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We now have Tropical Storm Chantal. It’s 150 miles SSE of Charleston, moving N at 2 MPH. No change to the Tropical Storm Watch for the Charleston metro, but a Tropical Storm Warning is now up for Georgetown & Myrtle up toward Cape Fear.

Mayor Brandon Scott has reduced crime in Baltimore by 62%, and now has the lowest homicide rate in Baltimore history.

How did he do it?

NOT be spending more on police. He did it by MAJOR investment in afterschool and literacy programs.

Socialism works

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

A Twitter screenshot. Sadiq Khan, mayor of London’s original tweet is a photograph of Regent Street with rows of progress pride flags hanging up. The tweet says “Tomorrow at pride in London we’ll send a message to the world: in our city you are free to be whoever you want to be, and love whoever you want to love. We must take a stand against those seeking to roll back hard won rights.” Glinner’s quote tweet says “so glad to be far, far away from this smiling fascism”

Petition to Sadiq to keep the pride flags on regent street up all year round as a Glinner deterrent

Whenever I see women speak out against their rap*sts and name them, I see those women then shamed by the public. How come rap*sts never receive that level of being shamed???

#booksky

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

Patio of the 12 lions Alhambra

Ceiling plasterwork in the sultans palace

Plaster and tile work in Alhambra

Patio with reflecting pool in Alhambra

Been 20 years since I’ve been to the Alhambra and it remains pretty damn stunning

24 deaths reported so far from flooding in Kerrville, near Austin/San Antonio, TX.

Several summer camps were active when the flooding started, including 'Camp Mystic' which houses 750 girls for a week-long camp at a site along the river. 25 girls are missing.

A parent's nightmare.

The most 🤮 part of this whole bullshit thread from the NYT:
Pat “But Her Emails” Healy is now NYT assistant managing editor for STANDARDS AND TRUST.

This is like making Trump a chief anti-corruption officer.

There is no stronger confirmation that the NYT execs hate real journalism.

Everyone should read this and clearly a lot of you still haven't.
(Also available in German thanks to @thediasporist.bsky.social: thediasporist.de/de/der-unent... )

Case in point: I’ve watched Maurice more times than I can count (love Rupert graves)
But I’ve seen 10 Things I Hate About You maybe only twice (hate Julia Stiles)

One thing about me is that I’ll watch the WORST movies/shows if my favor actor(s) is in it, but will avoid even the best movies like the plague if someone I don’t like is in it

I’m just waiting to see how the zionists are going to justify their genocide with this one. It’s funny in an actually devastating way how delusional they’re becoming each day.

The view of Seven Sisters cliffs from Seaford Head

Psst…we're going to let you in on a secret.

The best view of Seven Sisters is actually from Seaford Head, looking from the iconic Coastguard Cottages.

📷 Alan Crozier

If you’re a leftist, you need to be discussing disability rights because it’s one of the most pressing issues of our time. People are becoming more and more disabled in a society that has been allowing high risk people to die. Eugenics is happening RIGHT NOW!!

Tower of London: Two new raven chicks move into their new home Henry and Poe's diet includes one egg a week, meat and for a special treat - blood-soaked biscuits.

Hot corvid news, the Tower of London has new raven bebes.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Here's a glimpse into the people, places, life, and culture of Palestine before the 1948 Nakba.

📷 Browse through what Palestine was like: aje.io/7tepix

Palestine in the early 20th century - a thriving trading nation or ‘a land without a people’?

As we mark 77 years since the #Nakba, historians and witnesses tell the other side of the Palestinian story.

Watch the film: aje.me/palestine

You don’t see any tourism marketing for Palestine because Israel has decimated the land and its people. If one side is still enjoying daily life and allows TOURISTS, but the other is constantly bombed & starved, then there’s the disparaging difference, you see?

That’s no war. That’s Genocide.

Idk I just feel that if your country is “so dangerous” & you’re “constantly afraid of bombings” or your country is “constantly being attacked” & the people feel “oppressed,” then you shouldn’t be inviting people to come visit, right?

So then why do I still see emails & ads for Hillel Birthright? 👀

A restaurant called “Don’t fill up on that” where all we serve are the free bread courses from other restaurants. Cheddar Bay biscuits, chips and salsa, brown bread from Outback, breadsticks from the Olive Garden, and the servers are always all “now don’t fill up on this” and we all laugh and laugh

A beautiful morning for our lambs looking forward to a chill out time in the shade

Like I have a few suggestions for a Charleston based girl 👀 #AmericanGirlDoll

American Girl Doll should have something like the LEGO Ideas where fans submit ideas for characters and the one(s) with the most votes gets made into an official doll

a golden retriever sits and looks directly at the camera. a gigantic tree is in full, bright pink blooms that completely fills the top half of the frame. both the dog’s fur and the tree are shimmering a little in the sunlight. in a delightful coincidence, the dog’s tongue almost perfectly matches the blossoms behind her.

This is Maggie. She saw this tree blossoming into its true colors and thought of you. 13/10