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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 13h

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

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givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social · 9h

If you have a dog who barks and lunges on leash, take them out of the neighborhood where all the triggers are. Cemeteries are excellent spaces for dogs learning to handle their arousal levels. Please respect the spaces: go when its not busy, avoid services in progress, pick up after yourself.

A black dog and a tan dog face away from the camera while they eat long grass that grows at the base of gray headstones. In between the headstones, the grass is mowed short. In the distance, stands a tall tree. The sky is blue with white clouds.

givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social · 9h

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Frances: So many of this regime's policies are terrible for the economy. Do you foresee CEOs and other business leaders pushing back on them? Jeanine: How effective would economic boycotts be? Do you think Americans have the appetite and discipline to pull it off? I see national strikes in Europe. Do they work?
SK: How does one boycott and strike in a country where the government wants the economy to collapse? That is the question folks need to answer. Trump has been explicit about his desire to collapse the economy for over a decade. He is surrounded by technofascist versions of his corporate raider colleagues from the 1980s.

People need to think hard about what constitutes leverage and not pretend the US is Europe or that this is the 1960s. There is potential in both boycotts and strikes. but folks need to be verv strategic and ensure support systems for striking workers, because the government will treat them as disposable. They may well see strikes or boycotts as doing their dirty work for them - much like the government shutdown does. They also see many CEOs as disposable: oligarchs operate at a level of wealth far beyond typical corporate
heads and prefer robots to people. We can regain power by building things ourselves: mutual aid or community organizations or
independent media or whatever you imagine.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 12h

On strikes, boycotts, and rethinking leverage when the government WANTS the economy to collapse:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

Quotes from here: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions

https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions

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givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social · 12h

One thing cops should remember, is that there is a certain percentage of ICE and border patrol "agents" who are hunam garbage. Those shitbags will gladly attack state and municipal police officers because theyre insecure about people perceiving ICE and BP as, "not real law enforcement."

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 14h

And over the loudspeaker blares America The Beautiful and the protesters suddenly see a change in the state police.

A retreat.

givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social · 13h

I tried but too small for photo viewer to copy paste

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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 19h

Oh by the way, cancer vaccines are probably a thing. Too bad they're firing all the immunologists and public health specialists at the CDC.

ralphpoppy.bsky.social @ralphpoppy.bsky.social · 1d

Cancer immunity in a shot.

Scientists at the University of Florida have created a breakthrough mRNA cancer vaccine that erased deadly brain tumors in early human trials without chemo or radiation.

It is now moving into Phase 1 pediatric trials.

CANCER IMMUNITY IN A SHOT

BREAKTHROUGH MRNA SHOT TURNS IMMUNE CELLS INTO
CANCER KILLERS DIRECTLY IN THE BODY, NO LAB NEEDED, JUST LIKE A VACCINE

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givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social · 14h

It's also worth noting that they'd been asking for this privilege for years, and only now Trump has approved it; so is it on them, or did he use it as leverage to get what he wanted: hamas cease fire, a plane, bitcoin, etc.?

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givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social · 14h

Wyoming is worth BILLIONS

givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social · 18h

In a year they'll retire & get medicare + SS (which is also in danger). What about married 45 yr olds making $40K/yr, 55 yr olds supporting their parents & kids on $48k/yr, or single 20 yr olds making $23k/yr w > $50k+ stud loan debt? Talk to the voters who are drowning, not just ppl w safety nets.

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givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social · 22h

Turning Point USA is in the business of grooming and radicalizing youth into another Hitlerjugend

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givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social · 23h

Her story broke my heart. Ty for sharing it again.

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givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social · 23h

My bad.

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James Kennedy ✊️ @jameskennedy.bsky.social · 1d

I agree, Stop The Boats

Bloody oligarchs coming over 'ere on their mega yachts, stealing our public assets, influencing our government, exploiting our work force, dumping their waste into our rivers & expecting the tax payer to foot the bill for their billion pound government contracts & bail outs

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Dave Nelsen @thegrammargeek.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, if you’re embedding a link on a webpage or in an email or in a document (so, anywhere), make the link longer than one word. “Click here for more information” should be hyperlinked — not just the word “here.” This works better for people with small screens, low vision, or imprecise hands.

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givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social · 23h

Well, I mean she does have experience moving children around for creepy old dudes...

givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social · 23h

Had the media did a proper job of discussing the criminal behavior of both Comey and Bolton, and putting actual pressure on power to adjudicate, Trump wouldnt be in office to attack them.

givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social · 23h

a poster for ferris bueller 's day off shows the sausage king

Alt: Film clip from Ferris Bueller's day off. A snooty moustached blonde host at a fancy restaurant asks, "You're Abe Vroman, the sausage king of Chicago?" while rolling his eyes in disbelief.

media.tenor.com

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givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social · 1d

Who's that Graham guy?

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

"A great way to get censored in this country is investigate Epstein and Maxwell and to research the origins of the Maxwell family and Robert Maxwell's ties to organized crime."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtTW...

Sarah Kendzior: The Fiction of Antifa, Plus, Answering the Epstein “Files” Question

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

www.youtube.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 2d

Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

www.theguardian.com

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 2d

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, in a statement announcing its decision to recognize Maria Corina Machado with the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025:

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 2d

The anti-voter SAVE Act failed in Congress thanks to widespread opposition. Now, its proponents are pressuring the Election Assistance Commission to enact a similar “show-your-papers” requirement for voting. Will you speak out against this attack on the freedom to vote?

Regulations.gov

www.regulations.gov

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