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reality is drifting closer to infinite jest

public health, human rights, racial justice, Gaza, BLM
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Do you know who this is? A civil rights protester?

No. It’s C.B. King, a civil rights LAWYER who was clubbed over the head by a local sheriff when King arrived at jail to check on his client - a white civil rights protester.He continued his work & influenced a generation.

Lawyers under pressure?
March 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Over 270 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza since Israel resumed its attacks last week, according to Save the Children.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/2sm4kp
March 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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#Gaza: Israeli authorities have instrumentalized humanitarian needs by using aid as a bargaining chip in ceasefire negotiations as people’s electricity supply has been cut off and aid has been blocked from entering Gaza.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/israe...
Israeli authorities must stop using aid as a tool of war
Humanitarian aid should never be used as a bargaining chip.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
March 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Does Donald Trump even know how to drive?
March 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish
"To the contrary, voters are on average more likely to defect to the radical right when mainstream parties adopt anti-immigration positions, a pattern that has been particularly pronounced for established RRPs."
March 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult
"The vaccination has stuff we don't trust," said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died from measles at the end of last month. Tom Bartlett visited with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy:
The Texas Girl Who Died From Measles
Her father tells her story.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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March 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Happy #IWD2025 to all my wonderful feminist friends and colleagues, to women and girls everywhere. It does seem a darkly misogynistic time of backlash these days, but, like our foremothers, we fight on - la lucha continua #feminism #speirgorm
a group of girls are holding up signs that say women support women and international women 's day
Alt: a group of girls are holding up signs that say women support women and international women 's day
media.tenor.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Holy cow! Do. Not. Miss. This.
January 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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As we approach the holiday I want to share some Christmas shorts directed by women.

Czech animator Hermina Tyrlova, created wonderful worlds of wool & string. A stop motion innovator, her career spanned almost 60 years, 1927-86. Here is her delightful SNOWMAN (1966) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtNo...
Snehulak (1966)
YouTube video by GeneralArmorus
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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This International Women’s Day, we’re incredibly proud to reveal the cover of our third book, “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation”.

Photo essays from 11 cities around the world, including Paris, Bogotá, Barcelona and Montréal. To be released by RIBA Publishing in October.
March 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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“Meritocracy rarely asks us to pump the brakes; to think deeply, slowly, and carefully; to admit mistakes; to sacrifice personal shine in the name of community or collaboration.” this is very good
March 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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‘“Nature has its way of taking out the weak and the not so well and the injured. The eagle likely thought it would be able to take it out quite easily,” Sequeira [the Ontario-based photographer] said. “But, it wasn’t.””
Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice
Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high trade tensions
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: "People still think Elvis is alive.”

Senator Bill Cassidy to NIH nominee Jay Bhattacharya, on why Cassidy thinks funding more research into whether vaccines cause autism is useless and will not change any minds. w/Benjamin J. Mueller

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...
In Hearing, Trump’s N.I.H. Nominee Says No Link Between Autism and Vaccines
Jay Bhattacharya, a health economist, gained prominence during the Covid pandemic when he argued against lockdowns.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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periodically astounded by just how comprehensively evil everyone in this administration is

there isn't even the vaguely humanizing "well, at least he loves the fluffy white cat he pets while he plots world domination"

give these guys a puppy and they'll punt it at the nearest immigrant
March 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Stephen Colbert said Security found that he had smuggled in a spine
March 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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One man stood.
Last night I stood up for those who need Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Democrats will never abandon the fight to make sure every American has a safe, healthy, and financially secure life. #ISaidWhatISaid
March 6, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research
President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.
www.rollingstone.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.”

www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”
The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...
www.propublica.org
February 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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“European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said: ‘Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.’”
‘Free world needs a new leader’: Europe defends Zelenskyy after Trump attack
France, Germany and Poland all make prompt declarations of support as Europe fears Trump’s alignment with Putin.
www.politico.eu
February 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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All for an audience of one in Russia
February 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Kinzinger: Zelenskyy had an opportunity to flee Ukraine when Russia attacked and he stayed. Is there anybody that has any doubt about whether Trump would flee the country if we were attacked.
February 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Israeli forces barred forcibly displaced Palestinians from returning to their homes in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank.

🔴 LIVE updates:
‘Better to have been killed’: Palestinians losing hope in war-battered Gaza
About 600,000 Palestinians who returned to northern Gaza following the ceasefire are struggling to restore their lives.
aje.io
February 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “The numbers don’t add up. $880 BILLION is a devastating cut to Medicaid, and an attack on Medicare. Anyone who votes for this budget is voting to cut Medicaid and gut health care for Medicare recipients in 🇺🇸.”

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGg7cr0...
February 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM