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Fan of the semicolon; here for plants, books, human rights, journalism, and comic relief from the pressing weight of living in such *unprecedented* times
Fan of the semicolon; here for plants, books, human rights, journalism, and comic relief from the pressing weight of living in such *unprecedented* times
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Parents, take a look at these numbers. Scientists say 4C is very likely a ‘collapse scenario’. BILLIONS will die.
This is the future our children face.
We should be devoting our lives to ending the system that’s blindly accelerating them toward it.
This is the future our children face.
We should be devoting our lives to ending the system that’s blindly accelerating them toward it.
August 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Parents, take a look at these numbers. Scientists say 4C is very likely a ‘collapse scenario’. BILLIONS will die.
This is the future our children face.
We should be devoting our lives to ending the system that’s blindly accelerating them toward it.
This is the future our children face.
We should be devoting our lives to ending the system that’s blindly accelerating them toward it.
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NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s"
An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death
"In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...
www.huffpost.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s"
An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
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Palestinian Odeh Hadalin was from Masafer Yatta, a community whose resistance to settlers was featured in No Other Land.
Israeli settler kills West Bank activist who worked on Oscar-winning film
Palestinian Odeh Hadalin was from Masafer Yatta, a community whose resistance to settlers was featured in No Other Land.
bit.ly
July 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Palestinian Odeh Hadalin was from Masafer Yatta, a community whose resistance to settlers was featured in No Other Land.
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"I hold the bottle to his mouth while he cries, and I cry with him."
This Palestinian father says he had to feed his infant child expired formula milk, as a man-made hunger crisis worsens under Israel's ongoing war on Gaza.
This Palestinian father says he had to feed his infant child expired formula milk, as a man-made hunger crisis worsens under Israel's ongoing war on Gaza.
July 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"I hold the bottle to his mouth while he cries, and I cry with him."
This Palestinian father says he had to feed his infant child expired formula milk, as a man-made hunger crisis worsens under Israel's ongoing war on Gaza.
This Palestinian father says he had to feed his infant child expired formula milk, as a man-made hunger crisis worsens under Israel's ongoing war on Gaza.
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Gaza's Health Ministry says the Palestinian death toll has surpassed 59,000 after more than 21 months of war.
UN food agency says Israeli tanks and snipers opened fire on a crowd seeking aid in Gaza
The U.N. food agency says Israeli forces fired on Palestinians seeking food aid in northern Gaza on Sunday.
bit.ly
July 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Gaza's Health Ministry says the Palestinian death toll has surpassed 59,000 after more than 21 months of war.
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Medical sources also report 116 killed across Gaza, including 38 desperate residents seeking food at GHF site.
Weeks-old baby dies of starvation in Gaza hospital during ongoing blockade
Medical sources also report 116 killed across Gaza, including 38 desperate residents seeking food at GHF site.
bit.ly
July 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Medical sources also report 116 killed across Gaza, including 38 desperate residents seeking food at GHF site.
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Genocide "doesn’t mean that you have to kill everyone," says historian and renowned Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov. "It means that the group will be destroyed and that it will not be able to reconstitute itself as a group. And to my mind, this is precisely what Israel is trying to do."
"I Know It When I See It”: Prof. Omer Bartov Says Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza
We speak with leading Israeli American historian Omer Bartov about his latest essay for The New York Times, headlined “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.” Bartov cites the United…
www.democracynow.org
July 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Genocide "doesn’t mean that you have to kill everyone," says historian and renowned Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov. "It means that the group will be destroyed and that it will not be able to reconstitute itself as a group. And to my mind, this is precisely what Israel is trying to do."
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BREAKING: At least 90 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since dawn, sources in the besieged enclave’s hospitals tell Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/t7c1yk
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July 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
BREAKING: At least 90 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since dawn, sources in the besieged enclave’s hospitals tell Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/t7c1yk
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US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammunition as Palestinians seek food in #Gaza.
The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there.
apnews.com/article/pale...
The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there.
apnews.com/article/pale...
US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza
American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Asso...
apnews.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammunition as Palestinians seek food in #Gaza.
