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repository of all the current things 📕🎥✏️ art by pedro ruiz
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For Pride, I’m remembering Lucy Hicks Anderson, trans woman who transitioned as a kid in the late 1800s. She was an incredible socialite and cook, so much so that when she was arrested and a banker got her out of jail because they had a party and she was the cook!

We have always been here.
June 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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As climate disasters strain state budgets, a growing number of lawmakers want fossil fuel companies to pay for damages caused by their greenhouse gas emissions.

@grist.org
11 States Are Eyeing Laws to Make Fossil Fuel Industry Pay for Climate Crisis
States are facing enormous costs in the wake of floods, wildfires, and other disasters worsened by climate change.
truthout.org
May 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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keanu reeves in famous works of art: thread
April 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Ignorance can be a source of a lot of hate, and the best cure is knowledge. After hearing the stories told by trans people, a conservative man changed his mind about LGBTQ+ folks, and had the courage to admit it in a public assembly.

Read more: bit.ly/4ixZB3P
March 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Do YOU have what it takes to fill out your own March Madness of NYC Hot Takes 2025 bracket?

This year's edition is filled with drama, recriminations, and the most sizzzzzling of takes.

Get in on the action, only at Hell Gate!

hellgatenyc.com/march-madnes...
March 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Monitoring the noises within ecosystems reveals their health—allowing researchers to monitor changes in biodiversity, detect threats, and measure the effectiveness of conservation strategies.
Costa Rica Is Saving Forest Ecosystems by Listening to Them
Monitoring the noises within ecosystems reveals their health—allowing researchers to monitor changes in biodiversity, detect threats, and measure the effectiveness of conservation strategies.
buff.ly
February 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Once contractors locate a person publicly criticizing ICE it rifles through the internet to gather personal data, ie: SS#, work and school affiliations, family members — “Facial Recognition" would enable the contractor to search the internet using the subject’s photo." truthout.org/articles/as-...
As Suppression of Dissent Increases, Know Your Rights If the FBI Comes Knocking
The FBI is hassling Palestine activists. ICE is compiling dossiers on those who criticize it. Let’s know our rights.
truthout.org
February 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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This tax season, we're here to remind you about TurboTax's 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free.

(Published Oct. 2019)
Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
propub.li
February 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"Keep your eyes on your calendar. Not our your clock. That’s how the people—not the generals—the people fighting for their liberation measure time."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech
"No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine"
substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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A grand jury in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has indicted and issued arrest warrants for a New York physician who prescribed abortion pills to a pregnant minor in Louisiana, which has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country.
Louisiana Issues Arrest Warrant for NY Doctor Over Abortion Pill
The state’s action “should alarm everyone,” said advocacy group Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine.
buff.ly
February 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"the Public Broadcasting Act created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in 1967 calls for public media to address “the needs of unserved and underserved audiences, particularly children and minorities.” www.indiewire.com/features/gen...
3 Reasons Why the Trump Administration Will Defund Public Media — and 2 Why It Won’t
Nonprofit executives tell IndieWire the future of American public media under the next Trump administration is scary, but there's still hope.
www.indiewire.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Movement media joins forces to bring us "The Missing Election Narratives." Started w/ Henry Hicks IV's recap of last year: inthesetimes.com/article/left...
School of Hard Knocks
What the Left learned from a bruising election.
inthesetimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM