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The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

HHS Has Revived a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism, Senate Suggests Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released a report on the country’s...

Exclusive: HHS used a crony’s discredited Alzheimer’s study as the template for its data-scraping “study” of the causes of autism. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/hhs-has...

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts

Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

YouTube video by Crazy Creatures Honey Badgers Don't Care

Random Fact

Honey Badgers are observed to aim for the testicals when fighting off attackers …

This is one of the reasons that male lions are known to avoid direct conflict with honey badgers.

Minnesota mother remains in ICE custody despite judge's release order Antonia Aguilar Maldonado’s attorneys say she is being held at the Kandiyohi County Jail in Willmar, despite having no criminal record, an active asylum case, and a bond approved by an immigration jud...

Antonia Aguilar Maldonado, a 25-year-old Salvadoran woman, remains in ICE detention in Minnesota more than two weeks after she was arrested by federal agents in St. Paul while on her way to work.

If you are a white parent of a white son, you have an obligation to do better. To be better. To work harder than you probably thought you’d have to. I have white friends who are parents and they’re doing it.

If your son is listening to Charlie Kirk, you have utterly failed as a parent.

Verbal abuse in childhood has devastating impact on adult brain A major new study has found that verbal abuse in childhood may be just as damaging to long-term mental well-being as physical abuse, if not more so. This groundbreaking research highlights the need to...

Feel like nowhere near enough people understand just how bad receiving verbal abuse as a child is for long term outcomes. Even within the mental health profession.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but... names can scar forever.

Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords: "diversity and inclusion" "DEIA" "DEI" "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" "DEIB" "gender identity" "racial preference" "ESG" "organizational equity" "intersectionality" "anti-racism" "critical race theory" "LGBTQ+" "transgender" "cisgender" "gender ideology" "white privilege" "privilege walk" "cultural humility" "equity audit" "restorative justice" "racial equity" "implicit bias" "microaggressions" "inclusive pedagogy" "identity-based oppression" "systems of oppression" "queer" "non-binary" "sexuality" “Trump” “fascist”

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

The logical way to deal with the language between Autism & Autism Spectrum Disorder is the facts …

Autism is a Neurotype.

ASD is a Disorder *related* to Autism like a Sleeping disorder is related to Sleeping.

Four Minneapolis officers were accused of excessive force — and now train other police The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Amir Locke and until recently led MPD’s use-of-force training is not the only trainer whose record has raised concerns over the department’s commitment ...

The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Amir Locke — and, until recently, led MPD’s use-of-force training — is not the only trainer whose record has raised concerns over the department’s commitment to changing its culture.

“We need to have a debate about—”

No. No more debates. You lot have shown you can’t face up to the truth even when it is set out clearly in front of you.

Trans rights now. In all levels of society. Or you are my enemy.

NEW: Apple CEO, Tim Cook, arrives at the White House with a 24 karat gold gift for Trump.

When the history books are written, these compliant, knee-bending billionaires will be excoriated. They will be labelled co-conspirators.

(🎥 CSPAN)

Text from a poem we wrote about the current events. “You wake up to a world that rewards violence more than conscience. You eat your eggs as a baby starves to death. You drop ice into your water and think of your missing neighbors.... for whom ice means something else entirely. You go to work You read attachment files as you watch democracy fade, headlines vanish, evidence disappear... and you think how easy it could be to delete files when you're the one in power.. Your heart breaks...and still, you clock in for another day”

“..and you still carry on.”

Read the whole piece and more here-

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the fuck do you mean 6pm is early

If Joe Biden had told a cable show that non-whites were made for farm labor and insisted his approval rating was in the 70s and then climbed onto the roof of the fucking White House …

I have autistic hyperaccussis, teach in a public HS, and have two sensory-seeking children.

I *live* by the grace of Anker Soundcore A40 in my pocket at all times. Solid middle-bracket. Not bose quality, but not walmart j-lab junk, either. Can find on sale for $50-60.

"Exercise will help you with your chronic illness symptoms" Me: Hahahaha! But, here's the catch. Guess why I find it hard to exercise. MyBodyisTryingToKillMe.com'

We're Not Broken “This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also...

