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@kitatvt.bsky.social
child rights and reciprocity
nature awe and disability
abolition as a frequency
queer autistic and adhd
i used to teach kids and play in the trees
still need a nap but i’m wondering
nature awe and disability
abolition as a frequency
queer autistic and adhd
i used to teach kids and play in the trees
still need a nap but i’m wondering
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Remaining politically unbiased requires staying neutral on matters like evidence, relevant past behavior, clear patterns, obvious lies, and observable truth, which is worth remembering whenever somebody starts complaining about political bias.
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Remaining politically unbiased requires staying neutral on matters like evidence, relevant past behavior, clear patterns, obvious lies, and observable truth, which is worth remembering whenever somebody starts complaining about political bias.
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A reminder that people in Gaza need real help, and while you ought to do your due diligence, please don't block/report people calling out for survival, ok?
I'd personally rather risk being scammed out of $5 than cut off a person's access to the world, but that's just me
Sending love to you, Alma 🫶🏻
I'd personally rather risk being scammed out of $5 than cut off a person's access to the world, but that's just me
Sending love to you, Alma 🫶🏻
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A reminder that people in Gaza need real help, and while you ought to do your due diligence, please don't block/report people calling out for survival, ok?
I'd personally rather risk being scammed out of $5 than cut off a person's access to the world, but that's just me
Sending love to you, Alma 🫶🏻
I'd personally rather risk being scammed out of $5 than cut off a person's access to the world, but that's just me
Sending love to you, Alma 🫶🏻
A system built on extraction will always choose profits over people
“To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
The Fossil-Fuel Industry Has a Plan to Drown Earth in Plastic
To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products
www.scientificamerican.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A system built on extraction will always choose profits over people
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Just thinking how my life now hangs in the balance of people wanting to throw mine and millions of others away to celebrate the day of a massacre of a nation of other Indigenous people.
But it’s so important that this group of so-called representatives get to travel and feast with their families.
But it’s so important that this group of so-called representatives get to travel and feast with their families.
Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Just thinking how my life now hangs in the balance of people wanting to throw mine and millions of others away to celebrate the day of a massacre of a nation of other Indigenous people.
But it’s so important that this group of so-called representatives get to travel and feast with their families.
But it’s so important that this group of so-called representatives get to travel and feast with their families.
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Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats:
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats:
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
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In addition to being an excellent guide for anyone in a role that might be called to talk to the ideologically captured legacy press, it's also an important object lesson for the rest of us in a crucial bit of media literacy. Definitely worth taking a few minutes to read this.
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…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
In addition to being an excellent guide for anyone in a role that might be called to talk to the ideologically captured legacy press, it's also an important object lesson for the rest of us in a crucial bit of media literacy. Definitely worth taking a few minutes to read this.
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A new report finds that only 3% of international aid is going to support communities and workers transitioning into a green economy. The lack of funding “risks deepening inequality rather than addressing it,” warn the authors.
By @dharna.bsky.social for The Guardian:
By @dharna.bsky.social for The Guardian:
Only 3% of international climate aid going to transitioning communities: ‘This is absurd’
New report on funding to slash carbon emissions finds startlingly low engagement with the people affected
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November 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
A new report finds that only 3% of international aid is going to support communities and workers transitioning into a green economy. The lack of funding “risks deepening inequality rather than addressing it,” warn the authors.
By @dharna.bsky.social for The Guardian:
By @dharna.bsky.social for The Guardian:
least surprising thing ever
SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? - The American Prospect
Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, i...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
least surprising thing ever
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There are more of us than there are of them.
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Watching the wildly different trajectory of these two treatments, weight loss drugs for obesity and puberty blockers for gender affirming care, occurring in real time over just the last year, has been a simple and stark lesson in how values, not evidence, are driving decision making.
May 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Watching the wildly different trajectory of these two treatments, weight loss drugs for obesity and puberty blockers for gender affirming care, occurring in real time over just the last year, has been a simple and stark lesson in how values, not evidence, are driving decision making.
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"Department of Defense (DOD) officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them."
Pentagon Admits to Striking Caribbean Boats Without Identifying Victims’ Purported Drug Links
The White House cannot “satisfy the evidentiary burden” to prosecute those they have been killing, one lawmaker said.
truthout.org
November 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM
"Department of Defense (DOD) officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them."
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Use it as your Easter Egg to give even more information than anyone only reading the main content of your skeet will get. Do it as a treat. (I do)
Adding alt text to your images is a small kindness you can extend into a very unkind world 💜
October 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Use it as your Easter Egg to give even more information than anyone only reading the main content of your skeet will get. Do it as a treat. (I do)
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A huge and necessary form of activism, that frankly is not being done at the scale it needs to be, is to campaign for Flock and Ring camera bans.
October 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A huge and necessary form of activism, that frankly is not being done at the scale it needs to be, is to campaign for Flock and Ring camera bans.
listening to john a. powell’s livestream earlier.. “hope is nostalgia for the future”
had the honor today of submitting a proposal for a significant grant to advance racial equity in access to nature based outdoor early learning. so many things happening in so many places that are reason for hope
had the honor today of submitting a proposal for a significant grant to advance racial equity in access to nature based outdoor early learning. so many things happening in so many places that are reason for hope
October 16, 2025 at 3:08 AM
listening to john a. powell’s livestream earlier.. “hope is nostalgia for the future”
had the honor today of submitting a proposal for a significant grant to advance racial equity in access to nature based outdoor early learning. so many things happening in so many places that are reason for hope
had the honor today of submitting a proposal for a significant grant to advance racial equity in access to nature based outdoor early learning. so many things happening in so many places that are reason for hope
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.
This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD
He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.
www.houstonchronicle.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.
This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."
October 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."
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Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
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wizard frog is insane
October 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
wizard frog is insane
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OPINION: "Mississippi’s white leaders haven’t done nearly enough to reckon with our white supremacist past, nor its ongoing manifestations, to expect Black folks to live as if Jim Crow never was," MFP News Editor Ashton Pittman writes.
Editor’s Note | Mississippi’s Evil Past Still Haunts Us
News Editor Ashton Pittman writes about how the response to college student Trey Reed’s death illustrates how Mississippi’s past haunts its present.
buff.ly
October 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
OPINION: "Mississippi’s white leaders haven’t done nearly enough to reckon with our white supremacist past, nor its ongoing manifestations, to expect Black folks to live as if Jim Crow never was," MFP News Editor Ashton Pittman writes.
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very excited for it to be that time of year when i contract a mysterious illness from my children.
September 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
very excited for it to be that time of year when i contract a mysterious illness from my children.
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Al Jazeera correspondent Hani Mahmoud describes his experience working as a journalist in Gaza amid Israel's genocide.
“What you see on the screen is only a tiny bit of what we're able to show you. On the ground it's even worse.”
“What you see on the screen is only a tiny bit of what we're able to show you. On the ground it's even worse.”
September 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Al Jazeera correspondent Hani Mahmoud describes his experience working as a journalist in Gaza amid Israel's genocide.
“What you see on the screen is only a tiny bit of what we're able to show you. On the ground it's even worse.”
“What you see on the screen is only a tiny bit of what we're able to show you. On the ground it's even worse.”
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Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
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Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
heated.world
September 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
of course. of fucking course he is.
Dr. Oz is a large investor in and global advisor for iHerb, a company that sells supplements for folinic acid, which is the the non-prescription version of leucovorin, the medication which is being recommended for the treatment of autism by Dr. Oz.
September 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
of course. of fucking course he is.