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📚Book Announcement!📚

The most dangerous racist idea—great replacement theory—has become the most dominant political theory of our time. 1/3
December 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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The Danish health ministry said Wednesday that women who were given contraception against their knowledge or consent between 1960 and 1991 can apply for individual payouts of 300,000 Danish kroner (about $46,000) starting next April. https://to.pbs.org/4pDOTg0
Denmark to compensate thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland over forced contraception
The Danish health ministry said Wednesday that women who were given contraception against their knowledge or consent between 1960 and 1991 can apply for individual payouts of 300,000 Danish kroner (ab...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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The final language of the annual bill that funds the US military is in. It removes provisions that would have helped ensure service members’ ability to fix their own equipment. www.wired.com/story/the-mi...
The Military Almost Got the Right to Repair. Lawmakers Just Took It Away
The final language of the annual bill that funds the US military is in. It removes provisions that would have helped ensure service members’ ability to fix their own equipment.
www.wired.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Don’t expect Elon to face similar hurdles in the US.
EU fines Elon Musk $140 million for violations of online safety rules. Vance calls it "censorship."
Don’t expect him to face similar hurdles in the US.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Ever wonder why your insurance costs keep climbing or how to appeal a health coverage denial?

CT now has a one-stop guide: the Insurance Department’s new Consumer Resource Library.

www.senatedems.ct.gov/sen-cabrera-...
SEN. CABRERA WELCOMES NEW CONSUMER RESOURCE LIBRARY FOR CONNECTICUT INSURANCE CUSTOMERS - Connecticut Senate Democrats
SEN. CABRERA WELCOMES NEW CONSUMER RESOURCE LIBRARY FOR CONNECTICUT INSURANCE CUSTOMERS HARTFORD – Ever wonder why your homeowner's insurance costs go up every year? Do you have questions about mental...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Women with disabilities face some of the highest rates of sexual violence, and some of the lowest chances of justice.

Our new report, launching next week, exposes the legal barriers in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan & Uzbekistan.

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December 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Startup estadounidense logra separar aluminio con 95% de precisión y convierte chatarra en dinero.

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Startup estadounidense logra separar aluminio con 95% de precisión y convierte chatarra en dinero
Sortera transforma el reciclaje en EE. UU. con un sistema capaz de identificar aleaciones de aluminio en 10 milisegundos.
ecoinventos.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor the transgender lives taken by hate.

Their memory fuels my work — from helping Fairfax earn a perfect 100 on HRC’s Equality Index to supporting the Equality Act in Congress.

I’ll keep fighting discrimination until we eradicate hate.
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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DAILY MEMO: Over 50 Arrested in Record Raids: Baby, Pregnant Mom, Gardeners, Sons, Elderly, Vendors, Unhoused In Last Two Days

Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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A group of Oak Park Girl Scouts and their parents thought they were spending their Saturday morning helping their neighbors.

"Instead, the girls encountered masked U.S. ICE agents with weapons and vehicles with dark-tinted windows as the sounds of whistles pierced the air."
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump & USDA going to Supreme Court to try and STOP SNAP Benefits from being distributed. This is truly the MOST evil thing I have ever witnessed by a sitting Administration. Absolutely DESPICABLE!

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Trump admin goes to SCOTUS to try and stop order that it pay full SNAP benefits this month
DOJ asks the justices for an order by 9:30 p.m. Friday — as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments, under a court order to finish Friday.
www.lawdork.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Action Alert!
We want the government open, but only with restored ACA subsidies.

Call the following Senators 👇 & demand any deal includes iron clad, in-writing agreements on subsidies that are more than a promised "vote".

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@5calls.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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@readfrontier.bsky.social and ProPublica found that in the past five years, toxic oil field waste has spewed out of the ground more than 150 times.

Oklahoma’s regulatory agency, however, says it prefers “to lead with a handshake instead of a hammer.”

Full story: propub.li/4nJRZxe
November 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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It is a sad day!
November 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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This is how every opposition leader should handle the press. Absolutely brilliant @neguse.house.gov
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
November 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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On this day in 1879, the Carlisle Indian School opened. This federally funded boarding school was designed to forcefully assimilate Native children.
Nov. 1, 1879 | Government Separates Native Children from Families in Forced Assimilation
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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A Republican-dominated Ohio panel adopted new U.S. House districts on Friday that could boost the GOP’s chances of winning two additional seats in next year’s elections and aid President Donald Trump’s efforts to hold on to a slim congressional majority.
https://to.pbs.org/47PSJvI
Ohio panel, Virginia lawmakers move forward on congressional redistricting plans
President Donald Trump has been urging Republican-led states to reshape their U.S. House districts in an attempt to win more seats. Democrats have been pushing back.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols.

The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
October 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Many CT families are facing a crisis. As Washington withholds food assistance, please consider donating food or funds to your local food pantry, or to @ctfoodshare.bsky.social. We cannot let our neighbors go hungry. United Way of CT can help you find food pantries in your town here:
211 Connecticut
www.211ct.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Melissa headed to Bermuda, while Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces
Melissa headed to Bermuda, while Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces
Police said at least 14 people have died in Jamaica, where the toll is expected to keep rising. In Haiti, at least 30 people were reported killed and 20 others were missing.
www.lemonde.fr
October 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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I believe ProPublica over Kristi Noem
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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ICE and Kristi Noem blocked a church from holding communion for detainees at Chicago detention center

They can't have any witnesses to the atrocious, inhumane conditions inside the facility

@meidastouch.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:13 AM