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El Convento Del Arte; Virginias Mpenaki 7, Athina 104 36, Greece https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=37.9850924%2C23.7186645&query_place_id=ChIJJ3QSLSa9oRQRuWATeMTo26Y

BREAKING: In a 5-4 win for unemployed workers, the Supreme Court allows their lawsuit to proceed alleging that Alabama is illegally delaying their benefits. Kavanaugh writes the majority, joined by the Dem appointees and Chief Justice. Thomas writes the dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

En Europe de l’Est, la suspension des aides américaines met en danger de nombreux médias

Thanks to Malia Older, I have discovered sci-fi themed cozy mysteries. It’s the perfect escapism when I need to escape. Now that I’ve read all the Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti books (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inv...), what do I read next when I need to get my cozy on?

Fascinating dataviz on how narrative warfare targeting USAID is playing out in Belarusian Telegram channels, as Pro-Kremlin narratives co-opted by Trump administration get amplified in Belarus. It's all a feedback loop now.

This @nature.com piece on the devastating impact of the Trump administration's vindictive and reckless attack on science is chilling. And following the Project 2025 playbook there is still more to come. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🎉It's been a long time coming but our new paper on ground-truthing elite perspectives in the public sphere is finally published! We explain why relying on only one source to understand political perspectives on climate is problematic. Read the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Pesquisadores, religiosos, ambientalistas e políticos fazem apelo para que governo repense planos para petróleo na foz do Amazonas

Stop calling these acts of deliberate malicious destruction mistakes — if you close your eyes and fire machine gun spray ceaselessly into a crowd claiming you just want to scare some of them off, it’s not a mistake that there are casualties.

I have insomnia a lot lately so may as well share what’s literally keeping me up at night. It’s a long list but tonight it’s flu. Yes, H5N1, but also seasonal flu. Firing federal scientists brings a flu-filled future. Have you ever wondered how flu vaccine strains are chosen?

Incredible news! More hospitals have returned to offering gender affirming care after Trump's executive order was blocked. Moments after publishing our story on hospitals returning, Childrens National DC announced a return to care. And JUST now, Colorado Children's is back to giving care! AMAZING

Beneath the shit headline that makes it sound like ACE are being smacked for supporting trans artists (something a lot of media would love to see) is some good employment tribunal news that it is legitimate to speak up against transphobic hate speech in the workplace.

Social media platforms TikTok and X ('For you') show evidence of substantial far-right bias in Germany ahead of Sunday's elections. Study published by Global Witness and w/ important points about lack of transparency and data access in the article. #DSA #CommSky #AfD techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...

#Spawnwatch ... after about a week of essentially no activity - this being linked to cold, windy weather - the #frogs are back at it. 50 seen this morning, some calling overnight, and new spawn, taking us to 9 clutches. Looks like more is still set to happen then. #amphibians #ponds

Wow a court case that is sensible and has gone in our favour! GC beliefs ARE like racism

h/t @outseide.bsky.social defector.com/cautious-wha...

This is the fantastic Starter Pack for members of the effervescent, extraordinary #GlobalVoices community! Including myself. We are a truly global family! Follow us for diverse, penetrating articles and commentary #humanrights #culture #information #language #politics #society go.bsky.app/UnMznFc

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

It is pretty funny that a bunch of historically ignorant jackasses who wouldn't listen to anyone because they knew better got so focused on capitalism that they helped let the kings back in

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/...

Memory is one of our most critical resources in movement and remembering what came before is more vital than ever. It is necessary for not only learning how to fight, but for building a vision of what could be

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

Your regular reminder that §230 protects YOU, the person reading this post, from being sued for reposting things just as much as it protects "Big Tech" from things that still wouldn't be a viable cause of action because your problem is not with §230, it's with the first amendment

Resilient local media across America. Never, ever been so important to the world www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/the-...

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She’s here 🥹 And so beautiful!! 💜🌸 @querenciapress.bsky.social

It is my absolute pleasure to be the expert witness on this bit of legislation and work with SWEEP and Representative Ortez on it. we're rying to make this state's energy system cleaner and more affordable, no matter what happens federally. House Floor next!

If you want to counter this, go and read @older.bsky.social ‘s Infomocracy series. Actually just go and do that anyway, it’s terrific. How she pulls off a rip roaring space-ninja-pirate story where the conflict is over infrastructure and forms of democracy is beyond me but I am so grateful she did