If you’re cheering for mass deportations, you are a racist and also not a good human being. No matter what your justifications or other virtues are.
oh man if only somebody had had something to say about this 2500 years ago.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2w agoFuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul.
ICE grabbed a 17yo Target worker at his job, despite him saying he’s a US citizen. After confirming he was, they dumped him in a Walmart lot 8 min away. Bystanders found him sobbing, bleeding: “They slammed me on the ground.” Welcome to america the land of the free.
Turn Back Time Records and Coffee in Irving Park offers neighbors a new "third space." blockclubchi.co/4fldZfk
Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans
Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soyb...
Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result that nobody had written into the engineering plan.
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Spotted on DuSable Lake Shore Drive in Chicago: protesters on the pedestrian bridge hold letters that spell out the words: “Make corruption illegal again.”
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
politico.eu
Kyiv’s Mother Ukraine Monument wore America’s colors. ㅤ For U.S. Independence Day, the monument in Kyiv was lit in the colors of the American flag. ㅤ America was born by rejecting an empire. Ukraine is surviving by resisting one.
Happy Fourth of July — from two of the bald eagles I’ve seen recently in Chicago!
Coil. "Confine yourself to the present." - Marcus Aurelius I study this to remember that the passage of time does not naturally lead to a quiet mind. Observing the passage can, though. #ViaNegativa #Meditation #blackandwhite #tone #photography #nature #photography
"Many of them were reportedly sporting moustaches, cat whiskers, and had 'ratero', the Spanish word for 'thief', scribbled on their faces by the anonymous crime hunter."
Mexican ‘batman’ vigilante wanted for taping suspected thieves to lampposts
At least five men have been found tied to lampposts in the western Mexican city of Lagos de Moreno
independent.co.uk
Social Security is earned, not given. We paid into it our entire working lives. Speaker Johnson knows how unpopular cuts would be. That’s why these conversations happen behind closed doors instead of out in the open. We earned these benefits. We’ll fight to keep them. #HandsOffSocialSecurity
Welp, Stephen Miller happens to LOVE the new Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
"New Mexico has currently set aside $60 million for increased wages for the state’s child care workforce. A working group is now refining a 'wage scale and career lattice framework' intended to support experience, education and quality." #ChildCare hechingerreport.org/lessons-from...
Lessons from the first state in the nation to offer universal child care
In New Mexico, the economic barriers to child care may be gone for families, but focus now shifts to supporting the workforce
hechingerreport.org
I can reach the lake on foot in seconds from my home but I don't think anyone should have to pay to use our public parks. For 1.7% of their annual budget (almost $600M, with a $30M operating surplus), they have decided to make the parks crappier for everyone. Sounds about right.
Lakefront Parking Gates Spark Concerns Over Access: 'The Lakefront Should Be For Everyone'
The Park District says the new automated gate system at beach lots streamlines parking and payment, but residents report affordability and accessibility issues for disabled users, delays and confusion...
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I want to hug this woman. This video is wonderful and this whole thread has a lot more info on this amazing woman who has befriended and helps these sharks.
Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 4mo agoCristina Zenato works in the wild with sharks, where she has built a special relationship with a local shiver of Caribbean Reef sharks. Many recognize her and approach her touch. She uses this connection to remove hooks from their mouths. Original post
I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing
Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]
Happy Sunday Funday! Now set em up and do it again! Not AI, by the way.
I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”
This is unconstitutional. Voting is a fundamental right for every American. Illinois will keep administering free and fair elections – and what Donald Trump puts on a piece of paper will not change that.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4mo agoBREAKING: President Trump signs an order directing the creation of a national eligible voter list, a move expected to face swift legal challenges.
Florida resident: I struggle every day. And I'm taking care of my mom who's being denied simple things like breathing meds. I don't eat this week because I have to take mom to the doctor tomorrow. Q: If you could pick one word to describe the economy, what would it be? Florida resident: Desolate.
