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Oh hey, remember when the CIA sent people to Assad's prisons?
In 2002, Maher Arar, a dual Canadian-Syrian citizen flew to John F.
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Tana Ganeva
Fuck Western Europe Part 2
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You judge a society by its prisons, not its dictator's bullshit fake "resistance" to Western imperialism.
I’ve been writing about prisons and criminal justice for years.
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Hi. Please help a refugee if you can.
Last year, I went to a refugee camp in Bulgaria.
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November 2024

oh my god stop gloryfing Daniel Penny
After Daniel Penny choked Jordan Neely to death on the F train, right-wing media swung into action, not just excusing the killing, but glorifying Penny…
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Oh hey, it's the 100,000th take.
“I’m going to go for a walk and meditate,” I texted my friends last night.” An “LOL” was not necessary to telegraph sarcasm.
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The Democrats know exactly what they're doing and it's terrible.
In the past few weeks, Democrats have taken a series of steps that have flummoxed observers.
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October 2024

Fuck Western Europe
There’s a presumption that Europe is oh so much more better and more evolved than the United States.
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Get the New York Times a fainting couch, some students said something!
Did you hear about the latest troubling development in Israel’s war on Gaza?
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My apologies to the reporters at The Nation.
Yesterday I wrote about Hassan Hamad, the young Gaza journalist whose bloody, charred remains fit in a shoe box and a small plastic bag.
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Where the fuck is lefty media on Gaza?
All day long my Twitter feed has been filled with the sweet young face of Hassan Hamad in a press vest that looks slightly too big for him.
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Kamala Harris secures the pro-Dick Cheney demographic.
Up next, a Harry Kissinger cardboard cutout at the rallies.
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