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This queen raised a million bucks for charity by hiking 100 miles in drag [via @theguardian.com]
This queen raised a million bucks for charity by hiking 100 miles in drag
Pattie Gonia's effort supports nonprofits working to make the outdoors more equitable.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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"Quilen Blackwell, owner of a Chicago nonprofit that employs at-risk youth to turn vacant lots into flower farms, has won CNN’s Hero of the Year Award."

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12...
South Side flower shop owner named CNN's Hero of the Year
Quilen Blackwell says he will use the $100,000 prize to expand his nonprofit Chicago Eco House, which grows flowers on previously vacant South and West side lots, and Southside Blooms, an Englewood fl...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Dust jacket for John Broich White Supremacy: A Short History “Historians rarely offer such a thorough and powerfully accurateaccount of white supremacy in a digestible and succinct text as JohnBroich has written. Broich succeeds in taking readers through ajourney over the centuries of racial thinking, drawing their attentionto the horrors of white violence and debilitating proliferation ofwhite supremacist ideology within the United States and Europe.Highly recommended.”Tommy Curry, author of Another White Man’s Burden“John Broich expertly distills a vast literature on race, slavery, andimperialism into a brisk and bracing narrative which is impossibleto ignore. White Supremacy is a wide-ranging, highly readable, andimpressively concise account of the toxic idea which continues todistort our world.”Nicholas Guyatt, author of Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened AmericansInvented Racial Segregation“This is an excellent and much needed book. It is a wonderfulantidote to the raft of popular works on racism that concentrateon contemporary dynamics in a particular country, with onlycursory historical perspectives. John Broich argues passionatelythat ‘white supremacy’ is a historical global category that was, andis, contingent, and can, therefore, be dismantled.”James Renton, editor of Islamophobia and
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM