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Antivax imbecile makes racist claim that Arabs don't do science to try and stop Oxford Rhodes scholar, PhD, & epidemiologist El-Sayed.
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Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel in Literature in 1988. Ahmed Zewail won the Nobel in Chemistry in 1999, after winning the Wolf Prize. Omar Yaghi won the Nobel in Chemistry in 2025.
Algebra is an Arabic word. So is algorithm. The math on this claim doesn't work.
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"the [indigenous] Palestinians can go to any other Arab country—except Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, because those are ours—or we'll kill them."
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Acton is quite literally the successful, hard-working American that Vivek venerated in his December 2024 diatribe, where he claimed American culture rewards mediocrity.
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I really don't think there's an explanation for this except that Ramaswamy knows that MAGA voters and their pastors will feel a reflexive sense that what a man wants to do to a little girl in the privacy of his home is no one's business but his.
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Amy Acton was raped by her stepfather when she was 12.
As a former prosecutor of child sexual abuse, I saw this pattern too frequently: a child victim discloses the abuse by a stepdad or mom’s boyfriend, and mom takes the abuser’s side because she can’t bear to think that she had exposed her own child to a monster.
Mom is protecting mom—not the child.
Every DA will tell you the same—it’s a painful pattern. It’s the most infuriating thing to hear a mother accuse a child of lying despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I’ve had jury members plead with me after trial to arrest the mother for aiding and abetting.
Vivek Ramaswamy has embraced the Trumpian role of taking the side of the predator—and despicably rolled out Amy’s estranged mother to denounce Amy.
The brother of @amyactonoh confirms Amy’s account. The child protection authorities did the same—and took custody of both of them away from Acton’s mother.
This is disgusting politics. Vivek, you may not be better than this, but the American people are.
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The National Review is doing a good job hammering Vivek for this, and interestingly points out Donna Arthur's own disturbing criminal history. Extremely untrustworthy individual.
Every self-respecting conservative should condemn this.
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Recently learned that all northeast Ohioans subscribe to a pre-Abrahamic religion in which the vengeful gods punish them for an occasional athletic win by sacrificing one of their other teams
Would love to read a digger critique that actually engages with the material and isn’t just this at its core
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I believed that the problem with schools was low funding. Then I realized it was all a hoax. Money was going into iPads, expensive software subscriptions no one used, admin staff no one needed, lawsuits, new curriculum every year, consultants, unnecessary renovations, etc.
Schools should spend that money instead on attracting good teachers, paying teachers for all the extra jobs they do, investing in good textbooks and proven curriculum ONCE, stationery, buses, keeping the lights/water on, maintaining their facilities, and perhaps field trips.
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the one last thing i’ll say about the nikole hannah-jones piece.
as someone who was homeschooled, i can assure you that Many people are sacrificing their children’s education on the altar of their political convictions.
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Iran had been trying to normalize relations with the U.S. since Bill Clinton’s presidency. The only reason it didn’t happen, the only reason we are at war with them today, is the Israel lobby
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Blinken buried the evidence
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Biden advisor Jon Finer: We should've used arms transfers as leverage but unfortunately our lawyers couldn't determine if Israel was doing war crimes
@PeterBeinart: But didn't the Biden admin pressure lawyers not to make any determination?
Finer: Well *I* never pressured anyone
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Nah. You totally waited. Waited until there were no functional hospitals, until the death toll rose in the thousands, waited until they were dropping white phosphorus on civil population, you just waited....did NOTHING to stop the genocide.
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oh my god. awful. worse, i can anticipate the folks on this platform who will react with indifference, or even rationalize it
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A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, just killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor.
His blood is on their hands.
A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide. wapo.st/4cgAIc4
