Something I'd like to see in writing a lot more often:
"More than 1,600 American children have died of Covid - nearly 80% of them after in-person learning resumed in 2021 - but we talk about their experience of Covid now primarily in terms of school closings and learning loss."
- David Wallace-Wells
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#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart
NEW YORK: Rep. Claudia Tenney illustrates George Orwell's point as she lies through her teeth about Medicaid enrollment:
Privacy Badger version 2025.3.3 is live in all supported browsers.
Besides a bunch of bug fixes, the new version adds support for overriding tracker settings via enterprise policies. To learn more, visit github.com/EFForg/privacybadge…
To install Privacy Badger, visit privacybadger.org/
Release Privacy Badger 2025.3.3 · EFForg/privacybadger
Highlights: Added tracking domain settings to admin policies. To learn more, visit our enterprise deployment and configuration document. Fixed failing to allow all requests on disabled sites in Ch...GitHub
Here are the 200+ sites an ICE surveillance contractor is monitoring.
404media.co/the-200-sites-an-i…
The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it and draw connections between people.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
thank you for the phenomenal reporting on this! My jaw is on the floor after seeing Signal and ProtonMail on the list. But also: GIPHY and VSCO - what?
Notably absent are Fediverse platforms. And honestly this is the biggest motivation for going one step further and self-hosting (it feels like an additional protective shield)
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"#Labor activists in the Philippines saw a major victory after a 74-hour strike of 1,800 workers at Nexperia #Philippines, a #Dutch semiconductors factory. The strike ended in victory on March 8 after the management agreed to increase daily wages and reinstate dismissed #union officials."
Filipino workers in semiconductors factory declare strike victory
"Our strike was successful because we showed the unity of the workers. This is the strength that will help us succeed."Global Voices
Every day I find a brand-new little horror that's been happening in US agriculture. After a lifetime of collecting ag horrors. ok throw it on the video essay pile with the other 200 that are waiting I guess
Anyway here's today's fresh horror! I think you will like it!
Anyway, I'm thinking a lot about how foodies spent the last 30 years lecturing poor people on "making wise choices with their food dollars."
They should have been counseling landowners on making wise choices with their property.
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File under: #35mm #amLand #au #BelieveInFilm #dartingtonHall #devon #england #FilmIsNotDead #filmphotography #flora #karlender25 #kodakPortra400 #leicaM4p #nokton40mm #riverDart #swe #wald #wasser #wood
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Congress reignites a bipartisan effort to ban hair discrimination
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5324544/crown-act-reintroduced-2025?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Race @race-npr
Meta fights to keep leeching evidence out of AI copyright battle.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Elderly lady blew me a kiss!
I was out on my lunch. As I returned to my parked car, I noticed a large SUV struggling to reverse out of their parking spot.
I walked in front of the SUV and calmly waved and talked the tiny lady through backing out and turning the wheel and exiting.
Before she drove off, she smiled and blew me a kiss 😀
That could be someone's grandma or mom.
I hope they tell the story about the handsome brown man with beard who helped her - emphasis on handsome of course!
Serial Deployment Of SMRs To Bring Down Cost Of New Nuclear, Alphabet Executive Tells Conference
Google has deal with advanced reactor developer Kairos PowerThe Independent Global Nuclear News Agency
Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly addresses Americans over trade tensions
#Canada 🇨🇦
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Joly addresses Americans over tensions final
Foreign Affairs Minister Joly speaks directly to Americans saying 'Canada is not the one driving up the cost of your groceries or putting their jobs at risk'...YouTube
/ Terry Pratchett
#EU retaliates against #Trump’s #tariffs as #TradeWar escalates
The #EuropeanUnion hit back Wed at Trump’s #steel & #aluminum tariffs w/its own levies, announcing tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of products, including bourbon & motorcycles, while warning of further retaliation.
The 27-nation bloc said its 2-stage response would target ~$28B in US exports. The announcement of the European measures came at the same time Trump’s tariffs took effect.
