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Dogs.
January 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Healthcare Snark
December 16, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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Top Afghan cricketers urge Taliban to reverse ban on women’s medical education
Top Afghan cricketers urge Taliban to reverse ban on women’s medical education
* Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan makes plea for ‘education to all’ * Move ‘harms the whole country,’ says Mohammad Nabi Two of Afghanistan’s national sporting heroes have called on the Taliban to reverse a decision to bar women from education and…
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2024 at 1:51 AM
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1. In April 2024, California raised the minimum wage for fast food chains to $20/hour

The industry claimed it would be devastating & require significant job cuts and prices increases

Here is what really happened: workers got a raise, prices went modestly, and the industry continued to add jobs
What really happened after California raised its minimum wage to $20 for fast food workers
What would happen to the fast food industry if it had to pay its workers something closer to a living wage?
popular.info
December 3, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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December 3, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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Otherworldly beauty, captured in the Chilean Atacama Desert at 4800 metres of altitude🌌💜
December 2, 2024 at 8:43 PM
El verano sufrimos con las pulgas. Llevamos 2 meses fumigando y las pulgas no bajan!!! Si alguien quisiera donar una pipeta para los niños del refugio sería genial. Gracias! 🙏
#adoptanocompres
December 1, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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Belgium’s sex workers win maternity pay and pension rights in world first
Belgium’s sex workers win maternity pay and pension rights in world first
Move by lawmakers hailed as ‘huge step forward’, ending legal discrimination against sex workers Belgian sex workers have gained the right to sick days, maternity pay and pension rights under the first law of its kind in the world. Lawmakers voted in…
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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I thought it might be worth introducing myself here as most people might not know me and what I do.

My name is Niall and I am on a mission to save street dogs around the world.

This is me with Tina. A very special dog. This is my story…. (1/8) 🧵
November 28, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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Bombshell police report details alleged Bolsonaro plot to stage rightwing coup
Bombshell police report details alleged Bolsonaro plot to stage rightwing coup
Former president accused of leading role in apparent scheme to overturn 2022 election defeat by rival Lula Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has moved a step closer to jail after a federal police investigation laid bare what it called a…
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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Nap time 😴

Arctic foxes live in one of the coldest and harshest regions in the world. Thanks to their thick fur coat, these small foxes can keep their body temperature at a cozy 40°C.
November 27, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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This cannot continue.
NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.

Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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Bingo!!!!!
Sarah McBride: "It is an attempt to distract ... Every single time we hear them say the word 'trans,' look what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare."
November 24, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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I'm glad we got a deal at Cop29 – but western nations stood in the way of a much better one | Mukhtar Babayev
I'm glad we got a deal at Cop29 – but western nations stood in the way of a much better one | Mukhtar Babayev
My negotiating team tried in vain to push up support for the global south. Lessons must be learned before the next summit in Brazil * Mukhtar Babayev is president of the Cop29 UN climate change conference * China was willing to offer more in climate…
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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I hate to repost this highly misogynist meme but I want to highlight what @ianbassin.bsky.social is saying. This is not business as usual.
In Hungary, a key Orbán tactic in dismantling their democracy was that his allies bought media outlets that were critical of the regime and turned them into loyal cheerleaders for the regime.
November 25, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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Photobombing Giraffe 😅
November 25, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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The policy choices and the priorities of the second Trump administration will have profound effects on animals. In general, experts said, the administration put the interests of industry over those of animals. That pattern is expected to continue.
What Trump’s Return to Office Could Mean for Animals (Gift Article)
A second Trump administration could alter the lives of all sorts of animals, whether they live in laboratories, zoos, fields or forests.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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Image of Earth taken during the Apollo 11 mission
November 22, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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4,000-year-old canals used for fishing by Maya predecessors discovered in Belize
4,000-year-old canals used for fishing by Maya predecessors discovered in Belize
New research revealed canals used for about 1,000 years to channel and catch freshwater fish on the Yucatán peninsula Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatán…
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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We live in a country where the incoming president is an unrepentant convicted felon serial sexual abuser who’s stacking his cabinet with sex traffickers, rapists & pedophiles, but at least we’re protecting our kids from all those books in which the main character has two mommies.
November 22, 2024 at 9:35 PM