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Kodo and Sangha Aid & Abet @kodoandsangha.bsky.social · 1h

Keep the donation cup empty and you'll get more donations.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1h

In Guatemala, a country routinely ranked as one of the hemisphere’s most corrupt, idealistic young people using TikTok had boosted a reformer to the presidency.

Nearly two-thirds of the nation’s 17 million citizens were under 30.

How TikTokers and Swifties became political power brokers in Guatemala

They helped get an anti-corruption reformer elected president. But with weeks still to go before the inauguration, some of them are getting arrested.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4h

Bumi the 1-year-old rockhopper penguin played during a bubble enrichment activity at the Saint Louis Zoo.

Southern rockhopper penguins, like Bumi, are listed as a vulnerable species by the World Wildlife Fund.

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Kodo and Sangha Aid & Abet @kodoandsangha.bsky.social · 1h

Did this recently with NIN - perfect noise show, excellent whisky before and during (someone else drove).

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2h

Someone should make a movie about this guy

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 6h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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Adopt a Pet @adoptapet.bsky.social · 2h

Ready to open your heart and home? Introducing, Bailey, located in Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC.

Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bailey-77817968/qc/vaudreuil-dorion/refuge-magoo-qc65/

Bailey is a Chihuahua dog, available for adoption in Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2h

Pacific island nation explores new ways to survive climate change but needs help to build protective sea walls now.

‘We don’t want to disappear’: Tuvalu fights for climate action and survival

Pacific island nation explores new ways to survive climate change but needs help to build protective sea walls now.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 12h

When parakeets cosplay

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 2h

YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Kodo and Sangha Aid & Abet @kodoandsangha.bsky.social · 1h

I'm annoyed that it's clear white people i suits are doig the "well, what if we pay for this song and play it over the ad to entice Black customers?" bit. It's patronizing and makes me never shop the brand again.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

This is a cool project. use-it.travel - USE-IT provides maps made by young locals, not commercial, free and up-to-date.

USE-IT Europe | Free maps, made by locals

USE-IT provides maps made by young locals, not commercial, free and up-to-date. We are a European network of young map-makers sharing the best of tips to help you act like a local in our cities.

use-it.travel

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2h

The Senate has just passed the military NDAA containing 2 anti-trans provisions: a surgery ban using federal funds (dependents too), and a sports ban on military academy spaces.

This will be the STARTING point for negotiations with the House, which has even worse provisions.

Only 20 Dems opposed.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

“The Portland Chicken—Jack Dickinson, 26, of Portland—started out protesting at the Tesla dealership, also on South Macadam Avenue, in February but has switched to the ICE building.”

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 2h

my birthday is coming up next month and i’ll just leave this right here. linktr.ee/riotgrlerin

@riotgrlerin | Linktree

Linktree. Make your link do more.

linktr.ee

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2h

I am currently out of copies to give away, but if you are new to organizing and activism, and you could use some insight and guidance, you can find Let This Radicalize You at a discount here:

Let This Radicalize You

Doing Justice: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2h

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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Adopt a Pet @adoptapet.bsky.social · 2h

Step into a world of love and licks with, MASIE, located in Las Vegas, NV.

Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/masie-78353041/nv/las-vegas/the-animal-foundation-nv26/

MASIE is a Pit Bull Terrier mix dog, available for adoption in Las Vegas, NV.

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Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social · 2h

“i just didn’t feel that spark.”

the “spark” is often anxiety disguised as chemistry.

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Racket @racketmn.com · 2h

Folks grouse that this is "a bad year for music" (a judgment I've heard from somebody for other every year I've been paying attention), but me, I keep hearing new songs I like.

New Music Playlists: Hooligans, Reckonings, Snails, Squirrels, Townies, and the Best Song Ever About Trenton, NJ - Racket

5 great new local songs, 5 great new song from everywhere else, and 1 not-great new song that belongs nowhere

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words @words.bsky.social · 3h

does Phillies pitcher Jesus Luzardo know about the seminal 90s noise punk band The Jesus Lizard

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2h

fleabag from the show fleabag looking horrified and offended (because she shags a hot priest)

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 2h

this is a special episode for those of you who want to hear me critique Ben Shapiro's knowledge of Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Rudyard Kipling

Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 9h

New Behind the Bastards 📖

Robert and Cody Johnston sit down to read Ben Shapiro's latest non-fiction book, which seems to be based entirely on him not understanding how lions work.

@iwriteok.bsky.social @codyjohnston.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 2h

why does every southern conservative politician sound like foghorn leghorn.

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