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5 Calls curates a list of the most important current issues with details about those issues and suggested scripts when contacting your representatives.
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Earlier this week, Norway stopped all deep sea mining in Arctic waters until at least 2029. A huge win for ocean protection.

Now Norway must join the 40+ countries calling for a global moratorium and protect our oceans for good.

#StopDeepSeaMining
Deep-sea mining: Norway halts controversial practice until 2029
Norway’s newly elected government has delayed issuing deep-sea mining licenses in the Arctic.
www.euronews.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Many reporters went to Albany, Georgia, when it became one of America's first COVID hotspots.

But @propublica.org's Ginger Thompson kept returning, kept reporting.

What she uncovered reveals some ugly truths about American healthcare.

Read her new 5-part series, Sick in a Hospital Town:
As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
projects.propublica.org
December 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Utrecht has made space not just for bikes, but for trees.

Trees are prioritized, given space, and maintained by the municipality, not just in parks, but along every road that is developed.

A resilient city prepares for the future on a warming planet.
December 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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In today’s stunning Pearl Harbor edition of Letters, @hcrichardson.bsky.social reminds us of the deep and insidious ties that bind fascism and racism.
Remember every day that fighting for DEI and civil rights IS fighting for democracy.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 6, 2025
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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College freshman Any Lucia Lopez Belloza tells @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social how it felt to be stopped by ICE on her way to see her parents in TX for T’giving, being shackled, sent to Honduras.
“That really hurt, seeing not only me but a bunch of us being treated like criminals.”

youtu.be/UuldnddRc10
'Shackled' and 'Handcuffed': Deported college student in tears SPEAKING OUT on ICE encounter
YouTube video by MS NOW
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world. n.pr/44Ognqv
From 400-year-old globes to cosmic shrouds: A Maine library brings maps to life
From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.
n.pr
December 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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From bricklayer to mayor: Steve Rotheram is quietly building a Liverpool success story
From bricklayer to mayor: Steve Rotheram is quietly building a Liverpool success story
With a reputation for getting things done, the man with ‘the dream job for any scouser’ has ambitious plans for his city
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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The New York Times has sued Trump's Defense Department over First Amendment rights — arguing in a lawsuit that new reporting restrictions infringed on the constitutional rights of journalists.
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Trump isn’t hiding the hypocrisy: blowing up vessels and people to fight the drug war while pardoning a drug kingpin who facilitated tons upon tons of cocaine to enter the US…
Trump announces a “full and unconditional” pardon for Juan Orlando Hernandez, a former president of Honduras sentenced to 45 years for drug trafficking and weapons offenses.

My latest on Trump’s continued abuse of the presidential pardon power:

youtu.be/M3VzVlHhQM8?...
Yikes! Trump’s SHOCKING Pardon IGNITES Global OUTRAGE
YouTube video by Katie Phang
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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A Pew Research Center report revealed that the majority of U.S. Latinos (70%) disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job as president and about two-thirds disapprove of his approach to immigration.
religionnews.com/2025/11/24/l...
Study: Latino Christians disapprove of Trump, hit hard by mass deportation campaign
(RNS) — Those opinions are being shaped as a majority of Latino Christians are witnessing the impacts of Trump’s mass deportation campaign in their own neighborhoods.
religionnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen—and how fast—is anything but settled. www.wired.com/story/the-oc...
The Oceans Are Going to Rise—but When?
The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen—and how fast—is anything but settled.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.

Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Since a homophobic attack on his niece, his party has introduced multiple anti-LGBTQIA+ policies and the UK has fallen steeply in human rights rankings

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/keir-starmer-shocked-his-anti-lgbtqia-rhetoric-is-creating-anti-lgbtqia-sentiment/
Starmer "furious" at homophobic attack on his family, as if his party has nothing to do with it
Since a homophobic attack on his niece, his party has introduced multiple anti-LGBTQIA+ policies and the UK has fallen steeply in human rights rankings
www.wearequeeraf.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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A well-deserved third #Walkleys Award for cartoons to David Pope. #GazaGenocide
November 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Right out of the textbooks. Literally "Them."
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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I’m starting to get the sense that it was a bad idea to put a deeply insecure, sexual assaulting Fox News host with a drinking problem and a crusader tattoo who said he was into war crimes in charge of the military.
November 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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My 20-year-old daughter Robyn was killed because of traffic violence, I'm sadly aware of how Sarah Beckstrom's loved ones are now feeling.

Sarah should have been home for Thanksgiving. Christmas for them will be a somber occasion.

She was in the WV National Guard, but this shouldn't have happened!
Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, has died. She faithfully and honorably served our country. l can't begin to imagine what her family, friends, and colleagues are experiencing right now. Keep them in your thoughts.
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Belgium PM says using frozen Russian assets could derail Ukraine peace deal reut.rs/4rqnpeW
Belgium PM says using frozen Russian assets could derail Ukraine peace deal
The assets the EU hopes to use are held by Belgian financial institution Euroclear.
reut.rs
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Hidden, a TikTok-like platform operated by sex workers, is launching as OnlyFans is implementing background checks for performers and expanding beyond adult content. www.wired.com/story/sex-wo...
Sex Workers Built an ‘Anti-OnlyFans’ to Take Control of Their Profits
Hidden, a TikTok-like platform operated by sex workers, is launching as OnlyFans is implementing background checks for performers and expanding beyond adult content.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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We have the power to send a message through our holiday spending! Women in the U.S. account for 85% of consumer spending and we’re ready to show corporations that we DON’T support racist, anti-immigrant, and anti-worker policies. If it’s from Amazon, Home Depot, or Target, #WeAintBuyingIt!!
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM