Bishop of Washington DC appeals to Trump for compassion and mercy.

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A summer's day's harvest from my no-dig garden in my small backyard. I just moved to the city and will be starting my permaculture, no-dig veggie garden from scratch again. Let me know if you would like to see the process and learn how you can produce a lot of food in a tiny space.

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is well protected in a fabulous Cowrie shells neck piece. The National Museum of African American History and Culture notes that, in America, the shell is thought to be a totem used to resist enslavement.

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As far as Meritocracy goes, Musk isn't really standing up to the challenge. Let's pay him accordingly.

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Trump says he can exploit victims of the Los Angeles wildfires to pass his extreme agenda by holding funding hostage: “When Los Angeles is included, we get everything we want”

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But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

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