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So I had my first “breathing while Asian” moment.
Went out for groceries and an older masked white woman passing by the line shouted “FUCK YOU!” at me for no apparent reason. As I stared at her, she pulled off her mask, coughed directly at me, turned on her heel and walked off.
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I just ran this through Google Translate and it came out as “the shooter is white”
Sheriff says officials aren't labeling it terrorism because shooter could just be a "distraught person."
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Yeah, it could’ve been economic anxiety, mental illness, a bad hair day, whatever, but eh, pretty sure she tested positive for the racism virus
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This is a Chinese hotpot, you engorged penis
It could be made with nothing but vegan ingredients and it would still be delicious and you’d still be a xenophobic tool
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Can somebody explain why Democrats should be worried about "dividing Republicans"
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Today I learned “older” is a synonym for “whiter”
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The inside of a cello looks like a place where something whimsically unspeakable happened in a Guillermo del Toro movie
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Let's remember that this isn't just happening here in the US. Climate change is killing thousands and endangering us all—the poorest most.
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If films made by and starring people of color are consistently “exceeding expectations,” maybe the problem is in the “expectations”
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If the number of lightning cables I’ve bought is an indication, this IS why they’re a trillion dollar company
As a trillion dollar company, you’d think that
#Apple
could figure out a way to make better cords.
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When people talk about Asian sex work in tones that suggest that the victims of Robert Aaron along were somehow “asking for it” because they were engaged in an illicit activity, they speak volumes about their own ignorance on why America has an Asian sex work trade to begin with.
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Rush Limbaugh was exactly who he appeared to be. It wasn’t an act. And all the conservatives who mourned him as a great man knew it.
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Trump...does not know how a pickup truck works.
WATCH: President Trump loads a man's pickup truck with supplies in Houston
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Time to add a new stripe to the flag
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She is Japanese. She is Haitian. She is Asian. She is Black. She freely and fully owns all of these identities, and BS like this is why it was smart of her to take a health break from free-for-all media scrums.
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So I’ve alluded to what’s been going on with my family and people have reached out with concern. I figured I should just explain.
My sister, who’s an urgent care doc and sees multiple (mostly unvaxxed) covid cases a day, got breakthrough covid.
Then my vaxxed parents got it.
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Antivaxxers and antimaskers: The ripple effects of your “I want my freedom” bullshit is not just death and illness for you and your loved ones. You’ve been ruining it for everyone: Twisting our society into a pandemic pretzel. Breaking our healthcare system. Shredding doctors.
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I hope whichever FBI agent thought of this gets a raise
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Can we talk about white veganism for a second? The kind espoused by folks like Jona here, who begins his Twitter bio with the Sanskrit word for “nonviolence” but then craps on Asian cultural expressions in order to advance his neocolonial beliefs?
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Okay, gloves off: This is the bullshittiest quote of many bullshitty quotes from this man, whose vision was shaped by Harvard, Oxford, McKinsey & Company and a keenly honed sense of ambition. Dude, your dad was a lit professor and you went to a private prep school. Quit fronting.
In the face of unprecedented challenges, we need a president whose vision was shaped by the American Heartland rather than the ineffective Washington politics we’ve come to know and expect.
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Primetime speaking slot at 2024 Republican convention
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Phenomenally qualified Kemba Walden has had her nomination for US cybersecurity chief withdrawn because she has personal debt—as in, a mortgage she’s paying regularly with her lawyer husband
If only she had access to Brett Kavanaugh’s magic money wand 🤔
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Andrew, it’s facing a wall
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Confirmed: shooter is white
BREAKING: Police say person of interest in Highland Park mass shooting has been “taken into custody without incident.”
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Netflix just canceled
@hasanminhaj
’s vital PATRIOT ACT at a time of global pandemic and racial reckoning, in the middle of the most critical election in modern history, right after the unveiling of a Dem ticket whose VP is Indian American.
That is to say: When we needed it most.
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Even people who are vaxxed and masked are being slammed by the impact of your narcissistic irresponsibility. YOUR freedom to refuse basic steps to protect society is destroying ALL OF OUR freedoms.
WW2 sacrifice made the Greatest Generation.
You’ve proven yourselves the Worst.
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Twitter fam: Please share with me your fave black woman candidates. I’m going to try to give to all of them. I hope you do too.
When we see Jones beat Moore because *97% of black women* brave all-day lines to vote for him, we’re looking at the future of the Democratic Party.
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It’s amazing how many conservatives who defend free speech by Nazis and racists have pivoted to attacking peaceful protest by black athletes
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Because veganism as practiced by white Western culture *is* neocolonialist. It harvests and expropriated ingredients and preparation techniques from nonwhite cultures to create expensive foodstuffs that many people in their origin cultures couldn’t hope to afford.
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Math teachers do not have the time to teach math, practice handgun skills and emergency wound treatment, AND teach kids to be gay
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It doesn’t make my heart sing that this boy is homeless despite his dad working two jobs. It doesn’t make me smile that after fleeing Boko Haram, they’re not guaranteed asylum.
This isn’t an uplifting story of America, it’s a tale of how low our bar is now for self-satisfaction.
In these painful times, here's a story that will make your heart sing. A homeless boy named Tani living in a shelter was just named New York State chess champion. He's a reminder that talent is universal even if opportunity is not.
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Tofu, tempeh and quinoa are fancy Whole Foods goods for white folk but they were subsistence proteins in Asia and Latin America first.
And while poor local farmers initially benefited from white interest in their fare, mass commercialization has subsequently crushed them.
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A perennial favorite
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In other news people are just going to shrug at and ignore, Arizona GOP official Paul Peterson pleaded guilty to selling Pacific Islander babies
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It’s all been very discouraging but on the other hand: He’s freakin alive. If he and my mom weren’t vaxxed I’m sure he wouldn’t be.
But all of this—the breakthrough infections of my sister and my parents—that’s 100% on those who’ve refused to comply with BASIC public health.
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#NC09
GOP candidate
@MarkHarrisNC9
’s campaign appears to have sent people door to door in rural Robeson & Bladen Counties to steal absentee ballots from elderly black voters and complete them for Harris. There were 1300+ such ballots in those counties in a race Harris won by 905.
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So when
@jonaweinhofen
mocks traditional Chinese fare to condescendingly push borrowed beliefs, he should know that he’s part of a vast exploitative program designed to repackage nonwhite staple fare and commercialize it for white bellies, crushing native cultures as it goes.
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#BTS
Army using its powers for good during Corona Time—sharing positive information and relief donation links. Be like Army.
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Do you know how white people first fell in love with tofu?
Via the concentration camps where Japanese Americans were “relocated” in WE2, where displaced farmers grew soy and created makeshift tofu production plants to supplement the military-style western fare they were served.
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Hey pud,
@AOC
:
—came in 2nd in Intel science contest
— had an asteroid named after her
—interned w/Ted Kennedy
—graduated BU, honors in int’l rel & econ
—launched a small press
—was lead ed strat for GAGEis & ed dir for Nat’l Hispanic Inst
—became history’s youngest congresswoman
Could be worse... Ivanka could have been a bar-tender 18 months ago.
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Any Asian person who’s talking about the harm done to our communities during Covid needs to call this out:
#GeorgeFloyd
was brutally murdered.
This man stood by and let his fellow cops do it.
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When the answer is the picture
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A new wave of media irresponsibility is spreading across the US. Here’s what you need to know about reflexively using stock images of Asians in stories about Covid:
DON’T FUCKING DO IT
People are beating us in the streets and pushing us off subway platforms
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Also the delicious huoguo
@jonaweinhofen
mocks as “dishwater” began as a cold-weather mainstay of poor Chinese seeking to stretch scarce meat into a hot meal made mostly of plant products. If he wants to mock meat as gross, he should turn to his German roots and look at sausages.
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Roseanne Barr, 2018: I apologize for comparing Valerie Jarrett, a black woman, to an ape. I should have known better. Forgive me—my joke was in bad taste
Roseanne Barr, 2013: I apologize for comparing Susan Rice, a black woman, to an ape. I should have known be
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Scorsese and Moore made their points but as expected Bong Joon-Ho delivers the only superhero movie critique that really matters
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More recently, white vegans and natural food lovers fell in love with the Peruvian grain quinoa, and began importing it by the ton—causing an actual quinoa shortage among poor Peruvians, who saw their staple grain being sent to feed condescending white folk instead of their kids.
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May I suggest "to hell"
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Murkowski and Collins are the heroes today. McCain is the guy who signed on at the end of the project, presented it and got all the credit.
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“Good guy with a gun” security guard apprehends a shooter and is keeping him prone using his weapon. Police show up, see an armed black man and shoot him dead over the protests of onlookers.
