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Burn down the patriarchy. Free the rivers. The Anthropocene sucks. Private Equity f*€k off into the sun.

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If interested, this is the summary of Project 2025 that I read over the weekend. democracyforward.org/the-peoples-...

The People’s Guide to Project 2025 - Democracy Forwarddemocracyforward.org

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Fact — British Columbia just created equivalency for medical, legal and other professional qualifications held by immigrants. So if you’re a doctor from anywhere you don’t have to be a taxi driver in BC, you can be a doctor.

Opinion - Once the envy of the world, Canada’s immigration system now lays dismantled: The government’s ill-advised preoccupation with shortages in low-skill labour markets is resulting in the dismantling of Canada’s skilled immigration system

Once the envy of the world, Canada’s immigration system now lays dismantledwww.theglobeandmail.com The government’s ill-advised preoccupation with shortages in low-skill labour markets is resulting in the dismantling of Canada’s skilled immigration system

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let this serve as my occasional reminder that even if you think the NYT is consistently outstanding, subscribing to the times to "support journalism" is like giving Harvard thirty bucks to "support education." They don't need your money. Small outlets & independent journalists do.

WaPo and NYT subscriptions gone. 😕As someone who has spent the last 15 years begging people to subscribe to newspapers, it was so hard to pull the trigger. But gonna subscribe to more newsletters and independent outlets. I hope WaPo and NYT earn my subscription back some day.

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Cynicism is a popular form of complacency.

I don't get it when people point out that Project 2025 is "nothing new." Yes, obviously, right-wingers have been fanatics for decades. They were blowing up abortion clinics and shooting doctors when I was a kid. But, as you may have noticed, their political vision has kind of been coming together.

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Current moment reminds me a lot of the dotcom era, where investor money chased web and telecom companies while the *real* technological revolution was happening quietly in the background in the form of LCD/LED displays and lithium ion batteries (converging dramatically on the iPhone)

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a dead giveaway that project 2025 was written specifically for—and with input from—trump:

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The Black Panther Party learned that sickle cell anemia was a neglected genetic disease affecting mostly people of African descent. Although disease had been known since 1910, it attracted little govt attention and even less funding. So the Panthers set up a screening program. #BlackSky #Disability

"Approximately 1 in 365 African American children are born with sickle cell, according to the CDC.. Tens of thousands of lower-income families with children suffering from sickle cell disease have applied for SSI. But roughly 76% of those applicants had their requests denied between 2015 and 2020."

Thousands of Black children with sickle cell disease struggle to access disability paymentswww.cbsnews.com New data show how one federal safety net program has been out of reach for thousands of children who need it most.

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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some ambitious young creative should make a series of Schoolhouse Rock-style animated info clips based on Project 2025

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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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“You don’t accomplish anything by posting” is such a ridiculous & boring take. I have learned so much from so many people on social media just from them posting. I have shared that information with others. We have changed our behaviors based on information to impact communities & ourselves.

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I just learned that the Avengers was just released streaming in Lakota, dubbed with the original six avengers actors? Which is incredibly cool.

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and then somehow for whatever surely unrelated reason she was absolutely pilloried in a million different articles for being mean to poor dear sweet innocent Sarah Huckabee Sanders and forced to apologize even though nothing she said about her was untrue or even THAT harsh

Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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They are hiding it from us on purpose. What does that suggest?

This just infuriates me. The risk of Covid may well be rising but lack of reporting disguises that fact. With a disease this dangerous and deadly, what possesses the government, state and federal, to stop reporting incidence of the disease. www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...

A lack of data may be hiding a summer COVID wave in CT: 'There is an ostriching that is going on'www.ctinsider.com With a lack of statewide testing data now, a wave of COVID infections may be hitting CT and many may not realize it until there's a surge in hospitalizations.

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Heat intolerance is a long covid symptom & side effect of many meds, from blood pressure to mental health meds… which are common post-covid needs. The rise of fascism during climate collapse & a covid surge is a real bad time to spread illness & disability. Wear an n95 in public. Resources in 🧵

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People who believe nothing you post has impact- have no idea how to use a platform & they may also have an interest in discouraging you from speaking out. Online activism matters. Look at what they did to Twitter. Twitter was previously one of the most important communication tools on the planet.

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Happy #primeweek! I just want to let y’all know that the Amazon shipping warehouse where my husband works is denying workers fans during a nationally recognized heat emergency and everything you order during time week places workers’ lives at risk.

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Project 2025 is Mein Kampf in English.

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

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Climate change is REAL, even as we all and our governments continue to act, buy, move around like it isn't. www.wired.com/story/hurric...

Hurricane Beryl Isn’t a Freak Storm—It’s the Exact Nightmare Meteorologists Predictedwww.wired.com A hot ocean provides the energy hurricanes need to grow—and can limit the cooling that happens in their wake, making it likelier that the storms that follow will be powerful ones.

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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

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One day after AI is abandoned they’re absolutely going to tout cutting their emissions by half/a third without acknowledging they were pumping out more than ever chasing a pump and dump plagiarism scheme

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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If the earth was actually flat, cats would have pushed everything off by now 🙄

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.“ - Rebecca Solnit (1/)

There's another key attribute of hope that doesn't get mentioned much. Hope fights. Even when victory seems unlikely—especially then—hope fights. We should be hopeful people. Full essay: www.the-reframe.com/a-fools-hope/

A Fool's Hopewww.the-reframe.com How to be hopeful people in this age of deliberate ignorance, empty optimism, lazy cynicism, and manufactured despair. A more useful definition of hope than these false ones we're offered.

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so great that Europe's doing this again with the diseases

Somnolent flat cat

super stretchy flat cat

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🧪 Researchers mapped brain activity of 10 epilepsy patients, recording 300 neurons as they listened to sentences. This study could create a "thesaurus of meaning" by linking specific brain cells to words. 🧠

Ultra-detailed brain map shows neurons that encode words’ meaningwww.nature.com For the first time, scientists identify individual brain cells linked to the linguistic essence of a word. For the first time, scientists identify individual brain cells linked to the linguistic essen...