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If you’re not equal parts terrified and furious about this, you do. It understand the situation (and you need to)

Genetic databases bought in a bankruptcy sale. TV crime writers, start your engines. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/24/2...

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In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza. There are no words.

just found out about this. if you are distributing information under this government be very careful

23andMe is going under. Californians have the right to delete their genetic data before it's turned over to next party buying the assets. If you have a 23andMe account, go log in to download whatever reports you want to save, then follow these instructions to delete your data.

If you’re still masking…thank you If you’re trying to educate others on the benefits of masks…thank you If you’re standing in solidarity with disabled & vulnerable people who’ve been cast aside for the last 5 years…thank you Its not easy being the lone masker in 2025, but we see & appreciate you

If Palestine is the litmus test everybody has failed it, so it's not a surprise the West is in a dire State. The same men bombing brown & Black people indiscriminately will also snatch your white elderly Mom's social security. That's why fighting for rights can't be selective. Everybody or nobody.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but when the Nazis first started sending Jews and other victims to camps, they called it deportation, and the camps were technically in other countries.

Canada’s next federal election will take place on April 28 Vote like your life depends on it. 🇨🇦

I promise not to go on too much about it but just this once, I'd like to brag how Canadian elections don't take so damn long. PM Carney dissolved the parliment this afternoon, election is slated for April 28th. 2025. This year. Like a month and a bit away. Nanabooboo ;) Okay, I'll shut up now :)

“innocence will not protect you”

Is this good???

A great thread clarifying the stakes of the trans kids in athletics panic:

This is like when the press calls Chappell Roan "rude" or says an actress is "difficult" -- it's a way of framing "has the confidence not to put up with assholes" in a way that sounds bad to people who don't see the video of what actually happened.

People think being small will keep them safe. It won't. The reason we know who Mahmoud Kahlil is is because he was loud. Do you think he's the only person the administration has tried to disappear? He's just one of the first we've noticed

a second health bar appears above the vatican as the pope enters his next boss phase

Just fyi: A new book will make you feel better

It’s fascinating because I really think most Americans have no idea how angry Canadians are, and when told, they either don’t get it or feel like it’s unfair.

Every time I get a panicky, lots of caps & !!! text from Dem offices, begging for donations to stop Tr**p it makes me seethe. Y’all are in office, do something instead of trying to ask for more $$ while doing nothing to stop what’s happening in gov’t.

It's always wrong to vandalize personal property and that certainly includes Teslas, and also: your government is actively disappearing innocent people without due process, so, you know, that second one is taking up my empathetic bandwidth at the moment.

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Your reminder that #TeslaTakedown is a grassroots, nonviolent and peaceful protest. We do not condone violence or vandalism. And we recognize that all Tesla owners are not on the wrong side. Our tent is a big one. Join a protest now at Teslatakedown.com or organize your own!

Hey, an occasional reminder: Should you be fighting fascism here in the US? Yes, you should! Are you the one who decides how best you can do that? Yes, you are! Should the people who decide that you're not doing it right (i.e., the way they want you to) fuck off into the sun? Yes, they should!

I've cossed more international borders than most, been through checkpoints and searches and have trained human rights activists, journalists and others in staying safe in repressive regimes. In the past few days I've provided some friends with travel advice for no particular reason; here's a thread:

Insane book piracy discourse reminds me I still need a local library card.

Come on, y'all, it hasn't even been 12 hours. No #Severance spoilers. If you had to write an article for an outlet, that's one thing. But just posting pics, spoiler thoughts and reveals is very uncool for a popular show you know a bunch of other are watching and not watching immediately. 💖

Great read for Pitt fans. This show is the best competence porn you will ever see.

A Status Yellow rain warning has been issued for all of Munster and counties Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford and Galway. The warning will be in effect for 24 hours

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit! This St. Patrick's Day, as well celebrate all of the wonderful culture coming from Ireland, check out this list of Irish games available on Steam, compiled by Imirt and a group of incredible volunteers. store.steampowered.com/curator/4145...

I'm not doomscrolling I'm just going for the blood pressure high score

Overall around seventy scheduled flights between London Heathrow and airports on the island of Ireland are expected to be impacted by the closure of the London airport for the day following a nearby fire | Follow live updates

That part. Talk to any Black survivor of Jim Crow. This is very familiar to them. Ruby Bridges is on Instagram. This is a reversion to very recent history

Walz: "I think we have to assume the very worst in everything this administration does, and we need to prepare for it."

Bridge in-progress.

Fascinating look at how deeply surveilled we all are and how dogged law enforcement can follow the tiniest bread crumbs to capture perpetrators they prioritize. In other news, the person who planted pipe bombs in Washington DC ahead of January 6th is still unidentified.

Genuinely warning Israelis that it may be very loud tonight as they massacre a captive population. There is no redemption for this.

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the United States.

Mexico seems pretty cool

It's unfortunate that the current US government is such that the head of @seattlein2025.org needs to post this statement, and also, given that the current US government is such, it is good that she has. seattlein2025.org/2025/03/20/s...

Don't know what to do? Clean a room. Clean your car. Clean a bathroom. Will you know what to do next? Maybe not, but you'll feel better having made a chunk of your environment more comfortable.