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union chair and newswriter on international affairs, climate, labor, politics, etc @truthout.bsky.social

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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The legal system that the Trump administration has been weaponizing against immigrants and the left is not something of its own creation. They inherited this legal machinery from the war on terror, and until we dismantle it, all of us are at risk. Please, please read this.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Google is killing journalism: "At Truthout, we anticipate a loss of roughly $500,000 in online revenue as a result of this massive traffic plunge in the next year alone."
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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future
AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
One of the most heartbreaking headlines I've ever read. How do we allow this to go on?
Some in Gaza’s Youngest Generation May Not Even Know What Toys Are
Children’s difficulty accessing toys in Gaza reflects the broader destruction of childhood there.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 20/07/2026
The State Department has released a 99-page report that labels Cuba as the “ideological capital” of left-wing politics in a document seemingly imitating Cold War politics published amid the Trump administration’s fascistic crackdown on the left.
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State Department Releases Chilling Report Vilifying Cuba as “Ideological Capital” of the Left
In the report, officials condemn the dissidence of left wing figures like Hasan Piker and Zohran Mamdani.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 16/07/2026
In a set of speeches on the supposed “Resurgence of Political Terrorism,” Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups.
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Miller Labels Leftists a “Cancer” That World Must “Root Out” in Fascistic Speech
People with left-wing beliefs are “enemies of civilization,” said Miller in a speech with numerous McCarthyist echoes.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 20/04/2026
Major military contractor and surveillance giant Palantir has posted a chilling manifesto that calls for tech companies to play a larger role in a dystopian future where imperialist powers are unleashed and Americans are increasingly subject to the whims of the surveillance state.
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Palantir Posts Manifesto Lamenting Post-War “Neutering” of Nazi Germany
The surveillance giant has exploded in value as it’s scored massive contracts from the Trump administration.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 17/04/2026
A new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid $0 in federal income taxes last year, despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.
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Palantir Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax in 2025 While Raking in Taxpayer Funds to Surveil Americans
Its $0 tax bill comes despite the company raking in $1.6 billion and landing a $10 billion military contract last year.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/04/2026
We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Trump called Iran's leaders "animals." Just like how, on Oct. 9, 2023, Israel's Yoav Gallant said Israel was fighting "human animals" in Gaza — and was later cited by the Hague for that statement. The ICJ quoted it directly in its preliminary genocide ruling. truthout.org/articles/tru...
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Trump Uses Same Language Cited by ICJ in Genocide Ruling Against Israel
Trump said the US is fighting “animals,” echoing Yoav Gallant’s “human animals” remark early in Israel’s Gaza genocide.
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
To put it in even further perspective — Lockheed Martin produced both the spacecraft for the Artemis mission and the PRsM missile that shot tungsten pellets into an elementary school in Lamerd.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 25/03/2026
“Aircraft should always be vehicles of peace, never of war! No one should fear that threats of death and destruction will come from the sky,” the pope said, “After the tragic experiences of the twentieth century, aerial bombardment should have been banished forever!”
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Pope Leo: Aerial Bombing Should Have Been Banned Forever After 20th-Century Wars
“No one should fear that threats of death and destruction will come from the sky,” Pope Leo XIV said.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
DeSantis (in Florida) and Abbott, and Paxton (in Texas) are using the same playbook against CAIR that southern states used against the NAACP and other civil rights groups in the 1950s and 60s. But First Amendment doctrine is stronger now, thanks in part to the cases that the NAACP litigated.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
what a godawful day for journalism, following a great many other godawful days for journalism
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
this feels like a coded way to say "we're orienting more toward sports betting"
Murray announced a series of major changes to the storied newsroom: It’ll end sports coverage “in its current form,” close its book section, suspend its Post Reports podcast and shrink its international footprint. Murray said the Post will retain several of the sports reporters to join features and cover sports as a “cultural and societal phenomenon.”
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 29/01/2026
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough. Representative Delia C. Ramirez says the real problem is DHS itself: “The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights.” @sharonzhang.bsky.social reports on why calls to dismantle the whole department are growing.
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House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too
“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 27/01/2026
Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”
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House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too
“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"ICE agents have been kidnapping hard working people — mothers, fathers, and children — and now murdered a registered nurse, one of the most trusted professions in the country. ... Abolish ICE now."
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
National Nurses United, the largest nurses' union in the US, has called for the abolition of ICE in response to Alex Pretti's killing truthout.org/articles/uss...
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US’s Largest Nurses’ Union Demands Abolition of ICE After Alex Pretti Killing
The union vowed to do everything in its power to ensure Congress members who vote to fund DHS are voted out.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Just taking a second to note Truthout's amazing reporting on our homepage right now. Independent media is more important than ever, and I am so proud to be part of this outlet. Please take a second to support us if you can. truthout.org/donate/
A screenshot of Truthout's homepage, with headlines on the State Department's push against pro-Palestine students, starvation in Gaza, many headlines about ICE and resistance to it, and billionaire and corporate gains under Trump.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“We will continue to kill you until you allow us to take away your voting rights”
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE is out here murdering people in cold blood and we can’t get democrats to even SAY “abolish ICE”, much less take any of the actions it would require to do so — investigations, impeachment, prosecutions, even whipping votes. Democrats needed to be abandoned years ago.
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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Just completely unmasked evil at this point
