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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Powell: "Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs."
December 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Look at this chart.

Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world?

Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Recent data has pointed to a cooling labor market, with an expected uptick in layoffs.
Job Openings Reached Five-Month High In October—As Hiring Slowed
Recent data has pointed to a cooling labor market, with an expected uptick in layoffs.
www.forbes.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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"Since early November, more than 120 seabirds — primarily western grebes, a diving creature with red eyes and sharp yellow bills — have been rescued along the Central Coast after a mysterious one-square-mile oil slick appeared off the Santa Barbara coast." #Birds
Rescued Seabirds Released Back to the Wild Following Oil Slick
More than 120 oiled seabirds have been rescued along the Central Coast since early November.
www.independent.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Coming tomorrow!
December 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Huckle and Razz
The Berry Brothers enjoy a late morning snuggle.
#cats
#orangecats
#photography
December 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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NASHVILLE JUDGES request heightened security from @GovBillLee after Rep Andy Ogles posts their pics with the phrase “we are at war”

A sitting congressman putting judges in danger. Pinocchiogles is going get people hurt. A disgrace to the office. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
December 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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In Germany the only source of electricity that keeps growing and growing: renewable energy.

Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.
December 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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'Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential'
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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The N Carolina immigrant rights group Siembra is teaching business owners their rights if federal agents show up at their door.

While most can name their first and second amendment rights, far fewer are familiar with the fourth, which prohibits unreasonable government searches and seizures.
‘We’ll need to see a warrant’: the group teaching businesses a vital tool to fight ICE raids
Siembra in North Carolina gives owners fourth amendment rights trainings should federal agents show up at their door
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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I just finished reading the first Dungeon Crawler Carl book, and I’m actually shocked how good it is. I thought it would be like Ready Player One - most just references and a bit dude-bro-y, but while it has some of that humor, it really handled Donut and Carl’s characters really well.
December 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Dammit, retailers, when I search for “dressing gown” I do not want a selection of flannel bathrobes, I want the one Hercule Poirot wore in the first season of Agatha Christie’s Poirot.
December 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Last week Trump called Tim Walz the “R slur” and now his base are using it regularly.

They’re driving past the Walz house & shouting it at the family.

It’s not ok.

The disability community has worked for decades to remove that word from the public vernacular.

This is ableism at its most vile:
The R Slur Must Never be Normalized
Last week Trump called Walz the 'R slur', and now his base is using it regularly. We must all speak out against this. It's a term that pushes a eugenicist agenda and feeds directly into fascism.
www.disabledginger.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.

My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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We just premiered the announcement trailer for Verdant at the @wholesomegames.com Wholesome Snack showcase! 🥳🌱🎮

🦌 Single-player survival in the overgrown ruins of the 80s
🌿 Give and take life with your unique powers
🫀 Listen to your body, not a HUD

#Verdant #indiedev #gamedev
December 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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This seems like a good idea, but there should also be penalties for parents who help their children circumvent the ban, otherwise as the article states...children will be socially left out and when you're a teen that's awful.
Australia’s world-first social media ban begins as millions of children and teens lose access to accounts
Accounts held by users under 16 must be removed on apps that include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and Threads under ban
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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I've loved Sigourney Weaver ever since one of my all-time favorite movies, ALIEN. Couldn't resist going all fanboy on her yesterday & asking for a photo. She told me she's now in the cast of The Mandalorian. Talk about bad timing: she's now in that galaxy far, far away, years after I checked out! 💔
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Right wing parties across the world seem to really be leaning into comic book supervillainism www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mk...
Far-right MKs sport noose-shaped pins at hearing on controversial death penalty bill
Ben Gvir draws condemnation after display at Knesset meeting; MKs pushing bill mandating capital punishment are told its language may not be constitutional
www.timesofisrael.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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"European leaders may dump $2.34T in US debt if Trump abandons Ukraine risking a crisis worse than 2008 💥"
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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For the record, I will be swearing in on Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower after I’m elected.
Swear your oath ON the dome.
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social: “I’m going to say this slowly… The President of The United States of America has sided with Putin against the United Kingdom. He has put the whole of Europe in the crosshairs.”
December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM