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Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

reading this prose is like being suffocated with a pillow

Hidden wonders: my fascinating encounters with the Bittern Elusive and majestic, the Bittern’s booming call echoes across Minsmere’s reeds – a symbol of hope and conservation success

Back in 1997 there were just 11 booming male Bitterns left in the UK – almost extinct. Thanks to conservation by @rspb.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social 283 booming males were recorded in 2024.

Les Cater shares his story and stunning photos of these rare birds ⤵️

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This is so cool: Copper, which makes induction stoves with li-ion batteries integrated, is going to build *10,000* of these suckers for use in New York public housing.

Better cooking, easier cleaning, grid resiliency built in. Win win win.

“The great feminization is a threat to civilization” “did women ruin the workplace?” “Do women achieve real dignity through dependence?” “Is not getting laid a human rights violation for men?” They overturned Roe just three years ago.

Women’s status is eroding rapidly and dramatically—in employment, in culture, and in the law. But that is not considered important news; what’s considered important news is men’s aggrieved feelings about how we’re not being forced back into the kitchen fast enough.

But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.

hear me out, maybe it’s time to stop making men the president for awhile

YouTube video by Farm to Taber Public Grocery: Let's Talk Logistics!

There's been a lot of pearl-clutching about public grocery stores!

Which is wild, because we have a LOT of experience with public grocery stores in the US. And the folks it serves (US military & military families) stand by it.

performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!

tell me about a book that changed you

for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"

Before Elvis sang it, she owned it. Big Mama Thornton — the original voice behind “Hound Dog” (1953)

Appreciate your boosting/sharing of this episode in particular. Action items at the end include a petition for Leqaa

Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.

SEND AN EMAIL: Restore Chicago’s Library Collections Budget No one has asked for this cut. Not librarians, not Alderpeople, not the library’s union, and certainly not the residents who rely on Chicago’s 81 branches every day.

No one has asked for this cut. Not librarians, not Alderpeople, not the library’s union, and certainly not the residents who rely on Chicago’s 81 branches every day.

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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Keep on is what they were supposed to do. Not cave. Caving is what Dems do, and we wonder why so many stay home instead of voting.

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Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.

From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays

Those kids are now radicalized. They'll never forget.

Oh I'm definitely going to call it that! And when people say huh? I'll say, "you know, what the hypemen call "Generative" ai"

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Trains forever!

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Shots fired at immigration agents in Little Village as residents confront Bovino, Border Patrol, authorities say Community members once again confronted a convoy of Border Patrol agents led by Cmdr. Gregory Bovino as it moved through Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods.

Federal immigration agents pepper-sprayed an infant today.

Story by @ckubzansky.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social

Make Media Brave Again The only way to protect what’s left of journalism is to do the job right.

A rallying cry for my fellow journalists to put their boots on and grow a backbone.

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.

The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.

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ALL I WANT FOR THE HOLIDAYS IS DEMOCRACY! Economic Boycott with a Side of Holiday Cheer! Black Friday Week Economic Blackout! Boycott big corporations - especially Amazon, Target, Walmart, etc. - all season! Buy local & small, or not at all! Make gifts, and arrange with loved ones how to celebrate without the spending! LinkTree.com/DougCoActivism WE DEMAND BETTER 4 ALL

Hi everyone!! As the holidays approach, it is time for a mass boycott!

Just imagine the impact if people didn’t flood Amazon with holiday orders this year?? If the economy didn’t boom these last two months with billions in sales as it usually does??

Please share this everywhere!!!!

Bail out the people who are harmed, not the bad companies that caused the harm.