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liztufte.bsky.social
An Indigenous occupation of a sacred #Minneapolis site is offering prayers to those held in Whipple and demanding #LandBack to return Fort Snelling to the Dakota people.
unicornriot.bsky.social Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 5d
NEW: Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling and near the Whipple Federal Building -- headquarters of ICE's Operation Metro Surge -- establishing an occupation demanding 'land back' in the form of “returning Fort Snelling” to the Dakota people. [Video]
Indigenous Activists Occupy Land Near Fort Snelling, Plan to Stay Until 'Land Back' - UNICORN RIOT
Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling, establishing an occupation. Organizers demand land back in the form of "returning Fort Snelling" to the Dakota pe...
unicornriot.ninja
February 12, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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razorfemme.bsky.social
I made a resource on how to use Mia Mingus' "Pod Mapping" strategy for grassroots community-based crisis intervention and mutual aid

kaichengthom.substack.com/p/a-shareabl...
A Shareable Resource for Grassroots Crisis Support & Mutual Aid
Flocking Towards Justice, Support Pods In Action
kaichengthom.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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hazie.bsky.social
Been trying to meet this goal for a several years now.
Please consider donating if you are financially secure & safe, if not to me then one of the many others who could use help. I am grateful to everyone who’s helped me make it this far.
Look out for each other & stay gold.
gofund.me/068be4f08
Donate to Medical Costs & Housing, organized by Tracey Thompson
In March of 2020 I was attacked on my way home from work. The man grabbed me, shook me, cough… Tracey Thompson needs your support for Medical Costs & Housing
gofund.me
December 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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radioagainst.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist Emily Mendenhall considers how the medical establishment has frequently ignored chronic but often invisible illnesses like long Covid and long flu, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Lyme disease. kpfa.org/episode/agai...
The Afterlives of Viral Infection | KPFA
As influenza cases reach a twenty-five year high, a look at the complicated history of long lasting post-viral conditions. Medical anthropologist Emily Mendenhall considers how the medical establishme...
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February 9, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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161bklyn.bsky.social
We all saw this coming: first-world countries refusing to accept climate refugees, despite being responsible for the environmental destruction through fossil fuel extraction, and allowing uninformed debates by some fascist who knows nothing about the subject.
What Can We Do for the 250 Million and Counting Displaced by the Environmental Crisis? | Common Dreams
​We must demand a new comprehensive legal framework for climate refugees to safeguard vulnerable populations and protect those who may be at risk in the future.
www.commondreams.org
January 17, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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transnews.network
Important to emphasize: while the realities depicted in this article are grim, the trans political prisoners are also building community. They do have real support both behind bars and outside. This is part of a long history of U.S. political prisoners organizing.

People resist. Always.
Where do we go from here While the brutality of the U.S.’s authoritarianism has ramped up since Trump’s reelection, the country has a long history of using similar authoritarian tactics to arrest Black, Indigenous, Muslim, queer, and environmental activists as political prisoners. Throughout this long history of oppression, activists have built community networks, even from behind bars and persevered with new tactics that adapt to the times. Everyone reading this has a chance to play a part in doing that in our current time too. Initially after transferring to the federal facility, she felt immense fear, owing to the extremely high rates of sexual assault against incarcerated trans women housed with men. Nevertheless, the community she formed inside has been instrumental in helping her approach this situation. “Outside of those first few days of uncertainty, I have felt nothing but a sense of community here. Jail reminds me more than anything else of Boy Scout Camp - my co-defendants describe it as being like living in poverty or at high school, but with extremely steep penalties if anyone is caught fighting, doing drugs, or having sex,” she wrote. “It's like a little village in here, and the guards are much more problematic to us than the other detainees, who mostly like to make delicious cakes and soups and other recipes with what's available on the commissary and share with their neighbors.”
January 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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byteseu.bsky.social
Why Hotter Ovens Make Better Cookies, According to Science

https://www.byteseu.com/1712855/

Food scientists at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, have developed mathematical models to explain how cookies change during baking, focusing on how temperature affects size, shape, and …
Why Hotter Ovens Make Better Cookies, According to Science - Bytes Europe
Maria Corradini, an associate professor at the university and chair in food quality at the Arrell Food Institute, said that better understanding these changes
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January 14, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social
OK, this is super neat: "Toronto's Linguistic Heritage" from @uoftcities.bsky.social!

It tracks the histories and geographies of linguistic communities in Toronto. Greek, Hungarian, Arabic...and way more! Bravo Aniket Kali & Jeff Allen!

schoolofcities.github.io/languages/to...
Toronto's Linguistic Heritage
Explore how Toronto's linguistic landscape has evolved over decades.
schoolofcities.github.io
January 14, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
Health Canada warns of fake Viagra and Cialis distributed in southern Ontario #Canada

www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...
Health Canada warns of fake Viagra and Cialis distributed in southern Ontario
The federal health agency said the fake Cialis (20 mg tadalafil tablets) and Viagra (100 mg sildenafil tablets) were at Bitco Distribution in Mississauga.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 14, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
Get Ready for the Forever Plague.

"Public health officials gambled with the future and chose a fantasy world instead. Now COVID has become a runaway train with unknown biological consequences."

Published: July 2022

Source: archive.md/Of1Jb
Screenshot of an article from The Tyee titled “Get Ready for the Forever Plague.” The subheading states that public health officials’ COVID complacency has opened the door to new illnesses and long-term damage. The byline credits Andrew Nikiforuk, dated 4 July 2022. Below the headline is an image of a hooded figure wearing a black plague doctor mask in a dark, smoky environment, evoking themes of disease and ongoing pandemic risk.
January 15, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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samanthabrennan.bsky.social
Love open access publishing. Here is Mariam Thalos' new book Reasoning in the Wild (Routledge 2026), with an Open Access license. Feel free to share.
#philsky
philarchive.org/archive/THARIT
philarchive.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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pressprogress.ca
We’ve adopted a new policy clarifying how we’ll be using digital platforms to share our journalism

Going forward, we will expect any platforms we use to demonstrate basic commitments to user safety, information integrity and democratic values

Learn more: pressprogress.ca/journalistic...
Our policy on digital platforms
January 14, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
Gentle reminder that you can turn off autoplay on videos so you don’t have to be traumatized by graphic images without your consent:

Settings — content and media — autoplay videos and gifs
January 9, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there

Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
January 8, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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mayawest.online
this is SO GOOD. you need to read it.

it's a crime against collective journalism that Juno isn't being paid for her amazing work.
January 6, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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christyceeck.bsky.social
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time.

The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The CRA spent $18M on 'Charlie,' a new tax information chatbot that is wrong most of the time
The Canada Revenue Agency paid $18 million for a chatbot the auditor general says give her team the wrong answer 66 per cent of the time.
nationalpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
A lot to unpack here about class, gender, and caring work 19thnews.org/2025/12/ice-...
ICE arrests are forcing American moms to leave their jobs
A new analysis shows that increased immigration enforcement is reducing labor in the child care workforce. The ripple effect is impacting mothers with young children.
19thnews.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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thoughtsstained.bsky.social
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"

Reviews.

Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)

Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
fracturedreality.bsky.social
MOST buisness' succeed ONLY because they extract labor for cheap.This happens on all levels - nobody writes their business plan paying their workers a liveable wage ...
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Dec 7
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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deonandan.bsky.social
From a legendary scholar whom I'm proud to call my friend, Maude Barlow:

"Who is minding the water data centres will use?"

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/o...
Who is minding the water data centres will use?
Around the world, scientists and environmentalists are sounding the alarm on the data centre industry.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
The "Post-COVID-19 Cognitive Impairment" section in the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine report is worthy of reflection.

As is the question of why we don't hear about it from the institutions that told us it was safe to ignore COVID.

www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
Post-COVID-19 Cognitive Impairment Cognitive impairment has emerged as one of the most commonly reported health effects associated with Long COVID, potentially portending significant consequences for patient functioning and quality of life. Cognitive impairment is defined as difficulties with thinking processes that can impact various cognitive domains, including memory, attention, processing speed, language, visuospatial, and executive functions (e.g., multitasking, judgment, problem solving). In patients with Long COVID, cognitive impairment has been characterized primarily by deficits in executive functioning (Becker et al., 2023). Cognitive impairment associated with Long COVID can vary in severity, from mild to severe, and often has an impact on instrumental activities of daily living. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Long-Term Health Effects of COVID-19: Disability and Function Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/771.
November 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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gabituto.bsky.social
Important to act on this now 👇
act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/181763/...
Water is Not For Sale. It’s a Public Right.
For the health of the water and our communities, we can’t afford to test the waters of privatization. Sign on now to urge the provincial government to ensure water and wastewater services in Ontario r...
act.environmentaldefence.ca
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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mcollinsmorton.bsky.social
If the human community is not willing to take necessary action to shield children from the extreme, life-threatening harm of Covid-19, then the human community can no longer make any claim to having a moral framework.

#COVID19 #children
October 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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donatemask.bsky.social
Did you know? Donate A Mask’s Free Request Program sends #masks to mask blocs around the country. 😷 🇨🇦 Help us continue this work by donating today. 💙

donatemask.ca/fundraiser

#GivingTuesdayCa #Masks4All #MaskDistro
Photo of a young person wearing a black bifold KN95 respirator mask and a colourful button up shirt with tropical motif. They have short black hair and they are looking to the side. "Your donation of $100 allows us to send several thousand masks to a mask bloc for distribution to people who need them!" Donate A Mask Canada donatemask.ca
December 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM