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@michaeljameshawk.bsky.social

latin american artist seattle, washington usa + unabashed classical liberal interested in equity for all persons at all times. + global indigenous intersectionality now!

But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.

People who have seen & survived horrific things, people who continue to see & survive horrific things - are still people. Kids are still kids. They still seek, seek to provide opportunities for, & know joy. Gazans are so much more than the horrific things they've seen & survived.

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2w ago

The night before the World Cup final, Gaza’s only Catholic parish threw a party for the neighborhood’s children. Fr. Gabriel Romanelli — the Argentine priest Pope Francis called every night of the war — ran the games himself, cassock and all.

NEW: The @aclum.bsky.social has created a toolkit for defense attorneys that allows them to more easily uncover whether their clients were subjected to police surveillance tools, the use of which is often kept secret despite evidence laws. @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop:

The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets

A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.

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“The left is going to lose these elections for us,” say the people who lost 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2024 — often because they were fixated on the “winning” strategy of punching left and wooing center right voters

Sirens don't "lure men to their death" -- Sirens are just some ladies singing. Maybe let's focus on the men who seem to think every hot girl's song is an invitation to self-destruction.

🇫🇷🇺🇦 Macron: Those who think this war will stop at Ukraine's borders if we yield or seek to accommodate the aggressor are wrong. The history of our continent has taught us what capitulation costs. We will not make that mistake again.

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