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Strangebird Valentine

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Trans therapist played by a Muppet wearing combat boots, attempting to build solidarity and spread mental health info to other trans folks. He/Him or They/Them

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
“Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE” is a sentence that shouldn’t exist.
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Justice Committee @justicecommittee.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Justice Committee has #ICEWatch #CopWatch resources on our website and hosts both in-person (NYC) and virtual trainings. Follow & stay tuned for our next one! www.justicecommittee.org/cop-ice-watch
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Cop/ICE Watch Guide | justicecommittee
Learn more about Cop Watch and ICE Watch, the legal practice of monitoring and documenting law enforcement activity in order to deter or de-escalate abuse. Download our guide to recording the police &...
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 23/09/2025
Rather than permitting the Trump administration to frighten us out of resisting, we must understand this broad, vague, and performative executive order as an effort to intimidate. It should catalyze us into urgent organizing, not paralyze us. Only collective action can keep us safe and free.
DESIGNATING ANTIFA AS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION


Section 1.  Antifa as a Terrorist Threat.  Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.  It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals.  This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists.  Antifa recruits, trains, and radicalizes young Americans to engage in this violence and suppression of political activity, then employs elaborate means and mechanisms to shield the identities of its operatives, conceal its funding sources and operations in an effort to frustrate law enforcement, and recruit additional members.  Individuals associated with and acting on behalf of Antifa further coordinate with other organizations and entities for the purpose of spreading, fomenting, and advancing political violence and suppressing lawful political speech.  This organized effort designed to achieve policy objectives by coercion and intimidation is domestic terrorism.

Sec. 2.  Designation as a Domestic Terrorist Organization.  Because of the aforementioned pattern of political violence designed to suppress lawful political activity and obstruct the rule of law, I hereby designate Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.”  All relevant executive departments and agencies shall utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa, or for which Antifa provided material support [...]
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
i guess not I'm surprised that Ken Jennings is really good here, i just wouldn't have predicted the host of Jeopardy being a voice of moral courage on this specific issue.
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Q. McLamore @ghawinriver.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I'd point out that Media had thousands of opportunities to care about incels, gamergate, Groypers, anti-trans movements, new conversion therapy, fascists, proud boys, and eugenicists, and that they had to ACTIVELY refuse to pay attention to not know all of this beforehand.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
as soon as there's evidence the shooter's identity isn't easy to weaponize things magically become complicated
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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/09/2025
like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 12/09/2025
last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/08/2025
Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future. www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
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How To Argue With An AI Booster
Editor's Note: For those of you reading via email, I recommend opening this in a browser so you can use the Table of Contents. This is my longest newsletter - a 16,000-word-long opus - and if you like...
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Amílcar Tavares @amilcartavares.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Here's a quick script: share.google/sxOKnVqeKgsj...
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GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11
Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2025
Here is Weizenbaum in 1976 clearly expressing my own view: using AI as a psychiatric tool to treat human beings is not just wrong, it is obscene. I believe we should be using the term “obscene” far more often to describe these perverted uses of AI technology.
I would put all projects that propose to substitute a
computer system for a human function that involves interpersonal respect, understanding, and love in the same category. I therefore reject Colby's proposal that computers be installed as psychotherapists, not on the grounds that such a project might be technically infeasi-ble, but on the grounds that it is immoral. I have heard the defense that a person may get some psychological help from conversing with a computer even if the computer admittedly does not "understand" the person. One example given me was of a computer system designed to accept natural-language text via its typewriter console, and to respond to it with a randomized series of "yes" and
"no." A troubled patient "conversed" with this system, and was allegedly led by it to think more deeply about his problems and to arrive at certain allegedly helpful con-clusions. Until then he had just drifted in aimless worry.
In principle, a set of Chinese fortune cookies or a deck of cards could have done the same job. The computer, how-ever, contributed a certain aura - derived, of course, from science-that permitted the "patient" to believe in it where he might have dismissed fortune cookies and playing cards as instruments of superstition. The question then arises, and it answers itself, do we wish to encourage people to lead their lives on the basis of patent fraud, charlatanism, and unreality? And, more importantly, do we really believe that it helps people living in our already overly machine-like world to prefer the therapy administered by machines to that given by other people? Thave heard this latter question answered with the assertion that my position is nothing more than "let them eat cake."It is said to ignore the shortage of good human psy-chotherapists, and to deny to troubled people what little help computers can now give them merely because presently available computers don't "yet" measure up to, say, the best psychoanalysis. But that objection misses the point entirely. The point is (Simon and Colby to the contrary notwithstanding) that there are some human functions for which computers ought not to be substituted. It has nothing to do with what computers can or cannot be made to do. Respect, understanding, and love are not technical problems.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2025
There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
What could be more obvious than the fact that, whatever intelligence a computer can muster, however it may be acquired, it must always and necessarily be absolutely alien to any and all authentic human concerns?
The very asking of the question, "What does a judge (or a psychiatrist) know that we cannot tell a computer?" is a monstrous obscenity. That it has to be put into print at all, even for the purpose of exposing its morbidity, is a sign of the madness of our times.
Computers can make judicial decisions, computers can make psychiatric judgments. They can flip coins in much more sophisticated ways than can the most patient human being. The point is that they ought not be given such tasks. They may even be able to arrive at "correct" decisions in some cases-but always and necessarily on bases no human being should be willing to accept.
There have been many debates on "Computers and Mind." What I conclude here is that the relevant issues are neither technological nor even mathematical; they are ethical. They cannot be settled by asking questions beginning with "can." The limits of the applicability of computers are ultimately statable only in terms of oughts. What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 24/07/2025
BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
i am always blown away by just how far ahead of its time DS9 was. really some of the most remarkable feats of writing in TV history. and the kind of show that could only have worked with 30+ episode seasons
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Noem let those girls die with search and rescue teams sitting on their hands waiting for authorization
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
people who use AI as a replacement for thinking, learning and communicating should be shamed and punished. the same way we shame and punish drunk drivers, or people who negligently discharge firearms. it is bad to misuse tools in a way that damages society
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 21/07/2025
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
got this quote at a neo-Nazi event at the University of Florida in 2017, & in the nearly 8 years since it goes viral like this every few months — I suspect because it's a pretty good summation of where the GOP has gone
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
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@LemkinInstitute
 is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. 

No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. 

GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. 

IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 16/01/2025
Sleep well, king 👑
Twin Peaks:

And when you became Denise, I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die.
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Possible Worlds Games @possibleworlds.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.
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Scarleteen @scarleteen.com · 14/07/2025
Protecting nonbinary lives is not up for debate. Nonbinary lives are sacred and we cherish you today and everyday. Happy Nonbinary people’s day! 🖤
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/07/2025
Damn right we are. Honeymoon here we go :)
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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Want to support our street outreach? Here’s an Amazon wishlist with the most requested supplies! www.amazon.com/registries/g...
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Unhoused Aid Distro List | Amazon Gift List
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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Our first street outreach day at Mass & Cass was a success! We saw ~25 people and gave out: - 48 water bottles - 46 chip bags - ~50 condoms - 25 makeup pieces - ~10 outfits Have something you’d like to donate for our next outreach day? Let us know! ❤️
Two young white women standing in front of a brick building, one wearing sunglasses, the other throwing a peace sign and duck lips in a pink t-shirt that says Decriminalize Sex Work Now! BSWAC
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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 13/07/2025
I think about this constantly
Tweet from user Jason C: 
“I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist.”

Quote from user Max Dubler:

“That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.

True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer dance parties”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
dems are still operating on a paradigm where politicians on both sides are assumed to be working to make their states and constituents richer. today's republicans are trying to make everyone poorer because their ideology is to crush the labor market as part of The Plot to Enslave America.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/06/2025
Well I'm Jewish I don't agree with @ericswalwell.bsky.social's decision to be a fucking liar, and I definitely trust Zohran Mamdani more than I trust Eric Swalwell's defamatory ass
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Democrats have been asked to disavow Zohran more than Republicans have been asked to disavow the guy who murdered two Democrats. Says a lot about how profoundly fucked up our political and media situation is right now.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A nice reminder of the immense power contained in saying “no.” When people refuse to comply, it raises the costs ($$$, political, social, etc) of enforcing authoritarianism. They very well might try anyway, but every person that says “no” is another point of friction. www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...
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Around 100,000 march in Budapest Pride event in defiance of Hungary's ban
Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing part...
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 28/06/2025
if you have a D senator, take 1 minute to call. you can be quick. “senator _____ must to raise a point of order on the floor & challenge budget section 71114's anti-trans medicaid ban." want to say more? last week’s D all-star ran an explicitly pro trans care campaign! it's not a losing issue! ⬇️🧵
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 28/06/2025
hi, cis folks! the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor. if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵
Rep. Dan Crenshaw tweets

GOOD NEWS: after the rogue parliamentarian struck my amendment to ban taxpayer funding for transgender treatments, Republican
Senators put it BACK in the bill anyway. This means they are daring the Democrats to
vote against it in a "point of order." It's a good bet to take. For one thing, nothing to lose so why not try? But second, I believe the Democrats won't want to pick this battle. This is a very very popular provision. I think the Democrats know they've lost the battle. The science isn't on their side and neither is the public.
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Eliel Cruz @elielcruz.com · 25/06/2025
I pitched the NYT on this and they passed cause "all democrats are good with LGBTQ people"
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
trump remade the Republican party in his own image over the course of like six months so yeah, i do think political parties can pivot to do things that work
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!! SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
At her school. They strip-searched a 15 yo black girl at her school in east London. But don't worry everyone: "the panel, chaired by a senior police commander, found that race was not a factor" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Two Met officers dismissed for gross misconduct after strip-search of black schoolgirl
Disciplinary hearing finds police officers’ search of Child Q, 15, was disproportionate and humiliating
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26/06/2025
They closed schools for five years for racism but people are still mad that their schools were closed for as little as three months to stop people from dying during a global pandemic
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 26/06/2025
It’s her for me
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/06/2025
Spectacular news - the Medicaid ban for transgender care is OUT as a result of the Byrd rule.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. Scientific American has published a guide to the EVIDENCE-BASED vaccine recommendations in place BEFORE ACIP members were removed by the administration. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 23/06/2025
This statement by Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani feminists argues that we must oppose the US and Israeli assault on Iran while also refusing to endorse the repressive Iranian government. Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us.
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"Women, Life, Freedom” against the War
Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us. A statement from Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani feminists.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
New from 404 Media: 'FuckLAPD.com' is a website that lets anyone use facial recognition to instantly identify cops. Point camera, take photo, upload to site. It provides their name and salary information. Creator also rebooting their tool for identifying ICE employees www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...
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‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Beyond parody at this point; the week these guys picked sex predators and warmongers over your future
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Tariffs. Stock market down. Medicaid slashed Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans. National guard and marines deployed in LA. No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine Bombing Iran This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.
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