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Saturday, April 19th, 2025

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    8:39a
    Pentagon cutting down projects to reduce US caused civilian casualties

    Under direction from the hater, the Pentagon is cutting down its projects to reduce the number of civilian casualties US forces cause.

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    8:39a
    US-born citizen ordered to leave the US

    The Department of Homeland Suffering ordered a US-born citizen to leave the US. Fortunately she is a lawyer and knows how to deal with this.

    The border thugs told her that they “used the known email addresses of the alien to send notifications". If a non-personal email such as an American citizen contact was provided by the alien, notices may have been sent to unintended recipients."

    But that doesn't explain why the letter was addressed to her, not to any of her clients. If they did not intend to threaten her, their sending this letter to her demonstrates inexcusable carelessness.

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    8:39a
    Bezos's publicity stunt suborbital rocket flight

    Bezos's publicity stunt suborbital rocket flight, in which all the passengers were women, reduces science, engineering and feminism to superficial tokens, replacing the substance they formerly had.

    It is not a bad thing that the launcher is so automated that it doesn't need a crew. What was bad was the pretense that this publicity stunt had real significance.

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    8:39a
    Harvard's pushback against Trump

    *How Harvard's pushback against Trump may embolden more US resistance.*

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    8:39a
    Students sue Hegseth over book bans

    *Students at Pentagon schools sue Hegseth over book bans on race and gender.*

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    8:39a
    University of Pittsburgh's suspension of Pro-Palestine Student Group

    *[The University of Pittsburgh]'s Suspension of Pro-Palestine Student Group Violates First Amendment, Says ACLU Lawsuit.*

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    8:39a
    Mohsen Mahdawi is bully's latest choice for arbitrary expulsion

    Mohsen Mahdawi, the bully's latest choice for arbitrary expulsion for supposedly hampering the bully's plans for peace between Israel and Palestine. (Comparing this claim with the actions of the US suggests that, for the US, "peace" for Palestinians means "the peace of the grave".)

    Here Israeli student Mikey Baratz, who works with Mahdawi to make real peace possible, refutes that accusation.

    You could hardly imagine clearer proof that the magats are using the Big Lie method.

    We must take care to resist the mind-set of all-out conflict which can blind people to tactics that can make the world worse even when used for a cause that is basically valid. Like Baratz, I have felt that the movement to end the bombardment and siege of Gaza and defend Palestinians' rights often goes too far — to the point of demanding to annex and abolish Israel. A demand for annexation is as wrong in one direction as it is in the other.

    My criticism of that excess is in no way meant to excuse Israel's atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank, which are enormous crimes that call for prosecution.

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    8:39a
    We must not idolize system of global "free trade"

    We must not let the damage done by the wrecker's stupid tariff policies lead us to idolize the system of global "free trade" that he has smashed. That system was inflicted on us by plutocrats who did dooH niboR's dirty work.

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    8:39a
    Threats to end rule of law over deportation

    The bully threatens to end rule of law over deportation in two different ways.

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    8:39a
    (satire) Salvadoran President lacks humanity

    (satire) *Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man.*

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    8:39a
    European State of the Climate report

    * European State of the Climate report "lays bare" impact of fossil fuels on continent during its hottest 12 months on record.*

    *Deadly floods and storms affected more than 400,000 people in Europe in 2024.*

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