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I spoke with mask bloc organizers about how they prepared for the impact of tariffs on masks that they hand out to their communities for free at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The professional agitators are ICE.

submitted 5 hours ago • 87 comments

if you've been watching the community defenses against ICE and thinking, "i support my comrades but i don't feel comfortable being on the ~front lines~" please know there are many other ways to support! you can drop off a case of water and snacks, buy medical supplies, donate to jail support, etc

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LAPD helicopter circling immigrant rights protesters behind the pride month rainbow-lit city hall

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Massachusetts folks: I made these stickers sharing LUCE's ICE hotline ☎️ 617-370-5023--they verify sightings and share confirmed info. Stickers fit 1"x2.6" label (Avery 5160). Image below or follow link for a full sheet. Print, stick every&anywhere. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7v098...

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it is remarkable that they couldn’t just let her land. she would’ve delivered enough aid for a few hundred people, max. gaza would still be starving. the israeli government couldn’t handle even the optics of someone giving food to gazans

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Hey fun fact - if you live in NY state, you are eligible for free library access to NYPL, Brooklyn Public Library, and Queens Public Library. Put all 3 cards in the libby app, and you can read/listen to so much stuff for free!! 📚

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if white Americans didn’t want Mexicans in California maybe they should not have conquered California from Mexico and then spent 150 years building up an economy entirely dependent on the flow of people and goods across the border just a thought

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Waving Mexican flags is working

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Between Greta Thunberg and her fellow activists being kidnapped by Israel and Trump turning LA into his personal war zone, I hope people realise that protest, no matter how peaceful, will always be met with violence by dying empires.

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SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. Greta Thunberg is a Swedish citizen. Pressure the foreign ministries and help us keep Greta safe! Web: government.se/contacts/ X : @SweMFA FB : @SweMFA IG : swedishmfa #AllEyesOnMadleen

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SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. Yasemin Acar is a German citizen. Pressure the foreign ministries and help us keep Yasemin safe! W: auswaertiges-amt.de/en/visa-serv... IG : @auswaertigesamt FB : @Auswärtiges Amt X : GermanyDiplo #alleyesonMadleen

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I'm Taqwa After being away for over two months,during my child and I escaped death several times I lost my phone while running from a bombing nearby I want to thank everyone who asked about me and everyone who donated to help me even during my absence Please support me and my son gofund.me/b4901a75

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Familiar tactics from the IDF. Palestinians are subjected to this relentlessly.

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ICE agents are chased and forced to leave their neighborhood by LA residents

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Simone Biles comes for Riley Gaines

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A man from my city was kidnapped by ICE. Please read & share his story.

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“The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidator.” One dollar. I had a dollar! craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...

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i guess it’s time to link some of my favorite indie pattern companies: fridaypatterncompany.com cashmerette.com sewhouse7.com seamwork.com

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I have half a thought on the YouTube video essay (and the degradation of the genre) resulting in this kind of thinking about research

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UNBOUND AUTHORS: I’m speaking to a solicitor about our fine mess. If you have ANY correspondence with the company (beyond the “Dear Author” letters we all got) in 2024 about nonpayment or about the company’s financial stability, could I see it? I’m opening my DMs for this (don’t make me regret that)

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

If you want expert reporting on trans healthcare, you have to support the independent trans journalists who are doing the work. Instead of hate-clicking yet another NYT story, support Assigned Media. It's a real, immediate, helpful thing you can do right now www.assignedmedia.org

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“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

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This story makes me so incandescently angry. From the demons who killed him to the cops who shrugged off his attempts to find help to the news media that presented his death like an accident to the entertainment industry that used him for a punchline & threw him away. A plague on all your houses.

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Yes, please! @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov @ilhanmn.bsky.social

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The Minneapolis mayoral election seems pretty simple to me. You get to rank three candidates. Rank the three who showed up for Minneapolis today. Do not rank the one already in charge of the complicit police department.

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Thanks to many kind souls on here, Ali was able to raise what he needed to evacuate his injured sister. Now he wants to help his friend Khalid, whose family hasn't eaten in five days. They were neighbors before the war and they are like brothers, Ali says. He needs $500 for a bag of flour 💸💕🍉

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Hawaii makes history as first state to charge tourists to save environment. A Hawaii vacation will cost you more in the near future thanks to a new “green fee” that the governor signed into law this week. grist.org/politics/haw... #Travel #Vacation #Hawaii #GreenSky #GreenFee #Climate

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A Native Man was killed protecting his husband on the first day of Pride? After two YEARS YEARS of harassment. WHERE HIS HOUSE WAS SET ON FIRE but folks think this isn’t already a “hot” war

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Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

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It was painfully obvious since at least George Zimmerman, and for those really pay attention much further back, that self-defense laws are politicized, only available to political in groups, not political out groups.

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Graywolf now has a YouTube channel, and my Day in the Life video from last summer has landed there! Like, share, and subscribe ❤️ youtube.com/shorts/1lqY3...

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if you represent or work for a hospital who gets investigated by the FBI, i want to talk to you. my signal is in my bio.

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

since we're doing AI/college discourse: probably not seeing the downsides but what about requiring cites and a photo or screenshot of the relevant text from the cite? in-class essays have a good use but i'd hate to see the research paper die

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saw a young queer use the term “bio name” and folks we GOTTA stop using the language of the right, there is no such thing as a biological name jesus fucking christ

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