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A Growing Number of ‘Repair Cafes’ Are Popping Up Around the World to Curb Consumer Waste - Inside Climate News Local communities are hosting events where people can bring in their broken goods for repairs—free of charge.

A timeline cleanser: My recent newsletter is about rise of "repair cafes" around the world, where communities come together to fix each other's beloved things. The goal: reduce consumer waste, and maybe make some buddies in the process 🔧👭

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

These Native kids were first to witness the mighty Klamath River's rebirth The removal of dams, and the river's restoration, is "a great David-and-Goliath story."

“The river seemed to come alive right after dam removal.”

These Native kids were the first to witness the mighty Klamath River's rebirth.

WCK is serving free meals for furloughed federal workers impacted by the U.S. government shutdown. These meals are available to federal employees and their families. Below are locations and hours. #ChefsForFeds (1/2)

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

EXCLUSIVE: Our friends at @lighthousereports.com obtained a secret data trove.

It revealed a vast global surveillance empire whose tech has been used to target politicians, journalists, tech execs, and Jared Leto.

The story only gets wilder from there.

1/ South Korean workers arrested in Georgia and subsequently deported from the US have been giving more accounts of their experiences. The deportation of over 300 workers has caused political uproar in South Korea and prompted a human rights investigation into their ordeal. ⬇️

Republicans Are Using an Arcane Oversight Rule to Permanently Dismantle Federal Land Protections This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly...

In the spring of 1996, lawmakers buried a rider in a humdrum bill meant to make life easier for small businesses. Thirty years later, Republican lawmakers are wielding it to quietly upend how the country manages public lands. (edited)
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It’s kind of comforting to learn we’ve all been in hell for a year.

The entire population of the country OD’ing on fent and being in hell together is much easier to come to terms with than a literal nazi coup by the most unserious, willfully ignorant people in the country.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov

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Meet the women who turned beach cleanups into a global movement – and what was forgotten along the way In the 1980s, beach cleanups were envisaged as citizen science, aimed squarely at industrial pollution.

In the 1980s, beach cleanups were envisaged as citizen science, aimed squarely at industrial pollution.

The Wild Hornets are blown away by the warm reception at our booth at the great Toronto Ukrainian Festival!🐝

Nearly a million people are expected!

We are deeply honoured to meet visitors with heartbreaking stories of family lost in the war and a veteran sapper badly wounded in 2016

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The Situation: So Much Worse Than You Thought Just how bad is The Situation at the Justice Department?

In The Situation, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org discusses the ongoing politicization of the Justice Department and what a future administration could do to rebuild the department. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Captain and 1st + 2nd mate of EAGLE S are charged with "outrageous destruction and outrageous interference with telecommunications + alternative criminal offenses."*

EAGLE S dragged her anchor for nine hours Dec 2024 in an attack on comms and power infrastructure of Gulf of Finland.

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Top 3 Bids at 5:15PM EST
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übrigens ist das Verkehrsproblem gelöst 👍🏻

120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.

See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

One doesn’t have to be a Batman to fight off evil. Sometimes, it’s enough to be a man with a bat. Or a woman. Or a cartoon dog.

Let’s make a NAFO air defense unit that bonks the russian drones away a reality:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

United States 2025 Self-Coup Tracker - Google My Maps Malcontent News Last Updated: 10 JUN 2025 20:00 PDT Tracking state national guard, federalized national guard, and federal troop deployments within the United States, significant areas of unrest, an...

FIXED! We have launched a new geoconfirmed map for the United States tracking the ongoing potential self-coup.

It includes protests, civil unrest, military deployments, large ICE/HSI/etc deployments, police deployments, and major incidents of Constitutional due process violations.

Please amplify.

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This is our first military fundraiser in nearly a year. One that is as timely and crucial as ever. This is our chance to stop daily russian terror. Regardless of what is decided by the powers that be, including those in charge of algorithms. So let’s:
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🙏 @kajakallas.bsky.social continues to expose russian hypocrisy, directly and unapologetically.

We truly wish this obvious point was obvious for everyone.

US Border Patrol Called Raid 300 Miles From Border 'Targeted'. Open Source Evidence Suggests Otherwise - bellingcat US Border Patrol travelled 300 Miles for a 'targeted' operation. Rights groups say it was anything but targeted.

A January operation in the central Californian city of Bakersfield saw dozens detained by border patrol agents operating more than 300 miles from the US southern border. Bellingcat worked with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org to piece together the operation www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04...

Palm oil company uses armed forces, tear gas against protesting villagers in Cameroon Villagers in Cameroon have denounced the use of tear gas by authorities to break up their protest on March 25 against the replanting of oil palm trees by the plantation company Socapalm on disputed…

Villagers in Cameroon have denounced the use of tear gas by authorities to break up their protest on March 25 against the replanting of oil palm trees by the plantation company Socapalm on disputed land in the country’s southwest.

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People need to understand the republican leaders are counting on the market to drop! Why? They are buying these low price stocks. Then they will reverse the tariffs market will spike back up. These leaders will sell and make billions! It’s called insider trading

REMINDER: Wisconsin has same-day voter registration.

So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY.

Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.

💔 "Don't be silent, the prisoner kills!": weekly action in support of Ukrainian prisoners of war continues in Kyiv

Vote #SusanCrawford #Wisconsin

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Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance Ordinary people have more power than they know.

"There’s no messiah who will sweep in and make everything better. That’s up to you and me."

Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance | Ordinary people have more power than they know.

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