My first book We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation came out four years ago this month. It simultaneously feels like it came out yesterday and a century ago. I did it in hopes that people would take the needs of #ActuallyAutistic people seriously 1/
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Hobbes Project for Suicide Awareness/Prevention Hi! Thank you for expressing interest in learning more about this project. The plan is to record audio/video that can be shared on various platforms including TikTok/BlueSky where people within the Ma...

I wanted to post the form for interest in recording audio/video around Suicide Prevention/Stories of Hope as part of the Marathon Project I am doing. If you sign up I will send you an email with full description

@afspnational.bsky.social #BetterDaysMTG

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Square Canva graphic with a white inset box. White block text inside the white square reads, "Today in unsurprising news: ABA Therapy’s founder, Ole Ivar Lovaas, was a local leader of A Norwegian WWII fascist youth movement." Smaller white text underneath reads, "@ThinkingAutism tinyurl.com/LovaasWasAFascist"

Today in unsurprising news and research revelations:

ABA Therapy’s founder, Ole Ivar Lovaas, was a local leader of A Norwegian WWII fascist youth movement, and "he and his family were Nazi collaborators."

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When you know the homie is going through it - keep checking on the homie. Don't worry about being a bother or being annoying

Keep checking on them. Keep inviting them. Don't stop

I'm only here because for a year ppl didn't just let me isolate in my sadness

Don't let the homies feel forgotten

Hey @ultimateguard.bsky.social are the marginals on these boxes post-licencing worth directly funding anti-trans policy? Or do you just generally hate queer people?

Asking for my audience, & those of my other creator friends xoxo

Trump 'soft, weak and afraid' in firing labor statistics chief McEntarfer: Wyden Trump accused Erika McEntarfer of falsifying jobs report numbers before the 2024 election to boost Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris' chances.

Sen. Ron Wyden called Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer “the act of somebody who is soft, weak and afraid to own up to the reality of the damage his chaos is inflicting on our economy."

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/t...

More than four out of five Americans, 83%, said they were concerned about the cost of groceries, with 46% saying they were very concerned. Some 47% said they were worried about being able to pay their rent or mortgage, 64% said they were worried about affording an unexpected medical expense. About 48% said they believed they would have trouble affording an unexpected $500 bill without borrowing. One in four said it would be "very difficult" A quarter of those surveyed said they spent at least three hours a day worrying about their finances and ability to afford basic necessities. Another 25% of respondents said they or someone in their household had skipped meals in the past year in order to make ends meet, and 26% said they had fallen behind on their monthly bills over the past year.

Fuck the stock market reports, this is what real life is like

Coming soon: Coyote & Crow: Digital Expand Coyote & Crow across multiple digital platforms

Big news, folks! On September 9th, we're launching Coyote & Crow Digital on Kickstarter - a 2-week campaign to raise money for multiple VTT iterations of the Coyote & Crow RPG, along with an actual play podcast of Ahu Tiiko, and a ton of other digital gifts!
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DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results | TechCrunch DuckDuckGo's new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.

HEY GUYS

RARE GOOD NEWS
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meme that has been updated. it is a picture of a person going throug a book store looking at books. The ext reads: Me looking throug my meme archive for the perfect reaction pic instead of exprexssing my emotions in (and then the origila text has been rubbed out and the new text is) a spoken Allistic way that isn't as intuitive for me.

Nonverbal communication & emotional expression is Valid.

#AutismAcceptance

Rage Against The Regime: MN 50501 event, Saturday Aug 2, 11-2pm in St. Paul. Bring Rage. Take hope. Laser-eyed loon image. Music for the Mind. Food for the Body. Smash Shit for the Soul.

Our friends at @mn50501.bsky.social are hosting a community-building event this Sat, Aug 2 in St Paul with bands, food trucks, massive puppets and perhaps some watermelon-smashing. Come shake a righteous fist and say "hi!" at our ITC table. #rageagainsttheregime

If by some chance you live in the Twin Cities of the great state of MN, the Walker Art Center is showing Star Trek IV, The One with the Whales this weekend. Pretty cool if you ask me.
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Worldwide MAJOR CITIES US AQI 1. Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo 185 2. Minneapolis, USA 148 3. Medan, Indonesia 127 4. Dubai, United Arab Emirates 122 5. Kampala, Uganda 105 6. Kuching, Malaysia 103 7. Karachi, Pakistan 102 8. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 98 9. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 98 10. Kuwait City, Kuwait 97

Minneapolis has the second worst air quality of any major city in the world right now