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Teacher, Writer, film noir, movies, politics, music, native languages, Union. If you’re a real person, I follow back.
Joined June 2017
Teenagers in the UK will be offered paid "gap years" with the armed forces under a new "whole of society" approach to national defence that aims to increase recruitment among young people, according to reports ⤵️
aljazeera.com
UK plans to boost ranks of armed forces by offering young people paid military experience amid growing Russian threats.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan’s brutal civil war, which the UN says has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis https://t.co/ir7s3au8Dw
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of using ordinary apartment blocks on the territory of its ally Belarus to attack Ukrainian targets and circumvent Kyiv’s defences ⤵️
aljazeera.com
Ukrainian leader accuses Belarus of helping Russian forces to circumvent defences that protect Ukraine from attack.
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The entire night, the Russian attack on Kyiv signaled how Russia truly wants peace.
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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So the school privatizers issue a “report” that says we need more school privatization (charters, etc), and it gets reported like they have no dog in the fight? Fascinating. Is @RepMarkWhiteTN still on their “Board of Advisors”?🤔 https://t.co/Ny2fULyG6d
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Ukrainian leader accuses Belarus of helping Russian forces to circumvent defences that protect Ukraine from attack.
aljazeera.com
Ukrainian leader accuses Belarus of helping Russian forces to circumvent defences that protect Ukraine from attack.
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MCGA MAGA, 1 in 15 people you respond to are bots. Your mind says “no, not me, the others.” Nope, 1000% YOU. Call me wrong. I can prove it. Go ahead. I’m directly calling you out. Look what you’re doing to our country, IDIOTS.
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Israel’s approval of 19 new illegal settlements stands to redraw the occupied West Bank, undermining the prospect of a two-state solution https://t.co/BOo6P8hQ48
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Attorneys at the Education Department’s civil rights office describe working in a “dismissal factory.” Most discrimination complaints filed by students’ families have been dismissed without ever being investigated, records show. https://t.co/h8wn2wCbCG
propublica.org
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimi...
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Justice Department Says Filming Immigration Raids Is 'Domestic Terrorism' A leaked Justice Department memo directs federal prosecutors to press “domestic terrorism” charges against individuals who record immigration operations. https://t.co/gdNoMgeKD1
reason.com
A leaked Justice Department memo directs federal prosecutors to press “domestic terrorism” charges against individuals who record immigration operations.
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WATCH — @abbydphillip: “We’re either a free market, or an economy that looks like China or Russia where you have to go to one guy to get answers on everything. If that's the kind of country you want, get ready for the next president who doesn’t wear your shirt color to do it.”
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Donald Trump may be hiding 1 million new Epstein files, but the key to the case still hinges on arresting the four female co-conspirators: Lesley Groff, Adriana Ross, Nadia Marcinko, and Sarah Kellen Vickers
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Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday card that the DOJ released was created by Nadia Marcinkova, here is proof… https://t.co/wogYFsn0kW
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The claim that Epstein's island was nothing more than a pedophile playground, and that everyone who visited went there solely to commit those specific crimes, does not hold up. Epstein operated as a financier obsessed with building networks in science, technology, and power
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BREAKING: Leslie Marshall causes Fox News meltdown, noting more than half of Americans disapprove Trump's performance, and he's bleeding independent, youth, and Latino voters. Attacking Biden's Xmas picture won't help. https://t.co/Teg5wDtL6e
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What a crook. I knew it. Lock him up. Lock them up.
Things aren’t looking good for Ron & Casey DeSantis since everyone knows that they used $36.2 dollars not $10 million dollars like was first reported for Medicaid & instead used it for Propaganda ads against abortion & legalizing marijuana! The rest went to Casey’s Hope Charity!
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Things aren’t looking good for Ron & Casey DeSantis since everyone knows that they used $36.2 dollars not $10 million dollars like was first reported for Medicaid & instead used it for Propaganda ads against abortion & legalizing marijuana! The rest went to Casey’s Hope Charity!
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