Merope1113
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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See I wish the ~edible gardening~ folks would grapple with this. at least a little bit.
Productive food plants aren't gonna look like A Flower Garden, for the same reason most moms don't look like supermodels. WE GOT OTHER STUFF GOIN ON OK?
Productive food plants aren't gonna look like A Flower Garden, for the same reason most moms don't look like supermodels. WE GOT OTHER STUFF GOIN ON OK?
unless you live somewhere with insane sunlight, i learned tomatoes have the 2 modes: green with foliage cuz they're focused on growing, or looking like shit cuz they're putting all energy into fruits. i have to keep telling ppl i know when a plant looks like shit it isn't always dead lol
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
See I wish the ~edible gardening~ folks would grapple with this. at least a little bit.
Productive food plants aren't gonna look like A Flower Garden, for the same reason most moms don't look like supermodels. WE GOT OTHER STUFF GOIN ON OK?
Productive food plants aren't gonna look like A Flower Garden, for the same reason most moms don't look like supermodels. WE GOT OTHER STUFF GOIN ON OK?
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“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”
Families "horrified" after daycare teacher pulled out of school by federal agents.
The incident happened in front of parents and children at Rayito de Sol in North Center, a parent said. They believe the employee, who cares for infants, is legally allowed to work in the United State...
www.chalkbeat.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”
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"Witnesses and school employees said they thought the school was under attack and scrambled into rooms and vehicles outside in search of safety."
One mother who walked in right after described "a room of crying kids, crying parents and crying teachers"
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
One mother who walked in right after described "a room of crying kids, crying parents and crying teachers"
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Armed ICE officers chase teacher into preschool in Chicago
The arrest appears to be one of the first in which immigration officers entered school grounds as part of an enforcement operation during Trump’s second administration.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"Witnesses and school employees said they thought the school was under attack and scrambled into rooms and vehicles outside in search of safety."
One mother who walked in right after described "a room of crying kids, crying parents and crying teachers"
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
One mother who walked in right after described "a room of crying kids, crying parents and crying teachers"
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.
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With Republicans it's always the same strategy: Families lose, billionaires win.
youtube.com/shorts/co788...
youtube.com/shorts/co788...
With Republicans it's always the same strategy: Families lose, billionaires win.
YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley
youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
With Republicans it's always the same strategy: Families lose, billionaires win.
youtube.com/shorts/co788...
youtube.com/shorts/co788...
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Merkley has held the floor for about 21 hours now and nobody is talking about it
TUNE IN: I’m STILL on the Senate floor exposing Trump’s attempts to trample on the Constitution. www.youtube.com/live/BPJcq9u...
Merkley CONTINUES Holding the Senate Floor to Protest Trump’s Threats to Democracy
YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Merkley has held the floor for about 21 hours now and nobody is talking about it
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just loving it right now
This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
October 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
just loving it right now
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also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity
October 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity
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Please, if this is not the type of country you want to live in, do something about it!
The next nationwide protest is a month from today, Oct 18th.
The closer we get to the 18th the more local protest will be organized.
Please spread the word. Plz share and repost.
www.nokings.org
The next nationwide protest is a month from today, Oct 18th.
The closer we get to the 18th the more local protest will be organized.
Please spread the word. Plz share and repost.
www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
September 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Please, if this is not the type of country you want to live in, do something about it!
The next nationwide protest is a month from today, Oct 18th.
The closer we get to the 18th the more local protest will be organized.
Please spread the word. Plz share and repost.
www.nokings.org
The next nationwide protest is a month from today, Oct 18th.
The closer we get to the 18th the more local protest will be organized.
Please spread the word. Plz share and repost.
www.nokings.org
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I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves.
I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct.
I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct.
I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
September 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves.
I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct.
I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct.
I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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We do actually need to pay attention to the distraction when death and punishment is the way they’re distracting.
August 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We do actually need to pay attention to the distraction when death and punishment is the way they’re distracting.
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even at the time, Mark Twain was roasting this kind of airless romanticization of aristocracy in the South as "the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society"
July 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
even at the time, Mark Twain was roasting this kind of airless romanticization of aristocracy in the South as "the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society"
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Nearly 12 million people could lose health care coverage if the bill gets passed and signed by Trump, while hospitals would be hit hard by Medicaid cuts. www.wired.com/story/trumps...
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Leave Millions Without Health Insurance
Nearly 12 million people could lose health care coverage if the bill gets passed and signed by Trump, while hospitals would be hit hard by Medicaid cuts.
www.wired.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Nearly 12 million people could lose health care coverage if the bill gets passed and signed by Trump, while hospitals would be hit hard by Medicaid cuts. www.wired.com/story/trumps...
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See the Artworks That Explore the Forgotten History of Harriet Tubman’s Civil War Triumphs
See the Artworks That Explore the Forgotten History of Harriet Tubman's Civil War Triumphs
Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved laborers, is now the subject of an exhibition in Charleston
www.smithsonianmag.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
See the Artworks That Explore the Forgotten History of Harriet Tubman’s Civil War Triumphs
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This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
June 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
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Justice Sotomayor ends her dissent by saying the Supreme Court has permitted "thousands [to] suffer violence in farflung locales," an action which "rewards lawlessness" by the Trump administration.
She says the Court has undermined the basic concept of Due Process under the law.
She says the Court has undermined the basic concept of Due Process under the law.
June 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Justice Sotomayor ends her dissent by saying the Supreme Court has permitted "thousands [to] suffer violence in farflung locales," an action which "rewards lawlessness" by the Trump administration.
She says the Court has undermined the basic concept of Due Process under the law.
She says the Court has undermined the basic concept of Due Process under the law.
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👋 Hello, we're the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)! We are very happy to join @bsky.app, and thrilled to announce that our website, www.usip.org, is back online! We look forward connecting here and bringing you useful content, resources and opportunities for peacebuilders around the world.
June 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
👋 Hello, we're the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)! We are very happy to join @bsky.app, and thrilled to announce that our website, www.usip.org, is back online! We look forward connecting here and bringing you useful content, resources and opportunities for peacebuilders around the world.
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Somewhere along the line we lost all utility of antonyms and synonyms. Remember those sat sections on analogies and comparisons? We need to bring that skill back.
June 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Somewhere along the line we lost all utility of antonyms and synonyms. Remember those sat sections on analogies and comparisons? We need to bring that skill back.
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i understand the framing, which is about RFK jr lying to a senator to get senate approval
but RFK jr also lied to the american public
just completely unacceptable for a public official and senator bill cassidy is not the only one who should take action for being lied to
but RFK jr also lied to the american public
just completely unacceptable for a public official and senator bill cassidy is not the only one who should take action for being lied to
BREAKING: RFK Jr. fires ACIP, the panel responsible for advising on vaccines.
This breaks a promise to Sen. Bill Cassidy, who voted to advance Kennedy as HHS secretary on the condition that he would, among other things, keep ACIP in place.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...
This breaks a promise to Sen. Bill Cassidy, who voted to advance Kennedy as HHS secretary on the condition that he would, among other things, keep ACIP in place.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...
Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.
www.statnews.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
i understand the framing, which is about RFK jr lying to a senator to get senate approval
but RFK jr also lied to the american public
just completely unacceptable for a public official and senator bill cassidy is not the only one who should take action for being lied to
but RFK jr also lied to the american public
just completely unacceptable for a public official and senator bill cassidy is not the only one who should take action for being lied to
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June 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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This no-kill animal shelter is in desperate need of kitten food, kitten milk replacement, and other supplies. If you post a screenshot in my replies showing that you donated at least $10 (even as a Chewy gift card), I'll answer a style-related question for you. Donation info in their thread.
June 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This no-kill animal shelter is in desperate need of kitten food, kitten milk replacement, and other supplies. If you post a screenshot in my replies showing that you donated at least $10 (even as a Chewy gift card), I'll answer a style-related question for you. Donation info in their thread.