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The Kurdistan Workers Party or "PKK" has confirmed today that It's complying with a request from jailed spiritual leader Abdullah Öcalan to dissolve the organization, thereby ending its nearly 50 year long armed struggle against the Turkish state. unicornriot.ninja/2021/origins...

it's qwhite obvious who they think can assimilate and who can't

this is not an exaggeration

Republicans are deploying every trick in the book to gut Medicaid while claiming they’re not cutting it. The CBO estimates the latest GOP plan would kick nearly 9 million people off Medicaid. Why? To fund tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit corporations and the rich.

NEW: Fifteen years after teenager Mahdi Ali was convicted of a triple murder in Minneapolis that he claims he didn't commit, a new grassroots campaign called The Coalition to Free Mahdi Ali has launched to demand justice and freedom for Ali. unicornriot.ninja/2025/target-...

Attorney General Pam Bondi says it's legal for Trump to accept a luxury jumbo jet from Qatar. Here's the kicker: Just five years ago, Bondi earned $115,000 a month as a registered lobbyist for the government of Qatar. Nothing to see here, folks!

Warehouse workers at Bergen Logistics, a luxury fashion fulfillment center, are fighting to unionize. While workers package $1,200 pieces of clothing, the company has cut back on benefits, ignored injuries, and refused measures that would reduce dangerous workloads. Solidarity.

The Trump admin is fast-tracking a uranium mine in Utah by slashing the permitting process to 14 days, bypassing environmental review and cutting the public out entirely. Projects like this are supposed to go through NEPA, the law that requires environmental impact assessments and public comment.

it's all grift all the way down, "government efficiency" as a way to rip you off over and over again in every aspect of your life there's nothing they won't make worse

Discworld QOTD, from The Truth “WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.”

Native Community Protests MPLS Security Company Who Beat, Maced, and Cuffed Indigenous Man unicornriot.ninja/2025/native-...

Georgia prosecutors have dropped all charges against Selena Chandler-Scott, the young woman arrested for how she disposed of her miscarriage... jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-arr...

Reminder: Dr. Oz had to pay $5.25 million to settle a class action suit for promoting phony weight loss cures. He is a conman. No wonder Trump likes him. Now he's in charge of running Medicare and Medicaid.

i think people who have actually posted on forums and image boards in the 2000s (or forums in general earlier) have a qualitative advantage on everyone else

When it comes to laundry detergent, bubbles and suds do NOT help with cleaning--it's entirely placebo effect! (originally posted February 2023) #Bubbles #suds #laundry #clean #cleaning #LaundryDetergent #UseLessLaundrySauce #WomenInTrades #Tradeswoman

"We now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will." — Martin Luther King Jr., March 31, 1968

Philip Vance’s Postconviction Filing Kicked Back by Prosecutors to Wait For CRU Report The waiting game continues for Philip Vance as he serves a life sentence for a murder based on an investigation from a disbanded police unit & testimony that's been recanted. unicornriot.ninja/2025/philip-...

resist.bot A simple text way to be involved.

We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

Researchers and coffee farmers in Colombia are trying to find strategies to adapt to unpredictable weather, rising temperatures and erratic rainfall, which are disrupting Colombia’s coffee industry by fueling pests and diseases like the coffee berry borer and coffee leaf rust. Read more:

The carbon storage capacity of forests is widely recognized as a crucial factor in curbing global warming and preventing climate catastrophe. But a new study finds that the future potential for forest CO2 storage is being overestimated. Read on:

Killed by a Vigilante Who Received No Prison Time: The Murder of AJ Stewart unicornriot.ninja/2024/killed-...

"Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for rights." In the final speech of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. emphasized the importance of freedom of speech and assembly.

This is the guy that robbed my house today in Olympia Washington. I wasn't going to say anything cause idk his life, but he poured my beads all over the place for no reason.

Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.

Brazil’s Supreme Court backed down and withdrew its proposal to open up Indigenous territories to mining and economic activities from a controversial bill that critics say violates the Constitution. Read:

"Few apes have done more to unsettle human certainties than Kanzi the bonobo. He wasn’t the first nonhuman primate to use symbols to communicate, but he was the first to do so with such fluency, subtlety & apparent ease," writes Rhett Butler in Mongabay's occasional series, Founder's Briefs. Read:

The wetlands of West Bengal, India, are one of the country’s best habitats for the fishing cat, a species vulnerable to extinction. But a significant population of these fish-eating, mid-sized wildcats lives outside protected areas, putting them at high risk. Read:

It still blows my mind that I made a video where I’m shown reading the warnings on a bottle of fabric softener so that people understand that it can be dangerous if used incorrectly… And someone in the comments who really didn’t want to stop using fabric softener accused me of fear mongering. 🫠

there are obviously many problems with AI but probably the biggest is the way its evangelists are determined to use it for things it has absolutely no business being used for

“both sides” may be the most infuriating two word combo in the English language

New York Fucking City. A full mile of people filled to the brim. Fascism is going to lose.

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch “Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people," mumbled Sam. "Do they?" said Vimes. "Then why doesn't anyone do anything about it?" "'cos they torture people.”

Follow the money and see where it goes. Elon Musk was just awarded a $5.9 billion taxpayer-funded SpaceX contract by Trump—the largest in a new package of space deals. Trump ensured Musk got the money, fully aware he’s facing “steep personal cost.”

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

Australia’s environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, is being sued by The Wilderness Society for failing to put recovery plans in place for threatened species.

Senior Justice Dept. lawyer put on leave after questioning Trump administration. Word is spreading about the use of polygraph testing. New directives have gone out—coalition members, please check for updates.

@humanistreport.bsky.social Please keep doing what you do! Where this should be headline news I'd never have known if not for you. I try not to shop there as is, now they've seen the last penny from me. youtu.be/nauz7001Q0U

For members of the Sani Warmi collective in Amazonian Ecuador, the day begins before sunrise. Its members guide tourists around the traditional chacra & introduce them to their traditional foods and practices to generate income and conserve the Ecuadorian Amazon. Read:

African gray parrots can no longer be captured or traded across the DRC’s Tshopo province, according to a recent decree passed by the provincial government, as their widespread capture from the wild has led to severe population declines, leading to them being listed as endangered. 🦜 Read:

Agroforestry has been steadily gaining ground over the past eight years in the U.S., with the number of projects increasing 6% nationwide according to a new study. But a federal funding freeze imposed on Jan. 27 put many agroforestry projects on hold pending a 90-day review. Read:

I worked for a statewide electric company in 2020. LiHEAP kept poor, old, and ill people's lights on and their food safe for the entire year of my contract.

Lina Khan's FTC took on Big Pharma price-gouging. Trump's FTC turns a blind eye to it. Enforcing our anti-trust laws is literally a matter of life and death.

Israel Blocks Border Crossings, Uses Food As A Weapon of War The newest blockade of all food and aid which started a month ago on March 2, 2025 has Gaza reeling again and bakeries have once again closed as of April 1, 2025. [More in quoted post]