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Gaza Craft Fair Donation Form Thank you for offering to submit items for the upcoming Craft Fundraiser on September 7th 2025. Due date: Tuesday September 2nd 2025 We are accepting donations by mail through Tuesday September 2nd 20...

A small group of us is planning a craft fair fundraiser for Gaza on September 7. Some of you have already generously reached out to offer a craft to us to sell at the fundraiser. We now have a form with details for anyone who wants to contribute a craft: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - thank you.

Homelessness is a policy failure, not a personal one.

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..."

whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...

one of the great tragedies of our age is how many people are willing to view AI as magic because they don't understand how it functions but unwilling to exhibit any humility at all towards more important things they understand even less (like the climate or medicine)

Sounds like this survivor of Epstein and Maxwell is saying she'd take Trump pardoning Maxwell as an admission of guilt, which sounds like a smart message.

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We’re training one million Americans how to chip away at the civic pillars Trump needs to cement and uphold his power — media, business leaders, civic organizations, and beyond. Join us on Wednesday: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

That’s another facet of the Zohran campaign hitting so hard for me. He’s running in part because people like my family can’t afford to stay in the city anymore.

12 yrs ago I lived in Astoria in a 3BR with 3 RMs for ~$3200/mo.

5 years later: gave up on affording rent in NY, moved to Philly where I pay just a little > my share of the Astoria rent for a whole 2BR (and am another NYer displacing Philly residents). Cuomo's post could not be less compelling...

Saw her in college and have loved her ever since.

Posts like the one in the screenshot reveal how little regard these folks have for girls and women. So fragile that we can't be seen purchasing basic hygiene products without getting the vapors

Everything is so dumb all the time now...

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing.

Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter.

Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵
x.com/andrewcuomo/...

Mad about Epstein, elect Epstein’s best friend. Mad about grocery prices, elect the guy who makes them more expensive. Mad about the working class, elect the union buster.

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Tonight, please spare a thought to all our scientists and public health workers who have dedicated their careers to saving millions of lives.

Despite their amazing work they are constantly threatened due to politicization and the unfettered spread of misinformation.

It should not be like this 💔

Twenty something Black woman some time in the 70s looking like an icon...

This pretty lady is my mama, who would have been 75 today. I owe everything from my deep sense of empathy to my inability to shut up, even when it's for my own good, to her.

Happy birthday, Ma. Miss you every day.

It's really key to understand this: ***they don't need actual backlash of any substance or scale to run this cycle***. All they need is a few random comments, which they can always find, which means that you can basically run this cycle at will. You don't need libs to play along at all!

This post is so perfect I want to frame it.

The current moment with LLMs feels like watching millions of people pull a Narcissus: falling in love with their own reflections because they’ve persuaded themselves they’re instead looking at a beautiful alien water nymph.

three recent Financial Times headlines tell you what’s really going on — your 401k is now a bailout fund for private equity billionaires

www.levernews.com/your-401-k-i...

See, the voters (especially the dark ones) can't be trusted to establish the "appropriate amount of representation for each party in Congress" so Republicans are just going to help out by removing that responsibility from them all together.

t took six months for a Trump official to be politely forced by a journalist to admit live on air what everyone - including every economist - knows to be true (but which Trump keeps lying about): tariffs are paid in the US by US importers.

What an indictment of our media.

It happened again

We have always been a nation of 200 million white people holding and creating half a billion jobs every month.

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Worth noting that Trump's handling of the Epstein files has really been no different from his handling of anything else--obvious lies, deflection, litigation, distraction. Only diff is political media felt empowered by MAGA anger to actually report somewhat accurately.

Forgot that lobster social system was actually a thing a real proposal and not a cute non sequitur The Onion made up...