Daughter of the Raven
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A bundle of anachronistic non-sequiturs. She/her. I am an enigma even to myself. Happily under-babied.
Motherfuckbuckets, this is giving me feels. I absolutely love this one. The combination of the time theme and the decades of everything feeling like it's getting more difficult, just super powerful. His rough around the edges delivery is so perfect for this.
Troy Jackson@troyjackson207.bsky.social · 2d agoWhy can’t we have a decent life working 40-50 hours a week? As soon as you figure out a way to make a dollar more, they’re going to take it away from you.
The biggest source of inequality in the U.S. is a gaping hole in the tax code—and no one is talking about it, Rogé Karma argues.
The Biggest Source of Inequality That No One Talks About
Progressives are focused on the wrong tax loophole.
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I've been watching some of these NY-ATL WNBA games and I don't think I appreciated how much the level of play in this league has improved in the past decade. This is some amazing ball.
Looks like solar and batteries are working to replace diesel around the world and it's a very good thing. "In June, Nova Sociedade installed solar panels to power water pumps that fill storage tanks and provide clean water to all 36 families in the village." A good read.
Solar power helps Amazon communities ditch diesel and prepare for El Niño drought
Off-grid solar power is spreading across Brazil’s Amazon, helping remote communities prepare for severe drought while replacing costly, polluting diesel generators.
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Justin Mikulka@justinmikulka.bsky.social · 6mo agoAny diesel experts out there? I've been looking into how battery prices are cutting into diesel generator use. I haven't seen anything recent on the cost breakdowns and with rising diesel prices, this could be another structural change in the works. One recent example.
Hoe blijf je in gesprek in tijden van oorlog? Zondag in De Balie: The School for Peace, een Israëlisch-Palestijns initiatief voor dialoog en solidariteit, over de mogelijkheid tot gesprek tussen Palestijnen en Israëliërs. Met o.a. Itay Garmy en @guusvalk.bsky.social (@nrc.nl). Tickets & info ⬇
The School for Peace: Continuing the Dialogue
For over forty years, the School for Peace at Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom has brought Palestinians and Israeli Jews together in dialogue that confronts, rather than avoids, the realities of the Israeli...
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A collection of the things busy parents might keep in their car, making it a heartbreaking list to read.
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d agoA list of things Rebecca Good says USG has never returned after seizing the car she owned with Renee. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Today is the anniversary of the infamous 1871 Chicago fire, as many as 300 dead. But it’s also the anniversary of the less famous Peshtigo, Wisc., fire, also in 1871, with as many as 2,500 dead. People jumped into the Peshtigo River to try to survive the 3-day fire that covered 1,875 square miles.
Historical Marker Ahead@historicalmarker.bsky.social · 2y agoStill the deadliest wildfire in U.S. history: the Oct 8, 1871, Peshtigo, Wisc., fire killed as many as 2,500. Same day as Chicago fire, but with many more deaths and no cow to blame. Slash-and-burn land management resulted in too much burn. A museum and graveyard for the victims stands in town.
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d agoThe news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
Exactly this. I will NEVER forgive this country for re-electing that orange demon. Folks chose THIS if they did anything other than vote for KH in 2024.
Sailor Michael@sailormichael.bsky.social · 2d agoI am not surprised one bit they will livestream a person getting executed. Reminds me about these people bringing kids to see Black people being lynched. Nasty ass people glorifying killing folks.
The increasing racism, calls for violence, and efforts to suppress and corrupt the vote are horrific and indicative of growing GOP panic, but also exactly why the GOP needs to be crushed at the polls.
We've seen what Trump's government coming to the "rescue" looks like. It ended with two Minnesotans shot dead by federal agents, racial profiling, assaults, and the violation of our rights. Never again. If Trump tries, I'll drag him back to court.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
The news today is so disgusting that I can't look anymore. To the world, to the immigrants in this country, I am sorry. I am ashamed.
This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan
COULD SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT PEOPLE MEAN WHEN THEY SAY "THE ELITES"? DO THEY MEAN RICH PEOPLE? EDUCATED PEOPLE? PEOPLE WITH WHITE COLLAR JOBS? PEOPLE WHO LIKE OPERA? Seriously, stop using this term without defining it.
AH HA HA HA HA HA HA 🤣 nope. You and your colleagues built this. Lawyers don't trust this court anymore, even many who used to be fellow "originalists." Touch some grass. Alito says Supreme Court can’t stem emergency appeals and voices concern over Trump’s rhetoric apnews.com/article/alit...
Alito says Supreme Court can’t stem emergency appeals and voices concern over Trump’s rhetoric
Some of President Donald Trump's rhetoric about members of the Supreme Court isn't sitting well with one of his favorite justices.
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AH HA HA HA HA HA HA 🤣 nope. You and your colleagues built this. Lawyers don't trust this court anymore, even many who used to be fellow "originalists." Touch some grass. Alito says Supreme Court can’t stem emergency appeals and voices concern over Trump’s rhetoric apnews.com/article/alit...
Alito says Supreme Court can’t stem emergency appeals and voices concern over Trump’s rhetoric
Some of President Donald Trump's rhetoric about members of the Supreme Court isn't sitting well with one of his favorite justices.
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There’s this tremendous distance between this torrent of news of the most evil shit you ever imagined and the ordinary grace, fortitude, delight of normal people just trying to live their lives
Was baseball always this LOUD? I've been a baseball fan all my life and I'm pretty sure it just gets louder and louder.
they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 5d agointeresting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
Freeman getting a big run in Atlanta for the Dodgers has got to sting.
This is actually really cool. Scientist who hunts mysterious ghost particles in the Antarctic ice wins Nobel Prize for physics apnews.com/article/nobe...
Scientist who hunts mysterious ghost particles in the Antarctic ice wins Nobel Prize for physics
A Belgian-born scientist has won the Nobel Prize in physics for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that researchers believe offer clues to how the universe evolv...
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Do you know why I think every prisoner should get to vote in prison? Not only are prisoners counted in the census and are most affected by policies (check out prison gerrymandering), but also if you don't, regimes could simply round up 1,000s of dissidents and minorities to reshape the electorate
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoBlanche on the Trump administration deporting people to third countries where they have no connection: "This idea that we're violating human rights and the president and US is doing something to damage and put these people in harm's way is just categorically false"
