@mochimochisquish.bsky.social
Japanese American midlife mama student philomath always learning listening can't stop the feeling 🌹🏳️🌈🍉
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My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️🌈
Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.
Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.
June 3, 2025 at 3:34 AM
My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️🌈
Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.
Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.
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“There is nothing weak men fear more than courageous women who have won the hearts of the people.”
Greta Thunberg has spent the last 20 months condemning Gaza genocide & is now on a flotilla headed to Gaza
Ms. Rachel has leveraged her entire platform to condemn the Gaza genocide & to humanize Palestinian babies
And now weak men are violently threatening them. www.qasimrashid.com/p/when-stron...
Ms. Rachel has leveraged her entire platform to condemn the Gaza genocide & to humanize Palestinian babies
And now weak men are violently threatening them. www.qasimrashid.com/p/when-stron...
When Strong Women Intimidate Weak Men
Greta Thunberg and Ms. Rachel are speaking up for Palestine, and weak men are responding by threatening violence
www.qasimrashid.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
“There is nothing weak men fear more than courageous women who have won the hearts of the people.”
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📽️Discover the story of how public libraries shaped a nation in this powerful new documentary by award-winning filmmakers Dawn Logsdon & Lucie Faulknor.
🎬 Join us for a screening + panel with the filmmakers and OPL staff. Refreshments provided. 🍿🥤
oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/67fed...
🎬 Join us for a screening + panel with the filmmakers and OPL staff. Refreshments provided. 🍿🥤
oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/67fed...
May 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
📽️Discover the story of how public libraries shaped a nation in this powerful new documentary by award-winning filmmakers Dawn Logsdon & Lucie Faulknor.
🎬 Join us for a screening + panel with the filmmakers and OPL staff. Refreshments provided. 🍿🥤
oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/67fed...
🎬 Join us for a screening + panel with the filmmakers and OPL staff. Refreshments provided. 🍿🥤
oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/67fed...
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Look, I understand the urge to say "I'm autistic and I date and I pay taxes," but that's unintentionally just buying into his argument. We are not the autistic people he is talking about.
Some autistic people CANNOT IN FACT do these things. They also deserve care, protection, and basic dignity.
Some autistic people CANNOT IN FACT do these things. They also deserve care, protection, and basic dignity.
April 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Look, I understand the urge to say "I'm autistic and I date and I pay taxes," but that's unintentionally just buying into his argument. We are not the autistic people he is talking about.
Some autistic people CANNOT IN FACT do these things. They also deserve care, protection, and basic dignity.
Some autistic people CANNOT IN FACT do these things. They also deserve care, protection, and basic dignity.
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We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower
There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
April 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower
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Black folks had a conversation within their community to sit this one out, given how nonwhite citizens are being disappeared for less. white bodies are in less danger, and white people have a greater obligation to step up. but there were absolutely BIPOC speakers and organizers in Raleigh yesterday
April 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Black folks had a conversation within their community to sit this one out, given how nonwhite citizens are being disappeared for less. white bodies are in less danger, and white people have a greater obligation to step up. but there were absolutely BIPOC speakers and organizers in Raleigh yesterday
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honestly a little surprised that this is getting full scandal treatment from the press and i think one reason is that it is secretive. high ranking officials were *hiding* something and the (idiotic) aphorism that the "cover-up is worse than the crime" has kicked the scandal instinct into gear.
March 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
honestly a little surprised that this is getting full scandal treatment from the press and i think one reason is that it is secretive. high ranking officials were *hiding* something and the (idiotic) aphorism that the "cover-up is worse than the crime" has kicked the scandal instinct into gear.
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I can't watch this and say nothing. The arrest of people lawfully here because of things they have said is nothing short of creating a new class of political prisoners.
Then sweeping them away to Louisiana to evade the rule of law is atrocious.
We cannot stay silent.
Then sweeping them away to Louisiana to evade the rule of law is atrocious.
We cannot stay silent.
A different angle showing the kidnapping of Runeysa Ozturk by U.S. secret police in Massachusetts.
(via Daniel Boguslaw on Twitter) x.com/DRBoguslaw/s...
(via Daniel Boguslaw on Twitter) x.com/DRBoguslaw/s...
