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Trump's ICE raids mean Washington farmers cannot harvest this year's cherry crop, and that many will now go out of business. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

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Chicago Pope vibes are immaculate and I can’t believe we never thought to try this before

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“AGI as a whole is just a super problematic concept that provides an air of objectivity and positivity, when, in fact, it’s opening the door for technologists to just do whatever they want.”

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I applaud my ancestors for immigrating to the same latitudes they basically came from. I come by my love of gloom & chill naturally.

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There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

submitted 2 days ago • 173 comments

Good week for an MMR booster.

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Check back in roughly 15-20 years when, exhausted, disaffected, and without their own incomes, they start asking why no one ever told them about Linda Hirshman 🙄

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

When does he apply gold leaf to the exterior columns?

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When Black people told you that it is a normal occurrence for police to lie about protest and assaulting officers now you see ... the test run for the justification of authoritarianism always begins in communities of color

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

Here in Washington state, 3,866,398 acres are on the line. This includes some of the most carbon-dense forest in the world, with immeasurable value for climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and human health and well-being.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

See which of YOUR public lands congress wants to sell off to the rich www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

submitted 5 days ago • 87 comments

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Scientists and governments aren’t colluding to hide the cure for cancer.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

I mean, who wants to look too closely at industrial chemical explosions anyway.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The Pope is a Bears fan confirmed. Or he's been watching the Sabres for the past 14 years.

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On this topic: I asked my students to generate Perplexity summaries of sources for their research and then read the sources and critique the summaries, which was enlightening for all of us. Some summaries were "fine," some were wrong, some were ridiculous and brought in info not in the text /1

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As of 2025, Seattle's population is approximately 764,753. 10% of Seattle showed up at /this/ protest and there were more than just this one.

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Adding: Hoffman entered public service because he could not get health insurance for Holly, now in her 20s, who was born with a disability and is now an amputee. He’s a relentless advocate. This morning his wife threw herself on Holly and was shot in her stead. MN disability community in shock.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Fortunate Son. OMG

submitted 5 days ago • 330 comments

#NoKings

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Go Blue!

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Between 1,500 and 2,000 people attended Juneau, Alaska’s #NoKings rally today under clear skies. That’s based on a series of clickers used by organizers. There were 6-10 silent counterprotesters on the bridge above.

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

“If not gestapo, why gestapo shaped?”

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

Woman in #Savannah "getting arrested for wearing a medical mask" is released! @dbkrause.bsky.social posted about the arrest at 11:33 am. He posted she was released at 11:44 am. That's eleven minutes that shouldn't have happened. But, it's reverted now. #NoKings

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

The majority of people on Apple Health are children.

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Yeah, so this is not supposed to happen.

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Here’s former ABC reporter Terry Moran’s first post on Substack. Thank you, Terry, for being unafraid to lift up your voice. This is bigger than politics as usual. When a President is handcuffing Senators, threatening the free press, and so much more—we all have to speak up for our democracy.

submitted 7 days ago • 66 comments

Everybody should do this to every No Parking Anytime sign everywhere.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The latest from our star Boeing reporter Maureen Tkacik: turns out a whistleblower said it would take 10-12 years for 787s to start failing. The one that crashed into an Indian hospital today was built in 2014. prospect.org/economy/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

NEW: In a letter to the Senate, the U.S. Postal Service says a proposal to auction off 7,200 USPS electric vehicles and rescind Inflation Reduction Act funding for more EVs would hurt its ability to deliver mail and "waste crucial funds for no reasonable purpose" about.usps.com/who/governme...

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

We need a full cabinet removal. We need Gavin to bring in California Closets to redo the whole thing.

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

Wayne Gretzky being referred to as "man in Taylor Swift photo" 💀 😂 #hockey

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There’s a growing trend of big “left wing” influencers/journalists mocking BlueSky for talking too much about ableism, attacking disabled activists, etc. It’s extremely reactionary and insidious to do as eugenics is being full on normalized and our healthcare/public health is being dismantled

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

more crime in america

submitted 7 days ago • 245 comments

Why CBC hockey coverage rocks!

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The quality of the camera work on CBC Stanley Cup coverage is so much better than the US coverage. I feel like I put on glasses just by flipping channels. Baffling that US networks lag so badly on hockey coverage.

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Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

submitted 8 days ago • 692 comments

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 8 days ago • 842 comments