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Good for these federal workers, concerned about the sabotage of a functioning, safe park, for us and for nature. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

I know we’re all used to getting our voter card before voting, but this is a snap election and you may not get it in time! You don’t need it. Go vote! #topoli #onpoli

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Hey Ontario voters: advanced voting is today, tomorrow, and Saturday. Find your riding and lets get turnout over 50% this time: Find your riding/where to vote: elections.on.ca/en.html Find who's competitive in your riding: smartvoting.ca

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

The Constitution gives Congress power to establish the U.S. Postal Service. It did, by law, during the Washington administration. Its status as an independent agency was established by Congress in law. USPS is wildly popular with the American people and its service is essential and irreplaceable.

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

Nothing like a big snowfall to lay bare our prioritization of cars over people. Days after the snow, being a pedestrian in Toronto — on a public TDSB property — means navigating a dangerous, slippery maze. What a walk to class for the kids at Keele Street Public School…

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Over 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into imprisonment in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese heritage.

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What keeps me sane as the world unravels? The poetry of @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social, so many others. Contra Auden, poetry makes many things happen, and does more than survive, especially in this time.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

"And the world goes by, all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last; I touch your cheek to protect you -" #TodaysPoem #poetry Poem by Louise Glück from Winter Recipes from the Collective (2021 McClelland & Stewart) tinyurl.com/3kj5m7nz

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Jacob Wrestling the Angel, Italian School, 17th century, 📸 by @Photography514

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

‘It is not violence or the secret police, it is collaboration and cooperation - knowing or naive, well meaning or not - that keep autocracy going.’ - Mary Beard

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

And now: Because the world is so sad... A baby elephant saying hello to some cute little birds RS

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 10 days ago • 128 comments

I feel a bit defeated by the snow today. Cleaned 19 cm of snow off the car and now I'm inside thinking about a hot chocolate.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

"I counted beads on the abacus tallying the loser I was, moving earth beads to heaven beads, hoping to be saved." #TodaysPoem #poetry Not Today by @wrenjones.bsky.social (2023 Pine Row Press) tinyurl.com/njddv493

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

@robertgarcia.bsky.social you magnificent bastard.

submitted 10 days ago • 39 comments

A single word can be a lie. For example, journalists are still calling what Musk and his child army have been doing an operation in pursuit of government efficiency.... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-use-their...

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

Lithographs by Diné artist Harrison Begay (1917-2012) and sketching under a tree at Black Mountain College around 1940. In a few years he would serve and survive D Day and the liberation of Normandy. Begay lithographs: Woman brushing hair. Navajo boy with donkey Whyte Museum. Private Collection.

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submitted 14 days ago • 29 comments

It's sad that so many media outlets have fallen for all the distractions, from Greenland to Gaza to tariffs that keep getting delayed, when the real goal is Musk's dismantling of the government The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it. Our latest editorial: www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

submitted 14 days ago • 46 comments