March 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I can't watch this and say nothing. The arrest of people lawfully here because of things they have said is nothing short of creating a new class of political prisoners.
Then sweeping them away to Louisiana to evade the rule of law is atrocious.
We cannot stay silent.
Then sweeping them away to Louisiana to evade the rule of law is atrocious.
We cannot stay silent.
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I think most of who have worked in writing or entertainment know that piracy is a fact of life, and has been for a long time now.
But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.
But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.
Search the LibGen database here, and peer inside a pirated library of millions of books and research papers used by Meta and others:
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I think most of who have worked in writing or entertainment know that piracy is a fact of life, and has been for a long time now.
But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.
But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.
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If you aren’t reading “On Tyranny,” you really must. It’s THE book to read as we are working to resist fascism. Here is an example of one way truth dies: Magical thinking.
March 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
If you aren’t reading “On Tyranny,” you really must. It’s THE book to read as we are working to resist fascism. Here is an example of one way truth dies: Magical thinking.
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With everything happening in the US right now, how safe are scientific conferences for foreign participants in the US? I think this is something we have to discuss as a scientific community. I am hesitating to register for US meetings due to the unpredictable situation. Others who feel the same?
March 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
With everything happening in the US right now, how safe are scientific conferences for foreign participants in the US? I think this is something we have to discuss as a scientific community. I am hesitating to register for US meetings due to the unpredictable situation. Others who feel the same?
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This is what America looked like before the creation of the EPA
March 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is what America looked like before the creation of the EPA
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The Texas Attorney General, whose office has reportedly been recruiting men to snitch on their partners' reproductive choices, has made his first arrest under the state's abortion ban.
www.jezebel.com/ken-paxton-r...
www.jezebel.com/ken-paxton-r...
Ken Paxton Rot in Hell Challenge
The Texas Attorney General, whose office has reportedly been recruiting men to snitch on their partners' reproductive choices, has made his first arrest under the state's abortion ban.
www.jezebel.com
March 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The Texas Attorney General, whose office has reportedly been recruiting men to snitch on their partners' reproductive choices, has made his first arrest under the state's abortion ban.
www.jezebel.com/ken-paxton-r...
www.jezebel.com/ken-paxton-r...
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I'm a proud mother. Whether I'm walking my son to school or reading him a bedtime story, I do everything to make sure he grows up loved and cared for.
And for the sponsor of the drag ban to say that my existence is a fetish is false & cruel.
I'm glad we were able to defeat this hateful bill today.
And for the sponsor of the drag ban to say that my existence is a fetish is false & cruel.
I'm glad we were able to defeat this hateful bill today.
March 7, 2025 at 5:39 AM
I'm a proud mother. Whether I'm walking my son to school or reading him a bedtime story, I do everything to make sure he grows up loved and cared for.
And for the sponsor of the drag ban to say that my existence is a fetish is false & cruel.
I'm glad we were able to defeat this hateful bill today.
And for the sponsor of the drag ban to say that my existence is a fetish is false & cruel.
I'm glad we were able to defeat this hateful bill today.
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trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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GigSlave Goes Public With $84 Billion Valuation.
Watch Full Onion News Network Segment Here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlB...
Watch Full Onion News Network Segment Here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlB...
February 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
GigSlave Goes Public With $84 Billion Valuation.
Watch Full Onion News Network Segment Here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlB...
Watch Full Onion News Network Segment Here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlB...
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We turned to individualism. We turned our backs on our neighbors. We chose to say, as a society, “Fix it yourself”. Our nation has chosen cruelty. We have to fix this. No mother should ever lose her children like this.
“I regret having to sleep out there so bad. I tell them, ‘I’m sorry, but I tried.’”
These kids deserved our protection. This mother deserves our protection. We are collectively failing one another.
These kids deserved our protection. This mother deserves our protection. We are collectively failing one another.
Mom of 2 kids who froze to death while sleeping in a van says she asked for help: ‘I’m sorry, but I tried’
The mom of two children who died from hypothermia while sleeping in a cold van said she has asked for help for a long time.
www.wdam.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We turned to individualism. We turned our backs on our neighbors. We chose to say, as a society, “Fix it yourself”. Our nation has chosen cruelty. We have to fix this. No mother should ever lose her children like this.
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BREAKING
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
popular.info
February 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
BREAKING
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.