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Progressives Win in Seattle, Changing Directions on Public Safety Voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.

Katie Wilson, Seattle’s newly elected mayor, has embraced a city-owned startup designed to emulate Vienna’s social housing model, which involves a public developer building housing designed to be permanently affordable.

Very good news.

Good news for #California mountain lions, pumas, panthers, and catamounts!

The CA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife just announced that protections for mountain lion populations ranging from the Bay Area and the Central Coast to Southern California are warranted under the state’s #ESA ➡️ bit.ly/4iPo71j

FIFA is completely boycotted due to some host countries murdering all stray dogs in a painful manner.

YouTube video by Status Coup News BREAKING: Luigi Lawyers FURIOUS Crime Scene Video Sent to Media, SHADINESS w/ Luigi Backpack?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qJ8...

Good one.

Street Spirit is an independent, monthly newspaper that has been dedicated to covering poverty & homelessness since 1995.

We're throwing our winter fundraiser party at Eli's Mile High Club in #Oakland this Friday. Join us for a night of music & community to celebrate another year of Street Spirit.

The kids are alright.

Death toll rises in Sumatra flood catastrophe as gov’t moves to protect Batang Toru forest NORTH SUMATRA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s environment ministry on Dec. 6 suspended private sector activity in a crucial high conservation value rainforest as rescuers continued working through three…

Fatal floods in Sumatra have killed nearly 1,000 people. Indonesia has suspended firms operating in the Batang Toru ecosystem, home to the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan.

Advocates say curbing deforestation is key as responders continue rescue efforts after Cyclone Senyar.

Very sad indeed.

I'm short just one very pro hacker...

I don't know what this means, but it sounds fierce.

It's a sad twist of statistics that despite the fact it's a certainty that each billionaire and oligarch will be pulled down and torn apart within moments of the final collapse of society, it's actually very unlikely that any given individual will be present to witness one if these events.

Oh, I will be.

Sickening, horrid people.

Anyone moving into that new building is a POS and will never be forgiven.

I wouldn't be surprised if he has already raped someone.

Ecocide should be added to this.

Found it, thanks.

Liam Neeson and ‘The Grey’ Wolf Stew Feast: PETA Calls for Boycott of Movie The Grey actor Liam Neeson has entered into the bad book of animal right activists, who claim that the actor's act of dining on wolf flesh will endanger the species.

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Do you have a source for this? If so, he is definitely cancelled.

Anti Police-Terror Project Relaunches MH First for Non-Police Crisis Response - Davis Vanguard The Anti Police-Terror Project has relaunched MH First, a community-driven crisis response program, and opened the First Responders: Survivors Line, a hotline for those harmed by law enforcement, to p...

"The Anti Police-Terror Project is relaunching MH First, a community-driven and community-run crisis response program, & opening the First Responders: Survivors Line, a new hotline aimed at supporting people harmed by law enforcement across Northern California."
#Oakland #Sacramento #FirstResponders

‘HOMELAND OR DEATH!’

On this day, December 11th 1964, Argentine revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara delivered his famous speech to the UN General Assembly, denouncing US imperialism and expressing Latin America’s defiant resistance to Washington’s attempts at dominating the continent.

Randa’s Market’s owner released surveillance footage of KitKat’s last moments, after Waymo’s PR team tried shifting blame to KitKat. In Western Addition, the company offered buy the family of Leo a new dog.

Pie graphs showing how animal agriculture is the least covered theme in climate reporting, compared to regenerative agriculture, consumerism, land use changes, residential, general agriculture, transportation, fossil fuels, mining, manufacturing and energy production and emissions.

Sentient’s analysis of 940 climate news stories across 11 outlets found that 96.2 percent made no mention of meat or livestock production as a cause of climate change.

This makes animal agriculture the least covered theme in climate reporting.

It started decades ago.

Need mass public transit by far.

Massive logging project next to Yellowstone National Park blocked by U.S. court - Western Environmental Law Center In response to a lawsuit by conservation groups, a federal court today struck down a U.S. Forest Service plan to log more than 16,500 acres of pine forests just outside Yellowstone National Park, in t...

BREAKING: We just defeated a huge, mature forest clear cutting/logging project adjacent to Yellowtone & in grizzly recovery zones/lynx critical habitat.

The feds didn't even tell the public where the logging and road-building was going to occur, and they thought they'd get away with it. #Greensky

Across Latin America populist regimes challenge nature conservation goals The election of populist politicians seldom bodes well for the people of the Amazon or the conservation of its biodiversity and ecosystem services. Most are just stylistic versions of the generic…

Across Latin America, leaders often campaign on conservation but pivot once in office, weakening protections & backing extractive industries.

From Bolsonaro’s rollback of Brazil’s safeguards to pushes for farming & drilling in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, Indigenous rights & forests remain at risk.

Good new terrible information about the uwu smoll bean tech startup Flock in this decidedly non-glazing piece