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There is no strategy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

20.01.2026 06:41 πŸ‘ 6667 πŸ” 2096 πŸ’¬ 521 πŸ“Œ 211
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A teenager redrew the Alabama voting map – and it’s now state law Daniel DiDonato, 18, drafted new state senate districts at home on free software – and a judge picked his map ahead of professionals’ efforts to remedy voting rights violations

In early October, he spent a few days staying up late in his dorm drawing potential maps that could give Black voters a better chance of electing their preferred candidates.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

01.12.2025 01:58 πŸ‘ 149 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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A Growing Number of β€˜Repair Cafes’ Are Popping Up Around the World to Curb Consumer Waste - Inside Climate News Local communities are hosting events where people can bring in their broken goods for repairsβ€”free of charge.

A timeline cleanser: My recent newsletter is about rise of "repair cafes" around the world, where communities come together to fix each other's beloved things. The goal: reduce consumer waste, and maybe make some buddies in the process πŸ”§πŸ‘­

insideclimatenews.org/news/1111202...

13.11.2025 15:37 πŸ‘ 967 πŸ” 284 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 27
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institutionβ€”the term they tend to prefer is β€œelite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

09.11.2025 11:09 πŸ‘ 653 πŸ” 204 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 31
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These Native kids were first to witness the mighty Klamath River's rebirth The removal of dams, and the river's restoration, is "a great David-and-Goliath story."

β€œThe river seemed to come alive right after dam removal.”

These Native kids were the first to witness the mighty Klamath River's rebirth.

31.10.2025 12:05 πŸ‘ 292 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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WCK is serving free meals for furloughed federal workers impacted by the U.S. government shutdown. These meals are available to federal employees and their families. Below are locations and hours. #ChefsForFeds (1/2)

27.10.2025 01:25 πŸ‘ 499 πŸ” 292 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 14
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

EXCLUSIVE: Our friends at @lighthousereports.com obtained a secret data trove.

It revealed a vast global surveillance empire whose tech has been used to target politicians, journalists, tech execs, and Jared Leto.

The story only gets wilder from there.

14.10.2025 15:26 πŸ‘ 173 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 7
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1/ South Korean workers arrested in Georgia and subsequently deported from the US have been giving more accounts of their experiences. The deportation of over 300 workers has caused political uproar in South Korea and prompted a human rights investigation into their ordeal. ⬇️

17.09.2025 19:54 πŸ‘ 284 πŸ” 98 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 15
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Republicans Are Using an Arcane Oversight Rule to Permanently Dismantle Federal Land Protections This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly...

In the spring of 1996, lawmakers buried a rider in a humdrum bill meant to make life easier for small businesses. Thirty years later, Republican lawmakers are wielding it to quietly upend how the country manages public lands. (edited)
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republi...

15.09.2025 19:42 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s kind of comforting to learn we’ve all been in hell for a year.

The entire population of the country OD’ing on fent and being in hell together is much easier to come to terms with than a literal nazi coup by the most unserious, willfully ignorant people in the country.

15.09.2025 05:23 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov

My quote of the day

15.09.2025 11:15 πŸ‘ 266 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 5
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Meet the women who turned beach cleanups into a global movement – and what was forgotten along the way In the 1980s, beach cleanups were envisaged as citizen science, aimed squarely at industrial pollution.

In the 1980s, beach cleanups were envisaged as citizen science, aimed squarely at industrial pollution.

15.09.2025 13:13 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

The Wild Hornets are blown away by the warm reception at our booth at the great Toronto Ukrainian Festival!🐝

Nearly a million people are expected!

We are deeply honoured to meet visitors with heartbreaking stories of family lost in the war and a veteran sapper badly wounded in 2016

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14.09.2025 11:58 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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The Situation: So Much Worse Than You Thought Just how bad is The Situation at the Justice Department?

In The Situation, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org discusses the ongoing politicization of the Justice Department and what a future administration could do to rebuild the department. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

21.08.2025 19:08 πŸ‘ 213 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 5

Captain and 1st + 2nd mate of EAGLE S are charged with "outrageous destruction and outrageous interference with telecommunications + alternative criminal offenses."*

EAGLE S dragged her anchor for nine hours Dec 2024 in an attack on comms and power infrastructure of Gulf of Finland.

11.08.2025 10:56 πŸ‘ 205 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1

Update
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29.06.2025 03:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ΓΌbrigens ist das Verkehrsproblem gelΓΆst πŸ‘πŸ»

24.06.2025 17:57 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.

See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

16.06.2025 21:12 πŸ‘ 2856 πŸ” 1820 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 228
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One doesn’t have to be a Batman to fight off evil. Sometimes, it’s enough to be a man with a bat. Or a woman. Or a cartoon dog.

Let’s make a NAFO air defense unit that bonks the russian drones away a reality:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

14.06.2025 19:08 πŸ‘ 211 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 6
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United States 2025 Self-Coup Tracker - Google My Maps Malcontent News Last Updated: 10 JUN 2025 20:00 PDT Tracking state national guard, federalized national guard, and federal troop deployments within the United States, significant areas of unrest, an...

FIXED! We have launched a new geoconfirmed map for the United States tracking the ongoing potential self-coup.

It includes protests, civil unrest, military deployments, large ICE/HSI/etc deployments, police deployments, and major incidents of Constitutional due process violations.

Please amplify.

11.06.2025 03:25 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6

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07.06.2025 22:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is our first military fundraiser in nearly a year. One that is as timely and crucial as ever. This is our chance to stop daily russian terror. Regardless of what is decided by the powers that be, including those in charge of algorithms. So let’s:
u24.gov.ua/sky-sentinel...

26.05.2025 19:31 πŸ‘ 401 πŸ” 163 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 6

According to a 2021 report, the University of California system:

β€’ generated $82B in economic activity in California

β€’ supported 529K jobs in the state

β€’ generated $21 in economic output for every $1 received

Public divestment from higher ed makes no sense, even in the narrowest economic terms.

18.05.2025 14:17 πŸ‘ 854 πŸ” 327 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 9
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πŸ™ @kajakallas.bsky.social continues to expose russian hypocrisy, directly and unapologetically.

We truly wish this obvious point was obvious for everyone.

24.04.2025 15:35 πŸ‘ 226 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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US Border Patrol Called Raid 300 Miles From Border 'Targeted'. Open Source Evidence Suggests Otherwise - bellingcat US Border Patrol travelled 300 Miles for a 'targeted' operation. Rights groups say it was anything but targeted.

A January operation in the central Californian city of Bakersfield saw dozens detained by border patrol agents operating more than 300 miles from the US southern border. Bellingcat worked with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org to piece together the operation www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04...

08.04.2025 15:31 πŸ‘ 549 πŸ” 273 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 19
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Palm oil company uses armed forces, tear gas against protesting villagers in Cameroon Villagers in Cameroon have denounced the use of tear gas by authorities to break up their protest on March 25 against the replanting of oil palm trees by the plantation company Socapalm on disputed…

Villagers in Cameroon have denounced the use of tear gas by authorities to break up their protest on March 25 against the replanting of oil palm trees by the plantation company Socapalm on disputed land in the country’s southwest.

Read more on this

06.04.2025 13:10 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Action item:

04.04.2025 17:21 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

People need to understand the republican leaders are counting on the market to drop! Why? They are buying these low price stocks. Then they will reverse the tariffs market will spike back up. These leaders will sell and make billions! It’s called insider trading

03.04.2025 15:38 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

REMINDER: Wisconsin has same-day voter registration.

So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY.

Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.

01.04.2025 14:26 πŸ‘ 6264 πŸ” 2913 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 89
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πŸ’” "Don't be silent, the prisoner kills!": weekly action in support of Ukrainian prisoners of war continues in Kyiv

30.03.2025 16:40 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0