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“Responding to videos that suggested their son [V.A. nurse Alex Pretti, who was killed by federal immigration agents] was a ‘domestic terrorist,’ Pretti’s family said: ‘The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting.’” — BBC

Veterans Affairs nurses are proud to announce their designation as the nation’s newest domestic terrorist group. We’ve achieved this great honor by working on the inside—and no one is more “inside” than those administering enemas to our former soldiers.

Our mission is to help protect health care for the warriors who served our great country by working toward a society in which safety and well-being are the norm. We realize that this might not sound like a typical terrorism agenda, but in our country these days, nobody takes groups seriously unless they’ve been labeled a domestic terrorist organization.

They may dodge predatory wasps by twitching away at the sound of their approach

The post How These Caterpillars Use Their Body Hair to Listen for Danger appeared first on Nautilus.

Why the hell did he save so many Funko Pops? “Dr. Ian Malcolm with His Shirt Open.” “Homer Simpson in a Muumuu.” He’s got two Green Power Rangers, one with the Dragon Dagger and one without. A lot of these say COMIC-CON EXCLUSIVE, which probably makes them more valuable? Although there seem to be so many Con exclusives that the term might not mean anything.

I came to the storage unit on a typical ninety-three-degree day in October of 2065 to sort through these boxes and decide what to save, donate, or trash. “It’s all the junk that we didn’t have space for, but he couldn’t bear to part with,” Mom said.

Well, let’s see what I can let go of.

From boat strikes to killings in the streets of Minnesota to NSPM-7, the White House leans on the word “terror” to justify its violence.

The post Trump Calls His Enemies Terrorists. Does That Mean He Can Just Kill Them? appeared first on The Intercept.

Conservatives once panicked about a supposed federal plot to invade their communities and quash dissent. Now they’re cheering it.

The post Welcome to the Jade Helm Presidency appeared first on The Intercept.

It was a rust bucket, sure, but this car delivered the most precious good to a group of friends in 1980s Poland: freedom

- by Aeon Video

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Well-meaning campaigns urge openness and conversation about mental health struggles. But there are those who cherish silence

- by Dan Degerman

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In Southeast Asia’s scam compounds, workers are being enslaved but the boundary between victim and perpetrator is blurred

- by Ivan Franceschini & Ling Li

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Western officials seized on a dubious death toll of 30,000 protesters to escalate against Iran. The number originates with a single, clearly compromised source. But a zealously pro-war Guardian reporter is doing her best to legitimize it. The claim of “30,000 killed” during two days of protests and rioting across Iran appears to be based largely on a single anonymous source, who admitted extrapolating that figure by assuming without evidence that “officially registered deaths related to the crackdown likely represent […]

The post Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op appeared first on The Grayzone.

Melania Trump seems so unfazed by the sins of her milieu, it only makes sense that the film’s director is in the Epstein files.

The post “Melania” Is as Vacuous as Its Subject appeared first on The Intercept.

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