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Lynn Erskine
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Mother of 2. Peace, environment, feminism. Washington, DC.
How dare Israel ban bulldozers to find children's bodies under rubble. IMMORAL "More than 10,000 Palestinians are estimated to be buried under the rubble across Gaza and the task of retrieving and identifying them is almost insurmountable. Israel has not allowed the necessary equipment into Gaza"
⚡️New [email protected]: Rescue Teams Dig Up Over 50 Bodies Buried in Shallow Graves in Courtyard of Gaza City Clinic

“Since the ceasefire began, we’ve been in the first stage, still looking for our children.”

Story by Abd Sabbah (X: AbdSabbah91)

www.dropsitenews.com/p/civil-defe...
Rescue Teams Dig Up Over 50 Bodies Buried in Shallow Graves in Courtyard of Gaza City Clinic
“Since the ceasefire began, we’ve been in the first stage, still looking for our children.”
www.dropsitenews.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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The Trump admin & Big Tech are trying to get rid of state-level AI laws.

This could lead to a massive rollback of bipartisan efforts that protect people from some of the most obvious harms of AI.

State lawmakers across the country are fighting to stop federal preemption.
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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WINTRY mix update: Temperatures are running a degree or two colder than expected this evening, which may allow for the wintry mix to extend a little farther south and east than previously forecast as it arrives between 5 and 7 a.m. Tuesday.

More info: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
December 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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At @prospect.org we wanted to do something different about affordability. Instead of why this good or that service is unaffordable, we wanted to understand the drivers of the cost of living: physically, technologically, even culturally.
So we did a whole issue about it.
Dec 2025 Issue - The American Prospect
prospect.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
People can change this, but It takes political will. ⬇️ We need more Congress members like Sean Casten, We need fairer lobbying / campaign finance laws that stop polluting industries from lining their pockets while workers lose out — and our air and water are polluted.
#cleanenergy #coal
3. That, in a nutshell is the history of Appalachian coal mining towns. First the steam shovel, then long-wall mining, then fracking, now renewables. Every one of those innovations shifted wealth from labor to capital and/or from labor to energy consumers.
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
1. More recess. US students get hardly any outdoor recess now. (We had 2-3 recesses per day)
2. Less homework. Dutch kids do fine without homework until they're older
3. More nutritious food, longer lunch times
4. Less screens in classroom
5. Stop with amplified music in PE class, overstimulating
November 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Incessant helicopters today in Woodley Park/Naval Observatory area in NW DC
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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In two years, Israel has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Every day, settlers attack Palestinian villages. Netanyahu & his extremist allies have one goal: annexation by force. The U.S. has enabled them.

NO MORE U.S. MILITARY AID FOR ISRAEL.
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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What happens when you don’t have Cassidy Hutchinson running your Leg Affairs
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Metro elevator stuck at Woodley Park Metro in DC. First responders working to fix @2:30 pm Nov 24
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.

Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Whatever it may bring
I will live by my own policies
I will sleep with a clear conscience
I will sleep in peace

-- Sinéad O'Connor
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“For this modern elite, seeming smart is what inheriting land used to be: a guarantor of opened doors.”
-Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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It’s been over 9 months since 16-year-old American citizen Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim was taken from his bed and detained in an Israeli prison with a record of human rights abuses. His family has not heard from him.

The United States must secure his release immediately.
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
Why is a 16-year-old Palestinian American boy still being held in an Israeli prison?
Florida teen Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim is accused of throwing stones at Israeli vehicles. His family has not spoken with him since his West Bank arrest in February.
www.latimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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I want you to understand that the women around you are not okay. They are experiencing low-level ongoing stress and, for many, trauma triggers every day that Epstein is in the news. thegoldenhour.substack.com/p/what-epste...
What Epstein Reveals About Women's Inner Lives
The initiation no one wants, and what could replace it
thegoldenhour.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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When she gets to Gregory Bovino, she finds him completely uncredible, and says he was evasive or outright lied multiple times across three days of testimony — and not just any falsehoods, he was not telling the truth about multiple things which were all captured on video, making it all very obvious.
November 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Former Presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden as well as former Vice Presidents Kamala Harris and Mike Pence are among those in attendance for the funeral of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
www.ms.now/ana-cabrera-...
Bush, Biden and Harris attend funeral service for Dick Cheney
Former Presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden as well as former Vice Presidents Kamala Harris and Mike Pence are among those in attendance for the funeral of former Vice President Dick Cheney. MS NOW...
www.ms.now
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Trump's DOJ confirmed 97.4% of people ICE has been arresting in Chicago have no criminal record whatsoever.

The state is using its power to terrorize a community. Worst of all, Chicago is not an isolated example and these abuses are not stopping at U.S. borders.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-ice...
Trump's ICE Raids & His International Escalation Threaten Us All
It's more critical than ever we overcome culture wars and stand united against Trump's actual wars
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“All of the White students were withdrawn from her first-grade class by their parents, and every teacher refused to take Ruby on as a student, with the exception of Barbara Henry, who had just moved to New Orleans from Boston. For the first year, Henry taught Ruby alone..” people.com/where-is-rub...
Where Is Ruby Bridges Now? All About Her Life 65 Years After Famously Desegregating an All-White Elementary School at Age 6
Ruby Bridges is an icon of the civil rights movement who was the first Black student to integrate into an all-White southern elementary school in 1960. Here is everything to know about Ruby Bridges' l...
people.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Ruby Bridges is alive and well. Norman Rockwell’s painting of her brave walk may be in storage in the White House, but our work for racial justice continues.
Obama-- shown here with Ruby Bridges herself-- hung the original painting in the White House. It's buried in a warehouse now. I hope. Unless one of Trump's henchman set it on fire.
November 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM