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M. Matson & S/V Salish Nomad
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“In a pearl was absorbed the restlessness of the sea.” Ghalib Sea rover, animal rights activist, deep ecologist, vagabond, doodler, vegan, 🇫🇮, animist. Snuggles with @chaoticgooddemon.bsky.social
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Stacey Abrams — the two time Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Georgia — has a new mission: defending democracy and diversity, equity, and inclusion in equal measure.

Interview ↓
Stacey Abrams on Why DEI Is the Key to Defeating Trump
Stacey Abrams, the former gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, has released a '10 Steps Campaign' to fight Donald Trump and authoritarianism.
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It has already begun.

Rising sea levels and increased wave erosion affect the most vulnerable first.

When I visited the Guna Yala people back in 2009, they invited me to their home and we talked about climate change and collected sand to try to protect their island..

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Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels
The Gunas of Gardi Sugdub are the first of 63 communities along Panama’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts that government officials and scientists expect to be forced to relocate by rising sea levels in t...
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Brazil's Lula Sends Defiant Message To Trump Amid US Military Build-Up In Caribbean|Venezuela|Tariff

@hindustan-times.bsky.social

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he is “fully ready to defend Brazil’s interests”

#Trump #Brazil

youtu.be/50IQXuOq63o
Brazil's Lula Sends Defiant Message To Trump Amid US Military Build-Up In Caribbean|Venezuela|Tariff
YouTube video by Hindustan Times
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Boat strikes put US service members in legal jeopardy:

"Some junior officers have asked military lawyers, known as judge advocates general or JAGs, for written sign-off before taking part in strikes .... It does not appear that such memos were furnished, said one of the people."
Top Democrats demand details of spy agencies’ role in boat strikes
Democrats are demanding that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard share intelligence on lethal operations against alleged narcotics traffickers.
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Thank you for the update.

It appears to have been posted yesterday, October 23.

According to the state vessel tracking system, the Columbia made it to Bellingham and is underway now to Ketchikan ...

dot.alaska.gov/amhs/map.shtml
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The M/V Columbia has been in serious danger on its latest run to Bellingham.

“The Captain has held at least 4 emergency briefings with the 40 passengers on board the ship!”
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Rep. Ro Khanna is introducing a bill to hold ICE accountable: body cams, no masks, visible IDs, and de-escalation training. “If police follow these rules, why shouldn’t ICE?” He’s right—no more secret raids or unchecked power. It’s time to bring ICE into the light.
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As Republicans keep up attacks on congressional maps, they should get used to seeing my law firm in court. On Wednesday, North Carolina Republicans enacted a newly gerrymandered map that targets Black voters to create an additional seat for a white Republican. The next day my law firm sued.
Republicans Keep Gerrymandering and I Keep Suing
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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A federal judge ORDERS senior Border Patrol officer Greg Bovino—the face of Chicago's Operation Midway Blitz — to attend in person at a hearing she just set on Tuesday. He's accused of violating her order by lobbing tear gas into a crowd.

More on Bovino www.allrisenews.com/p/general-sc...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15h
BREAKING: An appeals court just postponed President Trump's National Guard deployment to Portland, Oregon until Tuesday so the full court can vote on whether it will hear the case.
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Sorry ass sons a bitches.
Watch this.

Open your eyes to this brutality.

ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.

Now share this.

Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.

You have power.

Even sharing this video exerts that power.