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"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept" - Angela Davis Old-school nerd: Unix, wooden boats, steel bicycles. Fond of critters. Urgent about justice & human rights.
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“A year ago, Asal, a deaf, non-binary lesbian from the Middle East, and her partner attended Pride in London and London Trans+ Pride with us. They said this was the first time they had felt celebrated for their relationship and gender identities.” www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/29/r...

June is Pride Month. Let's call out companies who show support for LGBTQ+ people while also advertising on GB News, a channel that pumps out LGBTQ+ hate. Tell these companies to pick a side - hate or Pride: action.goodlawproject.org/pick-side-ha...

1 down, 9 to go… Less than a day after launching our campaign with @stopfundinghate.bsky.social your pressure has got this response from Radisson. 🌈 Force the nine other advertisers to pick a side - hate or Pride: action.goodlawproject.org/pick-a-side-...

I would legit die for this woman.

They know a judgment day is coming.

Breaking News: A woman sued oil and gas companies over her mother’s death in a heat wave. It's the first wrongful death case targeting fossil fuel companies over their role in global warming, experts said.

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This is what a Cold Air Front looks like from Space

catstituent outreach

🔥 “As one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, Merck's stance may influence how other major corporations respond to similar pressure campaigns” against DEI. sustainabilitymag.com/articles/mer...

Had a member of my senior management ask me about they / them pronoun use today. 'I just dont get it' Quick convo about singular use going hack to 13th century, our schooling on it just being plural being wrong, and a simplified explanation of non-binary, binary and agender identities. 1/2

God help everyone when those whacko's show up. ugh,

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

Poor billionaires. #eattherich

Breakthrough Montessori educators overwhelmingly want a union to improve working and learning conditions—for a strong, more stable school. Welcome to the AFT family! www.aft.org/press-releas...

The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

“It’s not a sports ban, instead we are going to let you compete and if a ‘biological female’ would have earned the medal you earned, we will give it to her and award her the podium spot and record” Anyway, latest CIF release from California here. www.cifstate.org/news/2025_TF...

Now over 10,000 signatures...

The people of Missouri made it very clear: They wanted abortion rights (at least until fetal viability). Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen.

Republicans’ budget bill earmarks a staggering $45 billion for immigrant detention centers. The biggest beneficiaries? Private prison companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group – who both donated hefty sums to Trump’s inauguration. Always follow the money.

TIL a new investment acronym: TACO = Trump Always Chickens Out. Seems like June 14th should become World Taco Day.

Think speed cameras are a cash grab? Well, you can stop speed cameras from grabbing your cash with this one neat trick!

Just wanted to say, thank you all for allowing kinship and giving family to a girl who really wished she could have been understood when she was younger. Love you all dearly

One of my personal recession indicators is how many unsolicited credit card offers I am receiving in the mail and we’re up to 20 this month. It’s like 2007 in my mailbox right now.

If Karoline Leavitt had gotten an LGBTQ degree from Harvard she would know to say fewer instead of less.

Harvard Medical School doctors sued after their work was censored for using words like "transgender" and "LGBTQ". Now a federal judge has ordered that their work be restored. www.assignedmedia.or... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Trump repeatedly promised to end the Russia-Ukraine war “before I even arrive at the Oval Office,”. But now, he’s backpedaled, with no plan or progress. He clearly lacks the competence to grasp how complex global conflicts really are. Diplomacy isn’t bravado—real peace takes more than empty boasts

Ah yes, my favorite part of the multi-day harassment campaign, the point where the abuse gets vile enough that you have to break the One Rule and go searching for the people inciting it whom you haven't blocked yet

When the Cass Review came out last year, the NYT rushed to cover it complete with post notifications. After reviews in Germany and Utah came out supporting gender affirming care for trans youth, dead silence. You can be just as biased in what you don't cover as what you do.

✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ Dutch Bros Coffee 900+ locations in 18 states "Dutch Bros is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in our company, at the window and in our communities cultivating an inclusive environment of love, acceptance and kindness."

Yep. Freedom of Speech is a right.....EVEN FOR IDIOTS..🤔