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In Wake of Charlie Kirk Murder, Sen. Bernie Sanders Addresses Rising Political Violence in America
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders In Wake of Charlie Kirk Murder, Sen. Bernie Sanders Addresses Rising Political Violence in America

The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life.

A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation.

No more political violence.

11.09.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4443    πŸ” 1097    πŸ’¬ 401    πŸ“Œ 124

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

10.09.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 24480    πŸ” 5249    πŸ’¬ 381    πŸ“Œ 152
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The Invention of β€œSesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

β€œSmall children from poor or middle-class families who watch β€˜Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

29.07.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 17432    πŸ” 4438    πŸ’¬ 393    πŸ“Œ 257

The fact that the people designing AI even *think* AI art/writing could be a good idea demonstrates to me that the whole thing is a bad idea. Because whatever they design, these people aren’t designing it for the right reasons.

19.07.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.

11.07.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4441    πŸ” 1109    πŸ’¬ 148    πŸ“Œ 89
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Big Plastic wants you to think you can recycle your yogurt container Those numbered labels, vetted by private interests, can be misleading.

Most plastics are not recyclable, largely because there is no market for materials labeled 3 through 7.

from @grist.org via @climatedesk.org

11.07.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4158    πŸ” 1553    πŸ’¬ 206    πŸ“Œ 125
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Remembering this weekend how entrenched it is in American media to use language that subtly--or directly--depicts nonviolent protest (which the audience would sympathize with) as a violent riot (which the audience would not).

It might, in fact, be our longest-held media tradition.

08.06.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier." An Australian study, conducted over four years and starting before the pandemic, has come up with some enlightening conclusions about the impact of working from home. The researchers are unequivocal: ...

Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...

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looking from under a couple trees. branches and bunches of leaves all pointing toward the center.

looking from under a couple trees. branches and bunches of leaves all pointing toward the center.

"They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds."

-Dinos Christianopoulos.

11.05.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2504    πŸ” 416    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 16
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Chicago Pope's here

08.05.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 8950    πŸ” 1653    πŸ’¬ 224    πŸ“Œ 276

really thinking pritzker has the juice

28.04.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, β€œThe First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

28.04.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 27687    πŸ” 6671    πŸ’¬ 418    πŸ“Œ 280
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

19.04.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 20610    πŸ” 5358    πŸ’¬ 494    πŸ“Œ 276

Autism is not a disease.
Autism is not an epidemic.
Autism is a multifactorial genetic-based neurological condition.
And it’s not caused by vaccines or nebulous β€œenvironmental toxins.”

A thread πŸ‘‡πŸ»

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18.04.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3232    πŸ” 884    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 57
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Home Opener Sunrise. This morning's start as the baseball season at Wrigley Field begins.

04.04.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 770    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 7

Chaos

11.03.2025 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
OF THE EMPIRE
We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

10.03.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 8852    πŸ” 2806    πŸ’¬ 190    πŸ“Œ 154
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a field of tall grass with the words do what makes you happy Alt: a field of tall grass on a sunny day with the words do what makes you happy

Let’s talk.
I know the world looks chaotic right now.

But don’t let anyone take away the things you enjoy - (when you’re not doom scrolling).

Whether it’s being in nature, cooking, art, poetry, playing video games or spending time with a loved one watching TV; don’t stop doing those things.
🧡

02.03.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Crocus defiantly growing between cobblestones. According to PlantNet app it’s Crocus tommasinianus. I am not a botanist…

Crocus defiantly growing between cobblestones. According to PlantNet app it’s Crocus tommasinianus. I am not a botanist…

In these terrible times we are going through, I wanted to share this beautiful crocus defiantly growing between cobblestones in our garden with you.
Take care! Stay strong!

02.03.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 15283    πŸ” 1193    πŸ’¬ 273    πŸ“Œ 50

Meditate today, even for just five minutes.

Then contemplate one small action you can take to bring about a world where all humans are safe and included.

24.02.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Illustration shows girl reading a book with "I love to read" on the cover. Text above is a Judy Blume quote: "Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me." Art by Debbie Ridpath Ohi.

Illustration shows girl reading a book with "I love to read" on the cover. Text above is a Judy Blume quote: "Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me." Art by Debbie Ridpath Ohi.

"Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me." - Judy Blume (whose birthday πŸŽ‚ is today!)

#Freadom #BannedBooks #Edusky

12.02.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 260    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 8
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The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present.
The future is only a projection of our present conceptions.
The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it.
So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground?

~Dilgo Khyentse
#mindfullness #buddhism

02.12.2024 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

31.01.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 146811    πŸ” 24318    πŸ’¬ 4216    πŸ“Œ 1481

Dear FRIENDS OF BLUESKY LET'S DO THIS
OUR TRANS COMMUNITY NEEDS US

01.02.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 286    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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Discover five facts about WHO and its global impact ⬇️

23.01.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 857    πŸ” 269    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 15

Commit the sin of empathy.

25.01.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 11335    πŸ” 3891    πŸ’¬ 97    πŸ“Œ 87
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β€˜Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country’: here is the sermon that enraged Donald Trump | Mariann Edgar Budde This week, the Bishop of Washington delivered a sermon in front of President Trump urging him to show mercy towards LGBTQ+ and migrant communities. The president condemned it as β€˜nasty’. We reproduce ...

β€œHave mercy, Mr President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away. Help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A Mindfulness Survival Kit For Caring People, Concerned Citizens, and Democratic Resisters

The MAGA movement shows what happens when democracy is NOT based in mindfulness. To resist, we must root democracy in better, more mindful civic habits. To that end I’ve created a mindfulness survival kit; I hope it brings you peace, and points toward a different democracy than the one that failed.

22.01.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

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