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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a man before he was a martyr. A father, husband, son, and man who had a bold vision for revolutionary change. As we celebrate his 96th birthday & reflect on his legacy, let's not forget his humanity.A photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & his family.

submitted 63 days ago • 36 comments

Immigrants are saving the dogs! They're saving the cats! They're saving the homes of the people who live here!

submitted 65 days ago • 281 comments

Love this.

submitted 65 days ago • 799 comments

This is the best description of DOGE - what it is likely to be (an oligarchic project) and what it is unlikely to be (an actual government department) that I have yet read donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...

submitted 74 days ago • 58 comments

I don’t question someone’s sincerely held religious beliefs. But I question those religious beliefs that create buffoonery from its adherents.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

The traitors are easy to spot.

submitted 75 days ago • 686 comments

So gratifying to see, at long last, the great voting rights activist & legend Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer recognized with a presidential Medal of Freedom. A true champion of democracy, and personal hero. (Hamer photo by Leroy Henderson)

submitted 75 days ago • 68 comments

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

submitted 75 days ago • 562 comments

Big win! The Fish & Wildlife Service will expand Okefenokee Refuge by up to 22,000 acres, protecting it from a proposed titanium mine. Nearly 30,000 public comments showed how special Okefenokee is to people everywhere. Thank you to everyone who spoke up!

submitted 75 days ago • 117 comments

I didn’t know it came in medical grade!

submitted 75 days ago • 1645 comments

Another broken record — brought to you by fossil fuel lies and corruption delivered at industrial scale.

submitted 81 days ago • 22 comments

Please read this heartbreaking account. If only 3/4 of it is true — and I think it’s much more— the Israel of my own beloved relatives has lost its mind, its heart, and its soul. Like David Schulman, “I can’t help asking myself: For this we created a Jewish state?” search.app/K445rnKW6NXy...

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Tim Snyder has branded this oligarchy shitshow the “Mump Regime” and it’s fucking perfect.

submitted 88 days ago • 93 comments

Run, Lucy, Run! Human Ancestors Could Jog but Not Very Far or Fast

submitted 89 days ago • 4 comments

Trump’s Trump talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

submitted 90 days ago • 13 comments

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

submitted 89 days ago • 1054 comments

For the first time in American history, servicemembers today can be court-martialed for certain offenses without a right to be tried by a panel. We're asking #SCOTUS to decide whether the "short-martial" Congress debuted in 2019 violates the Due Process Clause: georgetown.box.com/v/WheelerPet...

submitted 90 days ago • 10 comments

The owner of a car company is controlling the House of Representatives from a social media app.

submitted 91 days ago • 1037 comments

Good morning, Bluesky!🌞☕☕

submitted 95 days ago • 174 comments

The Clash release “London Calling”, their 3rd studio LP, today in 1979. “Punk rock isn’t something you grow out of,” Joe Strummer said. “Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is, ‘Give us some truth.’” “Train in Vain”

submitted 95 days ago • 252 comments

This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @parkermolloy.com @jphillll.bsky.social @jessicavalenti.bsky.social @derekberes.bsky.social

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone in this picture would be able to walk if the polio vaccine had existed in time for them.

submitted 95 days ago • 366 comments

"Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last." Looking at you NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, CNN, Joe & Mika, ABC News...

submitted 95 days ago • 452 comments

At least…

submitted 96 days ago • 42 comments

Me: Dr. Salk your vaccine will save so many children! Salk: Well thank God Me: Of course they will grow up Salk: Well I hope so Me: And get old Salk: I guess? Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine Salk: what now Me: And leave NATO Salk: shit

submitted 97 days ago • 211 comments

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

submitted 96 days ago • 1063 comments

Þrídrangaviti Lighthouse, SW coast of Iceland. Hand built by local mountaineers in 1939, now maintained by helicopter. Pillar (rock column) is 120 feet tall.

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submitted 99 days ago • 567 comments

Bluesky near my home in the PNW. Can’t beat it. #bluesky #PNW #begoodtopeople

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

People not elected to government should not have the power to reshape the government, especially people whose obscene wealth depends on the government functioning a certain way. This is not a hot take. It's just plain common sense.

submitted 103 days ago • 1099 comments

God i love @propublica.org so much

submitted 103 days ago • 72 comments

One of my favorite adages

submitted 104 days ago • 5 comments

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

submitted 134 days ago • 602 comments

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

submitted 107 days ago • 853 comments

This is all the Russians have been able to take in almost a year, at the cost of about 1500 men A DAY. You heard that right, 1500 PER DAY

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400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us

submitted 112 days ago • 65 comments

When the mask mandate was lifted from Mass General Brigham in May '23, hospital transmission of resp virus went up. When the mandate was re-instituted in Jan '24, infection rates went down. www.news-medical.net/news/2024052...

submitted 112 days ago • 1021 comments

www.404media.co/xs-objection... Saying it out loud. #flushtheXitter #thebadplace

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

submitted 113 days ago • 39 comments