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Rep. Jim McCovern is talking about planning a national strike at his town hall in Worcester, Massachusetts

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Be a Local: A Guide to Getting Involved - Local government and community organizing offer plenty of opportunities for ordinary people to make a big difference, writes @meghanvolcy.bsky.social: #mapoli mass.streetsblog.org/2025/02/21/b...

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Idiocracy did a good job of showing how systemic failures can compound on each other, particularly failures of education and regulation. However, the movie is also has an explicitly eugenicist message and wrongly attributes part of the problem to poor people having more children than rich people

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Thinking a lot about Helmuth Hübener recently, the Mormon teen who was executed for creating and distributing anti-nazi leaflets and excommunicated by his local church leader. Though I am no longer a practicing Mormon, I still think of him as part of my heritage

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My spouse and I went to high tea at the Boston Public Library for our anniversary a few months ago, and our server told us the macarons were "imported from New York" and I can't stop thinking about it

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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

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The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample

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Wow: City of Clarksdale, Mississippi got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:

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Chappell Roan released a "Lawyer" themed 7 inch vinyl of her single "The Giver" and it's such a perfect convergence of my interests that it's scary

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“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

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A few old Sunday Model Kits I did-

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Traister: bffr nymag.com/intelligence...

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Crampons are the secret to commuting by foot on icy winter days. Get the spring style, not the spike style, if you are going to walk on concrete. I still had to penguin walk where the ice was particularly slick and the wind tried to bowl me over, but I didn't fall once on my 20 min commute!

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If all the keyboard warriors on this site made Facebook slop propaganda describing what is happening to the government right now we'd have grandmas protesting in the streets

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Should we all just start making Facebook Agit Prop

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Important thread on solodarity

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Opinion | With Democrats expelled from power, we are finally liberated from the language police. Here's why the AP must be punished for not saying "Gulf of America."

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Oh my god

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They hold hands while sleeping, carry their pups on their chests, and form rafts as they drift together on choppy waters. We love all the adorable ways sea otters rely on each other. 🦦 Like otters, love and community keep us afloat too. Share this post with the pawsome people who buoy your spirits!

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Just watched Bourne Identity and the sound effects do NOT hold up. Enjoyed the costume design and the cinemaphotography

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Love it when a sophisticated party makes bald, unsupported legal claims and I get to counter that the law on that issue has been settled in our favor since like 1850

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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Since leaving the South, my hillbilly roots grew stronger. Can't stand when people who've never lived there start their holier-than-thou bullshit. Y'all wouldn't last a day. Are voters disenfranchised, are people racist & homophobic? Yes, but that shit don't end at blue state borders.

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I am writing a horror satire with a protagonist who is ultimately awful but I want people to identify with her at first. I read the beginning to my writing group and people laughed out loud, were grossed out, and sympathized with the main character. Yet I was surprised it had worked?

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