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If you want a first hand view of life in Kyiv the last few days - read @annabowles.bsky.social latest column here:

annabowles.substack.com/p/how-not-to...
How Not To Freeze to Death (Part 1)
What are ordinary people around Ukraine doing to survive while Russia tries to freeze them to death, and how can we help?
annabowles.substack.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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Somali aunties were giving out samosas to the anti ICE protesters in Minneapolis.
January 11, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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Time is running out for the @wnba.com to pay the players what they owe them. Their contract expires TONIGHT.

Without the players, there is no WNBA — and fair pay is LONG overdue. America’s unions stand in solidarity with the WNBPA players in this fight ✊
January 9, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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THIS is THE WAY
BREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up.

Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.
January 10, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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If you want to support local news in Pittsburgh in the wake of the Post-Gazette's closure, I recommend the @publicsource.org -- they do seriously good work and love the city
What this moment means for Pittsburgh’s news ecosystem — and our role in it
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will cease operations in May, and Pittsburgh City Paper has been shut down. Public Source is here for you.
www.publicsource.org
January 10, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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San Francisco today.
January 10, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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Goes with this.
AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”
January 10, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
January 9, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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The First Amendment pretty explicitly protects the right to be a fucking bitch to ICE.
white women and queers - and people who love them - this is a good week to look GOP voters you know in the eye and ask them if they think it should be legally permissible for men to shoot you or your loved one in the head on the basis of being a “fucking bitch”
January 10, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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"It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying."

Warriors coach Steve Kerr was asked about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Here are his full comments:
January 10, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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January 10, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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The embroidery produced by Otomi (Hñähñu) women of Mexico is known as Tenango Embroidery. Created with an "Otomi Stitch", the colourful designs of animals, plants & rural life represent the stories & beliefs of the people who produce this specific form of embroidered expression #Womensart
January 10, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837-1899), Italian aristocrat & pioneering figure in the early history of photography #WomensArt
January 10, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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Handmade pottery jar, by Jean Bad Moccasin, artist of the Lakota Sioux Nation #WomensArt
January 10, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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English documentary photographer Janette Beckman, #TracyChapman, New York, 1988 #womensart
January 10, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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Women's work in embroidery globally can act as a powerful form of preserving culture, heritage and identity. Examples include Hausa (Northern Nigeria) left, Palestinian tatreez (top right), Kantha (Bangladesh, West Bengal) and Ukrainian Vyshyvanka #Womensart
January 10, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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Dada artist Hannah Höch,
Bouquet Of Eyes, 1930 #womensart
January 10, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Hope is an act of resistance, and holding strong to the belief that together we can - and will - create a a safer, cleaner, kinder world for future generations, is where positive change begins.⁣
January 10, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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250 years ago today, Thomas Paine published his greatly influential Common Sense, which helped catalyze the American Revolution.

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
January 10, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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This is a HUGE win…and one that happened because we ~collectively~ said “NO!”

But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling.

If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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"Oil will bring us ruin...We are drowning in the devil’s excrement.”
-Venezuela's Minister of Hydrocarbons, one of the architects of OPEC, in 1976, at the height of Venezuela's oil wealth.

Masterful account of how we got here, from @dougsaunders.bsky.social

www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
The ‘Venezuelan exception’ has met its long-expected demise
Long before Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro or Donald Trump, Venezuela believed oil would be its liberator. That myth is dead for good
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them.
Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
January 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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"Big picture we are slowly dismantling our climate policy architecture & it's very much influenced by PM #MarkCarney 's belief in market-based solutions, that the industrial side of the carbon price will be able to pick up the slack across the economy those other policies were supposed to deliver."
Are we really MOVING BACKWARDS on #ClimateChange in Canada in spite of the hottest years on record & the worst #WILDFIRES and #SMOKE we've ever seen? We dig in with #CAPE & the Hub's own Dr Joe Vipond & #CANRAC 's Caroline Brouillette

PODCAST www.podcastics.com/episode/3955... #MarkCarney #cdnpoli
Carney Banks On Big Oil
Canada's Climate Capitulation
www.podcastics.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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Ontario power company calls N.S. solar program a 'win-win' for customers, province

PowerBank has one solar garden approved and two projects proposed across province #NovaScotia

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario power company calls N.S. solar program a 'win-win' for customers, province | CBC News
Toronto-based PowerBank says its solar garden projects will help Nova Scotia meet its goal of producing 80 per cent of its electricity with renewable energy and reduce power bills for customers.
www.cbc.ca
January 10, 2026 at 1:17 PM