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Longtime climate activist, mom, wife, grandmom, UU, singer Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling. --Greta Thunberg

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USDA must use the SNAP contingency fund to keep food assistance programs funded during the government shutdown as is required by law and has been done in every other government shutdown in modern history.

We need petition signatures! Please sign! sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

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Labor Department social media campaign depicts a White male workforce The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying it is not realistically portraying the country’s diversity and is sending messages that feel exclusionary.

"Men, men, men, men! WE WANT WHITE, BLONDE-HAIRED, BLUE-EYED MEN! All Norman Rockwell types, please!"

Forget half the population called WOMEN & forget DIVERSITY.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Cornell, YOU GAVE IN, YOU OBEYED IN ADVANCE!

SHAME ON YOU! When so many other schools are holding the line, YOU CAVED!

You have lost your reputation & sold your soul.

@aacu.org

07.11.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cornell University Will Pay $60 Million to Unlock Research Funds Frozen by White House The administration has come after researchers at institutions across the country.

Cornell University Will Pay $60 Million to Unlock Research Funds Frozen by White House

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Extortion

07.11.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This comparison is an excellent example of how to give people intuition for orders of magnitude/how to do shade

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Me too! My bad handwriting spoiled my ballot one year and it took just a couple minutes to get it handled. Make sure your vote counts!

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I am worried about Musk's StarLink which is used to transmit vote totals.

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Here’s an easy way to find out how to donate to your local food bank this weekend. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

@feedingamerica.org
give.feedingamerica.org/a/donate

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My ballot was counted this year, but in a previous election is was rejected and I had to fix it β€” just took a couple of minutes. Make sure yours was counted Seattle! info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

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With Appeal, Trump Shows Determination to Make Sure Poor Americans Don't Get Their Food Assistance "The administration’s legal maneuver sends a clear and devastating message: that the well-being of America’s most vulnerable is not important," said the president of the Food Research & Action Center.

The Trump administration will not give poor Americans food assistance without a fight. On Friday, the DOJ appealed the latest court decision requiring it to use emergency funds to pay 42 million beneficiaries their full SNAP benefits.

07.11.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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MAGA Fan Relying on SNAP Benefits Desperately Regrets Her Trump Vote The expiry of food aid to 42 million Americans came the same night Trump threw a lavish party themed around a book critiquing the moral emptiness of wealth built on social inequality.

Hey MAGA! Cut the crap!

Be like this woman and call Trump out. I know you worship him and all that, but he wants to appeal a judge's order to release SNAP funds.

Y'all got children to feed.

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

www.thedailybeast.com/maga-fan-bet...

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ICE Has Created a β€˜Ghost Town’ in the Heart of Chicago Local communities are stepping up to save neighborhood restaurants and stores.

ICE Has Created a β€˜Ghost Town’ in the Heart of Chicago.

If you live in or near Chicago, patronize these restaurants! open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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Let Them Eat AI-Generated Cake Elon Musk and the coming twilight of the elites.

I can't believe @BillKristol is writing this.

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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What the fuck

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There are no words for how evil this is

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The move here for democrats is to make this the campaign ad for every single election but then also actually make it come true

KEY PART

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@kenmartin.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov @gtconway.bsky.social
Time for some Dem ads!

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Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.

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BIG WIN: The Trump Administration was ordered today to immediately release all the SNAP food benefits they've withheld during the government shutdown.

Californians are beginning to see benefits on their CalFresh cards now.

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As if the SCOTUS decision wasn't bad enough, the 6th circuit said "hold my beer" and explicitly created a constitutional right to bully trans kids who are already at tremendous risk of self harm and suicide.

These judges want dead trans kids.

07.11.2025 03:46 β€” πŸ‘ 857    πŸ” 253    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 8

o7

All of my grandparents fought fascists. ALL OF THEM.

I'm the child of an immigrant.

I'm scared too, my man.

07.11.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you need a mental break with a smile or two, please read this whole insane thread about the Sandwich Guy case.

06.11.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Thank you for your guts, Oklahoma University!

06.11.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember. I went to college not far from Kent State & we were in the middle of exams. Somehow it all suddenly seemed irrelevant.

Yes, we are headed down that path.

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TARIFFS ARE TAXES

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