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"The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them" - Bill Mollison /1
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Summer visitors
October 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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When you understand interconnectedness it makes you more afraid of hating than of dying.

– Robert A.F. Thurman
July 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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motherjones.com
The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
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August 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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savetibet.bsky.social
Tibetans are being used as the testing ground for China’s assimilation of “ethnic minorities” as this year’s Two Sessions meetings indicate a continued clampdown on #Tibetan identity.

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China’s 2025 Two Sessions show Tibetans are testing ground for a new CCP “ethnic unity” policy
March 17, 2025 This year’s annual political meetings in Beijing,
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March 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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savetibet.bsky.social
66 years ago today, His Holiness the Dalai Lama set out on his escape into exile from Chinese-occupied #Tibet.

Today, while #China’s illegal occupation of Tibet continues, the Dalai Lama is one of the most respected figures in the world, and the #Tibetan cause is alive and strong.
March 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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CARCINOGENIC AIR POLLUTION MAPPED

Two bills in Congress would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using hundreds of chemical assessments completed by its IRIS program in environmental regulations or enforcement.

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March 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I would think the GOP would LOVE town halls, given their amazing success with the economy, the stable international situation, and how beloved Elon Musk is by the American people.

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No more town halls, NRCC chief tells House Republicans
Rep. Richard Hudson issued the edict after a spate of testy episodes.
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March 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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It is not easy to keep myself from being dragged into the rushing currents of anger and grief that are running through my heart right now. Others must feel the same. Yet these very feelings press me forward into action. Meet me there.
March 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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savetibet.bsky.social
China’s surveillance state over #Tibet destroys any sense of peace, privacy, human rights, and religious freedom for the Tibetan people.

@frontlinepbs.bsky.social's 'Battle for Tibet' investigates China’s rule over Tibet and China’s relationship with the #DalaiLama: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDyM...
February 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.
February 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ?
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky

If you could, please help us regain our following
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Together we can change the world.
January 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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A ceasefire is needed now to save lives and move humanitarian aid into #Gaza.

Our latest report has the details: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/gaza-death-t...
Gaza death trap: MSF report exposes Israel’s campaign of total destruction  | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Repeated Israeli military attacks on Palestinian civilians over the last 14 months, the dismantling of the health care system and other essential infrastructure, the suffocating siege, and the systema...
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December 19, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Jeffries: In our nation's history, 25% of our nation's debt was accumulated during the four years of the former president, 25%. How dare you lecture America about fiscal responsibility ever.
December 19, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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Just simply wow 💫😲💫😲💫😲💫

Millions of galaxies using real data from the DESI telescope (Dark Enegy Spectroscopy) mapping entire superclusters of the observable Universe.
December 15, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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DECEMBER 12: HONORING OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE, MOTHER OF MERCY FOR THE AMERICAS.
Title: Unholy Escort
(Artist Katie Jo Suddaby)
An image of Our Lady of Guadalupe being led away, hands tied with ropes, by uniformed immigration officers Close-up of Our Lady's bound hands
December 12, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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buildsoil.bsky.social
True for all beech family trees- Oaks Beach and Chesnuts
"The water from a 2-inch downpour —more than 54,000 gallons per acre —is captured almost entirely by an oak forest's leaf litter and the organic humus it creates. Litter and humus don't hold this water indefinitely, but they do corral it onsite just long enough for it to seep into the ground, replenishing the water table on which so many of us depend. In areas with no leaf litter, the same 2-inch rainstorm causes a flood." -The Nature of Oaks by Doug Tallamy, PhD
November 20, 2024 at 2:39 AM
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dailydharm.bsky.social
"Meditation does not have to be hard labor. Just allow your body and mind to rest like an animal in the forest. Don't struggle. There is no need to attain anything."

-Thich Nhat Hahn
November 24, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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Journey through space to the Sombrero Galaxy (M104) in this mesmerizing video! Webb’s MIRI reveals clumpy dust in the outer ring, shedding light on star formation. Located 30M light-years away in Virgo, it’s a sight to behold. #JamesWebb #SombreroGalaxy📽️ Watch now
November 25, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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astronomers.bsky.social
The Andromeda galaxy captured by the Hubble Space telescope
The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged as Messier 31, M31, and NGC 224. Andromeda has a D₂₅ isophotal diameter of about 46.56 kiloparsecs and is approximately 765 kpc from Earth.
November 25, 2024 at 11:46 PM