Eileen Curley

"Everyday People" by Sly & The Family Stone is a powerful anthem of unity, highlighting that despite differences, all people are equal and should coexist peacefully. Its messages challenged prejudice and celebrated inclusivity, as the band was one of the first major integrated rock groups.

YouTube video by PettyYou007 Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967

Almost 60 years later, this song is so relevant again.

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NC Court of Appeals gives over 60,000 challenged voters 15 days to prove eligibility The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.

The website to check linked in the reply.

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Defence Ministry Update: Border surveillance has not detected any abnormal activity. We stand rock-hop-ready to rock, set to defend ourselves against all threats both foreign and domestic (elephant seals mainly)

ripples. when you create a difference in someone's life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime. no act is ever too small. one by one, this is how to make an ocean rise.

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I'm a reporter at NBC News and I'm interested in speaking with people who are familiar with the specific technical details of onboarding DOGE staff at the federal agency level — USAID or CFPB or wherever. You can reach me on Signal at: davidingram.77. I can honor requests for anonymity.

is it woke to want to end cancer?

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is in the running to serve as health and human services secretary, revealed he was carrying up to $1.2 million in credit card debt in recent financial disclosures, per CNBC.

Call it by its name: A coup. February 1, 2025

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Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

1. The executive orders did *not* freeze federal funding.

2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding.

3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze.

4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant.

Sigh.

'The California Fires are a Disaster. The American Cruelty is a Tragedy.'

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LA Fires | IN PERSON Volunteer Opps

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES IN LOS ANGELES:

If you’re looking to get involved with volunteer efforts in LA, please check out this list provided by Mutual Aid LA:

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The real trap here is that the Republicans have made defending civil rights seem like a frivolous thing and a whole lot of liberals are falling in line. Even if it was a culture war, so what? This would be a war worth fighting. What are we even doing here, people? Get it together.

Starting a phony transgender bathroom debate and hiding behind the guise of “protecting women” to distract from your attempts to push through the confirmations of alleged rapists, sex traffickers, and fraudsters at the highest levels of government is peak Republican Party.

Sometimes it is “Take out the trash” day — hoping no one will see it or respond.

Will the American project survive the anger of white men? | Carol Anderson At key moments throughout US history, white male anger has been privileged over national security, progress or basic welfare

Professor Carol Anderson nails it all: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #whitemalerageisreallyimpotence

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

Breaking News: The Onion, the satirical publication, said it won a bankruptcy auction to buy Infowars, a website run by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

wait why does the dept of government efficiency have two co-chairs

On anticipatory obedience and the media Trump's campaign against the Fourth Estate has been unfolding before our eyes—far more effectively than some in the press would like to believe.

The @washingtonpost.com not endorsing a presidential candidate this year is anticipatory obedience by an oligarch with business before US government.

As with @latimes.com not endorsing this year, the late timing left no question of why.

Bezos made a tragic mockery of “Democracy dies in darkness.”

And never neglect the detail that Artemisia, in this exact image, gave Holofernes the face of her rapist.

The US Is a Civic Desert. To Survive, the Democratic Party Needs to Transform Itself. The Democratic Party should jettison its consultant class and move toward a local-membership model that would help to rejuvenate civic life across the country.

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Shot across the bow of academia. I think it’s safe to say he had no actual plan as of now for how to tax endowments or build anything resembling the “American Academy”, but he’s counting on the threat to get everyone to toe the line. DON’T OBEY IN ADVANCE.