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Okay, last post about it.
Experts debunk viral headline claiming increase in seismic activity at Mount Rainier
YouTube video by KOMO News
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November 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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“Armed Only with a Camera”: HBO Film on Life & Death of Brent Renaud, Journalist Killed in Ukraine
“Armed Only with a Camera”: HBO Film on Life & Death of Brent Renaud, Journalist Killed in Ukraine
Armed Only with a Camera, the documentary chronicling the life of the late filmmaker Brent Renaud, premieres Tuesday on HBO. Renaud was the first Western journalist killed during the war in Ukraine. H...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“Armed Only with a Camera”: HBO Film on Life & Death of Brent Renaud, Journalist Killed in Ukraine
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Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Despite Ceasefire, Palestinians Still Face “Elimination, Genocide”
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/13/ilan_pappe_israel_on_the_brink
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/13/ilan_pappe_israel_on_the_brink
Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Despite Ceasefire, Palestinians Still Face “Elimination, Genocide”
Renowned Israeli historian, author and professor Ilan Pappé discusses the postwar prospects of Palestinian statehood and of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under investigation for co...
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October 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Despite Ceasefire, Palestinians Still Face “Elimination, Genocide”
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/13/ilan_pappe_israel_on_the_brink
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/13/ilan_pappe_israel_on_the_brink
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Who is María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize? Historian Greg Grandin calls her a "shocking choice" who is "completely aligned with the most militarist and darkest face of U.S. imperialism."
2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: Greg Grandin
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqua...
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October 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Who is María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize? Historian Greg Grandin calls her a "shocking choice" who is "completely aligned with the most militarist and darkest face of U.S. imperialism."
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“History didn’t start on October 7. It’s been two years of the genocide, but it’s been 77 years, if not more, of the ongoing Nakba that started in 1948."
“Eyes of Gaza”: Palestinian Journalist Plestia Alaqad Chronicles Life Under Israeli Bombs
We speak with Plestia Alaqad, an award-winning Palestinian journalist whose on-the-ground reporting from Gaza captured global attention during the early days of Israel’s military assault two years ago...
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October 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“History didn’t start on October 7. It’s been two years of the genocide, but it’s been 77 years, if not more, of the ongoing Nakba that started in 1948."
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"The most visited slice of nature in Minnesota isn’t in a state or national park. It’s not an old-growth forest or patch of surviving prairie. It’s the chain of four lakes that starts with Cedar and ends with Lake Harriet in the heart of Minneapolis."
www.startribune.com/a-c-ranking-...
www.startribune.com/a-c-ranking-...
A ‘C’ ranking for the Minneapolis Chain of Lakes is a triumph of environmental restoration
The most visited natural destination in Minnesota lies in its most densely developed region.
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September 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"The most visited slice of nature in Minnesota isn’t in a state or national park. It’s not an old-growth forest or patch of surviving prairie. It’s the chain of four lakes that starts with Cedar and ends with Lake Harriet in the heart of Minneapolis."
www.startribune.com/a-c-ranking-...
www.startribune.com/a-c-ranking-...
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The Trump administration wants to fast-track deep-sea mining by slashing environmental reviews that protect the seafloor, one of the largest and most fragile ecosystems on the planet.
Please, add your voice to tell NOAA to reject this proposal 🐋⬇️
Please, add your voice to tell NOAA to reject this proposal 🐋⬇️
Defend Sea Life From Devastation
The Trump administration wants to fast-track deep-sea mining by slashing environmental reviews that protect the seafloor. Will you help stop this reckless rush to mine the ocean floor?
act.biologicaldiversity.org
August 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The Trump administration wants to fast-track deep-sea mining by slashing environmental reviews that protect the seafloor, one of the largest and most fragile ecosystems on the planet.
Please, add your voice to tell NOAA to reject this proposal 🐋⬇️
Please, add your voice to tell NOAA to reject this proposal 🐋⬇️
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"They attacked her, and they kidnapped her."
A nurse and community activist in Los Angeles, Amanda Trebach, was violently arrested Friday while recording the operations of ICE agents in the area. She has since been released. www.democracynow.org/2025/8/11/lo...
A nurse and community activist in Los Angeles, Amanda Trebach, was violently arrested Friday while recording the operations of ICE agents in the area. She has since been released. www.democracynow.org/2025/8/11/lo...
August 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"They attacked her, and they kidnapped her."
A nurse and community activist in Los Angeles, Amanda Trebach, was violently arrested Friday while recording the operations of ICE agents in the area. She has since been released. www.democracynow.org/2025/8/11/lo...
A nurse and community activist in Los Angeles, Amanda Trebach, was violently arrested Friday while recording the operations of ICE agents in the area. She has since been released. www.democracynow.org/2025/8/11/lo...