A reminder that the 2nd Amendment is only for white people.
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He was a pioneering original Disney animator in an era when very, very few Asians were in the business. And he lived for over a century, to see the industry totally transformed by technology. Rest in peace, Milton.
Milton Quon, Disney Animator on 'Dumbo' and 'Fantasia,' Dies at 105
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Feels like there’s a sizable percentage of voters who would be happy with Warren doing all the work of getting Biden or Sanders elected and then doing all the work of running government, just so long as she isn’t actually given the title of “president”
BREAKING NEWS from Aunt Gloria: "Since this is an unconventional election, I think Elizabeth Warren would be a great running mate for Biden." She also thinks that Warren as the Vice Presidential nominee should debate Trump. "This would be better than a Vegas boxing match."
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Buried in the article: Out of 3000 passengers, only 46 were tested.
*Of them*, 21 were positive for coronavirus.
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Xiao Zhen Xie, who fought off her attacker and beat him senseless, is now giving all of the money donated to her after her assault—nearly $1 million—to fight anti-Asian racism.
This is what a superhero looks like.
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Maybe the narrative to pick up from tonight is that progressive women of color, not centrist white men, should be the standard bearers of the Democratic Party
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To be clear: My vaxxed parents had no symptoms. Not even a cough. My sister had it the worst (fever, chills, wheezing, loss of taste) but even then—the vaxx kept her from serious illness. And she was probably most exposed given her job, if that makes a difference. She’s fine now.
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If Doug Collins calling the Ebenezer Baptist Church — the church where Martin Luther King Jr. was pastor — the “bed of Hell” isn’t the Republican Party telling on itself, I don’t know what is
Collins opens with a swipe at
@ReverendWarnock
: “There is no such thing as a pro-choice pastor. What you have is a lie from the bed of Hell. It is time to send it back to Ebenezer Baptist Church.”
#gapol
#gasen
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@elonmusk
@cleantechnica
Dude you named your kid "X Æ A-12"
@cleantechnica
I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare
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No, but going into a major cover article completely unprepared because you’re treating one of the biggest bands in the world as an exotic novelty act* is unprofessional at best and racist-adjacent at least
*because they’re Asian and you’ve never heard of them
BTS is a virtual MYSTERY to 99.99% of the population. Introducing them to a general population is not XENOPHOBIA. Jesus CHRIST
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Yes, election fraud is a problem. But it’s being practiced by Republicans, via racist gerrymandering, vote suppression and more direct means—like the incredible shenanigans being revealed in the
#NC09
congress race
@McCreadyForNC
lost by 905 votes. Read.
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Horrifying: Eva Liu, 21, was with her friend Kelsey Chang, 22, on a postgrad trip to Germany when a 30-year-old American man lured them to a little-used path and tried to sexually assault them.
They resisted; he pushed them off a 165 foot cliff.
Liu died. Chang is still alive.
One 21-year-old American woman was killed and another, 22, was injured on Wednesday when a man pushed them down a cliff near Neuschwanstein Castle, the German tourist site, the police said. A 30-year-old American suspect was arrested, the authorities said.
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The US government pushed Japanese Americans off their land and put them in a mass racist/xenophobic incarceration. White farmers took over billions of dollars of real estate, while Japanese Americans farmed dry patches in the desert to make cultural sustenance for their families.
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Sourcing for history of soy in the US (and the Japanese American incarceration roots of US taste for tofu): MAGIC BEAN by University of Kansas Press
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Conservatives don’t love America. They hate America. What they love is *power*. If they’re not absolutely in charge of this country, they’ll do anything they can to sabotage us, or cheer for our failure and defeat.
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Good Lord, everyone should read this thread and be thankful for everything but especially immigrants and migrant workers
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we’ll share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
#WeFeedYou
#ThankAFarmworker
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Guns cause tragedies because they are the most efficient tool we have for converting bigotry, fear and anger into death. This kid was lucky.
He shouldn’t have had to be lucky.
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Dave Chappelle does not HAVE to do this, he CHOOSES to do this.
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And here we are, folks: Former head of the American Nazi Party Arthur Jones—unrepentant white supremacist and Holocaust denier—will be the
@GOP
nominee for Congress in IL-3.
An actual Nazi is a GOP candidate. And party line GOP voters will vote for him.
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Seriously, does any adult Republican not read stuff like this and stare off into the distance, wondering in God’s name what you’ve done to us all? Or are you all totally irredeemable?
