United Farm Workers (@ufwupdates) is calling “bullshit” on Trump’s reported pause on abducting farm workers:
“We experienced such a sweep in Moorpark, CA today — after this ‘guidance’ reportedly went out.”
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UFW Calls Bullshit: Farm Workers in Danger Despite Reported “Pause” on Farm Raids.
We have heard reports of guidance directing DHS to “pause” raids on agricultural worksites and we are skeptical.UFW
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Phrazle 998: 2/6
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You have six attempts to guess the phrase. Green means the letter is in the correct spot, yellow or purple means it's in the wrong spot, and gray means it's not in the phrase.Solitaired
My confidence has risen during my transition mostly in line with how passing I’ve felt, but takes a hit when I’m worried a stranger has clocked me (which can be triggered as easily as someone looking at me for slightly too long). I know this is something I need to work on, so today I embraced visibility and marched with a trans flag at Pride for the first time.
Later on, while I was queuing at one of the food stalls, a middle-aged woman came up to me and said “You look really cute”.
While I was walking home, a group of guys walking the other way serenaded me with “Mysterious Girl”. I wasn’t sure how to interpret that.
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# "I didn't pay attention and ended up on an all-male panel"
A blogpost as a reminder to myself to pay more attention in future.
There's no excuse for all-male panels, such as the one I ended up on this week. I needed to pay more attention, and didn't.
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I didn't pay attention and ended up on an all-male panel
I broke one of my rules of speaking at conferences this week, and I am annoyed with myself about it.neilzone.co.uk
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Trump threatens to set unilateral tariff rates within weeks - EUROPE SAYS
On a company earnings call Thursday, RH (RH) CEO Gary Friedman shared a frank account of how the furniture retailer navigated a "chaotic and unpredictable"EUROPE SAYS
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@sellathechemist is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire
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Israel Iran conflict: Tehran, Tel Aviv on high alert
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Israel warns 'Tehran will burn' if Iran continues missile strikes
Israel's defense minister warned Iran that "Tehran will burn" if it keeps firing missiles at Israeli civilians.Ruxandra Iordache (CNBC)
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Today in 1942, 83 years ago: in Amsterdam (Netherlands), the Jewish girl Anne Frank begins to write her diary. She will be killed by the Nazis two years later.
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Tunned lemonade? Knows someone, what to do?
We are currently restoring an old farm and found a bottle of lemonade with such a cute picture. What animal was this bumpy lemonade? Never heard or seen, noBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
S2074
A bill to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to expand the definition of an active duty military consumer for purposes of certain credit monitoring requirements, and for other purposes.
📢 Introduced in Senate
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#S2074 #congress119 #senate #democrat #congress #newbill
Vodafone terminates contracts of 12 franchisees who joined £120m lawsuit | Vodafone - EUROPE SAYS
Vodafone has terminated the contracts of 12 franchisees who have continued running the brand’s high street stores while also being part of a £120m high courtEUROPE SAYS
The shooting in #Minnesota of both #Democrat lawmakers in a "politically motivated assassination" is no surprise. It was the next escalation by the Trump/MAGA cult. #USPol
Be safe and alert out there today, #NoKings
Minnesota Rep. Hortman and husband killed, Sen. Hoffman and wife wounded in politically motivated shooting, Gov. Walz says
The shooter, dressed as a police officer, driving what appeared to be an unmarked law enforcement vehicle was found to have a hit list of other Democratic politicians in his car.
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Minnesota Rep. Hortman and husband killed, Sen. Hoffman and wife wounded in politically motivated shooting, Gov. Walz says
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced Saturday morning that state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband are dead, and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife are wounded following a "politically motivated" shooting overnight.Cole Premo (CBS Minnesota)
Local TV news is reporting they suspect 57-year-old Vance Boelter, twice appointed to the nonpartisan Governor’s Workforce Development Council in 2016 under former Gov. Mark Dayton and again in reappointed in 2019 under Gov. Tim Walz, with term ending in 2023, to be the shooter.
(This doesn't mean he worked for Waltz. It was a nonpartisan panel)
#Minnesota #BreakingNews #News #USPol
🔗 57-year-old suspect sought in targeted shootings of Minnesota state lawmakers
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57-year-old suspect sought in targeted shootings of Minnesota state lawmakers - KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News
Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband have died after they were shot at their home in Brooklyn Park.Ryan Pattee (KSTP-TV LLC)
no #AltText yadda yadda: screenshot of bluesky post by Thomas Havey quoted by a Spencer or “Unpop Sci”, discussing with a close up shot of steel bullets without their rubber casings, why it is imperative to NOT call them rubber bullets: they do kill.
during #Ferguson protests, wrote on Xitter a thread about how tear gas was banned as a chemical weapon by the UN; but USA is within a handful of countries that use it against its own citizens.
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Train is running late (not unusual) but glad to see the train quite full headed downtown
We have a poster board with names of cancelled grants at #CarnegieMellon and #Pitt and paper for people to write down why they do, or how they've been affected by cuts to #Science or why it's important to them
Lots of sidewalk chalk messages from people too.
Continuous trickle of people coming up to speak for few minutes.
So many people coming forward to speak up for #Science
Scientists, grant administrators, long retired professors from Pitt Med school, undergraduates and grad students from #Pitt and #CarnegieMellon
Non scientists too
They kept coming up! So awesome. One undergrad (here for summer research) mentioned how hopeful this gathering and speakers made her.
(Won't post their pics/faces here - but it was super encouraging)
Cuban Vice-President attends Brazil-Caribbean Summit
The agenda includes issues such as food security, promoting air, maritime, and land integration, transitioning to renewable energies, and managing disasteren.granma.cu
Middle East conflict barely rattles resilient stock market - EUROPE SAYS
Did the market's stiff upper lip finally waver on Friday, as a characteristic rush to buy a morning dip failed by the close in the face of air attacks betweenEUROPE SAYS
Ice arrests of migrants with no criminal history surging under Trump | US immigration | The Guardian
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Ice arrests of migrants with no criminal history surging under Trump
Guardian analysis sharply contradicts president’s claim that officials are targeting ‘criminals’ for deportation from USJosé Olivares (The Guardian)
One of my kids wants to see if there is any truth in the old phrase that #Norwich has a #church for every week and a #pub for every day…
They are keen to see the churches, I’m more curious about the pubs!
Ecclesiastical architecture won today…must have looked at 15 places of worship in the space of an hour and a half! Most were shut or used for different purposes…that’s been the case for decades. I don’t feel sad, because I’m not religious - but churches are part of our city street scene.
To my untrained eye, one medieval church looks much like the next I have to confess…I like details like clocks, sundials and round towers that differentiate them!
But the oddest church we came across was St Mary the Less on Queen St. It’s bricked up and virtually walled in on all sides. But it has an intriguing link back to the #Strangers - the #Dutch people who came to #Norwich because of their weaving skills and gave us the city’s emblem - the canary!
Today we found Stranger’s gate open…
It's definitely an eccentric church. I visited in 2010 and got a tour from the owner. At the time it was a very dusty, privately owned Dutch study centre, and the church was in need of repair.
If you're curious / want to visit, you probably get a response from the owner if you post a hand-written letter under the door!
Intriguing! When you say ‘Dutch study centre’…I came across this account:
‘When I first visited here in the mid-1990s, the church had just been sold by the same trust which, amazingly, had been formed in 1832 to convey ownership of the lease to the Swedenborgians. The building was bought by a curious organisation which proclaimed itself the Dutch and Flemish studies centre’
That's right, though the "organisation" is (or was) really just one person. He was very friendly, and I now remember I was hoping to organise Dutch language classes in the church. That never happened, partly because communicating via pen and paper was rather awkward!
The photos are from 2010.
Thanks for sharing the photos! The handwritten quirkiness of all the signs now totally makes sense. Did you manage to get the Dutch language classes take off elsewhere in Norwich?
No, unfortunately not. This was after Norfolk Adult Education had scrapped a Dutch for Beginners course I had organised. There were a handful of learners who wanted to continue but it didn't work out.
I think the Merchant House nowadays has informal language meetups for people learning French and German. Something like that would have been perfect.
That’s a real shame. I don’t understand why Norwich doesn’t do more to encourage Dutch connections and language learning given our history and the fact that Dutch is apparently one of the closest and easiest languages to learn if you speak English.
Me: Do you have their number memorized? The only numbers I have memorized are .. yours—
Her: —yeah not helpful if we're going together...
Me: ...mine, and Network Solutions, circa 1993.
Her: That's not useful to anyone.
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A yet at large suspect shot two Minnesota state lawmakers along with their spouses.
The suspect killed Rep Melissa Hortman and her husband. He shot Sen. John Hoffman and his wife—they are hospitalized.
It appears the suspect is dressed to impersonate law enforcement. My deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones.
Y’all please be safe out there today. Travel in groups and have a plan to meet up at an agreed upon time and place.
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If you are already out there today, good luck.
If you are headed out today… take a burner, not your personal device… better yet, if you can, take nothing.
Today, a Democratically Elected Official was assassinated.
But it did not end there, because another one within moments of each other, experienced an attempted assassinated.
Shit here is fucking bad. Donald Trump is responsible, because that asshole keeps telling everyone that we have enemies within. And meanwhile, we have assholes, who want to downplay everything. Fuck you.
Your civil rights are under attack. That's not a catchphrase or a slogan, but a fact.
But so are your human rights, they're under attack too.
And the people attacking them run the government. No one is going to come and save us, because the checks and balances you want to tell me we have, run on people - just people - not fucking magic. And if those people want to screw you over, checks and balances is nothing but a catchy catchphrase without substance.
I cannot stress this enough...
Democracy is an ideal concept, and like any idea, it can be killed with another idea and that is what we are seeing in America!
You should be worried.
The First Amendment
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No Tyrants, No Dictators, No Kings!!!
June 14 - 'No Kings ' / Anti Trump Protest - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
📽 Democrats abroad Netherlands
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#NoKings #NoKingsProtest #NoKingsProtests #50501protest
Democrats Abroad Netherlands on Instagram: "No Tyrants, No Dictators, No Kings in the USA! Netherlands chapter of Democrats Abroad joined the worldwide day of defiance against fascism & the Trump regime."
48 likes, 3 comments - democratsabroadnetherlands on June 14, 2025: "No Tyrants, No Dictators, No Kings in the USA! Netherlands chapter of Democrats Abroad joined the worldwide day of defiance against fascism & the Trump regime.".Instagram
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in reply to Neil Brown • • •to be fair, there’s kinda a lot going on right now.
But props for caring enough to hold yourself accountable to your own values!
Carl
in reply to gadgetoid • • •RevK
in reply to Neil Brown • • •I am a tad divided on this.
What makes sense is an industry such that around half the people that could be in the panel are female. And then that half the panel are female.
But if 95% of people that could be on the panel are male? Ensuring one is female is distorting things, assuming a small panel.
What needs fixing in such cases is why is the split of those that could be on the panel skewed?
Maybe distorting things in such cases helps that in the long term?
Brett Sheffield (he/him)
in reply to RevK • • •@revk It's may be distorting things but it's worth it.
Women and girls need to see female role models - it's part of how we fix the industry long term. Unfortunately that means setting quotas now, so that hopefully one day we won't need them.
Light
in reply to Brett Sheffield (he/him) • • •a) Why do gender ratios need "fixing"?
b) Why does seeing people of your sex on panels fix that? If you're interested in it, you're interested in it. Representation be damned!
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Neil Brown
in reply to Light • • •@light @dentangle @revk
> Why does seeing people of your sex on panels fix that?
Not a fix - that requires far more structural changes, generally - but a step in the right direction, if it helps a broader, more diverse, group of people think "yeah, I can do this!"
Light
in reply to Neil Brown • • •Neil Brown
in reply to Light • • •@light @dentangle @revk
I want people who are not middle-aged, cis, white men like me to think "Yeah, I can do this too".
They are more likely to think that if they see people more like them on panel.
I don't see this as particularly controversial or surprising, and I can't see a good reason why someone would *not* support it.
Light
in reply to Neil Brown • • •Tony Hoyle
in reply to Light • • •@light @dentangle @revk That's a very privileged position to take.
Lots of people would love to just see themselves just as people with certain interests. Society won't let them. It reminds them every day that they're not one of the CIS White majority. They have to go above and beyond to prove themselves constantly.