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"Silencing the Coverage": Israel Assassinates 5 Al Jazeera Journalists in Targeted Strike in Gaza
“Silencing the Coverage”: Israel Assassinates 5 Al Jazeera Journalists in Targeted Strike in Gaza
Doctors Without Borders is demanding the closure of Israeli- and U.S.-backed food distribution centers in Gaza run by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. About 1,400 Palestinians have been killed...
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August 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Silencing the Coverage": Israel Assassinates 5 Al Jazeera Journalists in Targeted Strike in Gaza
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"This Is Orchestrated Killing": MSF Condemns GHF Aid Sites Saying They Were Set Up to Be Death Traps
“This Is Orchestrated Killing”: MSF Condemns GHF Aid Sites Saying They Were Set Up to Be Death Traps
“This Is Orchestrated Killing”: MSF Condemns GHF Aid Sites Saying They Were Set Up to Be Death Traps
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August 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"This Is Orchestrated Killing": MSF Condemns GHF Aid Sites Saying They Were Set Up to Be Death Traps
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"They Will Be Held Accountable": California AG Takes Trump to Court for Deploying National Guard
“They Will Be Held Accountable”: California AG Takes Trump to Court for Deploying National Guard
We speak with California Attorney General Rob Bonta ahead of the start of California’s court case challenging the Trump administration’s move to federalize the state’s National Guard to support...
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August 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"They Will Be Held Accountable": California AG Takes Trump to Court for Deploying National Guard
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Discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in (Feb 2025) Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.
The village and artefacts are older than the pyramids, older than Stonehenge.
We have ALWAYS been here.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
The village and artefacts are older than the pyramids, older than Stonehenge.
We have ALWAYS been here.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
11,000-year-old settlement in Canada could rewrite history of Indigenous civilizations in North America
The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.
www.livescience.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in (Feb 2025) Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.
The village and artefacts are older than the pyramids, older than Stonehenge.
We have ALWAYS been here.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
The village and artefacts are older than the pyramids, older than Stonehenge.
We have ALWAYS been here.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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The worst human trafficker of young girls, convicted on six charges gets detained in a minimum security prison. A fruit picker from Camarillo, with zero convictions gets detained in a barbaric concentration camp.
August 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM
The worst human trafficker of young girls, convicted on six charges gets detained in a minimum security prison. A fruit picker from Camarillo, with zero convictions gets detained in a barbaric concentration camp.
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Same, little pepper, same
March 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Same, little pepper, same
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BREAKING: Today the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled to deny attempts by Energy Transfer, the oil giant behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, to force Unicorn Riot to turn over internal documents from our reporting on the historic, Indigenous-led #NoDAPL movement:
unicornriot.ninja/2025/minneso...
unicornriot.ninja/2025/minneso...
Minnesota Supreme Court Rules on Unicorn Riot DAPL Subpoena - UNICORN RIOT
St Paul, MN — Unicorn Riot’s long legal battle in Minnesota to protect newsgathering materials from attorneys working for Energy Transfer reached yet another phase: The Minnesota Supreme Court release...
unicornriot.ninja
July 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
BREAKING: Today the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled to deny attempts by Energy Transfer, the oil giant behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, to force Unicorn Riot to turn over internal documents from our reporting on the historic, Indigenous-led #NoDAPL movement:
unicornriot.ninja/2025/minneso...
unicornriot.ninja/2025/minneso...
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“BPA’s decision to join Markets+ knowing the long-term cost, consequences, and harm is shocking, especially when the benefits of EDAM are so apparent–for ratepayers, salmon, rivers, and regional clean energy goals,” said Joseph Bogaard, Executive Director of SOS: www.wildsalmon.org/news-and-med...
July 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“BPA’s decision to join Markets+ knowing the long-term cost, consequences, and harm is shocking, especially when the benefits of EDAM are so apparent–for ratepayers, salmon, rivers, and regional clean energy goals,” said Joseph Bogaard, Executive Director of SOS: www.wildsalmon.org/news-and-med...
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On this date in 2016:
Days after a cop shot and killed Philando Castile in front of his daughter, thousands of demonstrators stormed I-94. Minnesota Police responded by attacking protesters and journalists:
Days after a cop shot and killed Philando Castile in front of his daughter, thousands of demonstrators stormed I-94. Minnesota Police responded by attacking protesters and journalists:
July 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
On this date in 2016:
Days after a cop shot and killed Philando Castile in front of his daughter, thousands of demonstrators stormed I-94. Minnesota Police responded by attacking protesters and journalists:
Days after a cop shot and killed Philando Castile in front of his daughter, thousands of demonstrators stormed I-94. Minnesota Police responded by attacking protesters and journalists:
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During President Donald Trump’s first term, we filed 266 lawsuits challenging his administration’s attempts to block progress on climate change, kill wildlife, endanger public health, destroy public lands, and otherwise harm the planet.
This time around, so far we’ve filed 38. Check them out. ⬇️
This time around, so far we’ve filed 38. Check them out. ⬇️
Standing Strong for Life on Earth
During President Donald Trump’s first term, the Center for Biological Diversity filed 266 lawsuits challenging his administration’s attempts to block progress on climate change, kill wildlife, endange...
www.biologicaldiversity.org
July 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
During President Donald Trump’s first term, we filed 266 lawsuits challenging his administration’s attempts to block progress on climate change, kill wildlife, endanger public health, destroy public lands, and otherwise harm the planet.
This time around, so far we’ve filed 38. Check them out. ⬇️
This time around, so far we’ve filed 38. Check them out. ⬇️
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36 conservation groups are urging the immediate release of Mexican gray wolf Asha, her mate, and their 5 pups— whose release was delayed without explanation.
“Every wolf deserves to be wild. Let Asha continue to be a leader for her endangered species.”
nywolf.org/2025/07/lett...
“Every wolf deserves to be wild. Let Asha continue to be a leader for her endangered species.”
nywolf.org/2025/07/lett...
Letter Demands Release of Asha, Her Family
Thirty-six conservation groups sent a formal letter urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to immediately release Mexican gray wolf Asha, her mate, and their five pups.
nywolf.org
July 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
36 conservation groups are urging the immediate release of Mexican gray wolf Asha, her mate, and their 5 pups— whose release was delayed without explanation.
“Every wolf deserves to be wild. Let Asha continue to be a leader for her endangered species.”
nywolf.org/2025/07/lett...
“Every wolf deserves to be wild. Let Asha continue to be a leader for her endangered species.”
nywolf.org/2025/07/lett...
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if you are going to quote the declaration of independence today like it is some radical document and rallying cry, please clearly enunciate as you read “merciless Indian savages”
stop trying to build a house on a rotten foundation
read: indianz.com/News/2018/07...
stop trying to build a house on a rotten foundation
read: indianz.com/News/2018/07...
July 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
if you are going to quote the declaration of independence today like it is some radical document and rallying cry, please clearly enunciate as you read “merciless Indian savages”
stop trying to build a house on a rotten foundation
read: indianz.com/News/2018/07...
stop trying to build a house on a rotten foundation
read: indianz.com/News/2018/07...
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i don’t think people have looked close enough at exactly what Bukele did in el salvador
but between the birthright citizenship, injunction deflection, the budget bill and alligator alcatraz, it really feels like it’s going to be “immigrants” in the camps like its “criminals” in CECOT
but between the birthright citizenship, injunction deflection, the budget bill and alligator alcatraz, it really feels like it’s going to be “immigrants” in the camps like its “criminals” in CECOT
July 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
i don’t think people have looked close enough at exactly what Bukele did in el salvador
but between the birthright citizenship, injunction deflection, the budget bill and alligator alcatraz, it really feels like it’s going to be “immigrants” in the camps like its “criminals” in CECOT
but between the birthright citizenship, injunction deflection, the budget bill and alligator alcatraz, it really feels like it’s going to be “immigrants” in the camps like its “criminals” in CECOT
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i mean, if federal judges can’t issue nationwide injunctions anymore, and the president gets to just take out the 14th amendment…
is it really being dramatic to say he’s suspended the constitution?
is it really being dramatic to say he’s suspended the constitution?
July 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
i mean, if federal judges can’t issue nationwide injunctions anymore, and the president gets to just take out the 14th amendment…
is it really being dramatic to say he’s suspended the constitution?
is it really being dramatic to say he’s suspended the constitution?
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Special Report: Mahmoud Khalil Reunites With Family After Release From ICE Jail
Special Report: Mahmoud Khalil Reunites With Family After Release From ICE Jail
Columbia University graduate, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil reunited with his wife and met his newborn son after being released from over 100 days in ICE detention. After flying from Louisiana…
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June 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Special Report: Mahmoud Khalil Reunites With Family After Release From ICE Jail
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When you're shutting out your own intelligence director because she won't go along with your war narrative, that's a real bad sign.
…When it comes to war, …the same people who call Trump a threat to democracy fall in line behind his bombs.
open.substack.com/pub/americas...
…When it comes to war, …the same people who call Trump a threat to democracy fall in line behind his bombs.
open.substack.com/pub/americas...
A Story of War, Lies, and Holy Hypocrisy
When it comes to war, even Trump's biggest critics suddenly believe every word. And they're using the Old Testament as their targeting map.
open.substack.com
June 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
When you're shutting out your own intelligence director because she won't go along with your war narrative, that's a real bad sign.
…When it comes to war, …the same people who call Trump a threat to democracy fall in line behind his bombs.
open.substack.com/pub/americas...
…When it comes to war, …the same people who call Trump a threat to democracy fall in line behind his bombs.
open.substack.com/pub/americas...