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my goodness. someone on new york ave was killed by a driver hauling a tank post-army parade. a woman literally died for this useless excess.
Truck carrying tank after Army's 250th birthday parade kills pedestrian in DC
The accident happened on the evening of June 16 while a truck was moving the tank from the parade staging area to a Maryland railyard.
www.usatoday.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
my goodness. someone on new york ave was killed by a driver hauling a tank post-army parade. a woman literally died for this useless excess.
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Buried in a Senate budget bill is a massive giveaway to corporate developers and fossil fuel companies.
It forces the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in 11 Western states *every 60 days* until millions of acres are gone.
It forces the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in 11 Western states *every 60 days* until millions of acres are gone.
June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Buried in a Senate budget bill is a massive giveaway to corporate developers and fossil fuel companies.
It forces the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in 11 Western states *every 60 days* until millions of acres are gone.
It forces the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in 11 Western states *every 60 days* until millions of acres are gone.
There is a thriving, diverse, and welcoming community sector in Scotland. It looks after people, makes a home for them, and also is a source of endless and delicious local drama and intrigue. It feeds us on all levels.
So,as a little thought-experiment, tell me something about the United Kingdom that works well and is actually quite impressive. I am not trying to sound like some boosterish politician. I just genuinely believe that making people believe that all is lost is a convenient pretext for shady characters.
June 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
There is a thriving, diverse, and welcoming community sector in Scotland. It looks after people, makes a home for them, and also is a source of endless and delicious local drama and intrigue. It feeds us on all levels.
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Kady Grass, a lesbian teenager in Illinois, was severely beaten after trying to use the bathroom in a McDonald's.
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May 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Kady Grass, a lesbian teenager in Illinois, was severely beaten after trying to use the bathroom in a McDonald's.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
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"Perhaps that’s the first thing we need to acknowledge to ourselves: nothing will feel like enough because everything we know and love is at stake. No individual’s actions will be commensurate with the threats we face. But we can each endeavor to do the next right thing, whatever that means for us."
Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.
From Aspiration to Action: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty
“Some days, my best efforts feel insufficient and overwhelming at the same time.”
organizingmythoughts.org
May 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"Perhaps that’s the first thing we need to acknowledge to ourselves: nothing will feel like enough because everything we know and love is at stake. No individual’s actions will be commensurate with the threats we face. But we can each endeavor to do the next right thing, whatever that means for us."
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NEW: We identified at least 14 officers in the Chicago Police Department who, according to disciplinary records, have faced multiple accusations of sexual assault or misconduct in the past 10 years.
Most have not been convicted.
With @invisible.institute
Most have not been convicted.
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Chicago Police Dismissed a Recruit’s Claims That a Colleague Sexually Assaulted Her. Then He was Accused Again and Again.
The Invisible Institute and ProPublica reviewed over 300 complaints accusing Chicago officers of sexual assault and misconduct. Time and time again, the police department downplayed or ignored claims,...
www.propublica.org
May 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
NEW: We identified at least 14 officers in the Chicago Police Department who, according to disciplinary records, have faced multiple accusations of sexual assault or misconduct in the past 10 years.
Most have not been convicted.
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Most have not been convicted.
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Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
May 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
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A VERY important point -- this bill is not final, not at all. It will now go to the Senate. If the Senate makes changes to the bill (they likely will), it will go back to the House for another vote.
The House passed it last night with ONE VOTE.
We can stop this. We have to.
The House passed it last night with ONE VOTE.
We can stop this. We have to.
I understand this will sound hyperbolic but it's more accurate than not to say anything you care about, this bill seeks to destroy.
Final passage by one vote, though likely the present and 2 NV were all available to them if they had been needed. It's with the Senate now
May 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A VERY important point -- this bill is not final, not at all. It will now go to the Senate. If the Senate makes changes to the bill (they likely will), it will go back to the House for another vote.
The House passed it last night with ONE VOTE.
We can stop this. We have to.
The House passed it last night with ONE VOTE.
We can stop this. We have to.
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An excellent article -and podcast- questioning whether climate activists are really so radical. It makes you wonder: has any society in history been as willingly docile as ours?
