by boosting.
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Its biking temperature at the end of December in New York! I mean, I like biking, but doing it in December makes it somewhat ominous.

Fidaa's daughter Layan is recovering from meningitis. I am so happy that she is home and has food and medicine.

For my birthday you can give to Layan, Fidaa's daughter currently battling meningitis in isolation

Being transgender is so fun and cool

Second, Fidaa. Fidaa’s daughter Layan is fighting serious meningitis in the hospital, and Fidaa herself is in isolation with her and also feeling sick. Their need is urgent. bsky.app/profile/fida...

“Christ is Still in the Rubble”: No Silent Nights in Gaza this Christmas Amidst Ongoing Israeli Bombardment By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan In one of only a handful of times in the last century, Christmas this year coincides with the first day of Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. In that spirit, let ...

Merry Christmas, everyone.
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Great data journalism: people report “best times” is when they were 10-15 yo

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No, school shootings do not have to be a "fact of life."

— Gun laws in other countries have stopped mass shootings
— More guns don't make us safer
— A majority of Americans want gun reform

We do not have to live like this. No other country does.

the big question is if you are a sports team based in the NY metropolitan area why would you ever name your team after Long Island?

Reskeet if you think Jesse Singal should be banned.

Daniel Penny acquitted after literally killing someone on camera for being disruptive on the train the same day a person of interest in the shooting of a shitbag healthcare exec gets grabbed pretty succinctly sums up who in this country is allowed to kill and who they’re allowed to kill.

Jesse Singal is a liar and a fraud of a journalist and I will prove it as an unassailable fact in this thread.

I'll also talk about why I don't think BlueSky moderation will do anything about him afterwards so stick around or maybe just skip to that if you don't want to read the boring details.

Since you will be bombarded with many Takes™️ about how this & the other things are unconstitutional & illegal, now is probably a good time to remind everyone that the institutions are not self-enforcing & 6 Wizards In Robes have decided that the words of the 14th Amendment do not mean what they say

he can't keep getting away with this

Why spend taxpayer money giving people healthcare to people in need when you could spend taxpayer money to avenge someone whose job it is to deny people healthcare?

Zero reward for the white supremacist killer who murdered a teen in Manhattan the same day. Yeremi Colino does not matter to these people.

taking a test for a subject you have no knowledge in is a very humbling experience

big problem: I'm so sleepy when there's still so much work to do

The one thing everybody needs to understand about a knowledge of history is that you DO NOT WANT a knowledge of history to be actively useful in navigating the present day. If it is, things have gone BADLY WRONG.