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"There have been more than 30 incidents of police violence against journalists as of Tuesday, including 20 injuries, at least five of which required emergency room or urgent care visits..."
Dozens Of Journalists Targeted, Shot, Detained While Covering LA Protests, Press Org Says
“I never thought for one moment that I’d actually have to be fearful of law enforcement during a public protest," said one photojournalist hospitalized after getting shot in the leg.
www.huffpost.com
June 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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‘For anybody who could use a break’: A Q&A with sci-fi author Becky Chambers #Climate
'For anybody who could use a break': A Q&A with sci-fi author Becky Chambers
What climate lessons can we learn from a pair of cozy solarpunk novellas?
grist.org
June 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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the guests of the White Lotus hotels would be much better off by simply coming to The Museum of English Rural Life
April 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
proud of the fletcher school for growing a spine for once
March 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"Today, she is still everywhere with us. She is in the Turkish tea that we brewed this morning; she is at the top of our inboxes, planning the pastries she would bring to our iftar tomorrow evening.

We are not the same without her steady, gentle presence."

Rumeysa, a ray of light.
Rumeysa Öztürk: Our Student, Teacher, Colleague, and Friend | Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
as.tufts.edu
March 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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thinking about princess mononoke a lot, these days
March 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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One of the biggest ways that the fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet is by fueling wars and genocide.

In our latest blog, Deputy Campaigns Director Nina Wolff Landau takes a look at how corporations like #Chevron profit from death, destruction, and displacement worldwide.
From SOCAR to Chevron: The forces fueling climate crisis and genocide - Corporate Accountability
How corporations like SOCAR and Chevron are ramping up their fossil fuel emissions, and profiting from death, destruction, and displacement.
corporateaccountability.org
March 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The full story is here, and it includes multiple other cases of people, including other people who entered at ports of entry (not illegally) who were clearly detained and shipped to El Salvador solely on the basis of their tattoo and nothing more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
www.motherjones.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Come for the big animals. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

The first full episode of Absolute Units, the official MERL podcast, is here!!!

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
March 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I wrote about my kind, funny childhood friend Michelle Trachtenberg, and the group of friends that saved my life when I was a kid.

www.vulture.com/article/mara...
My Cool Friend Michelle
Other kids called Trachtenberg a bitch, but in our group of child stars, we all wanted to be like her.
www.vulture.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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it's so cool that we're speedrunning parable of the sower
Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/
March 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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sometimes it is hard to explain the constant feeling of dread and anxiety when you're a non-white person in category #2
the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps

block the path
March 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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if you needed another reason to hate henry kissinger (rest in piss) he also invented the political consulting industry as we know it
March 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this
March 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
as someone who worked with and knew people organizing in our grad program for more diversified syllabi and reading lists... i WISH it was this easy 😀

the truth is that no one can tell the faculty to do anything they don't want to do lol let ALONE the DEI committees
I know it's a right-wing, anti-DEI talking point, but do regular people think this? That DEI offices were auditing faculty syllabi and ordering them what to teach? Maybe I'm naive, but that level of detailed attention and oversight sounds far-fetched to me from any higher ed admin unit.
February 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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it will be forever Australia's shame that we pioneered this mode of treatment for refugees www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
Under Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, Some Migrants Are Being Sent to Panama
The administration has asked Panama to take in hundreds of people who can’t easily be sent back to their countries. Many say they are in danger.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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"In this way, the International Chamber of Commerce seems to advocate for the least stringent regulatory environments to protect the utmost corporate impunity."

From #BigPolluters to #BigAg, read more about how the ICC is tied to some of the world's most abusive corporations: bit.ly/ICCExposed
February 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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something so deeply satisfying about having a really good piece of sourdough, toasted and slathered with butter, for breakfast
February 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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“hey drake 😁”
February 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as
Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as
The late singer made her share of bad decisions – but someone this artistically adventurous and unafraid was never going to have an ordinary life • News: Marianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78 It is difficult to think of a moment…
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I think I'm going to have to log off of the internet for a bit before the news cycle breaks my brain entirely. Hundreds of millennia of human evolution have not provided us the cognitive tools required to process this level of administrative chaos.
January 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
honestly? veggie galaxy
If you could someone one recommendation for halal food in Massachusetts, where are you telling them to go?
January 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM