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Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.

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YouTube video by Revanlation Captain Beefheart - When Big Joan Sets Up

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Rest in peace to Tom Lehrer, man…

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

This is a great resource

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The 'meta' data center's clean energy pledge needs a shortcut.

Our staff is on the ground supporting families. Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. 4/

NOAA Proposes Permanently Closing Premiere Hurricane Research Institute In its proposed 2026 budget released Monday, NOAA closes all federally funded weather and climate research labs, including the one responsible for maintaining the nation’s top hurricane models

It's hard to adequately summarize how destructive NOAA's 2026 proposed budget released on Monday is for hurricane forecasting, but I crammed all I could into today's newsletter. I encourage everyone with interests along the coast to read it carefully. ⬇️

The United States should not wage war against Iran.

Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran is unconstitutional. Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent an another endless war.

This is a horrific war of choice.

The mother of Adrian Andrew Martinez is pleading for answers as her son remains unaccounted for nearly 24 hours later.

ICE kidnapped Adrian yesterday while he was on break in the Walmart parking lot in Pico Rivera. FREE ADRIAN!

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About 3 dozen LAPD officers in full riot gear, standing around looking confused, bored, aimless. A waste of taxpayer money, a threatening show of force without morality or purpose. Behind them, the north wall of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, covered with Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)" mural: against a field of stark red, white letters that read, in part, WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

The Core of Brian Wilson stealthmunchkin shared this playlist with you. shared via @tunemymusic

A short while ago I put together a playlist for friends to show them what it was that I was getting from Brian's music. I subtitled it "Beach Boys songs that are very Relatable (TM) to neurodivergent depressives". You can find it here www.tunemymusic.com/share/80zVbx...

NGO tells Chiquita: ‘return to Panama and reinstate workers’ Global Labor Justice accuses company of historic violations and being in breach of international conventions on labour rights

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Painting of Lenny

I’m doing a fundraiser over the next 10 days to help the SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition, a nonprofit based in LA, save its mobile shower program.

More info below but—if you donate enough, I’ll send you a video message or a custom painting like this one.

Please share!

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saw this odd field in Manitoba and thought of your endeavor

Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

does diversion raise the risk of saltwater intrusion further upriver?

Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure The mods of the academic subreddit r/askhistorians, with the support of about 30 other research & academic subs, ‪have posted a call in defense of the US research, which is under an unprecedented...

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A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Clancy T. Bachleratt and Jackie Snad Sing Easter Songs - SNL

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Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'” That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.

An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."

The other said, "Take him anyway."

So they did.

Good morning.

Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.

It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

Anyone have good links?

Why Congress Should Block Offensive Weapons Sales to Israel - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/04/w...

Liberation Day has become so commercialized.

I happen to think Liberation Day should be spent enjoying tariffs with friends and family.

Still have some frozen from last year, I use them in smoothies.
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right argues @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

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A portion of John Quincy Adams' Amistad argument before SCOTUS: "I will not recur to the Declaration of Independence--your Honors have it implanted in your hearts--but one of the grievous charges brought against George III. was, that he had made laws for sending men beyond seas for trial. That was one of the most odious of those acts of tyranny which occasioned the American revolution. The whole of the reasoning is not applicable to this case, but I submit to your Honors that, if the President has the power to do it in the case of Africans, and send them beyond seas for trial, he could do it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the United States, on the demand of a foreign minister, and send them beyond seas for trial before a foreign court."

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant