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Need to get this on a patch for Hoboken CERT.

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From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video. Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!

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Tonight’s Light-Up Ride has been indefinitely postponed in light of the below news.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to "return control of the California National Guard" to CA Gov. Newsom, finding that Trump's order taking control was illegal because it did not follow the required procedure. The order is stayed until noon Friday. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

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BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Yknow i think the whole “respect and dignity“ line about trans people might make sense when you consider they think being trans is inherently undignified and therefore standing in the way of transition and even conversion become ways to give trans people their “dignity“ back

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Replace parked cars with soil and plants. Rue Damrémont

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Domestic terrorism carried out against US citizens.

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A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

submitted 11 days ago • 55 comments

It’s time for something new. So: what do you think I should do next? I want to be of service. anildash.com/2025/06/11/t...

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The sun is shrouded by smoke from wildfires in Canada as it rises behind the Chrysler Building and Empire State Building in New York City, Wednesday morning #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #sunrise @empirestatebldg #wildfires

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An important question. Good sign that people are asking. People really have thought about this! The labor union model usually includes a strike fund to help members. Historically, you’d see everything from int’l mutual aid to local support networks.

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ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is wild

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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

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Arrests now at Broadway and Duane as protesters tried to block Duane a street where only federal vehicles can enter and exit.

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Thousands of people marching through Lower Manhattan now demanding ICE get out of New York City.

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Awful story. Three kids were running a lemonade stand and some driver just ploughed into them. Kids aren't safe outside because of vehicles and the irresponsible people that operate them.

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The Pasadena Community Job Center is an amazing resource for day laborers and housekeepers in the LA area. I worked with them early in COVID to fund their food bank and 40 families in need. They provided detailed reports on the aid. www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

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One thing is for certain after this week: Local cops in sanctuary cities—Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York—are working in lock step with DHS and ICE.

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In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

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Many of the federal workers being forced out by Trump are Black women who spent decades building a career of government service, only to see those careers shattered in a sudden purge. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social

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“In a paper published in Nature Communications, the researchers have shown for the 1st time that mRNA can be delivered into the cells where HIV is hiding, by encasing it in a tiny, specially formulated fat bubble. The mRNA then instructs the cells to reveal the virus.” The virus can no longer hide!

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Let's improve the below with some modern stuff 😎 Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/pen/J... via @codepen.io The perfect use case to illustrate why we need all the new improvements. To make the code more readable and less hacky. cc @ishadeed.com @nerdy.dev

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“On one test, the hallucination rates of newer A.I. systems were as high as 79 percent.” Well, that’s… useless. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

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Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.

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This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

submitted 11 days ago • 78 comments

I use it very deliberately to link the current moment to COVID! Thank you. I’ve been thinking on that rupture for awhile:

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1. The FPV drone tech Ukraine used here has been around for a while, though it was used very ingeniously. 2. The Ukrainian attack using these drones relied upon what sounds like over a year of extraordinarily precise logistics, planning, and training. This is not something just anyone could do.

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News worth repeating: PDX City Councilor Mitch Green donated unspent funds from his office budget to complete small street improvements in his district. Safer streets aren't that expensive. Saving lives is priceless. Thank you @councilorgreen.bsky.social! Full story: @bikeportland.org

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There's no actual belief among elites against remote work, they just know that workers like it and they oppose anything workers like on principle. Mistreating workers is the core of the ideology.

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Uber sent push notifications yesterday to its users in Illinois telling them to call their state reps and oppose transit funding. The bill then stalled in the House so now CTA is on track to close 4/8 'L' lines and discontinue 74/127 bus routes, absent emergency action from the legislature.

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March 13, 1913: Fred Rodman Law becomes the first recorded person to attempt rocked-powered flight by launching himself in an 44-foot rocket from the foot of Williams Ave (at the Morris Canal), Jersey City. The site is today occupied by a Chevrolet dealership and Route 440.

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Moment of Joy 😄 "That's my photo right there!" @bikejc.org Ward Tour. ~We Outside~ Oonee Pod, Public Art.

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me: do i have ADHD? doctor: no you don’t me: i don’t what doctor: you have AD240p

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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

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My people, we need two LIGO sites to prove sources are astrophysical and not, like, a rabbit hopping nearby. ⚛️

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Saying the quiet part out loud: Republicans think you should die if you can’t afford health care.

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As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

submitted 15 days ago • 71 comments