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The enemy wasn’t men, or women, or the old, or even the dead. It was just bleedin’ stupid people, who came in all varieties. And no one had the right to be stupid.
GNU Terry Pratchett
GNU Terry Pratchett
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BREAKING: Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal has ruled Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee lacks authority to deploy the National Guard to Memphis.
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
BREAKING: Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal has ruled Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee lacks authority to deploy the National Guard to Memphis.
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Dozens of Tennessee hardwood companies join industry plea for federal relief from tariff hardships tennesseelookout.com/2025/11/17/d... @cstephenson.bsky.social @tennesseelookout.com
Dozens of TN hardwood companies join industry plea for federal relief from tariff hardships • Tennessee Lookout
Nearly 40 Tennessee hardwood companies are among hundreds of U.S. hardwood operators asking for relief from tariff-induced economic hardship.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Dozens of Tennessee hardwood companies join industry plea for federal relief from tariff hardships tennesseelookout.com/2025/11/17/d... @cstephenson.bsky.social @tennesseelookout.com
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Today is my birthday. I would like many things but from you specifically I want $2,500 for @scarleteen.com's annual fundraiser, which is supporting staff & volunteer healthcare this year. We need $2,500 to unlock a $10,000 match and this would really make my day! Donate to my campaign page here.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Today is my birthday. I would like many things but from you specifically I want $2,500 for @scarleteen.com's annual fundraiser, which is supporting staff & volunteer healthcare this year. We need $2,500 to unlock a $10,000 match and this would really make my day! Donate to my campaign page here.
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🚨BARISTAS ARE STILL ON STRIKE🚨
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol tops the list for CEO-to-worker pay gaps, raking in millions while baristas struggle to pay rent.
#NoContractNoCoffee
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol tops the list for CEO-to-worker pay gaps, raking in millions while baristas struggle to pay rent.
#NoContractNoCoffee
NoContractNoCoffee.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🚨BARISTAS ARE STILL ON STRIKE🚨
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol tops the list for CEO-to-worker pay gaps, raking in millions while baristas struggle to pay rent.
#NoContractNoCoffee
NoContractNoCoffee.org
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol tops the list for CEO-to-worker pay gaps, raking in millions while baristas struggle to pay rent.
#NoContractNoCoffee
NoContractNoCoffee.org
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I refuse to believe politicians are forgetting how rancid MTG is. Sure we can have a big tent but we do not need to welcome someone like her. Please everyone get a fucking hold of yourselves.
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I refuse to believe politicians are forgetting how rancid MTG is. Sure we can have a big tent but we do not need to welcome someone like her. Please everyone get a fucking hold of yourselves.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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there were SO MANY WAYS we could have stopped this. and there will be more ways. We have to do them.
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
there were SO MANY WAYS we could have stopped this. and there will be more ways. We have to do them.
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i think online gambling is a cancer that is spreading throughout our society, it was a horrible mistake to de-regulate it, and we desperately need to crack down on it again
i can’t talk about sports gambling anymore without sounding like a crank but i do believe legalized sports gambling is like 15-20% responsible for our current dystopia
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
i think online gambling is a cancer that is spreading throughout our society, it was a horrible mistake to de-regulate it, and we desperately need to crack down on it again
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🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
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I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...
Heavy rainfall floods the camps of displaced Palestinians in Gaza | CNN
Displaced Palestinians in Gaza woke up Friday morning to inches of water flooding their tents, after heavy rainfall overnight left their shelters and belongings soaked with no way to dry them out.
edition.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...
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Wild to me how many headlines I saw this week celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting Kim Davis's bid to end marriage equality, when the Texas Supreme Court just decided that state court judges are free to refuse to perform weddings for same-sex couples from here on out
The Conservative War On Marriage Equality Never Needed Kim Davis
The Supreme Court rejected Davis’s bid to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges. But in Texas and elsewhere, anti-gay activists are chipping away at the right that case protects.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Wild to me how many headlines I saw this week celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting Kim Davis's bid to end marriage equality, when the Texas Supreme Court just decided that state court judges are free to refuse to perform weddings for same-sex couples from here on out
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
Everyone would be way better off spending some serious time thinking about, reading, talking and learning what their gender and sexuality mean to them, instead of having weird binary capitalism imposed upon them.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Everyone would be way better off spending some serious time thinking about, reading, talking and learning what their gender and sexuality mean to them, instead of having weird binary capitalism imposed upon them.
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We need less than $1000 by the end of tomorrow to stay on track to meet our goal for November - anything you can kick in to support independent, multilingual, global media will help! globalvoices.org/donate/
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
We need less than $1000 by the end of tomorrow to stay on track to meet our goal for November - anything you can kick in to support independent, multilingual, global media will help! globalvoices.org/donate/
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These reflections from these contributors remind us why it is important to ensure that the Global Voices Newsroom is sustainable. Your contribution will support Global Voices’ Newsroom through the end of the year.
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Behind the story: Gina Yauri reflects on covering Ecuador’s animal rights debate
As part of our "Behind the Story" challenge fundraising campaign, we feature Gina Yauri from Ecuador who shares why working on a particular story was important. Please consider donating to keep GV strong.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
These reflections from these contributors remind us why it is important to ensure that the Global Voices Newsroom is sustainable. Your contribution will support Global Voices’ Newsroom through the end of the year.
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My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?
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Women at NASA, starting with one of my favorite #WomenInSTEM photos
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Valerie Thomas (1943) is an African American badass scientist.
She invented the illusion transmitter in 1980.
She helped develop the digital media formats that image processing systems used in NASA's Landsat program.
Her [very cool!] NASA photo next to a stack of computer tapes, 1979.
#WomenInSTEM 🧪
She invented the illusion transmitter in 1980.
She helped develop the digital media formats that image processing systems used in NASA's Landsat program.
Her [very cool!] NASA photo next to a stack of computer tapes, 1979.
#WomenInSTEM 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Women at NASA, starting with one of my favorite #WomenInSTEM photos
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I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
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Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social
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I still believe Christine Blasey Ford and I still believe Anita Hill.
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I still believe Christine Blasey Ford and I still believe Anita Hill.
I've stopped watching actors I like simply because they defended shitty directors. My capacity to lose all respect for people is pretty unlimited.
I’ve lost the ability to enjoy a number of authors whose works meant a lot to me because they turned out to be sex pests and I have much less attachment to politicians
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I've stopped watching actors I like simply because they defended shitty directors. My capacity to lose all respect for people is pretty unlimited.
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.