#economy #USpol
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Watch now on #CLTV
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Lauren 'Handy' Boebert Actually Said This As A Defense
Where are all the cisgender white pimps?John Amato (Crooks and Liars)
Rahm Emanuel Is Back To Punch Some Hippies: A Report
Tiger Beat on the Potomac (thanks Charlie!) morning email thingie has shaken me to the core of my being: "FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: “Rahm Wants to Run. Yes, For the Presidency” — a marmalade-dropper from JMart to start your day. "Rahm Emanuel “has been as visible as any other Democrat” since returning from his stint as ambassador to Japan, writes POLITICO’s Jonathan Martin in his just-published column, and blatantly has…
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Rahm Emanuel Is Back To Punch Some Hippies: A Report
Tiger Beat on the Potomac (thanks Charlie!) morning email thingie has shaken me to the core of my being: “FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: “Rahm Wants to Run. Yes, For the Presidency” — a marmalade-dropper…Mock Paper Scissors
First they came for the welfare state, and the Democrats "reached across the aisle."
Then they came for the Supreme Court, and the Democrats voted for Clarence Thomas, et al.
Then they came for the election finance law, and the Democrats said, "We really should do something about that."
Then they came for voting rights, and the Democrats promised to defend them.
Then they started to dismantle the national government, and the Democrats composed strongly worded letters.
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#RJKJr opposes mass vaccination & culling as a strategy for controlling the #H5N1. He advocates for measures to protect flocks from infection by wild birds, isolating infected fowl, & allowing the highly pathogenic virus to spread.
The bird flu outbreak has ravaged poultry farms, leading to an egg shortage & higher prices.
His appt🚨signals "culling" humans.
The #TrumpMusk regime is against #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #Science #NationalSecurity #Vaccines #NIH...
#USPol
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NEW: In the wake of the downfall of cybersecurity watchdog CISA, #Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) plans to launch an alternative program aimed at safeguarding elections and rebuilding trust in the democratic process.
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Arizona Secretary of State Proposes Alternative to Defunded National Election Security Program - Democracy Docket
Right now, VOTE-ISAC is just in the proposal phase but Fontes hopes to have it fully phased out in nine months.Democracy Docket
I assume they'll replace it with Brawndo, which has 'lectrolytes.
fortune.com/2025/03/10/utah-fl…
Utah is poised to be the first state to ban fluoride in public water systems
Governor Cox says he will sign the bill.Chris Morris (Fortune)
I've been lucky enough to be born and surrounded by the necessary conditions to recently scale from the 64.5% vulnerable/poor class to the 32.4% middle class of my country. I'm just a blink away from poverty.
I have the privilege of having spare time to think about the injustice we endure as a society.
I'm looking for a community to learn/help more.
I want to focus my energy and time on solutions. I would love to support any Open Source projects that need Spanish Translation.✊🏽
‘Incredible!’ CNN Busts Trump DOGE Spox Making Influencer Vids at Gov Office Amid Job Cuts
CNN busted Trump OPM spokesperson McLaurine Pinover making influencer videos at her government office — even as she defended DOGE job cuts.Tommy Christopher (Mediaite)
ottogynephilia
when you have a kink for forcefemming the bus driver from The Simpsons
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NEW: A D.C. federal judge allows Trump to fire the head of the U.S. African Development Foundation, one of the smallest federal agencies. However, the judge ruled that #Trump likely lacks authority to install a state department official to lead the agency.
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Judge Allows Trump to Dismiss Head of One of the Smallest U.S. Agencies - Democracy Docket
A federal judge Tuesday rejected a request to block the Trump administration from firing the head of the U.S. African Development Foundation, one of the smallest agencies in the federal government.Democracy Docket
Trump's fascism appears random until you realize Africa is Putin's source for replenishing his gold reserves.
bbc.com/news/world-africa-6832…
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cnn.com/2022/07/29/africa/suda…
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The gold reserves that fund his war on Ukraine & Europe.
Africa is also a major source of fissionable minerals, just like Ukraine, Canada, and Greenland. Uranium mining.
We can have one of two things — but not both.
We can either have a society that tolerates (celebrates?) millionaires and billionaires polluting the planet and destroying the biosphere...
Or we can have a planet with a healthy biosphere but with fewer millionaires and NO billionaires at all.
Your choice.
autoguynephilia
but like murse or man bun
when a guy wants to describe how he gets off at the idea of himself as a woman, but wants to make it VERY CLEAR that this doesn't mean he's gay or a woman or anything
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