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Hasan Piker asks LA mayoral candidate Nithya Raman if Israel has a right to exist, if it is an apartheid state, and if it is committing genocide








oh no, not the dinner parties




London journalist Karl Marx writes to his colleague Friedrich Engels: "Lincoln's assassination was the most stupid act they could have committed. Johnson is stern, inflexible, and revengeful and as a former poor white has a deadly hatred of the oligarchy."



an economist explains how rent control is actually fine and good currentaffairs.org/news/rent-cont…




إصابة عسكريَّين بجروح جراء استهداف إسرائيلي معادٍ لدورية للجيش، مع عناصر من الدفاع المدني وجرافتين مدنيتين في بلدة مجدل زون - صور أثناء عملية إنقاذ مواطنين. #الجيش_اللبناني #LebaneseArmy




I thought I was autistic. I was wrong. I was 30 in 2019 when stories of women discovering they were autistic all along began appearing everywhere. They popularized a newer understanding of autism, with its own “female presentation.” It was framed as a scientific correction to a historical wrong against women, the kind of narrative the press finds irresistible. Like so many women, I felt immense relief when I was formally diagnosed. It offered an explanation for the mental health crises of my youth and the daily realities of my adult life. Then I spent a year in the online autism community. What I saw there, especially the way activists treated parents of severely impaired children, turned me into a critic of neurodiversity. But it was becoming a journalist in 2022, after discovering detransitioners’ stories, that forced me to question narratives about identity and diagnosis, including my own. Journalism also required the social skills autism says I should have lacked. From there, the rest unraveled: many traits I had come to associate with autism are not uncommon in the general population, but through the “female autism” framework, they looked like a meaningful pattern. I don’t think my story is unique. The same incentives that kept my diagnosis intact may also help explain why so many women are entering the autism category in adulthood. Read my first article for @thefp: thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-…


Natalie thinks the left wants too much, and that they think she has a courage problem. Personally I would diagnose it as her having an optimism problem that prevents her from strongly advocating for bigger change, because she doesn't believe it can ever happen.


TRUMP: “Next we’re going to war with Cuba. Watch what happens.” I’m lost for words at this point.




🇺🇸🇱🇧 Hillary Clinton admits to being a part in engineering Lebanon: “I’ve been advocating behind the scenes for this for several months"



Well I was told we didn’t need to vote because there would be a revolution if things got bad. So, I assume that’s happening? Any minute now.