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Represented by Jas Perry of Looking Glass literary| Black graphic novelist/illustrator/fantast| Highlights Diversity fellow| VONA 2017| cat enthusiast

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Why should anyone buy anything made in the US atp?
The FDA has suddenly dropped a proposed rule to require asbestos testing in cosmetics.

The rule would've set up testing to identify cancer-causing asbestos in talc-containing products.

Contamination has repeatedly been found in talc-based cosmetics before.

www.consumeraffairs.com/news/fda-dro...
FDA drops proposed rule on asbestos testing in cosmetics
• Agency abruptly withdraws plan to require standardized asbestos testing • Move contradicts congressional mandate in 2022 cosmetics reform law • Health
www.consumeraffairs.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Thinking about the Kenma pov from the Haikyuu movie again...
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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PFAS exposure has been shown to decrease fertility; increase high blood pressure during pregnancy, increase the rate of prostate, kidney, and testicular cancers; increase cholesterol levels; disrupt hormones; reduce immune response; and cause developmental effects or delays in children. Fun times!
"The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report all products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."
The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food. The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of PFAS — also known as "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Annie Cacciato of Newark, Ohio never smoked, yet died of lung cancer in 2021.

The cause was elevated radon. Newark has the highest concentration of radon nationwide.

Scroll for your radon level by zip code, city or county.
@maxfilby.dispatch.com @dispatch.com: bit.ly/4iuZN4Z

@wtap.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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one Luigi special!
order up!
United Health wants its ‘swagger back’.

How? By dropping a million seniors from Medicare Advantage

Why? America's largest insurer wants to improve its profit margins, medical costs are skyrocketing because the GOP cut Medicaid and ACA subsidies.
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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www.404media.co
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Capitalism requires that we (working class people) "earn a living", which implies that we actually don't deserve to live unless we "earn" it by letting our surplus values be exploited by the capitalist ruling class. And this is all while having more than enough food, housing, etc., for everyone!
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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A Palestinian documented the condition of his tent before and after the rainfall today, highlighting how already difficult living conditions worsened afterward.
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064
April 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Settler colonialist states are all the same
"Oct. 15 action in Calgary saw workers lined up outside the construction."

"The action came as reports of [ICE's] raids on workplaces dominated the news."

"Canada has been removing record numbers of people from the country."
#Alberta #Canada #Labour #Policing #Immigration #Deportation
Is Canada Adopting ICE Anti-Migrant Tactics?
A raid on a major Calgary construction site has raised serious questions about the government's approach.
thetyee.ca
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"A reminder that the representation conversation can be a trap and that attempting to define Black characters in cinema as either materially positive or negative is a failure of imagination. Black revolutionaries, on screen and off, can not be irrefutable monuments to what Blackness should be."
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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if anyone else wants to watch, you can stream it here 🫶🏽
Soundtrack To A Coup DEtat (2024)
YouTube video by Roguemango
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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For scale: I spent eleven days in the maximum security wing of a local county lockup before a judge heard my case and moved me to min. I had one hour out of the cell a day. The cell was small. There was a speaker in the ceiling. By the end I was talking to the speaker and spending hours each day
Rejon Taylor was one of 37 people on federal death row whose death sentence was commuted by then-President Biden. This year, he learned the Trump administration was sending him to a supermax prison once called a “clean version of hell.”
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for “Living Hell” Under Trump
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Had a good chat with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for the @404media.co podcast. Got a chance to talk about how tech companies main pitch changed from “you exchange some surveillance for services” to “we get to spy on you all the time and it’s good, actually.”
Luxury Surveillance (With Chris Gilliard)
Podcast Episode · The 404 Media Podcast · 11/24/2025 · 1h 3m
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Abolishing ICE is only the beginning. Have you looked at your local cops?

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According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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They can only get away with this if we let them.
So. How many of you are in trouble? interc.pt/3KhNsEp
November 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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As a bookstore that sells pamphlets and magazines, the criminalization of such materials feels pretty close to home. So let's take a closer look at the materials the federal government is claiming tie readers to "antifa terrorism." We can pick out six titles in these grainy photos. 1/
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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I wrote for @theintercept.com about how prosecuting transportation of these pamphlets is a danger to all writers, journalists, and Americans.

Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I wrote a book about US media’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. It's available for pre-order. It’s a data-driven and, I hope, thorough account of how center-left media sold the American public on mass death in Gaza.

Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
How to Sell a Genocide - Pluto Press
A gripping exposé of how the corporate media fuelled genocide in Gaza
www.plutobooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Players are roleplaying in Fortnite to teach each other their rights when encountering ICE officials

“I would slip [the warrant] under the door, but there’s no space under the door,” the agent says.

The civilian pauses. “Well. Sounds like a personal problem.”
www.404media.co/ice-defense-...
Inside an ICE Defense Training on Fortnite
A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.

Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.

ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM