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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18h

Just for the avoidance of doubt, this is inexcusably racist and a sin against God.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 1d

F Newsom.
That trans people deserve human rights IS a kitchen table issue.

Human rights are a basic, centrist platform piece.

Eroding the rights of vulnerable people to court bigots so they can say a different reason why they’re voting for fascism is how you keep losing elections, @democrats.org

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 1d

their physical plants to climate change. But it absolutely uses expert, vetted code on back end.

(Full disclosure, I’m married to one of the founders so I’ve see it evolve, but it is very useful.)

www.fastcompany.com/91387732/vib...

Meet vibe coding's nerdy but sane sibling

Forget vibe coding. Aboard uses AI to turbocharge the planning and discovery phases of enterprise software development.

www.fastcompany.com

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 1d

Aboard is doing this: and one of main goals is to make custom software for good works accessible. SalesF**e etc have gotten so big that nonprofits can’t adapt their products to your needs like you used to. I’m using aboard to make custom facilities walkthroughs to help warehouses, nonprofits adapt

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

These programs weren't set up this way simply for the benefit of recipients. They are by design also a subsidy for American agriculture. That's the longstanding red-blue, rural-urban political deal of it. Like how they're getting nuked by the trade war, they are cannibalizing their own coalition.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 1d

“Bucking tradition”?!?!
-violating state sovereignty
-violating multiple court orders
-turning the military on the citizenry
-encouraging soldiers to violate the Geneva Convention

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 3d

This is jawdropping. The idea that a state about to be invaded by out-of-state soldiers that Trump is moving around the nation like chess pieces has no standing to object to the invasion!

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

DOJ: Well, CA NG already federalized, and ...

Judge: Anything else you want to argue?

DOJ: Yes, your honor. OR and Portland lack standing to challenge relocation of out-of-state National Guard. Only CA could possibly sue under 12406, but CA can't establish standing or irreparable harm.

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 6d

Thinking about that Chicago apartment building. Everyone got their apartments tossed as well, and this is how you can become functionally undocumented.

How does somebody who lost their paperwork this time prove they're who they say next time?

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ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com · 4d

A reminder for folks who agree: good reporting has expenses. I just chipped in, can you? unraveledpress.com/support-unra...

Support Unraveled

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The Homesick Montanan @homesickmontanan.bsky.social · 4d

The complementary tactic to requiring someone to be “grateful” is “see what you made me do?” They often are used together.

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 4d

size of contracts is *mind boggling.

The caffeine is not hitting today and the people keep talking to me and then my brain just goes ffffftttt.

Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 4d

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the size of the NYC contracts for this garbage is drivel. And some principals insist the teachers use it. Some wave it off, but with the charterization of some districts, it's bad.

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 4d

That's our usual strategy. One kid told me I'm no longer allowed to correct the worksheets in red pen and send them back to the teachers. Apparently, that was utterly embarrassing.

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 4d

and decoding it is EXHAUSTING. The instructions aren't clear language and they're barely given books to read.

Not to toot my own horn, but I'm kinda smart, but when these kids need help on homework, I can't figure out what the questions are asking. And the drivel is so boring to read.

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 4d

I wonder how much of it is that most of what these kids are given to work with is not written by teachers or even educators. It's slop lessons for curriculae generated by Pearson or other massive contractors & they don't use literature or other primary sources, they use non-copyrighted drivel

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 4d

This is a pretty comprehensive breakdown of why NO UNIVERSITIES SHOULD SIGN THE “COMPACT.”

No news orgs signed the pentagon rules and they withdrew them.

The most compelling reason to me is that it gives legal teeth to all sorts of first amendment violations and trans human rights abuses.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 6d

The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status.

It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Joshua Lenon @joshualenon.bsky.social · 5d

Powerful speech that everyone should give a few moments towards listening.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 5d

What a dark day for press freedom in the United States

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d

Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

U.S. deports journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador, family says

Mario Guevara, an independent journalist, was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 5d

I did this last week in person when a “Debate Me” asshat started following me with her camera out harassing me with questions about my pro immigrant shirt.

I looked at her calmly, said “I know who you are, and I’m not going to talk to you.”

Starving her of oxygen completely defused situation.

Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

the single best decision I’ve made about how I use this website is that I do not argue in my replies

I ignore it or I block people, nothing good ever comes of it

and I am just some guy and not the sin eater for every moderation decision

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 5d

There's a really great MinutePhysics video about the aesthetics- and physics-based reasons for the number of wind turbine blades: youtu.be/pgqkti7yePk

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 6d

Hey, y'all. I wanted to share email I got from Jeremiah today. If you bought/sent art supplies please understand the huge difference you are making in the lives of some men trying very hard to be better. And if you'd like to join in, he put the ultimate wish list in here. Instructions in next skeet

$12:36 88° *5079% < JEREMIAH DEVALITI Oct 01 To: Lisa Seger RE: Thank you BLUE HERON FARM AND FRIE... Thank you BLUE HERON FARM AND FRIENDS from all of the ones attending in the building futures foundation art \ hobby class. We appreciate all of the stuff 75 pictures of whats been taking place because of you all are on the way and Lisa will share them with everyone. This is a super wish list from all different guys involved in the program. Also I got approval from administration for my hobby class and its been Super popular. Guys are signing up like crazy and I have my class on the official class signup sheet which is awesome and all of the hard work has paid off. I cannot express what art does to people I see it in person but honestly it is a great thing. The thing about people in prison is that they have all the time in the world on their hands and dont know how to spend it because there is not much to do in this place. A lot of guys succumb to the hardness and get lost in the sauce in a way with negative things. That is the 70% of offenders that keep coming back. The 30% is the guys that are doing productive things with their time like working, attending groups an classes, working on the real issues they struggle with and ART. I have a huge passion for art and I do my classes with anyone who has the desire to have fun. Also 10 house is the recovery house and I go down$ $12:38 88° *5079% < anyone who has the desire to have fun. Also 10 house is the recovery house and I go down there and do a recovery\ substance abuses class on Thursday morning and we have a pop up art class afterwards every week. Most guys send the artwork to their children which is fire. I Have been locked up since I was 18 years old and I found what I am passionate about and I have been sharing it with everyone I encounter. I am now 29 years old and I want to share something with you from my heart. I would rather be in prison living the way I am living now Sober and clear minded for the rest of my life than go back to the way I was living when I was on the street. I do not have life without parole I get out in about 6 years but I feel freer than I have ever felt in my whole life. Thanks again. Johnson acrylic irredentist paint set -B00722-1069 Rinestones B61762-1001 Pony beads set - A84744-1029 Mechanical pencil- A20686-2027 Pencil lead - A20603-1007 ×2 Composition books- A10650-1002 Pilot precise v5 \v7 pens set of 8 -A21893-1005 Deco art value paint set - A00769-1009 Amsterdam pearl paint set- A00643-0069 Florescent paint set - A00711-1069×2 Blick economy canvas panels pack 8×10 -A0715-1012 Fabrino watercolor paper - A09642-1023 Glitter markers- A22346-1089 ×2$

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also lastly we don't got the number for it but some guys want puzzles if they have that on Blick?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-datab...

Meditations in an Emergency
By Cameron Awkward-Rich
I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside. I ride the train, walk among the buildings, men in Monday suits. The flight of doves, the city of tents beneath the underpass, the huddled mass, old women hawking roses, & children all of them, break my heart. There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind. Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming. Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 7d

You're suspending all transit enforcement this weekend as well, right?

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