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"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The affected area is part of the Arabian Sea reserve, a marine protected area and host to wildlife including endangered petrels and the rare Arabian Sea humpback whale." #ECOCIDE. The rate at which we are destroying the planet is incomprehensible.
The Virginian-Pilot@pilotonline.com · 10h agoOil spill from grounded tanker off Oman expands sharply, satellite images show: https://mrf.lu/2Z9wY
Bad flooding in some neighborhoods of Norfolk, VA today after flash floods and torrential rains.
2026 death-toll tracker for the US-Iran war (Operation Epic Fury), February 28 – present. Sourced low–high ranges for US, Iranian, Lebanese and civilian casualties. militaryspend.org/iran-war-cas...
Iran War Casualties 2026: US, Iran & Civilian Death Toll Tracker
Iran war death toll: 8,976–18,310 killed across all sides as of 2026-07-30. US 18–20 KIA, Iran 1,800–7,650 military KIA, civilian deaths across Iran, Israel, Lebanon and Gulf states, plus US equipment...
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What Lies Beneath Virginia’s Atlantic; Before We Decide What's Worth Taking, We Should Consider Everything It Already Gives Us. bluevirginia.us/2026/08/what...
What Lies Beneath Virginia's Atlantic - Blue Virginia
By Joyce McClure “Although man’s record as a steward of the natural resources of the earth has been a discouraging one, there has long been a certain comfort in the belief that the sea, at least, was ...
bluevirginia.us
In addition to rescinding TPS for the Haitian and Syrian communities when neither country is safe to return to, DHS is now forcing some Haitian residents of Springfield, OH to wear ankle monitors. They have done nothing wrong. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
‘This is modern-day shackling’: Haitian immigrants leave Ohio ICE appointments wearing ankle monitors as TPS ends
As the Trump administration ends Temporary Protected Status, some Haitians in Ohio were given ankle monitors after mandatory ICE check-ins.
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"Quicksand waits in the open for people to fall. What happens to them afterward stays secret. Victims are absorbed into poisoned soil. Quicksand doesn’t give a warning or leave a trace. Quicksand is made of leftover people..."
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 7d agoNew article! On AI, war, and other bad things: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger announced Friday that she has restored voting rights for 66,085 people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to vote due to past felony convictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Virginia Gov. Spanberger has restored voting rights for 66,000 people with past felony convictions
The volume presents a dramatic reversal of prior Gov. Glenn Youngkin's tenure, when he restored less than 10,000 voter's rights during his entire four-year term.
democracydocket.com
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
None of those territories committed treason and violently rejected their American citizenship while declaring themselves to be outside the scope of the Constitution. That cannot be said for Griffin Morgan’s home state.
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 5d agoA GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social
Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.
Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...
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These pseudo godlings, these entitled little boys destroy everything they encounter. There seems to be nothing beyond their wretched reach.
Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · last wk.Why is everything so transparently evil now?
!["Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination. That alone is a significant advantage," it explains in an article on its website, as quoted by
404. "Physical books published before this date [pre-2022] are structurally clean of modern poisoning tools."
Once focused on helping libraries, distributors, and book shops find and sell books, ISBNdb now helps Al companies bulk-buy anywhere between 1,000 to one million books per order, according to 404.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pxunhtt4zdl4rkkjub54m5ia/bafkreic7burhqtyy3mrqnzzf5gwr3pokwr6gznvg7p5htr4gz3mghh4hny)
this is a big part of what they're doing to us -- wearing us down, making us so emotionally and mentally exhausted that we stop being horrified by every new killing. we cannot afford to stop being horrified. every time.
Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · last wk.Are we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...
Your face should not be scanned, stored, or sold just because you walk into or work at a store. But businesses across the country are secretly using #facialrecognition to identify, emotionally manipulate & discriminate against customers. See the list. 👇 www.banfacialrecognition.com/stores/
Tkkra Ugh
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Renée Graham 🏳️🌈@rygraham.bsky.social · 2w ago"Basically, measles is back. We've lost our elimination status & that is the first domino to fall b/c [whooping cough] is falling right behind. Those numbers are also huge in terms of coming back. And, of course, the worry is that polio could return." — Dr. Peter Hotez, Baylor College of Medicine.
Indigenous Australian artist Alma Nungarrayi Granites, Seven Sisters Dreaming, 2016 from tbe Shared Skies Exhibition #WomensArt
Last fall, #Virginia 's SCC approved #DominionEnergy 's residential price hikes planned for 2026 & 2027. Now, Dominion wants to merge with Florida's NextEra to create the US's largest utility monopoly. Sound bad? You bet. 🧵 ☎️ Contact your reps & remind them they work for us, not corp. shareholders!
Yeah, co-sign, this is a pretty clear staging document for arresting, surveilling, or harassing a wide range domestic dissenters under laws designed for foreign terrorist organizations. Buckle up.
The Provost / سيدة الفتنة@msentropy.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat connects the State Dept Cuba report, Trump’s “election interference” speech, the NSPM-7 domestic terrorism expansion, and the recent “Ministerial Summit on Political Violence” to the Iran War? In a word — fascism. “Be alarmed” isn’t enough. Get prepared. 1/11 www.state.gov/wp-content/u...
As the NextEra-Dominion acquisition proposal moves forward, more voices are joining the call for answers. From elected officials to advocates, Virginians are asking the same question: what will this $67 billion deal mean for the future of the Commonwealth? www.wric.com/news/virgini...
Bipartisan lawmakers push for more scrutiny of Dominion-NextEra merger
A bipartisan group of elected officials are speaking out against the review process surrounding the proposed Dominion Energy and NextEra Energy merger.
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How does ICE track people? @micahloewinger.bsky.social spoke with @josephcox.bsky.social of @404media.co about a particularly concerning app called Webloc, which allows officers to track mobile phone location data without a warrant.
I think after this Britain should give the Falklands to Spain, as a treat
Spain is a team of 11 midfielders, and Argentina is a team of 10 bastards and a genius — and it doesn’t make for great telly
New: Late last night, Taylor Farms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states It was for some reason still being sent out up until Thursday July 16 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
Parasite-Linked Lettuce Was Sent to Walmart Stores and Food Distributors in 27 States - Consumer Reports
Taylor Farms' recalled the parasite-linked lettuce it said was sent to Walmart stores, Sysco, and other food distributors in 27 states.
consumerreports.org
