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Andry “said he was moved to learn that ppl had rallied in support of him during his terrible ordeal.”
“It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one,” he said. “There were many people who worried for me.” www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
“It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one,” he said. “There were many people who worried for me.” www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
December 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Andry “said he was moved to learn that ppl had rallied in support of him during his terrible ordeal.”
“It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one,” he said. “There were many people who worried for me.” www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
“It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one,” he said. “There were many people who worried for me.” www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
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That is a heck of a twist
A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
December 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
That is a heck of a twist
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This is the top headline on CNN. A good warning sign that your country may be becoming a dictatorship is when your plain-jane straight news networks start saying “Our country is becoming a dictatorship”
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This is the top headline on CNN. A good warning sign that your country may be becoming a dictatorship is when your plain-jane straight news networks start saying “Our country is becoming a dictatorship”
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Defending the Earth is deadly work. A new report illuminates how much.
Nearly 150 land and environment defenders were killed or disappeared last year, most for standing up to mining and logging.
grist.org/global-indig...
#Climate #Indigenous #Tribes #Environment #GreenSky
Nearly 150 land and environment defenders were killed or disappeared last year, most for standing up to mining and logging.
grist.org/global-indig...
#Climate #Indigenous #Tribes #Environment #GreenSky
Defending the Earth is deadly work. A new report illuminates how much.
Nearly 150 land and environment defenders were killed or disappeared last year, most for standing up to mining and logging.
grist.org
September 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Defending the Earth is deadly work. A new report illuminates how much.
Nearly 150 land and environment defenders were killed or disappeared last year, most for standing up to mining and logging.
grist.org/global-indig...
#Climate #Indigenous #Tribes #Environment #GreenSky
Nearly 150 land and environment defenders were killed or disappeared last year, most for standing up to mining and logging.
grist.org/global-indig...
#Climate #Indigenous #Tribes #Environment #GreenSky
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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
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The Nazi contingent that runs Twitter, especially Captive Dreamer, the open Nazi that is followed by VP of the United States, are currently trying to get prominent liberals murdered (myself included). They are posting our full addresses and saying "Hope nothing bad happens to them!"
September 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The Nazi contingent that runs Twitter, especially Captive Dreamer, the open Nazi that is followed by VP of the United States, are currently trying to get prominent liberals murdered (myself included). They are posting our full addresses and saying "Hope nothing bad happens to them!"
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Friendly reminder:
Charlie Kirk advocated for stoning gay people to death.
He said that trans people were an "abomination to god" and that people needed to "take care of that like they did in the 50's and 60's."
He lied about Antisemetic conspiracies.
And he did all this to impressionable teens.
Charlie Kirk advocated for stoning gay people to death.
He said that trans people were an "abomination to god" and that people needed to "take care of that like they did in the 50's and 60's."
He lied about Antisemetic conspiracies.
And he did all this to impressionable teens.
September 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Friendly reminder:
Charlie Kirk advocated for stoning gay people to death.
He said that trans people were an "abomination to god" and that people needed to "take care of that like they did in the 50's and 60's."
He lied about Antisemetic conspiracies.
And he did all this to impressionable teens.
Charlie Kirk advocated for stoning gay people to death.
He said that trans people were an "abomination to god" and that people needed to "take care of that like they did in the 50's and 60's."
He lied about Antisemetic conspiracies.
And he did all this to impressionable teens.
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1/ U.S. officials in Europe this week argued that climate policy is “ideological” and a drag on prosperity. The evidence suggests the opposite.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/c...
Climate ‘Ideology’ Hurts Prosperity, Top U.S. Officials Tell Europeans
Chris Wright, the energy secretary, said he would push Europe to loosen environmental rules and buy more gas. Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, tied fossil fuels to a need to win the A.I. race.
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
1/ U.S. officials in Europe this week argued that climate policy is “ideological” and a drag on prosperity. The evidence suggests the opposite.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/c...
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I wrote about the large number of incorrect or just plain weird claims from Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s X account.
It’s starting to influence how actual energy professionals perceive the Department of Energy, I argue:
heatmap.news/politics/chr...
It’s starting to influence how actual energy professionals perceive the Department of Energy, I argue:
heatmap.news/politics/chr...
Chris Wright’s Twitter Is Destroying His Credibility
You might even call the Energy Secretary ... Chris Wrong.
heatmap.news
September 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I wrote about the large number of incorrect or just plain weird claims from Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s X account.
It’s starting to influence how actual energy professionals perceive the Department of Energy, I argue:
heatmap.news/politics/chr...
It’s starting to influence how actual energy professionals perceive the Department of Energy, I argue:
heatmap.news/politics/chr...
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We still have the power both to limit the nonlinearity of the planetary crisis we face, and to ruggedize our society's critical systems and institutions against thase nonlinear impacts.
Those engaged in predatory delay are driving efforts to worsen the crisis and undermine response, for profit.
Those engaged in predatory delay are driving efforts to worsen the crisis and undermine response, for profit.
