moss and tardigrades

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to be fair, he did promise that nothing much would change.

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Instead of having a heart attack every time Trump opens his mouth, lemme tell you what Black folks are actually doing right now. We're paying attention to state level legislation the GOP is enacting in the south slashing massive civil rights & social supports rapidly & returning racial segregation.

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins

All liberals are against past wars, but in favor of the present one.

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I'll tell y'all this about the Klan. The only folks shocked the Klan exists & does shit are white liberals. The Klan & its supporters are well aware they have never stopped existing. Also all Black southerners know that they are deep in politics & never stopped terror. @grrlysquirrel.bsky.social

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If they keep impoverished people, especially Black people, scrambling to keep themselves and children fed... then those people have to take what low wage jobs they can, be practically indentured in their work and have little time and energy to organize against them The cruelty IS the point.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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This is also part of how the actual differences between parties are hidden/undermined. If the federal gov actually passes policies/funding to feed your family and your GOP governor refuses it on your behalf, you're not getting it. Who did what can feel pretty irrelevant. Your kids are still hungry.

When will we realize that it is the opposite of goodness to take food from children?

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Liberty 🍉

whites are the colonizers crackers are the settlers whites have the power, they're a population that's small but they'll offer inclusion when they need poor whites/white trash/crackers etc to do shit for them historically, whites owned the plantations; crackers cracked the whip

Going to get a pane of super thick glass* for a potential tiny greenhouse *side of the road. Thank you neighbors <3

Bunch of autistic people are outside the range of whisper networks

if I could engrave this on a slab of marble, Jenny Holzer-style, I would whisper if you need to, but do it as widely as feels safe, and never judge anyone for not being in on the whispers

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Don Moynihan

"I don't know anything about Project 2025" says man recording Project 2025 promotional video in front of Project 2025 publication. More substantively, Project 2025 has embraced Trump and Miller's immigration approach of using power to close both legal and illegal immigration.

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Remember when some of y'all got real mad at me for doing some back-of-the-napkin math about how much water "AI" likely uses, in light of the fact that they refuse to release their actual numbers? Anyway.

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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Always worth remembering who isn’t getting 17 front page stories per day highlighting every gaffe and demanding he step down. Just so we’re clear on who is being told they are unfit and who is not.

This was a speech during which he did not have to answer any questions, he supposedly knew where he was going to be several days ahead of time, and this is what he came up with

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Tempest is doing a Kickstarter! BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️

First, I never judge humans: they are each a light against the darkness that shines in its own specific hue. And any gods that judge are not worth having Also, I appreciate a big swing. At least Frozen 2 is brave; it even addressed colonialism in a Disney product. The first one is just the song

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have you all heard of THE RADIUM GIRLS? if you haven’t, go look that up because any post i try to do won’t be enough and will get suppressed. come back when you’re done looking up THE RADIUM GIRLS okay. you done? cool. okay so Clarence Thomas wants to get rid of OSHA

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I always feel weird talking about "saving democracy" in the US when people like me have never experienced it and likely never will

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Only a tiny portion of Black Americans were granted the land they were owed after the civil war. And then, almost immediately, the government took it back. Here’s where the people, and the land, ended up. Remarkable investigative reporting from the Reveal folks here:

40 Acres and a Liewww.motherjones.com 40ACRES AND A LIE A government program gave formerly enslaved people land after the Civil War, only to take nearly all of it back a year and a half later. We used artificial intelligence to track down...

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Everybody who has cared for a person with Alzheimer’s or other conditions of gradual cognitive decline knows these men need rest. They need routine. They need simple pleasures. They need family. They can no longer self-reflect. Their keys must be taken away. Anything else is cruel.

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Matt Seybold

One of the flaws of humanity is that only our worst want to squander their lives chasing a slim chance to wield the monopoly on violence. We are ruled by idiots, ghouls, & cretins because no decent person would want to govern. 2/

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The “founding fathers” had lots of terrible ideas, such as racism, genocide, and patriarchy, but also some good ones, like the idea that the unchecked power of a king is bad. This Fourth of July it is worth noting that we threw out the latter in order to preserve what is left of the former.

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Matt Seybold

…against the next gang of ‘robbers’ who came to steal it & DID - & became swollen-hearted patriots in THEIR turn.” The birth of a nation is an accident of history & one which never goes too long without being remedied. END

Here is why I can't get behind "patriotism" even when it's used to mean "being a good person in your country."

“Patriotism I s a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn’t a foot of land in the world which doesn’t represent the ousting & re-ousting of a long line of successive ‘owners,’ who each in turn, as ‘patriots,’ with proud swelling hearts defended it… 8/9

@nytimes.com Now that we know the "Why I don't vote" guy has voted twice recently, and said of his anti-voting stance six years ago, "It involves, I suppose, a private objection to democracy itself" will you issue a retraction?

I just quit a novel about a hetero cis hookup that was supposedly queer because the woman was delivering the ashes of a queer person

I remember seeing people trying to insist that the profoundly straight romcom Anyone But You that came out earlier this year is actually a queer story because it's set at a lesbian wedding and I wanted to walk into the sea

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Among all the commentary around how Biden is too old (he is) and how he step down (he should), there's a pretty important point being overshadowed: Trump forced two 12 year old girls to have s*x with each other in front of him Idk I feel like that's kind of a big deal

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Micah

Consider this: bsky.app/profile/apoc...

This fucking guy voted in the last two elections voteref.com/voters/MI/vi...

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