Sarah Gioia

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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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Well France apparently just collabed between everyone else to kick a far right party out of the chance to take power, it can be done if enough people want it to be, folks

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Therefore we marvel much our cousin France!

Be inspired, U.S.

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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French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to thirdwww.theguardian.com New Popular Front predicted to get 172-192 seats, with Marine Le Pen’s far-right RN and allies down in third

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France out here proving that actually you can tell the far right to go to hell even when it looks like they’re on track for a big victory are we going to let ourselves be shown up by the French?

French exit poll news and which seems a good sign

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FWIW, Bonafide Masks is having a 30% off sale right now. This is where I've gotten my Powecom KN95 masks for years now. Not a paid spokesperson, ha ha, just a customer! bonafidemasks.com/powecom-kn95/

Powecom® KN95 - Page 1 - Bona Fide Masksbonafidemasks.com Like the N95, the FDA Authorized KN95 face masks sold by Bona Fide Masks™ are rated to provide 95% ore greater filtration of particles larger than 0.3 µm in diameter such as bacteria, viruses, dust & ...

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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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lol it’s going to be so stupid in ten years when exclusive schools for rich people brag that they use real human teachers

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If they’re comfortable killing other people, they will eventually be comfortable killing you. You can learn that lesson the easy way or the hard way.

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2 friends have COVID 2 others continue to deal with the life altering effects of long COVID, which isn’t new but always reminds me of the importance of minimizing risk gothamist.com/news/nyc-cov...

NYC COVID cases up 250% in 2 months — and this variant's harder to duckgothamist.com The increases is driven by the new FLiRT variant.

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Loving these quotes from Iranians explaining their vote. CC: Americans who think there’s little difference between Biden and Trump.

Whoa.

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Quick catch-up: 121 seats (with 2 to be declared) is absolutely devastating for the Conservatives. No one will have to take them seriously for a very long time. #UKGE2024 1/3

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Wildflowers are amazing this summer.

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american werewolves are only in london because they were stolen from the isle of manhattan by the british museum

I used the phrase, "The scene of the crime" to our building's handyman to describe a plumbing leak. Based solely on this, he said I should write a mystery novel.

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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

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OK Bluesky comrades, who can afford to donate at least $5 a month to @psabortionfund.bsky.social? They are an all-volunteer led abortion fund based in South Carolina. They do such good work. Will you join me as monthly subscribers? donorbox.org/support-the-... - they need a min of $10,000 a month.

Donate to Palmetto State Abortion Fund | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)donorbox.org Right now, abortion is only legal in South Carolina through 6 weeks of pregnancy, before most people even know they are pregnant.How Much Does an Abortion Cost?A medication abortion in South Carolina ...

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Ways to spend the Fourth of July: -Set off small explosives in your yard -Eat dubious meat -Get together with a friend and write letters encouraging Americans to use their power and vote (votefwd.org)

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Guidance for US people trying to understand the UK election results later: Tories under 150 seats: LOL Tories under 120 seats: LMAO Tories under 100 seats: ROFL

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Louise Erdrich's "The Sentence" is on sale today for $3 on Kindle. This is a book about 2020 and Minneapolis and both metaphorical and real ghosts (among other things) and it's so, so good. www.amazon.com/Sentence-Lou...

Amazon.com: The Sentence: 9780062671127: Erdrich, Louise: Bookswww.amazon.com Amazon.com: The Sentence: 9780062671127: Erdrich, Louise: Books

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~o~l~d~~p~e~o~p~l~e~~d~o~n~’~t~~w~a~n~t~~b~i~k~e~~l~a~n~e~s~ #bryantbikepath #winning

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More trains please.

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Jesus, this is terrible. Just crushing. A journalist shot in the eye by Minneapolis police during the George Floyd protests is dying from her injury, and is now in hospice care. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/please-hel...

Please Help Journalist Linda Tiradowww.everythingishorrible.net Linda has a traumatic brain injury and needs support for her family and for end of life.

I say this all of the time-it's us, adult humans. We're the ones who help.

Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.

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Very cool #sciart opportunity alas for Arizona artists only

CALL TO ARTIST – NEW ARTIST EXHIBITION AT THE FLINN FOUNDATION GALLERY – FROM MICRO TO MACRO - Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizonaartsfoundtucson.org The Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance is partnering with the Flinn Foundation to present an original art exhibition exploring the microscopic wonders of bacteria and tissue-based imagery. The ...

Gosh, they were so great before this...

Ticketmaster sending out notice at 5:30pm on July 3 that credit card numbers were compromised in a data breach 6 weeks ago -- you fucks

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Eleven People are Responsible for 73% of Book Ban Requests in Wisconsinaction.everylibrary.org Many of the book banners aren't parents, don't have children in the districts, and many books they want banned aren't even in the school libraries!

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"Politics would be interesting again" Oh, jeez, I'm sorry that SCOTUS Team 6 waterboarding democracy to pave the way for a felon-messiah-king who's vowing to use the presidency to deport millions and imprison his foes for treason hasn't been INTERESTING enough for you. Let me jangle some car keys.

Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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ICMYI I wrote about the importance of being a citizen archivist. We've seen so much incredible art and writing from marginalized people, and we need to preserve it in the face of a huge, well-funded backlash. This is something concrete you personally can do! buttondown.email/charliejane/...

We Should All Be Archivistsbuttondown.email Lately, I keep obsessing about two seemingly opposing but interrelated trends: 1) The past decade has seen an incredible bounty of art and self-expression...