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A North Dakota jury has ruled that Greenpeace must pay upwards of $660 million to the pipeline company Energy Transfer as punishment for protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016 and 2017. By @rachelleingang.bsky.social and @ninalakhani.bsky.social for @theguardian.com…

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The governor's influence is rising in the Democratic party, as she shifts from low-key resistance to full-on protest over Trump's punitive slashing of federal funds.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

submitted 30 days ago • 643 comments

JUST A REMINDER ... ... of how close we are today ...

submitted 34 days ago • 257 comments

Exactly

submitted 34 days ago • 57 comments

A leaked memo reveals that DOGE's next target is the VA, with plans to fire more than 80,000 agency workers who provide critical services to veterans and their families. More than 25% of agency staff are veterans themselves.  How is this "efficiency"?

submitted 36 days ago • 623 comments

What's this? Looks like a list of DOGE peeps... but what do I know.

submitted 38 days ago • 212 comments

If you know anyone planning to get their child live rabbits for Easter, please talk them out of it. Get a lovely stuffed bunny instead! 🐇

submitted 37 days ago • 19 comments

Boston is the safest major city in the United States because we are safe for everyone. ❤️

submitted 41 days ago • 73 comments

submitted 51 days ago • 468 comments

Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

submitted 51 days ago • 213 comments

On this day in 1898, a white mob attacked Frazier Baker, the first Black postmaster of Lake City, SC, and his family. Both Mr. Baker and his infant daughter were killed in the attack.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...

submitted 74 days ago • 501 comments

I got these delightful Keith Haring stamps today. I wonder how much longer such a symbol of nonbinary love and happiness will be allowed at the post office.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking News: Garth Hudson, the last surviving original member of the Band, died in Woodstock, New York, at 87. The Band was one of the most influential rock groups of the 1960s and ’70s.

submitted 85 days ago • 47 comments

Elons Nazi salute is turning into that viral white and gold dress, except one answer makes you a fucking prick

submitted 85 days ago • 13 comments