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Aunties must run the world. BadQuaker. Ex-librarian. DamnedLiberal. Atypical๐ง . Creative maladjust. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ wife of an inimitable ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ. PhD Human Devโt, working philosโr ๐โ๏ธโฎ๏ธ๐บ๐ธ, never๐ณ๏ธ #Writersky #Booksky #UBI #novel #GlobalWomensUprisingโ โจ๐ท๐๐โจ
๐ฃ #ZcavengerHunt:
๐ต๐ฝโโ๏ธ The final stop opens at 5:30pm! If you arrive early, please enjoy local neighborhood offerings until then ๐
๐ต๐ฝโโ๏ธ Only players with clue cards will be able to access the final stop. We couldnโt have imagined how many New Yorkers would be ready to Zcavenge!
In addition to creating a joyous event, Zohran Mamdani just showed the stupidity of Fox News's "Crime is so bad in New York City, people are afraid to go out in the street or take the subway!!!"
24.08.2025 19:34 โ ๐ 14825 ๐ 3675 ๐ฌ 243 ๐ 123"By moving convicted felon Maxwell to a minimum security, country club prison, the DOJ sends a disturbing message that child sex trafficking is acceptable and will be rewarded."
The family of Virginia Giuffre
Part of the huge crowd in Boorloo Perth March for Palestine
24.08.2025 11:22 โ ๐ 193 ๐ 31 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Over a quarter of all homes sold in the first three months of 2025 were bought by real estate investors.
If we want to make housing affordable again, we must get Wall Street out of our homes. https://youtu.be/q9TOGxDJ0TE?feature=shared
โ๏ธThe ๐ซ๐ทEiffel Tower today is in the colors of the ๐บ๐ฆUkrainian flag.
25.08.2025 02:14 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 01/2
More reasons to keep your vaccines up to date The shingles shot doesnโt just stop painโฆit's associated with a significant reduction your risk of dementia including Alzheimerโs by as much as 35%. Protect your mind while you protect your body. Influenza vax? 30-40% reduction. Pneumococcal? 2--30%
Immigrants power Californiaโs economy and keep our state moving.
Indiscriminately targeting them is not only cruel but illegal, and Californians arenโt buying it.
Iโd just like to point out that counter protesters outside the hotels used to house immigrants/asylum seekers are not all โleft wing.โ Many are just decent human beings sick of the way these people have been demonised by our Labour government, the Tories and Reform.
24.08.2025 11:46 โ ๐ 96 ๐ 17 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A huge thank you to those who participated in the #BannedBookSkyClub discussion of the graphic novel #TheCompletePersepolis - the comments were incredible as always!
Discussions never end so have a look at the Banned Book Club feed and join in if you've read any of the books. Link to feed below.
report losing $7,000 in a single night or seeing sales fall by 75% on normally busy evenings. In neighborhoods like Columbia Heights, street vendors say foot traffic has โdisappeared,โ with business now worse than during the pandemic. Chinatown, some shop owners estimate a 30โ40% drop in sales.
24.08.2025 20:36 โ ๐ 1992 ๐ 348 ๐ฌ 23 ๐ 11#coloraday #greensat #eastcoastkin #bloomscrolling #photography
24.08.2025 04:16 โ ๐ 607 ๐ 53 ๐ฌ 14 ๐ 3New Episode of #SistersInLaw www.politicon.com/podcasts/eve...
25.08.2025 00:52 โ ๐ 466 ๐ 117 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 6Paying Too Much for Energy? Dems Say Blame the GOP
25.08.2025 02:05 โ ๐ 52 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0A perk of living with other autistic people, I donโt have to explain why I canโt use a certain fan. I just have to turn it on so they can hear the high pitch sound it makes (that is either caused by a gear needing lubricant or just electricity) and it gets unanimously voted out of the house.
24.08.2025 17:46 โ ๐ 426 ๐ 21 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 1"But what good have all these anti-hero narratives done for us? Weโve been entertained, sure, but it also feels pretty obvious that theyโve normalized an American masculinity that is selfish, abusive, nihilistic, and ultimately self-destructive."
25.08.2025 01:44 โ ๐ 1802 ๐ 325 ๐ฌ 70 ๐ 93making my way through the ken burns JAZZ documentary and this portion of his interview with dave brubeck โ who passed in 2012 โ is a reminder of how *recent* american history really is. start at :55 or so. youtu.be/stadqAHRroA?...
25.08.2025 01:06 โ ๐ 1974 ๐ 412 ๐ฌ 67 ๐ 27Today at my UU, the Revs answered questions about fascism. One of the Qs concerned whether we are doing enough.
My Rev said โWIN ONE.โ Whatever you can win against them is a win. If you think you can win something, however small, fight for it. And every win, no matter how small, must be celebrated,
My law firm is currently litigating 52 voting and election cases in 23 states. This includes the Ohio case we filed on Friday night and the redistricting case challenging Texas' new congressional map.
I am thankful for our clients willing to wage these fights. They, not the lawyers, are the heroes.
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
24.08.2025 23:37 โ ๐ 22674 ๐ 7207 ๐ฌ 910 ๐ 330NEW โ A DC National Guard member spotted carrying an M17 pistol, as The Handbasket first reported they would. (Photo shared with me by @publius24.bsky.social)
25.08.2025 00:46 โ ๐ 1995 ๐ 776 ๐ฌ 129 ๐ 129An โunattractive combination of machismo and self-pity. .. If youโre accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.โ
@theguardian.com
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Macaques infected with human HPAI H5N1 virus. Cynomolgus macaques = severe pneumonia, 100% mortality at 7dpi. Rhesus macaques dose-dependent mortality, survivors had protective immunity. Immune dysregulation key mechanism of pathogenesis.
๐ www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
South Korea's Lee faces pivotal test at first summit with Trump reut.rs/3HKy2Y2
25.08.2025 01:10 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1kitchen table issue: stop kidnapping my neighbors!
24.08.2025 21:58 โ ๐ 4093 ๐ 812 ๐ฌ 42 ๐ 11#fungifriends
24.08.2025 22:38 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#collapse #novel economics
24.08.2025 23:24 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0"Mainstream economists are not interested in describing reality, they are interested, ultimately, in telling people how to behave. They actually are moralists more than scientists, but they pretend to be scientists, and they use moralistic language - "rational behavior" - to describe actions that any other sort of moralist would consider the essence of immoral behavior." David Graeber
Yes
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