“Massive nonlinear events in the global environment give rise to massive nonlinear societal events.”
We still fail to incorporate this reality in our thinking.
The climate crisis is the context in which everything else is happening.
We still fail to incorporate this reality in our thinking.
The climate crisis is the context in which everything else is happening.
September 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
We still have the power both to limit the nonlinearity of the planetary crisis we face, and to ruggedize our society's critical systems and institutions against thase nonlinear impacts.
Those engaged in predatory delay are driving efforts to worsen the crisis and undermine response, for profit.
Those engaged in predatory delay are driving efforts to worsen the crisis and undermine response, for profit.
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Contrast the immediacy with which Donald Trump responded to the Charlie Kirk shooting with the lack of response to the CDC shooting last month.
September 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Contrast the immediacy with which Donald Trump responded to the Charlie Kirk shooting with the lack of response to the CDC shooting last month.
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being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place
Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them”
www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/...
www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/...
September 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place
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Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
June 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
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It's one of those things like "the velvet underground only sold 6,000 records but everyone who bought it started their own band" but for everyone who answered "yes" to this being given a national newspaper column
"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
June 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
It's one of those things like "the velvet underground only sold 6,000 records but everyone who bought it started their own band" but for everyone who answered "yes" to this being given a national newspaper column
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KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.
Masked men in U.S. Border Patrol vests take Santa Ana father after repeatedly hitting him
In a graphic video that has since gone viral on social media, about seven or more masked men wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests are seen violently detaining a Santa Ana father before forcing him into…
ktla.com
June 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.
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it’s wild how the trump administration doesn’t even need to try and spin a WMD story. they’re literally just like, we did what we did and you can get on board or die mad.
June 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM
it’s wild how the trump administration doesn’t even need to try and spin a WMD story. they’re literally just like, we did what we did and you can get on board or die mad.
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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
June 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
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Kind of amazing how narrative peddled about Trump pivoted in an instant from Nobel-worthy peacemaker to Churchillian wartime leader. The only thing the two myths have in common is how absurd both are.
June 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Kind of amazing how narrative peddled about Trump pivoted in an instant from Nobel-worthy peacemaker to Churchillian wartime leader. The only thing the two myths have in common is how absurd both are.
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Oh those poor white men.
June 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Oh those poor white men.
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“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”
ktla.com/news/local-n...
ktla.com/news/local-n...
June 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”
ktla.com/news/local-n...
ktla.com/news/local-n...
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WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…”
A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...
A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...
June 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…”
A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...
A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...
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i understand why biden thought MAGA was a temporary fever that the GOP could get over but i genuinely think that hypothesis has been falsified and we are now stuck with a world where there's a bunch of people raised to support illiberal rightist forces
One of the problems with having a profoundly anti-intergenerational elite is that it honestly does not occur to them that people below a certain age literally have no memory of what they think is the normalcy we can supposedly return to
it's so cool that there's an entire generation of republican men basically primed to be Trumpists because this is all the party has been for their entire childhood
June 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
i understand why biden thought MAGA was a temporary fever that the GOP could get over but i genuinely think that hypothesis has been falsified and we are now stuck with a world where there's a bunch of people raised to support illiberal rightist forces
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it's so cool that there's an entire generation of republican men basically primed to be Trumpists because this is all the party has been for their entire childhood
June 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
it's so cool that there's an entire generation of republican men basically primed to be Trumpists because this is all the party has been for their entire childhood
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This must be what it was like covering the Iraq War in real-time, but if the administration didn’t even bother to try to build a public justification for its preemptive war.
“There is no intel”
w/ @swin24.bsky.social @rollingstone.com
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“There is no intel”
w/ @swin24.bsky.social @rollingstone.com
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
'There Is No Intel': Trump's Attacks on Iran Were Based on Vibes, Sources Say
Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities was not based on new intelligence, administration officials say.
www.rollingstone.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This must be what it was like covering the Iraq War in real-time, but if the administration didn’t even bother to try to build a public justification for its preemptive war.
“There is no intel”
w/ @swin24.bsky.social @rollingstone.com
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“There is no intel”
w/ @swin24.bsky.social @rollingstone.com
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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NEW: Adults fighting kids for clean water, despondent toddlers and a child with swollen feet denied a medical exam - these first-hand accounts from immigrant families are offering a glimpse at conditions in TX detention centers. according to court filing.
apnews.com/article/migr...
apnews.com/article/migr...
New insight into Texas family detention reveals adults fighting kids for clean water
A new court filing in an ongoing legal dispute with the federal government reveals the psychological and physical trauma endured by children and families held at Texas family detention centers.
apnews.com
June 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
NEW: Adults fighting kids for clean water, despondent toddlers and a child with swollen feet denied a medical exam - these first-hand accounts from immigrant families are offering a glimpse at conditions in TX detention centers. according to court filing.
apnews.com/article/migr...
apnews.com/article/migr...