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Included in Jared Kushner's hellish slide deck pitching Gaza as a real estate investment in Davos today was a plan to build data centers across the Strip. Because their hatred for life wasn't already abundantly clear truthout.org/articles/kus...
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Kushner Reveals Dystopic Plan to Build Data Centers, Vacation Resort on Ruins of Gaza Genocide
The plan appears to be to finish Israel’s bulldozing of Gaza to make real estate opportunities for investors.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Trump admin ignoring the glaring hole in their self defense lie, which is that the car speeds up after she's shot, likely because she went unconscious and her foot got heavy. It's common sense that killing the driver of a moving car would not make the car stop moving.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Trump Says US Will “Run” Venezuela After Maduro Abduction
Legal experts called for Trump’s impeachment as world leaders condemned the action as a violation of international law.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
“Watching his life cut short for standing up publicly for what he believed” huh…wonder who else has had that done to them that in relationship to kyle rittenhouse
Cropped Kyle rittenhouse tweet that reads: “I stepped out of the public eye back in January — I needed peace, a fresh start, somewhere far from the constant noise and chaos. That decision changed my life... I met & married my best friend, and found more peace and purpose than I ever thought possible.
Then came the unthinkable - the brutal assassination of my friend Charlie Kirk. Watching his life cut short for standing up publicly for what he believed was right shook me to my core.”
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
i made this cherry chocolate cake (for a retired cardiac PA) :)
A pink cake single tier cake with cherry compote on top. A homemade sign says “happy ret-tie-heart-ment”A cross section of the cake. It is two layers with a chocolate sponge and cherry compote in the middle.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Very rarely, I have the privilege of reading an article that changes the way I think, fundamentally alters the fabric of reality that unrolls before me. This article is one of them. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/12/2025
This is what you get when billionaires own the media. Support grassroots, independent media like Truthout if you can. truthout.org/donate/
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
congee topping bar!!
I am standing behind a counter with a black long sleeve dress on. In front of me are a lot of different toppings in different bowls: green onion, cilantro, tea eggs, pork and impossible meat, fried shallots, youtiao (Chinese fried dough), fried tofu, peanuts, seaweed, sesame oil, chili oil, and chili garlic sauce
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
happy holiday y’all 🤎
Me sitting on the couch with a white t shirt that has a little deer with a 3D bow on it. It’s cute. And my dog, a German shorthaired pointer, who is staring into the middle distance
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is a must-read from legal scholar Marjorie Cohn, who lays out times that she *personally* testified on behalf of soldiers who disobeyed unlawful orders. Very thorough account of how the Trump admin's assertions w/r/t Sen. Kelly and co. are wrong. truthout.org/articles/sol...
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Soldiers Must Disobey Unlawful Orders Under Trump — It’s Their Legal Duty
I have been called to testify at courts-martial as an expert witness on servicemembers’ duty to disobey unlawful orders.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Sen. Joni Ernst blocked a bill by @vanhollen.senate.gov yesterday to suspend arms shipments to the UAE while it backs the slaughter of tens of thousands of people in Sudan truthout.org/articles/gop...
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GOP Blocks Bill to Ban Arms Sales to UAE Until It Stops Arming Sudan Genocidaires
Darfur’s governor said this week that 27,000 people were killed in the days following RSF’s el-Fasher siege last month.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 21/11/2025
Trump’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, reportedly welcomed a man convicted of spying on the Navy for Israel into the U.S.’s Jerusalem embassy for a “friendly” meeting this summer. The spy, Pollard, was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for selling a huge cache of military secrets to Israel.
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Huckabee Welcomed Man Imprisoned for 30 Years for Spying for Israel Into Embassy
“I wholeheartedly embrace an ‘Israel first’ doctrine,” the spy, Jonathan Pollard, recently said in an interview.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
"Decades ago, far-right investors and philanthropists committed to a long-term, risk-taking investment in media and narrative infrastructure. Meanwhile, progressive philanthropy has largely ignored progressive and left media, relying on the continued operations of traditional, profit-driven media."
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The Right Funds Its Media. Can Progressive Philanthropy Meet the Moment?
Rigorous, principled, independent journalism is an essential part of movement building.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
No less a part of the media's hard right pivot than the Kimmel cancellation -- Condé Nast firing union leaders who dared to speak out against the gutting of Teen Vogue. truthout.org/articles/con...
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Union Blasts Condé Nast for Firing Labor Leaders Who Sought Answers on Teen Vogue Layoffs
The firings and gutting of Teen Vogue come amid a hard right pivot by media companies under Trump.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Much like those who continue carrying out his wars today, Cheney enjoyed impunity for his imperial crimes. He lived out his life as part of the 1 percent, availing himself of luxuries funded by atrocities so vast they are almost impossible to describe in full. truthout.org/articles/war...
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War Criminal Dick Cheney Dead at 84, With Blood of Millions on His Hands
Cheney’s legacy more than outlives him; he reshaped the very structures of war and authoritarianism at home and abroad.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
"We're just going to kill people." "We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like, dead." truthout.org/articles/tru...
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Trump Flouts Constitution With Caribbean Strikes: “We’re Just Going to Kill”
“I don’t think we’re going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just gonna kill people,” he said.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
to recap the past couple of hours: - we determined the bullets had trans ideology on them - local pd releases pic of the suspect - nvm
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The right's entire ideology is built on violence. There is nothing to valorize about that. One of the only things uniting the various factions of the right is their commitment to violence. Kirk and Fuentes, for instance, had differences in that they disagreed who that violence should be done to.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Biden officials keep patting themselves on the back saying "at least we prevented famine!" But famine is just a regulated word. You need huge swaths of starvation, built up over a long period of time, to reach famine. And starvation preceding famine isn't magically better.
It marks the grim milestone of a humanitarian situation in Gaza that has only deteriorated since President Trump came into office. But as the situation has worsened, many of the former officials NPR spoke with shared a common refrain: Did we do enough to prevent this?

It's a question that David Satterfield, a special envoy for Middle East humanitarian efforts under President Joe Biden, said he and other senior officials got asked many times throughout his tenure.

"Our answer was no, we're not doing enough, we were never able to mobilize a sustained adequate response to all of the humanitarian challenges faced by 2 million civilians in Gaza, in full honesty and modesty. But we prevented famine and starvation," Satterfield said, referring to the current situation under the Trump administration. "And while that may be considered a low bar, that is not an insignificant achievement."
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
"When I saw the news about Mariam, I was in such disbelief that I kept calling my colleagues in Gaza and asking one question: Is Mariam alive? When they said no, I just hung up and called someone else to ask the same question." www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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Remembering Mariam Abu Daqqa, my strong, beautiful friend killed by Israel
Youmna ElSayed writes about the disbelief and shock of losing her friend, killed in Israeli air strikes on a hospital.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Early in the genocide, the US told Netanyahu he'd be "fighting this war for...decades to come,” Miller said. “The prime minister said, ‘You’re right. We are going to be fighting this war for decades to come. That’s the way it’s been. That’s the way it’s going to be.’” truthout.org/articles/for...
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Former Top Biden Spokesperson Admits Israel Sabotaged Ceasefire Deals as US Blamed Hamas
The former State Department spokesperson effectively admitted he and the president repeatedly lied about negotiations.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It disgusts me that Ezra Klein & co sit around in their cushy homes hand wringing about the WORD genocide when Palestinians' lived reality is hell on earth. I want to force them to look at the photos of kids killed in Gaza every day. I want to glue the pictures to their glasses so it's all they see.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 12/08/2025
After killing 6 journalists on Sunday outside of al-Shifa Hospital, Israeli forces targeted another well-known journalist, Motasem Ahmed Dalloul, on Monday.
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UN Experts: Israel Killed Journalists in “Deliberate Attempt to Silence” Witnesses
Israel struck the home of another prominent reporter in Gaza City just after killing six journalists on Sunday.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Cuomo’s campaign has clearly been trying to Mamdani-fy his social media presence and literally every single tweet is incredible. They all sound like robots trying to emulate Elon Musk’s sense of humor
Cuomo: “I’ve build more airports than you’ve passed bills”

Someone with a hostage ribbon in their user says: “built more airports” - great line!!

He responds: thank you 🙏🏻 Cuomo; my new video team has been reprimanded for stereotyping me. Cannoli privileges revoked, with a video attached. 
Someone responds: leave the cannoli, take the Cuomo!
Cuomo says: new slogan unlockedCuomo predicts DSA won’t last through November because Mamdani said “I’m not sure” about defunding the police and they support BDS but Mamdani is from Uganda (correlation…????)
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Really astonishing how getting even the smallest bit of engagement on Twitter is a hellish experience now
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It is genuinely hard to imagine anything more abhorrent for her to do right now, as ICE is ravaging the US, public health is being completely destroyed, and Trump is literally setting humanitarian aid aflame.
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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
oh, were we talking about cory booker speeches again
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