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Zeitgeist. Engaging pics. Seeking justice. #nature, #media, #tech, #science, #socialpsychology, #reform, #Quaker, #ChristianNationalism, #EpistemologicalCrisis
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🚨 WaPo SCOOP: Inside the crisis at the Heritage Foundation

The group behind Project 2025 is facing a rebellion — and has been for months.

The Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/antisemitism saga is just what caused it to break into the open.

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Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson
At least five members of Heritage’s antisemitism task force resigned after Roberts defended Carlson’s interview with antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
wapo.st
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Staff Reads from our Social Media Manager: “I am buzzing from Zohran Mamdani’s win! This roundup is a helpful look at how he dominated. One my favorite takeaways is how Mamdani is the first mayoral candidate since 1969 to win this many votes.”
7 Takeaways From a Stunning New York City Mayoral Election
www.nytimes.com
CHICAGO: “My uncle was on his way home from getting groceries on his bike — they grabbed him and choked him and punched him… he’s a kind hardworking man. They’re racially profiling people.”

Trump’s ICE goons put an elderly man in the hospital and nearly choked him to death.
Mega-bad news. These young people wrote for young people, and the rest of us. They are critical thinkers. Mighty. Important. May they go on to write, or pod, or do media together to great effect.

#corporate #censorship #Project2025
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
#rural #Midwest. #autumn

Middle Jamestown Road, Jamestown, Indiana, USA
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you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning
5pm on November 1: let’s go for a walk, it’s still light out!

5pm on November 2: an early darkness blankets the land. Fallow fields lay bone-bleached by moonlight. The last memories of summer fade into oblivion. The last echoes of hope lapse into baleful silence.
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www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
"... It isn't ICE. It isn't CBP. It's a Frankenstein force, stitched together from multiple agencies but loyal to none. Its purpose is to create a community response designed for social media clicks, rather than to keep communities safe..."
This is fascism
Opinion | The White House's sweeping overhaul of ICE is creating a Frankenstein force
The recent wave of ICE senior official reassignments has a clear motive.
www.msnbc.com
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There aren't many oak trees around me but I found a couple showing off this year. #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Autumn all day Saturday. Link to the feed in comments.
#photography #forest #nature
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Apparently we do now and all the Repugnicans that handed over their authority to him, including Rand Paul are complicit.
FACTS about SNAP:

-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
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