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Great thread.
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Great thread.
In most of the U.S., formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant. Look up your address to see risks from the chemical on your block and where it comes from: (Published Dec. 2024)
YING YANG IS MISSING IN QUEENS: last seen in East Elmhurst, near 25th Ave and Ericsson St. If you've seen or found him please go here: www.lostmydoggie.com/details.cfm?... and/or phone 877-818-0060 and PLEASE RT YING YANG!
KIWI IS MISSING IN BROOKLYN: last seen at Washington and Flushing Avenues. If you've seen or found her please go here: www.lostmydoggie.com/details.cfm?... and/or Call 877-818-0060. A reward is offered. And PLEASE RT KIWI!
STEVIE IS MISSING IN QUEENS: last seen near 82nd St between 101st Ave and 92nd St. He's 8 pounds and chipped: 985113008416129. If you've seen or found him please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT STEVIE!
A top NYPD official in charge of transportation is under investigation for an alleged hit and run of a parked car — and then trying to cover it up, THE CITY has learned.
TRUMP MIGHT AS WELL HAVE SHOT THOSE KIDS HIMSELF. Trump turning us into "The United Police States of America" is just cosplaying Democrats must call Trump and GOP what the shootings again prove they are: soft on crime, uncaring about kids Get the new Countdown Podcast here: tinyurl.com/4jf2jsuk
FROM KONSYSE: Cities are heating up, and the problem goes beyond asphalts and concrete. Parked cars can make city air up to 3.8°C hotter than asphalt.
WOW: Beverly Hills Unified School District board members vote to fly Israeli flags inside schools. Next they will make students pledge allegiance to the flag. This is TREASONOUS! www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
Anyone else notice a pattern in the government officials Trump is firing?
It's imperative that people know the importance of this November's special election in CALIFORNIA. Special elections are notorious for low voter turnout. If we are to have a chance at taking back the House in 2026, it's crucial that Prop. 50 pass. PASS IT ON to CA friends! bsky.app/profile/sall...
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
These revealing resignation CDC letters show how absolutely abhorrent & dangerous Kennedy is. We are all at risk. “Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources HHS use over the gold standard science of CDC and other reputable sources.”
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Lots of good info here plus a warning. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/grap...
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Thank you for taking this on. I encourage people to share this video far and wide. And I hope the Indian government will take the lead in bringing people together and providing the necessary funding to TNVR. For everyone's sake.
I spent the weekend in Delhi. What the locals showed me shocked me. I promised I would share it with the world as just like the dogs they are voiceless youtu.be/6wgTYH6Te20?...
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No words. 🤦🏻♀️
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I wish you a strong recovery.
Authors: "These workers are not strangers, and they’re not a burden on California or the nation. They are part of the fabric of our communities. Many have lived and worked here for decades." #farmworkers @ufw.bsky.social @ncnewsline.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o...
🚨BREAKING: Trump just announced at his cabinet meeting that they'll seek the death penalty for anyone killing someone in the Capitol building. Families of the police officers who died at the Jan 6 insurrection and saw their murderers walking free would like to have a word.
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Brilliant.
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Huge!
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"Revision of US capitalism" is a euphemism for the ages
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He was ahead of his time in so many ways. And killed by damned American guns. What a loss.
John Shin, a well known and respected violinist from South Korea, who received Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Utah for violin performance, was detained by ICE. John Shin has been a violinist and teaches students in Utah. He is being detained in Colorado.
🚨 Mayor Wu faces criminal charges because she is decent. We all know what ⏰ it is. Of course you are going after a female POC first. She is a “suspicious person” in 2025.
They wake up before the sun rises, work through the intense heat, and still go home with love in their hearts for their families. These are the hands that feeds our nation, the backbone of America’s economy and yet they are the ones being targeted, detained, and deported illegally!
🚨SPECIAL ELECTION - ALABAMA STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 11🚨 Democrat: Alexandria Braswell Election Date: 🗓️THIS TUESDAY, AUGUST 26TH🗓️ Area: East of Gadsen Note: Blood red district, but a Dem threw their hat into the ring nonetheless to give voters an option. Let's reward her by spreading the word.
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@tourscotland.bsky.social Thank you for all the beautiful and interesting posts. My father, Maxwell Boyd, whose Scots ancestors moved to Nova Scotia in the 18th century, was passionate about preserving that ancestry. Because of his devotion to the land of St. Andrew, his friends nicknamed him Sandy.
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery. “The math world was taken aback when Cairo announced her counterexample to the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture.” [quantamagazine.org]
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Bless you.
Walmart spent $35.3B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024, enough to give each of its 2.2M employees annual bonuses of $2,719. Last year, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay of just $29,469. Textbook corporate greed.
Happy Friday😍🩷I survived my first week of school🫶I’m hoping a generous donor will shop my kindergarten list❤️🤞 #ClearTheLists2025 #title1 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
It’s bad enough this administration is teeming with criminals, buffoons and sycophants. It’s bad enough they’ve sold our country to Broligarchs and foreign interests. It’s bad enough they trample the Constitution every day. It’s the wanton cruelty that puts them in a whole new category of evil.
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I needed that!
The US is turning into a bad movie. A felon child molester as president, the Conservative Party under the control of an adversary nation, the highest court is now a tool for the wealthy.
Translation: "We do not want to say out loud why sales have fallen off a cliff. We are scared of everyone. Our best hope is to attempt to trick people into returning with shiny baubles. We do not understand what convictions are and they frighten us."
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
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The combination of bad science and misogyny pushed the idea of chronic fatigue syndrome in the 1980s and 1990s to replace M.E. Rooted in the incorrect idea that ME/CFS had a psychological cause. theconversation.com/ignored-blam... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Keep your generator outdoors and at least 20 feet away from any windows or vents. NEVER run your generator indoors. Not even in your garage with the big door open. People sometimes think that's enough ventilation and it is not.
If you are in an area affected by Hurricane Erin and using a portable generator to keep the power on, make sure your carbon monoxide (CO) alarms are working. One generator can produce as much CO as hundreds of cars. CO is a deadly gas you can't see or smell and can kill in minutes.
This is why women don't report. mississippitoday.org/2025/08/18/d...
Arizona does not properly fund its public schools, but 1.2 million ESA requests of $2000 were approved without oversight. While teachers buy school supplies, ESA parents buy diamond rings, electric bikes, luxury handbags, and amusement park tickets.
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Nice to see this one again.
The United States could have great things like this. But we like to spend our money on kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps instead. #Priorities
yeah here we go, Elon Musk is now going state by state, whining to Republicans if state leaders try to spend infrastructure bill taxpayer subsidies on fast, affordable fiber instead of his congested, expensive, environmentally problematic satellite broadband service
I cannot get over this saga. www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...
Friends, we got a call to action 👇 We have the right to know when and how our creative works are used, especially when it comes to GenAi! This is why we need regulation like California’s Ai Copyright Transparency Act #AB-412 ! If you agree, especially if in CA, please sign & share this petition!
In a purely chronological feed, you end up missing posts from people you care about--if they were online half an hour before you logged on, you might never see their stuff. You can fix this by going to their profiles and clicking the bell to push their posts up your feed.
The FDA warns public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination a radioactive isotope
SCOOP: The Justice Department escalates its hunt to obtain voter lists, threatening at least one state with legal action if it doesn't hand over sensitive voter data. This move marks the latest step in the DOJ’s push to gather state voting information to investigate illegal voting.
Teaching in Oklahoma now requires a far-right purity test. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
As DC was taken over by Trump’s secret police, where were congressional Democrats? They weren’t in DC and some weren’t even in the US. Instead of fighting back against the authoritarian takeover here at home, 22 House “Democrats” were being spoon-fed lies about Gaza on a trip paid for by AIPAC.
The president is lying It’s not hard to say.
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Touché
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Lauren Southern’s new memoir reveals her "painful attempts to contort herself into an archetypical tradwife,” writes our columnist Michelle Goldberg. “Her story should be a cautionary tale for the young women who aspire to the domestic life she once evangelized for.”
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. (Published 2021)
History called, and it wants its dignity back.
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Elegant beauties. Thanks for sharing your pix.
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Just getting out of bed is exercise. Sitting for a while. Sometimes that's all that's possible.
Karississima (@boydstra.bsky.social) reply parent
No! What a good woman. Sorry I've been out of touch. I mislaid my phone and was ready to buy a new one when my granddaughter looked one more time and found it.
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Without explanation, YouTube has removed my interview about Israel's genocide on Palestine with globally renowned Palestinian-Canadian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu. We are appealing. Here's the full interview on my human rights newsletter. Share widely: www.qasimrashid.com/p/youtube-re...
Karississima (@boydstra.bsky.social)
Brilliant!
And then there's the insane growth in data centers using as much as 5 million gals of water/day - equivalent to a town of 50k ppl AZ state leg & city government need to address this! Who you vote for in local elections matters!! www.apmresearchlab.org/10x/data-cen...
Stay focused
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🤦🏻♀️
Let them eat cake.
🚨 State Capital Commission votes to GIVE land to Musk’s company, across the street from the capital. 🎯 They voted within 5 minutes; answered no questions from the public.
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Gorgeous!
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Bless you, Liam.
Time to read (again) @samantharhill.bsky.social’s 2023 piece Hannah Arendt would not qualify for the Hannah Arendt prize in Germany today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF
And for The record .. I don’t care
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A heartrending and hopeful allatonce.
This is serious. Very serious.
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
A lot of people need to hear this
When Allyson Felix got pregnant, Nike threatened to cut her pay by 70%. They told her: “Know your place… just run. Because of the stress of training while pregnant, she had to undergo an emergency C-section at 7 months, and her premature baby spent over a month in the NICU.
Bang on from @mrhenrymorris.substack.com
Horrible migrants are killing Europe, says horrible migrant arriving in Europe
Chances are you’ve heard this gross little nugget at some point, but it’s worth another listen. Lindsay Lohan was 17 when these two grown men discussed her breasts and fantasized about how her troubled relationship with her father would make he better in bed.
Judge dismisses Trump officials’ lawsuit over Chicago sanctuary policies https://twp.ai/4ipnbg
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@realjfairclough.bsky.social You make my day. Indeed, you make the world a better place. Thank you 🙏🏻
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I'm so sad we're losing Sapiens. Such a wonderful publication. mailchi.mp/sapiens/sapi...
🚨Post-COVID brain damage is visible🚨 🧠FDG PET scan & EEG show reduced metabolism and slowed activity in frontal brain areas tied to memory & focus. 🧠New study maps how Long COVID alters the brain. buff.ly/XMRSFLg #medsky #neurosky 🛟😷🧪
Hey y'all!! We have a teacher who could use some help getting her list cleared before school starts back in 2 weeks! Sharing is caring. #ItTakesAVillage #ClearTheList #SheShed
Mark Epstein (JE's brother) does not accept the FBI findings. He said that the city’s doctor + a pathologist the family hired were present at the autopsy. “They...both concurred that they could not call this a suicide because it looked too much like a homicide. They were very clear about that.”
The cost of housing has gone up by 174% since 1990. Childcare costs are up 120%. Healthcare costs are up a whopping 270%. It doesn't have to be this way. Our government can put American families first, create good jobs, and build an economy that people can afford.
Israel Killed 100 Imprisoned Trans Iranians. I Could Have Been One of Them. https://twp.ai/4ipq5b