The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there.
apnews.com/article/pale...
The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there.
apnews.com/article/pale...
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Lot of that going around
July 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Lot of that going around
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This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."
Suspect showed few signs of political extremism before lawmaker shootings
Friends and associates say Vance Boelter, who was apprehended late Sunday and charged with murdering a state lawmaker and her husband, was mild-mannered and did not appear to be fixated on politics.
www.startribune.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."
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The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
June 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work.
You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.
Get your lies straight.
You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.
Get your lies straight.
June 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work.
You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.
Get your lies straight.
You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.
Get your lies straight.
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Imagine being this happy to smell some flowers. What an amazing journey motherhood is in remembering to enjoy the little things because your little human reminds you of the joy that exists in the world
June 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Imagine being this happy to smell some flowers. What an amazing journey motherhood is in remembering to enjoy the little things because your little human reminds you of the joy that exists in the world
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Pope Francis's final wish was that his popemobile be turned into a health clinic for the children of Gaza.
Pope Francis often stated that “Children are not numbers. They are faces. Names. Stories. And each one is sacred”, and with this final gift, his words have become action.
May he rest in peace
Pope Francis often stated that “Children are not numbers. They are faces. Names. Stories. And each one is sacred”, and with this final gift, his words have become action.
May he rest in peace
May 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Pope Francis's final wish was that his popemobile be turned into a health clinic for the children of Gaza.
Pope Francis often stated that “Children are not numbers. They are faces. Names. Stories. And each one is sacred”, and with this final gift, his words have become action.
May he rest in peace
Pope Francis often stated that “Children are not numbers. They are faces. Names. Stories. And each one is sacred”, and with this final gift, his words have become action.
May he rest in peace
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You have to love that provinces that refuse to properly fund voluntary rehab are suddenly gung-ho on involuntary drug treatment (which will also be underfunded and will just lead to even more deaths).
Ontario eyes involuntary addiction treatment for people in jail, on parole, probation
TORONTO - Ontario is set to study how it can introduce involuntary addictions treatment for people involved in the correctional system, one of a slate of measures the government is
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
May 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
You have to love that provinces that refuse to properly fund voluntary rehab are suddenly gung-ho on involuntary drug treatment (which will also be underfunded and will just lead to even more deaths).
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Look how that Overton window just sliiiiiides
First it was "illegal" immigrants criminals
Then it was it was simply immigrants
Then it's lawful us residents/green card holders
Now it's criminal us citizens
GUESS WHO'S NEXT
First it was "illegal" immigrants criminals
Then it was it was simply immigrants
Then it's lawful us residents/green card holders
Now it's criminal us citizens
GUESS WHO'S NEXT
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Look how that Overton window just sliiiiiides
First it was "illegal" immigrants criminals
Then it was it was simply immigrants
Then it's lawful us residents/green card holders
Now it's criminal us citizens
GUESS WHO'S NEXT
First it was "illegal" immigrants criminals
Then it was it was simply immigrants
Then it's lawful us residents/green card holders
Now it's criminal us citizens
GUESS WHO'S NEXT
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Chemicals, pesticides and intense concentrations are all things that may be in the liquid versions marijuana that are vaporized and inhaled.
Vaping weed is very popular, but users should be aware it carries risks
Chemicals, pesticides and intense concentrations are all things that may be in the liquid versions marijuana that are vaporized and inhaled.
www.npr.org
February 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Chemicals, pesticides and intense concentrations are all things that may be in the liquid versions marijuana that are vaporized and inhaled.
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Updated DEI list of companies committed to DEI
Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)
Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)
January 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Updated DEI list of companies committed to DEI
Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)
Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)
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When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
www.teenvogue.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
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1. Sabotage public institutions.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
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That’s the playbook.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
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That’s the playbook.
January 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
1. Sabotage public institutions.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
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That’s the playbook.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
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That’s the playbook.
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Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?
January 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?
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OpenAI doesn't report a single number for its climate impacts - not anywhere, in any way, shape or form.
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
December 28, 2024 at 7:58 AM
OpenAI doesn't report a single number for its climate impacts - not anywhere, in any way, shape or form.
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..