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I feel compelled to acknowledge the dread and dismay that many international students in the US are feeling at the moment - we see you, even if we feel rather powerless for now. Here's the very first visa stamp on my Indian passport ~40 years ago to come to UW Seattle for an MS in Bioengineering.

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i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

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Trump administration opens half of National Forests to logging. An emergency order lifts protections on over half of U.S. Forest Service lands as the Trump pushes to increase timber production.

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A new dam on the Klabava River south of Prague to protect critical habitat hit bureaucratic delays…but a colony of beavers took things into their own paws, building a series of dams in the same locations the engineers had planned, creating a wetland that saved the Czech govt 1.2M euros. Read more:

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Just in case those of us fighting for democracy in court didn't need another challenge, Big Law turning collaborators is here and growing. My firm and others continue to fight. We will never back down. We will never bend a knee. We will never obey.

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I looked this guy up on linkedin and he's been at the SSA for 26 years. worked his way up from IT grunt to associate commissioner

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For the 1st time, I'm watching a sitcom full of people like my family in a place similar to the land that, due to diaspora, while still my home, I've never felt under my feet. I'm seeing & hearing the work of artists I know. The starlet gets to be messy & imperfect. You can't quantify this.

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it's not looking good folks

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NEW: Blackfeet tribal members are suing the federal government, alleging Trump's tariffs on Canada violate the Constitution and tribal treaty rights. It's the latest example of tribes flexing their sovereign status to oppose new federal policy. #mtpol #mtnews

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what gets me (and I am experiencing this PERSONALLY rn) is these incredibly rich people that are so fucking miserable they can seemingly only be satisfied by making people who have less than them suffer like the only thing that their money seems to buy them is a hunger to harm other people

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There's a long history of settler colonial violence being justified on the basis (lie) that indigenous communities are "re/moveable" and therefore do not have claims to their ancestral lands.

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From Nov 7:

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Donald Trump just caused: -- The biggest tax increase since 1968 -- The biggest tariff increase since 1930 and the Great Depression -- What is about to be the worst 3-day stock market decline since the Great Depression

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The Art of Banksy in Vancouver. Up to $70 an adult to enter. Only 34 of the 150 works on display are actual Banksy’s, rest are reproductions. Unauthorized by the artist, of course. The revolution won’t be televised but it will be commodified and sold back to you.

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biggest ever. so big. beautiful. sir, they said. sir, it's so big. you've got to see it, they said.

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People often ask me, how do you keep going in the face of such sustained harm to the environment? My answer is always the same, it's the many amazing people, like Eva Czislowski, that give me hope & strength to keep fighting. Thank you, Eva, & thank you @australia.theguardian.com for this series.

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Our fascist government put a third-grader in handcuffs.

submitted 8 days ago • 155 comments

I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat

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In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.

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Japan's Nikkei 225 has lost an estimated $368 billion (in USD) since 4/2. Sony, Panasonic, Canon, Nikon, Nintendo, Sharp, Toyota, Honda. Subaru, etc... companies Americans rely on are all losing value. That's a hell of thing to do to one of our closet allies.

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Not the MAGA folks lying about their 401k's doing great 😭😭😭

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NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy. Hard to see this as anything other than clearing the way for shoddy research on things like vaccines. Regardless of the rationale, it's bad news for public health. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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I'm reminded of the time I had to teach a junior staffer with a Masters in Public Health degree how to calculate percentages properly. She didn't know. She had a master's degree in epidemiology. This is what happens when liberal arts aren't taught anymore.

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Some of us live with chronic illness, and a cold can take us out of life for months. Some of us are allergic to antibiotics so it’s not so simple to treat common infections. Some of us don’t want to accidentally kill a person we love who’s dying right now. Don’t be an asshole about people in masks.

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With every week of additional horrors in the news I find a different part of my lecture course I feel I should expand. “Yeah, need to add more on McCarthyism and education …” “Well, probably could beef up wartime internment …” “OK, so time to revisit the depths of the Great Depression …”

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I’m so very, very tired

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To read some of the Trump administration’s initial actions and what they mean for canyon country, read the feature story of Redrock Wilderness here: suwa.org/trump-2-0-en... #ProtectWildUtah

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This administration is incompetent and endangering our troops. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared war plans in an encrypted chat—including a journalist—two hours before strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, the White House confirmed.

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A nation of sheep will beget a nation of wolves. - Charlie Sykes quoting Edward R. Murrow charliesykes.substack.com/p/silencing-...

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‘Night Chant Ceremonial Hunt’ (watercolour), 1947 | Harrison Begay (Diné) 1917-2012 🎨 Harrison Begay | Philbrook Museum of Art

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Feeling helpless? Wondering how all this wildly waves hands is affecting people from all walks of life? Reminder that @staceyabrams.com has a podcast, #AssemblyRequired, that has regular information about what you can do, where you are, with what you have. crooked.com/podcast-seri...

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🧪 University of New Mexico Health Sciences researchers have detected #microplastics in human brains at much higher concentrations than in other organs – and the plastic accumulation appears to be growing over time, having increased 50% over just the past eight years. hscnews.unm.edu/news/hsc-new...

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read this and share it please - doi.org/10.5304/jafs...

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When you call your legislators, please include this as one of your talking points. Once again the United States Government is violating their agreements with tribal nations. Shame on them. More in comments. nativenewsonline.net/health/break...

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

watching terence mckenna videos with my husband is exactly how i want to spend vday

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Idea - What if we pick one non-profit per week which serves the Black Community and money bomb them so that they can continue/expand their services?

submitted 67 days ago • 14 comments

#BlackHistoryMonth: Karen Cook-Bell is right to refer to the American Revolution as a massive slave rebellion. The British offered freedom and asylum as a means of destabilizing the planter class. Fugitive slave ads explode in the newspapers during and after the war.

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And the insistence on assuming the absolute worst when Indigenous folks are talking about how to resist is peak anti-Indigenous BS. Ugh. We aren't the ones shaping settler colonial violence, and you don't get to skip relationship building with us just because you want us to follow your lead.

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@adamzyglis.bsky.social

submitted 67 days ago • 5 comments

I apologize in advance for needing to promote a book but… It is about Black history, environmental justice, trans-Pacific trade and other … highly relevant … topics.

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Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives

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‘For decades, Cuffie’s work has languished in boxes waiting to be discovered. Now, his photographs of Black life in Baltimore in the 1970s are finally getting their due.’ flip.it/C9RfnD

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I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

submitted 70 days ago • 65 comments

In terms of how empires fall stories turning the whole thing over to a ketamine addled tech baron and a band of incel teens is probably one of the most pathetic options

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