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frob

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    Under their military rules, they have an obligation to disregard illegal orders. This war was not declared by congress. It is illegal and unconstitutional. They are chosing to do t…

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    I spent days and days inside the STAR control room in grad school, often during the 12:30am-7:30am graveyard shift. We needed to run 24/7 for efficiency reasons during the experime…

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    Comment #45760729

    Want to work for a software company actively working to help our fellow citizens instead of harm them? Want to work directly with state governments to get people home sooner? Recid…

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    Comment #45211368

    Isreal has slaughtered over 60 thousand Palistinians. Israel is purposefully starving the rest. Israel uses desperate people searching for food as target practice as testified to b…

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    Comment #44756220

    Thw law is very obviously being abused here by Trump and his administration to punish unfavored speech and unfavored groups. They dont care about equal protection one bit. They wan…

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    Comment #44454732

    "Attack" is when your arms get in the way of their baton swinging at your face.

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    Comment #44454516

    If you're not on multiple naughty lists by the end of this administration, you're doing something wrong.

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    Comment #44454425

    Authoritarian states often function via selective enforcement of laws. We see that here. They will use any angle, any technicality to remove someone. Lived here for almost 50 years…

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    Comment #44413908

    I encourage you to read the quotes from Israeli political and social leaders in this piece: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/27/israel... > “The Gaza Strip should…

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    Comment #44346775

    Such as the US secretary of "defense", Pete Hegseth, who has the Latin phrase for "god wills it" tattooed on his bicep. A phrase that is also the motto of the first crusade.

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    Comment #43936676

    The NSF funded my graduate research. It feels like someone is going through my past and burning all of the ladders that helped me grow and succeed.

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    Comment #43803261

    Hi Tom. You're burning your credibility here fast as the new moderator. dang derived his respect as an admin from not getting into fights in the threads. It additonaly tarnishes yo…

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    It's currently showing up as flagged as a dupe and isn't anywhere on the first 3 pages.

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    Comment #43704992

    What you are saying is the fantastical kool-aid Fox News and alt-right media spin to you. In the meantime, Trump is actually deporting people without due process to inhumane tortur…

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    Comment #43658801

    I was there during the onavo scandal. It was straight up spyware. They would regularly show graphs of snapchat usage vs messenger vs whatsapp and the snapchat data was explicitly a…

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    Comment #43611322

    The public cruelty is the point. Make people suffer horrendously outsized consequences for the most minor of innocent infractions and it quickly sends a message that you're not wel…

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    Comment #43611225

    Do not come here. First, do it for your own safety. A wrong form or the wrong answer to a verbal question after 18 hours of travel could land you in weeks of brutal detention. Seco…