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Hey, friends and comrades, I want to draw your attention to something important. My friend Alaa is trapped with her family in Gaza and needs assistance. Here's her daughters. Here's the link, but I'm going to talk a little about what happened. (Please boost!) chuffed.org/project/1252...

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I keep thinking “WOKE MARXIST POPE” to the tune of Pink Pony Club

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The two stages of tech regulation: 1) It is too early, we shouldn’t stifle innovation by regulating this new technology. 2) It is too late, the cat is out of the bag, we shouldn’t waste our time regulating this technology, we just have to learn to live with it. There are no other stages.

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The new pope has a BS in mathematics from Villanova, which explains how he was so successful at becoming the largest cardinal.

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New release of xword-dl, my command line tool to scrape online crossword puzzles into .puz files. This one expands Puzzmo support (go subscribe to @puzzmo.com!) and fixes Washington Post downloads github.com/thisisparker...

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Showing up in Toronto today: Uptown Climate Futures: Session 2 at 6pm at Another Land Coffee (4708 Yonge St) - Part 2 of a low-cost workshop series designed to convene community the voices of people in Uptown Toronto with a focus on BIPOC youth ages 15-30. www.eventbrite.com/e/uptown-cli...

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I genuinely don't know how to process this. It seems unthinkable that deliberate, calculated mass starvation is just... happening. In full view. It's impossible and yet real.

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sometimes you do gotta hand it to grits teeth so hard they shatter piers morgan

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I'm speaking on a cool online panel with @peoplesworld1924.bsky.social about how labor moves forward, Thursday night at 8 pm EST, RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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This … made something click for me These people don’t ever want to leave space for grace They have to pervert EVERYTHING into an avenue of control

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From the radical commie uhh Financial Times

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on this date eight years ago, Tom Holland wowed Zendaya on Lip Sync Battle with his cultural critique of impervious surface stormwater runoff.

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Just ask any law student from the past 20 years what a lunch provided by the Federalist Society looks like vs. a lunch provided by a legal aid org. And I will say this as long as people expect a magic “left tea party” in 2026: the tea party was HEAVILY astroturfed. ROLLING in Koch money.

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Happening today: - A virtual panel on environmental issues at 3pm by Ecojustice - A vigil in Scarborough for Lapu-Lapu Day victims at 7pm by Filipino-Canadian Civic Action Network - A virtual workshop on relationship-based organizing at 7pm by Toronto Climate Action Network Details: showuptoronto.ca

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As a writer, I am interested in talking to folks who aren't meeting the political moment in ways they feel good about. I want to talk about what you're not doing and why; what you think you ought to be doing, and what's stopping you. I want to talk about feeling politically/spiritually stuck.

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i think this tumblr post is incredibly important for baby gays (all queer people really) to read at least once before they try to fit themselves in a neat heteronormative little box, cause fascists WILL put a pink triangle on your box and send you and all of us other 'degenerates' to a death camp.

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"A number of Republican legislators set to grill university presidents in a congressional hearing on antisemitism this week are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity, have quoted Adolf Hitler, or have reportedly threatened to burn a synagogue to the ground."

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If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating! (sometimes it’s hard to convey how absurdly sized Callie is and then other times)

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notice how you never see an organizer post something like "we are so fucked"

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Today is the day! My book is out in the world. It’s not a friendly world for writing about science or women or especially women’s bodies right now. But I’m so proud to be telling a story that makes a certain type of person very, very angry. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey...

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if you are among the more than 5 million people getting notice today that your student loans are going into collections Debt Collective is a great resource for activism and solidarity among borrowers

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The real problem with Moldbug is that this kind of guy is, like the first type of guy you fought with on the internet in Web 1.0 forums, so people who grew up online know to ignore him, but the people who didn’t think he needs to be engaged with. He even looks the part.

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also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think anybody could predict for where this ad goes

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Show Up Toronto now has its own account! I'm thinking I'll probably set up automated event notifications for the day-of, in addition to posting updates about newsletters, so you can also follow events directly here 👇

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“Oh I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves” -US Grant

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Also for the record: American takeover in Canada or Greenland won't per se look like military invasion. It will look like a cooked 49%-plurality "independence" referendum in Greenland or Alberta¹, which the U.S. will simply relocate a military presence to "protect". ¹ That's where the oil is.

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Starting off this Met Gala 2025 thread STRONG with Teyana Taylor's look. She'll be one of the hosts of this year's livestream, along with actor & producer La La Anthony and SNL comedian & actor Ego Nwodim. Taylor arrived with academy award nominated costume designer Ruth E. Carter.

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This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.

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Red Dress Day when Métis artist Jamie Black hung hundreds of red dresses to honour Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ people. It has since become an annual day, taking place every May 5 — a movement to honour lives lost, and to demand justice.

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Hi pals, I'm launching a new project today called Show Up Toronto!! It's a website and weekly newsletter that aggregates organizing/advocacy/direct action events in the city so you can find out how to get involved without Insta/FB. First email tomorrow, sign up and tell your friends showuptoronto.ca

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Sometimes a photo can be more powerful than a video, and I suspect this one will make the rounds in #NY17 tomorrow. Here is a pic of @emilyjaynef.bsky.social - flashing peace signs - as she was forcibly and unnecessarily picked up and removed from Mike Lawler’s Town Hall. Courtesy of @lohud.com:

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New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

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I’m now reading Reid Hoffman’s book, “blitzscaling.” My general impression is that Silicon Valley’s obsession with “get big fast,” prioritizing fakeable growth metrics over actual product quality, is a big part of what has ruined tech. I suspect I will not like this book.

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