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I did a documentary about the George Floyd protests in 2020 when ACCPD tear-gassed peaceful demonstrators. If you want to understand police psychology as it relates to protests, I think this is relevant: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPBS...

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Going to pride for the first time tomorrow!!

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If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat. In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.

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The new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other.

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“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

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It’s been 3.5 years since my mom died and nothing has brought me closure like this song. Every time I hear it, I feel her with me. It feels like a message from her, like one of her hugs. Happy Mother’s Day🧡

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"The crowd chants 'Don’t take the mother!' over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 46 days ago • 652 comments

I love how my toads turned out!!! #witchsky #pagansky

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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

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Let’s spend funds on infrastructure that actually keeps us moving forward.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 1,000 openly identifying transgender troops will be moved out of the military immediately under new Pentagon order.

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The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.

submitted 48 days ago • 2721 comments

you fool... you absolute buffoon... you've made a minor spelling mistake. next time try proofreading your post 100 times and agonizing over your word choice for 20 minutes like i do

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“So far, the most energetic opposition has come not from civic leaders but from everyday citizens, showing up at Congressional town hall meetings or participating in Hands Off rallies across the country. “Our leaders must follow their example.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

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Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

submitted 48 days ago • 664 comments

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

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NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it. By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

submitted 56 days ago • 1301 comments

Friendly reminder to support your local independent bookstore this weekend! A slightly less friendly reminder to just not buy books from Am*zon at all.

submitted 62 days ago • 102 comments

This administration has no serious people.

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Me waking up with some random song that I’ve not listened to in years stuck in my head.

submitted 62 days ago • 546 comments

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

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One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....

submitted 77 days ago • 261 comments

The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else. Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.

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It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

submitted 76 days ago • 603 comments

It’s wild how many ways tax companies screw us over. Wdym I have to create a checking account with this company owned by you or pay THIRTY FIVE DOLLARS to get my refund sent to my regular account?? Plus I have to pay you like $150 to file my taxes??

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Good.

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Do not listen to bullies. U.S. military planes arrived in Greenland at a U.S. military base — bc the PM REFUSED to meet them. Delegation includes Congressman Mike Waltz, who plan to make the islanders “an offer they can’t refuse.” HOW is this not an act of war?! This is how they annexed Hawaii.

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I’ve seen video of IDF bombing Nasser Hospital, where a friend of mine is on a humanitarian mission to treat patients. My friend survived the bombing but a teen patient he treated and who was set to go home today was murdered. Are you warmongers not tired and sick of this yet? This horror

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In case you want some sweet news today. I’m volunteering at the book fair at my kid’s school, and discovered Dav Pilkey paid for the whole thing. For the entire school. Every kid pre-k through fifth grade (the whole school) goes home with two free books.

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people say The Great Gatsby is “no longer relevant,” but careless people have never been more brazen, or more prominent.

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Homophobia is pretty funny when you think about it. We find ourselves conscious and alive, knowing we are only here for a brief moment, and only we can decide what to do with it. And some dudes are like "I'm going to dedicate my life to preventing other dudes from sucking each other's dicks".

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People blame me for things just because I did them.

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I’ve really been enjoying the audio version her book “Caste” so I’ll def have to check this one out

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Indictment of the times that the most popular entertainer is just Jigsaw with less human empathy

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I wish people would connect this to the ways Columbia has been trampling on the rights of disabled people for years now too. This is the same university that has pushed mask bans and crackdowns on disabled ppl's civil liberties amidst the ongoing pandemic. It's all interconnected.

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A branch of the Athens Regional Library System lacks consistent access to water and is often forced to close due to water shutoffs, causing inconsistent access to public services for hundreds of residents. athenspoliticsnerd.com/pinewoods-li...

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This regime is animated by theft on the biggest scale. They want to loot the government, steal from us, and add to the $79 trillion the 1% has taken from everyone else over the last 50 years. Every single working person in the US should unite against being robbed. www.jphilll.com/p/a-governme...

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Skyway Lanes, the last Black-owned bowling alley in Chicago, is making a last-ditch effort to stay open

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Chicago landlord ordered to pay $80,000 for threatening to call ICE on tenants

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Ok I just learned GAVIN NEWSOM MADE HIS FUCKSHIT COMMENTS ABOUT TRANS WOMEN WHILE PODCASTING WITH CHARLIE KIRK The comments were already fucked but this adds another layer to it JFC

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They can’t pretend they’re suddenly for cancer research just because they brought a kid to Congress. Sheesh.

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I'm actually so proud of myself recently for how I'm just hanging in there despite what life is throwing at me

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Elspeth would like to remind everyone that she's not an Easter gift for children. Rabbits live 8-10 years and need lots of space, exercise, mental stimulation, and a varied diet that includes fresh produce. Buy a vegan chocolate bunny instead! www.lakechamplainchocolates.com/seasonal-cho...

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When is a liberal think tank going to put out a document that shows the Heritage Foundation’s ideas about the economy don’t actually work the way they claim they do?

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