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Bowen Yang Skewers J.K. Rowling’s Transphobia as Dobby on ‘Saturday Night Live’ www.them.us/story/bowen-...

Watch Bowen Yang Call Out J.K. Rowling's Transphobia as Dobby on 'SNL'

"House elves aren’t the victims, Master Rowling is.”

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MIT has rejected the Trumps latest bid to bribe the university into compliance with its discriminatory and far-right initiatives

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Regarding the Compact | MIT Office of the President | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Ireland Passes Basic Income For Artists liveforlivemusic.com/news/ireland...

Ireland Passes Basic Income For Artists, Doubles Funding For Independent Music Venues In 2026 Budget

Ireland delivered a major win for working musicians, announcing plans to make permanent the landmark Basic Income for the Arts program.

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The warrantless arrests of 11 immigrant restaurant workers in the Kansas City area earlier this year violated a 2022 consent decree, a federal judge ruled. www.kcur.org/news/2025-10...

Federal judge rules against ICE over warrantless arrests of Kansas City-area restaurant workers

The arrests of the workers at El Potro Mexican Café in February were among the first in the Kansas City area to draw widespread media attention. Immigration attorneys sued the Trump administration for...

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The green turtle has been rescued from the brink of extinction in what scientists are calling a major conservation victory www.bbc.com/news/article...

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'

Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

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Chicago Medical Students Create ‘Safety Net Clinic’ For Noncitizens borderlessmag.org/2025/10/02/c...

Chicago Medical Students Create ‘Safety Net Clinic’ for Noncitizens – CONVERT to Environment and Health – Borderless Magazine NFP

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In a historic ruling, an indigenous tribe from the Ecuadorian Amazon has successfully protected half a million acres of their ancestral territory in the Amazon rainforest from being mined for oil drilling by big oil companies. lawstreet.co/environment/...

Amazon Tribe Wins Lawsuit Against Oil Company, Saving Millions Of Acres Of Rainforest

In a historic ruling, an indigenous tribe from the Ecuadorian Amazon has successfully protected half a million acres of their ancestral territory

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AHIP (which represents roughly 1300 health insurance providers) will continue to cover vaccines without cost sharing through at least the end of 2026. www.ahip.org/news/press-r...

AHIP Statement on Vaccine Coverage

AHIP is the national association whose members provide health care coverage, services, and solutions to hundreds of millions of Americans every day. We…

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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles www.npr.org/2025/09/23/n...

Judge orders Trump administration to restore $500 million in grant funding to UCLA

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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A federal judge has ruled in favor of four arts organizations in their challenge to the National Endowment for the Arts’ (NEA) policy disfavoring any grant applications for projects that the government believes “promote gender ideology.”
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Court Rules in Favor of Artists, Free Speech, in Case Against the National Endowment for the Arts | American Civil Liberties Union

Court strikes down unconstitutional grant restrictions on various legal grounds

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Global health agencies announced that a generic versions of a medicine to prevent HIV will be made available from 2027 at around $40 a year in more than 100 low and middle-income countries
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'We can end HIV': Groundbreaking preventative drug to be rolled out for $40 a year from 2027

Global health agencies announced Wednesday that generic versions of a groundbreaking injectable drug to prevent HIV will be made available from 2027 at around $40 a year in more than 100 low and middl...

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An agronomist has been awarded an international peace prize for a farming technique that has revolutionised farms in Niger. The technique has spread to more than 40 nations and has added more than 500,000 tonnes of grain to Niger's annual crop yields www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Australian wins peace prize for farming idea feeding millions in Africa

A Victorian scientist whose farming technique has revolutionised agriculture in Niger is awarded an international peace prize.

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Anti corporation club unite!

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We beat a fascist dictator once and we can do it again. Boycotts work! Don’t give up, keep pushing forward

Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 16d

This is rather cool. Shared with me by Gil Cividanes who writes "photo taken in front of a [Francoist] Spanish grocery on West 14th Street, NYC, about 1937. Girl on left is my aunt Zazi age 18-19, woman on left is my grandmother's friend Doña Francisca." Don't buy fascist goods

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Got any good news? @gotanygoodnews.bsky.social · 16d

It is, but also the Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95.8 million in 2024. They are closing shops and hurting workers while hoarding all the wealth and refusing to address public concern about their company. My blame rests solely on them, not the boycotters

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I’m so sorry to hear about that, my heart goes out to them 💔

Meanwhile Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95.8 million in 2024, while the median barista at the company made just $14,674

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Starbucks sales are down 6%, 8% in the US. Boycotting is working!!! Keep it up #bds

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Starbucks Has More Than Business Problems To Fix: It’s Losing Customer Goodwill

Starbucks is losing as a place where people want to go for coffee. It's lost customer goodwill and it needs more than a marketing strategy to fix underlying issues.

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"We Stand for Law and Order" a billboard by by artist Karen Fiorito. Art can make a change, keep pushing

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New Phoenix billboard compares ICE to the Ku Klux Klan

"We Stand for Law and Order" by California artist Karen Fiorito complements her previous "Swamp King" Trump-themed piece.

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A group of young people from several Native American groups has completed a month-long journey down the Klamath River. The journey commemorates the removal of four dams, leaving much of the river to flow freely for the first time in a century www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...

Indigenous Teens Kayak Klamath River to Celebrate Dam Removal

Young Native American kayakers have completed a month long, 500km journey down the Klamath River, whose last dam is finally gone.

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Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

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data about a new Huntington’s disease treatment shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

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Italy and Spain deployed naval vessels to protect flotilla on course for Gaza www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Italy sends second navy ship to escort Gaza aid flotilla

Italy has sent a second navy ship in support of the international aid flotilla that has come under drone attack while trying to deliver aid to Gaza, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said on Thursday.

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My faith is not in the democrats, my faith is in the people. But hey kicking republicans out of congress is still good news imho

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18d

RESULT: Adelita Grijalva is heading to Congress.

The Democrat has won the #AZ07 special election very easily, and she will replace her father Raúl Grijalva. AP just called it.

Among other things, Grijalva is expected to be the 218th person to sign the Epstein discharge position.

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Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first qnews.com.au/kenya-transg...

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 20d

Appalachian Trail over I-70 Eastbound in Western #MD.

Letters on an overpass spelling out: Potus Fears Free Speech

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