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"The core of organizing is raising expectations." - Jane McAlevey

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"Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza...."

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essentialwww.thelancet.com By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

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Remember the hole in the ozone layer?

How We Solved the Hole in the Ozonenautil.us A scientist’s first-hand account shows the world can tackle a global environmental crisis.

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Honest question: who is in charge of making sure abortion access is on the ballot in every single state? Who is running point on this?

Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measurewww.nbcnews.com A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the ruby red state’s constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot — but major obstacles remain.

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I swear to fucking God if democracy dies in 2025 it won't be because Biden had one bad debate. It'll be because he had one bad debate and everyone decided the world was ending and they had to light their hair on fire and run around naked in the streets.

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I gotta say that people are having a lot of trouble distinguishing cognitive decline (Trump) from age-related changes in expression (Biden). Biden is elderly and talks like it. Trump literally does not have preserved reality-testing

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Wow, amazing.

Trump Tower is coming to Saudi Arabia | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com The Trump Organization revealed plans Monday to develop a luxury Trump Tower in Saudi Arabia.

If you are going to get an x-ray soon, do not eat these.

I painted small rocks like M&Ms

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ugh i deserve to be a stay at home lesbian so bad

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This is almost word for word what I tell students. Even if you’ve been disillusioned by what’s happening at the state and federal level, you need to get out and shore up your local politics.

It's not going to come down to a president or red states or blue states. It's going to come down to electing mayors and city council members that are brave enough to say "you're going to need to send in the National Guard if you want that shit enforced here." This is why we vote.

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Living under authoritarian regimes is both relatively boring and normal AND incredibly corrosive to the human soul. These things can absolutely co-exist. This is why everyone needs to resist authoritarians, even people who privately assume they’ll be just fine.

The damage this causes across generations (even if the regime is short lived!) is so hard to grasp if you haven’t lived with it. It touches every aspect of life. It makes trust impossible, and without some level of trust and a belief in the possibility of justice, *nothing in society works.*

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one element of Grants Pass is that it’s not just about whether you can enforce anti-camping laws against the homeless. it’s about whether you can enforce those laws **even when you haven’t provided adequate shelter beds**

First decision is Grants Pass. Gorsuch has the 6-3 opinion finding that the Eighth Amendment does not bar "generally applicable" laws banning public camping. Sotomayor writes the dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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This is the perfect time to come up with innovative ideas for disempowering the courts in this country [we can start with the Supreme Court]. There have to be people out there who are thinking deeply and OUT OF THE BOX on this.

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I read this interesting toolkit a few weeks ago and there are many good ideas that might be pursued locally: www.researchinpractice.org.uk/adults/publi...

Radical safeguarding toolkit - homelessness: Practice Tool (2024)www.researchinpractice.org.uk This practice tool shares information, ideas and inspiration for anti-oppressive approaches to safeguarding adults experiencing homelessness. It explores how social justice movements can shape the ser...

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lol this is the first thing I saw when I went to Twitter

Anyone know of some good starter books for business consulting? Like the Phoenix Project for adding value to other companies’ ops

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We now have a website. udm14.com

Tell your friends about &udm=14

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amazing article about my girlfriend Alice’s work!!! she is mostly at the Central branch, which this article correctly describes as a place where absolute chaos is going down constantly also not to brag but I’ve totally met Terry and every new piece of lore this article drops on him is incredible

Long read on the hard, vital and caring work of public library staff - ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books www.theguardian.com/news/article...

‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than bookswww.theguardian.com The long read: In 2024, libraries are unofficial creches, homeless shelters, language schools and asylum support providers – filling the gaps left by a state that has reneged on its responsibilities

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I know 3 people (well) who have COVID at this very moment, in June 2024. Ugh.

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“Extending the Second Avenue Subway northward to 125th Street in Harlem from its current Upper East Side terminus at 96th Street was to have been funded through the toll revenue that the MTA was to reap from congestion pricing.” In case you needed another example of why Black people can be cynical.

Congestion pricing: Harlem residents fume after Second Avenue Subway extension shelved following Hochul’s toll pause | amNewYorkwww.amny.com Harlem locals are fuming after hearing the news that the Second Avenue Subway extension to the neighborhood had been halted weeks after Gov. Kathy Hochul put

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ChatGPT already has “Ph.D.-level intelligence,” in that once you remove it from its extremely narrow field of expertise (assembling words into credible-sounding passages) it is wildly out of its depth, but people vastly overestimate its authority because they don’t understand what “intelligence” is.

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unironically glad we got to the Air Conditioning Is Good, Fuck You part of the climate crisis so fast

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my cemetery has tons of historical correspondence by employees going back almost 200 years and i like to read it and make myself insane thinking about how much more shit i am expected to do in a day than these people and how i am not even actually making that much more money than them

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Juneteenth does not celebrate "When news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas." Juneteenth celebrates when the racist people in Texas that tried to hold on to slavery for as long as they could even after it was abolished, finally couldn't keep up the lie anymore.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io Juneteenth does not celebrate "When news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas." Juneteenth celebrates when the racist people in Texas that tried to hold on to slavery for as long as they could...

This is very #coffeesky coded ☕️

Microwaving coffee to warm it up changes its molecular structure, creating "coffee 2", which scientists do not yet understand

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If everyone could take a quick second and just think of someone they adore on this app and then @ them with some love, I would really appreciate it. Also, repost this so other folks see it. Or just copy and paste the text, I don’t care. This isn’t about me today. Just love on some folks.

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A merger, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.19 (lookback time 2.41 billion years) with coordinates (150.19851, 2.06848). 49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.🔭

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WE ARE LADYPARTS is fucking hilarious

WE ARE LADYPARTS has a new season! Why didn't I know this was coming??? It's on Peacock; highly recommend if you like "Derry Girls" and "Girls5Eva" and fun comedies with lots of women characters.

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Reports that an IDF base has built a trebuchet to fire incendiary loads into Lebanon to start fires to remove cover close to the border. Incendiary attacks against the environment in Lebanon and northern Israel have become increasingly normalised #Gaza www.newarab.com/news/israel-... 1/3

Israel uses Middle Ages weapons to start Lebanon forest fireswww.newarab.com Footage has emerged allegedly showing the Israeli army using a medieval trebuchet to launch fireballs into Lebanese forests where Hezbollah operates