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M. Matson & S/V Salish Nomad
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“In a pearl was absorbed the restlessness of the sea.” Ghalib Sea rover, animal rights activist, deep ecologist, vagabond, doodler, vegan, 🇫🇮, animist. Snuggles with @chaoticgooddemon.bsky.social
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“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians,” says Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi. “Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime."
The Forgotten Captives: Israel Still Imprisoning 9,000 Palestinians Even After Hostage Deal
“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians, in what it calls security prisoners or detainees,” says Sari Bashi, an Israel...
www.democracynow.org
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Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.

Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.
Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public
Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.
www.kuow.org
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Love him or hate him, he understands the way the game is played now and he's playing it better than anyone else.

Call ‘em out Newsom!!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 8h
Mario Guevara's deportation signals a dangerous precedent for press freedom. ICE detained him for over 100 days for live-streaming law enforcement, despite the fact that he was permitted to work in the U.S.

Hear more on the newest episode of At Liberty.
The Journalist Who Spent More Than 100 Days in ICE Detention | American Civil Liberties Union
Emmy Award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was covering a protest near Atlanta when local law enforcement arrested him. Then, ICE detained him.
www.aclu.org
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mommy koala and her baby.. pure maternal love 🐨☺️
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Climate science is under attack: Since the Trump administration, several National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research programs have been cut. If we lose data, predictions, and public monitoring, disasters and economic losses will be harder to avoid. www.ft.com/content/2df1...
The costs of Trump’s campaign to censor climate science
Datasets have been removed, federal websites scrubbed and thousands of Noaa staff purged. Experts warn disaster defences are at risk
www.ft.com
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Stacey Abrams — the two time Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Georgia — has a new mission: defending democracy and diversity, equity, and inclusion in equal measure.

Interview ↓
Stacey Abrams on Why DEI Is the Key to Defeating Trump
Stacey Abrams, the former gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, has released a '10 Steps Campaign' to fight Donald Trump and authoritarianism.
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It has already begun.

Rising sea levels and increased wave erosion affect the most vulnerable first.

When I visited the Guna Yala people back in 2009, they invited me to their home and we talked about climate change and collected sand to try to protect their island..

apnews.com/article/pana...
Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels
The Gunas of Gardi Sugdub are the first of 63 communities along Panama’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts that government officials and scientists expect to be forced to relocate by rising sea levels in t...
apnews.com
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Brazil's Lula Sends Defiant Message To Trump Amid US Military Build-Up In Caribbean|Venezuela|Tariff

@hindustan-times.bsky.social

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he is “fully ready to defend Brazil’s interests”

#Trump #Brazil

youtu.be/50IQXuOq63o
Brazil's Lula Sends Defiant Message To Trump Amid US Military Build-Up In Caribbean|Venezuela|Tariff
YouTube video by Hindustan Times
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Boat strikes put US service members in legal jeopardy:

"Some junior officers have asked military lawyers, known as judge advocates general or JAGs, for written sign-off before taking part in strikes .... It does not appear that such memos were furnished, said one of the people."
Top Democrats demand details of spy agencies’ role in boat strikes
Democrats are demanding that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard share intelligence on lethal operations against alleged narcotics traffickers.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Thank you for the update.

It appears to have been posted yesterday, October 23.

According to the state vessel tracking system, the Columbia made it to Bellingham and is underway now to Ketchikan ...

dot.alaska.gov/amhs/map.shtml
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The M/V Columbia has been in serious danger on its latest run to Bellingham.

“The Captain has held at least 4 emergency briefings with the 40 passengers on board the ship!”