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NEW: A federal appeals court tossed out a redistricting lawsuit filed by tribes in ND, saying they weren't allowed to bring a suit under the VRA — only the DOJ can. That's just the tip of the iceberg of really escalating threats against Native voters. Must-read, quite distressing reporting:

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My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

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The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers. This thread will dive into its activity. 🧵 1/x.

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SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

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the story of 2019-2024 was institutions from Silicon Valley to the police facing a modicum of accountability and radicalizing themselves into support of a leader and party who promised unaccountability

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Its a lazy sun day on Arrakis. Come hang out with me and @taruhunter.bsky.social as we roam around in @duneawakening.com thanks to #Funcom for the #PRCopy twitch.tv/cypheroftyr || twitch.tv/taruhunter

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Breaking News: Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor, calling him a “visionary” leader.

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Portland Bakery Wins James Beard Award, ICE Snatches College 'Dreamers' and Staff Strike Shuts Down the Louvre. It's GOOD MORNING, NEWS!

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if i can be y’all’s dad for a second: one of the most important things I’ve learned is that acquiring a skill is literally uncomfortable that awful moment where you feel confused and stupid and embarrassed? it means you’re about to learn something. and it’s mandatory if you want to get better

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“It should be illegal for you to be mean to me and legal for me to kill you” is basically the Republican platform.

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no new patrons yet, i'm looking to change that! here's a thread of the types of posts you can get by subscribing patreon.com/priyahuq #patreon #art #artistpayday #comics

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📢 ISO OF COMPOSERS 📢 We are looking for a few musicians to join the #ActualPLAY #APAOSS team. Small monetary stipends will be available for each #composer chosen. We’d like to see a: • Musician who likes #TTRPG • #IndieGame Composer • Indie Pop #Musician 🔁 RTs Appreciated! 🔁 Apply Here:

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“Every year, the Black and Latino caucuses hear how polling suggests we need to talk about... immigrants less," says Colorado lawmaker Jennifer Bacon. "But we believe in this, so let’s do it.” She sponsored a law to improve access to ballots in Spanish. boltsmag.org/colorad...

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Humboldt Park’s Puerto Rican People’s Parade and Festival 📸 View photos from the beloved annual neighborhood festival celebrating Puerto Rican culture and community: blockclubchi.co/4n5DlB1

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If you rank Zohran 1st you’re voting to make every New York Times Opinion writer insane for several years.

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There's a lot of good reasons for NYC to rank Zohran Mamdani #1 but this has gotta be top 5

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The Rowena and Ferry fires in Oregon grew less over the weekend than in the days immediately after they started. Firefighters assisting local crews will begin to demobilize this week.

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The armed, yellow-vested "peacekeepers" at the Utah 50501 protest in Salt Lake City opened fire into a crowd, hitting two people: A Sāmoan fashion designer with two young kids, who died. A second-generation Venezuelan immigrant and antiracist protester who was legally carrying. Cops charged HIM.

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Look, don't call it an endorsement, the New York Times editorial board is just saying it would be wayyyy better to vote for someone whose resignation the paper called for a few years ago than it would be to vote for the guy who wants to tax rich people. hellgatenyc.com/nytimes-vote...

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About today's public transit discourse: I believe that riding public transit is a spiritual good for increasing your empathy and practicing minding your own business. It also helps you internalize that most people mind their own business, e.g. no one is looking at you.

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"Instead of picking one person to lead the city, voters will rank up to five candidates. This process is wonkish and confusing." Lmfao

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I live in a world where I am supposed to just accept that this sentence exists

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honestly i don’t know how we keep a united front together when the center-left prefers a corrupt rapist centrist over a social democrat as mayor

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People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse

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“The time has come to recognize whales not merely as resources but as sentient beings with inherent rights.”~Tongan Princess Lātūfuipeka Tukuʻaho www.sej.org/headlines/to...

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Last year, I wrote a piece for Kotaku on how FF16 doesn’t fully realize the realities of the slavery it depicts in its world. I’d love to write about more FF games through other critical perspectives. kotaku.com/final-fantas...

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For people with darker skin injured at protests, and the lawyers representing them:

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They finally caught the son of a bitch

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…Our washing machine just broke and our financial situation is uhh pretty bad, so: I’m available for illustration work! ashantifortson.com [email protected] I have an artist shop with my spouse @binglin.bsky.social: seatoad.bigcartel.com And I have a tip jar: ko-fi.com/ashantifortson

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Want a depressing fact? Google announces they’ve purchased a property near Columbus Ohio for a new data center. That undeveloped business park is one of the only places around here that hosts Grasshopper Sparrows, a rapidly declining state-endangered bird.

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I think the folks looking at the footage from DJT's Silly Sad Parade and saying our troops don't know how to march are missing the point. Of course they know how to march. Many of them didn't. They simply walked. That speaks volumes. There are many ways to get in the way.

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The last time nyc had a mayor who tried to mildly reign in police violence they doxxed his daughter so

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"I had not touched a cat in 15 yrs when an orange kitten wandered over to sit w/me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child."

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In Jewish towns, every house and neighbourhood comes with public and private shelters that can be accessed at any time and within a few minutes, in Arab towns, no such shelters exist, here's a map comparing the number of public shelters: [cross-post of my 48er friend z_00pIz from Twitter]

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All set up at the Indie Game Emporium at Houndstooth in Toronto as part of Toronto Games Week!

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JOGO DELICIOSO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrpQ...

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"When I saw the images of prisoners in El Salvador, it triggered memories of my own life in U.S. prisons. I’ve been in since Ronald Reagan was president and I’ve always found it difficult to communicate certain aspects of the experience," writes Troy.

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A game where a black character takes back what was stolen from them in a narrative runner is a really good concept, don't erase me from the conversation please ❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/1323540/...

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Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

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This Fathers Day, please take some time to learn about and support parents caught in the carceral and family policing systems. They love their kids as much as you do, and have as much right to celebrate with them today.

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There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.

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