We should have a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage of your favorite President (me). They are all bad. Winner to receive the FAKE NEWS TROPHY!
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First of all, new estimates show
#AWrinkleinTime
raking $44-45M against $41-42M for
#BlackPanther
. That gives it the 2nd biggest opening weekend of 2018–after Black Panther. The top two openings of the year? Black directors. THAT’S your headline,
@THR
.
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This is not it, Andrew.
It shouldn’t be on Asians to prove we’re American by sacrifice. That hasn’t protected us before and won’t now.
We prove we’re American by fighting things that should be un-American, like racism—and not just when it happens to us.
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The soldiers assigned to guard Japanese Americans in the camps became familiar with the fare being prepared “on the side”—it was better than the mess hall food—because of the hospitality of captives toward their captors. Tofu was “weird” but they developed a taste for it.
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No contest, goodbye lower left
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What if I told you America was built on the slaughter of Natives and the enslavement of Africans
What if I told you America was founded by WASPs?
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The rise of the counterculture led to a boom in interest in eastern spirituality and vegetarianism. By the 70s, tofu consumption spread rapidly into white communities. Though initially most tofu was made by small Asian American businesses or imported, US industry jumped onboard.
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UBI is apparently also very contagious. Hat tip to
@AndrewYang
for being a superspreader, if not Patient Zero
I am introducing a bill this week to give:
$1,000 to every American adult.
$500 for every child.
No exceptions.
We need to support the American people NOW—and this is just a start.
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Sunisa Lee, the first Hmong American Olympian and the youngest on Team USA, becomes the first Asian American artistic gymnast to win the Individual All-Around gold medal—with Simone Biles cheering her from the stands.
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@realDonaldTrump
Puerto Rico is home to 3.5m AMERICANS—90% of whom have no electricity, clean water or secure food! It’s the size of Connecticut, but brown!
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Fortunately native farmers were able to step up production and there were only a few seasons of drought. Then industrial commercialization hit them like a storm of anvils. Major US producers began farming quinoa, destroying Peru’s market.
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My sister said when Delta was rising she was getting nonstop people coming in to get tests for vacations. Unvaccinated people who wanted to see friends and have fun. She was reminding people to wear masks right. Hearing people complain about all the constraints on their freedom.
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I have a personal recipe for these that I like to call “Beef Baos with Fermented Milk Topping,” please watch for my next New York Times food column
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@atrupar
Trump’s constant references to wealth and money whenever he talks to Jewish groups is abundantly unsubtle anti-Semitism.
Trump, speaking to the Israeli American Council: "You're not nice people at all, but you have to vote for me. You have no choice. You're not going to vote for Pocahontas, I can tell you that. You're not going to vote for the wealth tax!"
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This article is...really something.
When
@ewarren
—Bernie’s closest ally—reached out a MONTH ago to start discussions about aligning, his campaign ignored hers.
But when Bernie’s campaign wanted him to go hard on Biden, he refused—because he “likes Joe.”
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Yeah if you want to know what being a person of color is like, it’s literally that for every Bowen Yang-shaped step you take forward, you also take one racist-ass Shane Gillis-shaped step back
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Just underscoring how WGA negotiators told the studios the union wouldn’t go back to work until SAG also has a deal, because if the last five months proved anything it’s in together, win together
#WGAstrong
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@StefanMolyneux
<looks at hugely successful creative artist and businesswoman>
“Such a shame this barely sentient walking womb hasn’t whelped offspring, at age 30 she’s over twice the nubile age”
I can’t believe Taylor Swift is about to turn 30 - she still looks so young!
It’s strange to think that 90% of her eggs are already gone - 97% by the time she turns 40 - so I hope she thinks about having kids before it’s too late!
She’d be a fun mom. :)
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James Ochoa made a U-turn on a street in a suburban neighborhood in Nevada. A white woman demanded to know why he was on her street, began shouting GUN at the top of her lungs (he was unarmed). Clearest case yet of attempted murder by cop.
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America is now the world’s soy king, to the point where Trump is making Chinese imports of a plant that originated in China a central part of his trade agenda.
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Serious question: If Trump isn’t impeached and removed for inciting terrorist insurrection against the US federal government, what is the new high bar for impeachment and removal of a sitting president
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Though an almost unknown product in 1900, used only as forage for farm animals, by 2000, 70 million plus acres of American soil was planted with soybeans and the US was a net exporter of soy to Asia.
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