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The Council Members that were out on the streets every single day during the Surge put their bodies and mental health on the line. I’m glad Aurin is talking about this, and I hope all of our precious council members are taking care of themselves now.

Aurin Chowdhury MPLS City Council Member W12@aurinmpls.bsky.social · 10h ago

I shared my story on being diagnosed with PTSD and acute stress earlier year during Operation Metro Surge following years of service that entailed violence, tragedy, and required shared community resilience & perseverance.

Clip of NPR news article with photo of Aurin speaking into the microphone on the Council Dias


August 5, 2026 9:00 AM
Addressing the mental health strain on public leaders
Public office has always been demanding, but is the pressure getting worse? MPR News host Angela Davis talks about why more local leaders are sharing their struggles with mental health, why it...

1/ On Tuesday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., read our reporting into the congressional record during a committee hearing on Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general.

I can't stress enough how fucked up is what Moonbug is doing, and how nobody is talking about it, borderline dystopian. Fuck those guys and fuck DreamWorks for partnering with them to make their shitty movie.

Jellybox - MEANS OF DESTRUCTION LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!@jellybox.bsky.social · 15h ago

UMBERT ACTUALLY! EP 6!!! Toddler cartoons are rotting brains!? #UmbertActually #UnionYaoi #MistermanGuyfella #Jellybox #IndieAnimation #Cocomelon

It's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com

A red, blue, yellow and white work of textile art by Faig Ahmed that appears to be a traditional Central Asian carpet but is woven to look as through it's melting onto the floor in a puddle. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

404 Media@404media.co · 2d ago

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

As a bonus, a reinterpretation of the main characters in the style of an Aztec codex for the credits, I don’t know if these designs were used in the end!

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Mónica Robles Corzo@monarobot.bsky.social · last mo.

Some concept art for the #aztecbatman animated movie! Variants of the Batsignal / Emblem, obsidian Batarangs, the Bati-chalupa (more adequate for the canals of Tenochtitlán than the Batmobile!), and some weapons, belt and shield designs. #batman #joker #catwoman #animation

I hope we as a culture are finally coming back around to “small talk is good actually” because you need to slowly get to know someone before being vulnerable and intimate and small talk helps you build that relationship

NEW: Voters have rejected Republicans' scheme to unseat the Kansas Supreme Court's Dem-appointed majority and overturn abortion rights. Amendment 1 would have let the GOP replace the system of a nominating commission, gubernatorial appointment, and retention elections with direct partisan elections

Four professors and a national faculty group asked a federal judge Monday to block the Texas A&M University System's restrictions on teaching about race, gender and sexuality and to reinstate courses canceled under the policy.

Professors sue Texas A&M System over limits on teaching race, gender

Four professors and a national faculty group asked a federal judge Monday to block the Texas A&M University System’s restrictions on teaching about race, gender and sexuality and to reinstate courses canceled under the policy.

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