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· Nov 12
“Social change will not come to us like an avalanche .... Social change will come through seeds growing in well prepared soil--and it is we, like the earthworms, who prepare the soil. We also seed thoughts & knowledge & concern.” - Ursula Franklin
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Why did Hegseth fire JAGs if he has nothing to hide?
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
'People Are Very Scared': Trump Administration Purge of JAG Officers Raises Legal, Ethical Fears
Military lawyers and legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army and Navy's top judge advocates general politicizes and sets an alarming precedent for a crucial...
www.military.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Why did Hegseth fire JAGs if he has nothing to hide?
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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“Ads for Nike, Superdry and Lacoste have been banned in the UK for misleading consumers about the environmental sustainability credentials of their products.” 🙄
There is no world where we can solve our environmental problems without buying less. That’s the way to be sustainable.
There is no world where we can solve our environmental problems without buying less. That’s the way to be sustainable.
Nike, Superdry and Lacoste ads banned in UK over ‘misleading’ green claims
Advertising watchdog says all three firms misled shoppers by using term ‘sustainable’ in paid-for Google adverts
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
“Ads for Nike, Superdry and Lacoste have been banned in the UK for misleading consumers about the environmental sustainability credentials of their products.” 🙄
There is no world where we can solve our environmental problems without buying less. That’s the way to be sustainable.
There is no world where we can solve our environmental problems without buying less. That’s the way to be sustainable.
So... Senator Mark Kelly was just quoting Pete Hegseth?
Here’s Pete Hegseth in 2016 arguing there have to be consequences for war crimes and how the military won’t follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief.
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
So... Senator Mark Kelly was just quoting Pete Hegseth?
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Didn’t this same administration make such a stink last week that military must follow orders?
And suggesting otherwise got a HANG THEM FOR SEDITION?
What a fucking clown show.
And Hegseth tweeting Franklin memes..
And suggesting otherwise got a HANG THEM FOR SEDITION?
What a fucking clown show.
And Hegseth tweeting Franklin memes..
December 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Didn’t this same administration make such a stink last week that military must follow orders?
And suggesting otherwise got a HANG THEM FOR SEDITION?
What a fucking clown show.
And Hegseth tweeting Franklin memes..
And suggesting otherwise got a HANG THEM FOR SEDITION?
What a fucking clown show.
And Hegseth tweeting Franklin memes..
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Here’s Pete Hegseth in 2016 arguing there have to be consequences for war crimes and how the military won’t follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief.
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Here’s Pete Hegseth in 2016 arguing there have to be consequences for war crimes and how the military won’t follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief.
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just where families want to live - the car sewers!
December 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
just where families want to live - the car sewers!
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Trump pardoned the ex-president of Honduras who shoveled hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S.
He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China.
These men poisoned America.
Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.
He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China.
These men poisoned America.
Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.
December 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Trump pardoned the ex-president of Honduras who shoveled hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S.
He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China.
These men poisoned America.
Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.
He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China.
These men poisoned America.
Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.
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In today's really shit awful news...
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
In today's really shit awful news...
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What if:
Immigration is actually really beneficial to a country and helps secure its future prosperity and long term health of its culture and isn’t a really bad thing like all those rich sociopaths who moved to Dubai say it is?
Immigration is actually really beneficial to a country and helps secure its future prosperity and long term health of its culture and isn’t a really bad thing like all those rich sociopaths who moved to Dubai say it is?
Guys, guys, guys:
what if we provide asylum to lots of refugees so that when the conflict in their homeland ends and economic reconstruction begins we have lots of social links to that country that allow us to forge mutually beneficial economic partnerships with it?
what if we provide asylum to lots of refugees so that when the conflict in their homeland ends and economic reconstruction begins we have lots of social links to that country that allow us to forge mutually beneficial economic partnerships with it?
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
What if:
Immigration is actually really beneficial to a country and helps secure its future prosperity and long term health of its culture and isn’t a really bad thing like all those rich sociopaths who moved to Dubai say it is?
Immigration is actually really beneficial to a country and helps secure its future prosperity and long term health of its culture and isn’t a really bad thing like all those rich sociopaths who moved to Dubai say it is?
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‘We don’t have the time that we think we have, we don’t have the luxury of saying we’ll do that in the future’
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025
December 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
‘We don’t have the time that we think we have, we don’t have the luxury of saying we’ll do that in the future’
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025
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Thanks to Trump's pardons, the GOP is the party of terrorists, drug dealers and child rapists.
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Thanks to Trump's pardons, the GOP is the party of terrorists, drug dealers and child rapists.
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The rise of the car in cities like Amsterdam and The Hague led to the founding of the Fietsersbond (Cyclists' Union) 50 years ago. We celebrated that yesterday!
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The rise of the car in cities like Amsterdam and The Hague led to the founding of the Fietsersbond (Cyclists' Union) 50 years ago. We celebrated that yesterday!
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Eye opening thread everyone should read. Thank you @jennycohn.bsky.social
The Thiel-linked Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) hosted a panel featuring Stephen Wolfe (author of the Case for Christian Nationalism) who wrote that “Non-Christians living among us are…not entitled to political equality.” ISI supports over 70 student-run publications across the country. 1/
America's Exceptional Nationalism
YouTube video by Intercollegiate Studies Institute
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Eye opening thread everyone should read. Thank you @jennycohn.bsky.social
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A thread on the MOU.
MOST IMPORTANT: Carney's move signals to the rest of Canada, and the world, that it's OK to keep building more fossil fuel projects.
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we? 1/22
MOST IMPORTANT: Carney's move signals to the rest of Canada, and the world, that it's OK to keep building more fossil fuel projects.
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we? 1/22
This is not a good take. Carney's move signals to the rest of Canada, and the world, that it's OK to keep building more fossil fuel projects.
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we?
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we?
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A thread on the MOU.
MOST IMPORTANT: Carney's move signals to the rest of Canada, and the world, that it's OK to keep building more fossil fuel projects.
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we? 1/22
MOST IMPORTANT: Carney's move signals to the rest of Canada, and the world, that it's OK to keep building more fossil fuel projects.
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we? 1/22
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I got to thinking: "What if it's not about the contradiction between the Hernandez pardon and the air strikes, but about the consistency between them?"
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I got to thinking: "What if it's not about the contradiction between the Hernandez pardon and the air strikes, but about the consistency between them?"
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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this moment in Canadian politics reminds me of Mulroney finding out the consequences of stocking his cabinet with Quebec separatists.
No one will be satisfied with the MOU
No one will be satisfied with the MOU
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
this moment in Canadian politics reminds me of Mulroney finding out the consequences of stocking his cabinet with Quebec separatists.
No one will be satisfied with the MOU
No one will be satisfied with the MOU
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Witkoff, Kushner and Trump sold out Ukraine and our allies.
Thank god the info was leaked.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Thank god the info was leaked.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Witkoff, Kushner and Trump sold out Ukraine and our allies.
Thank god the info was leaked.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Thank god the info was leaked.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Europe (and everyone, really) outflanked by bald-faced fuckery.
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Europe (and everyone, really) outflanked by bald-faced fuckery.