A new podcast asks: Are 'radical' climate activists really that radical?
"Sabotage" tells the story of the real people behind Just Stop Oil's controversial stunts.
grist.org
May 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
An excellent article -and podcast- questioning whether climate activists are really so radical. It makes you wonder: has any society in history been as willingly docile as ours?
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no sir that’s not what I said. I didn’t do it because the cat “told” me to. I did it because the cat WANTED me to
May 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
no sir that’s not what I said. I didn’t do it because the cat “told” me to. I did it because the cat WANTED me to
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An IT worker for the nat'l parks drove to a bridge & called a friend to talk him down.
A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family.
A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family.
A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working.
Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. “Why doesn’t anyone care?”
www.washingtonpost.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
An IT worker for the nat'l parks drove to a bridge & called a friend to talk him down.
A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family.
A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family.
A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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The NWS office in Jackson, Kentucky, has been without staffing overnight because of DOGE cuts. Last night, a tornado tore through southern Kentucky and killed more than a dozen.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
After Cuts, a Kentucky Weather Office Scrambles for Staffing as Severe Storms Bear Down
www.nytimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The NWS office in Jackson, Kentucky, has been without staffing overnight because of DOGE cuts. Last night, a tornado tore through southern Kentucky and killed more than a dozen.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
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Grandmas should not have to live like this (no one should but definitely not grandmas) www.gofundme.com/f/help-grand...
May 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Grandmas should not have to live like this (no one should but definitely not grandmas) www.gofundme.com/f/help-grand...
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Serenade her Albanian Andy Serkis. Serenade her.
May 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Serenade her Albanian Andy Serkis. Serenade her.
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A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind.
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
ICE raids have 'overwhelmed' coastal California communities
Communities in three California counties "overwhelmed" as ICE raids ramp up in the region.
www.sfgate.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind.
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
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World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
wck.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
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[Giveaway] To celebrate the Nintendo Switch 2 launch, we're doing our biggest social media giveaway in our 17+ year history. Repost and follow for a chance to win a console bundle with Mario Kart World. Ends June 1, 2025, open worldwide.
May 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
[Giveaway] To celebrate the Nintendo Switch 2 launch, we're doing our biggest social media giveaway in our 17+ year history. Repost and follow for a chance to win a console bundle with Mario Kart World. Ends June 1, 2025, open worldwide.
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Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
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ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
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Clay Jackson, a Texas attorney, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family after the father had been targeted in an ICE raid.
Then, two officers came to his home and said he was “obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation."
After he spoke publicly about it, he was fired.
Then, two officers came to his home and said he was “obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation."
After he spoke publicly about it, he was fired.
Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family
On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.
popular.info
April 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Clay Jackson, a Texas attorney, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family after the father had been targeted in an ICE raid.
Then, two officers came to his home and said he was “obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation."
After he spoke publicly about it, he was fired.
Then, two officers came to his home and said he was “obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation."
After he spoke publicly about it, he was fired.
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Sinners also brings to mind just how Black men got involved with criminal activity in the name of social mobility as well as how “gangs” formed as a communal protection response. The Irish and the Italians started it here, Black people did the same, then they sold us out for whiteness.
April 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Sinners also brings to mind just how Black men got involved with criminal activity in the name of social mobility as well as how “gangs” formed as a communal protection response. The Irish and the Italians started it here, Black people did the same, then they sold us out for whiteness.
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Once again Cherokee Nation and other Oklahoma tribes are having to step in and feed non-Native children because of Kevin Stitt's refusal to accept programs that would help Oklahoma's low-income children. 😡 www.newson6.com/story/680c12...
Cherokee Nation steps in as Oklahoma passes on Summer EBT
Cherokee Nation steps in to feed thousands of Oklahoma children through its Summer EBT program, after the state declines for the third year.
www.newson6.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Once again Cherokee Nation and other Oklahoma tribes are having to step in and feed non-Native children because of Kevin Stitt's refusal to accept programs that would help Oklahoma's low-income children. 😡 www.newson6.com/story/680c12...